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The quirky, highly talented Ash Heeger has created a Cape Town dining experience unlike any other. Bringing honesty, family and sustainability to the table; as the much-anticipated Riverine Rabbit opens its doors for summer 2018.
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Sanders has called for further investigation after the Mueller report but reportedly ignored questions about impeachment. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., another 2020 hopeful, officially called for impeachment this week and pushed back on the suggestion that Democrats should table the issue for political reasons.
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The only one, I've tasted of the Valhalla Collection. Freya is a 15YO single malt, named after the Norse Goddess of Love. Might as well be Imperator Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron) from Mad Max: Fury Road. This whisky is strong, yet smooth. It has delicate scents and aftertaste, but the taste is feisty. Go check that movie if you haven't yet.
First of all, it's from Highland Park (they are good). But like anyone, they are capable of messing up, so distillery statement is not enough. Freya does have other quality factors as well, it is 15 years old and it is cask strength. So not another NAS whisky in a pretty box. The price is still high, I have to say.
Nose: Punchy and sweet with floral notes. Orange peel with hints of toffee and some fruity tones. For a cask strength dram, amazingly smooth with sophisticated aromas.
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Finish: Dry and humble, when compared to taste. Nice small coconut notes and vanilla. Hints of tropical fruits with even some peat smoke. Wish it was longer.
Balance: Smooth and characteristic whisky. The name suits well, even though I call it Furiosa from now on. Very smooth cask strength dram.
@Rantavahti, thanks for the great review.
Unfortunately we don't usually see the Highland Park Valhalla Collection for sale around here. This one sounds very enjoyable.
Great review. I purchased a bottle of this for my Dad as a retirement gift, and this review is encouraging for when he decides to open and try it!
Wow, 400 euros!! I paid 330 Canadian for it here a few months ago, and I think there are still | 177 |
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Kokanee has slowed down, but Perch are picking up. 18-25'+ jigging. Also a few Bass being caught.
Decent Kokanee fishing, Pike and Perch have been tough.
Trolling has been really hot! Delta - Woods Bay, 25'-50' suspended. A little jigging going on mostly Painted Rocks.
Really good color, should be fishing great. Look for Dry Flies to start really popping!
Bass, Pike, Perch all doing well. Need some good sunshine!
Great Kokanee, few Perch & Rainbows being caught.
As of this morning (06/16/2016 0630) we still have one unhatched egg. Starting to look more and more like maybe we have one strike.
However, the good news, the chicks have shown a noticeable change in size. They seem to be thriving and growing quite rapidly. As I was watching some of the footage this morning, I noticed something quite endearing. Duke will actually feed Duchess as she sits on the chicks. I am sure that nature has a very practical purpose for this, however the slight romantic in me finds that a bit sweet.
Here are some snapshots from this morning and a clip of Duke feed Duchess.
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Jon Lupton, an information technology employee at the store owned by his father, said viewers from 43 countries have logged more than 60,000 views of the website's popular "Osprey Page" in the past month.
The clutch of three eggs has so far yielded two chicks, which like their parents, will be the subject of a naming contest in the coming weeks.
The two adult birds were named Duke and Duchess after the April naming contest brought in more than 600 votes from three countries and 30 states.
"We'll do the same thing when we know how many chicks we have," Lupton said.
His announcement of the first hatchling on June 7 brought a spike in web traffic, Lupton said, followed by a second birth on Thursday. He had been hoping that once Duchess moved out of the way, visitors to the site could catch a glimpse of a third tiny osprey, but a viewer on Monday confirmed the egg has yet to hatch.
Osprey watchers can view the live feed at www.snappysportsenter.com. For the next six to eight weeks, Lupton said it's expected the chicks will remain in the nest.
While there has been a substantial increase in internet traffic since the osprey cam launched, he said he wasn't sure how much of a boost it would provide for business.
"I'm not sure there's a real tie from osprey-cam-to-dollar necessarily, but it's definitely some good PR, a lot of good community involvement and support, and just being able to get our name out there and have it associated with something that's a positive for the community," he said.
Duke and Duchess successfully hatched the first egg in the nest yesterday (06/07/2016). We have two more eggs to go. However this is a milestone.
The chick emerged at 8AM (or more precisely 7:58.50 MDT). We had noticed Duchess being a bit fidgety the last couple days. This was right on schedule at 41 days since we saw the first egg. The other two eggs followed 2 days apart each. So we anticipate some more hatching action in the next 36-48 hours.
Duchess will tear small pieces of fish and feed her young.
The female birds to NOT regurgitate food, but rather feed the young directly.
Good Salmon action on both lakes. Try trolling or jigging. Also some nice Perch in Ashley. Try live leeches.
Good Salmon early morning. Try trolling. Good Bass action in the reeds. Look for Pike in deep weed beds with jerk baits.
Excellent Bass fishing for Large / Smallmouth. Try for Whitefish in main lake.
Catching Rainbows / Salmon near damn.
Good numbers Salmon, nice Bass & Perch.
Nice Bass, few good Pike early mornings.
Excellent fly fishing. Try elk hairs or Salmon fly.
Starting to clear up. Try dry fly or spin fishing with | 716 |
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Neexistují žádné důkazy o permanentním indiánském osídlení území, kde nyní leží město. Každopádně je známo, že Duwamišové a Muckleshootové sem chodili rybařit a sbírat škeble.
Území poprvé z Evropanů spatřila v květnu 1792 expedice George Vancouvera na lodi HMS Discovery. První Američané sem připluli při Wilkesově expedici.
Prvním známým osadníkem na území města byl John Moore, který přišel okolo roku 1867. Svůj certifikát na získání půdy však získal až v červenci 1872.
V roce 1887 přesvědčil F. A. Blasher několik svých přátel v Des Moines, v Iowě, aby podpořili rozvoj pobřežního městečka na Pugetově zálivu. Území bylo zmapováno a rozděleno na pozemky, které byly prodány společnosti Des Moines Improvement Company, kterou založili Blasher, Orin Watts Barlow, Charles M. Johnson a John W. Kleeb. Zaměstnanost městu poskytly pilařské závody.
Dříve byla doprava do města možná pouze po vodě<|fim_middle|> % obyvatelstva bylo hispánského původu.
Vzdělání
Základní a střední školy
Většina města se nachází ve školním obvodu Highline Public Schools, ale čtvrti Woodmont a Redondo se nachází ve školním obvodu Federal Way.
Střední školy ve městě jsou Aviation High School a Mount Rainier High School.
Vysoké školy
Ve městě se nachází městská vysoká škola Highline Community College.
Parky
Ve městě se nachází státní park Saltwater a na pláži se nachází městský Des Moines Beach Park.
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Externí odkazy
Města ve Washingtonu | . Komáří flotila trajektů poskytovala spojení do Seattlu, Tacomy a na Vashonův ostrov. První cesta po souši, Cihlová dálnice, byla postavena roku 1916 a ve stejný rok vyplul na Vashonův ostrov první automobilový trajekt, který zůstal v provozu až do roku 1921. Do druhé světové války pohánělo zdejší ekonomiku zemědělství.
Po válce se město začínalo měnit v předměstí Seattlu. Také začala stoupat populace města, až okresní vláda nebyla schopná zajistit potřebnou úroveň veřejných služeb a kontroly. To vyústilo v začlenění města v červnu 1959.
V roce 1970 bylo otevřeno nejviditelnější vybavení města, přístaviště s místem pro 838 plavidel. V roce 1980 k němu bylo na severu přistavěno 200 metrů dlouhé rybářské molo z betonu a hliníku.
Geografie
Město má rozlohu 16,4 km², z čehož vše je souš.
Většina města se nachází na kopci, který proudí z nadmořské výšky 121 metrů až k pobřeží zálivu. Vrchol kopce se nachází na východní hranici města, kterou tvoří Pacifická dálnice. Mnoho obyvatel si tak může ze svých domů užívat pohledů na Pugetův záliv a Vashonův ostrov. Do širokého svahu kopce se hluboce vyřezávají koryta potoků Des Moines Creek a Massey Creek.
Demografie
V roce 2010 zde žilo 29 673 obyvatel, ze kterých tvořili 64 % běloši, 11 % Asiaté a 9 % Afroameričané. 15 | 600 |
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La Strada (1954)
by P. G. R. Nair
Director: Federico Fellini /Italy/Italian/104 mts
La Strada ("The Road") is one of the watershed movies of Italian cinema. It also launched the international careers of the director Federico Fellini and his actress wife Giulietta Masina in the process. Amongst many accolades, the movie walked away with the 1956 Academy Award for 'Best Foreign Language Film'.
The story is one of the most haunting and heartbreaking ones in cinema. A brutish strongman named Zampano (Anthony Quinn) tours Italy, living in a ramshackle caravan pulled by a motorcycle. He needs an assistant for his act, and from a poor widow at the seaside he purchases her slow-witted daughter Gelsom<|fim_middle|> and movingly in a universal language.
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Top | Cinema | ina (Giulietta Masina) to serve as his clown, cook and concubine. He is cruel to the young woman, but she has a Chaplinesque innocence that somehow shields her from the worst of life. He teaches her some simple routines as they bowl along in his motorcycle-trailer — clowning and simple tunes on a trumpet — to serve as a come-on to his pitifully corny act of breaking chains across his chest.
Anthony Quinn as Zampano
Although her timorousness fades into happiness as they play villages, fairs and country weddings, her idyllic existence is broken when they sign up and join a small circus on the outskirts of Rome. Here Zampano encounters the Fool (Richard Basehart) employed by the circus company. He mocks Zampano, who attacks him in a rage, and is jailed. The Fool is attracted to Gelsomina, but sees that she has formed a strong bond with the strongman, and leaves so they can be together. A catalyst in other characters' lives, he gives Gelsomina hope. "Everyone serves some purpose," he tells her, "and perhaps you must serve him."
But his merciless teasing of the humorless Zampano precipitates the disaster that brings La Strada to its tragic climax. Zampano's jealousy and rage return and later when he meets the Fool, he beats and unwittingly kills the Fool. This terribly upsets Gelsomina who goes mad and since her constant whimpering serves as the strong man's conscience, Zampano deserts his ill-fated companion. At the drama's climax, when he accidentally learns of her death, he breaks down in sudden and helpless realization of his solitude.
Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina
Despite this doleful outline, Fellini has not handled his story in merely tragic or heavily dramatic fashion. From the start, Fellini visually contrasts the two main characters of his film: Gelsomina-blonde, diminutive, pixy-faced, humble in bearing; Zampano-dark, huge, glowering and arrogant in demeanor. On one level, La Strada is a fable about Beauty and the Beast; in this case, however, Gelsomina's beauty is interior, not exterior, and it is a beauty who loves the Beast, not the other way round-at least for the most of the picture. The film begins and ends by the sea; but, though the structure is in one sense circular, the opening and closing are in sharp contrast. When we first meet Zamapano, he is standing tall and strong in the sun-water. At the end, the camera slowly recedes and rises, leaving Zampano looking small and alone on the beach at night. Thus, when we take leave of Zampano, he remains prostrate before the sea, no longer proud of his strength but hardly enduring his dark night of the soul.
In Giulietta Masina (Mrs. Fellini in private life) he has an extremely versatile performer who mirrors the simple passions and anxieties of the child-like girl with rare and acute perception. She is expert at pantomime, funny as the tow-headed, doe-eyed and trusting foil and sentient enough to portray in wordless tension her fear of the man she basically loves.
Gelsomina and the Fool
Anthony Quinn is excellent as the growling, monosyllabic and apparently ruthless strong man, whose tastes are primitive and immediate. But his characterization is sensitively developed so that his innate loneliness shows through the chinks of his rough exterior. As the cheerful and prescient clown, Richard Basehart, like the haunting background score by Nino Rota, provides a humorous but pointed counterpoint to the towering and basically serious delineations of the two principals.
Fellini's treatment of all is effortless and elegant. The La Strada never presses any point. Like the characters' realizations about themselves and the world, the meaning of La Strada slips over you gradually, simply, unforgettably. His vignettes fill his movie with beauty, sadness, humor and understanding.
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How Makimoto's Wave Explains the Tsunami of Specialized AI Processors Headed for Market
There are certain terms of art in semiconductor technology that have become common touchstones. Moore's law, Dennard scaling, and concepts like the "memory wall" refer to long-established trends in technology that often resurface across many different areas of expertise. In that vein, there's a concept we're going to discuss today that some of you may be familiar with, but that we haven't previously covered here at ET: Makimoto's wave. While it doesn't date back quite as far as Gordon Moore's seminal paper, Makimoto's argument has direct bearing on the booming market for AI and machine learning devices.
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The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 Is the First Official Chrome OS... | presented in 1991, Makimoto's wave is a way of describing the fact that the semiconductor market often swings between specialization and standardization. These cycles have often occurred in roughly 10-year intervals, though there's been disagreement in the larger space about whether or not the 1997-2007 and 2007-2017 cycles were strong enough to qualify.
Image by SemiEngineering
The theory isn't contested for earlier cycles, however. From 1957-1967, standardized discrete components dominated the market, followed by custom large-scale integration chips, which gave way to the first standardized microprocessor and memory technologies.
It's not clear that Makimoto's classic wave, as shown above, cleanly aligns with the current push into AI and ML. It predicts that the market should be moving towards standardization starting in 2017, when in reality we're seeing a tremendous push from a wide range of companies to build their own custom accelerator architectures for specialized AI and ML workloads. With everyone from Fujitsu and Google to Nvidia and AMD throwing a proverbial hat into the ring, the pendulum seems to be arcing farther towards customization, not already in the middle of swinging back towards standardization.
But it's not unusual for a generally accepted theory that explains some aspect of semiconductor progress to fail to map perfectly to real life. Moore's law, in its original incarnation, predicted the doubling of transistor counts every single year. In 1975, Gordon Moore revised his prediction to every two years. The actual rate at which transistor counts have doubled in shipping products has always varied somewhat depending on foundry node transition difficulties, market conditions, and the success or failure of CPU design teams. Even Moore's law scaling has slowed in recent years, though density improvements have not yet stopped. After Dennard scaling quit in 2004, density scaling became the only metric continuing to follow anything like its old historical path.
And given how drastically general purpose CPU scaling has changed between earlier eras and the present day, we have to allow for the fact that the pendulum may not swing exactly the same way that it used to. The video below, narrated by Makimoto, isn't new — it was published in 2013 — but it offers a further explanation of the concept to anyone interested.
A new article at SemiEngineering details the rush of firms working on specialized accelerator architectures and why the field is red-hot. Faced with the lack of progress in general-purpose compute, companies have turned their attention to accelerators, in the hopes of finding workloads and cores that map well to one another. Thus, it might seem as if the pendulum is swinging permanently away from general-purpose compute.
But this is effectively impossible in the long term. While there's nothing stopping a firm from developing a specialized architecture to process a well-known workload, not every workload can be described in such a manner. As Chris Jones, vice president of marketing at Codasip, told SemiEngineering: "There always will be instances where the software that will be run on a given chip is largely unknown, and if the software load is indeterminate, all the chip designer can do is provide a robust general compute platform where performance is purely a function of core frequency and memory latency."
In other words, you can't simply build an array of hardware accelerators to cover every workload. General-purpose compute remains critical to the process. Custom implementations of work also become standardized over time as companies zero in on optimal implementations for handling certain kinds of work.
There's some significant overlap between the behavior Makimoto's wave describes and the looming accelerator wall we discussed earlier this week. The accelerator-wall paper demonstrates that we can't depend on accelerator solutions to provide infinite performance improvements absent the ability to improve underlying aspects of transistor performance via Moore's law. Makimoto's wave describes the broad industry trend to oscillate between the two. The recent flood of venture-capital money into the AI and machine learning markets has led to a definite hype-cycle around these capabilities. AI and machine learning may indeed revolutionize computing in years to come, but the new trend towards using accelerators for these workloads should be understood within the context of the limits of that approach.
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There are various types of tools that can help you in your quest to be a super productive being. They enable you to be put into practice the skills and techniques of a productivity. Tools to fulfill these requirements are increasingly being developed and refined with more and more becoming available everyday. If you are anything like me, you'll probably enjoy discovering and trying these tools. But beware – this is essentially procrastination and you'll probably try and justify 'sharpening your system' as productive work, when in fact getting stuff done is far more effective.
In this post I'm going to look at the key 'Tools of Productivity' that I have thus far identified. I have identified more that this, but in the interest of elimination and simplification seek to present the essentials.
Remember to begin with the end in mind. In others posts I have either or will describe how planning is a great skill of a productive and effective person. I'm not using this to tell you why you should be planning (I'll do that in another post). Just be sure that you have the right tools available.
My preferred planning tool is mind maps<|fim_middle|> as much of your activity in a calendar system to enforce deadlines and make sure you do it. Notice how if something non-important is in your calendar like a staff meeting then you still give time to attend? Make the same commitment to personal high importance tasks.
For work I use Outlook , as it is the standard at my place of work. You can do fancy stuff like colour code etc. but I've been there done that and spend the wasted hours maintaining it with the false belief it will make things easier. For me simple is best.
For personal calendar and remind I use iwantsandy.com. I love the interaction element of this tool and I have written a review of iwantSandy here. I think that it is important to enjoy using your system and that is what Sandy gives to me. I am looking to move more of my system to Sandy as more features come available, as having everything in one place is food for the interests of keeping stuff simple.
These are great tools for getting stuff done but do require time and patience and learning for using as an effective tool. You should think of delegation at work (and personal outsourcing as appropriate) as you first option for every task. This way you can eliminate as much as you can. "Can't someone else do it?" – make this your Mantra. See my other post on delegation.
Against the recommendations of GTD I do keep separate work and personal systems. Both of my systems are accessible from both places. I don't want them to overlaps to that I can concentrate on the different contexts of work and home in isolation when I need to.
I will write an separate post about this, but seen as email and internet are the biggest distractions in the modern workplace it is worth using the tools available to maximum benefit. Make email your slave not your master.
1) Auto-Responder – Set an out-of-office so that you can dictate when you check emails.
2) Filters – I have a CC folder for mails I am copied on which means that when I look at this folder I approach with the different mind set. I also use a waiting for filter, so that when I send an email I have @wf in the email so my filter puts a copy in my waiting for list.
5) Turn off notification popups – if you don't see the popups you'll be less inclined to dip in to your inbox as often.
6) Turn off Auto Send/Receive – you choose when you want to get emails.
So these are the key tools in my current Productivity arsenal. I'm sure that I'll review this post and refine it and it is something that I could go in to a lot of depth about. I wrote this post in draft a few months ago, and in that type my system has evolved and changed – I am coming to accept that this is a side effect of the productivity culture.
This post will eventually form part of a series on Productivity: Tools, Skills & Techniques. | on paper. Paper is not constrained and this property along with mind mapping allows free flow thinking and amendments. Remember though that papers tools are not automatically backup up like online tools. If you want to try mind mapping online there are loads of free sites. I've tried MindMeister and is seems good.
Other planning tools: Lists, Planning software (for example MS project) I find many tools to complex for most purposes except where I am forced to use it in a professional context.
I'm a big fan of lists. I keep lists for everything. Things to do, music to buy, dreams (places to go), checklists for planning etc. I find that simple is best so I keep lists in a fairly linear fashion. However, as my lists are important to backup my brain. It's best not to store information in your brain for a number of reasons!
I was using Gubb for my lists, but I have recently switched to Zenbe on the iPhone, and it is great that it is synced to a website for backup piece of mind.
At work I still haven't found the right list management system for me. I'm currently using excel for it's sorting facilities as I manage a team of people and deliverables it is quite useful for this.
Another thing to note is that I do not use Outlook at work for my to-do list management. This is for a very important reason. To keep me out of my email!
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Fefferman GS Premieres Rock Oratorio in New York
By Princeton Alumni Weekly
Published in the April 23, 2014 Issue
Lainie Fefferman GS (Photo: Courtesy Lainie Fefferman GS)
The Concert: The New York premiere of Lainie Fefferman's Princeton dissertation piece, "Here I Am," a rock oratorio in nine movements, for the Newspeak ensemble and Va Vocals.
Date and Location: May 1 at 8 p.m. at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Composer: Lainie Fefferman, a Ph.D. candidate in music composition at Princeton, is a Brooklyn-based composer. She has created pieces for numerous New<|fim_middle|>.edu/article/fefferman-gs-premieres-rock-oratorio-new-york | York ensembles and singing groups and is the founder and co-director of Exapno, a New Music Community Center in downtown Brooklyn. For "Here I Am," Fefferman worked with Newspeak, an ensemble that became an early standout within New York's "indie-classical" scene, and the sopranos of Va Vocals: Martha Cluver, Mellissa Hughes, and Caroline Shaw GS, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music.
The Work: Fefferman calls this piece "a staged singing out of biblical stories." Written for three singers, clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar, piano, percussion, and drum set, this "rock oratorio" is a meditation on nine perplexing and often ignored portions of the Hebrew Bible, including the laws expounded in the Book of Leviticus; Lot's offering of his virgin daughters to the people of Sodom; Abraham's haggling with the divine over how many innocent men are needed to save Sodom; and Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his own son to show his devotion.
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Have a Look at These New Sites Around the Web
Just wanted to bring your attention to some news-related projects that launched this week:
Reporters looking for advice from other reporters should take a look at ReportingOn.
Ryan Sholin's revamped site is like a help forum for news developers and journalists, particularly beat and local journalists. Follow ReportingOn on Twitter. You'll find me on ReportingOn too.
The hyperlocal news and data site Everyblock released its source code, much to the delight of Django developers everywhere.
Everyblock is the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, one of the co-developers of the Django framework. Read more about the project, poke around and see what you find.
Personally, I'd also like to see the source code for the Everyblock iPhone app, but one thing at a time.
If you want to learn more about mobile site design, consider signing up for W3C's first-ever live training session in Cambridge, UK.
The event takes place Oct. 13. Registration — at a hefty €399.00 (about US$558 at today's exchange rate) — includes lectures and hands-on workshops, as well as access to the nine-part course. Read the full description, register online or read more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
Feel free to browse around the blog. A few of the most popular posts on Ricochet include:
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L.A. Times Dog Database Improves On Old Tricks
August 1, 2008 //
Using public records data for reporting isn't new. Neither is using computers to pore through information to find patterns. But as news organizations look for more ways to offer public records to readers, new takes on old standbys keep popping up.
The pet names database, a favorite of newspaper and TV websites, got a fresh twist from the Los Angeles Times this week by offering more than the standard search-and-list of names, breeds and locations. On it, you'll find collections of interesting dog names as chosen by the staff, a common names tag cloud, maps of the breeds and names by ZIP code, a tie-in with the reader photos page, and space for user comments.
Times database developer Ben Welsh says the project was a way for him to learn how to navigate through Los Angeles' complex bureaucracy.
Welsh moved to L.A. from Washington, D.C. several months ago. "When I got here, I knew that learning how many cities make up L.A. County and how the different services get managed was going to be something I needed to get skilled at, so I thought: I need kind of a test case," he says. The dog names database became his experiment.
The first step was to figure out which offices held the records, then to request the information in accordance with the California Public Records Act. To avoid being turned down for privacy concerns, "I made sure in my earliest communications with people, kind of the first round, to say I don't want the address of the owner, but I do want their ZIP code," Welsh says.
Data from each agency was merged into a single file, then the development stage began. Welsh built the database on Django, an open-source development tool created at the Lawrence Journal-World and based on the Python programming language.
Though Welsh says he tries not to advocate one framework or language over another, he personally prefers Django for two reasons: he knows Python, and Django instantly produces a form that allows anyone, not just people with programming skills, to enter data.
That said, the pets database is only the second Times project to be developed on Django. Other programmers at the news company have used Ruby on Rails for site sections including the photo-driven Hollywood Backlot and the L.A. listings and review section, The Guide.
"It's clear that the people who made (Django) worked in a newsroom,"<|fim_middle|> the paper covers and that people come to us for and can we find names in there that sort of line up with that."
What began as an exercise in learning the L.A. County records system has become a way for Welsh to connect with readers. And he says reader comments, especially those left on the "California's War Dead" database have been the most rewarding and touching aspect of his work so far.
"The people, to whatever degree, trust the site, or they think it's worthy of depositing information like that, which is very sensitive and very personal.
"Just the fact that someone felt comfortable enough to do that makes me feel like we must've done something right. I'm not exactly sure what, but something."
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Categories Data + Graphics, FOI | Welsh says. In tight-deadline situations, having many people working on different aspects of a project at the same time is imperative. On the same day the backend database was created, reporters and researchers began entering data.
"And then simultaneously as they're working on entry, the developer can also be working on building the public-facing site, which is where you want to invest your most resources, because that's going to decide whether you sink or swim," Welsh says.
Though Welsh couldn't estimate how long the project took from the first public information request to official launch, he says he dedicated most of about two or three weeks to development once the database became top priority.
The project came together so quickly, in part, because it had been based on a prior effort, a database of California soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan that was launched Memorial Day weekend.
"We were able to save effort by borrowing a lot of the layout and stuff, but not everything, from the 'War Dead' design and they have a lot of similarities if you've used the two," Welsh says. "And that was sort of an investment that paid off the second time around."
A new feature on the dog names database is the list of similar names that appears on each name page. The list is created using the Soundex function in mySQL.
