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Stories – The Fabric of our Lives – And our Writing
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Stories are everywhere around us, and they weave together to make up a huge part of our lives.
I watched a TED presentation by Karen Thompson Walker about fear in which Walker, the author of a novel about the whaleship Essex discussed why we have fears. Primarily, it's because we have a story in our heads about the subject (spiders, let's say) that causes us to act in a specific way. She calls fears "unintentional storytelling."
Let's say you are afraid of spiders, because you have heard stories about people being killed by spiders or people have warned you about them. You have created an unintentional story about spiders that keeps you fearful. The stories, you'll notice, build up like a game of "telephone," and the stories keep getting more fantastic and lurid.
In the case of the Essex, by the way, the sailors had heard stories about cannibals in the islands nearest them, and they didn't go that way. The cannibals weren't actually that bad, and that would have been the best way to sail. They chose the least scary way, the way their stories told them was least scary, which was the worst way. All died.
Where do we get our stories? The vast majority come to us when we are young, from our parents and others. The story of our religion is a good example. This story forms what we believe about life and death. The story of our family is told over and over, at the breakfast table, at holidays, at funerals and weddings. "Remember<|fim_middle|> keep the dark away.
Darkest Winter
As I write this, we are at the darkest point of the year – the winter solstice, when days are shortest and nights longest. I've always felt this is a special time, because it combines the reality of darkness with the hope of light, as the succeeding days grow longer.
Gary Zukav, a spiritual teacher, says,
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Christmas as the Light
The light vs. dark story is played out in many religions, but I wanted to mention Christianity as a premier example. We celebrate Christmas at midwinter, that darkest time of the year. We sing carols like Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, which includes "light and life to all he brings." I remember as a child going to a Christmas Eve service in which we sang "Joy to the World" while holding lighted candles. The church was filled with light.
The final lines of True Detective return again to the discussion of light vs. dark. Marty has said, looking at the sky, "it appears to me that the dark has a lot more territory."
Then Rust says:
Rust: "You're looking at it wrong, the sky thing."
Marty: "How's that?"
Rust: "Well, once there was only dark. You ask me, the light's winning."
May your stories bring light to the darkness.
Filed Under: Story and Storytelling, The Writing Life Tagged With: campfire stories, dark night of the soul, light vs dark, storytelling, True Detective | the time when…?"
Our stories about ourselves are powerful. In the Wise Heart, psychologist Jack Kornfield says, "Who would you be without your story?" I stopped and thought when I read this, and had a bid "Ah ha!" moment.
Who we are is the stories we tell ourselves. If I say, "I'm a writer," I am what I think I am, what my story tells me I am. If the story you tell yourself is, "I can't write," you aren't a writer. Take away the stories we have told ourselves, and others, and what do we have?
A recent article in The Atlantic discusses the human need for stories.
Stories can be a way for humans to feel that we have control over the world. They allow people to see patterns where there is chaos, meaning where there is randomness. Humans are inclined to see narratives where there are none because it can afford meaning to our lives—a form of existential problem-solving.
In one example in the article, research subjects saw several triangles and a circle moving around and when asked what they saw, all but one subject had created a story out of the movement of these inanimate objects. We do this with animals too – my husband insists that the dog licks his face because she loves him. Ha!
Stories may one of the most important links our brains make. We are "wired for story," and our brains are built to make sense of what we see, creating context so we can figure it out. Our survival depends on it. If our ancient ancestors didn't have stories about sabre-toothed tigers, for example, they wouldn't know to run when they saw one, or how to kill it, and they would not have survived.
Thinking about the stories we tell as writers can help us be better writers. Are you telling a riveting, funny, sad, important story?
A couple of books to help you think about storytelling and how it relates to your writing:
Filed Under: For Readers, Story and Storytelling, The Writing Life Tagged With: Karen Thompson Walker, stories, storytelling
There is Only One Story
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Everywhere I turn, I run into the concepts of story and storytelling, and I'm fascinated by the truth that these concepts are central to the human experience. I find evidence of story and storytelling everywhere. Most recently, I encountered a quote I want to share with you.
It's from the first season of True Detective, an HBO series. In this first series, the major characters are two cops, played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. At the end of one episode, the two have a dialogue about the meaning of life, and McConaughey's character, Rust Cohle, gives a speech that includes this:
Rust: "Yeah, I think you remember how I never watched the TV until I was 17, so there wasn't much to do up there [Alaska] but walk around, explore, and…"
Marty: "And look up at the stars and make up stories. Like what?"
Rust: "I tell you Marty I been up in that [hospital] room looking out those windows every night here just thinking, it's just one story. The oldest."
Marty: "What's that?"
Rust: "Light versus dark."
Is it really true that there's just one story? I decided to put this statement to the test. Stories about fighting the bad guys (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) are certainly light versus dark. But what about a romance novel? A YA vampire novel? A comedy?
The "dark" can be inner as well as outside. There is the "dark" of loneliness, of fear of death, or fear of what might be called a "death in life," that might be manifest in many ways.
Take a movie like Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman dresses like a woman to get a job on a sit-com, and he falls in love with his co-star (played by Jessica Lange). Where is the dark? I believe Tootsie has a lot to say about who we are as humans, not just men or women, and our inner longing and loneliness (the dark). In the most poignant scene, the two are in her bedroom with little pink buds in the wallpaper, and the longing in Tootsie is palpable.
A concept that has meaning for this discussion is what's called the "dark night of the soul," the title of a 16th-century poem by a Christian mystic named St. John of the Cross. The term is used by Roman Catholics to denote a spiritual crisis, but in its broader sense it can describe what spiritual author Eckart Tolle says is "collapse of a perceived meaning in life."
The darkness is all around us, and in us too. Storytelling around the campfire is a perfect example of how we try to | 1,014 |
It's usually one meticulous person in the group who plans for everyone on a trip. Or sometimes a travel agent does that for you. That leaves the rest of us lazy folks to worry about other things– like how does one corner the best room for oneself.
HikeEzee, a new trip planning portal, wants to replace that meticulous dude and be your trip planner. We gave it a spin and found it<|fim_middle|>XiGo trip planer, Traverik, mobile app Trip38, TripTern and Holidayen to name a few. | simple and easy to use. And it has some really useful information for travelers as well.
Say you are planning to go somewhere. You need to select your origin, and destination. Type of travel, trip, mode of transport and select your journey dates.
HikeEzee takes you to a new page where all the visit worthy locations are neatly displayed. The data you get has been collected by HikeEzee's explorers so its really useful and comprehensive. You get to pick the locations you want to and add it to your trip.
Then you ask HikeEzee to plan the trip. In a few seconds, based on your choices, the site throws up a neat itinerary for you.
It figures out places for you to stay (if it's in their database), transportation to use, and even lets you book some of these. You can also get a neat map based view that shows the route you'll be taking. It also shows you an estimate of the cost you are likely to incur.
You can book the entire trip by leaving your contact details with HikeEzee and someone will get in touch with you to do the booking for you. Soon you will be able to book the whole trip, on the site itself, the company says.
It could use a few fixes, but otherwise it's a nifty service which will save you a lot of time and calls. What we love about it is detailed information it gives about destinations (mostly around South India). One can also view destinations according to proximity to your route and ratings.
What we would love to see is the ability to share the trip with others and also take a print out of your itinerary.
Trip planning is a bit of a crowded space where no one really has taken a lead. For instance, there is Tripigator, the i | 365 |
MELiSSA has been working for over 20 years to create self-sustaining eco-systems to support life indefinitely in a closed environment. Water processing, whereby all water is captured and purified to be consumed again, is part of the technologies needed to achieve this goal.
In an average day a human being or astronaut will, metabolically, consume about 1 kg of oxygen, 1 kg of food and 3 kg of water<|fim_middle|> has been tested for use with the water recycler.
The unit has proven to be very robust and has even coped with accidents such as spills of corrosive chemicals in the normal drains.
All Concordia crew receive basic training about the system and the unit was given a complete check in 2010. This project helped ESA test its prototype and supplied data based on real-life situations while helping Concordia research station cut down on costs and keep in line with the Antarctica treaty that states no waste must be left behind in Antarctica. | , so water recycling is an important aspect for planning long-term expeditions. The more we recycle, less consumables are need to be transported on a mission, be it to the International Space Station or Concordia, cutting costs and freeing transport for scientific experiments and equipment.
First we need to look a bit closer at waste water. We distinguish between three types of waste water: 'grey water' is runoff from washing such as when taking a shower or washing vegetables and hands. Next comes 'yellow water' with is what we call urine. Lastly the so-called 'black water' is aptly named as it comes from organic wastes and faecal matter. An average human being will produce between 2 and 20 litres of grey water (depending on the length of their shower), 1.5 litres of yellow water and 0.2 litres of black water every day.
As humans produce mostly grey water, ESA has focussed on grey water recycling since the 1990's. We created a working prototype and were looking to test the system for robustness in realistic conditions. Concordia is an ideal place to test a water recycling system as it is a realistic simulation for some aspects of human spaceflight and can be tested for a longer period of time.
We designed a system that fits in a standard shipping container and was transported to Concordia over land on a Raid trail in 2005. Since then it has operated without significant problems.
The system uses a three-step ceramic honeycomb with holes of only around one nanometre. Ceramics are very resistant to chemicals but are breakable so getting the filters to Concordia was hair-raising. Once installed they are very reliable and have never been replaced in the seven years they have been working.
The next step in the filtration uses two reverse-osmosis filters to spit out clean water. Thin membranes are rolled up to increase surface contact with the water and increase the speed at which the water filters through the membranes. The membranes have been replaced twice since the unit has been operational.
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Art Exhib<|fim_middle|> Moxley | itions, The Arts · July 9, 2018
Chromatic Shift | Anne Neilson
Color is a power which directly influences the soul. – Wassily Kandinsky
The latest exhibition at the Anne Neilson Gallery, Chromatic Shift, revolves around visual variations of line and color and features the latest work by six of the forty artists that the gallery represents. (Jeff Erickson, Marcy Gregg, Audrey Stone, Joe Vinson, Ken Tate & Michael Barringer.)
The front room was filled with the visually stunning work of artist Marcy Gregg, and we were thrilled to see her latest pieces. We saw a few of them before they made it to the gallery while visiting her studio in June. Viewing Marcy's work is truly an emotional experience and her pieces clearly show her love of color and line.
Marcy Gregg
Marcy Gregg's distinctive artwork springs from a love of color and line. Born in rural East Texas, she expressed an interest in art at an early age. She remained in Texas after graduation from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she majored in studio art. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Joe Vinson
As a conscious member of a tradition, Joe Vinson paints landscapes outside, from direct observation. He produces paintings that depict the kind of light our eyes were formed to see. This has proved to be the best way to learn color and has laid the foundation for Joe's abstract studio work. These paintings from the studio make an appeal to the viewer through the pleasure of the senses, the sheer enjoyment of experiencing color contrasts. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Jeff Erickson
Jeff paints with oil and wax mediums, on canvas, gessoed hardboard, and paper. He is able to create multiple layers of translucent colors, and through the process of catching, distressing, and dissolving, he captures depth and feeling within the painting. With each painting, Jeff begins with no end game in mind. He allows the painting to develop to see where it leads him. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Ken Tate
Ken's paintings have been featured in magazines such as House Beautiful, Traditional Home, Coastal Living and New Orleans House & Home. His work is in private collections in New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Tulsa, Nashville, Houston and Jackson, MS to name a few. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Michael Barringer
A native North Carolinian, Michael began expressing his artistic abilities at a young age. He remembers always feeling the magic of being in the ocean or the mountains, and wanting to make his own version of those experiences through art. With a long lineage of artisans, one could suppose his knack for creating is in his blood. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Audrey Stone
Audrey Stone is a protean artist, she expresses herself through various activities such as installations, paintings, drawing, sculptures and mixed media. Her work explores colors, lines, materialism on various mediums and surfaces. – Anne Neilson Fine Art Gallery
Chromatic Shift is on view through July 27th. The next exhibition featuring Local Artists + McColl Alumi opens on August 2nd.
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Making it big in the world of startups is no cakewalk. It's hard for budding startups to straightaway lock horns with the giant successful businesses. A startup have to have X-factor to mark its presence in this extremely<|fim_middle|> gifts, discounts, or coupons to your loyal customers, or even feature them on your Facebook page.
In business, it's equally important to know what your competitors are doing than what you need to do next. It helps to know who you are directly competing with and what they are offering that you might not. In a way, you can set your prices competitively and create a relevant marketing campaign. Study recent trends, current competitors, new entrants, assess threats and use this information to improve your business threats.
There are many tools, software, apps out there that can take your business to the next level. These tools come packed with a myriad of functionalities. You can even customize their features as per the requirements of your business. For project planning and execution, you can use an all-in-one project management software. You can use communication tools to interact with remote workers and clients overcome time and space constraints.
Now that you have some ideas on how to grow your startup, take a moment to analyze what needs to be done and follow the right approach. Though different entrepreneurs will choose different ways but remember the growth of your business would always be a result of your choices, risks, and tools. And, that how you can achieve massive success without breaking the bank. | competitive industry.
If you are an early stage startup looking for rapid growth, it's time for you to make the next move.
Before you get into anything else, focus on the fundamentals. Develop a clear understanding of your core product and services being offered. Focus on what makes you different (or better) than others in the market. As there is already a fierce competition out there, make sure you have a unique selling point (USP). More importantly, being aware of it so that you can strategize the marketing keeping your USP in mind.
Your inner entrepreneur might be tempted to do everything on its own but to have an edge over others, you must have an incredible team behind your back. Find the right people for the right job and look for individuals with the same vision and passion as yours. It's better to bring enthusiastic and experienced individuals who are experts in their field as they can elevate the progress rate and might open new growth opportunities for the business as well.
Whether you're a large business or a lone entrepreneur, using social media in the right manner could be game-changing for your business. Social media marketing is the most inexpensive yet powerful way to exponentially grow your brand and widen its reach. It could introduce your business to its potential customers in the most appropriate way. Thus, it makes sense to consider increasing your social media advertising budget for it can add a lot of value to your business and ensure high return on investment (ROI).
One of the best and probably the safest ways to grow a business is to partner with an already established company. Try looking for businesses that aren't really a direct competitor but is serving the same target audience in a different way. For example, if you open any airline magazine, you would find collective ads that promote Top Steakhouses, Top Hotels, or even Top Seafood Restaurants. The concept of collaborative marketing has proved to dramatically increase the brand recognition, customer value, and customer retention for each.
For a business to be wildly successful, every customer matters. If you are a new entrant or an early stage startup, make sure you treat every customer special or else they're not coming back. This might mean going an extra mile to give them the best customer experience or discounts. As there are multiple review sites, one bad review could only spoil your image but also stop others to give it a try. And, offer small | 476 |
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Mitsubishi Agrees To Compensate LaserVue Rear-Projection TV Buyers
Class-action settlement for consumers
John Laposky
Mitsubishi has agreed to provide some relief to consumers who bought certain models of the company's Laservue rear-projection TV sets, in response to a class-action lawsuit.
The suit claimed the LaserVue<|fim_middle|> numbers.
As of now, the settlement is only for consumers who bought the LaserVue TVs with no relief for dealers. "Unfortunately, Mitsubishi dealers are considered agents of that firm and thus are exempt from settlement benefits, [however] they do gain release from liability over customer lawsuits, which is a plus," Prawat said.
Prawat said he "is interviewing other attorneys with similar defective product/breach of warranty experience, and fully expect to be able to offer dealers a viable path to be made whole for their losses associated with carrying this line. These losses may include, but are not limited to, reimbursement for remaining unsold inventory and customer buy-backs/discounts, repair costs and loss of customer goodwill."
Mitsubishi declined to comment.
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The procedure for notifying class members is currently underway and a hearing, absent the filing of any appeals, is scheduled for Nov. 12.
The lawsuit was initiated by John Prawat, a Mitsubishi dealer, on behalf of one of his California retail customers, Robert Verdie, who had experienced a premature failure in his LaserVue DLP television. Prawat told TWICE the case came about because his business had been experiencing an abnormally high rate of product complaints from customers about the LaserVue TVs.
"Customers initially flocked to this technology as it seemed to offer a premium level of quality in a big-screen television at a relatively reasonable price, compared with what was then available in the marketplace," Prawat said. "More and more over the years, however, I began to notice that individuals who had purchased these sets from me, as well as other owners who had shared similar experiences on audio/video "enthusiast" websites such as AVS Forum, were reporting picture defects leading to laser outages, even though Mitsubishi had heavily marketed both the quality and reliability of the solid-state laser lighting source used in these DLP sets."
Mitsubishi subsequently exited the the rear-projection TV market at the end of 2012 and most troubling, Prawat said, stopped providing parts and honoring its product warranties, as the complaint alleged, in violation of California and federal law.
A website for qualifying consumers in the settlement has been established as was a toll-free hotline: (888) 289-0223, to gather names and issue claim | 382 |
My favourite quote regarding photography has to be a conversation from the legendary Jay Maisel. When he was being interviewed by Scott Kelby for one of their training sessions, Jay was asked by Scott if he still get's frustrated as a photographer. Jay responded that of course he does, he just get's frustrated on another level. I find myself getting frustrated at times too. Sometimes when you're out shooting, especially with street photography, you know you're in the zone. You see things in front of you that you<|fim_middle|> another great quote recently, which was nothing to do with photography, but I thought that it applied just as well. I was watching an Anime and the characters were taking about their future path in life. One asked (I'm paraphrasing) "How do you know if it's your true passion" to which the response was "That's simple, if the thing that you want to do is your true passion then you can't stand not doing it". I was amazed at how exactly this summed up my feelings towards photography. When I can't get out to take photographs, I get restless and feel the urge to be behind the camera. I can't stand it when I can't take pictures for any length of time. It's something innate that calls me.
That's how I knew that it was time to start transitioning from my former work as a designer to being a photographer. That's how I know that even when I get frustrated, inspiration will always come back around. I know I am on the right path with photography, for one simple reason, I can't stand not being a photographer.
Incidentally, speaking of street photography, please check out my "Streets of Dublin" project. It's been getting quite a bit of a following recently, so stop by the website or the Facebook page if you like street photography. | know will make great photos, and everything just seems to fall into place.
On other days, you just can't seem to get the shot the way you want it, or you're just not finding your groove. It's frustrating but it's all part of art. It happens whether you're a designer, an illustrator or a photographer. You just have to deal with it and move on. The thing with photography though, and again, especially street photography is that sometimes, even when you're not feeling it while out on the street, when you get back to the studio and look at what you've captured you can be pleasantly surprised. I had one of those days today.
I was out shooting to get some images for a project I'm working on and I just wasn't feeling it. The creative juices just weren't clicking and I was getting more and more frustrated. The fact that I had a splitting headache wasn't helping matters. Anyway, by the time I got back to my computer and started uploading my images, I realised that I actually had a few good shots. In fact there were a few I was really happy with.
What's the point of all this rambling? Frustration with yourself is just part of art. It's normal, and so if you get frustrated don't be disheartened. Just be zen about it and let it go. There are plenty of people on the internet posting mediocre images who think that everything they do and post is the greatest thing ever, and that they never have bad days. I think true artists their always our own worst critics. I know the person that's hardest on me is me.
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Has Rock Band Lit Really Gone Country? 'We're Not Doing That Much Different'
Mike Thiel Published: June 28, 2018
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Good-time rock band Lit — best known for their 1999 platinum album A Place in the Sun — have gone country. Or is it that country music has really gone rock?
Whatever the case, Lit's new album, These Are The<|fim_middle|> fans haven't heard — at least not on a full studio album.
As country music evolves and continues to splinter into sub-genres, it's no longer hard to believe that a band whose biggest hit is the rock-spirited "My Own Worst Enemy" could cross over into modern country. Darius Rucker, Sheryl Crow and Steven Tyler all jumped into the genre within the last decade, and fans aren't as genre-based as they used to be. In fact, "My Own Worst Enemy" can be heard almost nightly on Nashville's popular Broadway strip as loads of cover bands sandwich the song between country jams like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" from the Charlies Daniels Band and Zac Brown Band's "Chicken Fried" — is that weird?
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Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff doesn't seem to think that mash of live music is odd at all, and in a way, Lit are also doing it in their own set.
"I think country has gone a lot of different directions," Popoff tells Taste of Country. "I don't think it's weird if you see Lit at a country festival and you hear a blend of the old songs and the new songs. There isn't a look on people's faces like, 'What are they doing?' It fits and it's been working ... We're not doing that much different. I think we've become better songwriters and there are more dynamics in our songs now. It's not just full-blast, pedal-to-the-metal, wall-of-guitars anymore. We bring other textures in now."
The country infusion didn't happen overnight for Popoff, as he's been writing songs in Nashville since 2005 with songwriters including Jamey Johnson and Jeffrey Steele. He's been gradually bringing other members of Lit to Music City ever since.
"We got to a point where we're like, if we're going to make another Lit record and continue to put out new songs, this is how we write them now," Popoff says. "Let's record these songs that we've been writing and let's play 'em live and see what it feels like. They've been going over great live, so the decision wasn't to make a country record, the decision was to record these songs that we love. ... Is it a country record? It's a definitely a country record. It's a rock and roll record. It's a Lit record the way Lit sounds in 2018."
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Celebration of Rhythm
The ever-popular 'Stomp' kicks off Broadway in Tucson's new season
By Sherilyn Forrester
Presented by Broadway in Tucson
8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 21; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22
Tucson Convention Center Music Hall210 S. Church Ave.
$29 to $59, plus fees
Runs 90 minutes, with no intermission
www.broadwayintucson.com
Theater is bustin' out all over our desert burg. There are certainly plenty of homegrown shows, but Broadway in Tucson, a presenting organization that brings in touring productions of big, brassy Broadway musicals, is getting ready to pop the cork on its new season.
First up is a brief return engagement of Stomp this weekend; it's been through Tucson numerous times, and never fails to draw adoring crowds. Then comes Anything Goes, Cole Porter's tried-and-true musical, given an injection of new life a couple of years ago, when it won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. Memphis, which won the 2010 Tony for Best Musical, is followed by the return of Wicked, which, when it played here in early 2011, was a hard ticket to come by. Then comes Blue Man Group, also making a return engagement, offering their unique collision of comedy, music and technology. The season concludes with Million Dollar Quartet, a musical based on<|fim_middle|> Showcases Pieces in Striking, but Relatively Unknown, Medium
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Stomp belongs to the former category. A riotous celebration of rhythm, Stomp utilizes familiar objects—brooms, garbage can lids, hubcaps—as percussion instruments to create a unique and energetic show that appeals to all ages.
John Sawicki has performed in Stomp all over the world. A New Yorker and son of a drummer, Sawicki says he "was one of those kids who got in trouble at school for tapping pencils on their desks." As a young man, he played for a number of bands, but when his parents bought him tickets to see Stomp on Broadway, "It was like being a kid in a candy store." He hung out after the show and passed his business card around, which got him an audition.
"I got the gig," he says, and he has been "stomping" since 1997. "I love rhythms. I love playing beats, and I love having people smile at what I do."
All of what the audience hears is generated by the eight Stompers onstage. There is no additional soundtrack on tape supplementing what the Stompers create. "It's 100 percent legit," Sawicki says proudly.
And it's hard work. "Being a Stomper is like being a professional athlete," he says. "Injuries come with the job."
Sawicki knows: He snapped his Achilles tendon, which sidelined him for a long while. But during his healing process, he was able to work with Stomp creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas to develop a new show, Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra, which Sawicki calls "an orchestra of junk. You shut your eyes, and you think you're hearing the New York Philharmonic, but if you open them, you'll see a bunch of garbage and junk made to sound like orchestra instruments."
Stomp stays fresh, Sawicki says, because, although about 80 percent of it is structured, there is room for improvisation. "And the cast is multi-ethnic, so you have different rhythms from all over the world. We've got some new stuff in this show that you guys haven't seen before."
Sawicki also has a theory about why the show remains so popular. "We all share the rhythm of life, which is your heartbeat. Everybody has a pulse—that's as basic as it gets. There are so many different sounds in the world; everything around us has a kind of rhythm. What we do is take the chaotic sounds of the world and organize them. It's not just a lot of noise. It's really beautiful, what we do."
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Broadway in Tucson is part of the 100-year-old Nederlander theater empire, which has produced and helped develop dozens of Broadway shows. It owns theaters across the country and in London, including nine Broadway theaters, as well as the Pantages and the Greek in Los Angeles. And it coordinates a nine-member group that presents touring productions across the country. Broadway in Tucson is part of that group.
According to Broadway in Tucson general manager Lendre Kearns, it's a complicated process to get these shows here, and to ensure they have a successful run.
"These shows close somewhere Sunday night, and they have to break the sets down, load up the trucks, and get here Monday so they can unload the trucks and get everything set for our opening on Tuesday," Kearns says. "And some of these shows travel with six, 12 or more trucks. So routing is an issue. That's why we can get some shows and not others."
Other factors include whether or not the Music Hall, where these shows are performed, is available on certain dates. "Maybe the Tucson Symphony is scheduled for the dates the (touring) show would be available to us."
And then there's the issue of "blackouts." Says Kearns: "Jersey Boys has been on our wish list for a while, but because it was playing in Las Vegas, (cities in) California and Arizona were not allowed to book a touring version." Kearns hinted that this might not be the case much longer.
Although the productions themselves are not developed in Tucson, there are numerous critical tasks associated with "facilitating their engagement here," for which the organization is responsible. "These groups travel with a small corps of technical folks, so we hire a lot of local professionals to help with load-ins and load-outs, lighting, rigging, costume repair, wigs, laundry, stagehands—you name it," Kearns says. "And we also hire local musicians, because the tour may come with a conductor and lead violinist, but not an entire orchestra.
"For one show last year, we had a payroll of $80,000 (beyond the costs of booking the show). When Wicked was here, they used $50,000 worth of hotel rooms. They traveled with 22 trucks, and we did a three-day load-in with a crew of 70 to 80 people," most of whom were Broadway in Tucson hires.
Kearns says the group strives to bring in a variety of shows, some with well-established fan bases, and some which are not so well-known.
Sonoran Scratchboarding: Desert Museum's Ongoing Exhibit | 581 |
Dive-In movies are shown on the video screen at our swimming pool. More information on Dive-In movies below.
Q: During a dive in movie, will the slide and mushroom at the play pool be on?
A: No. They will both be turned off due to their noise during the movie.
Q: Can I bring an inflatable raft, inner tube, or other large inflatable items.
A: No. These items can be a safety concern for lifeguards watching the pool. Pool Noodles and life jackets are allowed.
Q: Do I have to have a ticket to come?
A: No, you do not need to reserve your spot with a ticket. You will check in and pay at the recreation desk by the basketball gym and locker rooms.
Q: Do I have to wear a life jacket in the lap pool?
A: Our policy is that anyone over 15 years old can be in the lap pool without a life jacket. Anyone who is over 48 inches tall but under 15 is eligible to take a swim test<|fim_middle|> lap pool with no life jacket. Anyone under 48 inches or under 15 without a passed swim test can enter the lap pool wearing life jacket. | administered by a Jones Center lifeguard, in order to be in the | 14 |
so I started researching the best approach to extract the<|fim_middle|> changes to be performed on the web page, basically add json-ld script in your webpage – usually at head .
To convert between previous three formats, rdf-translator.appspot.com website provides very good tool for that.
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook.
open graph doesn't support as many details as schema.org formats, but it is widely applied among websites – probably more than other three formats described earlier.
The structured data formats make it easier to extract information about a webpage, it is now used by search engines to let the crawler understand much more details about your entity and its semantics and display rich snippets in search results, and it allows software to easily understand webpage content and get useful information out of it.
I am using symfony/var-dumper to dump the results of scrapping in readable format (using dump() function), you may need to require this package in your composer to get the same results format.
If you want to get all microdata information in the document – in general without filtering specific properties -, you can use linclark/MicrodataPHP composer package provide this functionality.
In this post I explained some of modern metadata approach, which is represented by schema.org vocabularies implemented in microdata, RDFa, JSON-LD along with facebook open graph, and how to use them in simple practical use cases to scrap certain piece of information like: movies data, books information and post social preview of shared URL.
However, having structured data for websites offers great capabilities for many more complicated applications like: vertical search engines and text mining.
My name is Zeid Rashwani, Syrian LAMP developer, lives in Jordan/Amman. Web development is my main activity, in my free time I tend to watch anime and movies..
This blog contains technical topics related to web development, along with other matters. | required data and identify the most useful information for target sources so I can index, analyze and extract required results from it.
So, I explored many resources regarding structured data and metadata formats like microdata, RDFa and Schema.org vocabulary, so I can write scripts to do this job using PHP and Goutte Scrapper.
however, those old meta data structure is very limited – it shows only few information like: title, description and keywords – and it can be easily misused by sites. Today those old meta tags have little effect on search engine behavior. Instead newer technologies emerged in order to make webpages more structured and turn it into rich entity so the data can be extracted and used more efficiently out of it.
In 2011, schema.org initiative was launched by the main search engine companies – Google, Ping, Yahoo and followed by Yandex – to create and maintain vocabularies and promote schema for the structured data/matadata that can be included in the web pages, and parsed by Search Engine spiders and other applications.
Schema.org provided wide range of schema vocabularies that are used to display rich details about webpages in the search engine results, like: product ratings, price, offers or movie title, director, genre, actors..etc.
as you can notice, it specifies many detailed data about the product, including its name, image, price, model, offer… etc.
Schema.org uses different formats to embed those vocabularies inside webpage contents, including: Microdata, RDFa, and JSON-LD, I will write brief information about each of those formats.
There are four formats of meta data that I can going to cover there, one of them is facebook open graph, which is not actually part of standard schema.org structured data formats, but it has wide spread among the websites because facebook depends on it (like sharing preview …etc) and provide useful information for webpages.
where TYPE_NAME can be Movie, Article, Person …etc. and usually this attribute will be on the same element as itemscope attribute.
in example above, line 1 is indicates that this item is a product.
Google has tool to test structured data embedded in the website called Structured Data Testing Tool, it helpful for webmasters and developers to check their HTML markups.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model.
RDFa is a part of RDF which is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML. It is basically the same concept as microdata but with different attribute structure and more capabilities.
Many people think it is cleaner to include metadata as json format because it doesn't require HTML | 554 |
Education at Mountain Pathways<|fim_middle|> for self-reliance while encouraging and expecting individuals to support each other in building a stronger community.
We value empathizing with others' needs and situations, and we care for each other as much as we care for ourselves.
Mountain Pathways School is unique to this region. The purpose of Mountain Pathways School is to provide education of the highest quality for children of all racial, cultural, religious, and economic backgrounds based on a philosophy that is committed to teaching children in ways they can best learn. The Montessori method of teaching and learning emerged from well-accepted research in child development and learning. We participate in dialogue with the American Montessori Society, International Montessori Council, public schools and Appalachian State University concerning improvements in education. | is seen as a cooperative venture where individual freedom is balanced with recognition of the rights of others.
Hear from Head of School, Ellen Lewis on what differentiates a Montessori education.
Mountain Pathways School is a community that fosters respect and a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical well-being of its children. The community of learners includes students, families, teachers and friends interested in the children's learning. We begin by focusing on the whole child. This involves fostering the social, emotional, physical, spiritual and aesthetic growth of the child, along with the development of intellectual skills and knowledge. The child's personal learning style and rate of learning are met with instructional strategies and a prepared environment that are suited to his or her developmental needs. We value creativity and self-expression.
Creating a safe place to explore and express individuality, always mindful of other individuals and the community as a whole. Cultivating love of learning through the child's choice of experiences.
Encouraging each individual to be internally motivated, to be confident decision makers and to embrace his/her ability to make choices.
We believe in each of us owning our individual beliefs and recognizing their effects on the community.
We acknowledge the uniqueness of each individual and the special gifts each one brings. We foster positive self-esteem as a core value that allows us to honor others, our community, and our environment.
We seek the positive in all situations and enjoy the process. We strive to bring joy, playfulness and laughter to our lives and community.
We provide opportunities | 311 |
Troubleshooting Photoshop in Final Cut Pro
PROBLEM: importing an Adobe Photoshop file into Final Cut Pro looks like a flat image. That's bad. It's supposed to be a sequence, so you can play with the individual layers!
open the file in Photoshop
Re-save it, exactly as it is, using "Save As…" — make sure the Layers checkbox is on!
delete the file in Final Cut Pro and re-import it. If this worked, the icon should now be different, and look like a sequence.
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Star Magazine: August 24, 20<|fim_middle|>; sometimes faking the reaction footage of themselves after the interview, as famously depicted by William Hurt in the film "Broadcast News."
a photo of the thing the person is talking about (especially for documentaries – like the "Ken Burns Effect")
an object in the same venue as the speaker – for example, the dialog is in a cafe; you show the napkin dispenser… or one that could plausibly be there, if you didn't film it originally (pickup shot road trip!). Good for developing atmosphere.
a totally random other shot – this has to do with Eisensteinian theory of continuity, but basically you pick something that the audience can relate on some metaphorical level to the situation or dialog or character
If none of that is going to work, you're stuck with a shot of the speaker. So we're down to:
Dissolve into same shot:
Cut for sound, omitting some footage between two takes — that is cut the dialog so it sounds good, and then adjust the video. The simplest non-jarring transition is a dissolve between the two takes. Popular in documentaries.
Mirror the shot on the next take:
This is similar to the dissolve except it lets you cut between two takes of the same shot. I saw this in The Aristocrats (2005), directed by and I think edited by Paul Provenza. He took a shot of a comedian talking, and cut directly to the same shot that had been flipped on the vertical axis, so left is right. If the shot is done slightly lopsided, or especially if you mirror AND zoom the shot a little, it looks like a different camera.
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Office waste paper into TP
Thank goodness someone came up with this– it's an idea that's been in my brain for a decade.
I'm so glad I don't have to invent it now!
Fukubukuro, daruma
OJ: hey what is that japanese New Years lucky bag word?
BRAIN: lucky bag word?!
OJ: nevermind google search helped me
OJ: fukubukuro
Fukubukuro, or "Mystery Bag," is a Japanese New Year's Day tradition during which merchants sell sealed bags of various items at a substantial discount, often as high as 50%. Shoppers may get some great deals on the contents of these bags – even if they don't know what exactly they're buying.
BRAIN: oh right
BRAIN: like a grab bag
OJ: yeah
BRAIN: we have that at Obon
BRAIN: except since it's so americanized I never knew the japanese name for it… (plus I hadn't done it for new years)
OJ: there is something in singapore called a "lucky dip"
OJ: which is a raffle thing
OJ: you buy a ticket (5 or 50 or whatever dollars), get a draw and a number
OJ: Japan celebrates NY on 1/1 correct?
BRAIN: you have to clean your house
BRAIN: and have friends over
BRAIN: with a lot of food available
BRAIN: generally there's some enka awards on TV
OJ: interesting, so similar to some of the chinese traditions for lunar new year
BRAIN: what happens for that?
OJ: lots of diff traditions depending on rural village
OJ: common ones include: big meal, or vegetarian meal
OJ: clean house
OJ: pay off debts
OJ: eat oranges or pineapples (pun on words)
OJ: "lucky money" / "red envelopes" from married people to kids (nieces/nephews also)
BRAIN: related: I found out recently what you do with your daruma after the eyes are filled in – you burn it at the temple at the end of the year
OJ: oh… interesting
OJ: i want a Hello Kitty daruma but i won't fill it in or burn it
OJ: unless hmm, i had extras
BRAIN: so what, she'd just be eyeless forever?
OJ: yah
BRAIN: so so sad
OJ: well u fill in one eye?
OJ: or you hae one with both, but don't make a wish
BRAIN: what!
BRAIN: a free ride for HK daruma?!
BRAIN: wtf, that's even worse!
BRAIN: you commie!
Halfway through I'm at Macy's and there's a ton of people made up like the Neanderthals from the GEICO commercials. They stay in character, just going about their business shopping (I can't recall any clerks who were Neanderthal-Americans), and occasionally being loud about being discriminated against in a Cro-Magnon-centric world. Although I don't think we're supposed to use that phrase anymore.
The phenomenon is so awesome it's hard not to giggle constantly. I tweet that it's happening (I used Twitter in my dream about GEICO!!), before talking to an elderly woman in a wheelchair, being pushed by a relation. They are both Neanderthals. I both play along and try to get her to break character, making a comment about picking up something with her feet — I'm not sure if she's turning into a chimp, or I'm just stupid, or if I'm baiting her deliberately — she almost breaks character but does not.
Later my friend Jackie and I sneak into a big party on the roof of a hotel downtown… it turns out to be Tom Hanks' birthday party, and Richard Branson is there with a cloned triceratops.
Tom Hanks is sitting with a friend at a small table while everyone comes up and wishes him happy birthday (he looks young!), and when I do, he seems to mistake me for someone else because he thinks we may have met before. Either we actually have met before and I'm fuzzy on it or I capitalize on his confusion, because I give him one of my MOO cards with the little weird images from my films on it.
LATER as I'm awake, I realize the GEICO mascots aren't actually Neanderthals, they are early modern humans, just "cavemen."
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This was printed in Star in August 2009, before the show was on. On page 65:
Shaun Sipos: ROLE: DAVID BRECK:
Spoiler Alert: David is the bad boy son of the original Melrose's handyman, Jake, played by Grant Show. Shaun, 27, has previously appeared on the series Shark and Complete Savages.
Oopsie! That was a lie – he was actually the son of Michael, also a character from the original series. Maybe it was an intentional misdirection?
Tricks For Editing A Long Speech
– different takes: you have footage of someone saying a long speech, but for whatever reason you don't have a completely usable take with the entire speech. This could be because the actor dropped a line, or stumbled over part of a line, someone could jostled the camera, or another camera issue, or there could be a technical issue with the sound, like a dog barking in the background or a sampling problem where the sound cuts out. You have to stitch together two takes. But how?
– speech too long: you have a good take, maybe only one, but the speech as written is just too long. The audience may lose focus when they watch the scene. You may or may not need to cut some of the middle of the speech. But how can you integrate the two or more pieces of the take left over?
Use Multiple Angles:
Your basic editing, you're cutting between cameras for the same speech. If you only had one camera, it will of course be for a different take – with a consistent performance from the actor you can cut the sound from one single take into another if you have to in order to avoid differences in sound quality. This obviously requires some advanced planning since you'd need to have shot this when on location in the first place!
Cutaways: while the speaker's audio continues, cut to:
a reaction shot of the listener. This is pretty much covered under "multiple angles": the footage you took of the other actor, listening while the person is speaking. Since their mouth is not moving, it could well be from another take and they could therefore be reacting to a different line, so be careful it makes sense! Reporters do this all the time | 468 |
Eremophila rotundifolia is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub with many tangled branches with its leaves and branches covered with a layer of silvery-grey hairs. Its flowers range in colour from pale to deep lilac. It is common in South Australia and there is also a single record from the Northern Territory.
Description
Eremophila rotundifolia is a shrub with many tangled branches and which grows to a height of between . Its branches and leaves are covered with a layer of silvery-grey, simple hairs that are pressed against the surface. The branches are lumpy due to the presence of persistent leaf bases. The leaves are clustered near the ends of the branches and are thick, stiff, egg-shaped to fan-shaped, mostly long, wide, folded sideways into a U-shape and curved downwards lengthwise. The leaves have a short, broad, flat stalk long.
The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a hairy stalk long. There are 5 overlapping, hairy, yellowish-green to purple sepals which are long and egg-shaped to lance-shaped. The petals are long and are joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is pale lilac-coloured to deep purple, sometimes white on the outside and the inside is white with violet spots. The outside of the petal tube and lobes is hairy, the inside of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from May to October and is followed by dry, woody, oval-shaped fruits which are long and have a hairy papery covering.
