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Einstein is quoted as saying "The definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!". I wonder if there is a converse quotation we can introduce, "Another definition of insanity: When there's a perfectly good way of doing something, why keep re-inventing the wheel and expecting a better result?" We're not suggesting we never look to improve on a technique, but we are suggesting we set a standard baseline – then at least we can judge whether we are indeed improving, rather than inventing more and more exotic ways of looking at a problem because software packages allow us to do so!
Over the past few weeks we've been comparing Financial Performance Management (over 500+ years) with Operational Performance<|fim_middle|> 1 officer can handle on average 100 Incidents per month. So if we were to use the average, we would deploy 112 officers each month (a good accountant's approach!). However, this would mean in Februarys, with around 9,700 Incidents, we'd have 15 officers furtively trying to look busy! And in June and July we'd be 15 short, and spending a lot of money on overtime, or just not meeting Demand! So this is not yet that helpful! The problem is seasonality! More s**t tends to happen in this Force in the summer rather than the winter.
Now we see a seasonal pattern, with a much tighter variation (the Performance Corridor now tracks the seasonality and only shows the variation within that seasonality). You don't get exactly the same number of Incidents each February or each June etc., but it is much more predictable than shown in the previous chart above. So this variation is taken into account by the seasonal Performance Corridor. So as this pattern repeats itself going forward (the dashed lines to the right of the chart) we can now see we have to adopt a seasonal profile to officer deployment. We need approximately 97+5 Officers handling Incidents in February, about 110+5 in April and around 127+5 in June and July. And to effect some improvement, we might use those 127 officers in a focused way to get this summer peak reduced.
So now, the Operational Performance Management go-to approach for understanding and visualising performance is extended-SPC, while the Financial Performance Management go-to method is tables of numbers for the latest period vs a previous period or plan/budget. | Management (over 50+ years), and looking for the equivalent in Operational Performance Management of what is a perfectly good standard way of understanding Financial Performance.
Would it contain just a standard set of measures?
Would it be presented in a standard way?
Would it be presented on a monthly basis?
The first of these questions has been answered in previous posts, where we introduced a standard set of, at most, 10 critical measures required for improving Operational Performance. This post will address the second question. And we'll take just one of our 10 measures – Demand – and follow through with our proposition.
In Financial Performance Management, the equivalent might be, say, Total Revenue (and the top-line Revenue may be the sum of all Revenues from each , say, Region that the organisation operates in). Their standard way to evaluate performance is to compare the latest result with some previous result or plan/budget in tabular form. This may work for accountants, since i) the Regional Revenues must add up exactly to give Total Revenue – there is no room for variation, and ii) the past 500 years seems to have shown that comparing the latest Total Revenue against some previous result or against Plan/Budget also works for them. The key difference is that Financial Performance is an abstraction of what is actually going on. It is a model removed from the real world.
In Operational Performance Management, we now need a standard way of showing results, but we have to take the real world into account. It's where the accountant's pencil meets the operational coal-face! And that means handling variation! Just as the financiers in Venetian times must have looked at other "professions" such as architects, stone-masons, scientists and so on, to help mould their tools as they developed, we have a perfectly sound and proven way of handling variation developed in engineering – it's called Statistical Process Control (or SPC for short). And just as those financiers of olden times shaped the tools they borrowed from other professions, we need to extend and adapt SPC to work satisfactorily in a services (as opposed to a more controlled engineering environment).
Let's look at Demand in, say, a Police environment. It could just as easily be ambulance, hospital, pharmaceutical supply-chain, infrastructure / asset management – it doesn't matter.
So, with variation like this, how can you say if things are getting better – there's absolutely no point in looking at the latest result for June 2014 and comparing it with, say, May 2014 and declaring we're improving because it's lower! Does that type of comparison tell us what is likely to happen in July 2014 – well just look at the two previous Julys. Or you could compare June 2014 with June 2013 and declare it slightly better, therefore we're improving? But what about May 2014 it's higher than May 2013 – so we were worse then! And there are many organisations behaving just like this! This is a wonderful display of Einstein's insanity!