Soundex is a patented phoentic algorithm that converts words into numeric code that can then be used to search for similar-sounding words.
Welsh says he applied the Soundex function in "what's called a custom manager in the Django code that I wrote that just has a SQL statement that passes in whatever that current name is in the URL into the database and finds names that have a similar Soundex score."
Among the list of interesting dog names is "Pick of the Litter (Editor's Choice)." In it, you'll find Welsh's selections for "the weirdest, funniest, best names in Los Angeles."
They include Otis, and Chandler (together, the name of the L.A. Times founder), Dr. Zaius, and several names that may be familiar to Django fans.
"It was also an opportunity to give a tongue-in-cheek shoutout to the Lawrence, Kansas, guys," Welsh says.
The interesting dog names categories started as "just fiddling through the data and seeing the fun ones and wanting to share that with other people," Welsh says.
"I think for us, also, there was a desire to find ways to package the information so that it would be useful or be topical for other bloggers on our site, where if we have a list of the presidential names, maybe Andy Malcolm would like to write about it at 'Top of the Ticket,' or if we have a list of superhero names, it might fit on our superhero blog — just kind of thinking what are the things that | 573 |
The Notre Dame Varsity Hockey team traveled down to South Bend for a set of games, including one at the Compton Family Ice Arena on the Campus of the University of Notre Dame.
The Irish dropped the first of the two games 3-2 to South Bend Adams. Vincent Anderson game Notre Dame an early 1-0 lead with an unassisted goal in the first period. The Eagles tied the game in the second and went up 2-1 early in the third with a powerplay goal. The Irish would<|fim_middle|> the period. Sebastian Vanadia finished with 27 saves in goal for Notre Dame.
In the second game against South Bend St. Joseph the Irish and Indians would trade second period goals as Anderson scored off of a faceoff win by Ryan Lindsey before St. Joseph would score on a rebound. With just 22 seconds remaining in the game the Indians would score on a 2-on-1 to take the win. Vanadia was once again strong in net with 21 saves.
As part of the road trip the Irish also attended a team mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, view the Notre Dame Campus and took in a Women's Basketball game. | answer as Nick Popov would score with assists going to Toby Roth and Vaughn Carraher but Adams would score the eventual game-winner midway though | 30 |
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Satnarine Balkaransingh is a Kathak Classical dancer, choreographer, arts director and co- founded Nrityanjali Theatre Inc of T&T in 1977. Balkaransingh has researched, scripted and directed several ballets/dance dramas and over 35 full length stage productions, and has performed extensively in India, UK, North and South America and the Caribbean; he also performed for Heads of States and Royalty.Balkaransingh holds a BA (Hons.) Economics, Delhi University; MSc (Project Planning and National Development) UK; A Diploma and a Post Graduate, Specialisation Course in Indian classical Dance, India. He has been trained in Kathak and Kuchipudi classical dances, tabla playing and Indian folk dances plus contemporary dance (Martha Graham Technique). A part time lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and the Phd. Candidate at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, Balkaransingh is a consultant in Policy and Strategic Planning, Project Management and in Culture. Balkaransingh is currently the Artistic Director of the Kathak Kala Sangam, an Institute for the Arts. He is a former Deputy and Permanent Secretary (AG) in the Public Service of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and Director of the Programme Planning and Reconstruction Division in the Ministry of Finance
Rajkumari Singh (1923-1979)
Rajkumari stands out as major<|fim_middle|>aceted individual. As an intellectual he presented papers at the University of the West Indies (1987), Columbia University (1988), and Carlton University (1995). As a producers/choreographer he undertook cultural projects, in collaboration with organizations... As a philanthropist he lent his time and expertise and organizational abilities in establishing and fostering community organizations (Annan Boodram in Caribbean Life, July 22-August 4, 1977)
:"His death brought great grief to all those who knew him. He was a bold artist, an accomplished Kathak dancers who was obstinate in his pursuit, impassive to rebuke and clever in charting his course in the convolutions of businessmen and politicians." (Ramesh Kalicharran in the Caribbean American, June 23-July 13, 1988) | pioneering Caribbean woman writer, political activist, educator, and distinguished cultural leader in her native land Guyana, where she received national honors. She was respected and praised by her contemporaries for the quality of controversy, criticism and debate present in her works, for which she received many literary prizes and awards; she is revered by numerous younger poets, writers, scholars, artists and performers, to whom she was a patron and mentor. Rajkumari was concerned with Indo-Caribbean identity finding their place in a region undergoing harsh disappointing political, cultural and social change. These critical issues found their way into her literary work.
"... an unmistakable spirit concerned with roots...the truth is that long before the obsession with 'roots' became the 'thing', Rajkumari Singh clung to her Indian Heritage with all the vitality she could muster, in all this, never allowing her nostalgia for the life-style of her forbears to so cloud her raison d'etre that she thought the thing to do was to go back to the Indian Sub-Continent ..." -Raschid Osman, Guyana Chronicle, 1979
"Her involvement with the arts, politics, and the politics of culture was lifelong and was invariably a surrogate cultural and artistic mother to younger writers and artists." Dr. Jeremy Poynting, South Asian Journal, 1980-
"Crippled by polio at age 6, Rajkumari truimphed over her physical handicap - Parallel to her artistic and creative life, she was deeply involved in educational, cultural and social welfare work, and raising her own 8 children, all from a wheelchair." -Gora Singh, The Sound of Her Bells Publication, 1995
As poet, dramatist, editor, and encourager of the arts - particularly a generation of younger poets, writers, artists and performers - has been highly significant." -Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh, Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, 1996
Gora Singh (1950-1997)
"Gora Singh was a friend of all people. But he held the disadvantaged close to his heart. He also struggled for racial harmony over and above the call of duty... If ever there was a voice of hope and inspiration, it was that of Gora Singh. If there was a voice of integrity, it was that of Gora Singh... His dreams, hopes, and aspirations were boundless. He never despaired and saw opportunities when others saw nothing. He knew the meaning and value of life." (Rohit Kanhai in Caribbean Daylight, Monday June 9, 1997)
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2018 BMW 7-series Review
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2018 BMW 7-series Review, As luxury limos go, the 7-series is actually a roomy and trendy solution, but it does not give the stirring driving dynamics of its predecessors-a trait that as soon as defined BMW's largest sedan. Below its lengthy hood, the 7-series can attribute a range of buttery-smooth turbocharged engines, from the base three.0-liter inline-six for the six.6-liter V-12 inside the M760i; a plug-in hybrid powertrain can also be offered that delivers as much as 14 miles of electric-only variety. As well as the typical luxury-car capabilities, the 7-series provides plenty of tech, which include optional semi-autonomous active safety gear plus a virtually total suite of infotainment gadgetry. Plus, its classically<|fim_middle|> BMW 7-series Review" | handsome exterior assures you'll be arriving in design for years to come.
A reshuffling of optional packages would be the only alter for 2018. The Driver Support bundle to the 740i, 740e, and 750i designs is now referred to as the Driving Assistance package deal and options forward-collision warning, automated emergency braking, pedestrian detection, lane-departure warning, blind-spot monitoring, and rear cross-traffic alert, also as being a head-up display in 740 designs. The Driving Assistance Plus bundle replaces the prior Driving Support Plus II package and consists of state-of-the-art capabilities including adaptive cruise manage and lane-keeping aid. A fresh Parking Support package deal is now readily available on 740i, 740e, and 750i models and consists of a 360-degree exterior camera procedure in addition to a self-parking function.
2018 BMW 7-series Review - Features:
All new for 2016, the 7-series lineup grew by three for 2017 with the addition on the 12-cylinder M760i xDrive, the V-8 Alpina B7, and the 740e xDrive plug-in hybrid. The newest edition of BMW's iDrive infotainment system also arrived inside the 7-series for 2017.
Trims and Alternatives We'd Select
Amongst the obtainable 7-series versions, which array in horsepower from 320 to 601, we'd advocate for your base 740i and its silky-smooth and loads strong turbocharged three.0-liter inline-six. The 740i starts at $84,095 and comes with loads of regular products, which include:
Four-corner air suspension
Power-adjustable heated front seats
Harman/Kardon surround-sound audio
Touchscreen infotainment with navigation
In the 740i's numerous choice packages, the $400 Cold Climate bundle appears like a no-brainer, because it adds a heated steering wheel and heated rear seats. We'd also spring to the Driving Help Plus package deal ($1700), which adds adaptive cruise handle, full-speed automated emergency braking, traffic-jam assist with active steering, and lane-keeping assist. Selecting this package also contains the contents from the $1700 Driving Help package deal (head-up display, low-speed automated emergency braking, blind-spot monitoring, together with other active security features). Our rear-wheel-drive 740i is available for limo duty for $87,895; people needing all-wheel drive can upgrade to a similarly equipped 740i xDrive for $3000.
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First prize in the central division went to the evasion project team for work towards tackling boat licence evasion; driving the licence evasion rate down from 10.4% to 4.7% at 31 March 2009. In second place was the team that negotiated the new national vegetation and facilities management contract, and the group involved in delivering the Liverpool Canal Link were awarded third prize. ...
Call for lock keepers after canal is drained expressandstar.com
Narrowboat owners are calling for traditional lock keepers to be brought back along a stretch of canal in the Black Country after a suspected vandal attack. A 400-metre section of the Stourbridge Canal between two locks was drained after a suspected act of vandalism in the early hours of Saturday morning. Canal users say it is not the first time this part of the canal, near to the Red House Glass Cone attraction, in Wordsley has been targeted. ... | cause Chichester canal restoration to grind to a halt westsussextoday.co.uk
Small, furry animals have caused the long-running restoration project at Chichester's 187-year-old canal to grind to a temporary halt. ...
Canal group wants help to build new Derby cycleway thisisderbyshire.co.uk
A HERITAGE group that wants to build a new cycleway for Derbyshire is calling for help from businesses after its plans were hit by the credit crunch. The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust wants to build the track, at a cost of between £700,000 and £1m, along the route of the former waterway. ...
Narrowboat sunk in canal readingchronicle.co.uk
Three young men had to abandon ship last night when the narrowboat they were on started to sink. The men in their twenties were treated by paramedics after swimming to safety from the boat in the Kennet and Avon Canal at Padworth. ...
Rowers to take to the Thames for Great River Race richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk
The River Thames will be awash with rowers as crews from all over the world fight it out in the annual Great River Race. ...
Rochdale towpath to be upgraded? halifaxcourier.co.uk
Interpretational boards, information signs and a series of picnic benches and bins could be installed along an 11 mile stretch of the Rochdale Canal between Sowerby Bridge and Walsden. ...
Friday 28 August
Towpath upgraded in Northwich midcheshirechronicle.co.uk
Students starting the new academic year at Sir John Deane's College and Kingsmead School can now safely use a green, traffic-free route along the River Weaver. As part of a wider partnership project, British Waterways has delivered over two kilometres of upgraded towpath from the A556 blue bridge at Hartford through to Northwich town centre. ...
Canal drained as vandals open locks in Leicester thisisleicestershire.co.uk
Residents in Westminster Drive and Grosvenor Close, in Glen Parva, Leicester, woke yesterday morning to find the canal near their homes had drained away. A mile-and-a-half stretch of waterway had almost vanished after the wreckers forced open lock gates near Westminster Drive, letting the water rush downhill. ...
BW reservoir could host five wind turbines northamptonchron.co.uk
A reservoir in Northamptonshire could become home to five wind turbines after it was announced a survey will be carried out into the feasibility of the project. ...
Canal Music takes the scenic route guardian.co.uk
Burton and Knapp are rehearsing for a joint tour that will travel up the once-thriving trade route of the canal from London to Birmingham. They'll be performing the concerts on the boat, too, with the audience watching from the towpath. ...
'Canal can still run through our town' swindonadvertiser.co.uk
The dream of a canal running through Swindon town centre has not been dimmed by the recession. ...
Thursday 27 August
Cheque to help Chippenham canal restoration gazetteandherald.co.uk
Campaigners trying to restore a former waterway through Wiltshire have been given nearly £900 for canal conservation and restoration near Chippenham. ...
Hundreds pore over Burscough Wharf development plans osadvertiser.co.uk
Hundreds of people turned out to see the new plans for the Burscough Wharf development on Saturday. Around 500 visitors came through the door to see the multi-million pound plans which include a top class restaurant and a micro-brewery. ...
Wednesday 26 August
Children hold key to canal chaos expressandstar.com
Children are making their own lock keys and using them to drain stretches of water along the Stourbridge Canal, it has been claimed. ...
GUCCC boat makes its way up the Foss thepress.co.uk
Walkers in the Huntington Road area of York may have thought they had travelled back in time when a carrying boat was steered up the River Foss. The former Grand Union Canal Company freight carrier Victoria became the first vessel of its type for decades to enter the river at Castle Mills Bridge. ...
Tuesday 25 August
Cyclist dived into canal to save towpath walker lep.co.uk
A cyclist has been hailed a hero after he rescued a drowning man from a Lancashire canal. ...
Blisworth celebrations a success aboutmyarea.co.uk
200 year old Blisworth Tunnel near Towcester was filled with steam and boats on Saturday as hundreds of people turned out to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of its reopening to boat traffic on 22nd August 1984 to the sound of a full peal of church bells. ...
New IWAC members media-newswire.com
Minister for Waterways Huw Irranca-Davies today announced the appointment of six new members to the Inland Waterways Advisory Council. Mike Cooksley, John Dodwell, Amanda Nobbs, Tamsin Phipps, Colin Powell and Alan Stopher will take up their three year appointments from January 2010. ...
Weir makes it plain sailing for ducklings waterscape.com
British Waterways' staff are making life a little easier for distressed ducklings on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal with a series of rescue ramps inside Pontymoile Weir. The galvanised steel mesh structures will enable ducklings and other animals to navigate their way back on to the canal if they have been washed over the weir | 1,158 |
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский) (December 1 1792 - February 24 1856) was a Russian mathematician.
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Lobachevsky was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. His parents were Ivan Maksimovich Lobachevsky, a clerk in a landsurveying office, and Praskovia Alexandrovna Lobachevskaya. In 1800, his father died and his mother moved to Kazan. In Kazan, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky attended Kazan Gymnasium, graduating in 1807 and then Kazan University which was founded just three years earlier, in 1804.
At Kazan University, Lobachevsky was influenced by professor Martin Bartels (1769 - 1833), a friend of Carl Friedrich Gauss. Lobachevsky received a Master's degree in physics and mathematics in 1811. In 1814, he became a lecturer at Kazan University and in 1822 he became a full professor. He served in many administrative positions and was the rector of Kazan University from 1827 to 1846. He retired (or was dismissed) in 1846, after which his health rapidly deteriorated.
In 1832, he married Varvara Alexivna Moisieva. They had seven children.
Mathematical results
Lobachevsky's main achievement is the development (independently from János Bolyai) of non-Euclidean geometry. Before him, the mathematicians were trying to deduce Euclid's fifth postulate from other axioms. He would instead develop a geometry in which the fifth postulate was not true. This idea was first reported on February 23 (Feb. 11, O.S. ), 1826 to the session of the department of physics and mathematics, and this research was printed in the Bulletin of Kazan University (Вестник Казанского университета) in 1829-1830. The recognition of his ideas by the mathematical community was quite slow. They were fully accepted only several decades after Lobachevsky's death.
Another of Lobachevsky's achievements was developing a method for the numerical approximation of the roots of algebraic equations. This method is now known as Dandelin-Gräffe method, named after two other mathematicians who discovered it independently. In Russia, it is called Lobachevsky method. Lobachevsky gave the definition of a function as a correspondence between two sets of real numbers (Dirichlet gave the same definition independently soon after Lobachevsky).
In the 1950s, humorist, satirist (and mathematician) Tom Lehrer wrote a song, inspired by a Danny Kaye routine about Stanislavsky, in which he credited Lobachevsky with teaching him the secret of success as a mathematician: plagiarism ("But remember always to call it please, 'research'.") Lehrer has noted that he chose Lobachevsky mainly because his name was reminiscent of Stanislavsky's, and not because Lobachevsky is particularly known for this misdemeanor.
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Categories: 1792 births | 1856 deaths | Russian mathematicians | Russian scientists | Tatarstan | of sorcerers navigate a non-Euclidean universe with the assistance of the ghosts of Lobachevsky and Bolyai. (The novella also makes a reference to Lehrer's song.)
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In honor of the 8th Annual Governors Awards, the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented last night (11/12) Honorary Awards (Oscar® statuettes) to actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
Four titanic figures in the film community were honored at the Academy's 8th Annual Governors Awards on November 12, 2016 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center. An international action movie groundbreaker, a dazzling master of film editing, a brilliant casting director, and an uncompromising documentarian all shared the spotlight for an elegant evening that represented Hollywood at its finest.
"What an amazing standard tonight's honorees have already set," Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs said in her opening toast. "One day they will hand the baton to other remarkable talents, some of whom have not yet even been born. At the Academy, we are committed to empowering that next generation of creative talent and ensuring it represents the real face of America and the world." She also introduced a new Academy initiative to implement that idea for younger generations to create<|fim_middle|>, Law and Order, and High School (which influenced Rushmore). Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle spoke about how he found the "uncomfortable, challenging, but deeply compelling" body of work by Wiseman revealed a "deep empathy for his fellow man," something still of vital importance. "What's kept me going is that it's fun and an adventure," Wiseman said in front of the crowd. "I'm lucky I found work that I like and I continue to be obsessed with… I never start with a point of view about a subject or a thesis I want to prove. I don't do any research in advance of shooting… The editing is an effort to impose order on the chaos of the rushes through the creation of a fiction form that provides meaning to the film," resulting in a kind of "visual novel" honed out of the messiness of real life.
Academy Actors Branch Governor and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks "kicked off" the final presentation of the evening to Jackie Chan, a peerless combination of actor, action star, stuntman, and filmmaker. He saluted Jackie's "enormous creativity and gift for physical performance," an example of how great acting can manifest in many different ways while delighting millions of worldwide viewers as the Chinese fusion of John Wayne and Buster Keaton – with the audacity to "put the bloopers on during the closing credits," too, demonstrating the real-life injuries he endured for his craft. A star alongside Chan in Supercop, Michelle Yeoh offered a charming reminiscence about first meeting Chan and using their mutually competitive natures to come up with increasingly outlandish stunts. He's "exactly the same as the day I met him – honest, funny, kind," she added warmly, and "forever young." Chan's costar in the Rush Hour series, Chris Tucker, presented the Oscar to this "living legend" whom he couldn't wait to see when he got to the set – even if "I was late most of the time!" An exhilarated Chan took to the stage and clutched his Oscar, exclaiming, "I can't believe I'm standing here!" He jokingly recalled telling his dad he wouldn't get an Oscar for doing comedy action films, but indeed, the dream came true. After more than 56 years in the film industry with over 200 films, friends in China and Hollywood, "and broken bones," he said, "Finally, this is mine!"
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Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren appeared for a heartfelt salute to all four Honorary Award recipients and singled out their accomplishments, seguing to a special musical performance by Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer Heather Headley of "The Trail We Blaze" written by Elton John for the film The Road to El Dorado.
David Rubin, an Academy Governor from the Casting Directors Branch, opened the first salute of the evening to Lynn Stalmaster, the first casting director to receive an Oscar, by discussing the unique demands of that career requiring "the ability to somehow imagine the chemical reactions possible when the personality of an actor rubs up against the personality of the character on the page." He also revealed how Stalmaster hired him at a young age and brought him to Los Angeles, serving as a mentor for many years. "I don't know if Oprah Winfrey's in the house, but this is what we would call a 'full circle moment.'" He was followed by Bruce Dern and Actors Branch Governor Laura Dern, with the latter talking about being hired from her first audition at the age of nine by Stalmaster, "a champion… for a girl who could grow into a woman finding her own voice." Bruce Dern added that we have to remember, "Every movie that was ever made was made with a casting director… he dared us to go out on the edge and take parts no other people would take." Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges provided the final intro by sharing a story about how Stalmaster got early key roles for both him and brother Beau over the years. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would be standing here," an emotional Stalmaster said upon taking the stage and holding his Oscar. He remembered getting his start with director Robert Wise (who brought him onto I Want to Live! and West Side Story), noting of his search for ideal actors, "You never known where or when you will find the answer… and I found the answer in some very strange places!" He also recalled casting The Great Escape for director John Sturges, which allowed him to bring authenticity to an international roster of characters, an early high point in a career that's "never been boring or lacking in surprises!"
A Governor of the Academy's Film Editors Branch, Michael Tronick offered a tribute to the next honoree, Anne V. Coates, recalling sitting with her at his first Academy meeting and sometimes giving her a ride home with many conversations about her work and her family along the way. Her "accomplishments are unparalleled and groundbreaking on so many levels," he noted, citing her conversation freeze frame in Out of Sight as a particular high water mark. Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman took the stage next to express her joy at honoring a "great, great editor… she's not a trailblazer for women; she's a trailblazer for all of us" with films like Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, and The Elephant Man. Actor Richard Gere presented the Honorary Award to Coates by pointing how she can "feel" her craft and the way time and space impact a story, getting to experience her "special magic" on the film Unfaithful. Coates herself chatted about working at some of the world's "most mesmerizing locations" and getting paid to "look into the eyes" of some of the world's biggest and most magnetic stars. "Looking back I wouldn't change a thing… but my greatest productions are my three wonderful and talented children," she said of her family in attendance. "I like to think I can share this with all the editors, the unsung heroes out there working frantically as I speak. But we do so not entirely unnoticed!"
A Governor of the Academy's Documentary Branch, Rory Kennedy honored the third honoree, Frederick Wiseman, for his skill honed building his stories in the editing room. "He has never blinked at the uncomfortable truths he has uncovered," she said of a legacy unlike any other, which was echoed by an appearance by Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley. He explained how preparing for Schindler's List sent him to documentaries for research, a process he repeated on Shutter Island by watching Wiseman's controversial and long-banned examination of mental illness, Titicut Follies. Thanks to documentaries, Kingsley felt that every gesture as an actor would be "true" because he'd seen it in Wiseman's films like Hospital | 909 |
The 2022 ACB Playoffs, also known as 2022 Liga Endesa Playoffs for sponsorship reasons, is the postseason tournament of the ACB's 2021–22 season, which began on 18 September 2021. The playoffs started on May 24 after the EuroLeague Final Four, which was played on May 19–21, and ended on June 19.
Barça was the defending champion, but lost the final series 1–3 to Real Madrid, who won a record 36th title (14th in the ACB era), ending a 3-year drought after their last triumph in 2019.
Format
At the end of the regular season, the eight teams with the most wins qualify for the playoffs. The seedings are based on each team's record.
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playoffs | there is no reseeding. The quarterfinals are best-of-three series; the team that wins two games advances to the next round. This round is in a 1–1–1 format. From the semifinals onward, the rounds are best-of-five series; the team that wins three games advances to the next round. These rounds, including the Finals, are in a 2–2–1 format. Home court advantage in any round belong to the higher-seeded team.
Playoff qualifying
On April 10, 2022, Barça became the first team to clinch a playoff spot.
Bracket
Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding, the numbers to the right indicate the result of games including result in bold of the team that won in that game, and the numbers furthest to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
Quarterfinals
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
Barça v Gran Canaria
This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with Barça winning the previous three meetings.
Real Madrid v Baxi Manresa
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with Real Madrid winning three of the first four meetings.
Valencia Basket v Bitci Baskonia
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with Bitci Baskonia winning three of the first five meetings.
Joventut v Lenovo Tenerife
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with Joventut winning the first meeting.
Semifinals
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
Barça v Joventut
This was the 14th playoff meeting between these two teams, with Barça winning 10 of the first 13 meetings.
Real Madrid v Bitci Baskonia
This was the 12th playoff meeting between these two teams, with Real Madrid winning eight of the first 11 meetings.
Finals
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
This was the 21st playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning 10 out of the first 20 meetings.
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Proteus — это инди-игра 2013 года выпуска, совмещающая жанры квеста и симулятора ходьбы. Её разработкой занимались независимые разработчики Эд Кей и Дэвид Канага для платформ Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 и PlayStation Vita. В Proteus игрок изучает процедурно сгенерированную среду без каких либо заданных целей. Флора и фауна мира издают разные звуки, в совокупности образуя разные музыкальные дорожки и образуя адаптивный<|fim_middle|> стороны, указал на то, что, хотя повторные игровые сеансы гарантировали возникновение очередных сюрпризов и необычных игровых локаций, тем не менее игровой мир казался всё менее интересным из-за в целом чувства их узнаваемости. Кроме того, критик PC Gamer заметил, что к концу игрового сеанса; игровой мир казался ему бесцельным и не вдохновляющим, в частности из-за скудности представленного животного мира.
Оценки версий для PlayStation 3 и Vita также были положительными. Например критик Pocket Gamer оставил положительный отзыв, похвалив аудио и дополнительные функции, присутствующие в версии Vita, такие как PlayStation Trophies, из-за которой критик решил перепройти игру. Тем не менее он указал на некоторые проблемы связанные с производительностью, особенно при перемещении камеры. Редакция Metro в своём обзоре описала игру как «увлекательный интерактивный опыт», особенно благодаря музыке. Журнал PlayStation Official Magazine назвал версию для PlayStation 3 «простой, но удивительно эффективной», похвалив игру за её уникальность и «передаваемое чувство удивления».