Taxonomy
The species was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (rotundifolia) is derived from the Latin words rotundus meaning "circular", "round" or "spherical" and folia meaning "le<|fim_middle|> easier. It grows best in well-drained soil in a sunny location but is drought tolerant, requiring a deep watering only once or twice during a long dry spell. It is only moderately frost tolerant but damage caused by a light frost can be pruned and the shrub will recover.
References
rotundifolia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Plants described in 1859
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller | aves".
Distribution and habitat
Eremophila rotundifolia is common, growing in stony soils in the North-western, Lake Eyre, Nullarbor, Gairdner-Torrens and Eyre Peninsula botanical regions of South Australia. There is a single record from near Charlotte Waters in the Northern Territory.
Conservation status
This eremophila is classified as "near threatened" in the Northern Territory.
Use in horticulture
The silvery-grey foliage of this shrub contrast with its lilac to purple flowers but also with other shrubs planted near it, especially those with dark green leaves. It can be propagated from cuttings but is slow to strike and grafting on to Myoporum rootstock is usually | 152 |
To quote my sophomore programmer, "Today was an educational experience." I couldn't<|fim_middle|> as an equally awesome day (perhaps a little less stressful)!
Subscribe to BrokenAirplane for all of the best in educational technology (and robotics)! | have put it better myself.
The excitement grew as all of the teams entered the Valley View Casino Arena (formerly the San Diego Sports Arena) and as we opened our robot crate, it was like seeing an old friend. Having spent over 100 hours working on it, it was so wonderful to find out that our robot had safely made it. Other teams weren't as lucky.
We tightened up all of the screws and added the winch that we had designed to compensate for the extra torque when the robot is coming back up. It worked beautifully! Now all that was needed was to pass inspection, we would be driving in an hour or so, or so we thought.
We go up to the inspection booth only to find out that our weight was 4 pounds over. Now for one who is not familiar with FRC, 4 pounds may not sound like much but when everything you put on the robot was essential at one time, making the decision what to drill holes in or take off is aggravating. We had already decided to not deploy the minibot simply because we felt it was more important to replace it with the winch. While this may not have been the best game playing strategy, I made that call because it was more important to me that this team had a working big robot.
In the mean time, our team received safety pins, which are the judges way of saying good job. We found some of our old friends like team Spyder, the Holy Cows, and Hilltop's EPIC. They helped us out tremendously, and in turn we were able to help out other teams by lending tools, parts, and knowledge. That is what Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers refer to when they speak of Coopertition and Gracious Professionalism and some of my students for which this was their first robotics event kept commenting on how nice and awesome everyone was.
The team became a little stressed as the hours ticked by and they had an issue with their cRio's (robot brain) firmware, and bumpers but they kept each other calm and ended up passing every part of inspection with the exception of the bumpers (which were fixed by a student after another long night of working last night). The team kept getting complements on their marketing materials, people were excited to come take pictures of our robot and see it shoot out tubes, but we ran out of buttons way too fast and so we will be making them throughout the day.
Even though the official build season was over, our team learned a lot. Our programmer learned how to download the code much faster, saving us hours of time collectively, our team became experts in drilling holes, and while it sounds cliche the team became even closer than they already were. They keep talking about how they are always going to keep in touch and having fun. Keep in mind these are students from all grade levels and different social circles. That is one of my favorite things about robotics is how it brings people together to have fun and make something awesome!
I will post updates about the team during the Week in Review and you can follow us on @ChaosVortex. Onto day 2 of 3! I hope the team | 647 |
Palermo is the principal city and administrative seat of the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy as well as the capital of the Province of Palermo.
Inhabitants of Palermo in Italian are referred to as Palermitani or poetically Panormiti.
Palermo was founded in the 8th century BC by Phoenician tradesmen around a natural harbour on the north-western coast of Sicily. The Phoenician name for the city may have been Zîz, but Greeks called it Panormus, meaning all-port, because of its fine natural harbour and it was part of the Greek speaking Eastern Roman Empire .
Palermo is widely considered to be the most conquered city in the world, during the ensuing centuries.
The Italian Risorgimento and Sicily's annexation (1860) to the kingdom of Italy gave Palermo a second chance. It was once again the administrative centre of Sicily, and there was a certain economic and industrial development.
Palermo suffered heavy damage during the Allied invasion of Sicily in<|fim_middle|> | July 1943.
Palermo got another boost when Sicily became (1947) an autonomous region with extended self-rule.
Palermo is a city with monumental problems, but is also a city of almost three millennia of history, beautiful palaces and churches, colourful markets, marvelous food and a distinctive cultural identity.
Porta Nuova ("New Gate") is the monumental access to the centre of the city.
Roger II's Cappella Palatina - French-Norman, Byzantine, and Arabic influences.
Palazzo dei Normanni, one of the most beautiful Italian palaces.
Quattro Canti is a small place.
Orto botanico di Palermo, founded in 1785, is the largest in Italy with a surface of 10 ha.
Capuchin Catacombs, with many mummified corpses.
The 600 metre high Monte Pellegrino, with spectacular views of the city.
Palermo has a noteworthy architectural heritage and is notable for its many Norman buildings.
This page was retrieved and condensed from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo) February 2007.
This information was correct in February 2007. E. & O.E.
I visited Palermo with Sarolta, my daughter in 1978 and I will scan and put up some of my photos, hopefully soon.
The city is interesting and a friendly place.
Hui Chin and I visited Palermo in 2006 again and we enjoyed our stay. | 317 |
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Italian Cities and Their Cocktails: What to Drink Where
Think cocktails and a quaint piazza in Italy… what could possibly more ideal than partaking in the local pastime of imbibing before or after dinner with one of Italy's most iconic drinks? Preferably with good company and a story to tell, like those that Italian cocktails tend to coax out as the night goes on. Well here's a fact: Italian cities each have their aperitivo traditions since they are known to have invented or perfected certain drink, so why not drink the right cocktail for each town? So here is a fun roundup of Italian cocktails from the cities and areas where they were born!
Just a note before I begin: In case you got caught up in the recent heated discussion about the summer-favorite Aperol spritz kicked off by this New York Times article, I just want to assure you that you'll get no overstepped judgement about what you drink from me! It is my personal belief that there is nothing quite as cool as just being yourself and ordering what you like.
Milan – Negroni Sbagliato
Negroni (not sbagliato) | Ph. Georgette Jupe
Naturally Lombardy's capital comes to mind when it comes to the art of the cocktail, as Milan is often considered the birthplace of the best habit known to man (or at least – this woman) aperitivo or Italian happy hour. From the vibrant bars lining the Navagli neighborhood to old school favorites in Porta Romana, you will find plenty of great mixologists and — but for a true Milan favorite try a 'negroni sbagliato' (this literally means a negroni cocktail gone wrong) from historic Bar Basso.
Normally a negroni consists of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso, and one part Campari however in Milan one of the owners of the aforementioned bar swapped gin for prosecco and voila, a star was born – this may be one of Italy's favourite wine-based cocktails! Additionally, the Americano cocktail, brainchild of illustrious liquor genius Gaspare Campari is a Milan-invented favorite made with 1.5 oz. Campari, 1.5 oz. sweet vermouth and club soda.
Brescia – Pirlo
The beautiful town of Brescia is overlooked by most tourists, but this Lombardy favorite happens to have a special drink for those in the know, called "Pirlo" — a lovely aperitivo containing white wine Campari (or Aperol) and seltzer. It is said to have been named for the circular movement Campari makes when you pour it in the white wine and served garnished with a slice of orange. The<|fim_middle|> – but the key to this is use real fruit and not fruit juice). It was created in 1948 by Giuseppe Cipriani, the owner of Harry's Bar in Venice, where you can still go for a bellini today in style! (See main photo for what this pretty pink drink looks like).
Florence – Negroni
Naturally, one could not make a cocktail list about cities and their drinks without mentioning my own city's beverage of choice, the negroni! It was said that Count Camillo Negroni asked a local bartender to make a variation of another drink a bit stronger and thus we have the negroni cocktail today (easy to make – what counts is the quality of the ingredients, 3cl Gin, 3cl Campari, 3cl Red Vermouth).
Rome – Cardinale
The eternal city comes with many visual interpretations; the Colosseum, the fountain of Trevi and of course who could forget the Vatican City. It is Rome where the Cardinale cocktail was born supposedly during the 50's, a potent combination of dry gin, vermouth and Contratto Bitter (very similar to a negroni)
Uniting North and South with Garibaldi
It might come as a surprise for those who don't know much about Italy's history as a united country. The truth is that the Italy we love today became a nation-state during the Risorgimento on March 17, 1861. What does this have to do with cocktails? Let me explain: One of the central figures during unification was a man named Giuseppe Garibaldi, an Italian general and nationalist, and thus his namesake cocktail combines Campari, which hails from the north, with oranges, from the south, like Sicily.
We can't think of a better way to celebrate a country's coming together with a cool (and very easy to make) Italian cocktail that is best enjoyed in an airy piazza!
All photos by Georgette Jupe.
Georgette Jupe
Georgette is a 'Tuscan Texan' blogger, freelance writer and digital marketing maven based in Florence, Italy. Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, International Living and National Geographic's 'Where the Locals Go,' to name a few. When she's not at her day job at Italy Magazine, you can find her everyday musings about life, food, artisans and bespoke travel via her blog 'Girl in Florence' She also might have a slight obsession with beagles.
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Italians take their drinking seriously, but not in terms of volume, rather in terms of rituals. There are before-dinner drinks, …
What to see and do in Montalcino
Montalcino is one of those idyllic Italian towns that become impossible to forget, a place that still today vaunts its … | drink was even deemed cool enough to garner a notable mention in the New York Times as part of the author's joy of aperitivo which she claims is "among the most civilized drinking traditions I've ever witnessed. There is no pressure, no pretension: It's all unhurried, unforced pleasure." I couldn't agree more.
Turin – Vermouth
Elegant Turin is home to stately palazzi, lovely parks and a liquor called vermouth. This aromatized wine is enhanced with botanicals, sugar and spirits. This ingredient has become a fixture on cocktails lists around Italy but is often served on its own as a perfect aperitif with plenty of ice and a twist of lemon should you so fancy. I would personally go for the iconic Milano-Torino (named for the A4 Highway that connects Milan to Turin) made with Campari and Vermouth (such as Punt e Mes), served over ice.
Lombardy – Warming up with a Bombardino
Bombardino | Ph. Georgette Jupe
Moving away from Campari, let's head up the mountains of Lombardy, close to the town of Livigno where legend has it that a young man from Genoa moved to the mountains and, after many years working as an Alpine trooper, was assigned to run a Mottolino hut. On a cold winter day, four friends sitting at the bar were discussing possible combinations to come up with a drink that would warm them up. They opted for milk, whisky and zabaglione, which would then be heated. A client tried it and exclaimed: "Wow…it's a bombarda!" (it's like a bomb). The Genoese man then decided to call the drink "bombardino".
You can find this powerful drink all around the Dolomites and mountainous north and for me this is the Italy answer to eggnog!
Venice – Beautiful Bellini
The city that floats also happens to be home to one of my favorite summer drinks, the beautiful Bellini, made with prosecco and pureed white peach juice (when in season | 438 |
<|fim_middle|> consciousness, science with spirituality. He looks beyond Darwin and the big bang; beyond traditional ideas of God, religion, and the human role in existence. As he does, we realize that the universe is crossing the most profound threshold in its evolution since the dawn of reflective thought a thousand lifetimes ago; and, like the threshold to reflection, this blossom of transcendence is unfolding within us. The book philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin would have written had he lived another fifty years.
The author of the Threshold to Meaning series, Vincent Frank Bedogne has an academic background that ranges from business, accounting, and economics to physics, engineering, and physical anthropology. He has been a student of Teilhardian philosophy for nearly forty years. | From the "alpha" to the "omega," Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers an evolution-of-consciousness paradigm of the universe and a triumphant vision of humankind and its future. Guided by a "creative process" that motivated Teilhard, Vincent Frank Bedogne aims to unite matter with | 60 |
In 2019 the Junior Farmers Association of Ontario marks 75 years as an organization for people ages 15-29. We are proud of our continued investment in our members as they are our province's leaders of today & tomorrow. On behalf of the Junior Farmers' Association of Ontario (JFAO) I would like to invite you to consider supporting our Association's leadership development opportunities throughout this exciting anniversary year.
The mission statement "to build rural leaders through personal growth, travel, experiences and community betterment" guides our strategies and the investment in our membership and our communities. The leadership skills our members gain, throughout the year, are a benefit to each of them personally, as well as the community in which<|fim_middle|> communities each year reflecting the strong commitment our membership has to rural Ontario. | they live and work. Members of the JFAO have gone on to become successful business leaders, politicians and positive contributing members of their communities. Hundreds of volunteer hours and thousands of dollars are invested back into our | 42 |
Why graphic designers need beautiful websites
By Tom Manning (Computer Arts) 20 July 2018
Why you need to sell yourself online, and how to do it.
As a graphic designer, when a Google search tells you that you're one in about thirty million results (calculated in 0.37 seconds), suddenly you can feel a little insignificant. Your website is your space to set out your stall and display your wares in the bizarre bazaar of the internet. But is your website helping to sell your work, or is it giving off mixed signals?
To find out more, we spoke to Rik Lomas, the founder of code school SuperHi about how to make a site that stands out, and how to pitch yourself online.
Lomas made his first website in 2001. "It was an underground online magazine for the other students in my sixth form, which kind of took the piss out of the teachers. The idea was originally from a friend's magazine, but we found it took forever to get it printed and distributed, so we put it on the web instead."
Lomas quickly got frustrated with the limitations of drag-and-drop web design packages like Dreamweaver, so just started playing around with the code. "I self-taught myself over a long, long period of four years with lots of getting stuck with no one to talk to – it took me way longer than it should have!"
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Today, there's a plethora of platforms where you can quickly get a website up and running, but we asked Lomas if there's a subtext that designers should be aware of.
"Some designers talk about 'creatively breaking the rules,' then use a standard template that another designer has made on a generic hosting platform. Is a designer being creative if they can only use templates? Do they even know how to break the rules? They're called templates for a reason – they're example guides for the average person to use. You set yourself apart by knowing how to get out of those templates," he says.
Lomas started SuperHi to help users break away from templates. "We wanted to not only teach better, more practical material, but make tools for beginners to learn to code. Many of our students have tried services like Codecademy. But because they get stuck and find it really dull, they assume learning to code is dull too.
"Think about your worst teacher at school and how you probably hated going to those lessons. Now think of the best teachers and how sometimes they would blow your mind with what they teach. We teach the same thing [as Codecademy], but we teach completely differently," says Lomas.
Market yourself in different places online
One page of the Rik Lomas' SuperHi website, which highlights a free email guide on how to start coding
When you learn to make websites in a different way to most people, it stands to reason that your website will immediately start to feel distinctive, and more you. "A lot of the best designers really get their personality and their politics into their work" says Lomas. "The authenticity of it is something you can really feel. You can see it in their social media as well as their work."
Beyond the bubble of your personal site, it's useful to be anywhere online where you can show off your work. "Sites like Ello, The Dots, and Dribbble are good places to start. Some people feel awkward about self promotion, but it's part of the job of being a designer," advises Lomas.
But bear in mind that when you hit 'publish' at home in your bedroom, you're also on view to the rest of the world. Lomas is a self-confessed internet stalker. "Not in a creepy way," he's quick to add. But when he was recently hiring and someone applied with a decent CV, he Googled them.
"I found their Twitter, where they were being racist and offensive to pretty much everyone they were interacting with. It was shocking how different their application was to their online persona," he states, adding that he chose not to take the application any further.
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London-based childrenswear company Wonderers has a website designed by a SuperHi graduate
Whenever we check out a designer's personal site, we always make a beeline to the About page. We're less interested in what someone says<|fim_middle|> could be so much better.'
"Being closer to your work means it's harder to let go. There's no right or wrong time to make things public, but the sooner the better."
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Premiere Pro tutorials: Master the top video editing software | , than the way they say it and what this one page reveals about them. Do they reel off a list of awards and educational achievements? Or tell a joke? Or bitch about their old workplaces?
Lomas does the same, and he wants to know: "Does the person take themselves seriously or are they fun? Do they write well on top of designing well? The biggest two things I'd be looking for are willingness to learn and excitability.
"Nothing is ever perfect, and there will always be things you want to change."
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"I want to work with other people who love to learn about as many things as possible, and I want to work with people who are excited and don't just see designing as a job. The way you do this is showing a variety of personal and collaborative projects," he advises.
If you have projects cluttering up your desktop that have never made it onto the web because you've been too preoccupied with tweaking the design of the site itself (or because you find uploading too laborious), Lomas has two words of advice: "Do it!"
"Nothing is ever perfect, and there will always be things you want to change. There's parts of the SuperHi website I'm not happy with; I'm not unhappy with them but they could always be better, but people compliment us on them. They say, 'Oh I really like this part,' and I go, 'Thanks,' but secretly I think, 'Ugh, that bit sucks, it | 306 |
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Hiking is a great way to experience Southwest Montana. At the ranch, guests enjoy our mile-long cart path which meanders along the river and returns to the lodge. Trails lead up the slope behind the lodge for panoramic views of the valley, the river, and our expansive ranch lands.
But if you want to see more of Montana's mountains, lakes, and forests, taking a hike in the Beaverhead-Deer Lodge National Forest is a great place to start.
In just short drive from the ranch, you'll find the Humbug Spires Wilderness Trail. This easy hiking trail a three and a half mile, in and back trail with views of quartz monzonite spires which reach for the sky.
The trail is less traveled giving one a feeling of solitude. Watch for wildlife such as moose or mountain grouse as they frequent areas along the creek. Mule deer and bighorn sheep also frequent the area.
Follow Moose Creek Road to the trailhead. There is a pit toilet at the trailhead but otherwise, no facilities. The trail winds through the spires – the Wedge is a favorite with rock climbers. This is<|fim_middle|>08-acres Agnes Lake which is filled with eagerly feeding arctic grayling. If you plan to fish, bring along some parachute adams, flying ants, or woolly buggers. | a great trail for a family hike.
Another easy to hike trail is the Sawmill Gulch Trail. Hike as an out and back trail, three miles long. A destination-less hike, it's perfect for exercise and views.
Located just upstream from the ranch, you'll find the Divide Bridge Campground. Here you'll find a picnic area and a boat launch on the Big Hole River. The area is a great place for a picnic or to stretch your legs, but if you are up for a hike, this is a favorite.
The Sawmill Gulch Trail leaves from the campground and follows Sawmill Gulch Road. The trail boasts spectacular views while rock hounds find rose quartz rocks along the way.
The Pioneer Mountains feature many hikes – some lead to awesome fishing. Here's a favorite – Lake Agnes.
For a bit more of an adventure and hike, visit Lake Agnes. The drive from the ranch takes about forty-five minutes to get to the trailhead at Browns Lake. Take the frontage road through Melrose, then a right onto Brown's Bridge Road. The road ends at Rock Creek Road, take a right and follow the good gravel road to Brown's Lake Campground. Wildflowers along the way are an added bonus!
Park at the campground. For a low-impact walk, hike along the 37 acres Brown's Lake. The road deteriorates but makes a nice walking trail. Fishing for native cutthroat in the lake is an added bonus!
To reach Agnes Lake, start at the trailhead at the campground. This hike is more difficult as you gain nearly 1000 feet of elevation in 1.5 miles. The hike takes you through dense stands of timber with openings with views. This popular hike ends at the 1 | 361 |
Everyone is super excited to once again visit some of the family members in Cuba, PA. It was me, my husband, Betsy, Mom and of course for the very first time ever for our son to be on that place. An hour and a half land travel with my family is such a nice thing, except that it is just way too hot outside. So the air-conditioner in the car is way up.
Everything went well there, we stayed at least more than two hours. Hang out with your family is really amazing. Love the travel, baby got so fussy maybe because of the heat or something else? We don't know, but the moment we got home from the trip he was fine and be on his normal and usual things to do.
While my<|fim_middle|> should not be taken granted, if you don't want to face hassles in the future. | father and son played each other. I was on my computer surfing. I have to make sure that I don't forget about our Network Security Software. Because lately, I noticed that for some reason my computer freezes without doing nothing. I am scared their might be some bug. I know, that's why I make sure that I have the most powerful Antivirus. This will help me a lot to prevent viruses in my computer and get it away from the spam. I have also installed the Antispam to protect it.
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rider through classical principles in order to ride in lightness, specializing in in-hand work and piaffe and passage. He believes that the horse should<|fim_middle|> is this period that Victor was really able to hone his skills by blending both Classical and Competitive Dressage. Victor has spent time studying with Juan Jose Verdugo and Rafael Soto of the Royal School of Equestrian Art as well as working for Leslie Morse and Hilda Gurney.
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Hired as head Rider of the touring Production of the World famous Lipizzaner Stallion Show.
Hired at Temple Farms, a historic Lipizzan breeding farm that puts on a yearly summer performance at their lovely facility. It was at Temple Farms where he was given the opportunity to work closely with incredible European masters of Dressage such as Conrad Schumacher and Hans Reigler, former Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna Austria. It | 112 |
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Viewing at Allen Mortuary on Saturday, March 30 from 1:00-5:00p.m. Funeral service also at Allen Mortuary on Monday, April 1 at 1:00p.m. with burial to follow at Lakewood Memorial Park.
Arlene was a lifelong resident of the Turlock and Modesto area. She graduated from Modesto High School where she enjoyed playing in the school band. In her younger years she enjoyed teaching Sunday School and giving piano lessons. Arlene loved cooking and baking.
Arlene worked as a bookkeeper for many years; working for Ed J. Lyng, George Biddle and Sun Valley Farms; Hoaglands Transport and Sam Warda Farms. While working for Ed J. Lyng, Arlene met the love of her life, Joseph Dugo, and together they shared 60 years of marriage.
Family was such an important part of Arlene's life and she cherished time spent with her kids, grandkids and most recently her great granddaughter.
She is survived by her husband Joe Dugo; daughters Julie Dugo and Lisa Kelso; sister Georgia Burdsall; grandchildren Taylor Kelso and Dr. Joseph Fair (Chelsea); great granddaughter Aspen Fair; and numerous nieces and nephews who she loved dearly. Arlene was preceded in death by her parents Howard and Marjorie Vent, sister Donna Doornewaard, and son in law Doug Kelso.
Viewing will be held at Allen Mortuary on Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 1:00-5:00p.m. Funeral service will also be at Allen Mortuary on Monday, April 1, 2019 at 1:00p.m. with burial to follow at Lakewood Memorial Park.
I grew up across the street from the Dugo's and my brother Joe<|fim_middle|> her utter a cross word. We always looked forward to her and Marjorie coming to San Jose where we were living to shop. I watched her two girls and boys while they shopped. She will be greatly missed, but I know she is with the Lord. | and I often spent days playing outside with her grandson Joey. Arlene was one of the kindest, sweetest, most patient women I have ever met. She was a wonderful mother and grandmother and treated my brother and I like her own grandchildren. She will be missed dearly. My condolences to her wonderful family.
Auntie was the coolest aunt to have! As one of her nephews, I had the opportunity to enjoy big family events along with her great cooking. She was always sweet, kind, with a constant mischievous on her face. It was great to have so many fun experiences growing up. She was a great mother, sister, and Aunt, and most of all wife. Growing up closely with my cousins Julie and LIsa were times that went too fast. Arlene and Joe were always so supporting of us all getting together. I know how much my Mom adores you. She always will. We all do. As I mentioned before, she is probably enjoying time with her Savior, her Mom, and friends. Gram is probably giving her heck as we speak. We love and miss you already Auntie! You did it life right.
Arlene was like the sister I never had. She was always so kind and loving to me and our boys. When I first started dating her sister, Georgia, she and their Mom, Marjorie Vent, drove to Pasadena where we were in college to meet me. From that point on, I had a wonderful relationship as a family member. She was generous in doing things. I don't think I ever heard | 321 |
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WPAA-TV provides its users with the tools and the stage for the production and distribution of digital media. Wallingford-centric media produced by the public is prioritized. However, as the Cable Access Provider, with obligations extended to Government & Education Access per Docket 99-10-05 and 10-03-02, staff & volunteers curate content for distribution as government & educational programming.
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Juan Valladares is the Vice President of CreditGuard of America, Inc. and has been working in the credit counseling industry since 1997.
Juan began his career at a major answering service center, responsible for the training and supervision of over two hundred employees. Now in charge of managing CreditGuard's counseling department, Juan's management, organizational and motivational skills are all vital to the company's success.
Juan is a devoted father of two and a passionate racquetball player who competes regularly to satisfy his competitive instincts. He has dedicated his professional life to helping people get out – and stay out – of debt.
Wayne: What is the biggest piece of advice you can offer someone who has large amounts of debt? Let's say the example is massive car loans or mortgages that are upside down or credit cards, or maybe they even have $200 or $250,000 worth of debt. They just are stressed and it's crushing them—what is that big piece of advice you go to when they're distraught?
Juan: We're very busy in this country. We wake up very early in the morning, we pack our kids' lunches, we send them off to school, we work sometimes 40, 50 or 60 hours a week; we come home, we have to cook, clean, stay organized. There are so many things we have to do in order to maintain a very, very busy lifestyle, and a lot of the time we simply don't take the time to just sit down and organize ourselves.So one of the biggest pieces of advice I always give anyone, and everyone, is to just sit down, get a piece of paper and just start writing down everything that you owe, all of your income, and all of your expenses.
The most important thing is knowing where you're at. Most people don't know where they're at. If you ask them how much they owe on one of their credit cards they say, 'I don't know. I think it's about $5,000.' I've heard this so many times over the phone and they owe more like $7,000. I'm like 'How can people be off by that much?' And I get it: they lead very busy lives; they're obviously too busy just living, taking care of their daily responsibilities.
So the most important thing from my perspective, and one of the things I have a lot of personal experience with, is just sitting and writing down everything that you owe—the interest rates, the amounts, your monthly expenses, how much you spend on groceries, how much you spend on gasoline. Put everything down first before one of our certified credit counselors, which you can contact of course, can go ahead and start to analyze your finances and give you the best financial tools to help you, at a minimum, better manage your finances, and a significant amount of the time it's simply just about restructuring them.
Wayne: Seems like that documentation sort of become the rudiments of<|fim_middle|> really have to know where you're at. Because we tend to fall too much into debt, we almost tend to ignore it. It's like you think, 'Oh, it may go away. It's probably going to go away if I ignore it, or something is going to happen,' but at the end of the day you have to make a commitment and make a decision to sit down and say, 'Ok, let's see where I'm at with things.' And then you can just contact one of our certified credit counselors.
Wayne: Like 'Oh my goodness, I have $7,000 in debt, how did that happen? I only bought 3 things, I think.' But really it's been 3 months and dozens of transactions.
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Kangaroo Paw Symposium – CFRBGV Inc.
As part of this month-long celebration there will be a special three-day symposium on this group of plants which are in the plant family Haemodoraceae.
Professor Stephen Hopper AC (guru of this plant family) from Western Australia and Angus Stewart from New South Wales are our feature presenters.
Steve Hopper was previously Director of Kings Park and Botanic Garden and also the first non-British Director (CEO and Chief Scientist) at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Currently he is the Winthrop Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Western Australia.
Angus Stewart is Australia's premier kangaroo paw breeder with the Bush Gems Range now available throughout the world. He is also a gardening author and TV presenter on Gardening Australia. When on ABC Radio with John Doyle (aka Rampaging Roy Slaven) he was dubbed 'Doctor of the Dirt, Surgeon of the Soil and Professor of the Paddock'.
We are still finalising other speakers for the Symposium.
Day One will be a science day dealing with botanical, zoological and horticultural aspects. It will be held at the Melbourne Gardens.
Day<|fim_middle|> construction. This day will be at the Cranbourne Gardens.
Day Three will be a home gardeners day dealing with subjects that gardeners like to know. This day will also be at the Cranbourne Gardens.
This promises to be a very special time for the RBGV Cranbourne Gardens and all visitors! | Two will be a professional day dealing with breeding, design, cultivation and diseases. It is aimed at people who work in parks & gardens, horticulture, and design and | 35 |
Angie's List commemorated Sir Grout of Westchester for an exemplary year of service in the hard surface restoration and home improvement industries.
Westchester, NY - (PR WEB – 02/08/2017 10:00 AM EST) Sir Grout Westchester is celebrating the distinguished achievement of ranking among the best of the best, earning the coveted Angie's List 2016 Super Service Award for providing superb customer service in the hard surface restoration industry.
"We at Sir Grout Westchester are truly honored to receive this award. We spent a great amount of time and resources to do the best job we can and keep our customers happy" commented Tim O'Leary, owner of Sir Grout Westchester. "It's nice when your customers take notice of your dedication and reward you with a good word and their loyalty. This is what the Super Service Award means for us."
The Super Service Award is no minor commemoration, nor is it easily obtainable. The criteria for granting it is extremely stringent and to be eligible, a service provider must be able to sustain high standard performance all-year long. This is due to the rating system, which depends directly on verified and registered clients' testimonials, reviews and ratings that assess categories ranging from price to punctuality to professionalism. Before winning, eligible candidates must first receive an "A" rating in overall grade, recent grade, and review period grade. The SSA winners must also be in good standing with Angie's List, pass a background check, and abide by Angie's List operational guidelines.
"We are very pleased with the work done by Sir Grout. They came when they said they would, left no mess and the results are outstanding! All our bathrooms now look almost new. We highly recommend them."
In a marketplace saturated with services, it is beneficial to have an excellent track record, as clients gravitate toward companies that can prove their reliability and efficiency. Sir Grout Westchester has their work cut out for them with their growing client base as a new year begins. Since the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, and their commitment to superb service is rock-solid<|fim_middle|>5902 or by visiting their website, www.sirgroutwestchester.com, and signing for a free, in-home evaluation. | , another good year is expected.
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Vietnam War Oral History | educated at Wanganui College where he soon achieved fame as an athlete. He went to Cambridge for the purpose of studying medicine and he rowed for Cambridge in 1904. He then completed his clinical training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, from which he qualified in 1908. He took his F.R.C.S. (Eng.) in 1910 and took up ear, nose, and throat surgery. Early in the First World War he joined the RAMC, where the large numbers of patients suffering from mutilations of the face drew him steadily towards plastic surgery. He went to Paris to study the subject and by 1916 was established in England as a plastic surgeon. At Sidcup he revealed his genius not only for plastic surgery, where he devised such a notable advance as the "tube pedicle flap", but also for teaching and inspiring young surgeons from all over the world. He became the outstanding plastic surgeon of the century. In the Second World War he was consulting adviser to the Ministry of Health and consultant in plastic surgery to the RAF and to the Admiralty, and was responsible for organising various plastic surgical units in different parts of the United Kingdom. Sir Harold Gillies was a champion golfer and a renowned fly fisherman. He wrote two leading textbooks, one in 1920 on Plastic Surgery of the Face and the second in 1957, with Dr Ralph Millard, entitled Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery.
He died in harness in London on 10 September 1960, at the age of 78 years. He was twice married, first to Kathleen Margaret Jackson (d. 1957) by whom he had two sons and two daughters, and, secondly, to Miss Marjorie Clayton. He was a most delightful person, original, versatile, courteous, and full of enthusiasm for his many interests.
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Dominion, 12 Sep, 23 Sep 1960 (Obits). Gillies — Surgeon Extraordinary, Pound, R. (1964).
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Oxcarbazepine in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder.
Vasudev A., Macritchie K., Watson S., Geddes JR., Young AH.
BACKGROUND: Some studies have suggested that oxcarbazepine has a role in preventing episode recurrence in bipolar affective disorder. This review attempted to investigate the existing evidence from randomised controlled trials for its use in the maintenance treatment of this illness. OBJECTIVES:<|fim_middle|> as Topic, Secondary Prevention | To review the efficacy of oxcarbazepine, relative to placebo and other agents, in the prevention of affective episodes of bipolar affective disorder. The efficacy of oxcarbazepine was considered in terms of episode recurrence, general and social functioning. Adverse effects, overall acceptability to participants and mortality were also considered. SEARCH STRATEGY: CCDANCTR-Studies and CCDANCTR-References were searched on 7/11/2007. Medline, CENTRAL, EMBASE and PsycINFO were searched in March 2007. Specialist journals and conference proceedings were handsearched. Reference lists of relevant papers and major textbooks of affective disorder were checked. Authors, experts in the field and pharmaceutical companies were contacted requesting information on published or unpublished trials. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised controlled trials comparing oxcarbazepine with placebo or alternative agents, where the stated intent of intervention was the maintenance treatment of bipolar affective disorder were sought. Participants with bipolar disorder, male and female, of all ages, were included. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Data were extracted from the original reports individually by two review authors. The methodological quality of included studies was assessed individually by two review authors. The main outcomes were the efficacy of oxcarbazepine maintenance treatment in preventing or attenuating further episodes of bipolar affective disorder (including its efficacy in rapid cycling disorder), the acceptability of oxcarbazepine treatment to participants, the prevalence of side-effects, and mortality, if any, on oxcarbazepine treatment. Where appropriate, data concerning outcome measures and adverse effects were to be extracted from the studies and analysed using Review Manager software. MAIN RESULTS: Two randomised controlled trials were found that met the methodological criteria for inclusion in the review. However, they did not report data with sufficient clarity to allow their confident extraction for inclusion in the meta-analysis. Findings from the two studies were presented descriptively. AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: There is an insufficient methodologically rigorous evidence base to provide guidance on the use of oxcarbazepine in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. Given the need for more efficacious therapeutic agents, there is a need for good quality randomised controlled trials examining the therapeutic potential of this and related agents in bipolar disorder.
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It's October<|fim_middle|> Bridge, Alcatraz, Angel Island and the great San Francisco skyline. This year, every day had perfectly clear flying weather making for a fantastic show! | in San Francisco, which means it has to be Fleet Week. Since 1981 Fleet Week has been a fixture in the City by the Bay. It's a weeklong event with disaster preparedness drills, military displays, ship open houses and 3 days of flying.
The flying started on Thursday with the Blue Angels performing their orientation flights and a practice show.
Friday opened with the parade of ships led by the USS Essex LHD-2, a Wasp class amphibious assault ship, and the USS Champion MCM-4, a mine countermeasures ship. Following them was the USCGC Stratton Coast Guard National Security Cutter and the Canadian HMCS Winnipeg FFH-338.
Opening the airshow was the US Navy Parachute Team, "The Leap Frogs", jumping from a Missouri ANG C-130 with Mike Wiskus circling in his stunt plane.
The US Coast Guard flew in a C-27 Spartan from Sacramento and two HH-65 Dolphin helicopters to demo two simultaneous water rescues in front of the crowd.
The USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team ripped up the sky with an impressive afterburner performance highlighting the agility of the Viper. Then, the F-16 was joined by a P-51 for a Heritage Flight.
In a rare appearance, Boeing's new P-8 Poseidon anti-submarine plane did a flyby for the crowd on all 3 days.
Up next, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds flew their nine Tudor jets as one in an aerial ballet, changing formations during turns and loops. The precision flying by this team is always a pleasure to watch.
Mike Wiskus returned to wow the crowd with a performance of extremely low level passes over the San Francisco Bay, lower than most of the sailboat masts.
The Patriot Jet Team then filled the airspace with a routine that keeps you searching the sky for each jet. Colored smoke adds to the beauty of the heart painted in the sky, giving a visual to song "I Left My Heart In San Francisco".
And Sean Tucker, what can you say, he's a legend and a performer to the max. He's even more amazing to listen to as he flies. We've never heard someone with so much energy, even while he's pulling high G moves and still giving a commentary for the crowd. God Bless America, and thank you Sean.
Finally, the headliners, the Blue Angels, performed to a backdrop of the Golden Gate | 512 |
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Second chance for Jamie in big air
Jamie Nicholls
Published: 08:32 Sunday 11 February 2018
Jamie Nicholls could be forgiven for thinking he may have unknowingly crossed paths with a black cat or walked under a ladder in the run up to these Olympics in PyeongChang.
In the best shape of his life, the Queensbury snowboarder was the first Brit up in the slopestyle.
He needed to finish inside the top six to make the final but a fall on his second run meant he couldn't better his opening score of 71.56 – a run viewed by many, including Sochi 2014 bronze medallist Jenny Jones, to have been judged too harshly – and he finished eighth.
That disappointment came just 48 hours after his cousin and British medal hope Katie Ormerod was also ruled out with injury.
And the frustration was plain to see for Nicholls who lay flat on his back on the snow for several moments after his hopes of improving on his sixth-place finish from Sochi<|fim_middle|> Games on Eurosport and Eurosport Player. Go to www.Eurosport.co.uk | went up in smoke.
"The whole practice and in the lead up, in training, I felt so confident. The right mindset, feeling really good about my snowboarding, better than I have throughout my whole career," he said.
"I was going to step it up on my second run and do my big trick at the end which I did in practice. Unfortunately in the end it didn't happen.
"I was actually a bit gutted about my score on the first run. I was thinking mid 70s which was what I was hoping for with that kind of run, judging on what some of the other guys did and tricks on the jumps.
"I thought my top section was really strong but obviously it wasn't to be."
Now joined in PyeongChang by his wife and sister, Nicholls will regroup this week before the big air competition on February 21st
He will also be in contact with his cousin, admitting he had shed his own tears of disappointment when she sustained a fractured heel in training which required surgery.
"I was right behind Katie when it happened. I saw her slip off the rail and hit the knuckle" he added.
"She'd just done her arm the day before. It was so unlucky. First run, first hit and then done. And that was the rail I was using on my runs as well.
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"I wasn't thinking about the rail though on my run. I was more thinking I want to do this for Katie.
"It's just so unlucky. It's like getting hit by a car, I guess, that's the odds.
"She text me after my first run saying 'good work and keep it up.' It's just a shame that I couldn't do it on my second run."
Watch Jamie Nicholls in the men's big air qualifications on Wednesday February 21st on Eurosport 1 (RX) and Eurosport Player. Don't miss a moment of the Olympic Winter | 408 |
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At its 2006 Annual Meeting, the Finger Lakes Regional Arts Council/Smith Opera House elected four new members to its board. Paula Burden, Robert Flowers, and Noel Uzemack of Geneva and Stewart Orcutt of Penn Yan immediately began one-year terms on November 14. Additionally Michael Mirras and Wendy Marsh were elected president and secretary, respectively. After four years, outgoing President<|fim_middle|>ing Under the Stars," The Smith's fall fundraiser, with a framed print by Yolanda Schofield.The Smith Opera House is located at 82 Seneca Street. Built in 1894 and seating 1,438, The Smith is a fully-restored performing arts venue that schedules a variety of musical and theatrical performances and films, on the largest indoor movie screen in the region, throughout the year. It is supported, in part, with public funds from the State Council on the Arts, the City of Geneva, the Town of Geneva and by individual contributors.For more information on the Smith Opera House, call 315-781-LIVE (5483) or toll free 866-355-LIVE (5483) or visit www.TheSmith.org.