Hey Presto! We've added two red lines (in engineering speak upper and lower control limits, about 12,700 and 9,700 respectively), and a green line (about 11,200) which is the average over the length of time of the chart. What does this tell us? It says i) we have lots of variation (represented by the distance between the upper and lower red lines – so up to 12,700 – 9,200 = 3,000 per month), i.e. it is very unpredictable; and ii) it is definitely not improving (nor deteriorating). Your challenge now is to resource officers up to handle this Demand and make some improvements! Say, just say, | 799 |
A flag<|fim_middle|> | pole (right) was installed Monday on the plaza outside the Barclays Center arena, near the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. It's obviously meant to be a beacon of sorts.
There's space on the flagpole base for a plaque (left).
What's coming? There's no official announcement yet, but I hear that the flagpole is supposed to represent the flagpole at Ebbets Field, home of the baseball Dodgers until they left Brooklyn after the 1957 season. And that means the flag will either be vintage or a copy.
It's another effort to link the Nets and the Dodgers, a connection important mainly to men of a certain age--like Borough President Marty Markowitz--and a connection easily grasped by media outlets.
But Markowitz is the only one involved with this deal who seems to have an emotional attachment to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Barclays Center is not something meant to eradicate the ghosts of the past; it is a project entirely based on Brooklyn's future.
But there's still mileage to be gained from the past.
At right, a close-up view of the top of the flagpole. And here's a link to the photo of the flag at Ebbets, where the resemblance is hinted. | 251 |
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Gebeurtenissen
Europa
29 september - Keizer Lotharius I overlijdt na een regeerperiode van 15 jaar (nadat hij samen met zijn vader Lodewijk I ("de Vrome") heeft gere<|fim_middle|>bisschop
29 september - Hartgar, Frankisch bisschop
17 juli - Leo IV, paus van de Katholieke Kerk
29 september - Lotharius I (60), keizer van het Midden-Frankische Rijk
Pepijn, Frankisch graaf (waarschijnlijke datum)
000 | geerd tot 840). Met het Verdrag van Prüm wordt het Midden-Frankische Rijk verdeeld onder zijn drie zoons, Lodewijk II krijgt het bestuur over Italië en ontvangt de keizerskroon van het Heilige Roomse Rijk. De andere zoons Lotharius II en Karel krijgen respectievelijk Lotharingen en Bourgondië toegewezen.
De Viking-hoofdmannen Rorik en Godfred Haraldson keren naar Denemarken terug. Ze proberen tevergeefs de macht te grijpen en worden gedwongen naar Dorestad terug te keren om Friesland weer in bezit te nemen.
Winter - Lotharius II treedt in het huwelijk met Theutberga, een dochter van de Frankische edelman Boso van Arles, die verscheidene bezittingen heeft in het westen van Zwitserland.
Byzantijnse Rijk
november - Keizer Michaël pleegt in Constantinopel met steun van de Byzantijnse adel een staatsgreep tegen zijn moeder en regentes Theodora II. Hij organiseert een strafexpeditie tegen de paulicianen in Armenië. De volgelingen worden op bevel van Michaël gevangengenomen en gemarteld.
Brittannië
Koning Ethelwulf van Wessex onderneemt samen met zijn 6-jarige zoon Alfred een pelgrimsreis naar Rome. Hij verdeelt het koninkrijk onder zijn twee oudste zoons, Ethelbald krijgt het bestuur over Wessex en Ethelbert regeert als onderkoning over Kent, Surrey, Sussex en Essex.
Religie
17 juli - Paus Leo IV overlijdt na een pontificaat van 8 jaar. Hij wordt opgevolgd door Benedictus III als de 104e paus van de Katholieke Kerk. Lotharius I benoemt Anastasius III als tegenpaus van Rome.
Eerste schriftelijke vermeldingen van Ermelo, Putten en Rhenen.