Proteus стала причиной споров среди игроков и журналистов, касаемо того, стоит ли её вовсе рассматривать, как видеоигру, ссылаясь на такие аспекты, как отсутствие целей или задач. Некоторые противники, в том числе и разработчики видеоигр назвали Proteus программой-игрушкой, само определение признано спорным и уничижительным. Защитники утверждали, Proteus стоит рассматривать, как нетрадиционную игру, что она обладает действиями и своими внутриигровыми законами, хоть и не требующими быстрых рефлексов. Редакция IGN утверждала, что хотя Proteus действительно включает в себя элементарную игровую механику, с необязательным взаимодействием и отсутствием обратной связи, «поощрение лишь строгого определения игры» противниками делает их консервативными и догматичными.
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Компьютерные игры 2013 года | саундтрек, в зависимости от окружения игрока.
Разработка игры началась в 2007 году. Кей изначально задумывал Proteus, как ролевую игру с открытым миром, похожую на The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, но из-за количества работы, требуемой для завершения подобного проекта, дизайн игры был кардинально переосмыслен в сторону «нетрадиционного и ненасильственного». Звуковой дизайнер и композитор Дэвид Канага присоединился к проекту в 2010 году. Версии для игровой приставки PlayStation 3 и портативной консоли Vita были разработаны компанией Curve Studios, команда которой по просьбе Sony добавила новые функции игрового процесса в издание Vita.
Proteus выиграла премию в категории «лучшее аудио» в 2011 году на вручении IndieCade, а также стала финалистом Nuovo Award 2012 на фестивале независимых игр . После её выхода, критики высоко оценили игру, особенно за звуковые элементы, хотя предметом основной критики стала продолжительность игры и её плохая реиграбельность. Proteus, как достаточно характерный пример , стала причиной споров, связанных с тем, можно ли её вообще считать видеоигрой.
Игровой процесс
В Proteus, игрок исследует остров от первого лица. Остров выполнен в простой пиксельной графике и состоит из холмов, деревьев, сооружений и животных, таких как лягушки и кролики; расположение этих элементов меняется каждый раз посредством процедурной генерации, вместе с очередным игровым сеансом. Основное внимание в игре уделяется исследованию, а не взаимодействию, так как в ней нет повествования, и игроку не дают инструкций о том, как действовать дальше. Возможные взаимодействия ограничены — например, животные могут убежать, когда игрок подходит слишком близко. Саундтрек игры варьируется в зависимости от движений игрока и его местоположения; он может замолчать, когда игрок находится на вершине холма, и стать более интенсивным, когда он спускается по нему. Саундтрек накладывает дополнительные звуковые дорожки, когда игрок приближается к объектам и животным. Многие объекты на острове представлены в виде двухмерных спрайтов, контрастирующих с трехмерным ландшафтом.
Когда игра начинается, игрок находится далеко от острова и должен пройти через океан, чтобы добраться до него. По прибытии игрок может свободно исследовать весь остров в течение весеннего сезона. В ночное время игрок может войти в обозначенную область, чтобы перейти к следующему сезону, исследуя каждый из сезонов до конца зимы, после чего игра заканчивается. Пейзаж меняется в зависимости от сезона — например осенью, деревья сбрасывают листья. Игрок может сделать снимок экрана с помощью функции «сохранить открытку», с помощью которой он может сохранить и загрузить свой прогресс.
В дополнение к базовым элементам игрового процесса, версия PlayStation Vita позволяет игроку напрямую воздействовать с окружающей средой, с помощью задней сенсорной панели консоли и образовывать острова на основе текущей даты и местоположения в реальном мире.
Разработка
Британский гейм-дизайнер Эд Кей начал работу над Proteus ещё в 2008 году по вечерам и выходным, хотя игра уже приобрела свой конечный вид, к разработке присоединился Дэвид Канага в 2010 году. Первоначально Кей представлял игру как процедурную генерируемую ролевую игру на подобии The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, в которой игрок должен был посещать города и выполнять квесты. Понимая масштабы работы, которая потребуется для разработки подобной игры, разработчики решили вместо этого сделать что-то «нетрадиционное и ненасильственное». Самой первой механикой, созданной для Proteus стал генератор ландшафта, который Кей создал, вдохновляясь прогулкой по деревне. Первым элементом, разработанным для игры, стал генератор ландшафта, при создании которого Ки вдохновлялся прогулкой по посёлку , Англия. Несмотря на то, что игра задумывалась, как разведывательная, Кей изучил множество вариантов возможного игрового процесса.
Кей разработал Proteus с использованием игрового движка, написанного на языке программирования C #. Он определился с визуальным стилем ещё на ранней стадии разработки, в частности с его слов импрессионистическим дизайном дерева, на основе которого создавался художественный стиль. Кей также заметил, что на стиль игры повлияли художественный стиль Арт-деко и работы Пола Нэша. После того, как Канага присоединился к команде разработчиков в качестве звукорежиссёра и композитора, музыкальная и звуковая механика игры была усовершенствована путем опробования самых разнообразных идей, в том числе позволяющих игрокам создавать свою собственную музыку в игре. Эта идея была в конечном счете исключена, потому что Кей и Канага чувствовали, что это отвлечет внимание от исследовательского аспекта игры и вместо этого превратит её в творческий инструмент. В ходе разработки и после выпуска игры, разработчики выразили заинтересованность включать в игру игровые моды, созданные игроками; некоторые из них были с тех пор созданы фанатским сообществом.
Выход Proteus состоялся 30 января 2013 года для Windows и OS X и 8 апреля того же года для Linux. Когда, в 2012 году, появилась возможность предварительного заказа, покупатель мог приобрести физическую копию Proteus — Artifact Edition, которая также включала в себя обложку к игре, саундтрек и заметки о разработке игры. Однако игроки не смогли получить физические копии в рамках предзаказа и Кей принёс официальные извинения, предложив вернуть денежные средства по запросу. Издание стало доступно для покупки в июле 2016 года.
Во время выпуска игры, Curve Studios обратилась к разработчикам с просьбой позволить им портировать игру для выпуска на PlayStation 3 и Vita. Данные версии используют эксклюзивный игровой движок Curve Studio. Sony попросила добавить новые функции в игру, в частности Кей связал процедурную генерацию, основываясь на дате и реальном местоположении, а также возможность изменения игрового мира с помощью задней сенсорной панели Vita.Разработчик заявил, что данная механика будет поддерживаться и в будущем, в других версиях игры. Версии для PlayStation 3 и Vita были выпущены 29 октября 2013 года.
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Перед выходом
Ещё до своего выпуска, бета-версия Proteus была представлена в ряде фестивалей инди-игр и освещалась журналистами видеоигр. Она выиграла премию IndieCade Award 2011 года в категориях «лучший звук» и была включена в шорт-лист на приз GameCity 2012 года, в конечном итоге проиграла Journey. Proteus стала финалистом премии Nuovo Award 2012 на фестивале независимых игр, которые избирают абстрактные и нестандартные игры. Proteus также получила почётные награды в категориях «Отличный звук» и «Гран-при Шеймуса Макнелли» и выиграла приз «Самая удивительная инди-игра» на мероприятии 2012 A MAZE. Indie Connect. В этом же году игра была представлена на выставке современного искусства в Нью-Йоркском Музее современного искусства.
В статье, в которой обсуждались разведывательные игры-2011 года, с сайта Rock, Paper, Shotgun описал Proteus как «одно из самых очаровательных переживаний», которое он испытал, играя в инди-игру. В рамках предварительного обзора IGN, редакция заметила, что игра «восхитительно опьяняюща», уникальна и интригует. Редакция PC Gamer также отреагировала положительно, обратив особое внимание на изменяющийся саундтрек игры и то, как он последовательно реагирует на движения игрока.
После выхода
Proteus также получил в целом положительные отзывы после выхода, получив совокупные оценки 80% и 78% по версии сайтов агрегаторов Metacritic и GameRankings для версии Windows PC. В результате опроса, редакция Shacknews назвала Proteus седьмой лучшей игрой 2013 года, назвав её «восхитительной, лишённой объяснений»
Обозреватели похвалили игру за её динамичное звуковое сопровождение и то, как оно сопровождает сам игровой процесс. Патрик Хэнкок с сайта Destructoid назвал динамическое звуковое сопровождение игры «главным достижением» игры, в частности возможность исследовать каждую деталь мира, чтобы раскрыть его музыкальный вклад. Редакция IGN писала: «Это странно и увлекательно просто бродить вокруг и позволять [звукам] омывать ваше окружение», и заметила, что для ей было приятно исследовать звуки, исходящие из каждого отдельного предмета или животного. Представитель PC Gamer описал звуковое сопровождение как «глубоко удовлетворяющую возникающую аранжировку». Тем не менее, обзор, составленный критиком Edge резюмировал, что хотя в целом саундтрек оказывает положительное влияние на игровой процесс, однако сама музыка «не способна завести», особенно из-за отсутствия барабанов в большинстве времён года.
Критики дали смешанные оценки относительно разнообразия самого игрового процесса и реиграбельности. Например рецензент IGN оценил реиграбельность игры, указав на то, что игра оказывала на него всё более глубокое впечатление после очередного игрового сеанса. Представитель GameSpot, с другой | 2,848 |
I have now processed most of my 'selects' and made prints of a good many of them. I have an exhibition coming up in March next year and am very much looking forward to sharing my prints from the trip. I still have many hundreds of trip snapshots to sort through;<|fim_middle|> entrance to the amazing white continent, Antarctica, and besides of this is surrounded by the most incredible landscapes in Tierra del Fuego, ideal for pictures and outdoor activities. There are accommodations for every budget. | many of which are no more than a traveller's record of the trip for me. I will continue to post photographs from the trip to my blog over the coming months.
This photograph was taken during my first visit to the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon as the sun set behind the distant Vatnajokull glacier [Europe's largest glacier]. The combination of evening light and ice is magical at the lagoon. It is hard to say any particular location in Iceland is my favourite above all others as so many of them are stunningly beautiful in their own right. The Jokulsarlon lagoon however certainly rates in the top three. I know of nowhere else in the world where icebergs can be photographed carving into a lagoon and then photographed several hours later having washed out to sea on the black volcanic sand beaches. Looking forward to Antarctica next year I received a welcome pack from Quark Expeditions which included several informative booklets on Antarctica, a large detailed map of the area, luggage tags, list of recommended clothing and equipment and associated paraphernalia. Even though this trip is still just over a year away it is now starting to feel very real and I have on several occasions when the moment has been right found myself day dreaming about what it will be like and considering what I will take with me. I have not as yet booked accommodation in Buenos Aires or Ushuaia but have been recommended a couple of different hotels; both of which look really good. I am planning to meet up with my good friend Martyn who travelled and photographed with me in Iceland for the shoot in Antarctica. We plan to meet in Buenos Aires a couple of days early for some photography to ease any shutter finger aches before we head down to Ushuaia and set sail for the big Antarctica shoot. I cant wait!
Hi! What a great picture. Ushuaia is the | 384 |
The belts and hoses are important parts of the car. These are much-needed components to maintain the fluids in vehicles. During summers, the high temperature can melt these hoses and belts. Therefore, in such weather conditions, you need to pay extra attention to them.
Also, the belt or hoses can result in an overheated engine or lack of power steering. There can be a time when the coolant starts to leaks from the hoses. This will damage the other mechanical components of the car as well. This will make the repair procedure expensive for you. If you and your family are in the mood of the summer vacation the hoses and belts can give<|fim_middle|> hoses get damaged then the car will certainly face the overheating issues.
Checking them from time to time is not that difficult. This way you can save your money from repairs and also the efforts spent on them. It is advised not to check the hoses when the engine is still running. Let it cool down first and then start inspecting it.
To start with it, check well the coolant recovery tank. This will tell you the quantity of the fluid. You can easily know this by monitoring the markings on the tank. If you have filled it recently but it shows low fluid then this is the case of fluid leakage. In addition to this, You need to inspect the engine bay for the coolant tracks of white, green or blue colours which will explain whether there is a coolant leak or not.
You will have to inspect the hoses for cracks now. Go through the areas near the connection points to know more about the damages due to the increased temperature. It is important to clean the fluids from time to time to avoid many problems.
The professionals recommend not to remove the cap of the radiator when the engine is on. This will blow hot air on your face which will be dangerous for you. Also, keep your hands away from the electric cooling fan to prevent accidents.
These are also made up of rubber just like hoses and that is why they also face the same sort of issues like dirt, heat, ozone etc. New cars generally have a single belt known as the serpentine belt that helps various mechanical components like water pump, alternator, the compressor of air conditioning system and also power steering pump. According to the experts, change the belt after your car reaches 50,000 miles. Older cars have separate belts known as V-belts. It is advised to change the belts after 36,000 miles.
Have a look at some of the care tips for these belts to keep them in good condition for a longer period of time.
Firstly, check for the cracks and cuts in the belt. You must also look for the heat damages on the belt. This is dangerous as it can cause the belt to slip away and also overheat. Also, check the serpentine belt well for cracks and separating layers.
If you find such issues in the belt then it is important to replace them with a new one. To do so, make sure that you check the size of the belt first. Get the belts of the correct tension so that they do not slip and cause problems.
These tips will surely help you to maintain the belts and hoses in the best way possible. In case, you still have certain doubts then you can get in touch with the car service station near your area for affordable services. | some serious issues to you which can be prevented very easily.
The coolant hoses work according to their name. These rubber compounds take the coolant fluid from the radiator of the car to the engine back and forth. If these | 43 |
This heart sounds quiz will test your ability on how well you know the location of heart sounds and the<|fim_middle|> patient on their right side and listen with the diaphragm of the stethoscope over the apex of the heart.
B. Place the patient on their left side and listen with the bell of the stethoscope over the base of the heart.
C. Place the patient forward (leaning slightly) and have them exhale while listening with the diaphragm over the aortic and pulmonic areas.
D. Place the patient on their left side and listen with the bell of the stethoscope over the apex of the heart.
16. In order to auscultate for an aortic regurgitation heart murmur, what is the best position to place the patient in?
17. True or False: S1 split is due to the asynchronous closing of the aortic and pulmonic values. | causes of extra heart sounds. As a nurse or nursing student, you are required to know the basic heart sounds S1 (lub) and S2 (dub) and their location, along with extra heart sounds, such as S3, S4, and heart murmurs.
In nursing school (especially health assessment), you will be tested on the pathophysiology, location, and anatomy of the heart blood flow in how it relates to the heart valves. It is important to remember the anatomical location of where each heart valve is found and which sounds it represents (either S1 or S2). In addition, it is vital you know how to properly auscultate for various heart sounds, especially S3, S4 and heart murmurs.
Before you take the quiz, don't forget to watch the video lecture and skills assessment on heart sounds.
This quiz will test you on the location of heart sounds, such as S1, S2, and extra heart sounds. In addition, it will test you on the theory behind the heart sounds and how to properly auscultate heart sounds.
S1 represents the opening of the mitral and tricuspid valves.
It is best to listen with the bell of the stethoscope for S3 and S4.
The pulmonic valve is auscultated on the left of the sternum in 2nd intercostal space.
S2 is louder than S1 at the base of the heart.
Place the patient on their right side and listen with the diaphragm of the stethoscope over the apex of the heart.
Place the patient on their left side and listen with the bell of the stethoscope over the base of the heart.
Place the patient forward (leaning slightly) and have them exhale while listening with the diaphragm over the aortic and pulmonic areas.
Place the patient on their left side and listen with the bell of the stethoscope over the apex of the heart.
1. S1 is best heard where?
2. S2 is best heard where?
4. True or False: The semilunar valves are the tricuspid and mitral valves.
B. It is best to listen with the bell of the stethoscope for S3 and S4.
C. The pulmonic valve is auscultated on the left of the sternum in 2nd intercostal space.
D. S2 is louder than S1 at the base of the heart.
6. The ____________ separate the atria and ventricles.
7. During _______, the ventricles are relaxed and the AV valves are ________ to allow blood to flow through the atria and ventricles.
8. S2 represents the closure of?
9. The contraction phrase of the heart so blood can be pumped through the body's system and lungs is known as?
10. What is a cause of the extra heart sounds known as S3?
13. Which of the following conditions can cause the extra heart sound S4?
14. What is the best way to assess for extra heart sounds, such as S3 and S4?
A. Place the | 642 |
Home » Recipes » Sweet Heat Cheerwine Baby Back Ribs – Grillsanity!
Sweet Heat Cheerwine Baby Back Ribs – Grillsanity!
A flurry of upsets, contested shots, and flamboyant school pride in just four days, and we are just getting started. March Madness makes this the best time of the year to be a sports fan, and Grillsanity makes any time grillin' time for the grilling enthusiast. To get ready for the intensity of the third and fourth rounds, we bring to you Sweet Heat Cheerwine Baby Back Ribs. Featuring a hot and sweet glaze caramelized and charred over tender pork ribs, this dish will match the passion and emotion of the tournament.
These ribs begin in the oven so you don't miss any of the action, and finish on the grill with beautiful color and texture. Using a rub of paprika, chili powder, dry mustard, garlic powder, ginger, salt, and pepper, the ribs are seasoned and baked until tender in the oven. The Cheerwine glaze features a unique combination of sweetness from the Cheerwine soda and heat from a chili-garlic sauce and Dijon mustard. The baked ribs are grilled over medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes, being basted with the Cheerwine sauce continually until the glaze is deep, dark, and red. Sticky and tantalizing, these ribs will get all over your face and you won't care the slightest because this is Grillsanity!
Preheat oven to 325°F. Stir together paprika, chili powder, dry mustard, garlic powder, ginger, 4 teaspoons salt, and 2 teaspoons pepper in a bowl. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons spice<|fim_middle|> ribs, dividing evenly. Place ribs on a rimmed baking sheet; wrap tightly with aluminum foil. Bake until tender, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Remove foil; rest 30 minutes.
Combine Cheerwine, tomato sauce, brown sugar, Dijon mustard, chili-garlic sauce, and 1 tablespoon spice mixture in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced to 2 cups, 25 to 30 minutes.
Heat grill to medium. Grill ribs, basting with 1 cup of the Cheerwine sauce and turning frequently, until lightly charred and lacquered, 10 to 15 minutes.
Transfer to a platter and serve with remaining Cheerwine sauce and spice mixture. | mixture over | 2 |
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Below we have a tutorial to help you get started with your new sensor! This will hopefully give you a basic understanding of how ultrasonic sensors work and will help you set up your ultrasonic sensor to read analog voltage.
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I'm making a project about modeling of nannochloropsis metabolism. My model is in the refinement stage. However, it is not running in the FBA test. Then i found there are 87 reactions that did not run. But the reactant/metabolites for those reactions to run are there in the model.
Is there any one know what is the possible reason for this, and how to solve this problem?
Really looking forward to see your answer.
It is common that reactions in stoichiometric models cannot carry flux because there is a "dead end" metabolite somewhere. The problem may not be in the immediate reactants / products, but can be several steps away, and is not always easy to find.
If you have a network visualization tool, one option is to highlight all reactions that cannot carry flux; often this reveals an entire blocked pathway ending in the isolated metabolites.
A more systematic method is to examine the dual solution of the linear program for maximizing<|fim_middle|> precisely the metabolites that are lacking for the blocked reaction to be able to run.
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How to relate human metabolic model reactions and cancer drug targets / reactome items?
How usable is the Human Metabolic Model to predict biomass?
How does collaboration on reconstructing metabolic networks work? | flux through a blocked reaction; this shows the active constraints, which are | 14 |
PTB Photometer-bench-system
The<|fim_middle|> can be moved manually, with a control-panel on the wagon or over WLAN of the process-control.
The wagons can control IEEE-devices and even more periphery.
There exist further WLAN/IEEE-converter to control stationary devices. Those controller are in principle bench-wagons without a motorization.
The standard bench-wagon is always the same. But there are also special-type which have more setups. | bench is sperated in multiple segments which can also be used independently.
At 3 points of the bench there is a diagonal bench. Those benches are primarily used for the installation of luminaires. The benches dispose of a camera/monitoring-system to adjust the luminaires that they stand in the optical axis. Also those benches provide the possibility of an automated change of measurement-equipment or luminaires.
At the end is a 45° diagonal bench and a luminaire-turner (kind of a goniometer).
The bench is seperated by two lamp-houses (up to 20kW of power), which, when not used just release the optical path.
The bench-system has a maximal-measurement-distance of 40 meters.
A special challenge was the alignment of the bench.
Bench-wagon
The bench-wagons are motorized and dispose of position-sensors.
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Quoin Rock The Nicobar 2007
By Christian Eedes, 4 April 2011
A bit of a bruiser.
The Quoin Rock cellar is located in the Simonsberg ward of Stellenbosch, but the range also includes wines made from vineyards in Cape Agulhas such as this, a partially wooded Sauvignon Blanc named after a Danish ship that sank there in 1783. The 2007 was maiden vintage and it comes highly decorated (best wooded Sauvignon Blanc at Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2008, 5 Stars in Platter's 2009) but drinking it now, I was somewhat nonplussed by it.
It should be noted that there's little that's conventional about how it was made. Free run juice was handled reductively and press juice was allowed to oxidise somewhat after which the two components were blended. Fermentation commenced without the addition of added yeast in a combination of <|fim_middle|>'s cup of tea, but undrinkable? I've only had it once when it was young and found it quite riveting. I've tasted the 2009 at the end of last year and found it a decidedly more uninteresting, duller offering. Sauvignon is prone to some real temperamental shifts once bottled and it might be in a very akward phase right now. Perhaps it will make a 'comeback' in the future? Or perhaps it simply never really matured as well as anticipated? I would love to try that again sometime. | 75% tank and 25% used French oak and lasted for 4 months. The wine was then left on the bulk fermentation lees for a further six months.
The technical analysis suggest that this is indeed a particular wine: abv 14.02%, RS 5.1g/l, TA 7.5g/l and pH 3.13. Only two vintages of this wine have ever been released (the 2009 succeeding the 2007 and rating 4½ Stars in Platter's 2011), and it is already legendary for showing blackcurrant aroma and flavour (Sauvignon Blanc is a parent grape of Cabernet Sauvignon along with Cabernet Franc and it's not unheard of that the white variety shows dark fruit flavour but this is rare in South Africa). I supposed I did detect a little of this character but my impression was rather of a rich and textured wine with more traditional lime and green melon aromas and flavours with some tannic grip, almost bitterness on the finish.
5 Stars Cape Agulhas Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show Platter's The Nicobar uoin Rock
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Purchased one of these fateful 2007 wines on account of its pedigree and the tasting room personnel assuring me it was "just like Graves". Big mistake! One, if not, the most disappointing wines I've had the misfortune to drink. Apparently, it's "Riesling-like" resin character was charming to the previous winemaker, but myself and two winemakers found it undrinkable. Thankfully that night we had a Wedderville 2005 – "lekker" developed, but a far more interesting prospect.
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We are planning a program for Japan-US Exchange Exhibition in 2020. Howard Dean Spector, an artist from Los Angeles and a director of SOUTH PASADENA ARTS COUNCIL (SPARAC), is coming Japan as a pre-exhibition for this program, and exhibit an exhibition with the Japanese photographer "COCU" It<|fim_middle|> the meaning of space and space. It is pronounced KOKUU in Japanese, but we bear the name that defeated it. | will be held at both Art Lab AKIBA / TOKYO. The exhibit is part of a project that will bring documentaries by the artist Mike Saijo to 2020 as his interactions with the Japanese during his staying in Japan.
I have been an image-maker for over 40 years, working primarily in analog and digital photography. I have also explored a range of other media – drawings in pastel and watercolor, large-scale acrylic paintings, and room-sized photographic installations. My most recent work has involved an investigation of the image itself – it's nature as an optical counterpart, if you will, of occurrences laden with personal and cultural meaning.
It is stating the obvious to say that photographic images – both as stand-alones and as parts of larger installations – play a significant role in memory formation, documenting real-life people, objects, and events and shaping the way we understand and remember them. In his book Fragments, the Greek philosopher Democritus likened the world to an enormous rainfall, with events occurring when individual drops accidentally collide. All physical phenomena, he explained, are random bursts and explosions of matter that our mind artificially condenses to sensory reality. Photography, capturing the state of things as they are at a given moment, offers us a unique opportunity to reflect upon the nature of reality and the passage of time. It provides a "setting for human experience," as one writer put it, allowing us to look back at the past and to weave its events into ever new and shifting narratives about the present.
Looking back at my history as an artist, I created a new body of work tentatively entitled Rainfall of Reality in reference to Democritus' model of the world.
My project, Rainfall of Reality, connects images in ways a dream might function, in non-sequential, random, and contingent collisions of mental energy. Pictures from the past, altered and distorted, will touch each other like Democritean drops bumping together in a rainfall, carrying with them both an emotional residue and the potential for new and unexpected narratives. The new image constellations provide an opportunity for the viewer and for myself to remember in non-linear ways and to reflect on the chance nature of our personal and communal recollections.