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13-Year-Old Accused of Rape in Fayette | Gregory Barnard chose not to seek another term. Carl Fribolin was re-elected Vice President and Robert McFadden was re-elected Treasurer. Governed by an all-volunteer board, the FLRAC's mission is to provide diverse and quality performing arts and educational enrichment opportunities for Finger Lakes residents and visitors in its restored historic venue, the Smith Opera House.Burden is a former educator in the Geneva City school system. She is a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church.With twelve years experience in college student affairs, Flowers is the Associate Dean of Students at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.For twelve years, Uzemack was the technical director for the Washington National Opera in Washington, DC. He also has ten years experience with Seattle Opera and San Francisco Opera.Orcutt is a marketing and promotions professional with over 20 years of experience in the performing arts. He has toured professionally in a music group and has managed and co-owned a 3,000 seats concert venue in Milwaukee, WI.A member of the board for seven years, Mirras is an attorney in Seneca Falls where he is a partner in the law firm of Midey and Mirras. Marsh is also an attorney with Hancock and Estabrook, LLP in Syracuse. She has served on the board for one year.Also at the meeting, former President, Treasurer, Secretary, and longtime board member Robert Schick, chose not to serve another term. An integral player in The Smith's $3 million, multi-year restoration efforts, the Lyons National Bank president and CEO has proven himself to be an invaluable asset in the growth and long-term prosperity of the organization. The board wished him well and thanked him for his many years of dedicated service. Additionally, he was honored by Barnard and Executive Director Kevin Schoonover at October's "Sw | 380 |
Kristan Reed heads up Pocket Gamer
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Steel Media has announced that Kristan Reed has taken on the role of editor-in-chief for Pocket Gamer.
Reed has ore than a decade of experience in video games journalism, having started back in 1999 on Computer Trade Weekly, the precursor to MCV. He was also editorial director at Eurogamer, before leaving to become<|fim_middle|> magazine has announced on Twitter that it will no longer release print editions | a freelance writer.
"Joining one of the most respected, authoritative teams around is an honour, and it's the kind of challenge that doesn't come around very often," said Reed.
"The creative energy and ambition within the handheld gaming sector makes it an exciting place to be, and I'm looking forward to helping the team to take the Pocket Gamer sites to the next level."
Chris James, MD of Pocket Gamer publisher Steel Media, added: "I'm thrilled to welcome someon of Kristan's stature and experience to boost what is an already strong team."
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On November 27, 2019, the presentation of the book of "Kulob hoard" (Samanid dirhams) of the Tajik numismatist and epigraphist Sharifzoda Ab<|fim_middle|>hams are no more than 1-2 coins.
The book of "Kulob hoard" also provides interesting information about the political situation of Khuttal. And also, based on coins, it is determined that in 270/883 until 289/901-902 Khuttal was independent and ruled by local rulers. In 293/905-906 Ismail Samani annexed this region to the state of Samanids and this fact is important for the history of Khatlon and Samanids. In addition, for the first time a complete catalog of this hoard was compiled and added to the text of the book.
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The book "Kulob hoard" was written on the basis of a study of a large hoard of coins of Samanids, found in Kulob, which consists of 1405 dirhams and 104 fragments. This hoard is the largest hoard of the Samanid dirhams in Central Asia. The scientific significance of this book is primarily in the fact that it explores a new, previously unexplored hoard, which contains new information about Khatlon's money circulation during the Samanids. Articles were published about the hoard of the Samanid dirhams, but there were no monographic editions. In this hoard, 60 species and 79 variants of dirhams were revealed. Numismatists can apply the presented classification in the study of other hoards and this is a good scientific achievement.
The most important achievement of the author of the book is the discovery of Vakhsh coins in this hoard, which were not known until this time. Another feature of the "Kulob hoard" is that there are 581 coins minted in Khuttal. And in other hoards, the Khuttal Samanid dir | 344 |
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Your earrings, your wedding ring, the platinum in your computer of phone – all of them might be alien artefacts. So send them over for future study. According to a team led by Matthias Willbold of the University of Bristol, U.K., gold, platinum, and other precious metals were brought to Earth by a massive meteor shower.
What happens is that certain metals, such as the gold, platinum, nickel, tungsten and iridium are attracted to iron; iron is the main ingredient in Earth's core, so when our planet was still a molten mass, these elements should have migrated to Earth's center, thus leaving our planet stripped of almost all its precious metals. However, the crust is riddled with them – how can this be?
Geologists have long theoretized that Earth was bombarded with meteorites between 3.8 and 4 billion years ago, studding the early crust with our favorite shiny metals. These metals then became incorporated into the modern mantle over time. The idea seems to be backed up by the existance of craters on the Moon, which date back to the same time, suggesting that the satellite was hit too by this slew of meteorites. Now, even more research seems to back this theory up.
Matthias Willbold and his team sampled ancient rocks from southwest Greenland<|fim_middle|> early planet formation," said Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington who has also studied early Earth using isotopes.
According to their calculations, about half percent of the material in the mantle was added by those meteorites.
"That sounds like not really much, but it's about 300 billion billion tons of material," Willbold said. "All the precious metals that we find today — and probably also water — have been introduced to the accessible Earth from these late stage meteorites".
However, these events were without a doubt devastating for that time's planet, possibly delaying life by hundreds of millions of years. However, another possibility is that it created the conditions necessary for life to appear.
Carlson explained the early bombardment of meteorites would have been "a terrible event for life. It probably would have melted the planet, blown off any existing atmosphere.", but he also adds that
"It's possible that this late veneer brought in the goodies afterward and it brought them in gently enough that they stuck around. I don't know that it brought in life, but it brought in maybe the constituents of it: the water, the right kind of surface temperatures, and the atmosphere that is conducive to life."
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Tags: gold meteorites | that formed some of the Earth's earliest crust, earlier than the bombardment and compared them with newer rocks from other places, representing the modern mantle. They found distinct differences in concentrations of tungsten isotopes.
"This is a sort of a time capsule that gave us the possibility to calculate how much material had to be added to the Earth to satisfy the tungsten isotopic composition that we find in the Earth today," Willbold said. "It is so far the best isotopic or geochemical evidence that late bombardment ever happened," he added.
This is indeed a major leap forward, and was applauded by other scientists as well.
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Mark Ravitch was born in New York City. He received his BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1930 and his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1934. After nine years of residency training which included a chief residency with Alfred Blalock, Ravitch served as a US Army surgeon achieving the rank of major. Ravitch returned to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Surgery in 1946, leaving in 1952 to become a clinical professor of surgery at Columbia University. He returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1956 as the Surgeon-in-Chief at the Baltimore City Hospitals. Ravitch was promoted to professor in 1965 and left the next year to become a professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Chicago. His last career move was to the University of Pittsburgh as professor of surgery. Ravitch published hundreds of papers, book chapters and journal articles and was the editor of many surgical texts. As the official historian of the American Surgical Association, he wrote a definitive history of the specialty entitled, A Century of American Surgery, covering the period 1880-1980. He also served as president of the American Surgical Association in 1983. Ravitch was the recipient of many awards including The Ladd Medal from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1972, the McGraw Medal and Denis Browne Gold Medal from the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons.
The Mark Ravitch collection consists of one autobiographical manuscript. The first 57 pages are entitled, "Sketches from the Johns Hopkins" which covers Ravitch's medical school and residency training years. The remaining vignettes cover experiences and observations during his professional life.
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I love this time of year. Even in the cold crisp winter, the streets of London have a warm December beauty to them: the lights are up, the carol singing has started, and we're drawn into the rhythms and mood of the festive season. Like many people, I'm really looking forward to a short break celebrating with family and<|fim_middle|> or regular, and of course to those yet to come along and try us out. I can assure you that our enjoyment as tantric therapists comes from the enjoyment of our clients; from the anticipation beforehand and the satisfaction afterwards, we all share the same emotions; your delight is our delight. 2016 will be a tough act to follow, but at Tantralising, our aim is to make sure that 2017 will be our most enjoyable and exciting year yet. See you soon I hope at our Baker Street studio. | friends. But before that happens, there is already a joy in the air. I sense it in our clients as they arrive at the door, for a tantric massage, with an extra glint of seasonal bonhomie in their eyes. Yes, I love this time of year.
As 2016 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on what has been a wonderful year at Tantralising - for me, my best ever - with new members joining the team, new ideas and session styles being tried out, and most important of all, you, our lovely clients and friends making what we do here so enjoyable and fulfilling. I'm finishing the year in love with what we do and feeling blessed by the pleasure we bring. Christmas just makes that feeling stronger still.
On that note, I would like to wish a very happy Christmas and New Year to all our dear clients, whether new | 184 |
The recruitment of high calibre staff is critical to all organisations. Many service sector or knowledge-worker environments are nothing without their people. Appropriate staff will contribute significantly to the success of the organisation, but the wrong staff could not only fail to achieve targets, but possibly bring about the collapse of the organisation. For these reasons alone, recruitment, particularly of senior positions, is one of the most important tasks Z/Yen can undertake. Our risk/reward methodology is of particular use when recruiting. For example, we often create imaginative remuneration packages designed to find the right balance of risk and reward for both the employer and employee.
Much has been written about the 'right' way to recruit, and there is no shortage of experts ready to provide ready-made solutions. There are at least half a dozen methodologies which can be adopted, each with their own proponents, ranging from in-depth three day assessment centres to graphology and even astrology! In addition, the recruitment market place itself can be a confusing and capricious one, affected by a host of factors ranging from the macro economic climate to peculiar local ones. However, whichever approach is taken, there is nearly always one common factor: cost. Recruitment, at all levels, is usually an expensive exercise, and managers must weigh up the one-off cost of getting it right against the contribution that can be made by the right individual.
Z/Yen people have decades of experience of helping clients identify and recruit the right staff. Projects have ranged across all sectors and across most organisational functions. Approaches adopted have included search ("head-hunting"), advertised selection, assessment centres, psychometric testing and, occasionally, graphology (but not, alas, astrology). The common theme, however, has always been to provide the most appropriate methodology to solve the client<|fim_middle|> of ancillary techniques such as psychometric testing also helps prevent the position becoming unnecessarily clouded.
The key to successful recruitment is the consultant's understanding of the client's business and the reasons behind the recruitment. Z/Yen people have established a reputation for achieving success by investing more time than is usual in ensuring that they fully understand the client's objectives; then, and only then, can they know what they are looking for in potential candidates.
Z/Yen's approach to recruitment is based on six steps: establishing the client's needs; assessing the market and company; looking for candidates - which might involve writing advertising copy and selecting appropriate media, or research; reviewing opportunities and interviewing; assembling information, undertaking interview(s) with the client, taking references; structuring negotiations and acting as 'go-between' to secure the right people. The focus on risk/reward management inherent in Z/Yen's approach to recruitment provides clients with the assurance that an appropriate approach is adopted for each recruitment project and that the market is being effectively and professionally scanned for suitable candidates. | 's particular need; discretion in the use | 8 |
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Article by Catherine Schepp, staff writer for the "Hawk Eye," February 2009.
Working in our school's College Center is the author of 11 books, Dr. Sally Kneidel.
Kneidel said that she began writing books after teaching her children's elementary school classes about insects as a volunteer parent. During<|fim_middle|> interesting. I wish this concept of going green could be taken seriously in Kenya where I come from. The whole thing can have positive impact in aleviating poverty. It is good to note that a version of this may already be on course in what is known as "Kitchen Gardening Initiative" introduced for the farm workers in one of the Multinational Tea companies in Kenya. | her lessons she would help the students conduct experiments and would compile their data. These activities reminded her of how much she had loved writing and compiling data in the process of earning her PhD in Biology/ Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While volunteering in the elementary school, she kept records of all the lessons she designed and soon had enough for a book.
With an agent, she quickly found a publisher for that first book, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: More than 100 Hands-on Experiments for Children, which has won awards such as Science Books and Films' "Best Books for Children" (1992-1995). She followed that book with a number of others on science education, and on the natural history of small backyard creatures. She wrote several children's guides to insects, such as Pet Bugs.
She said that her focus changed dramatically when her daughter, Sadie, then a junior in high school, decided to become vegetarian. Kneidel, who was a vegetarian in college herself, said that the family decided that giving up meat was truly the socially responsible thing to do. One thing led to another, and while Sadie was in college, Sadie and Sally began researching and writing together. In researching the environmental impact of livestock, the Kneidels learned that clear-cutting forests to graze livestock and to grow food for the animals contributes more to global warming than transportation does. She said that their realization that more people needed to know about the importance of decreasing their meat consumption led her and Sadie to write a new book.
Co-written by Sadie Kneidel, the book Veggie Revolution: Smart Choices for a Healthy Body and a Healthy Planet deals with their investigation of the poultry, pork and beef industries and the corporate treatment of animals. Kneidel and her daughter went to numerous factory farms and food-processing plants and talked with workers there. These visits led the Kneidels to seek more humane farms that use sustainable methods.
In researching their most recent book, Going-Green-Consumers-Shrinking-Planet, they met local farmers like Cassie Parsons and Natalie Veres, who co-own Grateful Growers Farm where they keep 25 laying hens in each spacious hen house, as opposed to more than one million hens at a Food Lion factory they visited. Going Green focuses mainly on the importance of buying local produce, on environmentally conscience ways to heat and cool homes, and on green transportation.
They also found lists of farmers markets around North Carolina. Kneidel recommends many of these for families seeking high quality organic and local products. Center City Green Market on Seventh Street is convenient for uptown families. Matthews Community Farmers Market offers a variety of foods grown by local farmers within a fifty-mile radius of Matthews. Kneidel said that buying local produce is especially eco-friendly because it minimizes the amount of travel time, fuel, and emissions involved in transporting foods.
If students or parents are interested in any of the books written on the scientific method, vegetarianism or green living written by our very own Dr. Sally Kneidel, they may find them on Amazon.com.
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<|fim_middle|> | This recreation topographic Mapbook of the Kootenay Rockies BC Topo region of British Columbia (BC) highlights all the logging/resource roads, hunting areas, fishing lakes & streams, campgrounds, paddling routes for canoeing & kayaking, backcountry campsites, backcountry huts and cabins, recreation sites, wildlife viewing areas, motorized trails for ATVing & snowmobiling, hiking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing & more. Featuring 51 maps at 1:200,000 scale, this Mapbook covers 95,440 km2 (36,850 mi2) in total. Special features include private land, labelled fish species and countless roads, trails and recreational Points of Interest. These maps include Arrow Lakes, Castlegar, Christina Lake, Creston, Cranbrook, Edgewood, Elkford, Fairmont Hot Springs, Fernie, Glacier National Park, Golden, Grand Forks, Invermere, Kaslo, Kimberley, Kinbasket Lake, Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, Kootenay Lake, Nakusp, Nelson, New Denver, Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, Revelstoke, Rossland, Salmo, Sparwood, Trail, Valhalla Provincial Park and more! | 264 |
How many times have I said this recently 'these are very powerful times'….
It seems like everyone around me seems to be shifting something or other; whether on a physical or emotional level. I remember a Shamanic teacher telling me years ago when I was a little more cynical than I am now, that everything that manifests on the physical has an emotional reason behind it. I believe this wholeheartedly now! This is why it's such an important time to be gentle with ourselves. If you feel like resting, or you're meant to be doing something and it simply doesn't resonate, don't do it! Follow your heart is the most important thing to do at the moment (as always)!
Often it's not the area that usually creates challenges that's coming up now, it's a completely new area. It's like we've got a testing portal for the next few days to use the magic tools we know work on whatever we're dealing with.
What are the tools that work?
* Have faith in your vision (and expand on it)!
What's apparent is that the decks are being cleared so that there's room for the life we haven't even dreamt of to manifest. Often we're so stuck on how we THINK things should unfold that we get in the way of the bigger dream. This is apparent more now than ever as the dimension we've been operating in shifts. This new dimension we're moving into is to do with our hearts, love and how we perceive things. It's like we're all going through a big detox, letting go of old beliefs, ways of operating and stuff that doesn't bring us happiness!
What I'm seeing when I give readings is that whatever is/has been causing people concern, worries pain etc. has been perfectly orchestrated so that they learn lessons. Then they can feel a new level of humanness, humility, self love and joy. Sometimes this is just a glimpse or a little window of a vision into their new life. This gives way to the birth a new, brighter, clearer, new world which is beyond anything we have even dreamt of.
Unless the previous pain worry strife or whatever had occurred it wouldn't have allowed them to lay the foundations for what is now being created.
As we've been shifting over the past few years EVERYONE has been saying there's a divine plan in action, I've heard this so many times. Of course this could have been my perception but I've always heard a level of hope, a tiny amount of concern but a large amount of grounded hearty excitement when people have said this.
This is what we need to hold onto as we proceed to creating more and more of our new world of love; grounded hearty excitement because I now know for sure that there IS a divine plan unfolding. I am certain of this, co created by us the Divine Creative Beings that we are.
That's why it's sooo important to do the things that nourish your soul. After all, it's our soul which is leading the way!
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Shaman preparing Chocolate drink for ceremony. Photo taken in the Gold Museum, San Jose. Cacao was one of the most valuable currencies to the ancient Aztecs.
My ego has been having a field day because it wanted to know the whys, hows and wheres of my plans (of which there were none). Since I arrived in Costa Rica my intuition has been laying trails of 'synchromagic' which is resulting in a really beautiful time.
I'm fascinated by this intuitive journey. I was soul guided to Guatemala last year and I had a spectacular time there, followed by LA and then Hawaii. Every step intuitively guided, and every step sooo perfect for my soul. I now trust my intuition 100%. I've had more, new, out of the blue creative ideas here in Costa Rica in the last couple of weeks than ever before in my life. I've been creating programs and attracting lots of new, wonderful clients. I even have a finish date for my book (which I KNOW I'll stick to). I've been learning lots about magical Cacao. I've been visiting local farms and museums, learning about the production of Cacao and its importance on many levels going back several generations. I've made new friends, met up with old friends (who I didn't even know were in Costa Rica) and I even have a vague idea of my future plans (which include a book launch) and sooo much more!
My mind (ego) still tries to find things to get its teeth into and worry about and at times I still find myself thinking that maybe my new location isn't conducive to a smooth running, successful business… of course, that's codswollop, as my current reality shows me. 🙂 Always check into your current reality, it is perfect feedback of your focus!
I've also come to a point where I'm integrating a few months of intense growth (thanks to my wonderful sis star pointing this out); if not a lifetime's worth (lol)! I feel like SUCH a changed lady.
In my most recent blog I shared how repeated patterns had been coming up and I'd been experiencing really deep pain. This pain has come up in all my close relationships with men I've had deep heart connections with.
With the use of Cacao I was able to shine the light on my shadow, become aware of my patterns and lack of self love which allowed me to let in sooo much more light and love as I release the shadow, darkness, density or whatever you'd like to call it. The shadow is not something to be afraid of, it's simply the part of us we're unaware of, what we haven't seen, what we haven't shone the light on. Until we DO shine the light on it it will cause us pain & grief in our lives.
Worrying is a waste of our imagination, if you'd like to create a new world of love, YOUR new life of bliss, IMAGINE it!
I feel so grateful as I bask in the after<|fim_middle|> belief has played out in our lives, for instance one like 'I'm not worthy' can create the repeated pattern of feeling unworthy of love…. It's not encouraged to look at this stuff, especially in some 'new agey' circles. We're told that we've got to stay on a high vibration and not think negatively. I strongly disagree with this because 'attention goes where energy flows', so even if we're desperately trying to ignore our negative thoughts and our 'stuff', where's the energy? It's still subconsciously focused on what we're avoiding!
When we face up to it, when we SEE it with awareness, we free up that energy.
Then we can focus on what we'd love to create and create that rather than continue to create what we don't love… When we are focussed on our belief, that shows up!
As we're creating the new world, we are in a portal where we have the opportunity to clear our 'stuff'. In fact it's imperative we do so as we're moving into a time of powerful manifestation; a new world of light and love. We need to clear our beliefs and patterns so that we CAN manifest what we love.
This is what I LOVE about my current adventure, no sooner do I have a (light) thought about something I wish for and it manifests! It's actually comedy, I do feel like I'm living a life totally created by me and that thank goodness all the work I've done on myself is paying off. I decided to treat my life like an adventure a few years ago and see if this s**t works… (the 'Soul Discovery' modalities I teach). I'm glad to say they do, and very beautifully too!
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Not only did I learn LOADS which I'm sharing with others, but I don't feel like I've EVER been so much in love with myself… This is attracting some very juicy life experiences. I keep saying this, but when we clear our internal world, our external world shifts to meet that. It's NEVER about the other person or external circumstances.
Gandhi knew the importance of this, he said; "We must be the change we wish to see in the world".
What I've found recently from this experience and working with clients is that, underneath it all it's our inner child that needs love and attention. We can do this by imagining him/her, letting an age come automatically, embracing the little one and checking in and chatting with them. I do feel that our ego is simply our little inner child who needs love and attention. Ponder on that.
Our negative beliefs can create a reality we don't love. When I work with clients this is something we focus on. It's really important to be aware of our beliefs as they can create a reality which doesn't serve us. When I bring clients to a realization about their beliefs, I feel like a midwife taking them through the birth canal again to a rebirth. Even though it only takes a few moments, because we're clearing decades of programming, even lifetimes – it can be an intense process, but when we surrender, it can take seconds! Once the realisation of how a | 307 |
(FRIDAY, April 12, 2019) -- A bipartisan official U.S. Senate delegation of nine Senators will visit South Korea and Vietnam for meetings with government and military leaders during the Senate's April recess. They will depart Washington on April 14 and return on April 23.
The delegation is headed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee and the ranking member of its Subcommittee on the State Department and Foreign Operations. Other Senators in the delegation are Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.); Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.),<|fim_middle|> will have defense briefings in Alaska at ALASKAN COMMAND, and in Hawaii, at the U.S. Pacific Command Headquarters and with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. | and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.).
In South Korea they will meet with U.S. officials and military leaders and visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Briefings and discussions will include U.S.-South Korean trade and other bilateral issues, the U.S.-DPRK nuclear negotiations, and POWs/MIAs.
In Vietnam they will meet with the President and General Secretary of Vietnam, Minister of Defense, and other Vietnamese officials and visit the National Assembly. Other sessions will include discussions with business leaders, nongovernmental organizations involved in clearing landmines and unexploded bombs, and university students.
The delegation will participate in two anchor events in Vietnam. One is the formal inauguration of the second U.S.-funded dioxin remediation project in Vietnam, at Bien Hoa Air Base near Ho Chi Minh City, which was the largest U.S. military base in Vietnam during the war. The project will reclaim lands contaminated during the war by dioxin, a byproduct of Agent Orange. The first project, at Da Nang, was completed last year. Leahy leads work in the Congress on these projects, which have had strong support from the Departments of State and Defense in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
In the second anchor event, the delegation will participate in the signing of a Disabilities Memorandum of Intent between the United States and Vietnam, spelling out a five-year commitment, involving the U.S. Agency for International Development, to support health and disability programs for persons with disabilities in provinces that were heavily sprayed with Agent Orange. The project is another part of the ongoing bilateral efforts to address the legacies of the war.
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Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis
Assembly George Square Theatre
3 – 28 August 2016
It's bound to be a disappointment when you are in the queue for a show and you see the name of the star attraction being pasted over, even though his face still takes up a quarter of the huge poster.
Veteran Canadian improviser Colin Mochrie, to shake up his act, has joined up with a stage hypnotist to create improvisers from members of the audience, who will believe completely in the situations given and will not respond as predictably as other professional improvisers.
Mochrie's replacement is the great Mike McShane, a superb improviser but here visibly nervous on his first ever performance with hypnotist Asad Mecci, an imposing cross between an American sports coach and an auctioneer—if he told me to sleep, I'd sleep.
It begins as any other stage hypnotist show, with 20 volunteers gradually being whittled down to 4 who have genuinely been hypnotised. Then the improviser takes over, instructing the hypnotist on the situation to give to the subjects then creating scenes like in other impro shows.
But it isn't like any other impro show; the fact that these are members of the audience adds a significant twist and great pleasure at the amazing performances that they produce. Perhaps it helps that we<|fim_middle|>inge—when they were asked which of them had singing experience, all 4, slumped in their chairs, raised their hands.
While some of the hypnotism set-up is a bit dull, albeit necessary, the show itself is very entertaining, although no doubt it depends, like all impro shows, on how well the situations work with the subjects chosen.
While the Fringe brochure does put in brackets "Colin Mochrie and more TBC", it's a bit naughty to drop a major star of the impro scene and no doubt a huge draw to some ticket buyers without making clear when he was planning to disappear back to Canada, especially as his face dominates posters all over Edinburgh.
But Mike McShane is never disappointing, and, once he got into the swing of things during his inaugural show, he was clearly having a great time and was as amazed at the results as anyone in the audience.
Reviewer: David Chadderton | are on the Fr | 4 |
Who Gets to Tell the Story of September 11, 2001?
We knew immediately that this was history.
As we stood looking at the towers, the smoke, that blue blue sky. All those people. Whatever we imagined was happening, the questions we asked each other, the calls we made.
After the attack there was a hush. Our beloved mash up of a city. Dirty, gentrified. Strivers and con artists. Like family -- we can trash it ourselves but outsiders better keep their yaps shut.
What we most needed was to tell the story over and over and over again. Stretching, pummeling, tying off until<|fim_middle|>uth Sergel is an artist + agitator. Her first book See You In the Streets, including a chapter on Voices of 9.11, was published this year by the University of Iowa Press. For more on her work please see: www.streetpictures.org. | we could shape it into something it might be possible to live with.
What we got instead was an endless cycle of planes and buildings.
What we got was USA USA USA.
The gnawing inside. Our sense of humanity disrupted, the dream of who we are as individuals, as a nation, as citizens of the world. The unanswered questions; the why, the how, the US??
Cut off from others with similar experiences, no wonder it was nearly impossible to translate that day into language.
I was volunteering at here is new york: a democracy of photographs. People brought us their images but they also brought their stories -- shattered, roughly constructed, falling apart, reconfigured, retold. We were all a little unglued. That vibrating stuck place. Stacks of stories were entrusted to us with more on the way and no place to put them all. Soon the slogans began to creep in. The clumsy, pat phrases from the corporate media. Ugly and imprecise. They served their purpose. Obfuscating rather than clarifying.
Voices of 9.11 was the only defense I could imagine. Radical because it is so simple. A video booth, a plywood box really. HERE tell your story HERE. Before youTube, before Story Corps, make a video recording of your experience of 9.11. However much time you need to tell your story. No restrictions. You press the start and stop buttons. Any language. Your truth. Now go!
Over 550 people stepped forward to testify. In New York City. In Shanksville PA where flight #93 went down. In Washington DC and inside the Pentagon. It was 2002 to early 2003. Each story was a thread. Survivors and witnesses, children, military personnel, first responders, neighbors and family members. A time capsule from the moment when the story was becoming.
For the anniversary we put all 500+ testimonies online. Watching each one, there is an urge to seek commonality. But there is none. What makes the project a success is multiplicity. Some people who speak in the booth are still stunned. Others rage or cry. Most people are thoughtful, precise. There is no single through line. The tie that binds is the act of testifying, creating layer upon layer of refracted meaning.
Suzanne Wasserman invited me to present Voices of 9.11 at The Gotham Center. I show videos from the project. A man stands. He tries to ask a question but tells a story; his experience of September 11. The path is clear. The next person rises to testify. One story after another, it is an outpouring, a kaleidoscopic collaboration to create a picture of the day and its aftermath.
We reach the time to stop, to politely close out the evenings presentations.
But we aren't finished yet.
Jump ahead 5 more years.
The fifteenth anniversary. Time is astonishing. There are college freshman with no actual memory of the event. Several of the Voices of 9.11 participants have passed away. Others have changed careers, had children, divorced or married. The planet spins on.
Voices of 9.11 tapped into the radical possibilities of grief. When we are exiled from the world as we knew it and forced to find new horizons to inhabit. The wonder of the moment when we reconsider what is actually important to us. Hold loved ones close. Say the words we always meant to say.
The little we could do.
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50/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr.
You won't remember, but I spent the 18th of February "scanning" the 144 slides from the 4 rolls of Fujifilm Provia 400 I shot at Edoardo's Bachelor Party. In that date I've also told you how my scanning process is based on shooting each backlighted slide with a digital camera and a macro<|fim_middle|> position the slide at the center of the frame, finely focus on the film, and easily check for the presence of any dirt on its surface. Everything went so smooth that I ended up re-scanning all of the 144 slides.
The rest of the day was dedicated to the production of a photo-book. I use Blurb for editing, printing, and publishing all of my photo-books, and if you don't know it yet please check it out immediately, it's great. My plan is to share the book with the other participants to the bachelor party. We are all from the same neighborhood in Rome and we know each other at least since high-school, but life scattered us all around the globe and there are now very few occasions in which we happen to be all together. | lens. Other than that, my setup is composed of a light table, a tripod, and an external shutter release. And clean slides. This can sound rather obvious, but it's actually tricky to keep slides clean, they seem to attract dust and hair like nothing else on Earth. So, after I spent most of the 18th of February "scanning" my slides, I realized that more than a few were too dirty to be used.
So, yesterday I finally reshoot them. This time, however, I used the NEX-7 as digital camera (last time I couldn't because Aperture was not compatible yet with the raw files). This little change made the procedure extremely easier, especially once I added to the setup an external monitor. Connecting the NEX-7 to the 19″ monitor via HDMI, in fact, made it possible to quickly | 178 |
From the time parents find out they're expecting, they are bombarded with parenting tips and information. But overtime, tips stop pouring in, people stop offering help, and parents can feel alone.
A<|fim_middle|> and criticized. Eliminating the stigma associated with asking for help is what a Sound Mind seeks to do.
Guest speaker Ann-Marie Simpson, licenced therapist and Drug Addiction Counsellor, spoke about the importance of using resources within our own community. We have become too comfortable relying on information from the internet, instead of those closest to us, like family and friends, that may have years of real world experience and are more than willing to help. Simpsons presentation on juvenile drug abuse and its effects on the family provided valuable information on how to get ahead of the problem by maintaining a high level of involvement in your child's life.
Parenting groups can fill a gap that parents may not even know they need. Not only do groups such as Sound Mind provide support and counselling for parents, but they also provide access to other valuable resources available in the community. Those interested in getting involved can email asoundmind@ncceep.com for more information. | Sound Mind, funded by the Ontario Governemt, provides a supportive environment where parents can receive help at every stage of their child's growth. Providing counselling, community referrals, mediation and an opportunity to network, a Sound Mind is a nurturing environment that focuses particularly on black youth empowerment. At times parents can feel like they are the only ones going through a particular struggle and the shame of what they are struggling with causes them to feel isolated. A Sound Mind provides a safe, judgment free environment, where sharing is encouraged.
At the most recent gathering, attendees ranged in ages from youth under ten to the elderly. One of the topics discussed was how parents can stretch their pennies and provide for their families on a tight budget. This is one of many real life issues that people often feel they need to deal with on their own. All too often, the black community is afraid to ask for help in fear they might be judged | 185 |
Q: How to get the String from msg.Payload and work with it? I get from a Server a MQTT Message with this Value:
Produktion//Arbeitsplatz_2//14416910412445//Produkt_2//
i must split it to get the first Value Produktion
But the debug only says that Function tried to send a message of type String.
So where is my mistake?
i try many examples, but no one works.
My Code:
var x = msg.payload.split("//");
var Status = {payload:x[0]};
if (Status=="Produktion"){
var INFO = {payload:"The Production starts!"}
return INFO;
}
A: I'm not sure why you are getting that error, as you should be returning null as the if clause will never pass.
The following<|fim_middle|> msg.payload.split("//");
if (x[0]=="Produktion"){
var INFO = {payload:"The Production starts!"}
return INFO;
}
A: The mistake is in your if statement :
(...)
if (Status.payload == "Produktion") {
(...)
regards
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var x = | 6 |
Jason wrote: I think there are steel inserts in the aluminum that are bearing holders. It looked like a little rust on that.
It looks that way to me also.
Martin, I want you to find a magnet & check if they are in fact, steel inserts. Aluminum in not magnetic.
Oh! Sorry didnt realiced why you where asking that. It's steel indeed<|fim_middle|> and repairing it.
The case this post was about got welded by a friend, i feel bad because of the time i made Molly waste on explanaitions. I learned a bunch on the process tho' and the job turned out great!
Summing-up. The bike started for the first time today, so happy. Im so gratefull for all the help i recibed, especially from Molly.
I will make sure to get a decal for the bike with kdxrider.net on it!
Congratulations on getting it going!
Excellent job Martin! I don't feel that I wasted any time. Glad you got it running. | , it has 3 small pieces that goes all the way trough the case you can see them in one of the pictures.
I was thinking on giving it a welding point (probably that's not how it's called in english) where the crack starts so that i dont touch that metal thing.
Im worried it's going to fall off when the case heats up.
Ok, So we know the insert is in fact steel. The insert did not appear to me, to go all the way though the case. It looks like the steel insert is pressed in from the inside of the case. You will definitely want to weld the outside of the case as I stated earlier. If the insert falls out do to heat from welding, you will have to press it back in. Let's get the case welded first, then worry about the insert. It may not fall out.
Aluminum & steel will NOT weld together. It would be like trying to mix oil & water. It just doesn't work. You will see a "greenish" color under the hood if try to weld them, just before everything goes to crap. Ask me how I know.
Aluminum corrodes white = aluminum oxide.
steel corrodes orange = iron oxide.
This is what made me think we have 2 different metals involved here.
Awesome! Cant wait to give it a try, need that argon first tho and of course quite a bit of practice.
You are of so much help Molly, thank you.
Dont know when i will be able to get that refill but i will post as soon as i start welding.
I'll be here. Post pictures of your welding samples if you feel comfortable doing so. I will tell you all the tips & tricks I know. Questions & pictures will help me, to help you. I'll be ready when you are.
Im really sorry for not replying back in so long after all the help i got. I thought the web was down or something.
I got totally overwhelmed by the amount of things the bike had wrong, went back and forth on the idea of selling it by parts. Finally after reading so many good things about the bike i decided on giving it a shot | 442 |
As part of our statutory responsibility to recommend Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in UK offshore waters (beyond 12 nautical miles), JNCC gathers information to help support these recommendations; either by searching and retrieving existing information, or through collaborative or commissioned survey. Once these MPAs have been identified, further information gathered through survey may be required to deliver management measures and conservation advice. JNCC survey work takes place throughout the year and our staff who join the research vessels will blog throughout the survey sharing information and images from the survey.
Hello once more from the Cefas Endeavour, where we are nearing the end of this most recent JNCC and Cefas Marine Protected Area (MPA) monitoring survey.
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by Robert Wilkinson
If you listened to the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Duane Eddy, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Darin, the Ramones, Dylan in the late 70s, or any of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" productions, you're heard Steve's work. Today we send up a happy birthday to one of the truly great sax players of the 20th century. It's also the birthday of a guy who is almost unknown, but considered one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, Carl Sigman, and one of the greatest hitmakers of the Merseybeat era, Gerry Marsden.
We begin today's tribute to one of the greatest sax men of all time! Steven Douglas Kreisman, aka Steve Douglas, (September 24, 1938 - April 19, 1993), along with Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, James Burton, Carol Kaye, Tommy Tedesco, and a bunch of other top LA musicians were called "The Wrecking Crew," aka "The Clique," and played on hundreds of top hits during the 60s. Steve was one of the go-to guys during a time when some really great music was being created, and today I've assembled a few of his better known works.
Where appropriate, I gave you the studio versions, so that you could hear Steve as the world first heard his work. However, I found a few great live performance clips with Dylan and Ry Cooder which are downstream and you should not miss!!
Before we go to the studio clips, I found a great video from the late 50s where Steve's front and center with Duane Eddy! First, straight atcha from the Summer of 1958, here's the tune that introduced Duane and Steve to the world. Live on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech Nut Show, here's Duane Eddy and the Rebel Rousers with Steve on sax cranking out his Top 10 1958 mega-hit "Rebel Rouser."
(Last year I gave you a couple of 1959 video clips of Duane Eddy and the Rebel Rousers doing "Forty Miles of Bad Road" and a different clip of "Rebel Rouser," but it's been confirmed they are not videos of Steve, and the sax man's a prop, even if the music features the original SD sax work. So this seems to be the only confirmed video of Duane Eddy with Steve Douglas.)
Now for his amazing studio work! Again featuring Duane Eddy's twangy guitar, here's Steve's wailin' lead sax on "The Peter Gunn Theme." As you already know, he gives us the sax strut on 40 Miles of Bad Road," and check out the work on Duane's first hit, "Rebel Rouser".
He was with the King doing the smash hit "Viva Las Vegas"
He's going strong on the following Phil Spector productions!
Here are the Ronettes doing their classic "Be My Baby"
"Baby I Love You"
Here are three Steve did with the Crystals!
The sax drives this song! Here the Crystals lip-synch to the studio version on Shivaree! "Da do Ron Ron"
This looks like it was also a Shivaree episode! "He's A Rebel"
"Then He Kissed Me"
This year I found the entire Phil Spector Christmas album in one clip! I suppose I should say this probably "announces" the Christmas season for all my readers, so enjoy the gifts to come the next 90 days!
Phil Spector Christmas
If you choose not to listen to the entire album, here's one of the most powerful Christmas tunes ever written! Sung by Darlene Love, with Steve on the sax and Leon doing one of the best piano lines ever recorded at the crescendo, here's the awesome "Baby Please Come Home."
Steve playing with Ike and Tina Turner on the studio version of their smash hit "River Deep - Mountain High"
With the Righteous Brothers on "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling"
Steve was one of the main saxmen during the surf music craze! He was in the thick of the mid-60s music, backing Jan and Dean in their huge surfing hit "Surf City" and their last hit, the prescient "Dead Man's Curve," as Jan Berry became crippled in a car crash around the time this hit big.
Steve was with the Beach Boys from "Surfin' USA" through "Pet Sounds," and so any time you hear the great tunes Brian and his brothers were cranking out during that time, if there was a sax, Steve was da man!
"Surfin' USA"
"Fun Fun Fun"
"I Get Around"
"California Girls"
"Help Me Rhonda"
Steve did the clarinets, flutes, and saxes on the entire "Pet Sounds" album. For your enjoyment, Steve and the angelic voice of Carl Wilson on "God Only Knows" followed by two more "Pet Sounds" hits, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Here Today"
He worked with America's bard, Bob Dylan, on his "Street Legal" and "Knocked Out Loaded" albums and was the sax on the 1978 "Alimony" tour. Here are a few you're gonna love!
One of my all time personal favorites! Classic Dylan, Classic Douglas! I couldn't find the studio version, but I did find this great live video performance in Nashville from the 1978 tour by Zimmie with Steve cranking it up in "Changing of the Guards"
From that same tour, this time in LA, "Like A Rolling Stone"
These are audio-only live performances from that tour. First Charlotte, with "Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)" and "Changing of the Guard."
From NC, we go to Blackbushe for "Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)"
(Last year I had a great performance of "Brownsville Girl," but this year it's nowhere to be found. I also had quite a few cuts from the 1978 Budokan show, with Steve's saxes or flutes doing some great Dylan tunes, which also keep disappearing. But I did find this amazing 2 hour and 25 minute show in Paris from that legendary 1978 tour!
For your enjoyment, Bob Dylan at the Pavillon de Paris, July 1978
And we'll end that fateful 1978 tour with a major score! I got lucky and found another entire audio-only concert, so for your enjoyment, here's all 2 hours 21 minutes of Bob Dylan Live<|fim_middle|> your enjoyment, "Heroes and Villains," followed by the very Mercurial "Do You Like Worms." We now segue into the equally beautiful "Surf's Up," and close this set with "Good Vibrations"
For our second encore, we scored big with the man playing live in "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25 1987! Here are three great live performances from that show of "Jesus on the Mainline," which we follow with "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?" and then close with "Goodnight Irene"
Here's the entire 1 hour 30 minute film, featuring some of the greatest musicians in the world! And yes, Steve's all over this one! Ry Cooder Live at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz 1987
Here's Steve's bio on the website of Steve Douglas – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Sax Sideman
Thanks for all the great music across the years. For those of us groovin' in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, you and King Curtis were the most exciting sax players going! It's too bad you died so young of heart failure. RIP (Rock in Perpetuity) Mister Steve. Your musical legacy will last forever.