Geboren
Geraldus van Aurillac, Frankisch edelman en heilige (waarschijnlijke datum)
Harald I, koning van Noorwegen (waarschijnlijke datum)
Hugo, Frankisch edelman (waarschijnlijke datum)
Koenraad de Oudere, Frankisch edelman (waarschijnlijke datum)
Luitpold, Frankisch edelman (waarschijnlijke datum)
Richard I, Frankisch edelman (waarschijnlijke datum)
Rudolf I, koning van Opper-Bourgondië (waarschijnlijke datum)
Smbat de Martelaar, koning van Armenië (waarschijnlijke datum)
Overleden
Ahmad ibn Hanbal (75), Arabisch imam en jurist
8 december - Drogo (54), Frankisch aarts | 669 |
Because of the drought in California, we haven't been watering our fruit trees much. The good news is that it finally poured this weekend. I hadn't checked out<|fim_middle|> syrup for roasted vegetables and of course in sweets and drinks. Get inventive; it may inspire you to do more home canning and preserving!
Page 20 of 21 pages. | our trees in a long time. So after the rain stopped, Aria, our puppy Earnest Tofu and I took a little walk in the garden. I was pleasantly surprised that--despite the lack of water--guavas were plentiful, with at least 6 to 8 pounds of luscious fruit waiting to be picked. I consider it a luxury being able to harvest anything during this dry period, especially the tropical flavorful jewels we were able to gather. I prepared guava jelly and will share the recipe tomorrow.
In the meantime, I gathered a list of the preserves I've prepared in the past. Jam and jelly's role isn't only as a topping for bread and butter for breakfast. You can incorporate them in so many creative ways: for salad dressing, meat glaze, | 163 |
20 Aug 2019 | Mercedes-Benz EQV Electric Van Debuts With 250-Mile Range, Taycan Has Apple Music and Don't Say The R-Word
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 20th August 2019. It's Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time.
MERCEDES-BENZ EQV WORLD PREIMERE
A new video hit YoUTube today on the official Mercedes-Benz channel to premiere the EQV. The video description says: "The electric drive train (eATS) of the EQV is situated on the front axle under the dynamic front end of the car with a charging connection in the bumper. It has a peak output of 150 kW. The electric motor, the transmission with a fixed gear ratio, the cooling system and the power electronics constitute a highly integrated, compact unit. The power is provided by a lithium ion battery under the floor of the vehicle. Its low, central location also has a positive effect on the handling characteristics of the EQV. A top speed of up to 160 km/h also ensures that you quickly get to where you are going outside an urban environment."
MERCEDES-BENZ EQV ELECTRIC VAN DEBUTS WITH 250-MILE RANGE
"The German luxury marque revealed the EQV online ahead of its global debut at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show next month, and it packs a lot of the tech we expected it would. It's mostly a battery-electric version of the standard V-Class, and the company plans to build it in Spain alongside its fossil-fuel-sipping cousin. Thus, the design is pretty familiar, but the EQV wears a face we've become familiar with." says CNET: "The lithium-ion battery that motivates the EQV is under the floor to save on cargo space. Total, drivers will have 201 horsepower at their disposal and the 90-kWh lithium-ion battery will provide an estimated range of 250 miles. Like so many European estimates, it's important to note the range is based on WLTP standards, which are more liberal than EPA estimates. Mercedes-Benz didn't say how long it will take to charge the van on a standard socket or its 11-kW charging box, but DC fast charging will juice the battery to 80% in under 45 minutes."