Can the camera obscura observe 「emptiness」? An attempt is made to define solutions with a high degree of abstraction including the opposite concepts (light and dark, yin and yang, life and death, presence and absence, waves and particles) as a function, and lead a solution through a camera. As understood from the theory of relativity "E = MC2" in physics, it is shown that everything is replaced by energy, and all things in reality are not "in sight" themselves, but "emptiness (energy)". Isn't it possible to say that there is something? It is because energy that is invisible to the world is full (is not present) that is "emptiness" but not "nothing", and this is due to the discovery of Higgs boson in quantum mechanics, from the teachings of Buddha, It has been scientifically proven to have a date of more than 2000 years. However, the consciousness of many people is dominated by the bright blue screen of the smartphone rather than solving the unseen "emptiness" function. At this point, I thought it important to have a camera that specializes in taking advantage of the power of photons that have only one mass (the fastest movement in the Higgs sea).
Emptiness (Akasha) is one of the five major Indian philosophy, and it is the last element after fire, water, soil, and wind.
It has | 742 |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Thanks to dominant outings over Lynchburg and Buies Creek, Winston-Salem Dash right-hander Dylan Cease has earned the Carolina League's Pitcher of the Week award for the week of April 30-May 6, the league office announced on Monday.
Cease overpowered the Hillcats in the Dash's 9-<|fim_middle|> six innings, allowing two runs (one earned) while striking out six in his second victory of the week. Through his two starts this past week, Cease went 2-0 with a 0.69 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 13 innings pitched.
The fifth-best prospect in the White Sox system per MLB Pipeline, Cease leads the Carolina League with 42 strikeouts. A native of Milton, Ga., Cease also ranks third in wins (four) and fourth in both ERA (1.95) and innings pitched (32.1).
The right-hander becomes the third Dash player to earn a weekly award in the Carolina League this year. Winston-Salem outfielder Micker Adolfo earned the first Player of the Week award from April 5-15. Meanwhile, Cease follows fellow right-hander Jimmy Lambert, who earned CL Pitcher of the Week honors from April 23-29.
Following a quick three-game series at Salem, the Dash return to BB&T Ballpark on Thursday for a four-game series against the Down East Wood Ducks. Promotions during the homestand include a Lowes Foods Thirsty Thursday with select beers for $1 through the seventh inning, a Fireworks Friday, a Chick-fil-A Four Pack offer for Saturday and a Mother's Day celebration on Sunday.
Following Friday, Saturday and Sunday's contests, kids can run the bases, powered by New Balance Winston-Salem. For tickets and more information, call the Dash at (336) 714-2287 or visit wsdash.com. | 0 win at BB&T Ballpark on Tuesday, tossing a career-high seven innings and notching a career-high 12 strikeouts. One of four prospects traded from the Cubs to the White Sox last July for big league left-hander Jose Quintana, Cease scattered just two hits over his seven scoreless innings, retiring 19 batters in a row at one point. He also threw 74 of his 101 pitches for strikes in the winning effort, and he hit 100 m.p.h three times on BB&T Ballpark's radar gun.
On Sunday against the Astros, Cease registered another quality start. Taking the mound for Winston-Salem's first Rayados game of the season, the 22-year-old registered | 154 |
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We always use a pure form of each ingredient and all our ingredients are laboratory tested to ensure accurate identification so you can be assured we use real<|fim_middle|> Ingredients: Cellulose, stearic acid, cellulose & glycerin coating, silica, magnesium, starch, vanilla, sorbitol, vegetable glaze. Contains soy.
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We always ensure that if an ingredient appears on our supplement facts label, it's in our product in the exact ratios and potency that our label says. We also ensure that if a product contains any known allergens, the label says so. No surprises. We ensure our products meet these standards, because we care about your health. We believe that, in every product we make for you, integrity should always be our number one ingredient. Treat yourself to great health with Country Life.
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Helicopter crashes in Russia's Far East; 4 people dead, 2 injured
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Four people were killed and two injured after a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Kamchatka, in Russia's Far East, on early Monday morning, a spokesman for the local emergencies ministry's department said.
The helicopter crashed upon landing near the village of Billings killing a crew member and two passengers.
"The helicopter was on flight along the northern border of the Chukotka autonomous district inspecting radio-navigation posts. One of the engines shut down upon landing and the aircraft crashed," the spokesman said.
He added that policemen and representatives of the prosecutor's office are currently working at the scene of the accident, while injured receive medical assistance. | were killed and two injured after a Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Kamchatka, in Russia's Far East, on early Monday morning, a spokesman for the local... 25.07.2011, Sputnik International
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What does cooking have to do with Cherdo on the Flipside, a humor blog about the flipside of fifty? It's simple: on the flipside, I cook whatever I want to cook and blog about what interests me. I'm a free agent.
My approach to dinner is pretty basic: if I'm going to go to the trouble (or have the pleasure) of cooking a meal, I want everyone to love it. Give me an easy recipe that is a hit and versatile and I've instantly arrived at foodie nirvana.
One of my favorite cookbooks is The Chinese Takeout Cookbook by Diana Kuan.
Sweet Chili Shrimp is just the right mix of sweet and tangy, with a little kick. You can adjust the amount of honey if you want it less sweet or even add a bit of hot sauce for extra zowie.
In a large bowl, toss the shrimp with the cornstarch, salt, and pepper.
Prepare the sauce: In a small bowl, stir together the soy sauce, honey, cider vinegar, and chili sauce. Set aside.
Heat a wok or large skillet over high heat until a bead of water sizzles and evaporates on contact. Add the peanut oil and swirl to coat the bottom. Add the garlic, ginger, and shallot and stir-fry until fragrant, 30 to 40 seconds. Toss in the shrimp and stir-fry about 2<|fim_middle|> the way of hot spicy food, but this would be easy enough to tone down for my tastes!
I like a little kick, but not too much - this is perfect for that niche! Thanks for stopping by, Bish!
Oh does that ever look good. I would eat that right now if it were in front of me!
Adding pineapple sounds like a winner. How about tangerine slices?
Suze, that's a good idea - yum!
I could make that with shrimp for my husband and either tempeh or tofu for me. We love homemade Chinese.
"Give me an easy recipe that is a hit and versatile and I've instantly arrived at foodie nirvana." Yes, this is how I feel, with an emphasis on the "easy" part. I ADORE Chinese food and this recipe looks easy. I especially like the idea of adding green peppers and pineapple. Sweet and sour dishes are wonderful. Thanks for participating in the bloghop!
;-) Thank you for hosting! It was a great idea.
I make a great root vegetable casserole with sweet potatoes, parsnips, turnips, onions and a white sauce. Layer in thin slices and bake. Great for a holiday dish.
Somebody needs to share that recipe! There's not enough parsnips recipes in my box.
I love the sound of sweet and tangy. I don't eat meat, but the sauce would be great with vegetables and tofu.
Trader Joe's sells a vegan "chicken nugget" (not sure what they are called exactly) that my son loves. I thought about using those in this recipe.
Since shrimp are among the top favs in our family, we eat a lot of them. Great idea for dinner tonight. Thanks. Oh and you actually taught Latin. All I remember is amo amas amat Am I even close? It has been a long time.
Sounds yummy. I have to limit my shrimp though, since it's high in cholesterol and mine doesn't like me. Still, plenty of other Chinese food to eat.
Swap out the shrimp for white meat chicken - it's still going to be awesome!
What a great cookbook idea! Chinese take out is American comfort food - no doubt about it. Sweet Chili Shrimp sounds just about right. | minutes, until pink.
Pour in the sauce and stir to coat the shrimp well.
I put a Cherdo spin on this recipe: if I want it to be more like a meal, I serve it with rice or add chunky green peppers to the mix. I've even added pineapple. Need an appetizer? Place these on your best platter with tiny skewers - they'll be a hit. They're even good cold.
Sweet Chili Shrimp is endlessly versatile, if you're so inclined. There's nothing wrong and everything right about this recipe, as is. Try it out!
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I'd definitely eat that, dear Cherdo, and I will show this recipe to Mrs Shady. Her father owned a popular restaurant in Baltimore and she is an excellent cook - always looking for new ideas. Like you she typically experiments a little and puts her own spin on a dish. On vacation I enjoyed many wonderful meals. At one Tex-Mex restaurant I had whitefish stuffed with shrimp and octopus plus shrimp enchiladas.
Thanks for sharing, kiddo, and please have a terrific Tuesday!
Putting a spin on recipes vastly expands your culinary repertoire! Mrs. Shady is wise (like I didn't know that already - tell her hello from Cherdo!).
Have a wonderful day, SDK, my dear friend.
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Evidence exists that blood<|fim_middle|>0% drop from baseline. There was a statistical difference between transfusion rates, in the first group was 30% and in the second group was 18%. This represents a relative decrease of nearly 50% in blood transfusions. Outcomes in both groups were identical. The mortality rate was nil. There was no significant difference between outcomes or length of stay.
Although optimal goals for blood transfusion remain elusive, it does appear that even slight overtransfusion may be detrimental . The tissue oxygen monitor appears to define a new, lower safe threshold for transfusion. An outcome benefit will probably be observed in future studies. Long-term outcome benefits from the routine implementation of this device have already been suggested in the trauma and intensive care settings. | transfusions may be more harmful for patients than once suspected . Optimal goals for transfusion therapy remain elusive. Lower rates of blood transfusion seem to lead to better patient outcomes. Tissue oxygenation monitoring may offer a novel insight into blood transfusion requirements as it represents an indication of oxygen content further down the oxygen cascade than the blood oxygen content defined by pulse oximetry and hematocrit. Our hypothesis is that the use of this monitor may define a safer, lower threshold for blood transfusion that may lead to decreased transfusion rates.
We performed chart reviews of 100 patients who underwent cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass graft surgery and valvular surgery) with heart-lung bypass. The first 50 surgeries were performed with standard hemodynamic monitors and intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. Indications for transfusion included ongoing bleeding, hematocrit less than 20% with a heart rate over 95 bpm or blood pressure less than 90 mmHg systolic. The subsequent 50 cases consisted of a similar patient population, surgical indications and medical group; however, the use of the Hutchinson InSpectra tissue oxygen monitor intraoperatively and postoperatively was employed. Our review sought to identify whether the transfusion threshold criteria were modified due to the availability of this additional monitoring information.
A lower hematocrit value was found to be tolerated as long as tissue oxygen values were within an acceptable range; that is, above 70% or less than a 2 | 313 |
"Through its partnership with MuleSoft, Tenzing is enabling customers to achieve their business goals through integration."
Data and services company MuleSoft has today announced that Tenzing, a leading New Zealand management and technology consulting firm, has joined the MuleSoft Partner Program to provide consulting and services for MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform.
Previously KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint, Tenzing was formed in 2008 and has grown from 40 to over 110 client facing consultants.
As a partner in the MuleSoft channel program, Tenzing will attempt to ensure clients in New Zealand can address on-premises, cloud and hybrid integration use cases that scale easily and with flexibility.
"Today's winning companies gain competitive advantage by automating business processes across SaaS applications, data sources and APIs," says Brent Hayward, vice president of global channels and services, MuleSoft.
"Through its partnership with MuleSoft, Tenzing is enabling customers to achieve their business goals through integration.
Tenzing provides a broad range of integration-related services and solutions to the New Zealand market, including business modelling, architecture and strategy through implementation and support.
Among its customer base are many traditional businesses that face new digital competitors and a time-to-market challenge, as they seek to rapidly develop new products and digitally optimise legacy applications.
In response, many organisations have made significant ERP investments and developed an integrated suite of applications.
<|fim_middle|>Are APIs top of mind for Kiwi businesses? | At the same time, bimodal or pace layering strategies have emerged as an approach to address the digital transformation challenge.
However, the success of pace layering strategies is dependent on the ability to transform customer experience, the business model, and an integration capability able to support the bi-modal approach.
"Our clients increasingly require the best products and professional services to compete in a fast changing, connected world where traditional integration paradigms are often no longer applicable," adds Chris Day, Managing Director, Tenzing.
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I work as a counselor at San Diego City College, and we had a Student Success Day for new students on June 30th. I worked with a lady (I'm going to call her Claire) at an education planning session who said she went to an earlier workshop we facilitated called "Identify Your Career." Claire said it made her think about passion and purpose and what she should pursue. She thought of being a softball coach but she was afraid and had some doubts about her age. She looked to be in her early forties.
At the education planning sessions, we have a lot of students we need to work with to develop a two-semester plan, so we don't have time to do career planning. I had to advise her to schedule an hour appointment with a counselor at a later date to look at her career in more depth<|fim_middle|> a softball coach, and then go after it with everything you have.
And when you're a coach, I hope you come back and tell me how it feels to be living your dream. | . It was hard for me to tell her this because she was really struggling with whether to choose coaching as her career, but I couldn't take the time to work with her there.
I know it can be scary to think about going after something you feel passionate about. From my perspective, if the thought of being a softball coach brings up some fears, that's not necessarily a bad sign. The jitters may be because you're on the right track. If you are thinking about a career you've never done before, some anxiety is perfectly normal and expected. The fact that you're nervous tells me it's important to you, and I hope you pick a career that really means something to you because you'll put more effort and energy into it. You'll put your heart and soul into it and you'll make a difference to the players you're coaching.
And I suspect that some of the prospective players who will want to be on your team may experience the same kinds of fears and doubts you are currently having. Is it something they can really do? Do they have what it takes? Will they be good enough? You will understand these fears because you have gone through this yourself, and it will make you a better coach.
As to the age issue, you can't let that get in your way. Banish the thought that you're too old because it will only hold you back. There is no age limit to being a softball coach, just as there isn't one to become a counselor, a teacher, a mentor, a guide, or a friend and you will be all of these as a coach.
And when you talk to some softball coaches, ask someone you really connect with to mentor you, because even coaches need some guidance.
Uncover what it takes to become | 358 |
The environs of Žagarė are notable for the Devonian dolomite of Žagarė formation already from mid-19th century, when investigations on general geological setup had begun. The research that lasted about 150 years showed that the base of the sedimentary deposits, so-called crystalline basement, had been forming for several billion years. The sedimentary beds were laid during a period of 550–510 million years in the marine or continental environments. The youngest deposits observed closer to the land surface or on it are mostly<|fim_middle|>ary beds were being pulled or pressed, lifted or sunk, bent or torn. All this is seen well in the geological profiles presented. The faults in the crystalline basement and the sedimentary cover are still active during the current geological period, as the neotectonically active linear zones confirm. The dynamics of the Quaternary tectonic structures affected the dynamics of continental glaciers, formation of deposits and their survival, formation of relief and hydrographical network and other geological processes (earthquakes, erosion, denudation and hydrodynamics). | related to the continental glaciers. The beds of sedimentary deposits play an important role as useful minerals being a raw material for construction works. The Upper Devonian beds are often filled with fresh water used for drinking.
The setup of the crystalline basement and sedimentary cover and their development history showed that very intricate processes took place in the environs of Žagarė, as well as in all Lithuania, often caused by the movements of Earth's crust plates. Global geodynamical processes also were and are forming even the least structures of crystalline basement and the sedimentary cover. First of all, large or small blocks confined by faults should be mentioned. The sediment | 134 |
In this video clip, each time the hearing worker (in blue shirt) vocally spoke, the baby (age 0;9) turned her attention to a Deaf person who manually spoke in ASL. Not only ASL was her first language, but also eye/sight was her first modality of language.
One day as my colleague Sandra and I sat down, Sandra started talking in ASL and I was listening. Typically, I would check on Juli (age 0;5) whenever I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye but disregarded typical small movements.
But, several long minutes had passed by without any slight movement. It was so unusual. I quickly glanced to check on Juli and found her sitting completely still and intensely observing Sandra.
Half hour already passed by and Juli remained completely quiet and attentive before Juli finally made a fuss.
Then, we moved to the family room where Juli could play in her play station. Sandra and I continued our talk while Juli kept herself occupied, facing in the opposite direction.
Again, several minutes had passed by, all undisturbed. I quickly checked on Juli and she was still largely occupied in the opposite direction. I continually checked on her every several minutes. Unchanged, I found her strangely silent and still. It was so unusual.
Finally I decided to follow Juli's gaze toward the reflective television screen in front of her. The moment our mutual gaze locked in the reflection, she grinned ear to ear. She had been watching us through the reflection on the televsion screen.
Likewise, a few weeks ago (0;5,1), my visiting mother listened as I talked in ASL while she was holding Juli on her lap forward-facing me. For a straight non-stop, Juli sat still and intensely concentrated on me.
My mother was distracted by Juli's complete motionless with her focus on my signing. She told me, "Look how still she is!" I quickly acknowledged and continued<|fim_middle|>'d take her out anyway to expose ASL to her.
Video clip: Hey, pay attention to the presenter.
The ASL words and phrases that I used with Juli this week are as follows: sweet potato, carrot, kiwi, cook... and the past usuals.
Related post: baby understanding words. | on to catch up with the news as much as I could before Juli stirred fuss.
This behavior of unusual intense focus puzzled me. Why did Juli watch so closely when one was talking in ASL lately?
Research explains that at around 6 months, babies are beginning to understand some of what is being said; and they pay attention to small details in surroundings. At this stage, vision improves with the ability to detect small details.
These were the clues. Juli did begin to notice a tiny object on the floor lately. Could it be also that Juli had the ability to detect subtle details of facial signals and movements?
Video clip: The baby Juli paid close attention to her mother conversing in adult talk.
Well, Juli (age 4;2) wouldn't let me go out without her for a long period of time so she had to go anywhere I go. We agreed to a deal and she was happy with it. Even without this deal, I | 192 |
Eibar Coa Monteverde (born February 15, 1971, in Venezuela) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.
Coa was born and raised in Venezuela. A five-time judo champion in his teens, he attended jockey school from 1989 to 1991 then began his professional riding career in 1992. He emigrated to the United States in 1993 but went back home.
In 1996, Coa returned to the U.S. to compete at racetracks in Florida, where he became the leading jockey at Calder Race Course in 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000. In addition, he was the leading jockey at Calder Race Course's Tropical Park meet in 1998 and 1999. On September 7, 1998, he tied a then Calder Race Course record when he rode six winners on a single race card. His success at that track led to his 2004 induction in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame.
Eibar Coa was the leading jockey at New Jersey's Monmouth Park in 2002 and at Florida's Gulfstream Park the following year. He also has competed successfully on the New York Racing Association (NYRA) circuit, winning riding championships at Aqueduct Racetrack in 2006 and that year became his breakout year as he was tying for that year's fall jockey title at Belmont Park. On December 29, 2006, he joined Hall of Fame inductees Angel Cordero Jr., Steve Cauthen, and Mike E. Smith as the only jockeys in the history of NYRA to win 300 races in one year. He was voted 200<|fim_middle|> at Gulfstream Park on February 18, 2011, In spite of being designated a quadriplegic with little hope for recovery, he beat the odds and is now walking on his own and progressing toward what he hopes will be a full recuperation.
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1971 births | 6 Jockey of the Year by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.
In 2007, Eibar Coa was ranked seventh among all jockeys in the Eastern United States with total earnings of $4,237,059, and was leading jockey at the Belmont Park fall meet.
Coa was temporarily paralyzed from the neck down and lost part of his lungs after fracturing his C-4 vertebra in a racing accident | 99 |
Dead River purchases Scott Energy
October 7, 2022 By Ellen Kriz
Dead River Co., based in South Portland, Maine, acquired the distillates, propane and HVAC service business of Scott Energy Co., based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Scott Energy formed in 1946 when Ed Scott Sr. founded the company under the name Scott Oil Co., employing one used oil truck for deliveries and performing service for customers out of the trunk of his car. After World War II, conversions from coal to oil became popular and helped to drive the company's success for 30 years.
Ed's sons, William ("Bill") E. Scott and Ed Scott Jr., joined the company and helped to grow the business, ultimately purchasing the company from their father in 1978.
In 2006, Bill purchased his brother's interest in the company and was soon joined in the business by his sons, Adam and Taylor. In the 2010s, the family decided to change the company name to Scott Energy to more accurately represent the growing variety of products and services offered. Shortly<|fim_middle|> final deal terms, and coordination of the due diligence process. Team members Jeff Brunner, Fred Lord, Steve Abbate and Barrett Conway managed the transaction.
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This article is tagged with Casey Cramton, Cetane Associates, Dead River, Massachusetts, Mergers and Acquisitions and posted in News | after the change in brand, a propane division was added to the business, which today includes a propane bulk plant that supports thousands of customers in the North Shore cities and towns from Lynn to Newburyport, Massachusetts.
"For more than 76 years, our family has been serving our neighbors," says Scott Energy co-owner Bill Scott. "Our experienced employees will continue to bring fuel delivery and service to our valued customers. We think that the Scott Energy brand has strong synergies with Dead River Co.'s values. We're proud to see our family legacy move into the next chapter."
Dead River Co., founded in 1909 by Charles Hutchins, had its roots in the forest products industry. In 1936, Dead River entered the petroleum business and is now a full-service home heating provider in northern New England. It operates locally managed offices throughout Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.
"We appreciate the exceptional nature of the business the Scott family has built and will work steadily to preserve their legacy in the North Shore communities," says Casey Cramton, Dead River Co. president and CEO. "We are excited to have the Scott Energy employees join our team and look forward to ensuring they feel right at home at Dead River Co."
Cetane Associates served as the sole arranger and financial adviser to Scott Energy. Cetane advised on the sale, including an initial valuation opinion, marketing the business through a confidential process, assisting in the negotiation of | 297 |
Hitting the ground running with new investments and a new CEO
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Monica.Ciovica December<|fim_middle|> yet achievable plan to continue scaling up Fairphone. Our focus on growth is tied directly to our mission: "by establishing a market for ethical phones, we motivate the entire industry to act more responsibly". To achieve this, we need to scale both our company and our impact.
And as our company continues to grow and evolve, our leadership needs to evolve along with it. When Bas decided to step down as CEO and move to a position in Fairphone's supervisory board, we concluded that I was the best person to lead the company forward, and spent the last few months preparing for a smooth transition. On 1 November, I officially started in my new position as Fairphone's CEO. I feel honored and grateful to be working with the talented Fairphone team, and am confident that we're putting all the right elements in place to help us achieve our mission. With the closing of this investment round, we're now ready to move full speed ahead into Fairphone's next chapter.
Impact investors and crowdfunders unite to support our goals
Our latest investments exceeded our expectations and reached a total of €7 million. Some of the financing came from familiar names who have contributed in the past, such as DOEN Participaties and PYMWYMIC. These parties were joined by a variety of new mission-aligned impact investors, including PDENH and Quadia. The total amount includes the €2.5 million that we raised in August with our crowdfunding campaign, which was facilitated by Oneplanetcrowd. Participants contributed to the campaign in the form of a convertible loan, and have been recently invited to convert their loans into shares. In fact, the success of that campaign played a major role in encouraging the new impact investors to invest in Fairphone.
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The Fairphone team celebrating our crowdfunding milestone earlier this year.
And there's even more good news! The equity raised as part of the crowdfunding campaign and investment round will be combined with additional €13 million loan provided by different creditors including the consortium of ABN AMRO and the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF).
Our new investments will help us build on what we've already achieved, and allow us to keep strengthening our position in the market. For example, we plan to expand our marketing and sales efforts in Europe, as well as experiment with new sales models like Fairphone as a service (a leasing program). We'll also invest more in research and development, and keep focusing on integrating fairer materials into our supply chain, like the challenge of sourcing responsible cobalt for the batteries. (Have a look at the investment sheet from our crowdfunding campaign if you'd like more details.)
Thank you for believing in Fairphone
I'd like to warmly welcome our new and returning impact investors and say a big thank you to everyone who believes in our company and our potential. With the support of people and organizations like you, we'll be able to keep taking significant steps towards our vision of fair electronics. I'm looking forward to working closely with our team, community, customers and supply chain partners as we work towards our mission, and I can't wait to see what we can achieve together.
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Originally published at: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2018/12/11/hitting-the-ground-running-with-new-investments-and-a-new-ceo/
We did it! We're so pleased to share that we've just closed our latest investment round and secured €7 million! This investment is an important part of our ongoing strategy to scale our company – it will help finance Fairphone's growth, stabilize production, professionalize our organization and further establish our social impact in the years ahead.
New leadership and a clear path to growth
It's amazing that the very first blog post I'm writing as the new CEO of Fairphone is about this major milestone that will allow us to execute our ambitious plans. When I first joined the team as managing director in September 2017, the process of transitioning our company from startup to scale up was already well underway. We had secured initial funding and were taking big steps to improve our organization and governance to better support our growth. For example, we installed a supervisory board and I was hired to strengthen the company's leadership -- my background includes working for major multinationals (Sara Lee, Mars and Campina) as well as leading a social enterprise (Tony's Chocolonely).
During my first year here, I was part of the company's two-person executive team, together with Bas van Abel. I enjoyed complementing his value-driven, design-led approach with my focus on the more practical, organizational side of running a successful business. Together, we developed an ambitious | 335 |
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Syria talks falter as US, Russia meet at G-20
Top diplomats from Russia and the US have failed to reach a deal to curb fighting in Syria following talks on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in China. The Ukraine conflict has also surfaced in discussions at the forum.
The second round of Syria crisis talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ended Monday without agreement on terms for a ceasefire, despite earlier reports that a deal was close.