It's also the birthday of an obscure musician whose songs are known to tens of millions. Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 – September 26, 2000) is considered to be one of the most successful songwriters in American history, having worked with Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and many more, so prepare to enjoy a great ride!
We'll begin with Glenn Miller's gigantic hit "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
Here's one Carl wrote with The Duke! "All Too Soon"
Carl and Percy Faith adapted this European hit done by dozens of major league vocalists. Here's the Ray Charles version! "My Heart Cries for You"
The Righteous Brothers gave us this version of Carl's hit in 1965! "Ebb Tide"
From another more innocent era, Tommy Edwards giving up his huge hit "It's All In The Game"
Chairman of the Board Yo Frankie giving it up in a live performance of Carl's translation of "What Now My Love," though I prefer this 1973 sufficiently dramatic performance of the tune by the King! "What Now My Love"
Here's Andy Williams doing his hit version of the theme from "Love Story," "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story"
We'll close this brief tribute with the Vogues' version of "Till"
Last but not least, we now send up a happy and merry to Merseybeat pioneer and hitmaker Gerry Marsden (24 September 1942). Gerry and the Pacemakers weren't around long, but they gave us some great hits between 1964-1966. Of course, they were part of the Brian Epstein/George Martin production effort, played the same European circuit as the Beatles, and regularly competed for the top of the charts with them. In fact, they equalled the Beatles in 1963 England, no small feat! Gerry's still doing a solo gig these days, and still loves his hometown!
Their first hit in 1963 which went to #1, "How Do You Do It" (Yes, this is what the Tom Hanks movie "That Thing You Do" was based on!)
Their next big one in 1963 which also went to #1, "I Like It"
From late 1963, their third #1 hit from that year, "You'll Never Walk Alone" (THREE Number 1 hits in one year? Wow.)
From early 1964, their #2 hit "I'm The One." Here's the flip side of that single! "You've Got What I Like"
From Spring 1964, their #4 hit "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying"
From 1965 Top of the Pops, the hit that went to #6 in late 1964 and early 1965, "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
From Hullabaloo, introduced by Brian Epstein, here's one that went to #14 in 1965, "I'll Be There." Also on British Hullabaloo, the rave up "It's Gonna Be All Right"
From 1966, a television performance in color! "I'm The One"
We'll close with another live performance of his first hit! "How Do You Do It"
Vying for the top of the charts with the Beatles for about a year, and then faded into obscurity and disbanded in 1966. That's a ride on a rocket ship! I loved them when they were around, and it's still classic Merseybeat! Thanks for the tunes and memories, Gerry. It was a different world back then…..
© Copyright 2016 Robert Wilkinson
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For our encore, here are 4 studio tunes Steve was in on during the historic "SMiLE" sessions when the Beach Boys were on top. For | 141 |
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\section{Introduction}
\paragraph{Background.}
The problem of managing the temperature of processor systems is
not new; in fact, the system builders had to deal with this challenge
since the inception of computers. Since early 1990s, the
introduction of battery-operated laptop computers and sensor systems
highlighted the related issue of controlling the energy consumption.
Most of the initial<|fim_middle|>_j$ is its release time, $d_j$ is the deadline and $h_j$ is its heat contribution.
The time is divided into unit-length slots and each job can be executed in any time
slot in the interval $[r_j,d_j]$. By $\tau_u$ we denote the processor
temperature at time $u$. The initial temperature is $\tau_0 = 0$, and
it changes according to the following rules: if the
temperature of the system at a time $u$ is $\tau_u$ and the processor executes
a job $j$ then the temperature at time $u+1$ is
$\tau_{u+1} = (\tau_u+h_j)/2$. The temperature
cannot exceed the given thermal threshold $T$.
Without loss of generality, we assume that $T=1$.
Thus if $(\tau_u+h_j)/2 > 1$ then $j$ cannot be executed at time $u$.
Idle slots are treated as executing a job with heat contribution $0$,
that is, after an idle slot the temperature decreases by half.
Given an instance, as above, the objective is to compute a schedule
with maximum \emph{throughput}, where throughput is defined as the
number of completed jobs. Extending the standard notation for
scheduling problems, we denote the offline version of this problem by
$1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$.
In the online version, denoted $1|\textrm{online-}r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$,
jobs are available to the algorithm at their release time. Scheduling
decisions of the algorithm cannot depend on the jobs that have not
yet been released.
\paragraph{Example.}
Suppose we have four jobs, specified in notation $j \to (r_j,d_j,h_j)$:
$1\to (0,2,0.4)$, $2\to (0,4,0.6)$, $3\to (2,3,1.9)$, $4\to (4,6,0.8)$.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=2.5in]{example1.pdf}
\caption{Example of two schedules.}
\label{fig: example 1}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
Figure~\ref{fig: example 1} shows these jobs and two schedules.
Numbers above the schedules denote temperatures. In the first
schedule, when we schedule job $2$ at time $1$, the
processor is too hot to execute job $3$, so it will not
complete job $3$ at all. In the second schedule, we stay
idle in step 2, allowing us to complete all jobs.
\section{The NP-Completeness Proofs}
\label{sec: The NP-Completeness Proof}
In this section we prove that the scheduling problem
$1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$
is {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard. For the sake of exposition, we start with a proof for the
general case, and later we give a proof for the special case when all
release times and deadlines are equal.
\begin{theorem}
The offline problem $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ is {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
We use a reduction from the {{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}} problem, defined as follows:
we are given a set $S$ of $3n$ positive integers $a_{1},\ldots, a_{3n}$
such that $\beta/4<a_{i}<\beta/2$ for all $i$, where $\beta=\frac1n \sum a_{i}$. The goal is to
partition $S$ into $n$ subsets, each subset with the total sum equal exactly $\beta$.
(By the assumption on the $a_i$, each subset will have to have exactly $3$ elements.)
This partition of $S$ will be called a \emph{$3$-partition}.
{{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}} is well-known to be {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard \cite{GarJoh79} in the strong sense,
that is, even if $\max_i a_i \le p(n)$, for some polynomial $p(n)$.
We now describe the reduction. For the given instance of {{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}}
we construct an instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ with
$4n$ jobs. These jobs will be of two types:
\begin{description}
\item{(i)}
First, we have $3n$ jobs that correspond to the instance of {{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}}.
For every $1\le i \le 3n$ we create a job of heat contribution $2-2^{1-a_{i}}$,
release time $1$ and deadline $n(\beta+1)$.
\item{(ii)}
Next, we create $n$ additional ``gadget" jobs. These jobs are tight,
meaning that their deadline is just one unit after the release time.
The first of these jobs has heat contribution $2$ and release time $0$.
Then, for each $1\le j \le n-1$, we have a job with heat contribution $1$ and
release time $j(\beta+1)$.
\end{description}
We claim that $S$ has a 3-partition if and only if the
instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ constructed above
has a schedule with throughput $4n$ (that is, with all jobs completed).
The main idea is this: Imagine that at some moment the
temperature is $1$, and we want to schedule a job of heat contribution $2-2^{1-x}$, for some integer $x\ge 1$.
Then we must first wait $x-1$ time units, so that the processor cools down to
$(\frac12)^{x-1}=2^{1-x}$, before we can schedule that job, and then right at the
completion of this job the temperature is $1$ again.
The analogous property holds, in fact, even if
at the beginning the temperature was some $\tau > 1/2$,
except that then, after completing this job, the new
temperature will be
$\tau' = (\tau 2^{1-x} + 2 - 2^{1-x})/2
> (2^{1-x}/2 + 2 - 2^{1-x})/2
= 1 - 2^{-x-1}
\ge 1/2$,
that is, it may be different than $\tau$ but still strictly greater than $1/2$.
With this observation in mind, the proof of the above claim is quite easy.
$(\Leftarrow)$
First we show that if there is a solution to the scheduling problem, then $S$ has
a 3-partition. Note that the tight jobs divide the time
into $n$ intervals of length $\beta$ each. Also each of the $3n$ other jobs is scheduled
in exactly one of these intervals. This defines a partition of $S$ into
$n$ sets.
Now we claim that after every job execution the temperature is strictly more than $1/2$.
This is true for the first job to be scheduled, since it has heat contribution
$2$. Each other job in the instance, including the tight jobs, has heat
contribution at least $1$. Therefore right after its execution the temperature is at
least $1/2$, already if we take only this job into account. But there is also a declining but
non-zero temperature contribution from the first tight job. So overall the temperature
after every execution is strictly more than $1/2$.
Together with the earlier observation, this implies that every non-tight job of heat
contribution $2^{1-{a_i}}$ must be preceded by $a_i-1$ idle units, thus using
$a_i$ time slots in total. Therefore every set in the
above mentioned partition has the total sum at most $\beta$. Since
there are at most $n$ sets in the partition, the total sum of each must be
exactly $\beta$. This proves that $S$ has a $3$-partition.
$(\Rightarrow)$
Now we show the other implication, namely that if $S$ has a
$3$-partition then there is a solution to the scheduling instance. Simply schedule the
tight jobs at their release time. This divides the time into $n$ intervals of length $\beta$
each.
Assign each of the $n$ sets in the partition to a distinct interval and schedule its jobs
in this interval: every integer $a_i$ in the set corresponds to a job of heat contribution
$2-2^{1-{a_i}}$, and we schedule it preceded with $a_i-1$ idle time units. The jobs of the set
can be scheduled in an arbitrary order, the important property being that, since their
total sum is $\beta$, they all fit exactly in this interval. After all jobs in one
set are executed the temperature is exactly $1$, and during the execution the
temperature does not exceed $1$ (because we pad the schedule with enough idle slots).
All release time and deadline constraints are
satisfied, so the scheduling instance has a feasible solution as well.
It remains to show that the above
instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ can be produced in polynomial
time from the instance of {{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}}. Indeed, every number $a_{i}$ is mapped
to some number $2-2^{1-a_{i}}$, which is described with $O(a_{i})$ bits. Since we
assumed that all numbers $a_{i}$ for $1\le i\le n$ are polynomial in $n$,
the reduction will take polynomial time, and the proof is complete.
\end{proof}
The above construction used the constraints of the release times and deadlines to
fix tight jobs that force a partition of the time into intervals. We can actually
prove a stronger result, namely that the problem remains {\mbox{\sf NP}}-complete even if all
release times are $0$ and all deadlines are equal.
Why is it interesting? One common approach in designing on-line algorithms for
scheduling is to compute the optimal schedule for the pending jobs, and use this schedule
to make the decision as to what execute next. The set of pending jobs forms an instance
where all jobs have the same release time.
Our {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hardness result does not necessarily imply that the
above method cannot work (assuming that we do not care about the running time of the online
algorithm), but it makes this approach much less appealing, since reasoning about the
properties of the pending jobs is likely to be very difficult.
\begin{theorem}\label{thm: np-complete 2}
The offline problem $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ is strongly {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard even for
the special case when jobs are released at time $0$ and
all deadlines are equal.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
The reduction is from {{\mbox{\sc Numerical-3D-Matching}}}.
In this problem, we are given 3 sets $A, B, C$ of $n$ non-negative
integers each and a positive integer $\beta$.
A \emph{3-dimensional numerical matching} is a set of $n$ triples
$(a, b, c) \in A \times B \times C$ such that each number is matched
exactly once (appears in exactly one triple) and
all triples $(a,b,c)$ in the set satisfy $a + b + c=\beta$.
{{\mbox{\sc Numerical-3D-Matching}}} is known to be {\mbox{\sf NP}}-complete even when
the values of all numbers are bounded by a
polynomial in $n$, it is referenced as problem [SP16] in \cite{GarJoh79}.
(Clearly, this problem is quite similar to {{\mbox{\sc 3-Partition}}} that we
used in the previous proof.)
Without loss of generality, we can assume (A1) that every $x\in A\cup B\cup C$
satisfies $x\le \beta$ and (A2) that $\sum_{x\in A\cup B\cup C}x = \beta n$.
We now describe the reduction. Let be the constant $\alpha=1/25$ and the function $f : x\mapsto \alpha(1 + x/8\beta)$.
The instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$
will have $4n+1$ jobs, all with release time $0$ and deadline $4n+1$.
These jobs will be of two types:
\begin{description}
\item{(i)} First we have $3n$ jobs that correspond to the instance of
{{\mbox{\sc Numerical-3D-Matching}}}:
for every $a\in A$, there is a job of heat contribution $8f(a)$,
for every $b\in B$, there is a job of heat contribution $4f(b)$, and
for every $c\in C$, there is a job of heat contribution $2f(c)$.
We call these jobs, respectively, \emph{$A$-jobs}, \emph{$B$-jobs}
and \emph{$C$-jobs}.
\item{(ii)}
Next, we have $n+1$ ``gadget'' jobs. The first of these jobs has heat
contribution $2$, and the remaining ones $1.75$. We call these jobs,
respectively, \emph{$2$-} and \emph{$1.75$-jobs}.
\end{description}
We claim that the instance $A,B,C,\beta$ has a numerical
$3$-dimensional matching if
and only if the instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ that
we constructed has a schedule with all jobs completed not later than
at time $4n+1$.
The idea of the proof is that the gadget jobs are so hot that they
need to be scheduled only every 4-th time unit, separating the time into
$n$ blocks of 3 consecutive time slots each. Every remaining job has
a heat contribution that consists of two parts: a constant part
($8\alpha$, $4\alpha$ or $2\alpha$) and a tiny
variable part that depends on the instance of the matching problem.
This constant part is so large that in every block there is a single
$A$-job, a single $B$-job and a single $C$-job,
and they must be scheduled in that order. This defines a
partitioning of $A,B,C$ into triplets of the form $(a,b,c)\in A\times B\times C$.
Since the gadget jobs are so hot,
they force every triple $(a,b,c)$ to satisfy $a+b+c\le \beta$.
We now make this argument formal.
$(\Rightarrow)$
Suppose there is a solution to the instance of {{\mbox{\sc Numerical-3D-Matching}}}.
We construct a schedule where all jobs complete at or before time $4n+1$.
Schedule the $2$-job at time $0$, and all
other gadget jobs every $4$-th time slot. Now the remaining slots are
grouped into blocks consisting of $3$ consecutive time slots each.
For $i=1,2,\ldots,n$,
associate the $i$-th triple $(a, b, c)$ from the matching with
the $i$-th block, and the corresponding $A$-,$B$- and $C$-jobs are
executed in this block in the order $A,B,C$ --- see Figure~\ref{fig: abc schedules}.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=5in]{abc_schedule.pdf}
\caption{The structure of the schedules in the proof.}
\label{fig: abc schedules}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
By construction, every job meets the deadline, so it remains to show that
the temperature never exceeds $1$. The non-gadget jobs have all heat
contribution smaller than $1$, by assumption (A1), so execution of a
non-gadget job cannot increase the temperature to above $1$, as long
as the temperature before was not greater than $1$.
Now we show by induction that right after the execution of a gadget job
the temperature is exactly $1$. This is clearly the case after execution
of the first job, since its heat contribution is $2$. Now let $u$ be the
time when a $1.75$-job is scheduled, and suppose that at time $u-3$ the
temperature was $1$. Let $(a,b,c)$ be the triple associated with the block
consisting of time slots between $u-3$ and $u$. Then, by $a+b+c=\beta$,
at time $u$ the temperature is
\begin{eqnarray*}
\frac18 + \frac{8f(a)}8+\frac{4f(b)}4+\frac{2f(c)}2
\;=\; \frac18 + \alpha\left(3+\frac{a+b+c}{8\beta} \right)
\;=\; \frac18+\alpha\left(\frac{24}{8}+\frac{1}{8}\right)
\;=\; \frac14.
\end{eqnarray*}
This shows that at time $u+1$, after scheduling a $1.75$-job, the temperature
is again $(1.75+1/4)/2 = 1$. We conclude that the schedule is feasible.
$(\Leftarrow)$
Now we show the remaining implication.
Suppose the instance of $1|r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ constructed
above has a schedule where all jobs meet the deadline $4n+1$. We show that
there exists a matching of $A,B,C$.
We first show that this schedule must have the form from
Figure~\ref{fig: abc schedules}. First, note that
since all $4n+1$ jobs have deadline $4n+1$, all jobs must be scheduled
without any idle time between time $0$ and $4n+1$. This means that the gadget
job of heat contribution $2$ must be scheduled at time $0$, because that is
the only moment of temperature $0$. Also note that every job has heat contribution
at least $2f(0)=2\alpha$.
Now we claim that all $1.75$-jobs have to be scheduled every $4$-th time unit.
This holds because two units after scheduling a $1.75$-job, the temperature is
at least
\[
\frac{1.75}{8} + \frac{2\alpha}{4} + \frac{2\alpha}{2} > 1/4.
\]
Therefore two executions of $1.75$-jobs must be at least $4$ time units apart,
and this is only possible if they are scheduled exactly at times $4i$ for
$i=1,\ldots,n$.
We claim that after every execution of a gadget job, the temperature is at
least $\tau=364/375$. Clearly this is the case after the execution of the $2$-job.
Now assume that at time $4i+1$, for some $i=0,\ldots,n-1$, the claim holds.
Then at time $4i+5$, after the execution of the next $1.75$-job, the temperature
is at least
\[
\frac{\tau}{16} + \frac{2\alpha}{16} + \frac{2\alpha}{8} + \frac{2\alpha}{4}
+\frac{1.75}{2} = \tau.
\]
We show now that every block contains exactly one $A$-job, one $B$-job and
one $C$-job, in that order. Towards contradiction, suppose that some
$A$-job is scheduled at the 2nd position of a block, say at time $4i+2$ for some $i\in\{0,\ldots,n-1\}$. Its heat contribution is at least $8f(0)$.
Therefore the temperature at time $4i+4$ would be at least
\[
\frac{\tau}{8}+\frac{2\alpha}{8} + \frac{8\alpha}{4} +\frac{2\alpha}{2}
> 1/4,
\]
contradicting that a $1.75$-job is scheduled at that time:
A similar argument shows that $A$-jobs cannot be scheduled at position $3$
in a block, and therefore the $1$st position of a block is always occupied
by an $A$-job.
By an analogous reasoning, we show that a $B$-job cannot be scheduled at the
$3$rd position of some block. It it were scheduled there,
the temperature at the end of block would be at least
\[
\frac{\tau}{8}+\frac{8\alpha}{8} + \frac{2\alpha}{4} +\frac{4\alpha}{2}
> 1/4,
\]
again contradicting that a $1.75$-job is scheduled at the end of the block.
We showed that every block contains jobs that correspond to
some triple $(a,b,c)\in A\times B\times C$. It remains to show that each
such triple satisfies $a+b+c=\beta$. Let $(a_{i},b_{i},c_{i})$ be the triple
corresponding to the $i$-th block, for $1\le i\le n$.
Define $t_{0}=1$ and
\begin{eqnarray*}
t_{i} &=& \frac{1}{16}\cdot 8f(a_i) + \frac{1}{8}\cdot 4f(b_i)
+ \frac{1}{4}\cdot 2f(c_i) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot 1.75
\\
&=& \frac{1}{400} [ 374 + (a_i + b_i + c_i)/\beta ].
\end{eqnarray*}
Thus $t_i$ represents the contribution of the $i$th block and a following
gadget job to the temperature right after this gadget job. This implies that,
for $1\le k\le n$, the temperature at time $4k+1$ is exactly
$\sum_{i=0}^{k} (1/16)^{k-i }t_{i}$. By Assumption (A2),
$\sum_{i=1}^n (a_{i}+b_{i}+c_{i}) = n\beta$, and thus
$\sum_{i=1}^n t_i = \frac{15}{16}n$.
Define $p_{i}=t_{i}-15/16$ for $i=1,2,...,n$. From the previous
paragraph,
\begin{equation} \label{eq:pi0}
\sum_{i=1}^{n} p_{i} \;=\; 0.
\end{equation}
As mentioned earlier, $\sum_{i=0}^{k} (1/16)^{k-i }t_{i}$ is
the temperature at time $4k+1$, so we have
$\sum_{i=0}^{k} (1/16)^{k-i }t_{i} \le 1$. Therefore,
for all $1\le k \le n$ we get
\begin{eqnarray*}
16^{-k} \sum_{i=1}^{k} 16^{i} p_{i}
&=& 16^{-k} \sum_{i=1}^{k} 16^i (t_i -15/16)
\\
&=& \sum_{i=0}^{k} (1/16)^{k-i} t_i
- (1/16)^k -15 \sum_{i=1}^{k} (1/16)^{k-i+1}
\\
&\le& 1 - (1/16)^k -15 (1 - (1/16)^k ) / 15
\;=\; 0.
\end{eqnarray*}
We conclude that for $k = 1,2,...,n$ we have
\begin{eqnarray}
\sum_{i=1}^{k} 16^{i} p_{i} &\le& 0.
\label{eq:pik}
\end{eqnarray}
To complete the proof, it remains to show that
$p_i = 0$ for all $i$, for this will
imply that $a_{i}+b_{i}+c_{i}=\beta$, which in turn implies that there is
a matching. We prove this claim by contradiction. Suppose
that not all $p_{i}$'s are zero. Let $\ell$ be the smallest index
such that $p_{\ell}>0$ and
\begin{equation} \label{eq:ell0}
p_{1}+\ldots+p_{\ell}\ge 0.
\end{equation}
Clearly, $\ell\ge 2$.
By the minimality of $\ell$, for every $2\le k\le\ell-1$ we have
\[
p_{1}+\ldots+p_{k-1} \le 0
\text{ \:\:and\:\: } p_{k}+\ldots+p_{\ell} \ge 0.
\]
There are $\sigma_i > 0$, $i=1,...,\ell$ ,such that
$\sum_{i=1}^j \sigma_i = 16^j$. Then
\begin{eqnarray*}
\sum_{j=1}^\ell 16^j p_j \;=\; \sum_{j=1}^\ell \sum_{i=1}^j \sigma_i p_j
\;=\; \sum_{i=1}^{\ell-1} \sigma_i \sum_{j=i}^\ell p_i + \sigma_\ell p_\ell
\; >\; 0,
\end{eqnarray*}
because all terms are non-negative and $p_\ell > 0$. This
contradicts (\ref{eq:pik}).
It remains to show that the above
instance of $1|h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ can be produced in polynomial
time from the instance of {{\mbox{\sc Numerical-3D-Matching}}}. Indeed, every number $x\in A\cup B\cup C$
is mapped to some fraction, where both the denominator and numerator are linear
in $x$ and $\beta$. Therefore if we represent fractions by writing the denominator
and numerator, and not as some rounded decimal expansion,
the reduction will take polynomial time, and the proof is complete.
\end{proof}
Theorem~\ref{thm: np-complete 2} implies that other variants of temperature-aware
scheduling are {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard as well. Consider for example the
problem $1|h_{i},p_i=1|C_{\max}$, where the objective is to minimize
the \emph{makespan}, that is, the maximum completion time.
In the decision version of this problem we ask if all jobs can
be completed by some given deadline $C$ -- which is exactly
what we proved above to be {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard.
It also gives us {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hardness of
$1|h_{i},p_i=1|\sum C_j$. To prove this, we can use the decision version
of this problem where we ask if there is a schedule for which the
total completion time is at most $n(n-1)/2$ (where $n$ is the number
of jobs).
\section{An Online Competitive Algorithm}
\label{sec: An Online Competitive Algorithm}
In this section we show that there is a $2$-competitive algorithm
for $1|\textrm{online-}r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$.
We will show, in fact, that a large class of deterministic algorithms is
$2$-competitive.
Given a schedule, we will say that a job $j$ is \emph{pending} at
time $u$ if $j$ is released, not expired (that is, $r_j\le u< d_j$)
and $j$ has not been scheduled before $u$.
If the temperature at time $u$ is $\tau_u$ and $j$ is pending, then
we call $j$ \emph{admissible} if $\tau_u+h_j \le 2$, that is,
$j$ is not too hot to be executed.
We say that a job $j$ \emph{dominates} a job $k$ if $j$ is both not
hotter and has the same or smaller deadline than $k$,
that is $h_j\le h_k$ and $d_j\le d_k$.
If at least one of these inequalities is strict, then we say
that $j$ \emph{strictly dominates} $k$.
An online algorithm is called \emph{reasonable} if at each step
(i) it schedules a job whenever one is admissible (the
\emph{non-waiting property}), and, if there is one,
(ii) it schedules an admissible job that is not strictly dominated by
another pending
job. The class of reasonable algorithms contains, for example, the
following two natural algorithms:
\begin{description}
\item{{\mbox{\sf CoolestFirst}}:} Always schedule a coolest admissible
job (if there is any), breaking ties in favor of jobs
with earlier deadlines.
\item{{\mbox{\sf EarliestDeadlineFirst}}:} Always schedule an
admissible job (if there is one) with the earliest deadline,
breaking ties in favor of cooler jobs.
\end{description}
If two jobs have the same deadlines and heat contributions, both
algorithms give preference to one of them arbitrarily.
\begin{theorem}\label{thm: reasonable 2-competitive}
Any reasonable algorithm for $1|\textrm{online-}r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$
is $2$-competitive.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let ${\cal A}$ be any reasonable algorithm.
We fix some instance, and we compare the schedules produced by ${\cal A}$
and the adversary on this instance. The proof is based on a
charging scheme that maps jobs executed by the
adversary to jobs executed by ${\cal A}$ in such a way
that no job in ${\cal A}$'s schedule gets more than two charges.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=6in]{charging.pdf}
\caption{Four types of charges. The vertical inequality signs between
the schedules show the relation between the temperatures.}
\label{fig: charging}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
We now describe this charging scheme. (See Figure~\ref{fig: charging} for
illustration.)
There will be three types of charges, depending on whether ${\cal A}$
is busy or idle at a given time step and on the relative temperatures
of the schedules of ${\cal A}$ and the adversary.
The temperature at time $u$ in the schedules of ${\cal A}$
and the adversary will be denoted by $\tau_u$ and $\tau'_u$, respectively.
Suppose that at some time $u$, ${\cal A}$ schedules a job $k$ while
the adversary schedules a job $j$, or that the adversary is idle
(we treat this case as if executing a job $j$ with $h_j = 0$.)
Then step $u$ will be called a \emph{relative-heating step}
if $k$ is strictly hotter than $j$, that is $h_k > h_j$. Note
that if $\tau_v > \tau'_v$ for some time $v$, then a relative-heating
step must have occurred before time $v$.
Consider now a job $j$ scheduled by the adversary, say at time $v$.
The charge of $j$ is defined as follows:
\emph{Type~1 Charges:}
If ${\cal A}$ schedules a job $k$ at time $v$, charge $j$ to $k$.
Otherwise, we are idle, and then we have two more cases.
\emph{Type-2 Charges:}
Suppose that ${\cal A}$ is hotter than the adversary
at time $v$ but not at $v + 1$, that is $\tau_u > \tau'_u$ and
$\tau_{u+1}\le \tau'_{u+1}$.
In this case we charge $j$ to the job $q$ executed by ${\cal A}$ in the last
relative-heating step before $v$. (As explained above, this step
exists.)
\emph{Type-3 Charges:}
Suppose now that either ${\cal A}$ is not hotter than the adversary at $v$
or ${\cal A}$ is hotter than the adversary at $v + 1$. In other words,
$\tau_v\le \tau'_v$ or $\tau_{v+1} >\tau'_{v+1}$.
(Note that in the latter case we must also have
$\tau_v > \tau'_v$ as well, since the algorithm is idle.)
We claim that $\tau_v + h_j \le 2$, which means that neither
$j$ or any job $\ell$ with $h_\ell \le h_j$ can be pending
at $v$. To justify this, we consider the two sub-cases of the
condition for type-3 charges.
If $\tau_v \le \tau'_v$, the claim is trivial, since
then $\tau_v +h_j \le \tau'_v + h_j \le 2$, because the
adversary executes $j$ at time $v$.
So assume now that $\tau_{v+1} >\tau'_{v+1}$.
Since ${\cal A}$ is idle, we have $\tau_{v+1}\le 1/2$. Therefore
$h_j = 2\tau'_{v+1} -\tau'_v
\le 2\tau'_{v+1}
\le 1$,
and the claim follows because $\tau_v\le 1$ as well.
From the above claim, $j$ was scheduled by ${\cal A}$ at some time $u < v$.
To find a job that we can charge $j$ to, we construct a chain of jobs
$j,j',j'',\ldots,j^\ast$ with strictly decreasing heat contributions.
Further, all jobs in this chain except $j^\ast$ will be executed
by ${\cal A}$ at relative-heating steps. This chain will be determined
uniquely by $j$, and we will charge $j$ to $j^\ast$.
If, at time $u$, the adversary is idle or schedules an equal or hotter job,
then $j^\ast = j$, that is, we charge $j$ to itself (its ``copy" in
${\cal A}$'s schedule). Otherwise, if the adversary schedules $j'$ at
time $u$ then $j'$ is strictly cooler than $j$, that is $h_{j'} < h_j$.
Now we claim that the algorithm schedules $j'$ at some time before $v$.
Indeed, if $j'$ is scheduled before $u$, we are done.
Otherwise, $j'$ is pending at $u$, and, since
the algorithm never schedules a dominated job, we must have
$d_{j'}\ge d_j \ge v+1$. By our earlier observation and
by $h_{j'} < h_j$, if ${\cal A}$ did not schedule
$j'$ before $v$, then $j'$ would have been admissible at $v$,
contradicting the fact ${\cal A}$ is idle at $v$.
So now the chain is $j,j'$.
Let $u'$ be the time when ${\cal A}$ schedules $j'$.
If the adversary is idle at time $u'$ or if $j'$ is not hotter than the
job executed by the adversary at time $u'$, we take $j^\ast = j'$.
Otherwise, we take $j''$ to be the
job executed by the adversary at time $u'$, and so on.
This process must end at some point, since we deal
with strictly cooler and cooler jobs. So the job $j^\ast$
is well-defined.
\medskip
This completes the description of the charging scheme.
Now we show that any job scheduled by ${\cal A}$ will get at most two
charges. Obviously, each job in ${\cal A}$'s schedule gets at most
one type-1 charge. In-between
any two time steps that satisfy the condition of the type-2 charge
there must be a relative-heating step, so the type-2 charges are assigned
to distinct relative-heating steps. As for type-3
charges, every chain defining a type-3 charge is uniquely defined
by the first considered job, and these chains are disjoint.
Therefore type-3 charges are assigned to distinct jobs.
Now let $k$ be a job scheduled by ${\cal A}$ at some time $v$. By the previous
paragraph, $k$ can get at most one charge of each type. We claim that
$k$ cannot get charges of each type $1$, $2$ and $3$.
Indeed, if $k$ receives a type-1 charge, then the adversary is not idle at time $v$,
and schedules some job $\ell$.
If $k$ also receives a type-2 charge, then $v$ must be a relative-heating step,
that is $h_k > h_\ell$.
But to receive a type-3 charge, $k$ would be the last
job $j^\ast$ in a chain of some job $j$, and since the chain
was not extended further, we must have $h_k\le h_\ell$.
So type-1, type-2 and type-3 charges cannot coincide.
Summarizing the argument, we have that
every job scheduled by the adversary is charged to some
job scheduled by ${\cal A}$, and every job scheduled by ${\cal A}$
receives no more than $2$ charges.
Therefore the competitive ratio of ${\cal A}$ is not more than $2$.
\end{proof}
\section{A Lower Bound on the Competitive Ratio}
\label{sec: A Lower Bound on the Competitive Ratio}
\begin{theorem}\label{thm: lower bound of 2}
Every deterministic online algorithm for
$1|\textrm{online-}r_{i},h_{i},p_i=1|\sum U_{i}$ has competitive ratio at least $2$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Fix some deterministic online algorithm ${\cal A}$.
We (the adversary) release a job
$1\to (0,3,1.2)$ (in notation $j\to (r_j,d_j,h_j)$).
If ${\cal A}$ schedules it at time $0$, we release at time $1$
a tight job $2\to(1,2,1.6)$
and schedule it followed by $1$. ${\cal A}$'s schedule is too
hot at time $1$ to execute job $2$. If ${\cal A}$ does not
schedule job $1$ at time $0$, then we schedule it at $0$ and release
at time $2$ (and
schedule) a tight job $3\to(2,3,1.6)$ at time $2$. In this case, ${\cal A}$
cannot complete both jobs $1$ and $3$ without violating the thermal
threshold.
In both cases we schedule two jobs, while ${\cal A}$ schedules only one,
completing the proof. (See Figure~\ref{fig:lower-2}.)
\end{proof}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{lowerbound.pdf}
\caption{The lower bound for deterministic algorithms.}
\label{fig:lower-2}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\section{Final Comments}
\label{sec: Final Comments}
Many open problems remain. Perhaps the most intriguing one is to
determine the randomized competitive ratio for the problem we studied.
The proof of Theorem~\ref{thm: lower bound of 2} can easily
be adapted to prove the lower bound of $1.5$, but we have
not been able to improve the upper bound of $2$; this is, in fact,
the main focus of our current work on this scheduling problem.
One approach, based on
Theorem~\ref{thm: reasonable 2-competitive}, would be to
randomly choose, at the beginning of computation,
two different reasonable algorithms ${\cal A}_1$, ${\cal A}_2$,
each with probability $1/2$, and then deterministically execute
the chosen ${\cal A}_i$. So far, we have been able to show that
for many natural choices for ${\cal A}_1$ and ${\cal A}_2$
(say, {\mbox{\sf CoolestFirst}} and {\mbox{\sf EarliestDeadlineFirst}}), this
approach does not work.
Extensions of the cooling model can be considered,
where the temperature after executing $j$ is $(\tau+h_j)/R$, for some
$R > 1$. Even this formula, however, is only a discrete
approximation for the true model (see, for example, \cite{YaXiCZ08}),
and it would be interesting to see if the ideas behind our
$2$-competitive algorithm can be adapted to these more realistic cases.
In reality, thermal violations do not cause the system to idle, but
only to reduce the frequency. With frequency reduced to half, a unit
job will execute for two time slots. Several frequency levels may
be available.
We assumed that the heat contributions are known. This is
counter-intuitive, but not unrealistic, since the "jobs"
in our model are unit slices of longer jobs. Prediction methods
are available that can quite accurately predict the heat
contribution of each slice based on the heat contributions of
the previous slices. Nevertheless, it may be interesting
to study a model where exact heat contributions are not known.
Other types of jobs may be studied. For real-time jobs, one can
consider the case when not all jobs are equally important,
which can be modeled by assigning weights to jobs and
maximizing the weighted throughput. For batch jobs, other
objective functions can be optimized, for example the flow time.
One more realistic scenario would be to represent the whole
processes as jobs, rather then their slices. This naturally
leads to scheduling problems with preemption and with
jobs of arbitrary processing times. When the thermal
threshold is reached, the execution of a job is slowed down
by a factor of $2$. Here, a scheduling algorithm may decide to
preempt a job when another one is released or, say, when the
processor gets too hot.
Finally, in multi-core systems one can explore the migrations
(say, moving jobs from hotter to cooler cores) to keep the
temperature under control. This leads to even more scheduling
problems that may be worth to study.
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| work on these problems was hardware and
systems oriented, and only during the last decade substantial
progress has been achieved on developing models and
algorithmic techniques for microprocessor temperature and energy management.
This work proceeded in several directions. One direction is based
on the fact that the energy consumption is a fast growing
function of the processor speed (or frequency).
Thus we can save energy by simply slowing down the processor.
Here, algorithmic research focussed on \emph{speed scaling} --
namely dynamically adjusting the processor speed over time to optimize
the energy consumption while ensuring that the system meets
the desired performance requirements.
Another technique (applicable to the whole system, not
just the microprocessor) involves \emph{power-down strategies},
where the system is powered-down or even completely
turned off when some of its components are idle.
Since changing the power level of a
system introduces some overhead, scheduling the work to minimize
the overall energy usage in this model becomes a challenging
optimization problem.
Models have also been
developed for the processor's thermal behavior. Here, the
main objective is to ensure that the system's temperature
does not exceed the so-called \emph{thermal threshold}, above
which the processor cannot operate correctly, or may even
be damaged. In this direction, techniques and algorithms have been
proposed for using speed-scaling to optimize the system's
performance while maintaining the temperature below the
threshold.
We refer the reader to the survey by Irani and Pruhs \cite{IraPru05},
and references therein,
for more in-depth information on the models and algorithms
for thermal and energy management.
\paragraph{Temperature-aware scheduling.}
The above models address energy and thermal
management at the micro-architecture level. In contrast,
the problem we study in this paper addresses the issue
of thermal management at the operating systems level.
Most of the previous work in this direction focussed
on multi-core systems, where one can
move tasks between the processors to minimize the maximum temperature
\cite{MerBel06,BeWeWK03,CCFHWB07,DonMar06,KuSPJ06,KuChBB06,GoPoVi04,MoChRS05}.
However, as it has been recently discovered, even in
single-core systems one can exploit variations in heat contributions
among different tasks to reduce the processor's temperature
through appropriate task scheduling
\cite{BeWeWK03,GoPoVi04,DonMar06,KuSPJ06,YaXiCZ08}.
In this scenario, the microprocessor's temperature is controlled by
the hardware dynamic thermal management (DTM)
system that continuously
monitors the chip temperature and automatically reduces the
processor's speed as soon as the thermal threshold
(maximum safe operating temperature) is exceeded.
Typically, the frequency is reduced by half, although it can be
further reduced to one fourth or even one eighth, if needed.
Running at a lower frequency, the CPU generates less heat.
The cooling system operates non-stop, reducing (at an
exponential rate) the deviation of the
processor's temperature from the ambient temperature.
Once the chip cools down to below the
threshold, the frequency is increased again.
Different tasks use different microprocessor units in
different ways; in particular, some tasks are more CPU-intensive than other.
As a result, the processor's thermal behavior -- and thus
the performance as well -- depends on the order of the task execution.
In particular, Yang {{\it et~al.\ }}~\cite{YaXiCZ08} point out that, based on
the standard model for the microprocessor thermal behavior,
for any given two tasks, scheduling the ``hotter'' job before
the ``cooler'' one, results in a lower
final temperature than after the reverse order.
They take advantage of this phenomenon to reduce the number
of DTM invocations, thus improving the performance of the OS scheduler.
With multitudes of possible
underlying architectures (for example, single- vs. multi-core systems),
models for cooling and hardware thermal management, as well
as types of jobs (real-time, batch, etc.), the scenario
outlined above gives
rise to a plethora of interesting and never yet
studied scheduling problems.
\paragraph{Our model.}
We focus on scheduling real-time jobs in a somewhat
simplified model for cooling and thermal management.
The time is divided into unit time slots and each job
has unit length. (These jobs represent unit slices of
the processes present in the OS scheduler's queue.)
We assume that the heat contributions of these jobs
are known. This is counterintuitive, but reasonably
realistic, for, as discussed in \cite{YaXiCZ08},
these values can be well approximated using
appropriate prediction methods.
In our thermal model we assume, without loss of generality,
that the ambient temperature is $0$ and that the
heat contributions are expressed in the units of
temperature (that is, by how much they would increase the
chip temperature in the absence of cooling).
In reality \cite{YaXiCZ08}, during the execution of a
job, its heat contribution is spread over the whole time
slot and so is the effect of cooling; thus, the final
temperature can be expressed using an integral function.
In this paper, we use a simplified model where
we first take into account the job's heat contribution,
and then apply the cooling, where the cooling simply
reduces the temperature by half.
Finally, we assume that only one processor frequency
is available. Consequently, if there is no job whose
execution does not cause a thermal violation, the
processor must stay idle through the next time slot.
\paragraph{Our results.}
Summarizing, our scheduling problem can be now formalized as follows.
A collection of unit-length jobs is given, each
job $j$ with a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$ and heat
contribution $h_j$. If, at some time step, the
temperature of the system is $\tau$ and the processor executes
a job $j$, then the temperature at the next step is $(\tau+h_j)/2$.
The temperature cannot exceed the given thermal threshold $T$.
The objective is to compute a schedule which
maximizes the number of tasks that meet their deadlines.
We prove that in the offline case computing
the optimum schedule is {\mbox{\sf NP}}-hard, even if all jobs are released
at the same time and have equal deadlines.
In the online case, we show a $2$-competitive deterministic
algorithm and a matching lower bound.
\section{Terminology and Notation}
\label{sec: Terminology and Notation}
The input consists of $n$ unit-length jobs that we number $1,2,\ldots,n$.
Each job $j$ is specified by a triple $(r_j,d_j,h_j)\in \mathbb N \times \mathbb N \times \mathbb Q$, where
$r | 1,503 |
The ObserverInteriors
All aboard an adventurous home! Life on a restored steam carriage
Track pad: the exterior of the carriage. Photograph: Marnie Hawson<|fim_middle|> chandeliers, cut-glass tumblers and classic china. Plus, the newest addition – a Victorian bath that adds a decadent edge to the deck – is adjacent to the master suite.
"The carriage has a huge sense of soul that appeals to curious adventurers. It feels very rewarding to have given it a new lease of life," says Fleur.
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Nestled at the end of a quiet, unmade lane in Forrest, a former logging town full of weatherboard shacks two hours from Melbourne, you are greeted by a couple of unexpected properties: a quirky steam train carriage and a three-storey cabin made out of wood and upcycled train parts. Neither are your stereotypical Australian structures, but then convention is not something that the owners, Fleur and Mike Leslie, are drawn to.
The black-painted steam carriage, located on the fringes of the Great Otway national park, close to lush surrounding rainforest and world-class nature walks and bike trails, lends a nostalgic nod to days gone by – a time when life was less frenetic and train travel more elegant. "We bought the plot back in 2013. It had been on the market for many years and was totally run down, but immediately triggered a reaction in us both," says Fleur. "Initially we were drawn to the main house and the train was an aside, but it quickly became a passion project, too."
Express line: vintage furnishings around the wood-burning stove. Photograph: Marnie Hawson/Living Inside
Fleur, a nurse, has had lengthy stays abroad, working in both Alaska and New York City. She met Mike briefly before leaving on her four-year adventure, then the couple got back in touch and, shortly after Fleur returned home, they married. With the arrival of their children, Lili, now 14, and Mack, 11, and changes in the direction of Mike's design company, the couple decided to start a holiday accommodation business.
"The last owner of this plot was an environmentalist and craftsman. He had built an initial cabin structure in the 1970s, over a period of five years, and bought the decommissioned railway carriage for AU$400 [£220]," says Fleur. "He apparently spent a staggering AU$60,000 [£33,000] transporting it from Melbourne and craned into the plot.
Train of thought: Mike and Fleur Leslie. Photograph: Marnie Hawson/Living Inside
"The carriage was used as an onsite live-in shed and workshop while he built the house. Very much ahead of his time in terms of sustainable design, he used various parts of the train on the cabin, and when we bought the plot what was left of the remaining filthy, graffiti-covered pink train had been left to rot and degrade."
Built originally in 1926 at Newport, the carriage was used in regional Victoria, before being retired in 1983. "We decided to name the carriage 'Steam', and turned it into guest accommodation. The renovation took us nine months and we finished in 2015 following a true labour of love," says Fleur. "We worked closely with an amazing artisanal builder, George, who understood us and, together with Mike, he worked tirelessly to separate, strip, rewire and replumb the carriage. Walls were moved to create a double compartment for the master bedroom and two further bedrooms were created – a double and a twin, which the children love."
Sweet dreams: the double bedroom with the beautufully restored wood panelling. Photograph: Marnie Hawson/Living Inside
Throughout, floorboards and woodwork have been painted gloss black, while beautiful wooden panelling has been restored and walls painted a warm white. A contemporary Ikea kitchen was fitted, and touches of stainless steel, silver and bronze added for the worktops, oven and range. Original hardware and signage bring a sense of authenticity to the space, while salvaged finds, such as the Victorian bathroom sink, vintage hardware and period light switches, add gravitas. The most dramatic change was painting the exterior black. It instantly upgraded it from ramshackle to retreat.
Nature bathing: the magnificent outdoor Victorian tub. Photograph: Marnie Hawson/Living Inside
The pared-back, elegant aesthetic balances the original character with luxurious touches: antique finds mixed with cosy linens, crystal | 914 |
Goodwinds Composites and Pacific Northwest Sustainability
Filed under: Cnoc poles, Ind<|fim_middle|>ogo, Trekking Poles
They helped NASA build a helicopter for Mars, but Goodwinds Composites is still a very down to Earth company. When we were looking for a US carbon fiber tube manufacturer for our Cnoc trekking poles, we knew we couldn't do better than a local, family-owned small business with a focus on caring for both people and planet. When we visited their modest factory in Washington, we wanted to get to know our collaborators.
"You know, I've got kids," says Amelia Cook, who owns and operates the Mt. Vernon, Wash. manufacturer with her brother, Leland Holeman. "I want them to have a world to inherit that's clean and happy and not polluted."
Growing up in Ilwaco, Washington, the brother and sister duo bought the composites supply arm of a kite store in 2008 and began precision-cutting small diameter carbon and fiberglass tubes. When they noticed a demand for American-made rods as thin as a human hair, they set up their own micro-pultrulsion machine that would allow them to make wrapped carbon tubes on-site.
"We said, 'Well, let's figure this out," Cook says. "'We can do this, right? We can.'"
The American manufacturer built its reputation on a culture of excellence. "We weren't just going to make something that was going to compete with Chinese tubes. We really wanted to make sure that we were making things that our customers wanted," Cook says.
According to Cook, as customers (like Cnoc and NASA) look to replace metal with lighter-weight, less expensive material, they're also seeking a speedy turnaround that's only possible with manufacturing on US soil. Located in the Skagit Valley (north of Seattle on the I-5 corridor), Goodwinds is in the center of a national hub for aerospace, marine technology, machining, and composites.
"We don't need any supply interruptions," Cook says. "We do our own tooling for that pultrusion machine, we can do some of our tooling for the wrapped carbon tube operation, which is really nice to not have to wait several weeks to get it from somewhere else. And again, it employs people right here."
For Cook, having enough work to continue to employ folks is the model of a sustainable business. And Goodwinds is as mindful of preserving the environment as it is of its employees.
"If we have hardened resin at the end of the day, which unfortunately we sometimes do, it gets hardened out and it does have to go into landfill. That's the only place for it," Cook says. Byproducts are never dumped in a water source, and Cook donates rejected pieces that aren't wrapped in carbon go to the local schools.
"I think we're always trying to find ways to repurpose things," Cook says, with the perfect attitude for creating the primary component of our fully repairable trekking poles. It's our goal, too.
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
by Franklin Foer
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It's a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world, with all its joys and sorrows. In this<|fim_middle|>, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.
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The OEB has approved changes to the prices EPCOR will charge its customers for natural gas effective January 1, 2020.
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB its Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period between May 2017 and October 2017.
MSP reports
The OEB has issued a letter with draft Guidelines for Potential Projects to Expand Access to Natural Gas Distribution for stakeholder comment.
Letter and draft Guidelines
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge will charge its customers for natural gas effective January 1, 2020.
The OEB has issued a Draft OEB Staff Report on the Consultation to Review Natural Gas Supply Plans. Issued for comment, the report sets out OEB staff's initial assessment of Enbridge Gas Inc.'s five-year natural gas supply plans.
Draft OEB Staff Report
Consumer Alert: Protect your personal information – OESP does not solicit door-to-door
The OEB has posted a letter from the Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, with the support of the Associate Minister of Energy, asking the OEB to examine and report back on potential natural gas expansion projects. The OEB's report will be an input to assist the government in making a determination on future expansion projects. This letter was issued under section 35 of the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998.
The OEB has published the 2020 Quarter 1 prescribed accounting interest rates applicable to the carrying charges of deferral, variance and construction work in progress (CWIP) accounts of natural gas utilities, electricity distributors and other rate-regulated entities.
The OEB has issued further guidance to licensees regarding implementation of the Ontario Electricity Rebate.
The OEB has issued a letter that provides accounting guidance for changes to the Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016, RPP Settlement, and resuming the Final RPP Variance Settlement.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Elexicon Energy Inc. following an OEB inspection into the company's disconnection practices. The inspection found that Elexicon Energy Inc. did not comply with certain regulatory requirements for disconnection. This reflects the OEB's commitment to protecting consumers by ensuring that regulated companies fulfill all of their regulatory requirements prior to disconnecting a customer.
The OEB has issued the Input Price Index of 2.0% to be used as the inflation adjustment for rates adjusted through the Price Cap IR and Annual Index plans for electricity distribution rates effective in 2020.
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The OEB has issued a letter which sets out the Cost of Capital Parameter Updates for Cost of Service Applications with Rates effective in 2020.
The OEB has issued a letter providing notice of its approach to addressing accounting or other errors in respect to certain "pass-through" variance accounts after final disposition.
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Electricity Contracts valid from November 1, 2019 to April 30, 2020.
Price comparison templates
The OEB has issued a Notice of Amendments to Codes of Conduct to introduce formal requirements for a Consumer Complaints Response Process for Energy Retailers.
Notice of Amendments
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from NOVA Chemicals (Canada) Ltd. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to operation in the wholesale market without a licence.
The OEB has issued guidance to licensees regarding implementation of the Ontario Electricity Rebate.
Ontario Energy Board sets new electricity prices for households and small businesses.
The OEB and the IESO have completed the first integrated electricity and natural gas conservation achievable potential study. The final report, prepared by Navigant Consulting, is now available.
Natural Gas Conservation Potential Studies
The OEB has published the 2018 Scorecards of Electricity Distributors. The scorecard measures how well Ontario's electricity distributors are performing each year.
2018 Scorecards
Consumer Alert: Beware of disconnection scams
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge and EPCOR will charge its customers for natural gas effective October 1, 2019.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Wyse Meter Solutions Inc. following an OEB inspection into the company's information disclosure and billing practices that found that the company was not complying with certain legal and regulatory requirements. This reflects the OEB's commitment to protecting consumers by ensuring that regulated companies comply with their obligations.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to operation in the wholesale market without a licence.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Festival Hydro Inc. regarding non-compliance with requirements of the Electricity Act, 1998 and the OEB's Retail Settlement Code. This reflects the importance the OEB places on protecting consumers by ensuring that commodity and global adjustment costs are collected and settled correctly.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Alexian Energy Services Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to engaging in unit sub-metering without a licence.
The OEB has released the 2018 Yearbooks of Electricity Distributors and Natural Gas Distributors. The Yearbooks provide interested parties and the general public with financial and operational information collected from distributors.
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The OEB has posted the electricity distributors' 2019 stretch factor assignments for the 2020 Incentive Rate Mechanism (IRM) rate-setting process published in the Pacific Economics Group "Empirical Research in Support of Incentive Rate-Setting: 2018 Benchmarking Update" Report to the Ontario Energy Board.
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The OEB is commencing an initiative to review its requirements in regard to the connection of distributed energy resources (DERs) by licensed electricity distributors. The OEB has issued a letter with proposed approach and issues to be considered.
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The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge and EPCOR will charge its customers for natural gas effective July 1, 2019.
The OEB has issued a letter advising interested stakeholders of the status of its policy initiatives during the transition to the new governance structure.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Essar Steel Algoma Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to operation in the wholesale market without a licence.
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The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB its Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period between November 2016 and April 2017.
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As part of Phase 1 of the Customer Service Rules Review, the OEB has issued final amendments to the Distribution System Code (DSC), Standard Supply Service Code (SSSC), Unit Sub-Metering Code (USMC) and Gas Distribution Access Rule (GDAR). The OEB has also issued a final Rate Order to electricity and gas distributors which eliminates or clarifies certain types of charges.
The OEB has posted materials and audio recording from the webinar hosted on March 7, 2019 on Commercial and Industrial Rate Design.
The OEB has adopted new performance standards for processing rate applications to take effect April 1, 2019.
The OEB has issued a Staff Discussion Paper and the reports of its two expert consultants on the Activity and Program Based Benchmarking (APB) initiative. This phase of the initiative sets out to establish an APB framework for electricity distributors. APB will be implemented for electricity transmitters, gas distributors and Ontario Power Generation in subsequent phases.
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The OEB has issued detailed accounting guidance related to commodity pass-through variance accounts: Account 1588 RSVA Power and Account 1589 RSVA GA.
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The OEB has released a Staff Report to the Board on Rate Design for Commercial and Industrial Electricity Customers (EB-2015-0043). The Report summarizes consultations held with stakeholders, analysis, and presents staff's recommendations on changes to support an evolving energy sector.
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The OEB has issued its Decision and Order on Energy Retailer Service Charges effective May 1, 2019.
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The OEB has issued a Notice of Amendment to the Distribution System Code that is related to the Code Amendments that were issued on December 18, 2018 to facilitate the implementation of Regional Plans.
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The OEB has posted a Directive from the Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines regarding the East-West Tie project.
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The OEB is initiating a consultation to consider the merits of moving to a single annual natural gas rate application that will include both delivery-related and commodity-related rates from each rate-regulated natural gas distributor.
The OEB has posted the 2017 Report for the LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance program.
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Today, the OEB launched the OEB Innovation Sandbox, where utilities and other companies in the energy sector can get regulatory advice or seek relief for new ideas, products and services that demonstrate a potential consumer benefit.
The Government of Ontario is accepting applications for Vice-Chair and Board Members of the Ontario Energy Board. The postings close on January 8, 2019. Interested parties can apply at the Public Appointments website.
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Enbridge, EPCOR and Union valid from January 1 - March 31, 2019.
The OEB has posted a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Competition Bureau to contribute to the improved delivery of our respective mandates.
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge, EPCOR and Union will charge its customers for natural gas effective January 1, 2019.
The OEB has issued a Notice of Amendments to the Distribution System Code (DSC) and the Transmission System Code (TSC), which are aimed at ensuring the Cost Responsibility rules for load customers in the TSC and DSC are better aligned and facilitate the implementation of Regional Plans. The OEB has also issued a Supplemental Proposed Amendment to the DSC.
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The OEB has posted the Market Surveillance Panel's report on the Industrial Conservation Initiative.
As part of Phase 1 of the Customer Service Rules Review, the OEB has issued a Notice of Proposal to Amend Codes and a Rule, and a Notice of Hearing: Review of Non-Payment of Account Service Charges for Electricity and Natural Gas Distributors.
Review of Customer Service Rules
The OEB has posted the Market Surveillance Panel's report on its investigation into the electricity trade agreement between the Ontario IESO and Hydro-Québec.
The OEB is reviewing the LEAP EFA and is encouraging consumers to have their say. The program provides a one-time financial grant to eligible lower-income customers who face disconnection because they've fallen behind on their bills.
LEAP EFA Review
The OEB has issued its final report on Energy Retailer Service Charges.
Report of the Ontario Energy Board - Energy Retailer Service Charges
The OEB has issued its Report of the Ontario Energy Board: Mid-Term Review of the Demand Side Management (DSM) Framework for Natural Gas Distributors (2015-2020).
Report of the Ontario Energy Board - Mid-Term Review of the DSM Framework
The OEB has issued a letter with the adopted Cyber Security Readiness Report & Amendments to the Electricity Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements.
Cyber Security Readiness Report and Amendments to Electricity RRR
The Advisory Committee on Innovation submitted its report to the Chair of the OEB, providing recommendations on advancing its regulatory work to meet the demands of the evolving energy sector. As a next step, the OEB invites stakeholders to a session on January 16, 2019 to discuss the contents of the report and provide feedback.
Advisory Committee on Innovation Report to the OEB
Consumer Alert: Consumers warned against apparent energy rebate scam
The OEB is reminding households and small businesses that the winter time-of-use (TOU) hours for the Regulated Price Plan (RPP) begin on November 1. The RPP prices themselves are not changing.
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Utilities Kingston valid from November 1, 2018.
The OEB is initiating Phase 2 of the review of customer service rules for electricity distributors, rate-regulated natural gas distributors and unit sub-meter providers.
The OEB has issued its Report of the Ontario Energy Board: Framework for the Assessment of Distributor Gas Supply Plans (Framework). The Framework sets out guiding principles, criteria and the OEB's process for review and assessment of a natural gas distributor's plan to determine whether the plan delivers best value to consumers.
Framework for the Assessment of Distributor Gas Supply Plans
The OEB has issued a bulletin providing guidance to electricity distributors on three related issues concerning the Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI) for the purpose of billing Global Adjustment (GA) charges.
The OEB is launching an initiative to develop Activity and Program Based Benchmarking (APB) to encourage continuous improvement by regulated utilities.
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The OEB has posted updated supply mix data with information from 2017. As per Ontario Regulation 416/99 made under the OEB Act, and the Board's Directive, this information is required to be disclosed to Ontario consumers.
The OEB has initiated a review of the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program Emergency Financial Assistance (LEAP EFA).
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge, EPCOR and Union will charge its customers for natural gas effective October 1, 2018.
The OEB has issued a letter proposing a Cyber Security Readiness Report & Amendments to the Electricity Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements (RRR) for licensed transmitters and distributors.
The OEB has issued a Decision and Order on a Notice of Intention to Planet Energy (Ontario) Corp. to make an order for compliance, restitution and payment of an administrative penalty.
Decision and Order
The OEB has posted the 2018 Quarter 4 prescribed accounting interest rates applicable to the carrying charges of deferral, variance and construction work in progress (CWIP) accounts of natural gas utilities, electricity distributors and other rate-regulated entities.
The OEB has issued for comment its Report on Phase 1 of its review of the customer service rules for licensed electricity distributors, rate-regulated natural gas distributors and unit sub-meter providers.
Customer service rules review
The OEB has issued revised proposed amendments to the Transmission System Code (TSC) and the Distribution System Code (DSC) which are aimed at ensuring the cost responsibility provisions for load customers in the TSC and DSC are better aligned and facilitate the implementation of regional plans.
Revised Notice of Proposal - Regional Planning & Cost Responsibility Review
The OEB has issued a Decision regarding Ensqr Corporation, a unit sub-metering provider.
The OEB has issued its draft report on Energy Retailer Service Charges.
Draft Report - Energy Retailer Service Charges
The OEB has issued its Decision on Scope of Review for Erie Thames Powerlines Corporation's electricity distribution rate application.
Decision on Scope of Review
The OEB has issued a decision dismissing the allegations against Active Energy Inc. in relation to the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and the Electricity Retailer Code of Conduct.
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Electricity Contracts valid from May 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019.
The OEB announced that there will be little change to electricity prices on May 1.
The OEB has issued a Draft Framework for the Assessment of Distributor Gas Supply Plans for stakeholder review and comment.
Draft report
A pilot project approved by the Ontario Energy Board is giving residential customers of Oshawa Power a chance to test alternative Time-of-Use pricing plans and the impact that additional feedback can have in helping customers better manage their electricity use and costs.
The OEB has issued its Decision on the Scope of Review for Sioux Lookout Hydro Inc.'s electricity distribution rate application.
The OEB has issued a letter to electricity distributors providing updated accounting guidance on the Smart Metering Entity Charge.
The OEB has issued its final report on Wireline Pole Attachment Charges.
Report - Wireline Pole Attachment Charges
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge, EPCOR and Union will charge its customers for natural gas effective April 1, 2018.
The OEB has revised its Cost Assessment Model to make provision for unit sub-meter providers to be assessed a portion of the OEB's costs effective April 1, 2018.
Cost Assessment Model
The OEB has released Notice of Amendments to the Transmission System Code to avoid conflicts with NERC standards and NPCC criteria in transmission system operations. Design specifications were also clarified and brought in line with current good utility practice. These changes will come into force on April 30, 2018. A revised consolidated update to the TSC will be posted on the OEB website before that date.
Attachment A - Amendments
The OEB has issued a Notice of Amendments to the Distribution System Code and the Transmission System Code to implement the OEB's policies related to Protecting Privacy of Personal Information and the Reliable Operation of the Smart Grid in Ontario for the Electricity and Natural Gas Distributors.
The OEB has posted its plan for implementation of Ontario's 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan. The Implementation Plan was approved by the Minister of Energy.
OEB Implementation Plan
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Utilities Kingston valid from February 1, 2018.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from London Hydro Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance with sections 2.6.6 and 2.6.6.2B of Distribution System Code concerning the allocation of partial payments of an invoice.
The OEB has posted the 2016 results of the LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance and Winter Warmth programs.
View the 2016 results
The OEB has posted Price Comparison templates for Natural Gas Contracts for Enbridge and Union valid from January 1 - March 31, 2018.
The OEB has issued a Notice of Proposal to Amend a Code. The purpose of the amendments to the Transmission System Code, and Appendix 1 Versions A&B is to eliminate requirements that may conflict with evolving reliability standards adopted by standards authorities and in force in Ontario, and to bring remaining obligations in line with current good utility practice.
Notice of Proposal
The OEB has issued a Proposed Notice of Code Amendments for the Electricity and Natural Gas Distributors, and the accompanying industry developed Ontario Cyber Security Framework, tools and Framework Implementation Report.
Notice of Proposed Code Amendments
The OEB has posted its Strategic Blueprint: Keeping Pace with an Evolving Energy Sector. As the energy sector undergoes a period of accelerated change, the Blueprint will serve as a roadmap that will guide the OEB's work over the next five years.
Strategic Blueprint: Keeping Pace with an Evolving Energy Sector
The OEB issued a letter requesting comments from industry stakeholders and interested parties on a Draft Report of the Board entitled Framework for Determining Wireline Pole Attachment Charges.
The OEB has published the 2018 Quarter 1 prescribed accounting interest rates.
The OEB issued a Notice to Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc., Union Gas Limited and EPCOR Natural Gas Limited Partnership regarding their applications for approval to recover the costs associated with their 2018 cap and trade compliance plans.
The OEB has announced the appointment of Mary Anne Aldred as Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel, and the appointment of Ted Antonopoulos as Vice President (Acting), Applications.
The OEB has issued a letter to electricity distributors setting out new reporting requirements relating to winter reconnections.
The OEB has issued a Decision and Order amending the licences of all Ontario electricity distributors to ban the disconnection of residential consumers from November 15 through April 30, and to require that disconnected homes be reconnected at no charge. The OEB continues to consult on disconnection practices as part of its customer service rules review and encourages consumers to take its survey.
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB the Panel's report on its investigation into the conduct of Goreway Station Partnership in the wholesale electricity market.
The OEB has issued a letter to electricity distributors providing accounting guidance on the Ontario Fair Hydro Act related transactions.
News Release: Time-of-use price periods for electricity users changing November 1
The OEB has issued an Order immediately revoking Utility Savings Corp.'s Gas Marketer and Electricity Retailer licences.
The OEB issued proposed amendments to the Transmission System Code (TSC) and the Distribution System Code (DSC) which are aimed at ensuring the cost responsibility provisions for load customers in the TSC and DSC are better aligned and facilitate the implementation of regional plans.
The OEB gave written notice to Utility Savings Corp. that it intends to make an order revoking its licences due to non-payment of its licence fees and other allegations related to its licences and the Code of Conduct for Gas Marketers and Electricity Retailer Code of Conduct.
The OEB is announcing commodity rates for natural gas will decline on October 1st. The changes include the regular quarterly adjustment for the market price of the natural gas commodity. In addition the OEB has released its Decision and Order on the natural gas utilities' Cap and Trade program compliance plans.
The OEB has issued a final report on the regulatory treatment of pension and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) costs applicable to rate-regulated Ontario energy utilities.
Report of the OEB
News Release: Public asked for input on customer service rules for Ontario energy utilities
News Release: Electricity Pricing Pilots Test More Choice for Residential Consumers
The OEB is providing new guidance on cost awards related to cost claims for meals and accommodation.
The OEB has posted the electricity distributors' 2017 stretch factor assignments for the 2018 Incentive Rate Mechanism published in the Pacific Economics Group "Empirical Research in Support of Incentive Rate-Setting: 2017 Benchmarking Update" Report to the OEB.
2017 Benchmarking Update
Under its Cap and Trade Regulatory Framework, the OEB committed to provide a province-wide Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC), to be updated at the beginning of each three-year Compliance Plan term. The MACC report is now available.
Marginal Abatement Cost Curve Report
The OEB has issued a letter containing guidance to licensed distributors, unit sub-meter providers, retailers and other interested parties on the implementation of the Fair Hydro Act, 2017.
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge, NRG and Union will charge its customers for natural gas effective July 1, 2017.
The OEB today announced that electricity prices will go down on July 1.
The OEB has issued its Decision and Order regarding the Rural or Remote Electricity Rate Protection charge and Distribution Rate Protection effective July 1, 2017, and addresses two components of the Fair Hydro Plan.
The OEB has issued a letter outlining the consultation process and timelines for the mid-term review of the 2015-2020 DSM Framework.
The OEB Community Meetings to review Hydro One's recent request to increase its distribution rates are starting today in Leamington, Ontario. The amounts requested by Hydro One in its application to the OEB relate to its distribution business and do not reflect any credits or other changes resulting from the Fair Hydro Act, 2017. Any amounts approved by OEB will not impact the distribution line for the bill of most Hydro One customers, after the Fair Hydro Act credits and changes are applied.
Hydro One Rate Application
Fair Hydro Act, 2017
Under its Cap and Trade Regulatory Framework, the OEB committed to provide a long-term (10-year) carbon price forecast, to be updated annually.
Long Term Carbon Price Forecast Report
The OEB has issued a Staff Report to the Board on a Proposed Cyber Security Framework and Supporting Tools for the Electricity and Natural Gas Distributors...
The OEB is initiating the next phase in its review of miscellaneous rates and charges...
Review of Miscellaneous Rates and Charges
The OEB gave written notice to Active Energy Inc. that it intends to make an order for compliance and payment of an administrative penalty as it is alleged that Active Energy has breached the ECPA...
The OEB is initiating a policy consultation to explore and better understand certain implementation matters related to amendments to Ontario's net metering regulation...
Net Metering Consultation
Consumer Alert: Consumers warned against false sales claims and apparent energy sales scam.
The OEB has issued a report on the regulatory treatment of pension and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) costs for comment on implementation matters.
News release: OEB introduces Consumer Charter to ensure consumers know their rights and responsibilities.
The OEB announced today the appointment of two new full-time Board members, Lynne Anderson and Michael Janigan.
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted its Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period between Nov 2015-Apr 2016.
The OEB has issued a letter reminding licensed electricity distributors that customer protection rules remain in effect as the ban on winter electricity disconnections ends.
News release: Important changes for electricity consumers starting May 1.
Read the news release
News release: OESP to benefit more consumers, increase credits by 50%.
Electricity prices dropping for households and small businesses effective May 1.
The OEB announced that Rumina Velshi has been appointed by Government as a new part-time Board member, effective March 22, 2017 for a two year term.
The OEB has approved changes to the prices Enbridge, NRG and Union will charge its customers for natural gas effective April 1, 2017.
The OEB is launching an initiative to develop a Framework for the Assessment of Distributor Gas Supply Plans
The OEB has issued an amendment to the Standard Supply Service Code that would allow electricity distributors to implement new pilot projects relating to RPP prices.
RPP Roadmap
The OEB has issued a Decision and Order amending the licences of all Ontario electricity distributors to ban the disconnection of residential consumers for the period through April 30, 2017, and to require that disconnected homes be reconnected as soon as possible at no charge. This Decision and Order follows the passage of the Protecting Vulnerable Energy Consumers Act, 2017 by the Ontario Legislature on February 22, 2017.
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Williams Operating Corporation. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to operation in the wholesale market without a licence.
The OEB has issued amended filing requirements for natural gas rate applications.
View the filing requirements
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Summitt Energy Management Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the retraining of a salesperson.
The OEB has issued a letter providing direction to licensees regarding implementation issues related to the Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act (2016).
The OEB gave written notice to Planet Energy (Ontario) Corp. that it intends to make an order for compliance and payment of an administrative penalty as it is alleged that Planet Energy has engaged in unfair practices and breached the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and associated codes and regulations.
The OEB gave written notice to Ensqr Corp. that it intends to make an order revoking their licence as it is alleged that Ensqr has contravened the requirements of the Assurance of Voluntary Compliance it entered into on August 2, 2016.
Tough new rules to better protect households and small businesses in their dealings with energy retailers came into effect on January 1, 2017.
The OEB has issued for public comment proposed amendments to the Standard Supply Service Code that would allow electricity distributors to implement new pilot projects relating to RPP prices.
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB a report on Congestion Payments in Ontario's Wholesale Electricity Market.
To protect Ontario's energy consumers and help ensure utilities are giving consumers every opportunity to avoid disconnection, the OEB has issued a letter to electricity distributors reminding them of the rules that they must follow regarding disconnecting and reconnecting a service.
2016/12/29 The OEB has posted its Conservation and Demand Management - 2015 Results
The OEB has published the 2017 Quarter 1 prescribed accounting interest rates applicable to the carrying charges of deferral, variance and construction work in progress (CWIP) accounts of natural gas utilities, electricity distributors and other rate-regulated entities
The OEB has posted a letter to all interested parties in response to inquiries regarding the proposed merger of Enbridge Inc. and Spectra Energy Corp
The OEB has issued final amendments to the Electricity Retailer Code of Conduct, the Code of Conduct for Gas Marketers, the Retail Settlement Code and the Gas Distribution Access Rule, and related materials, that support the recommendations in "Consumers Come First: A Report of the Ontario Energy Board on the Effectiveness of the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010"
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB its Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period between May 2015 and October 2015
The OEB issued a decision that enables utilities to recover costs of natural gas expansion to rural and remote communities, increasing energy options for residential and commercial consumers
The OEB has issued a letter outlining changes to the Practice Direction on Settlement Conferences effective today
The OEB has issued a letter which sets out the Cost of Capital Parameter Updates for Cost of Service Applications with Rates effective in 2017
The OEB has issued the Input Price Index of 1.9% to be used as the inflation adjustment for rates adjusted through the Price Cap IR and Annual Index plans for electricity distribution rates effective in 2017
The OEB has issued proposed amendments to the Transmission System Code (TSC) to remove certain provisions from the TSC which are duplicative of, or out of date with, the mandatory reliability standards enforced by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) through its Market Rules
The OEB announced there will be no change to electricity prices for households and small businesses this winter
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from SNC-Lavalin Operations and Maintenance Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the operation of a generation facility without a licence
The OEB has posted a Handbook to provide guidance to utilities and stakeholders on applications to the OEB for approval of rates. The Handbook outlines the key principles and expectations the OEB will apply when reviewing rate applications. The Rate Handbook is applicable to all rate regulated utilities, including electricity distributors, electricity transmitters, natural gas utilities and Ontario Power Generation
The OEB has published the 2015 Scorecards of Electricity Distributors. The scorecard measures how well Ontario's electricity distributors are performing each year
The OEB issued its Regulatory Framework for the Assessment of Costs of Natural Gas Utilities' Cap and Trade Activities. The OEB has developed this Framework to facilitate the recovery of costs incurred by rate-regulated natural gas utilities (Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc., Natural Resource Gas Limited, and Union Gas Limited) in meeting the legislated requirements of Ontario's Cap and Trade program which comes into effect as of January 1, 2017
The OEB posted data reported by all licensed electricity distributors in Ontario pertaining to residential customer accounts in arrears
The OEB has issued a new edition of its Environmental Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario. The Guidelines enhancements ensure that roles and obligations for the Crown's duty to consult process for intra-provincial hydrocarbon pipelines are better defined. The revisions to the OEB Guidelines streamline and clarify roles and obligations for the Ministry of Energy, the OEB and pipeline proponents
The OEB has posted the PEG Report to the Ontario Energy Board "Empirical Research in Support of Incentive Rate-Setting: 2015 Benchmarking Update" for electricity distributors' 2016 stretch factor assignments in rates
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Ensqr Corp. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to Ensqr's licence conditions and obligations under the Unit Sub-Metering Code
The Ontario Energy Board has made a determination on billing and customer outreach in relation to the Cap and Trade framework to be implemented by Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc., Natural Resource Gas Limited and Union Gas Limited…
The OEB has issued accounting guidance to electricity distributors, relating to Capacity Based Recovery charges, billings and variances
The OEB has posted updated supply mix data with information from 2015. As per Ontario Regulation 416/99 made under the OEB Act, and the Board's Directive, this information is required to be disclosed to Ontario consumers
The OEB has issued its Regulated Price Plan Roadmap: Guideline for Pilot Projects on RPP Pricing. The OEB is inviting distributors to participate in developing and implementing priority price and non-price pilots that have been identified by the OEB
The OEB has issued a staff bulletin stating that Electric Vehicle Charging Services do not require OEB regulation. It is not a distribution activity, does not constitute retailing electricity and does not generally fall under OEB oversight
2016/07/07 The OEB has issued a Guideline for electricity distributors and unit sub-meter providers (utilities) with respect to the delivery of the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
The OEB gave written notice to Ensqr Corp. that it intends to make an order against Ensqr for compliance as well as the payment of an administrative penalty. The allegations concern Ensqr's non-compliance with its licence conditions
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the Tariff of Rates and Charges set out in the Niagara Peninsula Energy Inc. Rate Order
The OEB is prescribing a mandatory record retention period for regulatory records to be implemented by all regulated entities effective on January 1, 2017. The mandatory record retention policy requires regulatory records to be maintained for a period of at least six (6) years, calculated from the end of the last calendar year to which the record relates. Regulated entities are hereby advised to preserve all regulatory records in existence as of July 1, 2016 and to suspend any regularly scheduled destruction of regulatory records until after January 1, 2017 when the Mandatory Record Retention Period is in effect
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB the Panel's Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period November 2014 to April 2015
The OEB has posted the 2014 results of the LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance and Winter Warmth programs
The OEB has issued a letter announcing Amendments to the Electricity Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements related to the definition of a "Major Event" and associated reporting requirements
The OEB sets new summer electricity prices for households and small businesses starting May 1
The OEB is now using 750 kWh per month, down from 800 kWh, to represent typical household monthly electricity consumption for comparison purposes. Read the Report
The OEB has posted a Staff Report to the Board in relation to its 2015 Natural Gas Market Review consultation
The OEB has released a staff discussion paper on Rate Design for Commercial and Industrial Electricity Customers (EB-2015-0043).