A senior US State Department official said a number of "differences" remained unresolved after the meeting in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, where world leaders are attending day two of the Group of 20 economic summit.
Officials did not provide further details about what the sticking points were. A source at the Russian foreign ministry quoted by Interfax accused the US of being overly "dramatic" about the lack of progress.
"The process will continue," Interfax cited the source as saying. "There are no reasons for such dramatic statements as those being made by some State Department sources; that nothing has been achieved."
Thousands of Syrians are caught between the crossfire in the northern city of Aleppo
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Washington and Moscow support opposing sides in the five-year Syrian conflict, which has killed almost 300,000 people and displaced millions. Monday's meeting was the second time in two weeks Lavrov and Kerry had failed to broker a truce deal between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and opposition rebels.
The United Nations has repeatedly called for a cease in fighting to allow the delivery of aid to besieged civilians in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The next time the two diplomats are due to meet is on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York later in September.
Also on Monday, US President Barack Obama had an informal meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit. A Kremlin spokesman said the two leaders had discussed Syria, but it wasn't clear whether they would try and revive the talks.
Putin and Merkel meet on the sidelines of the G-20 for their first face- to-face talks in several months
Conflict in Ukraine
Obama also took time away from the G-20 economic talks to meet privately with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
A White House spokesman said the leaders were reviewing the situation after a new truce took effect last week. International monitors had reported an escalation in fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government troops in recent weeks.
A 2014 ceasefire agreement signed in Minsk was reaffirmed in 2015, but many points within the peace plan have not yet been implemented.
A spokesman for Merkel said the chancellor had also spoken "very concretely" with Russian President<|fim_middle|>'s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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Andrea Ravinett Martin was not a mountaineer, alpinist, or climber. She was a woman committed to doing things that people told her she couldn't. From playing on the men's flag football team in college to continuing to thrive when faced with two dire breast cancer diagnoses, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners' founder challenged society's expectations and proved to the world that anything is possible when women unite behind a challenge with dedication and perseverance.
This International Women's Day I would like to honor Andrea's life and her legacy of empowering all people to push past what they think they can't do, and rise to their highest peak.
When Andrea Ravinett Martin was first presented with the idea of climbing a 22,841ft mountain to spread the message of breast cancer prevention, she had two strong reactions. First, the idea was absolutely crazy. At the time, the concept of accomplishing major physical feats to fundraise for a disease was unheard of and seemed like a ridiculous concept to most. Second, from that moment on,<|fim_middle|> this idea through.
Not only did she want to defeat breast cancer as a disease so future generations did not have to go through the pain and trauma of the illness, but she also wanted to shift the perspective about breast cancer patients and survivors. She wanted to prove to everyone and herself that breast cancer survivors were not women wasting away in hospital beds, but strong and resilient individuals capable of leading communities, standing up for the causes they believed in, and climbing to the greatest heights our world has to offer. Thus, Climb Against the Odds was born.
In 1995, BCPP, then Breast Cancer Fund, launched its first Climb Against the Odds event on Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, followed by Mt. McKinley in 1998, Mt. Fuji in 2000 and Mt. Rainier in 2005. In 2006, Climb Against the Odds found its home mountain of Mt. Shasta, where the event has taken place annually for the last 13 years. Andrea's vision to shout the message of breast cancer prevention from the mountaintops still echoes around the world today.
Climb Against the Odds is not merely a name, but a statement of the reality we all find ourselves in, facing the statistics of 1 in 8 women in the U.S. being diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. I am so grateful to Andrea Ravinett Martin and so many other women on this International Women's Day that looked inside themselves and found strength and courage when faced with their own mortality. They are the inspiration that keeps me firmly pointed toward my own personal peaks, one step at a time.
Andrea knew that you didn't have to be an outdoor enthusiast, Iron Man champion, or climbing expert to set your mind to something and see it through. If you would like to join this lineage of women who climb mountains for breast cancer prevention, I'd love to share more with you about the experience. Click here for more info or contact me directly at sarah@bcpp.org!
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'OMG': New topless Winter Olympics figure takes world by storm
Andrew Reid
4 February 2022, 8:36 pm ·4-min read
Shirtless American Samoa flagbearer Nathan Crumpton captured the world's attention at the Winter Games opening ceremony. Pic: Getty
Step aside Tonga because the world has a new topless Winter Olympics icon and he hails from Pacific Island neighbour, American Samoa.
The tiny nation's only competitor at the Beijing Games, skeleton racer Nathan Crumpton took the world by storm with an iconic entrance in Friday night's opening ceremony.
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Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua may have started the trend when his bare-chested appearance at the Rio 2016 Olympics captured the word's attention.
However, Crumpton has taken the mantle honourably in the absence of Taufat<|fim_middle|> shirtless Olympics hero, who even got a classy shout-out from his Tongan predecessor.
Tongan flag bearer not competing in Beijing
Taufatofua, who qualified for taekwondo in Rio and Tokyo 2021 and also as a cross-country skier for the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, was unable to make it a fourth Olympics in a row.
The 38-year-old revealed on Instagram that the recent volcano eruption and tsunami in Tongan had shifted his focus on more important matters.
"Three Olympics in a row I have been blessed with all of your kindness. The last two years, competition and travel has been non-existent. Not everything is in our control. That said I embrace both the good and the bad as part of life, and I do so with a smile," he wrote.
"This time I will not be sharing the Beijing Olympic Games with you all. But I continue with joy as I prepare to support all the Olympians who have worked so hard to represent their countries. They are all flag-bearers, that all stand for that voice within that calls us all to become our very best.
"Right now I have another task that calls me, I must answer. But make no mistake, my sword is sharp and my mind is ready. I am just getting started. We have something up our sleeve, an idea, a feat, a dream. It lives next to the impossible, a place that excites me.
Tongan icon Pita Taufatofua was absent from the Beijing Winter Games after appearing at the last three Olympics in a row. Image: Getty
"Thank you all for continuing to share this quest. Your support means everything. Somewhere inside each and every one of you there is an Olympian … Paris 'we' are coming!"
Taufatofua still hadn't qualified for the Winter Games when the tsunami hit his homeland but admitted there were "too many people who are hungry for me to not be focused" on Beijing.
"I'll certainly miss it (but) what the Olympics stands for is more than just sport, and so I feel there's some level of Olympic effort that we're doing now anyway."
The Olympics icon has raised more than $800,000 of a $1 million goal via his GoFundMe page for the Tongan appeal.
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American Samoa's flagbearer braved the freezing cold temperatures inside the 'Bird's Nest' stadium in Beijing, as officials and fellow athletes surrounded him in thick puffer jackets, beanies and gloves.
Decked out in only his skirt-like traditional lavalava and sandals, Crumpton soaked up the atmosphere inside the stadium as millions watched on TVs around the world.
The incredible scenes lit up social media, as viewers praised their new | 99 |
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Siltman and her husband, Wally, have been active in the Hillsboro community since they moved here from Pittsfield in 1979.
Wally is a retired Country Company Agency Manager and Pat worked as a nurse with the Montgomery County Health Department before opening her business.
They have two children, John of Hillsboro, and Debbie of Texas. They have four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
They are active in a number of religious and social organizations including the Rotary and the Montgomery County Cancer Association, and both she and her husband have served as president of the organization. Both are current members of the board of the MCCA.
Members of the Hillsboro United Methodist Church, both currently serve as board members and Pat is the Chairman of the Foundation Committee as well.
"I would like to thank all of our customers for the support they have given me over the years. It's been a pleasure serving all of you," she said.
Hours of operation will continue as usual until closure. Store hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Beginning this Friday, June 28, everything in the store will be sold at 30 percent off the regular price. It includes her entire inventory of cross-stitch charts, fabric, and floss, quilting blocks, athletic jackets, sweatshirts, shirts, pants | 106 |
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2007 GCN Award: FAA takes network security to the next level, in more ways than one
By William Jackson
Good security depends on people and as technology
Establishing a cybersecurity management operation requires more than just having the right tools in place. You also need the support of those above and below you in the chain of command. The Federal Aviation Administration's Cyber Security Incident Response Center grew from a small operation with<|fim_middle|> Transportation Department from a new 15,000-square-foot facility in Leesburg, Va.
For the complete list of the 2007 GCN Award winners, click here
As the new name implies, the center's new job is about more than just responding to security incidents.
[IMGCAP(1)]'Now we're getting out ahead of the curve' and managing security, said Christopher Garcia, CSMC program director.
The shift to departmentwide responsibility is one step toward the goal of establishing the FAA facility as a federal center of excellence for cybersecurity that could provide services to other civilian agencies on a fee-for-service basis. That would be the culmination of an effort that started six years ago to make a bare-bones incident response team in 2001 into a state-of-the-art security management center.
What began with three FAA employees and six contract support employees monitoring seven network sensors for the FAA administrative network is now an around-the-clock operation with 17 government watch employees supported by 33 contractors from Northrop Grumman. The center has its own testing and evaluation lab, a local-area network test bed and a training lab that uses a security information management tool to analyze data from a suite of network sensors. Center officials have signed memorandums of understanding to share information with Mexico, Canada, Europe and NATO, and would like to sign one with the United Kingdom, said FAA Information Systems Security Director Mike Brown.
'It's the largest thing that I've done in 27 years with the FAA,' Garcia said of the evolution.
[IMGCAP(2)]Garcia credits the arrival of Brown as security director from the Defense Department in 2001 as the catalyst for the transformation. Brown wanted to take the center from incident response to a full range of protection, detection, response and recovery. Northrop Grumman was brought in as an integrator in 2004 to help with the expansion.
As FAA's air traffic control systems evolved from stand-alone systems to a networked enterprise using commercial products, they became exposed to more vulnerabilities, and the need for CSIRC's services grew. CSIRC expanded its staff and moved to a larger, 4,000-square-foot facility in 2002 to provide these services.
But when CSIRC expanded, its analysts became overwhelmed by the volume of incoming information, said Ron Maree, Northrop Grumman program manager.
Data came from intrusion-detection system sensors in the form of logs that analysts would pore over. With thousands of daily alerts, it could take as long as 12 hours to identify a problem and notify the customer. FAA wanted to move CSIRC from this Level 1 analysis to a more sophisticated level to reduce response time.
CSIRC settled on Enterprise Security Management from ArcSight, after an 18-month selection process.
With some other security management tools, the same attack could be run against a tool three times, and it would return three different results. ArcSight consistently got the attacks right, and it handled the high volume of data coming from the IDS sensors. The sensors look at 2.4 million packets per second on each server and generate 95,000 alerts a day that ArcSight ESM analyzed.
Of the 95,000 alerts ESM analyzed daily, only about 15 are passed to human analysts for Level 2 analysis. These in turn produce about two incidents a day that require the attention of someone on the network.
'It has changed our response time from up to eight hours down to eight minutes,' Garcia said.
The center maintains close connections with the department's other information technology security officers and operations and with physical security and workforce offices.
'In the past, we rarely had opportunities to cross those boundaries,' Garcia said.
Faster and more advanced analysis of incidents allowed CSIRC to give its customer agencies advance warning on such virus and worm outbreaks such as I Love You/Melissa and Slammer.
'I'd rather be lucky than good,' Garcia said. 'We were good and had some luck, too.' | limited capabilities into a departmentwide security management center because of the support the center received and the technology it uses.
'We've gotten buy-in from the senior leadership,' said Mike Brown, FAA director of information systems security.
The technology is important, too. Having a good security management tool to correlate the growing volume of information from network sensors is critical if an incident response center is to be useful to its customers, said Ron Maree, Northrop Grumman program manager for FAA's CSIRC.
'If it takes you 12 hours to get to something, you're too late,' Maree said. The task also requires cooperation with other organizations working in the same space, such as the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. 'Don't try to do it by yourself and be a lone ranger.'
Once these pieces are in place, the most important thing is to provide value to the customers depending on your services. Security is not an end in itself, but an enabler for those who are running and using the network.
It should protect them without unduly restricting them, and it doesn't hurt to let them know when they have dodged a bullet. Go for some low-hanging fruit to show some return on investment.
'We work to gain constituent trust,' said Christopher Garcia, FAA program director for CSIRC. 'And once we get it we have to keep it.'
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WHAT: Federal Aviation Administration Cyber Security Incident Response Center
MISSION: Provide the ability to protect FAA networks, detect intrusions and security incidents, respond to those incidents, and recover from them.
CHALLENGE: CSIRC began as a small team with few tools and responsibility for monitoring only the FAA administrative network. The evolution of air traffic control and other FAA operational networks away from stand-alone systems made them more vulnerable to network threats. The FAA CSIRC set out to provide more protection and to become a federal Center of Excellence for cybersecurity, providing services to other agencies.
SOLUTION: Beginning in 2001 with the arrival of Mike Brown as FAA director of information systems security, support from top-level management at FAA enabled CSIRC to build its resources and expand its capabilities with the addition of professional analysts, standardized intrusion-detection tools and a security information management system to provide analysis of data from the sensors.
IMPACT: Response time to security incidents has been reduced from hours to minutes, and CSIRC has become the Transportation Department's Cyber Security Management Center. It provides early warning and response to security problems for the department's networks and assists with vulnerability and configuration management.
COST: This is an ongoing multiyear program that is part of the cybersecurity budgets of multiple agencies in DOT.
IN FRONT: Christopher Garcia says FAA's response center is 'ahead of the curve.'
AIR DEFENSE: The CSIRC team network security covers the Transportation Department.
The Federal Aviation Administration's Cyber Security Incident Response Center recently changed its name, home and mission. As of Oct. 1, CSIRC became the Transportation Cyber Security Management Center, providing network security services for the entire | 614 |
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In 2013, E<|fim_middle|> functions and methodologies. | KA Limited carried out a refurbishment and upgrade programme on the main recovery and auxiliary winches ontheRRV. The original installation included the ROTZLER TR200 20t twin capstan winch and the HZ010 1t auxiliarydrumwinch.These winches had an intermediate control system which allowed electronic control, but were not compatiblewith modern CAN-Bus control systems. The refurbishment and upgrade programme upgraded the base winch unit to the modern /6 control system – a fully compliant CAN-Bus control system.
One of the benefits of carrying out this upgrade, in addition to mid-life refurbishment, was to introduce system,component and support commonality. After the upgrade was complete, the MLRS RRV winch systems shared abroad range ofcomponents and control system protocols with Support Vehicle (Recovery) – the SuperCompact equipmentinstalled on then MAN/RMMV SX-45 Support Vehicle.
In addition to technical commonality, UK MoD also realised training and support benefits, as Users of either system could much easily transfer their skills across platforms thanks to the common operating | 227 |
S Arabia's Sahara to resume merger talks with Sipchem
Saudi Arabia's Sahara Petrochemicals plans to resume merger talks with Saudi International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem), nearly four years since the negotiations were stalled.
Sahara, in a filing to the Saudi Stock Exchange or Tadawul late on Tuesday, said that discussions will be re-opened "in light of recent changes in the regulatory framework". No further details were provided.
The two companies postponed in June 2014 their merger talks, which were in advanced stages as of late October 2013.
Sahara said that "implementing the proposed merger through a structure acceptable to both companies and available under the regulatory framework at that time was difficult".
In December 2013, the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), under which Sipchem would issue 0.<|fim_middle|> in exchange for all the issued shares of Sahara.
Manufacturing operations of Sipchem and Sahara Petrochemicals in Saudi Arabia are mostly based in Jubail.
Sipchem manufactures and markets 2.2m tonnes of petrochemicals, while Sahara Petrochemicals has nine petrochemical affiliates, including include Al-Waha Petrochemicals (75%-owned), which produces propylene and polypropylene (PP), based on information available on the companies' websites.
By Pearl Bantillo | 685 new shares for every one outstanding Sahara share. This meant an issuance of 300.6m new Sipchem shares | 29 |
For the Haunted series I wanted images that didn't look like a typical ghost image, I wanted something that was beautiful with an edge of a nightmare quality, like you would see in a film like the Ring.
I took the photographs we made at the abandoned warehouse, the old rail station and the graveyard and overlaid them with photos I had taken underwater. The water images have an ethereal feeling to them and when mixed with the headshots I got an image that looked distorted in an interesting way. They remind me a little of the mirrors from an amusement park, or a surreal dream. There was a lot of experimenting with these images for Specter and at least half of them did not make the cut.
Caitlin Fisher did a wonderful job with the pale makeup and smoky eyes on Alanna and Jacqueline, but I also added quite a lot to the images<|fim_middle|> by Nina Pak were made for designer Kristine Hawthorne. The company is named after her grandmother who taught her to sew: Helene Hawthorne. This line of garments feature a few select gowns of modern design. The crowns were also made by Kristine of feathers and silk flowers.
The Post editing by Nina Pak was created with a layering of textures and other images. To achieve the ghostly distortions, Nina used her underwater photos, which were layered and masked into the fashion shots, blended with various layer applications to change the tones and opacity, resulting in an otherworldly feeling for the haunted theme of Specter.
Kristine is most notably famous for her Elizabethan and Victorian gowns often used in period style films. | in post production to change the tone of the skin and add color in places. This is a process much like painting, only I use digital brushes on layers, and some painterly applications.
For some of the images I choose to change the backgrounds, opting for the water patterns from other images instead of the environment in which they were taken.
On the day of our shoot we all met in a small town in Washington State, I drove from Vancouver BC and the others from Seattle. The makeup was mostly done before they arrived. Caitlin did some touch ups on location but it was a pretty rustic environment with no place for changing or table for supplies.
I had the help of Andrew Sars, who was a wonderful assistant, he also brought his lighting equipment with him. However it was rather cumbersome to set it up in the building as we had to climb over some rough and broken walls and dangerous stair ways. We finally opted to use natural light to save time.
Not shown in the spread was a third model Katie Angvik. During the final editing of the magazine the images of Katie were removed, so I would like to include them here. Katie did a wonderful job She is enjoyable to work with, and I adore her, so I felt bad about her shots not getting in the Specter issue. Excluding her in the published edition was not because I liked them any less than the others. The spread just seemed to be stronger with less images, and I had to agree it was best to make it cohesive by just using the shots of the other two models, Alana and Jacqueline. I left this editing process up to others as I am sometimes too close to the work to make these decisions.
Helene Hawthorne made all the clothing, headpieces and jewelry for this shoot. She is an incredibly talented artist who is also very humble and does not like to do interviews. For that reason I chose to write about my process and our collaboration instead. Much gratitude tot he team that came together and made this happen, it was a lot of fun.
The images for Haunted | 417 |
1946 Railroad Film Footage
by Wes Clark
Footage originally from archive.org
On April 17th, 1946, Columbia Studios took film footage in and around Burbank and downtown Los Angeles to be used in their Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth, which was released in 1947. The story is about a Greek Muse coming down to earth to involve herself in a Broadway production. The film was reworked in 1980 as Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John.
At some point there must be some process or rear screen projection shots in the film, as the Columbia footage involved putting cameras on railroad trains and running the trains.
The film crew also installed a camera on a car and ran it through some Burbank streets.
I have taken the raw footage located on archive.org and isolated the Burbank sequences, and made new youtube videos. Those videos are below. The descriptions and timings in the youtube text area were worked out with Mike McDaniel, who was armed with a 1950 plat showing the businesses along the railroad lines.
So, if you have even wondered what it must be like to hop a freight train in Burbank, at night, in <|fim_middle|> the one with the hoboes.
Film #3 - Train, moving into North Hollywood from Burbank; 3311 N. San Fernando Rd., running north of the airport and ending on Ensign Ave..
Film #4 - Train, Glendale-Burbank. Mostly Glendale; Burbank at the end.
Film #5 Automobile, Starts at Magnolia and California and ends at the Whithall Highway. A map is here. The surprising thing is that, other than the size of the trees, the neighborhoods pretty much look about the same!
If you are wondering how Columbia Studios used this footage in the finished film, click here to see the three minute train ride segment. It's funny, you can see the old Burbank train depot "pass by" three times: at the five and twelve second spots and again quickly at 2:12, as if the train passed the depot, suddenly backed up quickly and passed it again seven seconds later - and then passed it again two minutes later! Few would notice. Was this was an inside joke by the Columbia Studios film editor?
And yes, the finished movie was in glorious Technicolor and this process film appears to have been shot in black and white. Perhaps it was tinted and or colorized - I don't know. But there you have it, postwar era movie magic: a moving train in Burbank replicated on a sound stage.
Return to Burbankia | 1946 - this is what you'd see. (The crew even caught a passing shot of some Burbank hoboes!)
Complete descriptions are in the text area under the youtube screen.
Film #1 - Train, moving towards Los Angeles from somewhere north of the airport (just in North Hollywood), crossing into Burbank and ending at Turkey Crossing.
Film #2 - Train, moving towards Los Angeles from the Weatherhead Company and ending at the Magnolia Blvd. intersection. This is | 98 |
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Sargis Adamyan: "Fantastic to give something back for the<|fim_middle|> Ketelaere: "We now have to end the regular league ...
Clash win for Club against Genk 3-1
Clinton Mata: "I'm proud of Senne"
Noah Mbamba: "My goal is to grow as a player in this team" | confidence received"
Sargis Adamyan is putting his mark in attack with the Blues. The Armenian attacker brings the opponent into trouble with his speed and actions. In the meantime he already scored five goals. Adamyan was rewarded with the 'Man of the Match' trophy after the top game against Genk.
"I am very happy that I was elected Man of the Match", admitted a happy Sargis Adamyan after the top match. "We deserve the three points today. I play with a lot of intensity in attack and I am on the field to help the team. The team welcomed we in a very nice way as from day one onwards and we have the objective to win the Championship. The coach and the team have faith in me and that feels very good. I can play freely and it is awesome to give something back by scoring. The collaboration with Charles is also going well. We understand each other perfectly on the field." (KN)
Simon Mignolet: "We can learn a lot from the first half"
Clinton Mata: "The Championship is not over yet"
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Although success at the team and individual level is important, SYHA places<|fim_middle|> Youth Hockey Assocation / SportsEngine. All Rights Reserved. | significant emphasis on the development of student -athletes of all level of abilities. SYHA promotes long-term athlete and child development by providing on-ice and off-ice training opportunities that allow each player to maximize his or her potential in a competitive learning environment, while providing lessons that allow them to excel in life. We believe very strongly in citizenship, sense of community and sportsmanship.
A big CONGRATULATIONS to our Squirt 2 team who brought home the Championship Trophy from the PEPSI Hockey Invitational in Buffalo New York. Go RAIDERS!!!!
A big CONGRATULATIONS to our Bantam 2 and Squirt 4 teams who brought home Championship Trophies from the HTP - Three Rivers Cup Tournament in Pittsburgh this past weekend. We also had 4 runners up which included Pee Wee 2, Squirt 1, Squirt 2, and Squirt 3. Overall, SYHA had an amazing turnout with over 100 families participating. We are proud of all who combatted the rain, snow and even crazy highways of Pittsburgh.
A big THANKS to all the players, coaches, and families! Your dedication and hard work brought an incredible bounty to our amazing program.
Congratulations to Ethan Gimbel, Cooper Cook, Gus Nace and Josh Floyd (left to right) for receiving their Always a Raider Award this year. This is a special community award that recognizes first year varsity players who played their entire hockey career in Shaker. Thank you for all you have done on the ice in Shaker over the years!
LAST YEARS 2017 -2018 PEEWEE 1 AND SQUIRT 2 LEAGUE AND TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS!
The spring clinics will focus on skill development, scrimmages and provide players an opportunity to enhance their fundamental skills in a positive and fun learning environment. Clinics will run from Monday, March 4—Sunday, April 28 at Thornton Park Ice Arena.
Call 216-491-1295 for more info. or register on the link below.
Below find a PDF outlining the services offered by the UH Sports Medicine practice. UH Sports Medicine partners with Shaker Youth Hockey to provide baseline concussion testing and provides sponsorship for our teams. Thanks to UH Sports Medicine.
Each year SYHA looks for parents who can help us support the organization through volunteering and contributing of their time and talent. Not only is volunteering fun and builds morale, but it fosters relationships with families, coaches and players. SYHA is about building community.
We are seeking individuals who can help with skills in marketing/communications, social media, scheduling, fundraising or simply helping with an event or two.
The opportunities are endless and we are grateful for any time you can contribute.
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Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon | Theresa Chen
Theresa Chen graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. During her undergrad, she concentrated on Electronic Media (3D animation, video, and interactive art & games) and 2D Media (painting, drawing, and sequential art). Her interest in college centered around communicating a concept to an audience through visualization and experience. It was during this time she grew a strong interest in interactive media and the concept of games as art.
While a graduate student at the ETC, Theresa was able to feed her curiosities in interactive media and found her interests turning towards game design and production, having a strong interest in creating game experiences and helping teams achieve the desired experience for their audience.
She is currently working at Electronic Arts as a Web Producer on the Sims 3 team.
Academically, her interests range from understanding storytelling within interaction to the effects of culture on play and play on culture. She experiments with the communicative qualities of interaction. Philosophically, she ponders the need for escape as the source of all things human and how games and play are a part of this. She cares a lot about how a game communicates its ideas to an audience not always familiar with games. With the constant innovations in technology, she looks forward to the opportunities the new media brings | 270 |
Try following a daily routine – go to bed around the same time and wake up at the same time in the morning.