The OEB has issued the Load Transfer Elimination Package, setting out Load Transfer Elimination process and Filing Guidelines
The OEB has issued a new edition of the Regulated Price Plan Manual. Revisions reflect renewed objectives in the OEB's Regulated Price Plan Roadmap issued in November of 2015. This version<|fim_middle|> a new regulatory tool that measures how well Ontario's electricity distributors are performing each year
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the Ontario Energy Board the Panel's Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period May 2013 to October 2013
The Board has issued its Report of the Board on New Policy Options for the Funding of Capital Investments: The Advanced Capital Module
The Board has issued the Draft Report of the Board on Electricity and Natural Gas Distributors' Residential Customer Billing Practices and Performance (EB-2014-0198)
The Board has issued the Draft Report on the Demand Side Management Framework for Natural Gas Distributors for 2015 to 2020 (EB-2014-0134). In addition to the Draft Report, the Board has also issued a draft version of the DSM Guidelines to the DSM Framework
The Board has issued its Decision and Order on its proceeding to review the Quarterly Rate Adjustment Mechanism process for natural gas distributors
The Board has posted the PEG Report to the Board "Empirical Research in Support of Incentive Rate-Setting: 2013 Benchmarking Update"
The Ontario Energy Board has gathered information on smart meter model types that are used by electricity distributors across Ontario. The Board has confirmed that no utilities in Ontario use the Sensus Generation 3.3 meters, the model used in Saskatchewan. Further information can be found here
The Board has issued an update to Chapter 4 of the Filing Requirements for Electricity Transmission Applications
The Board has issued its Decision on the Green Energy Plan Electricity Rate Protection Benefit and Charge effective July 1, 2014
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the Ontario Energy Board the Panel's report on an investigation into possible gaming behaviour related to congestion management settlement credits
Board Staff have issued a Discussion Paper regarding Distribution System Reliability Performance Targets
The Board has issued its Decision and Rate Order on an application by Union Gas Limited for an order or orders clearing certain non-commodity related deferral accounts and sharing utility earnings pursuant to a Board approved earnings sharing mechanism
The Board has issued a Notice of Proceeding and Procedural Order No. 1 to commence a process to consider alternatives to the current Quarterly Rate Adjustment Mechanism ("QRAM") process for natural gas distributors. The scope of this review will include the QRAM review process, the Board's policy with respect to rate mitigation, and protocols around consumer communications
The Board has issued its Decision and Order on an application by the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for the approval of its proposed expenditure and revenue requirements and its proposed fees for the 2014 fiscal year
The OEB announced that it will extend the period for which most Ontario residential customers of Enbridge Gas Distribution are required to pay for unexpected, high prices incurred during the cold winter months
The Board has issued a Notice of Amendment to a Code which amends section 5.1.3 of the Distribution System Code to require a distributor to install a MIST meter on any installation that is forecast by the distributor to have a monthly average peak demand during a calendar year of over 50 kW. The Amendments come into force on August 21, 2014
The Board has issued a Notice of Amendment to Code which amends section 2.4.6 of the DSC to require distributors to include certain minimum requirements in their Conditions of Service in relation to unmetered load customers. The Final Amendments come into force on January 1, 2015
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Active Energy Inc. and Active Energy Corp. related to non-compliance with the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has posted a letter concluding the First Phase of the Consultation to review the Framework Governing the Participation of Intervenors in Board Proceedings (EB-2013-0301). The letter sets out amendments to the Rules of Practice and Procedure and Practice Direction on Cost Awards. In addition, the Board has made a number of other amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure and Practice Directions on Cost Awards, Practice Directions on Confidential Filings and Practice Directions on Settlement Conferences (formerly Guidelines)
The Board has released Regulated Price Plan (RPP) electricity commodity prices that take effect May 1, 2014
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Just Energy Ontario L.P. related to non-compliance with the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has released a Draft Report of the Board on Rate Design for Electricity Distributors. This is the next stage of the Board's initiative previously known as Revenue Decoupling for Distributors (EB-2012-0410)
Board Staff have issued a Discussion Paper regarding Service Area Amendments and Rate-Making after Consolidation
Board staff has issued a Bulletin providing guidance in relation to the applicability of the licensing exemption for small generation facilities
Board staff has posted Questions and Answers from the Workshops on Renewed Regulatory Framework for Electricity (RRFE) Implementation, held between October 21 and November 6, 2013
The Board has issued its Report of the Board on Performance Measurement for Electricity Distributors: A Scorecard Approach. The Report sets out the Board's policies on the measures that will be used to assess a distributor's effectiveness and improvement in customer focus, operational effectiveness, public policy responsiveness, and financial performance to the benefit of existing and future customers
The Ontario Energy Board has released information about the next phases of its consultation with Ontarians on the impact of TransCanada's proposed Energy East Pipeline
The Board has posted a summary report on Natural Gas Demand Side Management results for 2012
The Board has issued a Decision and Order immediately revoking Energhx Green Energy Corporation's Gas Marketer Licence and Electricity Retailer Licence
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Sunwave Gas & Power Inc. related to non-compliance with the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has issued its Decision on the combined GTA-Parkway Proceeding regarding applications filed by Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. and Union Gas Limited for leave to construct
The Board has issued its Decision on the Green Energy Plan Electricity Rate Protection Benefit and Charge for 2014
The Board is proposing to amend section 5.1.3 of the Distribution System Code to require a distributor to install a MIST meter on any installation that is forecast by the distributor to have a monthly average peak demand during a calendar year of over 50 kW
The Board has issued its Rate Order for the 2014 Ontario Uniform Transmission Rates
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the Ontario Energy Board the Panel's Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period November 2012 to April 2013
2013/12/23 The Board has posted a report prepared by Navigant Consulting Inc., "Time-of-Use Rates in Ontario – Part 1: Impact Analysis." The report estimates the response of the residential and small commercial and industrial customers under the Regulated Price Plan that were transitioned from tiered rates to Time-of-Use rates. Part 2 of the TOU analysis will examine several different TOU structures and pricing regimes and estimate the impacts on consumer electricity demand and system-wide impacts of these regimes
The Board has issued a Decision and Order on Great Lakes Power Transmission Inc.'s 2014 Transmission Revenue Requirement
The Board has issued its EB-2012-0383 Report of the Board on a Review of the Board's Cost Allocation Policy for Unmetered Loads. The report addresses a number of issues with respect to distributor cost allocation for the street lighting, unmetered scattered load, and sentinel lighting customer classes
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Summitt Energy Management Inc. related to non-compliance with the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has posted its CDM Report – 2012 Results
The Board issued its EB-2010-0379 Report of the Board on Rate setting Parameters and Benchmarking under the Renewed Regulatory Framework for Ontario's Electricity Distributors. This report sets out the Board's policies and approaches to rate adjustment parameters for and the benchmarking of electricity distributor total cost performance. The report also includes the Board's determinations on rate adjustment parameter values for 2014 incentive rate setting
The Board gave written notice to Just Energy Ontario LP that it intends to make an order to comply and pay an administrative penalty concerning allegations of non-compliance related to the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Ontario Energy Board has received a letter from the Minister of Energy requiring the Ontario Energy Board to consult and report to the Minister on certain aspects of TransCanada's proposal to develop the Energy East Pipeline project
The Board has approved revisions to the RPP Manual to come into effect on January 1, 2014. These revisions change the way that the Final Variance Settlement Amount (FVSA) is calculated for consumers that leave the regulated price plan (RPP), and apply to consumers that depart the RPP on and after January 1, 2014
The Board, on its own motion, determined that it would initiate a motion to review the Board's direction in its EB-2011-0210 Decision and Order requiring Union to annually prepare and file separate audited financial statements for that portion of its business that is subject to rate regulation. The Board today issued its Notice of Motion and Procedural Order No. 3 in relation to this matter
The Board has issued its Decision and Order which sets out final amendments to the Ontario Power Authority's Licence to reflect the OPA's obligations in the regional planning process
The Board has issued a Supplementary Notice of Intention to Make an Order for Revocation of a Licence to Energhx Green Energy Corporation related to allegations of non-compliance with the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998
The Board has issued a Notice of Application regarding an application filed by Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited asking the Board to stop regulating the rates it charges for the attachment of wireless equipment to its distribution poles
The Board has issued its Rate Order on an application by Natural Resource Gas Limited for an Order or Orders approving or fixing just and reasonable rates and other charges for the sale, distribution, transmission and storage of gas effective October 1, 2013
The Board has posted the 2012 results of the LEAP EFA and Winter Warmth programs as well as an updated version of the 2013 LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance Manual (effective September 23, 2013) which now includes Statistics Canada's 2012 Low Income Cut-Off (LICO) table
The Board has issued a draft Report of the Board on Empirical Research to Support Incentive Rate-setting for Ontario's Electricity Distributors and also released an updated report prepared by Pacific Economics Group Research, LLC (EB-2010-0379)
The Board has issued a Notice of Intention to Make an Order for Revocation of a Licence to Energhx Green Energy Corporation related to allegations of non-compliance with the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998
The Board has issued a Notice of Amendments to the Distribution System Code (DSC) and the Transmission System Code (TSC) to implement the Board's policies related to Regional Infrastructure Planning, as set out in its October 18, 2012 Report of the Board – A Renewed Regulatory Framework for Electricity Distributors: A Performance Based Approach
The Ontario Energy Board has chosen Upper Canada Transmission Inc. as the transmitter to complete development work for the East-West Tie Line
Blue Power Distributed Energy Corp./morEnergy Savings Corp. (Blue/morEnergy) will pay a $120,000 administrative penalty and give impacted customers the option to cancel contracts which were signed online and not verified afterward. The action is part of a settlement agreement filed by Blue/morEnergy and accepted by the Board
The Board has issued a letter setting out the Board's approach to the allocation of host electricity distributor costs to embedded distributors
The Board has posted a Staff Report to the Board on Performance Measurement and Continuous Improvement for Electricity Distributors (EB-2010-0379)
Board staff has issued a bulletin providing guidance in relation to changes to the presentation of costs associated with losses on invoices that are issued to low-volume electricity consumers
The Board has issued a letter to electricity distributors outlining accounting policy changes for Accounts 1575 and 1576 that will require a rate of return component to be applied to the balance in Account 1576 upon its disposition in rates and the use of separate rider riders for the disposition of the balances in Accounts 1575 and 1576
The Board has issued its Decision regarding PowerStream Inc.'s request for approval of a conservation and demand management program
The Board has issued amendments to the Distribution System Code regarding the connection process for micro-embedded generation
The Board has issued a Notice of Proposal to Amend the Licence of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to implement the Board's policies related to a more structured approach to regional infrastructure planning, as set out in its Report of the Board – A Renewed Regulatory Framework for Electricity. The issue in this proceeding is whether the proposed licence amendments, which are intended to reflect the OPA's obligations in the regional planning process, are appropriate
The Board has issued a Notice of Proposal to Amend the Distribution System Code and the Transmission System Code to implement the Board's policies related to a more structured approach to regional infrastructure planning and facilitating the execution of regional infrastructure plans, as set out in its Report of the Board – A Renewed Regulatory Framework for Electricity (RRFE)
The Board has posted a Report prepared by Board staff's consultant, Elenchus Research Associates, that makes specific recommendations and provides guidance with respect to the issue of Cost Allocation Policy for Unmetered Loads
The Board has posted on its website a report prepared by Board staff's expert consultant, Dr. Lawrence Kaufmann and his team at the Pacific Economics Research Group (PEG), entitled "Empirical Work in Support of Incentive Rate Setting in Ontario"
The Board has posted the Divisional Court's Reasons for Judgment pursuant to an appeal by Summitt Energy Management Inc. from the Board's Order in proceeding EB-2010-0221
The Board has issued a Notice of Application and Written Hearing regarding an application filed by Ontario Power Generation Inc. seeking approval of a reliability must-run agreement entered into with the Independent Electricity System Operator in relation to one of the two 153 MW coal-fired units at OPG's Thunder Bay Generating Station
The Board has issued its Partial Decision and Order on Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited's application for 2012, 2013 and 2014 IRM rate adjustments and ICM rate adders
The Board has issued its Decision and Order on an Application by the Independent Electricity System Operator for an Order fixing a Smart Metering Entity charge effective May 1, 2013
The Board has issued its Report of the Board: Incentive Rate-making for Ontario Power Generation's Prescribed Generation Assets (EB-2012-0340)
The Board has issued a Notice of Final Amendments to the Gas Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements. The amendments deal with the uptake of residential and eligible low-income customer service policies for rate-regulated natural gas distributors and will come into force on July 1, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board is reminding households that time-of-use electricity prices stay at their lowest rate all day on Good Friday
The Board has announced the price escalator (or inflation index) for the 3rd Generation Incentive Regulation mechanisms for adjusting electricity distribution rates effective May 1, 2013
Board staff has issued a bulletin providing guidance in relation to the date on which an electing spot consumer may commence or cease to be charged on the basis of spot market pricing under the Standard Supply Service Code
The Board has posted Appendix 1 of the Planning Process Working Group report to the Board: The Process for Regional Infrastructure Planning in Ontario
The Board has issued a letter which sets out the Cost of Capital Parameter Updates for Cost of Service Applications effective May 1, 2013
The Board has issued its Report of the Board: Supplemental Report on Smart Grid
The Board has issued a Notice of Application and Oral Hearing regarding an application to review market rule amendments relating to the dispatching of, and the establishment of floor prices for, variable (wind and solar) generation facilities
The Board has issued its Decision and Rate Order approving just and reasonable rates and other charges for Union Gas Limited for the sale, distribution, transmission and storage of natural gas commencing January 1, 2013
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the Ontario Energy Board the Panel's Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market from the period November 2011 to April 2012
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Just Energy Ontario L.P. with respect to non-compliance related to the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010, and supporting regulatory instruments
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The OEB has issued a Supplemental Report of the OEB on the consultation on New Policy Options for the Funding of Capital Investments (EB-2014-0219)
The OEB has issued its Decision on Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. and Union Gas Limited's 2015-2020 Demand Side Management (natural gas conservation) applications
The OEB has posted a Handbook to provide guidance to applicants and stakeholders on applications to the OEB for approval of electricity distributor and transmitter consolidations. The Handbook also discusses the rate-making policies associated with consolidations and sets out the timing of when such matters will be considered by the OEB
The OEB has issued its Decision and Rate Order for 2016 Uniform Transmission Rates
The OEB has issued its Final Order on B2M LP's 2016 Transmission Revenue Requirement
The OEB has issued its Decision and Order on 2016 Transmission Revenue Requirement applications by Canadian Niagara Power Inc., Hydro One Networks Inc. and Great Lakes Power Transmission Inc.
The OEB has issued an OEB Staff Report on the Review of the Cost of Capital for Ontario's Regulated Utilities (EB-2009-0084). The review assesses the performance of the current cost of capital policies and methodology from 2010 to 2015
The OEB has issued its Decision and Order for a Combined Proceeding regarding NRG's April 2014 QRAM, NRG's request for interest rate relief and the OEB's own motion to review the Decision and Order in Union's Penalty Reduction Proceeding
2015/12/29 The OEB has issued its Decision in Toronto Hydro-Electric System Ltd.'s 2015-2019 Custom Incentive Rate-setting application
The OEB has posted its Conservation and Demand Management Report – 2011-2014 Results
The OEB has issued a Notice of Amendments to the Distribution System Code related to the elimination of Load Transfer Arrangements
The OEB has posted a letter responding to correspondence from the Keep Hydro Public Coalition and National Farmers Union – Ontario and letters received from Ontarians in support of that correspondence
The OEB has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Olameter Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998 and supporting regulatory instruments
The OEB has issued a Board Report relating to Distribution System Reliability and Major Events, reporting on Major Events and "customer specific" reliability measures
The OEB has issued its Decision and Rate Order on Union Gas Limited's application for natural gas distribution, transmission and storage rates effective January 1, 2016
The OEB has issued a Decision and Order setting regulatory charges effective January 1, 2016, including the charge for the Ontario Electricity Support Program
The OEB has released its Regulated Price Plan Roadmap, setting out a multi-year plan that ensures the Regulated Price Plan is able to meet the challenges of the future
The new Ontario Electricity Support Program is now accepting applications and will help make electricity more affordable for low-income families
The OEB has issued final amendments to the Reporting and Record Keeping Requirements to support monitoring and evaluation of the OESP
The OEB has released a combined program manual for the new Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP) and the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP). Information for intake agencies about OESP and LEAP delivery is now contained in the OESP & LEAP Program Manual
The OEB has posted the results of its 2014 review of the Low-income Energy Assistance Program Emergency Financial Assistance (LEAP EFA) program
The OEB sets new winter electricity prices for households and small businesses starting November 1
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the OEB the Panel's Monitoring Report on Ontario's wholesale electricity market for the period May 2014 to October 2014
The OEB has issued final amendments to the Distribution System Code, the Unit Sub-Metering Code, the Retail Settlement Code, the Standard Supply Service Code for Electricity Distributors, and the Gas Distribution Access Rule to support the implementation of the Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
The OEB has issued proposed amendments to the Electricity Retailer Code of Conduct, the Code of Conduct for Gas Marketers, the Retail Settlement Code and the Gas Distribution Access Rule to give effect to the recommendations in the OEB report "Consumers Come First: A Report of the Ontario Energy Board on the Effectiveness of the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010"
The OEB has issued the Input Price Index of 2.1% to be used as the inflation adjustment for rates adjusted through the Price Cap IR and Annual Index plans for rates effective in 2016
The OEB has issued its Report setting out Electricity Distribution System Reliability Measures and Expectations
The Market Surveillance Panel has submitted to the Ontario Energy Board the Panel's report on an investigation into possible gaming behaviour related to congestion management settlement credit payments
The Ontario Energy Board today released "Giving Ontarians a Voice on Energy East," a report on its consultation and review of the proposed Energy East Pipeline
The OEB has posted the PEG Report to the Ontario Energy Board "Empirical Research in Support of Incentive Rate-Setting: 2014 Benchmarking Update"
The OEB has issued a letter outlining a new cost allocation policy for the street lighting rate class, and has also posted a Report prepared by OEB staff's consultant, Navigant Consulting Limited
The OEB has issued a bulletin providing guidance in relation to changes to the presentation of costs associated with losses on invoices that are issued to low-volume electricity consumers on retailer contracts
The OEB released its report "Consumers Come First: A Report of the Ontario Energy Board on the Effectiveness of the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010"
To give customers greater control over their electricity bill and encourage conservation, the OEB announced today that all electricity distributors in Ontario will be required to issue monthly bills by the end of 2016. In addition, distributors are expected to issue bills based on actual meter reads (versus estimated) at least 98% of the time
The OEB has issued its policy on fully fixed distribution charges for residential customers. This is an important step in the ongoing evolution of the electricity sector in Ontario
The OEB has established two new Standing Committees, for Regulatory Affairs and Industry Affairs. Part of our new framework for engaging with stakeholders, the committees will provide early advice to the OEB on matters related to policy development and implementation in these areas. Details about the nomination process are now available
The Board has posted a Staff Report to the Board in relation to its 2014 Natural Gas Market Review consultation
The Board has issued Accounting Procedures Handbook - Guidance on a variety of issues
The Board has issued its Report of the Board setting out amendments to policies relating to rate-making associated with electricity distributor consolidation
The Minister of Energy today announced the Ontario Electricity Support Program: The proposed program would provide low-income electricity consumers with on-going and on-bill rate assistance
The Board has issued its Decision on Hydro One Networks Inc.'s 2015 Custom IR distribution rate application
The Board has issued its Decision on Freepoint Commodities LLC concerning the non-payment of their 2014-2015 annual licence fee
The Board has issued a letter intended to promote the expansion of natural gas to rural and remote communities in order to reduce energy costs and enhance competitive position for businesses...
The Board has posted the 2013 results of the LEAP Emergency Financial Assistance and Winter Warmth programs
The Board is proposing to amend certain sections of the Distribution System Code in relation to billing frequency, the use of estimated billing, and billing accuracy
The Board gave written notice to Freepoint Commodities LLC concerning the non-payment of their annual licence fee. The Board intends to make an order revoking the licence
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from EnWin Utilities Limited. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the Standard Supply Service Code and the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has issued a Rate Order for Hydro One Networks Inc.'s 2015 and 2016 Electricity Transmission Revenue Requirement
The Board has issued its Rate Order for 2015 Uniform Transmission Rates
2014/12/23 The Board has posted the 2014 Natural Gas Market Review Final Report prepared by Navigant, and a cover letter which includes a list of issues stakeholders may wish to consider when preparing written comments
The Board has issued the new Demand Side Management (DSM) Framework for Natural Gas Distributors. The new DSM framework is related to the natural gas distributors' conservation and energy efficiency activities from 2015 to 2020. The Board has also issued the Filing Guidelines to the DSM Framework, which is a technical companion document to be used by the natural gas distributors
The Board has issued a Decision and Order setting the charge for Rural or Remote Electricity Rate Protection (RRRP) for 2015
The Board has issued its Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) Requirement Guidelines for Electricity Distributors
The Board has issued its Decision and Order on an application by Union Gas Limited for an order or orders approving a multi-year incentive rate mechanism to determine rates for distribution, transmission and storage of gas effective January 1, 2015
The Board has issued a Payment Amounts Order, as part of Ontario Power Generation's payment amounts proceeding (EB-2013-0321)
The Board has issued a Decision and Order on Great Lakes Power Transmission Inc.'s 2015 and 2016 Transmission Revenue Requirement
The Board has posted its Conservation and Demand Management Report – 2013 Results. The Board has also posted a letter that provides guidance on electricity distributor 2011-2014 CDM target performance
Board staff has issued a Bulletin providing clarification for suppliers on RRR Reporting Requirements in relation to the reporting of the number of consumer complaints
2014/11/25 The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Sunwave Gas & Power Ltd. related to non-compliance with the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has issued a letter which sets out the Cost of Capital Parameter Updates for Cost of Service Applications with Rates effective in 2015
The Board has issued its Decision regarding Ontario Power Generation's payment amounts for its regulated hydroelectric and nuclear generating facilities (EB-2013-0321)
The Board has issued the Input Price Index of 1.6% to be used as the inflation adjustment for rates adjusted through the Price Cap IR and Annual Index plans for rates effective in 2015
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Active Energy Inc. / Active Energy Corp. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance from Summitt Energy Management Inc. The Assurance responds to non-compliance related to the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 and supporting regulatory instruments
The Board has released Regulated Price Plan (RPP) electricity commodity prices that take effect November 1, 2014
The Board has launched an on-line survey for residential and small business consumers to share their views on consumer protection in the competitive retail energy markets as part of its review of the Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010
The Ontario Energy Board has published the 2013 Scorecards of Electricity Distributors. The scorecard is | 2,511 |
How to Solve an Unsolved Murder
New contributor Elizabeth J. Bond examines the cases of the murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon in 1975 and suggests how they could finally be solved
I first came across the sad and likely linked stories of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon a few years ago, and these cold cases have lingered in my mind ever since.
Back in March 1975, an aspiring model and 'bunny girl' by the name of Eve Stratford was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted in the Leytonstone flat she shared with her boyfriend. Police conducted an investigation, but nothing substantial emerged and the case went cold.
Six months later, a 16-year-old Hounslow schoolgirl called Lynne Weedon went out with friends to celebrate her O-level results. At about 11:00 pm, she decided to head home on her own, and took a shortcut along an alleyway known as 'Short Hedges.' Minutes later, she was viciously attacked. She was hit over the head with a blunt instrument, dragged into the grounds of a nearby sub-station, sexually assaulted, and left for dead. She was found early the next morning, but never regained consciousness, and died in hospital a week later.
At the time, there was nothing to suggest that these two murders were connected. It was only in the early 2000s that a breakthrough was made. Samples taken from the scenes were analysed, a DNA profile was extracted, and a match was found. Appeals for information were subsequently made in the media, along with an offer of a £40,000 reward. The case featured on an episode of Crimewatch, which you can watch at the end of this article.
But there has been no progress since then, and<|fim_middle|> cousin of William Earl Talbott II, fully supported the police's use of her DNA to secure his conviction, even without her prior permission. It should also be noted that the US police did not arrest Talbott solely on the basis of CeCe Moore identifying him. They first watched him for several days, obtained his DNA from a discarded cup, and ran extra tests to make doubly sure they had got the right person.
Secondly, shouldn't the rights of the murder victims and their families outweigh the murderer's right to privacy? Not to mention the right of the general public to be safe from someone who is clearly a danger?
I appreciate that the murderer of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon could now be dead. But if not, then he needs to be found and brought to justice. In any event, identifying him would at least bring the remaining family members some closure.
I would therefore urge all genealogy websites, police, and lawmakers to rethink privacy policies for cases like this. If nothing else, it would certainly help to make the world a safer place.
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Ethel December 26, 2019 At 6:45 pm
These poor ladies deserve justice. Thank you for highlighting this Elizabeth.
Dodge December 28, 2019 At 5:50 am
I for one believe justice should always be done, and it doesn't matter how long it takes. We have recently had 2 cold case murders solved here. One was 45 years old and the other almost 50 years. We owe it to these girls and other victims to bring their perpetrators to justice no matter how long it takes, and how much it costs, If we don't, society should hang it's head in shame.
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DNA kits – such as those sold by the likes of Ancestry.com, 23 and Me, and My Heritage have become increasingly popular over the years. Ancestry alone has over 15 million DNA profiles. With a database of this size, the odds of finding biological relatives on there are pretty much 100%. I've done a test myself, and it linked me to over 150 third and fourth cousins.
In turn, a practice known as 'genetic genealogy' has sprung up. This has been especially useful for foundlings and adoptees. In some cases, even a third cousin match has been enough to 'reverse-engineer' a family tree to work out who their biological parents were.
In the USA, they've gone one step further. Genealogist CeCe Moore has used the same technique on the genomics website GEDmatch to help US law enforcement to crack various cold cases. Most famously, her work led to the conviction of William Earl Talbot II for the murders of Jay Cook and Tanya van Cuylenborg this year.
So, the question is – why aren't we doing the same thing here in the UK?
Unfortunately, the major genealogy companies fear that if they allowed a suspect's DNA to be uploaded, it would undermine confidence in their privacy policies. In fact, privacy concerns became so great after various arrests and convictions in the USA that 'GEDmatch' now requires its users to 'opt in' to allow their DNA to be used for law enforcement purposes.
To me, the privacy argument makes little sense. Firstly, if you have committed no crime yourself, then you have nothing to worry about. Chelsea Rustad, the second | 401 |
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Bryson DeChambeau opens four-stroke lead with eight-under 63 at Northern Trust
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Gregory Shamus RIDGEWOOD, NJ - AUGUST 25: Bryson DeChambeau of the United States looks on during the third round of The Northern Trust on August 25, 2018 at the Ridgewood Championship Course in Ridgewood, New Jersey. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Scores were low in the Northern Trust at Ridgewood Country Club on Saturday, none lower than Keegan Bradley's nine-under 62, the best round of the week. It put Bradley at 12-under 201, which, for quite awhile, had him in the solo lead in the clubhouse.
Back on the fourth hole, Bryson DeChambeau saw that number and knew he had to put together something similar if he wanted to overtake him. He did, nearly matching Bradley's 62 with an eight-under 63, giving him a four-shot lead at 16-under 197 heading into Sunday.
"That was impressive," DeChambeau said of Bradley's round. "And I knew if I wanted to be at the top of the leader board I had to take it deep today. Fortunately, that's what I did."
After a respectable start of two-under par through five holes, DeChambeau did take it deep, starting with birdies at the sixth, eighth and ninth holes, all following approach shots within 11 feet of the hole. He made four more birdies after that, two from short range on 11 and 12, and two more on his final two holes of the day, highlighted by<|fim_middle|> Golf World | a 17-footer at the 18th, by far his longest conversion of the day.
"It was beautiful," he said of the birdie at 18. "Rolled it right down my line, played it about six inches out, and lipped it right over the edge."
DeChambeau is looking for his second victory this season, and the third of his career, the first two coming at the 2017 John Deere Classic and this year's Memorial Tournament, where he also held the 54-hole lead. A win would come at an opportune time, as DeChambeau looks to strengthen his case for a Ryder Cup captain's pick.
"Man on a mission, that's all I'm going to say about that."
For Bradley, the 62 gives him an opportunity to win for the first time since the 2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He's given himself chances in the six years since, but has never been able to go on a similar run to the one he went on between 2011 and 2012, when he won three times, including the 2011 PGA Championship. Ending this win drought would be a bonus to what Bradley's main goal is, which is being back at the top of his game and earning mention amongst the world's best.
"I got a lot to play for in these FedExCup Playoffs," said Bradley. "I'm trying to get back into the majors. I'm trying to get back into the WGCs and with one good week here, you can do that. I'm all-out, every week, every day, because there's so much to play for this time of year that can set up your following year, and even years to come.
"I've got a lot to play for, so you know, lowest I can shoot, pretty much every day."
One back of Bradley at 11-under 202 are Cameron Smith (65) and Tony Finau (66), another Ryder Cup hopeful looking to impress American team captain Jim Furyk.
Billy Horschel, who shot a six-under 65, is tied for fifth with Adam Scott at 10-under 203. Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka are at nine-under 204.
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On January 8, 2011, Federal District Judge John Roll was gunned down by a maniacal coward lunatic. Since this unspeakable and unimaginable tragedy much has been said about who caused this tragedy or who may have prompted its occurrence. Some of this rhetoric bordered on the absurd. I would much rather talk about the good people who had their lives snuffed out before their time and to pay tribute to who they were and what they stood for. Certainly, a beautiful little nine year old angel, named Christina Green, deserves to have her life displayed as an example to others to learn from and enjoy. So, I will do that regarding a man who changed my life and helped alter American history; Judge John M<|fim_middle|> that the provision, in conjunction with the criminal sanctions its violation would engender, is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution."
Judge Roll, of all the dozens of Judges who had heard this case from me and the other six sheriff defendants, was the only one who ruled that the Brady bill violated the Fifth Amendment as well as the Tenth. It was pursuant to Judge Roll's insight and sensitivity to the threat this "law" posed to us, the sheriffs, that this case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Mack is thus forced to choose between keeping his oath or obeying the act, subjecting himself to possible sanctions."
To have a federal Judge actually grasp the full extent of my personal motivation for filing this case was absolutely remarkable. He touched my soul with this comment and it is recorded in my books and memory forever. He was truly before his time. Now, his work is a part of American history. His legacy should be one of honesty, courage, and living up to his oath as a true defender of our nation's rule of law. He changed my life and showed us all that the Constitution is still the supreme law of the land.
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This email was sent from an unmonitored email address. If you wish to contact us, please use the contact form on the contact page of our website. | . Roll. He was an honest man and a principled judge. He stood for what he believed was right despite the possible consequences. I met Judge Roll back in 1994, in fact, it was in his courtroom. He was the judge who first heard my lawsuit against the Clinton Administration. Judge Roll had the courage to take a strong stand against the very entity that controlled his salary and career. He actually had the audacity to tell Congress and President Clinton that they exceeded their authority when they made the Brady bill a law.
I was extremely nervous when I walked into Judge Roll's courtroom. There was a big crowd of supporters and numerous reporters and cameras outside the courthouse. Although I had been to court many times before, this was the first time it was in front of such a crowd of onlookers and the Press and in Federal court. I remember looking at Judge Roll and relaxing somewhat; he was nice looking and rather young, about my age. He had already defended me with at least two pretrial motions that he ruled on, both in my favor. The first one was the Federal Government's attempt to remove me from the case entirely by claiming I had no standing to sue them in the first place. They argued that only the county's Board of Supervisors could represent the county in such legal actions. Judge Roll said this was wrong because it was the sheriff being commandeered by the Federal Government, both officially and personally. Next, my lawyer asked for an injunction against the government from being able to arrest me for "failure to comply." (There was an actual provision in the Brady bill that threatened to arrest the sheriffs if we failed to comply with this unfunded mandate from Congress.) Judge Roll seemed legitimately concerned about this threat throughout the entire lawsuit. Janet Reno herself wrote a memo to the Judge and assured him that the Feds had no intention of arresting me and that the threat of arrest within the language of the Brady bill, was only intended for the gun shop owners, not the sheriffs. Judge Roll, as he announced his decision regarding the injunction said that Janet Reno was not allowed to change the law "by fiat" nor interpret the law for Congress. "Mack's injunction is hereby granted," the Judge said calmly and sternly.
Then as the hearing proceeded I was called to the stand. The butterflies returned big time. As the Justice Department's lawyer cross examined me, she did something unusual; she actually began to address the Judge while I am still sitting on the stand. She said, "why your honor, already in just the first four months of the implementation of the Brady background checks, we have denied over 250,000 felons from gaining access to handguns in this country." I was thinking to myself what a crock her numbers were and wondering why we had so many felons on the streets all trying to buy handguns in government checked gun shops. Suddenly, Judge Roll interrupted the attorney and rebuked her with, "Counselor, do not pretend in this courtroom that your statistical analysis somehow equates to constitutionality." I have to say that Roll's understanding of principles amazed me. He was so professional and knowledgeable. He took his job and the Constitution so seriously. He was truly an exemplary Justice.
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Phnom Penh Post - Husband and wife duo serve burgers with a Khmer flair
Husband and wife duo serve burgers with a Khmer flair
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Burger Moon serves freshly-made gourmet burgers in a variety of styles. Hean Rangsey
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Phnom Penh burger joint Burger Moon has set itself a goal – serving gourmet burgers at an affordable price.
Located behind Mao Tse Tung boulevard, Burger Moon, a popular takeaway venue with limited seating, sits in a humble shop in which customers are welcomed by pictures of hamburgers oozing with cheese.
But Burger Moon prides itself on being different to other fast-food outlets serving traditional burgers.
It is run by Bun Lyhoung and her husband, who spend much of their time in the kitchen preparing gourmet burgers with a Khmer twist.
The husband and wife team are hands on in the kitchen, from baking buns to frying patties.
"On average, between 200 and 300 customers visit our shop every day, with foreigners making up only about 20 per cent of our customer base.
"Locals want to try how a Khmer burger tastes and most of them like it. Many of them have become returning customers, especially as our burgers are competitively priced compared to fast-food chains," said 27-year-old Lyhoung.
Burger Moon has been in business for six months, but before that Lyhoung had been selling burgers on the street for one year.
Burger Moon prides itself on being different to other fast-food outlets serving traditional burgers. Hean Rangsey
"I started selling burgers from a small stand along the street. The affordable price and local flavour attracted people to come back for more. Their support helped us move into permanent premises."
Deciding against attending university, Lyhoung said she found joy in running her small business as cooking is her passion.
"My childhood dream was to open a hair salon or another small business that many women wish for.
"However, my family didn't support my idea. I listened to their opinion and they supported my other passion, cooking," Lyhoung recalled.
"I like cooking, especially foreign cuisine. I went to culinary school and now I have mastered the required culinary skills to
operate a burger restaurant and realise my dream of owning a small business," she told The Post, while grilling burgers and placing them in buns with an assortment of vegetables.
Burger Moon serves freshly-made gourmet burgers featuring Khmer flavours, with each one made from scratch.
"I developed the recipe by combining my culinary skills and the experiences I learned from people who used to work in restaurants serving hamburgers in the US."
However, Lyhoung admitted that running a small business as a young woman is proving a challenge.
"It was not easy to start a business with only a small amount of capital and minimal experience in managing employees. It's even harder to decide which supplies are of<|fim_middle|>urger Moon is located on Street 402 behind the Vanda Institute of Accounting.
The restaurant is open from 9am to 9pm. Customers can contact the restaurant via telephone (015219010 or 012380388). Orders above $10 are delivered free.
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Staying true to her experience selling burgers on the street, Lyhoung sticks to an affordable menu and provides fast service to her customers.
A popular takeaway venue, Burger Moon sits in a humble shop in which customers are welcomed by pictures of hamburgers oozing with cheese. Hean Rangsey
Burgers and side orders start from $1 with a variety of burger choices on offer, including pork ($1), chicken ($1.25), beef ($2), as well as a burger with bacon ($1.75), a kebab burger ($1) and a crispy chicken burger ($1.75). Combination meals are also available from $2.50.
Side dishes include fried chicken wings or nuggets (both $1.75) and French fries ($1.87). Extra cheese, egg or bacon can also be added for $0.25 to $0.40.
With business going well, Lyhoung and her husband are already in the process of renovating Burger Moon's first branch.
"Renovation for the new restaurant will finish soon. It'll be a bigger space with a nice interior for people to enjoy affordable home-made burgers in a pleasant and comfortable environment," she said.
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Grand Action Has An Action Plan
GRAND RAPIDS — The Grand Action Committee is proposing interior renovation of DeVos Performance Hall to make the venue more complementary to and compatible with the soon-to-open DeVos Place Convention Center.
The Grand Action Committee will present its plan to the Building Committee of the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority this week.
If the building committee approves the plan, it will go to the Convention/Arena Authority's board of directors for approval in August.
"It's a little premature to be talking about it in much detail other than to say we have been working on upgrading the interior for some number of months and we now have a plan to present," said David Frey, co-chair of Grand Action.
"With everything around DeVos Performance Hall virtually new, including the new lobby, it needs to be updated so it's contemporary in its look and its feel and will be comfortable, attractive and competitive with other venues."
Frey said Grand Action Committee members and private donors who have a "key interest" in DeVos Performance Hall have worked to raise funds for its interior renovation, estimated at under $10 million.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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Frey declined to name names of donors until a funding package is finalized.
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The committee has had a vision for the performance hall and has been working for the past year with Progressive AE on interior redesign of the facility.
"We have had to change some things around and, in fact, we had to downscale it somewhat because we didn't want to ask anybody but private donors to help support it."
The interior would not be taken down to its skeleton, Frey noted.
Work would focus on maintaining the hall's current acoustics and improving aesthetics and "other aspects of the total experience," to make it a more contemporary and enjoyable experience, he said.
Some improvements will be made out of the facility's normal budget for capital improvements, Frey observed, but the Grand Action Committee's focus will be on improvements that can't be covered by the normal budgetary process.
"I think you'll be excited, enthusiastic and appreciative of the efforts being made very quietly with a relatively small group of donors who want DeVos Hall to | 205 |
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Serena Williams and Andy Murray advance on US Open day two
Serena Williams' quest for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam got off the mark as Andy Murray rolled back the years with a vintage comeback at the US Open Tuesday.
Six-time winner Williams powered past 96th-ranked Kristie Ahn after Murray came from two sets down to win a five-set thriller in his first singles Slam match in 18 months.
US Open day two
The pair both progressed to the second round on day two of a US Open that is unrecognizable from previous tournaments, without spectators and with stringent measures to prevent Covid-19 infections.
Williams defeated Ahn 7-5, 6-3 as she started the latest bid of her protracted pursuit to match Margaret Court's Grand Slam title with a straight-sets win at Flushing Meadows.
The 38-year-old overcame the loss of her first service game in the opening set to advance at a virtually empty Arthur Ashe Stadium, where artwork by black artists is displayed in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement against racial injustice.
"I was really happy with how I just fought for every point no matter how I was playing," said Williams.
It has been more than three years since Williams won her 23rd Grand Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open — when she was already pregnant with daughter Olympia.
She has come close since, reaching four major finals only to come away empty-handed, but should have a better chance this time around with several top players absent because of coronavirus concerns or injury.
World number one Ashleigh Barty, the second-ranked Simona Halep and Canadian Bianca Andreescu — who stunned Williams in last year's final — are all absent from the behind-closed-doors tournament.
A title win for Williams would also see her become the most decorated women's player at the US Open in the modern era. She is currently tied with Chris Evert on six.
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Murray secured a stunning 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 come-from-behind victory in a bruising 4 hr and 39 min encounter against Japan's 49th-ranked Yoshihito Nishioka.
The Scotsman, who who has barely played in 2020, said he had learnt a lot about his physical condition and the metal hip he received during surgery last year.
"I've just played a four-and-a-half hour match<|fim_middle|>, was beaten in the first round for the first time in her glittering career by Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic.
Muchova, the 20th seed, had too much poise for Williams en route to a 6-3, 7-5 win.
While Venus knows that time is running out on her career at the top level — she has not gone further than the third round at a Slam event since 2017 — she insisted afterwards that she plans to continue playing, starting with this month's French Open at Roland Garros.
"I love this game," Venus said. "I'm good at what I do. It's easy to stay motivated and excited about doing something so amazing. Not many people get to do this.
"But I look forward to a few days off. It's been a lot of work. Looking forward to just having a little bit of a rest before the clay courts."
Belgium's Clijsters meanwhile, making the second comeback of her career and her first appearance at a Grand Slam since 2012, raised hopes of an upset after taking the first set of her match with Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova.
The 37-year-old three-time US Open champion ran out of steam though as Alexandrova, seeded 21, completed a 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 win.
This year's women's field in New York is more open than ever with world number one Ashleigh Barty, the second-ranked Simona Halep and defending champion Bianca Andreescu all electing to skip the tournament.
One of the leading contenders for the title, second seed Sofia Kenin of the United States, got off the mark with a 6-2, 6-2 win over unseeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium.
The 21-year-old, who won an emotional maiden Grand Slam title at this year's Australian Open, later revealed she had cried to herself before the match in order to alleviate stress.
"Crying. That's what I did. I mean, I had to let it out," Kenin said. "It's fine. It worked."
Kenin will play Canada's Leylah Fernandez in the second round. Fernandez opened her campaign with a 6-4, 7-5, win over Vera Zvonareva on Tuesday.
Ninth seed Jo Konta meanwhile won the 'Battle of Britain' against compatriot Heather Watson, winning 7-6 (9/7), 6-1.
"There's always going to be rivalry between compatriots," Konta said. "It's always going to be that extra stressful.
"There's always going to be an element of people having more judgments and more of an opinion on the outside at home on a match like today," added Konta, who will play Romania's Sorana Cirstea in the second round.
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"I'm not sitting here with my hip throbbing and aching. I'll be able to sleep fine tonight," Murray added.
Tenth seed Garbine Muguruza, the 2016 French Open champion and 2017 Wimbledon winner, advanced to round two with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Japan's Nao Havino.
She dedicated the win to compatriot Carla Suarez Navarro, who revealed Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and will require six months of chemotherapy.
"You know, she's such a nice woman, so sweet, so kind, so humble. When these things happen to these good people, I feel, like, so sad about it," said Muguruza.
Also in the women's draw, second seed American Sofia Kenin needed just over an hour to score a 6-2, 6-2 win over unseeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
And ninth seed Johanna Konta beat compatriot Heather Watson 7-6 (9/7), 6-1 in a tie dubbed the "Battle of Britain."
There was disappointment for 40-year-old Venus Williams though who bowed out in the first round for the first time in her career, losing in straight sets to Karolina Muchova.
Another veteran, Belgium's 37-year-old Kim Clijsters, also fell at the first hurdle.
Clijsters making a comeback for the second time in her career and playing in her first Grand Slam draw since 2012, was beaten in three sets by Ekaterina Alexandrova, losing 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.
Thiem advances
In the men's competition, number two seed Dominic Thiem progressed to round two when opponent Jaume Munar retired after the second set at Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Munar abandoned before the start of the third set, with Austria's Thiem leading 7-6 (8/6), 6-3.
Thiem now faces India's Sumit Nagal, who became the first Indian man since 2013 to the reach the second round of a Grand Slam event with a 6-1, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 win over Bradley Klahn of the United States.
The US Open is taking place in a spectator-free bubble at the US National Tennis Center in New York.
Players movements are tightly controlled and everyone onsite is being tested regularly to minimize the risk of infection.
Argentina's Guido Pella accused tennis chiefs of operating a double-standard over the handling of French player Benoit Paire's positive COVID-19 case.
Paire was withdrawn on Sunday but several French players who had been in contact with him were allowed to remain in the tournament under enhanced safety protocols.
Pella was excluded from last week's Western & Southern Open, a US Open tuneup, despite testing negative after his trainer contracted the virus.
"I am mad at them because of that, because they change the rules when Benoit tested positive. So I want to know why," he said after being knocked out in the first round.
Venus and Kim Clijsters out on US Open day two
Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters bowed out of the US Open at the first hurdle on Tuesday as seeded players dominated the women's draw for a second straight day.
Hours after younger sister Serena had battled into the second round, Venus, 40, was back in the spotlight in what was an incredible 22nd US Open appearance.