Try to avoid naps during the daytime in order to assure healthy drowsiness in the night.
Minimize or avoid any caffeine, alcohol, nicotine or other stimulants in the evening. Some drugs like alcohol can make you very sleepy, however you are very likely to wake up frequently in the night and not get enough rest.
Exercise regularly. However, avoid exercising late in the day. Allow 3-4 hours for rest before going to sleep, otherwise your body may be too excited to be able to fall asleep.
Avoid eating too much before bedtime. If you're hungry, take a light snack in about two hours before going to bed.
Make sure your bedroom is suitable for healthy sleep. The bedroom should be a quiet, dark, ventilated<|fim_middle|> or other sleep disorder visit your doctor for a consultation.
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Is Buying Ambien Online Without Prescription Possible? | are with a good cozy bed. If it's a problem to make the bedroom dark you can use a sleeping mask. In case the noise is a problem use earplugs or quiet calm music to minimize external sounds.
Try to relax in advance before going to bed, don't be active. Read a book, take a bath, listen to quiet music, take a massage.
Do not use your bedroom for purposes other than sleep or sexual activity.
If you can't fall asleep for a long time, do not simply lie in bed waiting for sleep. Get up and read or watch TV until you actually feel sleepy.
In case you are too stressed or worried about the next day, write down a "to-do" list to leave the worries behind.
In case you suspect having insomnia | 157 |
That's why CogniScent, a developer of chemical compound detection systems, is working so hard to get their ScenTraK odor-detectors out on the market.
ScenTraK is referred to as an electronic nose. The device passes odors or ambient air across an array of broadly responsive sensors. The sensors can detect the presence of a target odor that it has been trained to search for.
Smell detectors are useful in detecting explosives and other security risks. Greville says that they have typically been expensive, between $10,000 and $15,000, but CogniScent is hoping to produce a product that is under $5,000 for the commercial market and even cheaper for consumers in the more-d<|fim_middle|>, which is why his company is working to make the device simple and portable. It weighs three pounds, measures about 10 inches long and runs on a battery with an AC charger.
Greville admits that there is less demand for a household smell detector, although with Americans becoming increasingly aware of toxic mold syndrome, need for the product just might change. In the meantime, CogniScent's main customers are chemical warfare and security professionals.
On Monday, the company announced that they received a patent for a DNA-based sensor material that will be used in ScenTraK, making millions of chemical compounds detectable. | istant future.
According to Greville, smelling sensors have historically been complicated and clunky | 18 |
"Well, it 's normal isn't it?" "Er … yes … and no", comes the reply. Only 'normal' can be 'normal' but, fortunately for us, 'normal' in the body is variable, and is different for each of us, albeit often only slightly.
'Normal' comes in many guises: it is often dependent on our environment and how we interact with i t; how we're made; our genetics.
Since man first stumbled out of his cave onto the African Savannah we have had to deal with the vagaries of the weather<|fim_middle|>or a small packet of frozen peas wrapped in a tea towel) to the injured area for up to 10 minutes. As the pain reduces, gentle stretching exercises can improve your mobility. For your neck: bend and turn it gently from side to side. For your lower back, lie on the floor and bring each knee in turn up to your chest and hold for a few seconds. Repeat 6 times for each leg. Pelvic tilt exercises can also help: lie on the floor with your knees bent up, feet flat on the floor, then flatten your lower back on to the ground for a few seconds, and repeat 6 times.
Remember you've only got one spine: take good care of it!
Guildford Chiropractic Centre is only closed on Sundays and public holidays, so if you do injure your back over the festive period, you should be able to see one of our chiropractors promptly.
Finally, on behalf of all the team here, I would like to wish everyone in our community a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! | and the intermittent availability of food and water.
The human body does its best to maintain 'normal'. This process is known in medical circles as homeostasis. When the umpteenth antelope has cleared off into the middle distance and your belly is rumbling, the body is still doing everything it can to maintain correct levels of oxygen, sugars and other chemicals in the blood.
Try holding your breath: if you try to withhold oxygen, it won't be very long before your body makes you breathe. See if you can pass out. I bet you can't – your body won't let it happen!
The body does the same when it's trying to process the incoming torrent of chemicals from your ingestion of big Mac, fries and shake. As your lipid levels skyrocket and your pancreas goes into meltdown, spare a thought for all those background processes that your body performs faultlessly day in and day out. That is, until something goes wrong.
Most of the time, the mode of onset is poorly understood and so it is with musculoskeletal pain. Whilst we would love to have a direct cause and effect situation, the reality is rarely so. We are a complex combination of everything that's happened to us throughout our lives – good, bad and indifferent. Most problems have a chronic component, a fatigue point if you like, where a problem builds until the body complains or fails.
So why not see a chiropractor and help your body get back to 'normal' or at the very least slow down its drift away from the norm?
The clinic offers a 20-minute complimentary chiropractic discussion and assessment to see whether chiropractic treatment can help. Please contact clinic reception for further details.
The problems can begin with shopping for Christmas presents. Traipsing around the shops looking for the "perfect" presents for your nearest and dearest, can put your spine under a lot of mechanical stress. Wear sensible shoes that support your feet properly, and try to balance the weight of your shopping bags equally in both hands. If you try to do all your shopping in one day, have regular breaks, even if it is only to take parcels back to your car. If you do most of your shopping online, take regular breaks away from your computer so that your back doesn't get stuck in one position.
Once the Christmas shopping is finished, there is the tree and house to decorate. If, like me, you prefer a real tree, there will be a trip to a local Christmas tree farm to saw down or dig up the perfectly shaped tree, then you will need to manhandle it back to your car and set it up at home, ensuring it is vertical. All of this can put your lower back under a lot of strain, and leave you with aching shoulders. The next hazard is decorating the tree so take care when you pick up boxes of decorations. Keep your spine in a neutral position and bend your hips and knees, and do not bend, lift and twist at the same time. Have fun decorating the tree making sure that you get an even distribution of the lights and the colours of the decorations.
Wrapping Christmas presents can be great fun, but can also be hard work for your lower back. Try to wrap as you buy, rather than leaving it all until Christmas Eve. Sit at a table or stand at a kitchen worktop, rather than sitting on the floor or standing bending over a table. Make sure you take regular breaks and walk around, even if it is only to get a coffee or a glass of wine to keep you going.
What you eat and drink can also have an effect on your back. Drinking too much alcohol can cause you to fall over and injure yourself, and drinking alcohol over several days can increase any pre-existing inflammation in joints. Alcohol can also result in dehydration of the whole body, including the discs in your spine, so make sure you drink plenty of water too. However, drinking 2-3 alcoholic drinks can help muscles relax. At Christmas we also tend to overload on sugar in the form of Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, mince pies, alcohol, and the inevitable tins of chocolates. These excess sugars can affect your adrenal glands causing them to fatigue, leaving you feeling tired and drained, but they can also reduce the body's natural anti-inflammatory corticosteroids, causing injuries to feel more painful.
When the big day finally arrives there are lots of things that can potentially upset your back. Cleaning the house if you are expecting visitors, standing preparing the all the vegetables for Christmas lunch, and then there is the turkey. Even a small turkey weighs around 15 pounds, and this can be quite cumbersome getting it in and out of the oven, so bend your knees and brace your lower back to avoid injury.
After the Christmas lunch, it is traditional to sit down and watch television. Unfortunately many sofas do not provide ideal lower back support, encouraging you to sit in a slumped position, so put a cushion in the small of your back. Having extra time off work over the Christmas period to relax may sound ideal, but try not to spend prolonged periods of time sitting down, but encourage the whole family to go for a walk instead.
If you do injure your back over the Christmas period, apply an ice pack ( | 1,063 |
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2006 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew 6.5-ft Box 2WD
City: Aguila
Address: 8326 E Indian School Rd Scottsdale, AZ 84281
Model: F150
Body type: Pickup / Truck
Interior color: Leather
Engine: V8, 5.4L; SOHC
Trim Level: XLT; Lariat; King Ranch
Body Type: 4 Door Cab; Styleside; Super Crew
Production Seq. Number: A84641
Horsepower: 250-300HP
Engine Code: 5
Drive Line Type: RWD
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The Ford F-150 delivers all the big-truck attributes of toughness, strength, and cargo capacity, but offers interior design and comfort that would rival some luxury cars. It's also stylish, among the best-looking in a group of handsome full-size pickups for the 2006 model year.
Properly equipped, an F-150 can tow 9,900 pounds or haul more than 3,000 pounds in the bed. The F-150 is comfortable as well, with a quiet and refined ride and comfortable interiors that show attention to detail. Handling is excellent for a pickup.
The F-150 earned a five-star safety rating from the government (NHTSA) in frontal crash testing and was named a "Best Pick" in offset-crash rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. F-150 comes equipped with dual frontal airbags designed to deploy according to the severity of the crash and who or what is occupying the seat. Seat belts, your first line of defense in any crash, are equipped with pre-tensioners and energy-management retractors.
For all these reasons, the F-150 has been America's best-selling full-size pickup for 28 consecutive years. It's the most important, most profitable vehicle Ford makes.
F-150 was last redesigned in 2004, when it earned numerous awards, including North American Truck of the Year. Ford has not significantly changed the F-150 since then except to expand the lineup every year with new trim levels, variations, and specialty models.
For 2006, SuperCrew (crew cab) models will be available with a longer, 6.5-foot bed; as well as the standard 5.5-foot short bed. A limited-production Harley-Davidson edition, previously offered on Super Duty models, is now available as an F-150 SuperCab (extended cab). SuperCrew buyers can choose the King Ranch model, lavishly outfitted in Castano leather, one of our favorites. At the bottom of the lineup is a V6 work truck.
F-150 offers more choices than any other pickup nameplate, with six distinct trim variations, the industry's widest variety of body configurations (three cab styles, three bed lengths, two bed styles), and a choice of V8 engines, all thoughtfully designed to address the distinct needs and wants of individual buyers.
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Home » Destinations » Portugal: Catholic Shrines & Places of Interest » Coimbra, Portugal
Coimbra,<|fim_middle|> Porto train line and is about one mile from the city center. Coimbra A is in the city centre, but not on the main train lines. Get train & bus schedules, fares, buy tickets here.
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About Coimbra:
Coimbra was Portugal's most important city for over 200 years, and was once the country's capital. It is also a thriving university city. Roughly 100 miles north of Fatima, this lovely region of Portugal is dotted with steep hills, narrow lanes, lush parks and convents. Santa Cruz church in Coimbra is also the burial place for the first two kings of Portugal.
Among the main Catholic points of interest in Coimbra are:
Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova (tomb of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal)
Santa Teresa Convent & Memorial to Sister Lucy
Traveling to Coimbra:
Coimbra is located about halfway between Fatima and Porto.
By air: The nearest airport is in Porto, and is served by many international airlines as well as Portuguese airlines.
By train: Coimbra has excellent train connections (about 1 1/2 hours from Lisbon). Note: Coimbra has two train stations, simple referred to as Coimbra A and Coimbra B. Coimbra B station is on the main Lisbon to | 232 |
It's all about the details at Venue. From geometric light fixtures to charcoal brick walls, this modern-industrial-style café is a complete experience. Fur pel<|fim_middle|> detailed at the same time. It truly had one of the coolest vibes I've experienced here in Prague, and if you haven't stopped by, be sure to add it to your bucket list! | ts are strewn across the backs of chairs while rose barstools surround simple marble tables. Every item in this bistro was handpicked with care – all the way up to the rustic wood and metal board my check was delivered on. It was clean, crisp, and tasteful; the perfect place to cozy into on a rainy day like today.
Of course, paired with such a unique ambiance came a decadent menu filled with a range of interesting items. Lucky for us, breakfast is served until 14:30. We started off with cappuccinos, which were presented on a wooden board with a vile of simple syrup for flavoring. To follow – sweet potato hash, which came covered in fried eggs, grilled onions, and aioli; beet-infused avo toast; savory oatmeal with goat cheese and eggs; and some French toast adorned with crispy bacon and a red wine syrup. Talk about a meal! It was so good we ordered some food for later – a smoked salmon bagel smothered in dill cream cheese. It came in a fancy brown wrap with a ribbon of twine for décor. Before leaving, I had one last look around. Everything in this café was so simple yet so | 250 |
Reflexology applies gentle pressure and massage techniques to the feet and hands. These pressure techniques assist in the elimination of toxins, stimulating connecting areas in the<|fim_middle|> can support the immune system by helping to eliminate toxins from the body and promote a healthier you. Health issues helped through regular treatments of reflexology include plantar faciitis, rheumatism and arthritis. Many other health problems could improve when the stimulation of bodily systems through pressure point massage takes place. Pregnant women can have this treatment at certain stages of their pregnancy and reflexology has been known to assist in helping women to conceive. | body to remove energy blockages where necessary. "The feet good factor" is to be recommended as we walk an average of four times round the earth in our lifetime.
Clients who have this treatment state that it has a soothing relaxing impact upon them and they come back regularly for foot massage and reflex massage. This treatment | 63 |
Photo by: Mark Haskell Camden Hills'<|fim_middle|> Sam Hebert pushed the competition to the limit with three top-five performances.
The girls team scores were: Messalonskee of Oakland 119.5, Edward Little of Auburn 104.5, Mount Ararat of Topsham 75.5, Brunswick 58, Lewiston 53, Cony of Augusta 36, Oxford Hills of South Paris 19 and Skowhegan 6.5.
The boys team scores were: Brunswick 189, Lewiston 92, Mount Ararat 75, Messalonskee 49, Edward Little 47, Camden Hills 15 and Skowhegan 2.
Next up for those who qualify are the state Class A championships, slated for Monday, Feb. 18 at noon at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham.
55 meters — 22, Aidan Hebert, 7.6.
Long jump — 5, Sam Hebert, 18-9.
Triple jump — 3, Sam Hebert, 38-7.75.
High jump — 3, Sam Hebert, 5-10; and 8, Aidan Hebert, 5-2. | Sam Hebert.
Brunswick — Brothers Sam and Aidan Hebert, independent athletes from Camden Hills Regional High School, competed in the Class A portion of the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference indoor track championships on Saturday, Feb. 9 at Bowdoin College.
The Windjammer siblings performed well, as | 63 |
Legend Vessel
The Galapagos Legend is large enough to comfortably carry 100 passengers while remaining<|fim_middle|>'s fully carpeted guest quarters also have lower beds (NOT bunkbeds), closets and their own private bathrooms with hot & cold water, hair dryers, safe deposit boxes, air-conditioning and an array of other amenities. The larger suites even have one to two balconies, and some of these cabins are interconnected, perfect for small groups and families. Plus — much better than tiny portholes — the cabins' panoramic picture windows allow you to not only observe the islands but also make you feel part of them.
The ship's social onboard areas feature a swimming pool, a jogging track, expansive sundecks and observation platforms that allow you to dolphin- and whale-watch while smoothly sailing through the rich Galapagos waters. Other facilities include an outside poolside bar, inside bars, a spacious dining room, a clinic & massage center, a computer station equipped with video games, an auditorium for naturist briefings, and a 24-hour coffee bar.
Families on board the Galapagos Legend don't have to worry about their kids as these younger ones can enjoy the "Kids' Corner" playground, a cinema and loads of child-friendly books and videos in the library.
At night, guests can enjoy live music at both the piano lounge and the cocktail bars, or you can keep in touch with family and friends using the ships long-distance call facility and the Internet.
Among its courteous, professional team are 60 crewmembers, seven (7) multilingual naturalist guides (each speaking an average of four languages), a concierge, an M.D. who's always on call, and a chef who will constantly spoil you with inventive combinations of Ecuadorian and international cuisine.
Speaking of dining, the Galapagos Legend's al fresco dining areas allow you to lunch in the open air or enjoy romantic dinners under the stars; nonetheless, a spacious dining room is also available, as is a comfortable lounge for live "folkloric shows" and "Neptune parties" for celebrating the crossing of the equator, and for even dance lessons.
However, as you're here primarily to explore the most extraordinary wildlife sanctuary of the Americas, daily shore excursions on different islands are led by the ship's seven multilingual naturalist guides, who also give daily briefings to prepare passengers for the astonishing islands to be visited the following day.
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Sailing the waters of the legendary Galapagos Islands, the Galapagos Legend expedition vessel makes this dream-world travel destination come true
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Q: Want to delay function call I have a local alert set to fire off at a predesignated time (30 seconds). What I want to do is fire off an alert at 20 seconds. This is my relevant appDelegate code:
func application(application: UIApplication, didReceiveLocalNotification notification: UILocalNotification) {
// Pass the "firing" event onto the notification manager
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if application.applicationState == .Active {
//let alert = UIAlertController(title: "NotifyTimely", message: "Your time is up", preferredStyle: .Alert)
// Handler for each of the actions
let actionAndDismiss = {
(action: String?) -> ((UIAlertAction!) -> ()) in
return {
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self.timerNotificationManager.handleActionWithIdentifier(action)
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alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Snooze", style: .Destructive, handler: actionAndDismiss(snoozeTimerActionString)))
window?.rootViewController?.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
*/
var ourAlert = UIAlertView(title: "Time Alert", message: "You have been active for 20 seconds!", delegate: nil, cancelButtonTitle: "Dismiss")
ourAlert.show()
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}
}
func finalAlert() {
let alert = UIAlertView()
alert.title = "Final Timer Alert"
alert.message = "You have been active for 20 seconds. Your ride is now being charged."
alert.addButtonWithTitle("OK")
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let timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(10, target: self, selector: "finalAlert", userInfo: nil, repeats: false)
| have seen this answer How can I use NSTimer in Swift?
But I don't want the finalAlert function to kick off immediately. I want it to fire off 10s after the initial alert. How do I get NSTimer to wait 10 seconds to fire the alert or is there a better way to wait?
A:
wait 10 seconds
It's unclear to me what you think is wrong with the behavior of NSTimer, but in any case the simplest way to express the notion "do this, 10 seconds from now" is to use GCD's dispatch_after. And the easiest way to do that is as I encapsulate it here: dispatch_after - GCD in swift?
A: NSTimer is literally meant to not fire immediately. You start the timer with a time interval of when you want it to fire, I guess in your case 10 seconds.
//first parameter is a time interval in seconds target is self and selector is
//finalAlert, which means after 10 seconds it will call self.finalAlert
//userInfo is nil, because you aren't passing any additional info
//and repeats is false, because you only want the timer to | 249 |
Amber Tamblyn is an American actress, writer and producer, who owns $1.5 million. Amber was born on 14th of May in 1983, in Santa Monica, California. Actress grew up in a family, full of show business stars, she is daughter of Russ Tamblyn, who is a dancer, singer and also actor, who starred in movie West Side Story, 1961, and mother, Bonnie Murray, who is also a singer, teacher and artist. Ambers grandfather from fathers side, Eddie Tamblyn, who was a vaudeville performer. Her uncle is Larry Tamblyn, who was also famous keyboardist in the 1960s of rock band The Standells. In family, Amber Tamblyn was all the time surrounded by actors, her god parents are actors Dean Stock<|fim_middle|>) Married her boyfriend of 4 years David Cross following a 14-month-long engagement.
10 Sister-in-law of Juli Cross and Wendy Cross.
11 [August 17, 2011] Engaged to David Cross. They have been together since 2009. At the time of their engagement, he was 47 and she was 28.
12 In longterm relationship with David Cross .
13 Traveled with poetry/slam tour "The Junkyard Ghost Revival" in 2008 with poets Anis Mojgani, Derrick Brown and Buddy Wakefield.
14 Used hypnosis to get rid of her arachnophobia. She is no longer afraid of spiders.
15 Has been in two movies that were remakes of Japanese movies: The Ring (2002) and The Grudge 2 (2006).
16 Her favorite films are: The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978),Lost Highway (1997), A Pure Formality (1994), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Blakes 7: Duel (1978), The City of Lost Children (1995), Amadeus (1984), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Princess Mononoke (1997), Brazil (1985), Citizen Kane (1941), and On the Waterfront (1954).
18 Is best friends with her The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) co-star Alexis Bledel.
19 Family friends include Dennis Hopper, David Lynch and Neil Young.
20 Appeared in The Twilight Zone: Evergreen (2002), where the punishment for being a bad seed was to be sent to Arcadia. Her most famous role to date was in the TV show Joan of Arcadia (2003) as the lead Joan Girardi.
21 Is the second youngest actress to be nominated for an Emmy in the category of Lead Actress in a Series.
22 On General Hospital (1963), Amber portrayed the adopted granddaughter of "Lila Quartermaine", portrayed by Anna Lee. In the 1950s (long before Amber's birth), Amber's father, Russ Tamblyn, was married to Lee's daughter Venetia Stevenson.
23 Appears in the Twin Peaks (1990) Special Edition DVD special features. She and her father Russ Tamblyn tell a story about his appearance at a "Twin Peaks" event at which Amber had the cast sign her shoes.
24 Convinced a homeless man to pose as her father so she could get her navel pierced. It soon became infected and she had to confess to her parents. The story inspired an episode of Joan of Arcadia (2003).
25 She is the goddaughter of actor Dean Stockwell. Stockwell and her father, Russ Tamblyn, appeared together in the film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), and in the Quantum Leap (1989) episode, Quantum Leap: Thou Shalt Not... - February 2, 1974 (1989).
26 Her dad, Russ Tamblyn danced with her during the 1997 Nurses' Ball.
27 Amber suffers from arachnophobia. When a scene in General Hospital (1963) called for her character Emily to pick up her pet tarantula, Amber went to the writers and asked them if they could change the scene. She also suggested that the spider be killed off and Emily be given a rat, the sort of pet Amber herself had at home.
28 Daughter of actor Russ Tamblyn and his third wife, Bonnie Tamblyn.
29 Fan of folk singer Ani Difranco and Avril Lavigne. | well and Dennis Hopper, and musician Neil Young.
Probably growing up in family full of artists, your future life`s career also becomes in some similar field. Amber Tamblyn finished the Santa Monica Alternative School House. Already at the age of ten, she was playing in a school play Pippi Longstocking, and after family friend, Sharon Debord saw her performance in a school musical, he convinced her father to continue young girl in showing of for more professional projects. And not so long time after, Ambers first role was on the popular soap opera General Hospital, as Emily Quartermaine, where young actress appeared in TV screens for next six years. First more serious shoot and was already so successful. After that Amber Tamblyn began to work with other television projects, which helped her to resume also young actress credit.
Actress impressed everybody, that being so young, Amber already estimates net worth of $1.5 million. Later Ambers Tamblyn list of portrayal movies became longer, where Amber made remarkable roles in such as The Ring in 2002, directed by Gore Verbinski, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005, The Grudge 2 in 2006, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in 2009, Spring Breakdown in 2009, 127 Hours in 2010, also movie Main Street in 2010, Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino, she was filming together with Jamie Foxx, Christoph Watz, Leonardo DiCaprio. 3 Nights in the Desert, 2014. Meanwhile Amber also appearing in some TV series as The Unusuals, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, House M.D, Two and a Half Men, as Jenny Harper, also TV show Portlandia. Amber Tamblyn was also starring on television show as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia. Young American actress already has several acting honors, was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award.
Amber Tamblyn owns net worth of $1.5 million dollars. Being young and successful actress showed to everybody, that to continue family`s career line is not so big deal for her. Besides acting, Amber has published two chapbooks of poetry, Of the Dawn and Plenty of Ships. A poem book The Loneliest, inspired by Thelonious Mon and also his music, was published in 2005, and only 300 copies were published.
In August of 2011, Amber Tamblyn became engaged with actor and comedian David Cross, and on 6th of October in 2012, couple married.
3 [on the cancellation of Joan of Arcadia (2003)]: "I'd rather be a on a good show that only runs two years than on a dumb show that's a hit for like eight years, which is usually the case these days".
4 "The idea that someone like Britney Spears is a role model for teenage girls is kind of sad and horrifying. Britney is the epitome of a non-artist. She has nothing to offer but her T&A".
5 Wrinkles, soft faces, older faces are signs of wisdom, which is the greatest sign of beauty.
1 (October 26, 2016) Expecting her 1st child, a daughter, with her husband David Cross.
2 She has Scottish, English, and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry. Her maternal grandfather was a Scottish immigrant.
3 (October 6, 2012 | 747 |
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Famous Attractions in Greece
Attractions / November 6, 2018
The Acropolis in Athens is Greece's most famous landmark. (Photo: Images )
Greece's ancient history has produced so many landmarks, many of them world-famous, that the entire country could be considered a famous landmark. When you plan your trip to Greece, however, you will find that some of the landmarks are mentioned in every travel guide, travel blog or travel website. These sites are the most visited, therefore, the most famous landmarks in Greece.
The<|fim_middle|> Doric structures of Olympia have influenced architecture throughout history, beginning with temples built in southern Italy and Sicily in the 5th century B.C.
Besides the Acropolis, Athens has several other landmarks. Two of the most famous Greek landmarks in Athens are Hadrian's Arch and the Theatre of Dionysos. Hadrian's Arch is the symbolic entrance to the city that was built early in the 2nd century A.D. in honor of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after he visited Athens. The Theatre of Dionysos, built in the 5th century B.C., once hosted performances by Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylos and Aristophanes.
The entire tiny Greek island of Delos is an archaeological site that has been continuously excavated since 1872. The birthplace of Zeus's son, Apollo, Delos is a sanctuary dedicated to Apollo that has attracted visitors for centuries. Delos was also the birthplace of Artemis and ancient Greece's religious center. The partial excavation of the ancient site in Delos has unearthed several famous landmarks. The most famous landmarks on Delos are the Sanctuary of Apollo, several agoras, or places of assembly and the famous Terrace of the Lions, marble lion statues dedicated to Apollo.
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- Major Attractions in Greece | Acropolis
The Acropolis in Athens, easily Greece's most famous landmark, remains as a display of the longevity of Greek civilization and a tribute to Greek architecture. The first structures of the Acropolis, or raised citadel, were constructed in the 5th century before Christ. Although there are several buildings and monuments in the Acropolis, the most recognizable is the Parthenon, which was a temple built for the Greek goddess, Athena. The three other main monuments of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Acropolis are the Propylaea, the temple of Athena Nike, and the Erechtheion. The Propylaea is the entrance gate to the Acropolis; the temple of Athena Nike was built to worship Athena as the Goddess of Victory; and the Erechtheion is another temple that was used for religious rituals.
Rhodes, the capital of the island Dodecanese, was originally planned by Hippodamus of Miletus in 5th century B.C. Fortified during the Crusades and home to mosques and baths from Ottoman rule, Rhodes offers visitors the chance to connect with the history of a thriving medieval city. The Palace of the Grand Master, Rhodes' most famous landmark, is now a museum, but used to be a Byzantine fortress until it was converted to a residence by Knights of the Order of Saint John, in the early 14th century. Within the Old Town of Rhodes, you can visit other famous Greek landmarks along the Street of Knights, such as the Hospital of the Knights, the Church of Our Lady of the Castle and the Orthodox Cathedral of Rhodes.
The archaeological site of Olympia continues to be one of Greece's most famous landmarks because it was the site of the first Olympic Games, in 776 B.C. Olympia was built as a sanctuary to worship Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. The Altis, or sanctuary, contains two main temples. You can view the ruins of the Temple of Zeus and the Temple of Hera, who was one of Zeus's sisters and his wife. The | 421 |
Monkey Knife Fight Best Bets Week 14 (2019 Fantasy Football)
by Raju Byfield | @FantasyContext | Featured Writer
Tyreek Hill had a big game against the Patriots last season.
Monkey Knife Fight is the hottest new name in the DFS arena. They offer a wide variety of DFS alternatives to the traditional salary cap based contests. Perhaps the most appealing of their offerings are the fantasy point and stat-based over/under contests. Make two correct predictions and you will win two times your entry fee, plus your original wager.
It is important to note that Monkey Knife Fight's offerings are dynamic, and thus are changing throughout the week. This makes it critical that value seekers, take the time to search the player combinations at least once a day for potential steals or lines that could be viewed as errors in our favor. We were unable to get any of our top plays locked in for this week, so we will discuss two of them briefly while also touching on the rationale behind our selections.
When choosing which contest to partake in, what we are looking for are lines/totals that stand out or scream potential value. Monkey Knife Fight has, of course, refined their process to make this process more difficult for DFS players, and often offer a player reception total (which is much harder to predict than yards) as a way of balancing the win probability of the other player total listed in a particular player combination.
The first suggestion is to stay away from reception totals when at all possible. The players who are almost assured to get five-plus receptions will be listed at around 7.5 anyways. Monkey Knife Fight is very sharp with their reception totals when they do not involve players who recently saw a role change.
The second suggestion is the sense test. One of the player totals listed should make so much sense, that it would make no sense not to take. One should have a high enough win probability that you would consider playing the player prop at a sportsbook if that was your thing. Generally, one of the player totals will be the attraction, while the other is the total to be more concerned about.
The third suggestion is not to shy away from under plays. If you have been a regular reader of this weekly column you will recognize that most of the plays are indeed over plays. This is due to the fact that we seek out over plays. In general, people are more likely to feel comfortable taking the over in these contests. This is behavior that we also see prevalently in the betting world. With that in mind, suggesting under plays may not get DFS players as excited about Monkey Knife Fight's exciting new offerings as over plays would.
If you have yet to sign up for Monkey Knife Fight, be sure to take advantage of the $10 free play they are offering. Simply sign up through this link, and enter the promo code<|fim_middle|> numbers. Woods is going to be heavily involved with the Seahawks likely to focus their efforts on locking down Brandin Cooks with Shaquill Griffin while playing copycat and committing an extra defender to Cooper Kupp. Tyler Lockett has not been the same since returning from the hospital. He has been a superb decoy but appears to be playing at far less than 100 percent. He has just four receptions total and has averaged 21.33 receiving yards in his last three contests. Good luck this weekend.
George Kittle (TE – SF) over 69.5 receiving yards
Alvin Kamara (RB – NO) over 56.5 rushing yards
Robert Woods (WR – LAR) over 5.5 receptions
Tyler Lockett under (WR – SEA) 70.5 receiving yards
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Tyreek Hill (WR – KC) over 82.5 receiving yards
James White (RB – NE) over 4.5 receptions
This player combination was chosen due to projected game flow in a contest with a high over/under total. Hill was able to get the better of his matchup with Stephon Gilmore during their regular-season meeting last year. White, arguably the Patriots number two receiver, should be heavily involved in the passing game for the second straight week.
Tyreek Hill was much quieter than expected in a terrific Week 13 matchup against the Oakland Raiders. Mahomes threw for just 175 yards. Of the Chiefs five touchdowns, three came on the ground, and one was a pick-six by rookie safety Juan Thornhill. Tyreek's numbers this season suggest the under is the safer play. The same can be said for his matchup against one of the elite corners in the NFL. The only reason we are going with the over here is because Hill was able to trounce Gilmore for seven receptions, 142 yards, and three touchdowns in New England last season. If this game becomes as tightly contested as expected, the Chiefs are going to need to throw, and Hill is still the Chiefs' only reliable weapon at wide receiver.
James White is going to be needed in a contest the New England Patriots may very well be underdogs in if it was played on the road. We all saw how tightly contested last seasons matchups between these two teams were, and there is no denying that the Patriots offense has taken a step back from their 2018-19 product. James White hauled in five of his seven targets against the Chiefs in their regular-season meeting in 2018. He hauled in four of his six targets during the controversial Sony Michel dominated AFC Championship game. The Patriots have played just 3.5 playoff teams this season (the .5 being the 6-7, NFC East division-leading Dallas Cowboys). White has cleared 4.5 receptions in two of those three contests. The only time he was held under was by the Baltimore Ravens, a contest he hauled in two of his three targets. Against Buffalo and Houston, he hauled in eight receptions a piece from double-digit targets. White has cleared this total in six of his 11 contests this season.
Allen Lazard (WR – GB) over 44.5 receiving yards
Derrius Guice (RB – WAS) over 44.5 rushing yards
This player combination was chosen due to the ability of both players to clear this total on just one touch. Lazard has emerged as the Green Bay Packers number two receiver and is fresh off the best game of his career. Derrius Guice is also fresh off the best game of his young career and had a 60 yard run in Week 13.
Allen Lazard should get a chance to shine in a contest the Green Bay Packers are double-digit favorites in. Davante Adams is going to receive the bulk of the defensive attention from the secondary, leaving Lazard to have a field day against one on one man coverage or to eat up the soft spots in zone. Lazard has only crossed this total twice all season but has a plus matchup and the fabled momentum on his side. Aaron Rodgers had to be thrilled that Lazard finally had his breakout game of sorts, and will make a concerted effort to elevate his receiver even further in the hopes that he earns a role in the Packers 2020 receiver room.
Derrius Guice is averaging 50.8 rushing yards per game after his breakout 129 rushing yard performance in Week 13. In actuality, he has only cleared 44.5 rushing yards once all season, as his season average has been propped up by his thrashing of the Carolina Panthers. Guice played just 30 percent of the snaps last week but was still able to have a monster day. Even if we removed the 60-yard scamper from the equation, Guice still would have cleared this total on his nine carries. Guice is one of the more talented backs in the NFL and got to put his wares on display against the Panthers. The Packers are expected to win this contest pretty handily, which means Adrian Peterson could see his snaps reduced in favor of superior receivers Derrius Guice and Chris Thompson. Green Bay is a plus matchup for any running back. This is especially true when we are talking about one as talented as Guice. The Packers have allowed 4.92 yards per carry on the season. That is the fourth-highest mark in the entire NFL.
Two other player combinations that piqued our interest for this weekend's contest have been listed below. The Kittle-Kamara combo was chosen due to the projected game flow for Kittle. It was selected for Kamara due to the 49ers allowing the 12th highest yards per carry against in the league. They were a rush defense to target before the Packers, Ravens, and Seahawks all recording 20 plus carries at less than four yards per pop skewed their | 1,099 |
Aw, what a great little helper!
Your young assistant is adorable ;) Look forward to making this wtih my assistant..
what a perfect little cupcake!! and your pastry chef is precious!! Thanks for sharing the moment with us!
oh those are adorable and look like the perfect breakfast!
Sometimes I prefer just the cupcake and not the frosting. So I know what you mean. Your lil helper is so cute!
looks great - kind of like the perfect muffin!
Jasmine is so cute trying to help with cupcakes!
The decorating is the most fun part!
Agreed for sure. I can skip the frosting any day. This recipe reminds me of chocolate covered raisins, my all time favorite treat!
I too like simple and frost free baked goodies, and yours look just the right Rebecca.
Those look fabulous! I love your assistant!
The heart is so cute. So is your helper!
Don't worry...with a mom like you, she'll be into the kitchen in no time. Messy, but fun. :) Already she decorates better than I do!
Great cookies, and I love it when you post photos of<|fim_middle|> Thanksgiving holiday!
Jasmine just gets cuter every day! Can't wait to meet both of you next week! These cupcakes look fab.
Lovely little suis chef! These muffin look delish!!
Ha! Now you have a great kitchen helper!
Raisins and chocolate are a good match; perfect cupcake and loeve you sous chef. | your daughter, she is just about the cutest thing ever. Well, I can't really say that because I have 10 nieces and nephews I am kind of partial to as well! Haha!
... but two year olds love to play. It's like edible crayons! I like the no-fuss and can go into exaltations about anything chocolate!
Jasmine is growing up for sure! Love the cakes.
Your daughter is adorable! Thanks for sharing her with us. Your cupcakes look tasty too! I love the combo of raisins and chocolate.
It was really great to finally meet you! Have a wonderful | 129 |
Oakville woman says Sunwing evacuation flight from Cuba was nearly empty | CBC News Loaded
Oakville woman says Sunwing evacuation flight from Cuba was nearly empty
As the cleanup from Hurricane Irma continues across Florida and the Caribbean, one Canadian passenger is sharing her story with CBC News about disorganized evacuation plans from a Canadian air carrier, and a nearly empty plane as the storm approached.
Airline blames uncertain path of Hurricane Irma for ever-changing evacuation plans
CBC News · Posted: Sep 15, 2017 7:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: September 16, 2017
Julie Shannon's evacuation flight from Varadero, Cuba, before Hurricane Irma hit was nearly empty. (Julie Shannon)
As the cleanup from Hurricane Irma continues across Florida and the Caribbean, one Canadian passenger is sharing her story with CBC News about disorganized evacuation plans from Canadian air carrier Sunwing, and a nearly empty plane as the storm approached.
Canadians evacuated from Caribbean finally home after gruelling week
For Canadians owning property in Florida, assessing the damage after Hurricane Irma is full of challenges
Julie Shannon arrived in Varadero, Cuba, on Monday, Sept. 4, to sunny blue skies. She has been vacationing in the area for years, and often takes goods to donate to locals.
When she arrived, she didn't think the island would take a direct hit from the hurricane. But she soon realized that her vacation had to be cut short.
While Air Canada and Air Transat<|fim_middle|> the company is "extremely proud" of the local staff and "will ensure this appreciation is recognized appropriately.
"We thank our customers for their empathy and concern."
Meanwhile, Shannon said she is going to "watch how they handle this" before deciding whether to fly with the airline again.
With files from Makda Ghebreslassie
Toronto man, elderly parents in Cuba 24 hours before Hurricane Irma hit are frustrated by Sunwing's response | passengers were being flown home, Shannon said, Sunwing customers were left waiting for days, wondering about the evacuation plan.
She felt fortunate when a local Sunwing representative told her and another customer that they could have the last seats on a flight home that Friday, Sept. 10. They left many other passengers behind when they hopped in a cab that morning. So she was shocked when they got on the plane and found that it was far from full.
"When we got on the plane finally, when we boarded and we saw 33 seats filled and the rest empty, we all went, 'What? This can't be,'" Shannon told CBC Toronto.
She said "hundreds" of people were left at the beach and wouldn't be able to get out.
'We weren't well-informed'
"We were heartbroken. It was just too much to take. I looked across at a young man who had taken his mom down to Varadero for just a holiday and his head was down on his seat and I looked over at him and said, 'Are you OK?' He said, 'I'm just sick.'"
The man started listing all the people he'd left behind at his hotel.
She blamed the empty seats on a "lack of organization" by Sunwing, including a lack of communication.
"We weren't well-informed," Shannon said. She felt the airline could have started flying people out on the Monday or Tuesday.
Julie Shannon says she will wait to see how Sunwing handles the fallout from its evacuation plans ahead of Hurricane Irma before deciding whether to fly with the airline again. (Makda Ghebreslassie/CBC)
She always flies Sunwing to the islands and said she has been pleased by the service. "But this was a huge error in judgment," she said.
Airline 'extremely empathetic'
For its part, Sunwing said Friday that the hurricane's path was unpredictable and airline representatives developed evacuation plans as its path evolved, plans that were affected by sudden airport closures.
On the day Shannon left Cuba, the company sent eight aircraft down. Regarding Shannon's plane and its empty seats, spokesperson Jacqueline Grossman said:
"A hundred customers who had already been transferred from Cayo Coco were intended to be on one of these flights, but were able to be accommodated on an earlier flight. This particular aircraft had to depart urgently and therefore it was regrettably not full."
Grossman said Sunwing staff ensured remaining customers were "accommodated in the safest possible places while the storm passed."
According to Grossman, 36 special rescue flights had been sent down to areas affected by Irma since Sept. 5.
"We are extremely empathetic of what our customers experienced throughout the hurricane evacuation operation and will be issuing compensation to those affected, including a refund for the unused portion of their vacation," Grossman said.
Shannon said that in addition to compensation for customers, she would like to see the airline offer something to Sunwing representatives on the ground in Cuba, who worked tirelessly to keep customers calm and informed.
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VisitDallas officials defend convention, visitors bureau after negative audit
"At the end of the day we're very proud of our work and the accomplishments we've achieved," VisitDallas CEO Phillip Jones said, wrapping up 27 minutes of explanations, defenses and felicitations.
Mark Woelffer, VisitDallas Board Chair and General<|fim_middle|>; it was another in a long line of reports that found few policies and procedures in place to monitor major contracts.
The city issued a brief statement Tuesday saying it's "fully committed to improving its monitoring and oversight of its contract with VisitDallas" and would ensure tax dollars are "wisely invested in our economy."
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A small army of VisitDallas executives, board members and supporters stood at a lectern Wednesday to take turns defending the convention and visitors bureau against a recent Dallas City Hall audit that the mayor called "concerning."
Phillip Jones, VisitDallas' president and CEO, said he and other officials "take this audit very seriously" but insisted there are already policies and procedures in place to "protect the integrity" of the city and his organization.
"At the end of the day we're very proud of our work and the accomplishments we've achieved," Jones said, wrapping up 27 minutes of explanations, defenses and felicitations before opening the news conference to questions.
The audit, released late Friday, said Convention and Events Services and the Office of Economic Development — the departments at City Hall that work with directly the bureau — have been lax in their oversight of VisitDallas in recent years. And as a result, said the audit, VisitDallas has commingled tax revenue in violation of state law; offered vague metrics that make it difficult to gauge whether it's fulfilling its contract; too slowly paid its $500,000 annual contribution to the convention center's upkeep; and allowed Jones to expense personal items despite paying him more than $700,000 in annual compensation.
Jones said one of his expenses questioned in the audit — a $543 Tumi backpack — was just the result of a "clerical error or oversight" and not part of "a pattern of abuse" after an airline damaged his luggage. Jones said he submitted the invoice and thought the airline covered the cost.
"I found out about this during the audit process, and as soon as it was brought to my attention I wrote a personal check to cover the cost of the backpack," he said.
Jones also said the $7,000 worth of gifts given to people the audit says were "not identified" included Dallas-branded items such as pens and cuff links, as well as occasional boxes of chocolates. Those items — often "leave-behinds" at trade shows — are difficult to track, he said.
But the auditor also raised far bigger concerns about the $30 million VisitDallas receives each year from the city. About $16 million of that comes from the hotel occupancy tax, which is currently set at 7 percent of a room's cost — on top of the 6 percent charged and collected by the state. And about $14 million comes from the Tourism Public Improvement District, a 2 percent assessment on all Dallas hotels with more than 100 rooms.
The audit says funds from those two sources are "not maintained in separate bank accounts," which "is not in accordance with state of Texas law."
VisitDallas chief financial officer Matt Jones, who isn't related to the CEO, said the money is wired in two transactions to a single account, after which VisitDallas "immediately moves those dollars to a separate bank account." When asked if interim auditor Carol Smith was wrong about this finding, Matt Jones said to ask the auditor.
Smith stood behind the audit.
"The report issued was shared with VisitDallas," Smith said in an interview, "and opportunities were provided for them to refute the report by providing additional facts. None were provided on that specific point."
Phillip Jones also disputed that VisitDallas was late to pay its $500,000 annual contribution meant for capital improvements at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Jones said then-convention center director Ron King told VisitDallas to hold off until he came up with a list of needs at the convention center.
Phillip Jones has long maintained the convention center needs a $300 million overhaul. When asked why VisitDallas delayed payments to a facility apparently in need of repairs and a redo, he said to ask King about the delayed invoices.
King, who is now running Cleveland's convention center, was not immediately available for comment Wednesday.
After the meeting, VisitDallas officials furnished a December 2014 invoice requesting three years' worth of payments totaling $1.5 million. Chief marketing officer Frank Librio said "the city held off invoicing VisitDallas for three payments to save an amount" the convention center wanted for larger capital improvements — "such as the bathrooms, for example."
VisitDallas officials also disputed the audit's findings that the bureau doesn't use "a consistent process to prepare its metrics" and that its "performance results are not reliable."
Several VisitDallas executives said events that agree to come to Dallas promise a certain amount of rooms booked per night — 2,500 qualifies as "citywide." The audit said that from fiscal years 2013 to 2017, VisitDallas considered 53 events to be citywide, but only 23 actually fit that definition.
Officials said it's hard to discern actual numbers because event attendees often book their own rooms, sometimes at hotels far from the event or through Airbnb.
How Tourism Public Improvement District dollars are spent, according to a March 2018 briefing VisitDallas gave to the Dallas City Council
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, who called the audit "concerning," said the metrics are too vague to be any good, which is a problem when a contract is tied to specific metrics.
"The thing is it should be simple to understand," Rawlings said in an interview. "When things are a little more vague and need a lot of explanation, that's not good for citizens."
City officials began to meet with VisitDallas officials Tuesday afternoon to discuss the audit's findings.
The city officials are particularly interested in Jones' compensation, especially bonuses tied to targets the audit says are ill-defined. But City Hall can't do anything about that — save for severing or not renewing VisitDallas' contract, which expires Sept. 30, 2020. Decisions specifically about Jones' compensation package, which makes him one of the top-paid convention and visitors bureau CEOs in the country, rest solely with the nonprofit's board.
And it's a massive board with more than 50 members, including Chef Dean Fearing; Joyce Williams, an associate vice chancellor at Dallas County Community College District; and Lily Weiss, the executive director of the Dallas Arts District.
Two council members — Jennifer Staubach Gates and Adam Medrano — are also on the board. Gates said this week she wants Jones' compensation tied to VisitDallas' responsiveness to the audit's recommendations.
Rawlings, who chaired the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau before his election in 2011, said a smaller board is needed for "more transparency."
1/2VisitDallas President and CEO Phillip Jones spoke during a news conference Wednesday at the VisitDallas headquarters in Dallas. (Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
2/2Photos of the VisitDallas Board of Directors fill a conference room wall at its downtown headquarters.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)
VisitDallas' finance committee will review the audit's findings in a special-called meeting. But the public grilling is slated for Feb. 19, at a special-called meeting during which council members — among them Scott Griggs, who wants Phillip Jones' resignation — will likely take VisitDallas executives and city staff to task.
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Not only is the worlds most expensive footballer Gareth Bale, an avid fan of the brightly coloured therapeutic taping, but one of Kinesio UKs partners, have been nominated for prestigious awards for their work with Kinesio.
Eric Murphy, a multi-award winning photographer and winner of North East Photographer of the Year, has been working with Kinesio UK since 2011 and has taken numerous pictures of Kinesio fan Gareth Bale.
Eric, has now been shortlisted for the prestigious British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) Peter Grugeon Award for his photographs, which include some fantastic studio and location shots of athletes wearing Kinesio Taping.
Eric is originally from Glasgow and now works from a studio in Whickham, Tyne & Wear. He has 20 years of photographic experience under his belt and graduated from Blackpool and Fylde College before learning the ropes in London working freelance and then heading North to Newcastle. He enjoys the diverse, varied commissions that working in Newcastle offers and says: "I'm passionate about the power of fantastic photography and am thrilled to have been nominated for this award. Working with Kinesio UK and with Gareth<|fim_middle|>phyphotographer.com | Bale has given me a lot of scope for creative flair. I've enjoyed it immensely and look forward to many more interesting commissions from Kinesio in the future."
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Mark Woodforde OAM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2008 as an Athlete Member for his contribution to the sport of tennis.
Woodforde won his first Grand Slam doubles victory – the 1989 US Open – with US great John McEnroe. He scored a further two tournament victories with McEnroe and one with Thomas Smid before teaming up with fellow SAHOF Member, Todd Woodbridge in 1991 to form one of the most successful men's doubles combinations in history. Together, 'the Woodies' won six of eight Wimbledon men's doubles finals played between 1993 and 2000, as well as two US Opens, two Australian Opens and one French Open, Olympic gold in 1996 and silver in 2000. The pair combined for an incredible tally of 61 ATP wins across their glittering career<|fim_middle|>.
Mark Woodforde retired from competition in 2000 before he coached Australia's Federation Cup team in 2003 and 2004. | together.
Woodforde also won five major mixed doubles titles and in played in three Davis Cup finals (1993, 1999 and 2000) – the most notable being the 1999 final against France which gave Australia its first Davis Cup victory in 13 years.
The Adelaide born left-hander turned professional in 1984 aged 19 and won singles titles at his hometown tournament in Adelaide twice, and made the semi-finals of the Australian Open in 1996, but it was as a doubles player that he made his greatest mark | 125 |
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State and Federal Mapping of Infrastructure and Movement
The Mississippi River Commission was created in 1879 in order to stabilize the river for flood control and navigation. But the 1927 flood demonstrated that existing practices were inadequate, and heightened the urgency of preventing future floods, managing the flow of the river, and stabilizing its banks. The ensuing economic depression of the 193<|fim_middle|> Newberry Library (November 2014)
View Full Metadata | 0s generated support for large-scale public works that would advance this end. One of the most notable scientists and engineers in this endeavor was Harold Norman Fisk, a geologist who began to study the Lower Mississippi Valley in his work for the Louisiana Geological Survey. Fisk was fascinated by the prehistoric and modern courses of the river, and experimented with representing this dynamic through maps. In 1941 he convinced the President of the River Commission to support a comprehensive study of the geomorphology of the lower Mississippi River.
Fisk's colleagues remember him as a demanding leader—even rude and confrontational—but also brilliant. His rigorous two-year study paid off when he produced a massive report with over 100 maps and graphs documenting the complex geological history of the river. He used aerial photographs to search for abandoned channels and patterns of soils, vegetation, and drainage. He also drew on historic maps to chart the course of the river at more recent moments: 1765, 1820, 1880, and 1940. This evidence was combined with extensive fieldwork and prior research in order to reconstruct the evolution of the alluvial plain.
The centerpiece of the report was a set of fifteen maps that each covered a section of the Mississippi River Valley, from Cape Girardeau to Donaldsonville (above New Orleans). At a scale of one inch per mile, the intensely colored maps graphically identify the ever-changing course of the river and the process of sedimentation, both before and since the modern meander belt of the river was formed about 6000 years ago. Each of the shading techniques marks a particular stage in the evolution of the river, including its many cutoffs. This layering effect reconstructed the sequence of events in the long evolution of the river and its valley. The maps are admittedly complex, but they allowed geologists to answer specific questions about the behavior of the river over geologic time as well as recent history. Such information—elegantly and intuitively presented—must have been most welcome in the aftermath of such a devastating flood.
The maps were printed by the Army Map Service during the Second World War, and in fact the War made the river into an important source of transportation, which heightened the attention paid to this research. The report was published in 1944, and it brought Fisk immediate attention and wider latitude to extend his research into related areas. Soon petroleum geologists recognized the implications of his work for oil exploration, particularly the possibility of searching for stratigraphic traps that might contain reserves of oil and gas. In the 1950s he put his skills to work in Houston—with substantial success—yet he continued his geological research throughout that time until he died of leukemia in 1964.