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The making of Martin Luther
Rex, Richard
Editorial: Princeton University Press
Lugar de la edición: New Jersey. Estados Unidos de<|fim_middle|> the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German university developed a startling new interpretation of the Christian faith that brought to an end the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe. Luther's personal psychology and cultural context played their parts in the whirlwind of change he unleashed. But for the man himself, it was always about the ideas, the truth, and the Gospel.
Focusing on the most intensely important years of Luther's career, Rex teases out the threads of his often paradoxical and counterintuitive ideas from the tangled thickets of his writings, explaining their significance, their interconnections, and the astonishing appeal they so rapidly developed. Yet Rex also sets these ideas firmly in the context of Luther's personal life, the cultural landscape that shaped him, and the traditions of medieval Catholic thought from which his ideas burst forth.
Lucidly argued and elegantly written, The Making of Martin Luther is a splendid work of intellectual history that renders Luther's earthshaking yet sometimes challenging ideas accessible to a new generation of readers. | Norteamérica
A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's career
The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of | 43 |
Shaun will be guest at the BIG Sheep Grand National
Published: 11:03 AM April 8, 2010 Updated: 4:02 PM November 7, 2020
SHAUN the Sheep will be the celebrity guest at Saturday s Grand National Sheepstakes at the BIG Sheep family attraction just outside Bideford. The wacky race, featuring six of the region s top show jumping sheep will start at 3.50pm and Shaun will be the
SHAUN the Sheep will be the celebrity guest at Saturday's Grand National Sheepstakes at the BIG Sheep family attraction just outside Bideford.
The wacky race, featuring six of the region's top show jumping sheep will start at 3.50pm and Shaun will be the starter. Visitors will be able to place bets on their favourites.
Shaun, who first appeared on TV in 19<|fim_middle|>, sharing inside betting tips with visitors.
Claire Payne marketing executive at the BIG Sheep said: "I'm hugely excited about meeting the real Shaun the Sheep and giving him a great big hug! My nephews, who are two and five years old think I'm the best Auntie ever for welcoming Shaun to the BIG Sheep and I'm sure many other children will be keen to meet him in person and see how friendly and cute he is in real life!"
The BIG Sheep team are hoping that the sixracing sheep will not be too star-struck when they see Shaun from Tattersall's Enclosure where he will start the race from.
Rick Turner, director of the BIG Sheep team, said: "Our six racing sheep have been in training all winter and take the race extremely seriously. Each sheep strives for first place, so we're hoping that when they run down the track through Shepherd's Brook, round the Ewe Turn and see Shaun the Sheep cheering them on they will not freeze with the shock of seeing their idol! | 95, will be helping "Honest Joe," the BIG Sheep bookie | 16 |
Patna, Nov 26 (IANS) Cheered by tens of thousands of supporters, Janata Dal-United<|fim_middle|> had come from far off places to attend the event. Thousands came from Nalanda, Nitish Kumar's home district, packed in jeeps, cars and buses.
Many people, who couldn't enter the ground, climbed the trees around or took up vantage spots on nearby buildings to watch Nitish Kumar become the chief minister again of India's third most populous state with 83 million people.
"We have made elaborate arrangements for the function and deployed over 4,000 security personnel in and around Gandhi Maidan," Patna district magistrate Jitendra Kumar Sinha said.
In 2005 too, Nitish Kumar had taken oath at the same venue. He had been chief minister for just seven days in 2000.
Lalu Prasad had been sworn in at Gandhi Maidan March 10, 1990, and some say at that time too the venue was chosen by Nitish Kumar, who was then very close to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader.
For the NDA, the day is particularly significant as it has returned to power for a second term by sweeping the polls. The JD-U won 115 seats and the BJP 91 seats in the 243-member house in the assembly polls held Oct 21-Nov 20.
Earlier, Nitish Kumar was unanimously elected leader of the NDA legislature party - comprising legislators of his JD-U and the BJP.
He along with other NDA leaders met Governor Debananda Konwar and handed over letters of support from the newly-elected legislators of the alliance. | (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar Friday took oath as Bihar chief minister for a second consecutive term after an unprecedented win in the assembly polls. He became the 32nd chief minister of the state.
As a sea of supporters waved party flags and raised slogans, Governor Debanand Konwar administered the oath of office and secrecy to Nitish Kumar on a flower-decked platform at the Gandhi Maidan. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushil Kumar Modi was sworn in as the deputy chief minister.
Twenty-eight legislators also took oath as ministers. The allocation of portfolios would be announced later.
Nitish Kumar and Modi will head a government of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that crushed Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party in the polls to the 243-member legislative assembly.
According to official sources, a 30-member council of ministers including Nitish Kumar and Modi - 18 from the JD-U and 12 from the BJP — was also sworn in.
Every nook and corner of the main open ground of the city was filled with people, many of whom | 250 |
Poplar designer to the stars launches clothing accessory
Janine Rasiah
Published: 9:51 AM April 11, 2014 Updated: 9:40 AM December 1, 2020
Lawrence Goldberg and Lorna Onabanjo at the Clustar launch - Credit: Archant
What do Shirley Bassey and choreographer Ashley Banjo have in common?
The answer lies here in Poplar with designer Lawrence Goldberg who has designed clothes for the pop superstar and has had his items modelled by the choreographer when he was a child.
But Lawrence, who splits his time between his flat in<|fim_middle|> left school as a teenager.
After studying at the London College of Fashion, he initially worked at Polly Peck as an assistant pattern cutter, before joining a bridalwear company - and then decided to go it alone as a freelance designer in the Eighties.
"I felt like I had completed the whole circle of fashion, from making skirts to creating wedding dresses which was great," he said. "I thought then that the time had come to start out on my own."
Since then his clothing has gone from strength to strength, with highlights inclduing HRH Princess Soamsawali of Thailand presenting him with a designer of the year award at a charity gala last year.
For more information about the CluStar band visit clustar.co.uk | Morant Street and his studio in Thailand, insists that he likes nothing better than designing for "normal people", many of whom he has worked with for decades.
"I have become like a family designer and I now make clothes for the children of clients that I have worked with for years," he said. "My clients are like friends and family and it's almost like I'm a hairdresser because people talk to me and you build up such a rapport."
Lawrence was speaking at the launch of a collaboration between his brand Corblimey and accessory brand CluStar, founded by his friend Lorna Onabanjo, who he has helped to develop a band which can be attached to clothes to customise them.
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Sufjan Stevens: Concert Review
Brian Boylen | Thursday, August 25, 2016
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The sun was fading and a double rainbow laid hung over the stage. It was as if the weather itself was foretelling the childlike joy and excitement I was about to experience. The venue was the Red Rocks Amphitheatre located just outside of Denver and the artist was Sufjan Stevens, a musician lauded for his use of varying musical styles from album to album. Yet just as diverse as his sound was the crowd. A wide range of people spanning from young hipsters to middle aged moms and elderly men were all in attendance. This microcosm of distinct American personalities was united by one thing alone, desire to see the ever-interesting Sufjan Stevens.
The craziness of the impending concert was made immediately apparent by Sufjan's choice of attire. He mounted the stage wearing a brightly colored jacket adorned with folded white wings on the back. Not surprisingly, Sufjan immediately began to play "Seven Swans," an old acoustic indie-folk favorite among many fans. However, the live version turned out to be a completely different animal from the studio version. Utilizing his backing band in full force, "Seven Swans" sounded magnificent and grand, and was led by booming percussion. As the song climaxed, Sufjan's wings extended, giving him an angelic appearance as he was bathed in a white light.
The concert was not just an auditory experience but a visual one as well. Every song was accompanied by different lighting arrangements and images on the giant screen behind the stage, changing just as often as Sufjan's flamboyant outfits. For instance, on the song "Fourth of July" fireworks slowly exploded in the background as a neon-clad Sufjan sang slowly into the microphone. The very atmosphere seemed to be part of the show, with the Denver skyline slowly fading into a dark black, pierced only by the occasional flash of lightning in the distance.
As was hinted by Sufjan's electric performance of "Seven Swans," the concert was not a calm nor low energy show<|fim_middle|>My favorite part of the show was when Sufjan performed his 25 minute epic "Impossible Soul" in the grandiose fashion that such a beast of a song requires. As the song shifted from segment to segment so did Sufjan's utterly fascinating wardrobe. He began the song in the neon garb he had been wearing all show before switching into a giant, metallic costume. Perhaps this was a reference to the Tin Man from the "Wizard of Oz," whose lack of heart may be how Sufjan feels, as is hinted by the line "With a broken heart that you stabbed for an hour." Or, perhaps, it was just another manifestation of Sufjan's quirky sense of humor. As the song moved along into a more upbeat segment, the audience was graced by another switch in costumes, this time a bright and fun outfit covered in all colors of balloons. Soon after the wardrobe change, several inflatable, dancing tube people popped up on the back of the stage to the laughter of many in the audience.
After he was done performing, Sufjan walked off stage to the thunderous applause of the crowd. The clapping persisted for quite a few minutes before Sufjan returned to the stage, this time wearing normal clothes – no neon to be found. He played some of his more popular quiet songs during the encore, such as "Casimir Pulaski Day" and "To Be Alone With You." Unlike during the concert proper, he stayed true to how the songs sound on record and opted not to liven them up with the band. Ending on these subdued and relaxing songs provided a cathartic end to the show, this time for good.
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Commencement 2019: Four Years in Review | . This was a stark contrast to his last tour in which he primarily played songs from the somber album he had just released, 2015's "Carrie and Lowell." This tour fittingly boasted more of a festival-appropriate vibe; Sufjan had just performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival a few days prior. He played songs from every stage in his career but drew most heavily from his electronic and vibrant record, "The Age of Adz," released back in 2010. Songs such as "Vesuvius" and "Too Much" made for incredibly fun performances and were certainly complemented by the outrageous costumes and psychedelic visuals on the big screen. Even gloomier songs off of "Carrie and Lowell" were stimulating, largely due to the full sound that was brought by the bands drums and bass. This is not to say that the somber essence of the sadder songs was lost so much as balanced with more high energy selections.
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August is the month annually that the TPS Foundation embarks on an employee capital campaign. This year in addition to the regular employee campaign, the Foundation is placing an emphasis on raising dollars to support a new Foundation fund, Bridges To The Future.
Bridges To The Future provides grants to qualified students served by the TPS Migrant Education Program to reduce the financial burden of attending the Washburn Technical Education program while still in high school.
For the first time the Foundation set up a booth at the TPS employee benefits fair to<|fim_middle|> Nook e-reader was offered in a drawing. The lucky winner was Dee Ann Seelbach an elementary teacher at Ross. Pamela Johnson Betts, Foundation Executive Director and Bonnie Robles, Foundation Board member recently made the presentation to the teacher in her classroom. | increase employee awareness of the benefits the Foundation provides to the District and to solicit additional employee contributions.
Left to right: Pamela Johnson-Betts, Dee Ann Seelbach and Bonnie Robles.
As part of the fun, a | 46 |
Good music involves peaks and valleys, taking the listener to the mountaintop one-minute, and back down to the valley the next. Emotionally and dynamically no contemporary<|fim_middle|> relieve me from myself, bring me into you..." One of the discs most interesting and memorable tunes was written by Shawn Colvin, a ditty called "Diamond In The Rough." The song builds to a climatic peak with dc Talks guitarist Mark Townsend riffing his acoustic as though he were Allman Brother Dicky Betts. Lay It Down, is a triumph for Jennifer Knapp, she wears the hat of a multi-talented lyricist, songwriter, and vocalist very well. | Christian woman does it like Jennifer Knapp. On her second release Lay It Down, Knapp shows the kind of artistic growth expected from a seasoned veteran. One minute it's Carole King in a coffe shop courtesy of "A Little More," The next you're tapping your toe to a snappy Sheryl Crow vibe on "Lay It Down." This disc is rich in texture and lyrically passionate. Knapp has always recognized her own inadequacies, ala her first hit "Undo Me." This time around the tune "Into Me," serves up another humble lyrical reflection. "I wanna know you, better then I do, | 131 |
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Clubs wishing to register new players must give 24 HOURS' NOTICE to the Match Secretary, by way of Text, Telephone Call or email to the League Email address - manchestertennisresults@gmail.com and must receive confirmation. See 'Player Registration' under League Rules for more details. | 2 Mixed Divisions with a total of 18 teams and one Junior Division with 4 teams.
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LEGO convention assembles its way to New Orleans
Paul Hetherington created a Mardi Gras set completely out of LEGO pieces. Photo credit: Andres Fuentes
Andres Fuentes
Brick by brick and piece by piece, BrickUniverse has built its weekend-home from Feb. 2 through Feb. 3 at the Pontchartrain Center, marking the first-ever LEGO convention in Louisiana.
Combining both LEGO artists and vendors, the convention seeks out to spark inspiration and creativity for all ages with some assembly required.
From play areas to LEGO exhibits, the event has already created a buzz in the local area, according to BrickUniverse Organizer Greyson Beights.
"We are excited to be here," Beights said. "We already<|fim_middle|> dispaly at BrickUniverse.
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Cafe Luna curates hip monthly art market | sold out Saturday and we are selling out Sunday. There are a lot of LEGO fans in the area. We like to come to cities where there's a need, and there's certainly a need for this type of event here in New Orleans."
With its first-ever toy brick-based convention, New Orleans will welcome five LEGO artists and their pieces for the weekend, giving the city a chance to be up close and personal with the trending art form.
"I am an artist and it happens to be that the medium I choose to work in is LEGO bricks," Jonathan Lopes said. "I assimilate LEGO as the medium like paint is to a painter or clay would be for a sculptor."
Lopes has been an avid fan of LEGO since he was a child, but he credits his LEGO artistry career to a Star Wars X-Wing set that he bought back in 1998.
"The creativity was sparked in my head," he said. "Slowly over time, over 20 years, I've turned it into a creative business for the past eight years now."
Lopes has grown to create LEGO pieces for galleries, finding inspiration anywhere from the New York architecture to the fictional characters that are featured in his wife's children's books.
"It was not planned. I just found myself really enjoying the feel of (LEGO) and trying to push the limit and stretch myself as a LEGO builder and creator. So the fact that it turned into a full-on artistic median and a business for me, it kind of just happened naturally."
Paul Hetherington shares a similar view, being an artist with the material for 15 years.
"LEGO allows me to express myself and get all the thoughts in my head into a three-dimensional form," Hetherington said.
Hetherington travels to New Orleans with his award-winning model sets, one of which is themed to a Mardi Gras parade in the French Quarter.
"It's such a vibrant scene," he said. "There's so much life in Mardi Gras that I thought it would be perfect to recreate in LEGO."
Despite never attending Mardi Gras, Hetherington searched through photos andbooks to accurately capture the carnival spirit.
"I think my Mardi Gras is pretty close," he said. "People like it when there's a local element to relate to. Personally, I'm really excited to bring this model to New Orleans. I think the only thing missing is the beads."
Aside from the artists, vendors will also be present, selling rare LEGO pieces and sets.
Doug Davis from itsablockparty.com will be among the eight vendors at the convention.
"We pack and unpack a ton of cool, rare, hard-to-find things," Davis said. "I'm a reformed hoarder. About seven years ago, we started selling and I had a huge backstock of (LEGO sets) that were old and retired already."
With a love of the bricks dating as far back as three-years-old, the 48-year-old vendor enjoys selling and trading mini figures, sets and pieces across four different events each year.
The two-day event will hope to bring about a new perception of LEGO.
"A lot of people view it as a children's toy. but adults and children are stretching the limit of what can be done with LEGO. It's basically a toy that people are using to create some very unique people," Lopes said.
Beights hopes that the attendees will see what he sees in the colorful bricks.
"We are trying to inspire," he said. "Any day that a kid is building LEGO and away from a video game, away from a tv screen, is a win for their future and I think our future as well."
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Job Description I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: GW's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) provides leading edge programs in electrical and computer engineering in order to provide leadership in a rapidly evolving global information society in the service of humanity and to advance the state of knowledge in our disciplines by actively pursuing scholarly research for publication and dissemination. Under direct guidance of the Department Operations Lead, the Department Operations Assistant will support the department's student and faculty population. This...
Executive Director of Development, GSEHD and CPS
The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) Division is seeking an Executive Director of Development to oversees the fundraising operations of two of its graduate schools, the Graduate School of Education and Human...
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The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) Division is seeking an Executive Director of Development to oversees the fundraising operations of two of its graduate schools, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and College of Professional Studies. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients and other friends. Our goal is to advance GWs...
Senior Associate Director, Constituent Engagement
# I. JOB OVERVIEW ## Job Description Summary The Sr. Associate Director, Constituent Engagement is a key team member for the George Washington University Division of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) and the George Washington School of...
# I. JOB OVERVIEW ## Job Description Summary The Sr. Associate Director, Constituent Engagement is a key team member for the George Washington University Division of Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) and the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). DAR is responsible for leading the university's fundraising and alumni engagement efforts. SMHS is the 11th oldest medical school in the country and the first in the nation's capital. Since its establishment, the school has been at the forefront of medical education, and has grown to include highly-ranked programs in...
Public Relations Specialists
Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position. Minimum Qualifications: Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree...
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Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position. Minimum Qualifications: Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization plus 8 years of relevant professional experience, or, a Master's degree or higher in a relevant area of study plus 6 years of relevant professional experience. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position. Degree requirements may be substituted with an equivalent combination of education,...
Manager, Clinical Education Program, BLS
I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The Biomedical Laboratory Sciences ( BLS ) Department of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences ( SMHS ) is currently seeking a Manager, Clinical Education Program for its...
I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The Biomedical Laboratory Sciences ( BLS ) Department of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences ( SMHS ) is currently seeking a Manager, Clinical Education Program for its Laboratory Sciences programs. Responsibilities include providing leadership in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the MLS Program's clinical education program and supervised clinical practice experiences, as well as supervision and management of the clinical coordinators within BLS . The Manager, Clinical Education Program works closely...
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Associate Director, Young Alumni Engagement
# I. JOB OVERVIEW ## Job Description Summary The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) Division is seeking an Associate Director, Young Alumni Engagement. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and...
# I. JOB OVERVIEW ## Job Description Summary The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations (DAR) Division is seeking an Associate Director, Young Alumni Engagement. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients and other friends. Our goal is to advance GWs mission of excellence in education, research, scholarship, and patient care. This experienced position devises...
Director, Foundation Relations
Description The Division of Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) at the George Washington University (GW) seeks a Director, Foundation Relations. This position focuses on a portfolio of foundation prospects in support of GW's School of Medicine...
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Description The Division of Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) at the George Washington University (GW) seeks a Director, Foundation Relations. This position focuses on a portfolio of foundation prospects in support of GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences. DAR is responsible for leading the university's fundraising and alumni engagement efforts. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is the 11th oldest medical school in the country and the first in the nation's capital. The school is at the forefront of medical education, and has grown to include highly-ranked programs in the...
Associate Director, Alumni Relations
The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) Division is seeking an Associate Director, Alumni Relations. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of...
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The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) Division is seeking an Associate Director, Alumni Relations. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients and other friends. Our goal is to advance GWs mission of excellence in education, research, scholarship, and patient care. This experienced position devises strategies and develops opportunities to build and...
Associate Director of Development, GWSB
The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) Division is seeking an Associate Director of Development. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of...
The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations ( DAR ) Division is seeking an Associate Director of Development. DAR is responsible for leading the university's alumni and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients and other friends. Our goal is to advance GWs mission of excellence in education, research, scholarship, and patient care. This experienced position will engage with a portfolio of approximately 120 prospects in...
Job Description I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The George Washington University is the largest university in the Nation's Capital and is located in the heart of Washington DC. Located just four blocks from the White House, GWU is at the...
Job Description I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The George Washington University is the largest university in the Nation's Capital and is located in the heart of Washington DC. Located just four blocks from the White House, GWU is at the center of U.S. government, policy and law. This location provides an unparalleled opportunity to study, teach and learn among leaders and practitioners in every discipline, taking part in work that shapes the local DC community, the nation, and the world. This position will report to the Director of Administration. The Office of the President (OTP)...
Program Assistant, MIPP Online
Job Description I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The Elliott School of International Affairs' Online Mid-Career Program, the Master of International Policy and Practice (MIPP) Online seeks a Program Assistant that serves as a liaison to...
Job Description I. JOB OVERVIEW Job Description Summary: The Elliott School of International Affairs' Online Mid-Career Program, the Master of International Policy and Practice (MIPP) Online seeks a Program Assistant that serves as a liaison to various departments in all of the MIPP Online program's activities. This includes programming, event planning, and some minor student advising. The purpose of this entry level position is to provide basic administrative support to and on behalf of an academic program or initiative. This role will serve as a first point of contact, will answer routine...
Department Operations Assistant ECE
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The proposed bridge over the River Croal
GALLERY | Muse and AEW showcase Bolton's Church Wharf
Charlie Schouten
The developer and architect revealed the full proposals for their £150m Church Wharf project in the town centre at two consultation events last week, promising a placemaking and public realm-focussed approach to the underused and largely derelict site.
Muse and AEW first outlined proposals for the site earlier this month and outlined their vision at the two consultation events, held in Bolton's Crompton Place shopping centre on Friday and Saturday last week.
See below for gallery
Currently at the pre-application stage, the plans feature a residential-led mixed use development including around 320 homes as well as the potential for a hotel, offices, and ground-floor retail and commercial space. There will be a mix of one, two, and three-bed flats along with duplexes and townhouses.
Public realm is core to the proposals with a riverside terrace and park proposed around the existing United Utilities pumping station, while a fully-accessible corten-steel footbridge linking Bank Street with the site is also being put forward. The river park will feature steps down to the Croal, making the river an active part of the site.
Phil Hepworth, architect at AEW, said the vision for the site was to rediscover what had become a "lost part" of the town centre.
"The site at the moment backs on to the river, and people don't know it's there, so that will become the focal point for the site, as will the churches," he said.
"The public realm is the first thing to happen which will be funded by the council as part of their wider aspirations for Bolton. We will create a new river walk that will link Church Gate up to Bank Street.
"The idea of the site is to create these views of the two churches, and it's very much pedestrian focussed; we're trying to get cars out and create spaces that people will use, and areas where we can encourage leisure uses."
The first building to be brought forward is an apartment block fronting Bank Street, currently home to a derelict row of shops and nightclubs; a planning application for this is likely to come forward later this year, following the application for the wider site, which is being brought forward as a hybrid application.
Asked why the site was being brought forward as an outline application, Hepworth said: "It's an unknown market. It's a big site, potentially 10-11 years from now to when's it completed, so actually trying to say we know what the last building will be by then, doesn't really work.
"The great thing about the outline application is that it gives us the flexibility to respond to what the market needs."
The project's timescale is not yet set in stone with Muse not committing to a start on site. Discussions over how to procure the construction contract are still ongoing although the infrastructure, remediation and enabling works packages are likely to be procured by the council.
The whole site has a construction value of around £150m and is likely to create around 130 jobs during the construction phase. The site clearance is expected to cost around £10m and is being funded by the council.
According to the project team, public feedback from the consultation has been largely positive with the majority of those who attended signalling their support for regenerating the derelict site, which is largely used as surface car parking.
The professional team on the project features landscape architect CW Studio; planning consultant DPP; quantity surveyor Abacus; WSP on highways; and Scott Hughes Design as civil and structural engineer.
The bridge, with the first building to the right
The proposed hotel
Opening up the river is a focus for the scheme
Another of the proposed residential buildings
A greatly needed new development for Bolton town centre.
January 28, 2019 at 2: | 812 |
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The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835
Recollections of departed excellence are always pleasant, often deeply interesting, and sometimes productive of the happiest effects. The delight we feel in tracing the successive stages of that pilgrimage by which the saints of the Most High have "passed into the skies," is neither a faint nor fruitless emotion, but a healthful exercise of the moral sympathies. It purifies,<|fim_middle|> necessity for the elevation of the depressed millions with whom they are intermingled. The Southern tragedies of murder and violence... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898
We look forward to the fifty-second anniversary of the American Missionary Association to be held at Concord, N. H., October 25-27, with exceptional interest. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Doctor George A. Gordon. Distinguished speakers add to the interest of the meetings. Missionaries from the field will present the varied features of their work among the Indians, mountain people and the colored people of the South. The woman's meeting on... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2, June, 1898
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The outlook for the American Missionary Association while hopeful, yet appeals most earnestly for increased contributions. The debt has been steadily reduced. At the Annual Meeting in 1895, it was reported to be $96,147. At the Annual Meeting in 1896 it was $66,572. At the last Annual Meeting it was $54,945, and now at the close of eight months of this fiscal year, May 31st, it is $39,527—a reduction from the... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, NOW A QUARTERLY. Some of our friends write us, saying that they do not receive the "American Missionary" regularly. Perhaps these friends have not noticed the announcement that our magazine is now a quarterly and not a monthly. The last number was issued December, 1897, and this number will appear March, 1898. LIST OF FIELD WORKERS. We publish in this number of the magazine the annual list of our Field Workers. We... more... | while it elicits; the affections of the heart. As we trace... more...
The American Missionary-Volume 39, No. 07, July, 1885
American Missionary Vol. XXXIX. JULY, 1885. No. 7. American Missionary Association. $365,000NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR. Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the pressing needs of the early future.— [Finance Committee's Report Adopted by Annual Meeting... more...
The American Missionary-Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885
The receipts published in this number bring us to the end of the first three months of our fiscal year. The summary given above shows how we stand as compared with last year. Total compared with total, we are behind. May we not, however, hope that the turning-point will soon be reached, and that all through the rest of the year it shall be our privilege to chronicle a steady increase? We are out in the current of our work. We cannot turn back.... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 54, No. 3, October, 1900
ANNUAL MEETING. Place. Springfield, Mass., is not only one of the most beautiful cities in New England, but is especially adapted for a great convention like the Fifty-fourth Annual gathering of the American Missionary Association. With cordial hospitality the members of the churches and citizens of Springfield have opened their homes and hearts to welcome the delegates, life members, officers and missionaries who gather for this meeting... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900
The receipts are $237,141.25, exclusive of Reserve Legacy Account, an increase of $24,922,63 compared with last year. There has been an increase of $15,751.36 in donations, $5,800.96 in estates, $852,26 in income and $2,518.05 in tuition. The expenditures are $249,148.75, an increase of $21,699.95 compared with last year. The debt showing June 30th, this year, is $12,007.50—last year at the same time $15,230.18. We appeal to churches,... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 54, No. 2, April, 1900
The first six months of the present fiscal year of the American Missionary Association closed March 31st. The receipts are $18,961.74 more than for the same period last year. The increase in donations is $10,699, and in estates $6,433.24, exclusive of the reserve legacy account. The tuition and similar receipts are $1,829.49 more than last year. This is a favorable and encouraging showing. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the friends... more...
The American Missionary - Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900
THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH. It is encouraging to note the signs of progress at the South towards meeting the heavy responsibilities of the situation. It is a mistake to imagine that the Southern situation does not improve from year to year. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, appreciate the trend of events and the | 797 |
Contouring has been a huge makeup trend over the past few years, with the likes of the Kardashians and Beyonce rocking super sharp faux-cheekbones. However, it's super easy to end up with less of a shapely contour and more of a terracota line down your cheek.
Soap & Glory have launched a super cute little 3 in 1 contour kit designed to make the whole process a lot easier, which I decided to put to the test.
Darker shade to add definition in the hollows of the cheeks, along the hairline and under the jaw bone.
A highlight shade to lift and add light to under the eyes/tops of cheekbones and forehead.
Blush shade to add a flush of healthy colour and glow.
The compact comes with a small leaflet which has pictures and guidance of where to apply all the colours which would be fantastic for beginners!
I use the shade "Fair's Fair" however in all honesty the contour colour would still be fantastic for medium skin tones also.
Contour, blush and highlight shades on my fair skin.
I simply apply the products with my fingers, and then use a beauty blender to blend them out.
The contour colour is great as its not too warm yet not too cool. Its super blendable which makes it hard to go wrong with it, and it can be built up easily. The blush shade has actually become my firm favourite from the compact for adding a super healthy flush to my cheeks on a day to day basis. I was a bit sceptical about the highlight shade as I usually reach for a super shimmery shade however I did like the brightness this added to my skin.
Overall, I'm really impressed with the contour kit. Ive never tried a whole cream kit like this before from the drugstore and for the pricepoint I think it is great. As it's so blendable, it's also great for everyday use!
If you fancy winning a full size The Mighty Contourer in "Fair's Fair" to try yourself, head over to my Instagram here to find out how!
You can buy The Mighty Contourer from Boots for £12.
What's your favourite contour product?
*Blog supported by Soap and Glory. All views are my own.
What The Puck's happening at Glasgow Caledonian University?
Hey everyone! I'm taking a little break from my usual blogging schedule to let you all know that Soap & Glory are heading back to campus tomorrow (Tuesday 25th April) to host a "Where the PUCK is he?" event. Grab your squad and head on down to campus to hunt down our glow in the dark pucks (we'll have hid hundreds of them!) to win some amazing Soap & Glory bath, body and beautystuffs!
If you're really eagle-eyed and find our shiny Golden puck, you could be in with the chance of winning a whole years supply of Soap & Glory!
I'll respond letting you know where our secret location on campus is, where you can then trade in your duck for some amazing Soap & Glory goodies!
Keep an eye on the event on the day to find out where our #wherethepuck stations are to come and collect your freebies, and some pretty in pink hints around where our lucrative golden pucks location.
*Featured image courtesy of our lovely friends at Soap&GloryUSA on Instagram. Blog supported by Soap & Glory, all views are my own.
One thing I absolutely love playing around with is new eyeshadow palettes. I mean, I definitely don't need anymore, but somehow I always manage to find space in my<|fim_middle|> 1/4 to deepen it up.
The key to smokey eyes is blend, blend, blend. It doesn't have to be a neat application as long as you blend it out. I use a Zoeva 231 and find it works a dream to blend the shadows out. I use the shade Cuddly Bare again to run over the crease and blend out the dark colour.
I then applied the Soap & Glory "Supercat" pen liner to create a wing. I used to be extremely loyal to this liner so already knew I really liked it. The liner nib is a nice size as it's not too thick or thin. Pen liners are by far my favourite as I find them easiest to control.
Finally, I coated my lashes in some of the "Thick and Fast" mascara to finish the look.
Overall, I'm really impressed with the pigment and performance of the eyeshadows considering they are only £13 for 10 shadows. The colours "Rich Tea" (a gorgeous shimmery gold) and "Pink-a-little" are also so so pretty for daytime use. The shadows last all day and don't budge.
Hope this tutorial was helpful! | drawer for yet another.
When I received the "Kick Into Neutral" palette from Soap & Glory, I was so excited as I already own one of their old quad palettes which I used to use to death. I've been using the palette to do an everyday light smokey eye, which I've been absolutely loving. If you're new to smokey eyes or just unsure on how to do them, the amazing Rosanna has a fantastic video here which is so easy to follow.
I applied the matte shade in "Cuddly Bare" in my crease as my transition shade. It's a really lovely cool toned brown which would do with pretty much any of the other colours in the palette. I then applied the shade "Bright Spark" on the inner 3/4 of my eye, and finally I used a flatter shadow brush to pack on the shade "Mice-tro" on the outer | 185 |
Our latest data shows that Russia spent $90,646,000,000 on their military in 2012 which amounted to 4.4% of the country's GDP that year. Check out the chart below for more Russian military budget data. We can only publish the past 12 years, but SIPRI has data as far back as 1988 on their site.
SIPRI Footnote: Figures are for the USSR from 1988-1990, and from Russia from 1992 onwards. No figure is available for 1991. For the sources and methods of the military expenditure figures for the USSR and Russia, see Cooper, J., 'The military expenditure of the USSR and the Russian Federation<|fim_middle|>icheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN), and Aerospace Defense Troops (Voyska Vozdushno-Kosmicheskoy Oborony or Voyska VKO) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the three branches; Russian Ground Forces include the following combat arms: motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and artillery troops, air defense of the ground troops.
18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; service obligation is 1 year (conscripts can only be sent to combat zones after 6 months of training); reserve obligation to age 50; enrollment in military schools from the age of 16, cadets classified as members of the armed forces. | , 1987–97', SIPRI Yearbook 1998: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1998), appendix 6D, pp. 243–59.
Ground Forces (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska, VDV), Strategic Rocket Forces (Raketnyye Voyska Strateg | 142 |
Many logical theories are incomplete, in the sense that non-trivial conclusions about particular situations cannot be derived from them using classical deduction. In this paper, we show how the ideas of interpolation and extrapolation, which are of crucial importance in many numerical domains, can be applied in symbolic settings to alleviate this issue in the case of propositional categorization rules. Our method is based on (mainly) qualitative descriptions of how different properties are conceptually related, where we identify conceptual relations between properties with spatial relations between regions in Gärdenfors conceptual spaces. The approach is centred around the view that categorization rules can often be seen as approximations of linear (or at least monotonic<|fim_middle|>.r.t. the proposed semantics. Finally, we show that the considered inference problems are PSPACE-hard in general, while implementations in polynomial time are possible under some relatively mild assumptions. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | ) mappings between conceptual spaces. We use this assumption to justify that whenever the antecedents of a number of rules stand in a relationship that is invariant under linear (or monotonic) transformations, their consequents should also stand in that relationship. A form of interpolative and extrapolative reasoning can then be obtained by applying this idea to the relations of betweenness and parallelism respectively. After discussing these ideas at the semantic level, we introduce a number of inference rules to characterize interpolative and extrapolative reasoning at the syntactic level, and show their soundness and completeness w | 115 |
Tesco launches Google Glass app as the wearable's momentum dies
by Drew Woolley |
As it tries to get its finances in order, Tesco (NASDAQ:TESO) has announced the launch of its Google Glass (NASDAQ:GOOG) shopping app, which has been in the works since June 2014.
Tesco Labs describes its Glass experience as a more basic version of the Grocery app already available on mobile devices. Users can browse products, look up nutritional information and add items to their online basket with some verbal commands and taps on their Glass eyewear, though in-store customers would still need to pay using the mobile app.
"Immediately, we thought about how our colleagues might be able to use Glass<|fim_middle|>iding with Google's announcement that it is tabling the Glass Explorer program for now. As of Jan. 19, Google was no longer selling Google Glass in its current form. That doesn't mean that Glass is gone for good, though. The Explorer program was initially an invitation-only beta test that was eventually opened to anyone willing to spend $1,500 on one of the devices. Google has said it will continue to support Glass and has plans for future versions of the wearable, but its current incarnation, and the one Tesco's app is designed for, is essentially dead in the water.
Coberly's comments suggest that Tesco views this launch as an experiment, though, and with broad acceptance of wearables still five to 10 years down the road, that's still very much how it should be approached. The retailer's labs can continue to become more comfortable with the new touch points and interactions a device like Glass introduces, and they can track how customers react to the system and how relevant it continues to be as the Internet of Things enters the mainstream.
It's also the kind of experimentation that large retailers will increasingly need to be willing to risk if they want to remain competitive. Tesco announced a £263 million miscalculation in its profits last year, which has led to the retailer shutting down its head office along with 43 stores in an attempt to save £250 million a year.
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-See this Tesco Labs blog post
-See this Wired UK story
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New CCO prepares Walmart for the future
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Whole Foods joins Prime Day; Tariffs hike consumer prices—roundup
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by Jacqueline Renfrow Jul 6, 2018 11:40am
Drew Woolley | to check stock hands-free, or how our customers might be able to add a product to their grocery delivery basket while making a cup of tea," Pablo Coberly, innovation engineer at Tesco Labs wrote in a blog post announcing work on the app back in June. "Getting to that stage has been a journey into entirely new areas of user interaction: new gestures, user interface elements, and input mechanisms."
The new app will surely add some slight convenience to the shopping experience for Tesco shoppers who own a Google Glass device when they find themselves needing to add a last-minute product to the shopping list and don't have a tablet or smartphone handy. But those users are a niche audience, as Glass's prohibitive price tag and general social awkwardness mean the wearables haven't exactly flown off shelves.
Tesco's announcement also had the misfortune of coinc | 172 |
When it's 90-plus in Boston, its 10 degrees cooler, especially on a bike by the ocean, in Falmouth.
EAST FALMOUTH -- It may have been in the 90s in Boston but down on the Cape, thanks to some brisk ocean breezes, temperatures were in the low to mid 80s Thursday for a plucky group of senior cyclists.
Gary Miller hosted the outing from his home, not too far from the Shining Sea Bikeway, and led a group of 19 cyclists on a 24 mile-ride over to and then along the bike path to Surf Drive by the ocean's edge, past Falmouth Harbor, over to Falmouth Heights and East Falmouth again along the route of the Cape Cod Marathon, and then back to his house along Old Barnstable and Currier roads.
I had not ridden the coast through the Heights and East Falmouth in years and it was stunning.
Members of the group brought delicious salads -- coleslaw, potato, Middle Eastern, fruit -- and desserts like blueberry crisp, cannoli, banana bread, pastries. Gary provided the beverages and other hospitality and Ed<|fim_middle|> the post-ride gathering a nice relaxed mood as he played a selection of music while people chilled out around Gary's lawn and decks.
Jerry has played the accordion since he was a youngster growing up in Dorchester. Now an attorney in Salem, he plays with Ronnie Cote and Pat Holland, also from Braintree, in a group called The Next Hurrah on St. Patrick's Day in a local pub and at other special events. Thank you Jerry for lugging along the accordion on a hot day and sharing your talent!
Thank you also to everyone who brought their good spirits, delicious and unusual salads and desserts, and shared the enjoyment of riding a bike on a beautiful summer day. And thanks to Rachel for organizing it.
The group included: Jerry and Cathy MacCurtain of Braintree, Nancy Moran of Weymouth, Martha Pirone of Wrentham, John Goldrosen of Whitman, Al Meserve of Raynham, Ed Fopiano and Moe Botelho both of Middleboro, Joanne Staniscia of Franklin, Rachael Thibeault of Brockton, Dan Egan of Plymouth, Debbie Lepore of Canton, Claire Braye of Brockton, Nancy Perlman of Canton, Richard Quindley, Barbara Levitov of Needham, Caroline Roy and Fred Baker of Scituate, and Paul Brookes of Boston. | Fopiano of Middleboro stepped up to the gas grille and served as chef, cooling the hamburgers, veggie burgers, chicken and hot dogs.
Jerry MacCurtain of Braintree added an unusually mellow element by bringing along his digital accordion. It gave | 54 |
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\section{Introduction}
Relativistic jets have been observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN)
and quasars (e.g., Urry \& Pavovani 1995; Ferrari 1998), in black hole
binaries (microquasars) (e.g., Mirabel \& Rodiriguez 1999), and are
also thought to be responsible for the jetted emission from gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs)(e.g., Zhang \& M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros 2004; Piran 2005;
M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros 2006). Proper motions observed in jets from microquasars
and AGNs imply jet speeds from $\sim 0.9 c$ up to $\sim 0.999 c$, and
Lorentz factors in excess of $\Gamma \sim$ 100 have been inferred for GRBs.
The acceleration mechanism(s) capable of boosting jets to such
highly-relativistic speeds has not yet been fully established.
The most promising mechanisms for producing relativistic jets
involve magnetohydrodynamic centrifugal acceleration and/or magnetic
pressure driven acceleration from the accretion disk around compact
objects (e.g., Blandford \& Payne 1982; Fukue 1990), or direct
extraction of rotational energy from a rotating black hole (e.g.,
Penrose 1969; Blandford \& Znajek 1977). Recent General Relativistic
Magneto-Hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of jet formation in the vicinity
of strong gravitational field sources, such as black holes or neutron
stars, show that jets can be produced and accelerated by the presence
of magnetic fields which are significantly amplified by the rotation
of the accretion disk and/or the frame-dragging of a rotating black hole
(e.g., Koide et al. 1999, 2000; Nishikawa et al. 2005; Mizuno et al. 2006b;
De Villiers et al. 2005; Hawley \& Krolik 2006; McKinney \& Gammie 2004;
McKinney 2006). The presence of strong magnetic fields is likely in areas
close to the formation and acceleration region of relativistic jets.