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Fisk, Harold Norman, "Ancient Courses, Mississippi River Meander Belt, Cape Girardeau, Mo.-Donaldsonville, La.", in Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River (Vicksburg, Miss. : Mississippi River Commission, 1945), Atlas Plate 22, Sheets 2, 3, 7, and 9. Not held by | 666 |
Book this perfect group shore<|fim_middle|> for you at the ship's berth holding a sign with a blue umbrella. | excursion when your cruise docks in Kochi. You will be picked up at Kochi Port Pier and start this relaxing 4-hour group tour of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry with a English-speaking guide.
You will be picked up from Kochi Port Ships Berth and transfered to Fort Kochi to visit your first stop, the Chinese Fishing Nets. Introduced by traders from the court of Kublai Khan in the 14th century, Kochi fishermen still use the fishing nets to earn their livelihoods. Continue your stroll down to St. Francis Church, the oldest European church in India. The church was constructed in 1503 by Portuguese friars and is now the burial place of Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer who led the first ships that sailed directly from Europe to India. Next you will visit Santa Cruz Basilica, one the largest and most impressive churches in India. The church has two soaring spires and a bright, white-washed exterior. Inside, you will find walls decorated with frescoes, murals, and large paintings depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ.
Stop at Local Laundry or Dhobi Khanna. Later, visit the Mattancherry Palace, built by the Portuguese and presented to the Raja of Kochi in 1555. The palace is famous for its stunning murals portraying scenes from Hindu tales, such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Next door is the Paradesi Synagogue, the oldest active synagogue in South India. Admire the ornate brass pulpit, the Belgian glass chandelier, and hand-painted Chinese porcelain floor tiles. Before the tour is concluded, you can wander around Jew Town and Jewish Synagogue, a central location for the spice trade and inhale the aroma of ginger, cardamom, turmeric, and cloves. If your schedule allows, you can also do some shopping for spices, handicrafts, and antiques, or have a casual lunch. When the tour ends, you will be transferred back to Kochi Port to board your cruise on time.
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I heard about InCom Real Estate through my HomeLife brokerage. They highly recommended your services, as they were very satisfied with the website you designed for their office. They mentioned I should get a website with InCom Real Estate so I could use the office listings as part of my personal listings on my own site. What a great feature! This capability plus all the other great lead-generating tools have brought me 3 sales in 3 months!
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I've had my real estate agent website with your company for just over a year now. I wanted to express how impressed I am with the impeccable customer service, new additional updates and features, and the helpful ideas on how to promote my website. Since I purchased my site with InCom Real Estate, the traffic has been on a steady rise, with a good spectrum of visitors. I also receive many phone calls each month from customers who find me online. Many visitors fill out the lead generation forms, which helps to build my clientele list. I feel that my website has kept me in line with the needs of today's buyers and sellers. Thank you for the helpful support and kind service you have extended to me. I wish you all the best and highly recommend you to others so they too can benefit from your professionalism.
When we contacted InCom Real Estate Web & e-Marketing Solutions, we did not know what to expect. We were happy to find that working with InCom Real Estate was a pleasure. The entire experience ran smoothly and was conducted in a pleasant and professional manner. Your specialists knew exactly what we wanted in a partner website and did an excellent job in executing our vision. Thank you for all your help.
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This is a true story! Web salespeople call me all the time trying to talk me into switching to their web hosting services. They make all kinds of promises and claims. I tell them I am not interested: I am so happy with InCom! I am the broker/owner of a small HomeLife Franchise Firm since 1998. Over the years I have had many bad experiences with various web designers and hosts. As a matter of fact, one web designer who designed and hosted a site for me for a couple of years really took me for a ride. I paid him $450 to extend my services for another year and guess what happened? Within a week he went out of business and I lost my money. Many other agents and brokers at HomeLife lost their | 2,358 |
Eduplanet21 Announces Version 5.0 of its Curriculum Management Platform
The updates will provide a macro design feature and customizable professional learning institutes.
(Mechanicsburg, Penn.) Jan. 18, 2020 --Eduplanet21 a leading provider of integrated curriculum design and management tools, announces version 5.0 of its integrated platform. New features include a macro curriculum "blueprint" for establishing coherence and alignments for long-term schoolwide learning goals. In addition, there is a new platform module, Institute Builder, that provides ways for districts to customize their own content and personalize professional learning institutes.
Eduplanet21's new macro design feature, based on the Understanding by Design® framework, will provide the option for schools and districts to create and view their overarching understandings and essential questions that spiral across grades; create and view recurring cornerstone performance assessments with rubrics; and align reports that inform adjustments needed to enhance student achievement.
"Teaching and learning are most impactful when everyone knows and understands the long-term goals for students, and has adequate tools and resources to create curriculum and delivery methods to achieve those goals," said Jeff Colosimo, CEO of Eduplanet21.
With the new macro curriculum feature, districts will be able to answer questions such as:
Where are we teaching and assessing our students on the attributes/capacities/vision of graduate roles?
Are we intentionally designing common assessments for all priority standards?
Do we have vertical alignment of our curriculum in all grades and subjects?
Eduplanet21 is also adding a new module, Institute Builder, that amplifies the effect of their Learning Paths by including the option to add discussions, resource libraries, and increased collaboration and communication.
Eduplanet21 is also introducing new pre-developed PLUS Institutes, that offer sought-after topics from influential authors such as Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design, Costa and Kallicks' Habits of Mind, Allison Zmuda's Personalized Learning, and more. Each Plus Institute offers a collection<|fim_middle|> education by creating continuity between curriculum design and professional learning. Our mission is to bring educators a simple, guided tool to develop, map, analyze, and manage curriculum. To learn more, visit Eduplanet21.com. | of pre-developed customizable content from world-renowned authors in education.
Option to join a global community of learners;
Site-wide discussions limited to only your school or district;
Live chat; and
Application of new knowledge immediately into Unit Planner.
"The company also has unique, impactful features designed specifically for The Understanding by Design Framework (UbD), which focuses on teaching and assessing for understanding to enable students to transfer their learning to new situations. The addition of these new features to the Eduplanet21 software will open exciting and meaningful opportunities for curriculum planning as well as teaching and learning," said Jay McTighe, UbD co-author with Grant Wiggins. "We have always believed that effective use of technology is critical to curriculum planning, which is why I have partnered with Eduplanet21."
Eduplanet21 partners with schools and districts of all sizes to support effective curriculum design and management, and is the only licensed educational technology provider of the Understanding by Design 2.0 Framework, developed by world-renowned educators and authors Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins.
For more information, visit Eduplanet21.com.
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Eduplanet21 is a comprehensive Curriculum Management platform that is transforming | 259 |
I first tried this when I received a sample size in a beauty box - I was AMAZED at how effective it was!
I love mascara, it is absolutely one of my Top 3 must have make up items, and I like my<|fim_middle|> missed it! | lash look to be dark, dramatic and lengthy!
Before trying this, my favourite mascara had been Benefit's They're Real which retails at £18.50 - I was perfectly happy with the product and had no desire to change, but thought it worth trying the sample I had received anyway.
I literally couldn't believe how much I fell in love with Magnascopic - my lashes looked longer than ever before, the mascara stayed put all day (Even after swimming!) and never clumps - I was besotted.
Even the £20.00 price tag didn't put me off and I was determined that, as soon as my Benefit mascara started to get low, I would be purchasing the full size Magnascopic.
Have you ever tried this product? If so, I would love to hear your thought. If not, what is your mascara of choice?
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NEWCASTLE midfielder Vurnon Anita is backing fellow Dutchman Luuk de Jong to hit the goals trail and win a permanent move to St James' Park.
De Jong has yet to find the net in eight appearances since joining the Magpies on loan from Borussia Monchangladbach.
And in the last two games, the 23-year-old has been hauled off inside the hour after failing to make an impact.
It comes after a miserable spell in the Bundesliga where he spent most of the season warming the bench.
But though the jury is out, Anita remains convinced that<|fim_middle|> Toon.
"Luuk wants to stay here beyond the end of the season and I hope that happens because he is a very good player," said Anita.
"Unfortunately, chances haven't really fallen for him so far but I'm sure they will in the weeks ahead and he will take them.
"Since he came in January, Luuk has been doing everything he can to prove himself at Newcastle and I believe it would be good for everybody if he signs for us."
Anita, meanwhile, insists that the gap between Newcastle and the top six is not a chasm despite Everton's 3-0 win on Tuesday.
"I wouldn't say they are moving away from us," added the pint-sized midfielder, who missed the Toon's best chance.
"I don't think we did an awful lot wrong. They took their chances and we didn't which was the big difference.
"That was the story of the game and I was a part of that as well." | de Jong has plenty to offer the | 7 |
Detail of Dark Energy Camera image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, part of the Fornax cluster of galaxies.
Full mosaic image of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. "We're not studying the galaxies themselves, but using galaxies as tracers of the structure of the universe," Frieman said.
Mosaic detail from photographs of the center of the globular star cluster 47 Tuc<|fim_middle|> Atacama desert. The sky is as clear there as anywhere on Earth. | anae, a mere 17,000 light years from Earth. The Dark Energy Camera will ultimately detect galaxies some 8 billion light years away. "This is a relatively nearby cluster, and we'll eventually be counting 100,000 clusters like this," said Frieman.
Full mosaic image of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is about 200,000 light years from Earth. To make sure the Dark Energy Camera is working properly, the first photographs were taken of well-known galaxies -- Frieman called them "famous bright things" -- which astronomers can use as baseline reference images.
Sensor array inside the Dark Survey Camera, the most powerful space camera on Earth.
The Dark Energy Camera is set inside the Blanco telescope, which is set on a mountain high in Chile's | 168 |
Roger Family Sailing Adventures: Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados - NO... BARBUDA!
We've been in Barbuda about a week now. The sail up was good, we put a reef in the main when the winds went over 20 and then shook it out when they dropped down to 12. We followed Cranstackie (Alister and Esther,) Kaisosi (Annette and Terry, ) and Silk Pajamas (Kristen and Terry). We left after them… and could see them at first but soon they disappeared out of sight. Too fast for Blue Pearl. We arrived about 40 minutes after them and settled in.
Barbuda is the most Bahamian looking island we've seen down here. It is flat, flat, flat. The highest point is about 200 feet above sea level with salt ponds and mangrove lagoons.
After a day of bobbing around we took off for a beach walk past the fancy, exclusive "Lighthouse Bay" resort. They have placed a beach shack nearby to sell beer and cheap hamburgers to the riffraff cruisers to keep us out of their hair.
Lovely beach, lovely walk… nice to get to know our new cruising buddies.
We made arrangements to go in to see the Frigate Bird Sanctuary with our guide, George. The surge was huge and our beach landing was quite a mess. People, propellers, cameras and other bits went whirling around when the massive waves flipped one of the dinghies right at the beach. These waves are "Big Beach" waves… for those of you who have visited that beach south of Kihei, Maui.
Anyway, we all survived, dried off and had a great tour. George told us to keep our fingers away from between the boat and the dock when we boarded. Pam kept her fingers clear but not her big toe.
The day after our tour we moved to the south anchorage at Gravenor Bay for some respite from the swell. Lots of coral heads and reefs. You wouldn't want to enter here in bad light.
Great dinner on Cranstackie -wow, Esther can cook. Followed the next night by Sundowners on Blue Pearl. Drinks led to more drinks - guitars and bad singing. I got much better as the night went on and, as usual Pam got meaner and meaner.
Great tour on Sunday of the old Codrington Estate, the Sink Hole and the Caves at Two Foot Beach. We can endorse our driver, Dilly (Dolmar) Desuza and our guide, Elvis - or Heron - or William - just don't call him late for dinner. Great sights, great company and super folks to take us around.
Codrington leased the whole island of Barbuda in the early 1700s at a rate of "one fat sheep" per year. He used the island as a sporting lodge to hunt, fish and for growing some root vegetables and other crops to feed the locals and slaves on his cane-plantations elsewhere. Because the island was not suitable for sugar cane, the slaves here were involved in farming and fishing and taking care of Codrington. He was away a lot and so the slaves weren't supervised (and exploited) to the extent they were on the cane-growing islands. The folks here now are mostly decendents of the original slaves and own the island communally.
Elvis found the sinkhole when he was 14 years old while he was out hunting. He<|fim_middle|> you to arrive at the bottom gently - and not with a thud.
Snorkelling today on the Spanish Point reef and then heading back to Antigua on Tuesday to get the boat all prepped for our visit from Scott and Tina on Thursday. Very excited to see them!
Outstanding job, great photos, great stories. Thank you. | had heard stories from his elders but it hadn't been explored so it became his passion. It's a hundred foot straight drop if you come at it from the wrong direction and there are the bones of a boar and a cow who did just that. There is a scrambly path to get down that allows | 63 |
Darcy Lecture Wednesday April 4th 3pm Reitz Union
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ESSIE (The Engineering<|fim_middle|> of Hydrologic Engineering (since 2004), and on the editorial boards of Transport in Porous Media (since 1989), Journal of Porous Media Special (since 2009), Topics & Reviews in Porous Media (since 2010), and The Open Hydrology Journal and The Open Civil Engineering Journal (the latter two since 2007). In addition, Hassanizadeh is active as a session organizer or a member of various committees for the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, American Geophysical Union, Soil Science Society of America, European Geophysical Union, and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. He is a founding member and managing director of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore). Hassanizadeh has published close to 200 times in journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
He's cosupervised more than 35 graduate students, coorganized a large number of international conferences, workshops, and short courses, and he's given more than 50 invited/keynote lectures in international meetings. He is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union (2002) and American Association for Advancement of Science (2007). He was awarded the honorary degree of Doktor-Ingenieur from Stuttgart University in 2008 and received the von Humboldt prize in 2010. | School for Sustainability, Infrastructure and Environment) is hosting the 2012 Darcy Lecture, Wednesday April 4th, 3 pm in Room 282 Reitz Union
Speaker: S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Ph.D., Professor of hydrogeology on the faculty of geosciences at Utrecht University and senior adviser with the Soil and Groundwater Department of Deltares research institute.
Hassanizadeh's research focuses on flow and transport in porous media through theory development, experimental studies, and modeling work. His current research includes pore-network modeling and experimental studies of two-phase flow, pore-network modeling of adsorbing solutes in unsaturated soil, transport of colloids and microorganisms in variably saturated soil, and novel remediation methods for NAPL-polluted soils.
Seminar Title: Transport of Viruses in Partially Saturated Soil and Groundwater
Transport of Viruses in Partially Saturated Soil and Groundwater Surface water is often used for recharge of aquifers used in drinking water production. But it can be contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms and viruses from wastewater discharges or manure runoff.
These pathogens have to be removed to produce safe drinking water such as passing surface water through soil. However, to assure production of safe drinking water from surface water, adequate travel times and travel distances are needed. In this regard, it is important to determine various factors that affect the rate of removal of pathogenic viruses during soil passage. These factors include hydraulic conditions (such as flow velocity and saturation) and geochemical conditions (pH, ionic strength, concentration of calcium). In this lecture, Hassanizadeh will:
*Present the results of a large number of laboratory and field experiments involving bacteriophages (viruses affecting bacteria), which were carried out under a variety of conditions under steady-state flow settings.
*Show how the data from the experiments was used to derive
(empirical) relationships between removal rate coefficients and geochemical conditions as well as saturation.
*Explain how in the case of unsaturated flow, the role of air/water interfaces in the removal of viruses was also investigated.
*Present findings from experiments performed under transient flow conditions where saturation has been changed significantly.
*Show how the experiments, as well as other researchers' results, have demonstrated that both drainage and imbibition fronts cause a remobilization of adsorbed viruses.
*Discuss the mechanisms behind this remobilization.
*Provide evidence from pore-scale visualization experiments performed in a micromodel.
There will be additional opportunities to meet with Majid on Wednesday or Thursday. Contact Mike Annable if you are interested ([log in to unmask] or 392-3294)
S. Majid Hassanizadeh, Ph.D., has been a professor of hydrogeology on the faculty of geosciences at Utrecht University since 2004 and is the senior adviser with the Soil and Groundwater Department of Deltares research institute. He earned his B.Sc. from Pahlavi University in Iran, and his M.E. and Ph.D. from Princeton University; all three degrees are in civil engineering. Hassanizadeh has worked at Abadan Institute of Technology and Yekom Consulting Engineers, both in Iran, and the National Institute of Public Health and Environment and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the latter of which named him an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor in 2001-2003. He has also held visiting faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame; University of Bordeaux, France; EPF Lausanne, Switzerland; and Stuttgart University, Germany.
Hassanizadeh served as editor of Advances in Water Resources (1991-2001) and associate editor of both Vadose Zone Journal (2002-2009) and Water Resources Research (2004-2009). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal | 824 |
In the last few weeks, our mode of delivery has changed but our work to increase access to medicine for those most in need is more important than ever. Our CEO Adele Paterson gives an update on recent developments – watch out for interviews with our team and partners in coming weeks. We're deeply grateful for your support.
Q: IHP has responded to many disasters in the last 15 years. How is it responding to Covid-19?
A: Typically, we respond quickly and in a clear way, understanding how long we will remain involved. Covid-19 is a disaster with no clear exit strategy, and everybody is affected: not only vulnerable individuals, but also donors, product manufacturers, colleagues, and wider networks. The global and all-encompassing nature of this event means our ability to respond has to change, because of the vast needs and impacts arising.
Q: How is Covid-19 changing the work IHP does?
A: What we do now takes longer because of blockages in the supply chain, export restrictions and the diversion of funds from core health programmes towards Covid-19. I've been encouraged to see financial donors become increasingly flexible. It's clear that they recognise the value of the frontline<|fim_middle|> there's been a lessening of capacity for air freight and sea containers.
In programmes, we're working to deliver 20 shipments of needed medicines to support existing health needs. We're talking closely with partners about the impact of Covid-19 on their work - some are reporting funding being diverted from core programmes to focus on COVID-19 capacity. We are compiling a COVID-19-specific needs lists from partners.
We will be approaching corporate partners to explore their capacity to support vulnerable communities, the pandemic in UK, Europe and US has been brought under control.
Health systems are breaking down in the most vulnerable countries as they juggle the dual burden of managing the COVID-19 pandemic and dealing with their already overwhelming healthcare needs.
We need your support more than ever to ensure medicines get to where they are needed. Donate today.
£5 £5 can help us give 15 people treatment
£20 £20 will provide 40 children with antibiotics
£100 £100 will provide 400 pregnant women with life saving medicine
£450 £450 will provide an emergency medical kit to 60 families | work that we enable our partners to deliver, and it's good that we are beginning to understand the impacts of Covid-19 beyond our own communities.
Q: As we focus on helping people with Covid-19 in the UK, does that change what you do?
A: Our donors and supporters need to focus on immediate concerns relating to families, organisations and countries in which they operate. It's been good to see a huge outpouring of support from the pharmaceutical industry to support our health systems, and tremendous encouragement for healthcare professionals to deliver needed, lifesaving healthcare. It's great to see companies thinking of new ways to help people suffering, directly or indirectly, the effects of Covid-19. At the same time, we're aware of growing needs of those in the most vulnerable communities we support. Last week, we've sent needed products to assist programmes in DRC and West Bank, areas experiencing not only the impact of Covid-19 but also long-term conflict, depleted resources and lack of access to medicines.
Q: What are the challenges of Covid-19 for communities you work with?
A: Individuals and families in overcrowded refugee camps and underserved communities will not be able to engage in social distancing because they lack access to space and water in their homes. Daily necessities of life mean these people will continue to spend time in close proximity. In addition, the diversion of resources to help those with Covid-19 will threaten long-term health programmes supporting those with non-communicable diseases such as cancer, and maternal and child health. From the start of this crisis, we've been very clear that we want to enable our partners to continue providing these vital services, so people with other problems can still get essential medicines.
Q: There is no cure for Covid-19, an illness caused by a virus. What difference will IHP's medicines make in these communities?
A: As with other disasters, we're focused on building longer-term support for systems and people. As well as providing medicines for today, IHP is committed to improving underlying health in the most vulnerable communities and enabling in-country partners to develop programming beyond disaster response. By supporting them with gifts of long-dated and needed medicines in a very efficient and cost-effective way, we help free up funding for partners to invest in broader, needed programming. During Covid-19, if in-country partners don't have to spend so much on medicines, they can invest in education about hand-washing or new medical equipment. When we use donations of medicines and products strategically, we help vulnerable communities prepare for the future and we can lessen the impact of Covid-19.
Q: Why should I support IHP when there's so much need in the UK?
A: IHP's model is hugely cost effective, with every £1 donated releasing up to £10 of medicines. We have a small army of faithful supporters who are making a difference in this way. Our long-term partners need an ongoing supply of essential medicines, and we are committed to getting more than 20 shipments to them in countries identified by the UN as being most vulnerable to infectious diseases. There are opportunities to help fund a number of shipments. We'd also love to hear from companies making products: we hold a wholesale dealer licence, have a very strong quality-management system and can offer companies a reliable way to manage donations. We can direct these to fulfil huge needs for antibiotics, painkillers, antifungals and other medicines, including complex medicines for longer-term conditions. Most of all, we want to keep supporting the most vulnerable communities and help them to create resilience. Going forward, your support and advocacy on our behalf will make a huge difference.
Logistically, we've seen bottlenecks and | 760 |
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Fresh Start for Me But I Haven't Forgotten How to Bat: Shikhar Dhawan
Dhawan, who will be leading Delhi in their Ranji Trophy game against Hyderabad, is back after recovering from a knee injury sustained during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, which required 25 stitches.
PTI |December 24, 2019, 3:54 PM IST
Fractured finger, swollen neck, bruised eye and gashed knee, Shikhar Dhawan endured a painful 2019 but the India opener is ready to make a "fresh start" reminding one and all that his "class is permanent" and he "hasn't forgotten how to bat".
While he is back in the Indian team, he knows that the road ahead is a bit tricky with KL Rahul in imperious form in white-ball cricket.
"This is a fresh start for me. I was hit on the finger, then on the neck, bruised eye and then stitches on the knee. Good news is New Year is coming. I am happy that KL has done so well. He has grabbed the opportunity. So I am going to go and express myself," Dhawan told select group of reporters after finishing his training session.
One doesn't have control over injuries but the "happy go lucky" 'Gabbar', as he is fondly called, has never been affected by setbacks.
"Injuries are natural. You've got to accept that. It's fine and I don't create a big fuss about it. The start-stop thing doesn't affect me as I haven't forgotten how to bat. My class is permanent and I will score runs."
Dhawan accepts that the Sri Lanka T20 series, from which Rohit Sharma is taking a break, will be important for him as all three (him, Rahul and Rohit) are available against Australia.
"This is an important season. I would like to perform well in the T20s against Sri Lanka but the selection is support staff's (team management) headache. They will do their job and I will do mine. Looking forward to scoring big runs."
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(1000k+) | The 34-year-old, who played the last of his 34 Tests back in September 2018 against England, is playing a red-ball game after a good 15 months.
With Rohit and Mayank Agarwal making the Test slots their own and Prithvi Shaw waiting for his next chance, where does Dhawan fit in?
"Whether I am in Test team or not is immaterial. I know what game I have. I have scored runs in international cricket as well. I am happy to come back and play Ranji. I have grown from the Ranji level and can't be better that I am back here and also imparting knowledge to other kids."
Getting into the Test team will be a challenge but Dhawan says emphatically that he has never "shied away from challenges".
"My goal remains to play all three formats. I am working on that and even now when I passed the fitness test, the first 20 days I couldn't walk. Then I worked on my fitness. It was a deep cut.
"So, I always enjoy challenges as I never shy away from them. I never shy away from my failures as well. It's always a learning experience. And as they say, 'A learning man is always an earning man'," Dhawan said, seeking to lend a unique perspective of his own.
There is a general feeling that India players don't turn up enough in Ranji Trophy but Dhawan feels that it also depends on the workload.
"If you have played an international series, then you need to give him (a player) rest so that he remains fresh. When you play for India, that's the priority. We are humans and not machines, so mentally and physically you need to be fresh.
"An international player knows how much he can stretch his body. There are times you get emotional and may be play for Delhi (or state team) and in turn get injured and India assignment gets hampered."
But now that he is here, Dhawan is ready to help any interested junior. In fact, one Hyderabad youngster got hold of the left-hander and wanted some tips on his batting and the senior star obliged.
"I don't think like an international star. I am very comfortable over here and I will make sure that we work as a team and I share my expertise and knowledge with them so that they are further groomed. If it benefits a youngster, then why not."
His dry patches in international cricket have often invited criticism but Dhawan is hardly perturbed.
"Critics do their own job and I don't ever get frustrated by that. If they feel that way, that's their opinion what can I do. In my heart I know that I have given my best. But if my best wasn't good enough for it, it's fine, I accept it," he said.
As he wished everyone Merry Christmas, he revealed why this New Year is doubly special for him.
"My wife (Ayesha) with our son (Zorawar) is finally shifting base to India. So I will always have my family by my side," Dhawan said gleefully.
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