In the context of GRBs, standard scenarios invoke a
fireball that is accelerated by thermal pressure during the initial free
expansion phase (e.g., M\'esz\'aros et al. 1993; Piran et al. 1993).
Magnetic dissipation may occur during the expansion, and a fraction
of the dissipated energy may be used to further accelerate the fireball
(e.g., Drenkhahn \& Spruit 2002). Whether one considers the fate of the
collapsing core of a very massive star (Woosley 1993), or the merger of
a neutron star binary system (Paczynski 1986), the differentially rotating
disks that feed the newly born black hole are likely to amplify any present
seed field through magnetic braking and the magnetorotational instability
(MRI) proposed by Balbus $\&$ Hawley (1991, 1998). Numerical solutions of
the coupled Einstein-Maxwell-MHD equations (e.g., Stephens et al. 2006, and
references therein) confirm the expected growth of seed fields, even to the
point at which the fields become strong enough to be dynamically important.
Recently, Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006) investigated a potentially powerful
acceleration mechanism in the context of purely hydrodynamical flows,
posing a simple Riemann problem. If the jet is hotter and at much
higher pressure than a denser colder external medium, and moves with a
large velocity tangent to the interface, the relative motion of the
two fluids produces a hydrodynamical structure in the direction
perpendicular to the flow (normal to the interface), composed of a
``forward shock'' moving away from the jet axis, and a ``reverse
shock'' (or a rarefaction wave) moving toward the jet axis. Aloy \&
Rezzolla (2006) label this pattern either
$_{\leftarrow}SCS_{\rightarrow}$, or
$_{\leftarrow}RCS_{\rightarrow}$), where $_{\leftarrow}S$ refers to
the reverse shock, ($_{\leftarrow}R$ to the reverse rarefaction wave),
$S_{\rightarrow}$ to the forward shock, and $C$ to the contact
discontinuity between the two fluids. In the case
$_{\leftarrow}RCS_{\rightarrow}$, the rarefaction wave propagates into
the jet and the low pressure wave leads to strong acceleration of the
jet fluid into the ultrarelativistic regime in a narrow region near
the contact discontinuity. This hydrodynamical boosting mechanism is
very simple and powerful, but is likely to be modified by the effects
of magnetic fields present in the initial flow, or generated within
the shocked outflow.
Here, we investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the boost mechanism
proposed by Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006). We find that the presence of magnetic
fields in the jet can provide even more efficient acceleration of the jet
than possible in the pure-hydrodynamic case. The highly significant role
magnetic fields may play in accretion flows (e.g., Miller et al. 2006) and
in core-collapse supernovae (e.g., Woosley $\&$ Janka 2005) is perhaps echoed
in the collimated relativistic outflows from some compact stellar remnants.
\section{Numerical Method}
In order to study the magnetohydrodynamic boost mechanism for
relativistic jets, we use a 1-dimensional special relativistic MHD
(RMHD) version of the 3-dimensional GRMHD code ``RAISHIN'' in
Cartesian coordinates (Mizuno et al. 2006a). A detailed description of
the code and its verification can be found in Mizuno et al. (2006a).
In the simulations presented here we use the piecewise parabolic
method for reconstruction, the Harten, Lax, \& van Leer (HLL)
approximate Riemann solver (Harten et al. 1983), a flux constrained
transport scheme to keep the magnetiic fields divergence free
(To\'{t}h 2000), and Noble's 2D primitive variable inversion method
(Noble et al. 2006).
We consider the Riemann problem consisting of two uniform initial
states (a left- and a right state) with different and discontinuous
hydrodynamic properties specified by the rest-mass density $\rho$, the
gas pressure $p$, the specific internal energy $u$, the specific
enthalpy $h \equiv 1+ u/c^{2} + p/\rho c^{2}$, and with velocity
component $v^{t}=v^{z}$ (the jet-direction) tangent to the initial
discontinuity. We consider the right state (the medium external to the
jet) to be a ``colder" fluid with a large rest-mass density and
essentially at rest. Specifically, we select the following initial
conditions: $\rho_{R}=10^{-2} \rho_{0}$, $p_{R}=1.0 \rho_{0} c^{2}$,
$v^{n}_{R}=v^{x}_{R}=0.0$, and $v^{t}_{R} =v^{z}_{R}=0.0$, where
$\rho_{0}$ is an arbitrary normalization constant (our simulations are
scale-fee) and $c$ is the speed of light in vacuum, $c=1$. The left
state (jet region) is assumed to have lower density, higher
temperature and higher pressure than the colder, denser right state,
and to have a relativistic velocity tangent to the discontinuity
surface. Specifically, $\rho_{L}=10^{-4} \rho_{0}$, $p_{L}=10.0
\rho_{0} c^{2}$, $v^{n}_{L}=v^{n}_{L}=0.0$, and
$v^{t}_{L}=v^{z}_{L}=0.99c$ ($\gamma_{L} \simeq 7$) (in Table 1 these
conditions are collectively labeled as case HDA).
The fluid satisfies an adiabatic $\Gamma-law$ equation of
state with $\Gamma=4/3$.
The relevant sound speeds are $a_{j}=0.57735c$ in the jet flow, and
$a_{e} = 0.57663c$ in the external medium, where the sound speed is
given by $a=\sqrt{ \Gamma p/\rho h }$.
We note that if the adiabatic index were $\Gamma=5/3$, the sound
speeds would be $a_{j,e} \sim 0.82c$. These velocities exceed the
maximum physically allowed sound speed $a = c/\sqrt{3}$.
Therefore we choose the
adiabatic index to be $\Gamma=4/3$ in our simulations.
Figure 1 shows a schematic depiction of the geometry of our simulations.
To investigate the effect of magnetic fields, we consider the
following left state field geometries: ``poloidal'', $B^{z}=6.0
\sqrt{\rho_{0} c^{2}}$ ($B^{'}_{z} =6.0 \sqrt{\rho_{0} c^{2}}$), in
the MHDA case, and ``toroidal'' (not truly toroidal but we use this
designation for simplicity), $B^{y}=42.0 \sqrt{\rho_{0} c^{2}}$
($B^{'}_{y}=6.0 \sqrt{\rho_{0} c^{2}}$), in the MHDB case (see
Table1), where $B^{'}_{i}$ is the magnetic field measured in the jet
fluid frame ($B^{'}_{y}=B^{y}/\gamma$, $B^{'}_{z}=B^{z}$). Although
the strength of the magnetic field measured in the laboratory frame
($B^{i}$) in the left state is larger in the MHDB case than the MHDA
case, the magnetic pressure ($p_{mag}$) is the same as that of the
MHDA case ($p_{mag}=(B^{'})^{2}/2$).
The relevant Alfv\'{e}n speed in the left state is
$v_{Aj}=0.68825c$, whereas the Alfv\'{e}n speed $v_{A}$ is given
by $v_{A}=\sqrt{[(B^{'})^{2}/c^{2}]/[ \rho h + (B^{'})^{2}/c^{2}]}$.
For comparison, the HDB case listed in Table 1 is a high gas pressure,
pure-hydrodynamic case ($p_{L}=28.0 \rho_{0}c^{2}$). In this case the
gas pressure $p_{L}$ in left state is equal to the total pressure
($p_{tot}$) in the MHD cases ($p_{tot}=p_{gas}+p_{mag}$) in the left
state.
We employ free boundary conditions in
all-directions. The simulations are performed in the region $-0.2 \le
x \le 0.2$ with 6400 computational zones ($\Delta x = 6.25
\times 10^{-5}$) until simulation time $t=0.1$. We emphasize that
our simulations are scale-fee. If we specify a system of size
$L=10^{7} $ cm ($\Delta L \simeq 6.25 \times 10^{2}$ cm), a simulation
time of $t=0.2$ corresponds to about $0.06$ msec. The units of
magnetic field strength and pressure depend on the normalization of
the density. If we take, for example, the density unit to be
$\rho_{0}=10^{-20} \, \rm{g\, cm}^{-3}$, the magnetic field strength
unit is about $3$ G and the pressure unit is $P \simeq 10\, \rm{dyn \,
cm}^{-2}$.
\section{Results}
\subsection{Effects of the magnetic field in 1-D simulations}
Figure 2 shows the radial profiles of density, gas pressure, velocity
normal to the interface ($v^{x}$) - hereafter normal velocity - and
velocity tangent to the interface ($v^{z}$)- hereafter tangential
velocity - for case HDA. The solution displays a right-moving shock, a
right-moving contact discontinuity and a left-moving rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}RCS_{\rightarrow}$). This hydrodynamical profile is
similar to that found by Rezzolla et al. (2003) and Aloy \& Rezzolla
(2006). The simulation results (dashed lines) are in good agreement
with the exact solution (solid lines, calculated with the code of
Giacomazzo \& Rezzolla 2006) except for the spike in the normal
velocity $v^{x}$. Otherwise the normal velocity and propagation of the
shock propagating to the right (the forward shock) is $v^{x}
\sim 0.082c$ where this value is
determined from the exact solution. The small spike evident in
Fig. 2 is a numerical artifact and is seen in all simulation results
(e.g., in the middle panel of Fig.\ 3) at the right moving shock
($S_{\rightarrow}$). This numerical spike is reduced by higher
resolution calculations (see Appendix A). In the left-moving
rarefaction ($_{\leftarrow}R$) region, the tangential velocity
increases as a result of the hydrodynamical boosting mechanism
described by Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006). In the case shown in Figure 2
the jet is accelerated to $\gamma \sim 12$ from an initial Lorentz
factor of $\gamma_{L} \simeq 7$.
Figure 3 displays the resulting profiles of gas pressure, normal
velocity ($v^{x}$) and tangential velocity ($v^{z}$) of
the magnetohydrodynamic cases MHDA (blue), MHDB (red), and the
high pressure, pure-hydrodynamic case HDB (green).
In the magnetohydrodynamic cases, the magnetization parameter
$\sigma \equiv (B^{'})^{2}/\rho h$ and the plasma beta parameter $\beta
\equiv p_{gas}/p_{mag}$ (on the left side) are 0.556 and 0.45,
respectively. The resulting structure consists of a
right-propagating fast shock, a right-propagating contact discontinuity,
and a left-propagating fast rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}R_{F}CS_{F \rightarrow}$).
In the MHDA case ($B^{z}=6.0$ ($B^{'}_{z}=6.0$)) shown as blue curves, the
right-moving fast shock ($S_{F \rightarrow}$) and the left-moving fast
rarefaction wave ($_{\leftarrow}R_{F}$) are
stronger than the related structures in the HDA case. Consequently,
the normal velocity ($v^{x} \sim 0.172c$) is larger than that
for the HDA case ($v^{x} \sim 0.082c$). The tangential velocity
($v^{z} \sim 0.9915c$) is lower than that of the HDA case ($v^{z}
\sim 0.9933c$). These velocity values are determined from the exact
solution. Although the acceleration in the z-direction is weaker,
the jet experiences a larger total acceleration than in the HDA case due
to the larger normal velocity, and the jet Lorentz factor reaches
$\gamma \sim 15$. Thus the ``poloidal'' magnetic field in the jet
region strongly affects sideways expansion, shock profile and total
acceleration.
In the MHDB case ($B^{y}=42.0$ ($B^{'}_{y}=6.0$)) shown as red curves,
the right-moving fast shock ($S_{F \rightarrow}$) is slightly weaker
than in the HDA case, and the resulting normal velocity ($v^{x} \sim
0.080c$) is slightly less than in the HDA case ($v^{x} \sim
0.082c$). The left-propagating fast rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}R_{F}$) is stronger than what we found for the
HDA case. Therefore the tangential velocity ($v^{z} \sim 0.9958c$) is
higher than in the HDA case ($v^{z} \sim 0.9933c$). These velocity values
are determined from the exact solution. Altough
the ``toroidal'' magnetic field in the jet region does not greatly
affect the sideways expansion and shock profile, the resulting
total acceleration to $\gamma \sim 19$ is larger than in
the HDA case.
To investigate the effect of the total pressure, we performed a
pure-hydrodynamic simulation with high gas pressure (case HDB),
shown as green curves, equal to the total (gas plus magnetic)
pressure ($p_{tot} =p_{gas}+p_{mag}$) in the MHD cases. The
resulting structure for this case is the same as that of HDA case
($_{\leftarrow}RCS_{\rightarrow}$). The right-moving shock
($S_{\rightarrow}$) and the left-moving rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}R$) are slightly stronger than those in the HDA case
because of the initial high gas pressure in left state.
Consequently, the normal velocity $v^{x}$ in the HDB case is larger
($v^{x} \sim 0.108c$) than in the HDA case ($v^{x} \sim 0.0822c$).
In the region of the left-propagating rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}R$), the tangential velocity is the same as that
in the HDA case, the jet accelerates only with a marginally greater
efficiency than in the HDA case, and the resulting Lorentz factor
thus reaches only $\gamma \sim 15$.
Although the total pressure is the same in the hydro HDB case and MHD
cases, the existence and direction of the magnetic field changes the
shock profiles and<|fim_middle|>. their harder spectrum and shorter
spectral lags). The magnetohydrodynamic acceleration mechanism
discussed here also naturally yields a GRB jet with substantial
angular structure. In particular, since acceleration is favored in the
rarefaction region near the contact discontinuity, this mechanism
naturally gives rise to the kind of ring-shaped jet that has been
discussed in some empirical GRB models (e.g. Eichler \& Levinson
2006).
| acceleration. We summarize the acceleration
properties of the different cases in Table 2 where velocity
values are determined from the exact solutions. When the gas
pressure becomes large in the left state, the normal velocity increases and
the jet is more efficiently accelerated.
This is because the larger discontinuity in the gas pressure produces a
stronger forward shock as well as stronger rarefaction. In MHD, the
magnetic pressure is measured in the jet fluid frame and depends on
the angle between the flow and magnetic field. The magnetosonic
speeds also depend on the angle between the flow and the magnetic
field, even for the same magnetic pressure. The direction of the
magnetic field is thus a very important geometric parameter for
relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. When a ``poloidal'' magnetic field
($B^{z}$) is present in the jet region, larger sideways expansion is
produced, and the jet can achieve higher speed due to the contribution
from the normal velocity.
By contrast, when a ``toroidal'' magnetic
field ($B^{y}$) is present in the jet region, although the shock profile is
only changed slightly, the jet is more accelerated in
the tangential direction due to the additional contribution of the
tangential component of the Lorentz force
($\mathbf{F}_{EM,z}=(\mathbf{J} \times \mathbf{B})_{z}$) shown in
Figure 4 (in the MHDA case there is no additional force).
It should be
noted that the region with high Lorentz force is approximately
coincident with the acceleration region $-0.025$ to $0.0$ and
the force still exists at time $t=0.2$. The region with the
highest Lorentz force is at the inner edge of the acceleration
region.
From an efficiency point of view, a ``toroidal'' magnetic field
with the same strength in the jet fluid frame and the same
magnetic pressure as those of a ``poloidal'' field provides the
most efficient acceleration. A ``poloidal'' magnetic
field provides
acceleration comparable to that resulting from high gas pressure,
e.g., the HDB case.
\subsection{Dependence of the MHD boost mechanism on magnetic field strength}
To investigate the acceleration efficiency of the magnetic field, we
compare jet speeds for the MHDA and MHDB cases and the results are
shown in Figure 5. The left panels in Figure 5 show the dependence of
the maximum tangential and normal velocities and resulting Lorentz
factors on the strength of the poloidal ($B^{'}_{z}$) component of the
magnetic field in the fluid frame. The solid line indicates values
obtained using the code of Giacomazzo \& Rezzolla (2006) and the
crosses indicate values obtained from our simulations at time
$t=0.2$. For numerical reasons our code does not yield a solution for
$B^{'}_{z} > 10$ ($B^{z} > 10$) (the simulation results are indicated by
the crosses). When the poloidal magnetic field increases, the code of
Giacomazzo \& Rezzolla (2006) indicates that the maximum normal velocity
increases and the maximum tangential velocity deceases. The break near
$B^{'}_{z} \simeq 4$ occurs near the transition (in the left state)
from gas pressure dominated to magnetic pressure dominated. The
Lorentz factor results shown in Figure 5 (left bottom panel) indicate
that a sufficiently strong poloidal magnetic field in the jet region
will allow a jet to achieve $\gamma \sim 22$, even if the jet is only
``mildly'' relativistic initially, i.e., $\gamma_{L} \sim 7$. We
note that in the hydrodynamic cases investigated by Aloy \& Rezzolla
(2006) the Lorentz factor decreases as the normal velocity increases
(see their Fig.\ 4) where we find that the Lorentz factor increases as
the normal velocity increases. Our result is different from that of
Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006) because their initial conditions were
different. In particular, they varied the initial normal velocity in
the jet region while holding the initial Lorentz factor constant.
The right panels in Figure 5 show the dependencies of the maximum
tangential and normal velocities and the Lorentz factor on the
strength of the toroidal ($B^{'}_{y}$) component of the magnetic field
as measured in the jet fluid frame. Again, the solid line indicates
values obtained with the code of Giacomazzo \& Rezzolla (2006) and the
crosses indicate values obtained from our simulations at time
$t=0.2$.
When the toroidal magnetic field becomes large in the jet
region, the maximum normal velocity increases initially, then decreases when $B^{'}_{y} > 4$, and the maximum
tangential velocity increases. This dependence is opposite to that of
the poloidal magnetic field. The acceleration in the tangential
direction occurs due to the additional contribution of the Lorentz
force shown in Figure 4. When the toroidal magnetic field becomes
large in the jet region, the Lorentz force in the tangential direction
increases and contributes to a large acceleration of the jet in the
tangential direction. The transition from gas pressure dominated to
magnetic pressure dominated left states occurs near $B^{'}_{y} \simeq
4$.
This change from gas to magnetic pressure dominated is reflected
in the normal velocity profile. The acceleration is much larger than that
found in the comparable poloidal magnetic field case. While at
$B^{'}_{y} \simeq 20$ the maximum Lorentz factor reaches $\gamma
\sim 72$, at $B^{'}_{z} \simeq 20$ the maximum Lorentz factor is
only $\gamma \sim 22$.
\subsection{Multidimensional simulations}
To investigate the effects induced by more than one degree of freedom,
we perform two dimensional RMHD simulations of the MHDA case
($B^{'}_{z}=6.0$). The computational domain corresponds to a local
part of the jet flow. In the simulations, a ``pre-existing'' jet flow
is established across the computational domain. The initial condition
is the same as that of the 1D MHDA case (e.g., $v^{z}=0.99c$ and
$B^{'}_{z}=6.0$). In order to investigate a possible influence of the
chosen coordinate system, we perform the calculations in Cartesian and
cylindrical coordinates. The discontinuities between the jet and the
external medium are set at $x$ or $r=1.0$ in the initial state (see
Fig. 1). The computational domain is $0.5 \le x, r \le 1.5$ and $0 \le
z \le 5.0$ with $(N_{x, r} \times N_{z}) = (2000 \times 250)$, where
$N_{x, r}$ and $N_{z}$ are the number of computational zones in the
$x$ or $r$ direction and in the $z$ direction. We use a large number
of computational zones in the $x$ or $r$ direction in order to
satisfactorily resolve the shock profile. We impose periodic boundary
conditions in the z-direction and free boundary conditions in the
$x$ or $r$ direction.
The computational domain is far from the jet center in order to
obtain high resolution near the jet surface. In this case it is
necessary to use free boundary conditions at the inner boundary in $x$
or $r$. Here we are far from the jet axis and waves and fluid must be
free to move towards the axis through this boundary and not experience a
reflection.
The initial condition for these 2D simulations is a simple
extension of the 1D MHDA case into the z-direction and represents the
temporal development of a planar (Cartesian coordinates) or
cylindrical interface that is infinite in extent in the z-direction.
Effectively we consider a local part of a jet flow. Here we consider
only the poloidal magnetic field case as a uniformly overpressured
cylindrical jet containing a uniform poloidal magnetic field as valid
physically. The ``toroidal'' magnetic field case in 1D cannot be
compared to a proper cylindrical toroidal magnetic field in which hoop
stresses and radial gradients will play a role.
Figure 6 shows 2D images of the Lorentz factor for the 2D MHDA
simulation in Cartesian and in cylindrical coordinates at time
$t=0.6$. The left-moving rarefaction waves do not reach the inner
boundary ($x$ or $r$ direction) so the choice of inner outflow
boundary condition does not influence the results. In both cases, a
thin surface is accelerated by the MHD boost mechanism to reach a
maximum Lorentz factor $\gamma \simeq 15$ from an initial Lorentz
factor $\gamma_{L}
\simeq 7$. The jet in cylindrical coordinates is slightly more
accelerated than the jet in Cartesian coordinates. The presence of
velocity shear between the jet and external medium can excite
Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities (e.g., Ferrari et al. 1978; Hardee
1979, 1987, 2000; Birkinshaw 1984), and such instability might affect
the relativistic boost mechanism. However, we do not see any growth
of the KH instability during the simulation. This is because the
simulation duration is too short for KH instabilities to grow. However,
in longer duration RMHD cylindrical jet simulations KH instabilities
can grow (Hardee 2007; Mizuno et al.\ 2007) and this might effect
significantly the later stages of jet evolution.
In order to investigate simulation results quantitatively, we have
taken one-dimensional cuts through the computational box perpendicular
to the z-axis. Figure 7 shows the resulting profiles of gas pressure,
Lorentz factor ($\gamma$), normal velocity ($v^{x}$ or $v^{r}$) and
tangential velocity ($v^{z}$) of the 2D MHDA cases in Cartesian
(dotted lines) and in cylindrical coordinates (dashed lines). The
exact solution of the 1D MHDA case is shown as solid lines. The
result consists of a right-moving fast shock, right-moving contact
discontinuity, and a left-moving fast rarefaction wave
($_{\leftarrow}R_{F}CS_{F \rightarrow}$). The profiles from the 2D
MHDA simulation in Cartesian coordinates match well those of the 1D
MHDA case. In the 2D MHDA simulation with cylindrical coordinates,
the right-moving fast shock ($S_{F \rightarrow}$) is weaker and the
left-moving fast rarefaction wave ($_{\leftarrow}R_{F}$) is slightly
stronger than those of the 2D MHDA simulation with Cartesian
coordinates. Selecting cylindrical coordinates, causes the normal
velocity to decrease gradually in the expansion. The tangential
velocity in cylindrical coordinates ($v^{z} \sim 0.991530c$) is
slightly faster than in Cartesian coordinates ($v^{z} \sim 0.991500c$).
Thus the jet Lorentz factor reaches $\gamma \sim 16$ in cylindrical
coordinates and $\gamma \sim 15$ in Cartesian coordinates. This
result suggests that different coordinate systems affect sideways
expansion, shock profile, and acceleration slightly.
\section{Summary and Discussion}
We performed relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of an
acceleration boosting mechanism for fast astrophysical jet flows that
results from highly overpressured, tenuous flows with an initially
modest relativistic speed relative to a colder, denser external medium
at rest. We employed the RAISHIN code (Mizuno et
al. 2006a), to study the relativistic boost mechanism proposed by Aloy
\& Rezzolla (2006), who showed that hydrodynamic accelerations to
$\gamma > 1000$ are possible in the situation described above. For
numerical reasons, we reduced the pressure discontinuity between the
hotter higher pressure jet and colder lower pressure external medium
and also reduced the initial jet velocity (see Apendix A3).
Our results still show the
same behavior ($_{\leftarrow}RCS_{\rightarrow}$) found in Rezzolla et
al.\ (2003) and Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006). The same hydrodynamical
structures emerge in our simulation, confirming the basic properties
of the boost mechanism proposed in their work. Subsequently we
extended their investigation to study the effects of magnetic fields
that are parallel (poloidal) and perpendicular (toroidal) to the flow
direction but parallel to the interface.
Our simulations show that the presence of a magnetic field in the jet
can significantly change the properties of the outward moving shock
and inward moving rarefaction wave, and can in fact result in even
more efficient acceleration of the jet than in a pure-hydrodynamic
case. In particular, the presence of a toroidal magnetic field
perpendicular to jet flow produces a stronger inward moving rarefaction
wave. This leads to acceleration from
$\gamma \sim 7$ to $\gamma \gtrsim 15$ when the magnetic pressure is
comparable to the gas pressure. A comparable pure-hydrodynamic case
yields acceleration to $\gamma \lesssim 12$. Our results would
indicate acceleration to $\gamma \sim 100$ for a case with magnetic
pressure 40
times the gas pressure. Thus, the magnetic field can in principle play
an important role in this relativistic boost mechanism.
We found that a jet with a flow aligned poloidal field was slightly
more accelerated in cylindrical coordinates than one in Cartesian
coordinates but in general our 1D and 2D results for the poloidal
field appear comparable. The current simple 2D MHD simulation in
cylindrical coordinates is directly applicable to a 3D cylindrical
geometry where the magentic field and jet flow are aligned and tangent
to the jet-external medium interface. However, recent GRMHD
simulations of jet formation predict that the jet has a rotational
velocity and considerable radial structure (e.g., Nishikawa et
al. 2005; Mizuno et al. 2006b; De Villiers et al. 2005; Hawley \&
Krolik 2006; McKinney \& Gammie 2004; McKinney 2006). The effect of
such radial structure on this boost mechanism is yet to be determined.
Our present results for the 1D ``toroidal'' field are not likely to
apply in a 3D cylindrical geometry where a toroidal field exerts a
hoop stress that does not exist in the 1D configuration. It seems
likely that this hoop stress would so modify the sideways expansion of
an overpressured cylindrical jet as to render our present toroidal
field results not applicable unless the magnetic field in 3D is
tangled or the thin boost region is relatively insensitive to radial
gradients. In order to properly investigate full 3D effects, it will
be necessary to perform full 3D RMHD simulations including toroidal
and helical magnetic fields.
The initial conditions in our present 2D simulations are a simple
extension of the 1D poloidal MHD case, models a local part of an
overpressured jet flow in a colder denser ambient and provides a
first step toward multi dimensional simulations. To address the
question whether or not such strong, magnetically enhanced boosts
really do take place in astrophysical sources (AGNs, quasars,
microquasars, gamma-ray bursts) will require additional numerical
simulations to show that this process can work for jets injected into
a reasonable astrophysical environment.
The operation of the MHD boost is likely to be strongly affected by
the properties of the external medium, expected jet overpressures, and
spatial development of the jet flow and external medium downstream
from the jet source.
For example, it is conceivable that magnetic
pressure effects are more dominant relative to thermal pressure
effects in AGN jets where a magnetically dominated ``Poynting''
flux jet is confined by a colder, denser external medium.
A hot GRB fireball can expand
and accelerate under its thermal pressure to reach large Lorentz
factors as long as baryon-loading is small (M\'esz\'aros et al. 1993;
Piran et al. 1993). Although this simple model can account for the
large ($>100$) Lorentz factors inferred for GRBs, it does not reflect
more realistic settings of complex GRB progenitor/central engine
models. In the collapsar model for long-duration GRBs (Woosley 1993),
the tenuous jet is believed to propagate in a surrounding dense
stellar envelope (Zhang et al. 2003), so that the hydrodynamic
configuration considered by Aloy \& Rezzolla (2006) and in this paper
is naturally satisfied. A strong poloidal magnetic field is likely
present at the central engine.
In some GRB models, the flow is even dominated by a Poynting flux
(Lyutikov 2006).
In this case the magnetohydrodynamic
boost mechanism discussed here would then play an important role in
jet acceleration. The final Lorentz factor should depend on the
detailed parameters invoked in this mechanism as well as the unknown
baryon loading process during the propagation of the jet in the
envelope. In the case of short GRBs that may be of compact star merger
origin (e.g., Pacz\'ynski 1986; Nakar 2007), there is no dense stellar
envelope
surrounding the jet. The jet region is nonetheless more tenuous than
the surrounding medium due to the centrifugal barrier in the jet, so
that the acceleration mechanism discussed here still applies (e.g.,
see Aloy et al. 2005 for the pure hydrodynamic case). Due to a likely
smaller baryon loading in the merger environment, the jet may achieve
an even higher Lorentz factor than for the case of long GRBs, as
suggested by some observations (e.g | 4,110 |
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This year, the solar conjunction moratorium is between 2 October and 14 October, when Mars is within 2 degrees of the Sun.
NASA will task its missions with homework during the "short vacation" as all spacecrafts will go "virtually incommunicado" during the period.
The agency's Perseverance rover will perform weather measurement and radar experiments. The rover, which landed in February, will also look for any dust devils passing by on the planet as well as listen for environmental sounds using its microphone. The official account of the rover tweeted that it has found a parking spot to wait out the blackout period.
The Curiosity rover will also perform the same functions. The rover has been working on Mars since 2012 and has not faced any major issues in the previous solar conjunctions.
NASA's three long-running orbiters — Mars Atmosphere and Volatiles Evolution Mission (MAVEN), Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) — will send back status updates from the surface missions on the planet. The orbiters, which have also faced solar conjunctions in the past, will perform scientific observations to send back to Earth after the period is over.
The InSight lander will run a passive experiment, keeping its seismometer operational to keep track of big marsquakes.
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter will wait out the blackout duration, staying parked 175 metres away from the Perseverance rover. The helicopter will continue to send weekly updates to the rover.
According to the space agency, no one attempts to send any instructions for the missions during the solar conjunction as it is impossible to predict how the charged particles of the Sun can interfere with the information being relayed.
Once the solar conjunction is over, engineers will use NASA's Deep Space Network to download the data collected during the period. Once this process is complete, normal spacecraft operations will resume.
The solar conjunction will also affect other missions at the Red Planet from China, India, and Europe. However, the space agencies have not detailed their plans for the blackout period. | the planets being on opposite sides of the Sun. According to NASA, the event occurs every two years for about two weeks.
Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover, Sojourner, which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover Project test rover that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a Mars Science Labora tory test rover the size of that project's Mars rover, Curiosity | 116 |
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James has been in the music business, as of this date, fifty six years. So far.
Immersed at a very early age in many genres of music ranging from Country, jazz, blues, rock and roll, symphonic - you name it- he was well equipped when he embarked as a studio musician in Memphis, Muscle Shoals, and Nashville, with<|fim_middle|> writing, recording, and yelling into a microphone.
James and Jessica are very happy. | occasional foray's into the studio environs of L.A., New York, London and Ireland.
for Texan Nanci Griffith, where he remained for 20 years (counting a brief, but enjoyable stint with Pam Tillis when Griffith took a year off). During this 20 year period, while home in Nashville and Muscle Shoals, he was rarely not in the studio. A high point during these breaks from the road, in his words, "recording and hanging with John Hyatt with Glyn Johns producing - I mean, DAMN! - pinch me".
These names only scratch the surface.
In 2005, James moved to Ireland, and eventually, in 2007, James retired from road work and added Majorca, Spain to the list of places he hangs his hat. On the island of Majorca, he's in his home studio most every day, | 188 |
C<|fim_middle|> and Bob Stouffer before taking over in 1995. Within his first four years, he had three semifinal appearances, losing in the '96 state final and winning it all in '97. The Cornelison-led Irish would add another semifinal appearance in 2003.
Athletic director Sam Wutke played for Catholic when Cornelison was an assistant. He also was the coach's offensive coordinator during his 19-year run.
"You may beat him, but his teams weren't going to beat themselves, you have to beat them," Wutke said. "He's an old-school football coach, not a PR, or social media or Twitter person."
But when the News-Leader broke the news Monday of Cornelison's resignation, he was lauded on social media by members of the media, rival coaches and area football fans.
Meanwhile, Wutke said he'll post the job but a lot of details about the position will need to be worked out in time, such as the availability of a teaching position. The new coach will have a returning quarterback in Jack Jones, who started in his junior year this fall.
Cornelison's departure comes at a time of growth at Catholic, as the school is undergoing a $12.9-million renovation, updating much of the east Springfield school.
The project includes a new gymnasium, and Wutke said upgrades to the football stadium, including artificial turf installation, could be an option down the road.
"Obviously our school has a tremendous amount of momentum right now," Wutke said. "We've got a lot of great things going on, and coach Cornelison has been a part of those things.
"His impact will be felt for a long time."
Wutke said the new gymnasium is expected to be ready for the Jan. 6 girls basketball home game against Aurora. Wutke said he would be willing to serve on the staff for the new football coach.
As for Cornelison, he said he wouldn't rule out a return to the sidelines somewhere after at least a year as a Friday night spectator.
"We'll just kind of play it by ear," he said. "I may try to pull an Andy Reid someday and resurrect myself somewhere else." | atholic coach steps down
By Matt Schoch;
Bobby Cornelison said, as this season wore on this year, little things started to bother him more and more.
A call from an official, and some of the minutiae of the position irked the personable coach a little more than previously in his career, which has spanned more than two decades at Springfield Catholic.
So, instead of wearing out his welcome, Cornelison stepped down Monday as football coach of the Irish.
"I wanted to make sure that I didn't turn into one of those guys who just went through the motions, and maybe the time was right," he said. "There's a part of you that wants to compete, and just battle through those things. But you don't want to let your own pride and ego stand in the way of what's best for the program.
"I don't know if it's what I want to do, but I feel like it's what I need to do, and it will be good for the program for the long haul."
Cornelison went 143-72 in 19 seasons as head coach of the Irish. He took Catholic to the semifinals four times, earning one state runner-up finish and one Class 2A state title.
The Irish went 5-6 this year, losing in a Class 3 district semifinal game at Ava. The Irish have been one of the top Central Ozark Conference Small Division teams in recent years, although everyone has looked up to Bolivar.
Cornelison will stay at Catholic as a teacher in the theology department and also as the track and field coach.
A Greenwood graduate, Cornelison played for legendary coach Paul Mullins and coached under him awhile after graduating from Missouri Southern State in Joplin. He coached in Sarcoxie and Exeter while coming up through the ranks.
Cornelison was an assistant for eight years under coaches Steve Spencer, Fred Redd | 394 |
New to hou
Global education provider expands to Houston to<|fim_middle|> opening in early 2021, we are excited to welcome Deanea LeFlore, Dr. Jan E. Odegard, and Chris Valka, to our growing team," says Rowe in the release. "I am excited to see what this diverse group of experts will bring to our efforts to build an inclusive innovation hub in a tech-forward environment that promotes all that is great about Houston."
The 270,000-square-foot Ion building broke ground in July of last year and is slated to open in 2021. Recently, the organization announced its first programming partner — Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, and select courses have already begun.
jan e. odegard deanea leflore chris valka the ion leadership station houston university of st. thomas rice university rice management company allison thacker gabriella rowe the ion | address the city's digital skills gap
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General Assembly — an international presence in digital education — announced an expansion to Houston. Getty Images
General Assembly — a global organization that offers programming for digital skill development — has announced its newest location in Houston.
"We're happy to announce that with our expansion into Houston, General Assembly now has a physical presence in the ten largest cities in the country," says Jake Schwartz, CEO and co-founder of General Assembly, in a news release. "Our launch today displays our commitment to expanding the accessibility of our educational programs to all Americans, and hopefully revolutionizing the future of work and education."
General Assembly will be located in the Ion Smart Cities Accelerator at 1301 Fannin St. The organization will launch a three-month software engineering program in January along with workshops and introductory courses before rolling out other part- and full-time courses in 2020.
"General Assembly's arrival in Houston will provide a huge boost to an already rapidly growing tech hub in the city directly, but also in the state of Texas overall," says Houston City Lead Gabriela Zahoranska in the release. "As the fourth biggest city in the country, the need for in-demand tech skills-training has grown expeditiously, and will help empower our community by giving them the tools they need to do the work they love."
The programming premieres today with a panel at Station. The new center's launch represents the 25th location for GA, and the company has new campuses planned for next year.
"In order to keep up with the rapidly changing technology landscape, today's workforce needs to be committed to life-long learning and upskilling," says Steven Rader, deputy director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA, in the release. "Organizations need to start pivoting to the emerging open talent (gig/freelance) workforce and associated platforms as a way to find and access the skills and technologies they need to stay competitive."
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The Ion Houston names 3 new execs to its team
Jan 14, 2020, 8:01 am
Jan E. Odegard, Deanea LeFlore, and Chris Valka have been named senior directors at The Ion. Photos courtesy of The Ion
The Ion, an entrepreneurship center being developed in the old Sears building in Midtown by the Rice Management Company, has named three new senior directors to its team.
Deanea LeFlore, Jan E. Odegard, and Chris Valka are the three newly named leaders of the organization, effective immediately. They join — and will report to — Gabriella Rowe, who was named executive director in October.
"To grow the Houston innovation system and spearhead our mission for the Ion we've hired three new leaders with fresh perspectives, ideas, and approaches," says Allison K. Thacker, president and chief investment officer of the Rice Management Company, in a news release. "Each individual has a unique connection to Houston and the Ion, and we're thrilled to have them join our effort to build on the culture of innovation across our city, and within the community we're cultivating at the Ion."
To focus on the Ion's Academic Partner Network, Jan E. Odegard has been appointed senior director of industry and academic partners. Odegard's background includes research and leadership at Rice University in computing. Odegard will also oversee The Ion's labs, which include human/robotics interaction lab, an immersive reality lab and an industrial prototyping lab.
Deanea LeFlore has been named senior director of community and corporate engagement. Like Rowe, LeFlore had a similar role at Station Houston before this new position. Before that, she spent most of her career working for the city of Houston and served under four Mayors over 17 years.
Lastly, Chris Valka, has been hired as senior director of operations, overseeing finance, accounting, human resources, operations, and facilities management. Prior to this position, Valka served in the president's cabinet overseeing a similar spectrum of responsibilities at the University of St. Thomas.
"As we prepare for The Ion's | 916 |
Head over Wheels still (uploaded to Vimeo by Fly6)
Video - Top skills as riders avoid another who has crashed
Stick lodged in rear wheel sees rider somersault and land on head as others take evasive action
Fri, Jan 02, 2015 15:00
Here's a cyclist who ended up with a bit of a headache – and hopefully nothing else – ahead of the New Year after a piece of debris got lodged in the rear wheel of his bike, sending him flying over the handlebars and landing on his helmet, head-first.
It has emerged that the cyclist involved was 55-year-old Anthony Condon of Byron Bay, New South Wales, who told the Sydney Morning Herald, "I've got the bruised bum to prove it."
He sustained nothing more than cuts and bruisesin the crash, and said, "I thought, 'This is going to be bad. This is going to hurt.'
"I sort of did the somersault. In no way was this controlled, or managed, or organised. The next thing I was sitting on the road."
Head over Wheels from Cycliq on Vimeo.
There are some top avoidance skills on show from a couple of the riders following Condon, who said, "I was very lucky to not have been badly injured. It was pure luck. The guys behind - it was just incredible<|fim_middle|>, Western Australia-based company behind the Fly6 camera it was filmed on.
Cycliq | evasive response to come around and not run into me."
One Byron Bay Cycle Club member, Adam Taylor, said: "The roads are really bad around Byron Bay and there is debris on the road.
"We always have a camera for insurance purposes, in case of a crash," he added.
Depite his cuts and bruises, Condon was out on a 50km ride with his clubmates the following day. His Canyon bike fared less well however, and he said: "I am sad I lost my racing bike. I might be going bike shopping this weekend."
The clip was uploaded to Vimeo by Cycliq, the Perth | 129 |
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