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-benz-eqv-electric-van/
MERCEDES EQV REVEALED AS WORLD'S FIRST ALL-ELECTRIC PREMIUM VAN
And from Motor1.com today: "Just like the EQV Concept, the production all-electric van adopts the automaker's MBUX infotainment platform with a single tablet-style screen instead of the 12.3-inch screens seen on other new Mercedes products. The system supports voice control and also allows customers to pre-condition the interior cabin temperature from a special mobile application."
https://uk.motor1.com/news/366081/mercedes-eqv-unveiled-details/
YOU WON'T NEED A PHONE TO USE THE PORSCHE TAYCAN'S APPLE MUSIC
"Porsche is including Apple Music in the all-electric Taycan so its drivers can enjoy their tunes without having to connect their phone. That said, you'll still have to be an Apple Music subscriber, which costs anywhere from $5 to $15 a month. If you already have Apple Music, that's great. If you need to buy it, well, it still costs the same as a Spotify subscription." reports Jalopnik.
From the press release from Porsche: "From the touchscreen display in the Porsche Advanced Cockpit, Apple Music subscribers can stream over 50 million songs ad-free, thousands of curated playlists, and the Beats 1 global livestream with three-year complimentary in-car internet data. This is the first-ever full integration of Apple Music in any vehicle."
https://jalopnik.com/you-wont-need-a-phone-to-use-the-porsche-taycans-apple-1837400531
PORSCHE'S TAYCAN WILL BE THE FIRST CAR WITH A BUILT-IN APPLE MUSIC APP
And from The Verge today: "Although it has previously been possible to listen to Apple Music in compatible cars using CarPlay (which Porsche has supported since 2015), this is the first time Apple's music streaming service has been available as a native app on any car. Combined with the announcement that Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs, the move shows how Apple is increasingly comfortable with putting its apps and services on non-Apple hardware. Making its services available on a wide range of devices will be important for the company as it shifts towards relying on service subscriptions for more of its revenue."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/20/20813467/porsche-taycan-apple-music-built-in-carplay-all-electric-vehicle-car
PORSCHE IS INTEGRATING APPLE MUSIC INTO THE ALL-ELECTRIC TAYCAN
Finally TechCrunch spoke with Porsche: "However, the relationship between Apple and Porsche won't end there, Porsche North America CEO Klaus Zellmer told TechCrunch. More than 80% of the U.S. Porsche customers also have an iPhone, Zellmer told TechCrunch. Porsche said it will also give Taycan owners three years of free in-car internet."
VOLKSWAGEN ID.3 RESERVATIONS EXCEED 27,000
"Volkswagen has received more than 27,000 reservations for the 1ST launch edition of the Volkswagen ID.3." reports InsideEVs: "The pre-booking of ID.3 1ST was opened on May 8 and the first 10,000 was achieved in 24-hours, on May 9. The pace of registrations then slowed down so the 20,000 mark was reached in early June. Volkswagen has needed more than 100 days to get 27,0<|fim_middle|> main goal is to assemble the EV on the same assembly line as conventional ICE-powered and PHEV cars. As for the iNEXT itself, think of it as the all-electric alternative of the X5 in terms of dimensions and cabin room. Currently under development, the model will incorporate BMW's fifth-generation electric drive system with an estimated range between charges of more than 373 miles (600 kilometers) based on the WLTP cycle. The iNEXT will be the "technology flagship" of the automaker and will support level 3 autonomous driving when it debuts for the 2021 model year."
https://www.motor1.com/news/366028/2021-bmw-inext-teaser-exterior/
REPORT: RANGE ANXIETY REMAINS THE BIGGEST TURN-OFF FOR SWITCHING TO AN EV
Range anxiety is still a concern for company car drivers in the UK, despite the growing electric vehicle infrastructure.
A new survey conducted by Venson Automotive Solutions reveals that while drivers are widely switched on to the benefits and implications of electric vehicle (EV) ownership, 69% still have concerns with the charging infrastructure. 86% of motorists surveyed said that a 'lack of clarity in terms of ownership implications as a company car driver' is a thing of the past, and more than two-thirds of drivers said that they have a good understanding of the costs and convenience of owning an EV.
https://autovistagroup.com/news-and-insights/company-car-drivers-still-have-concerns-over-ev-range-and-infrastructure
The MYEV.com Question Of The Week. Submitted by Brian C:
"Petrol users pay by quantity. EV drivers should ALSO pay by quantity. All charging companies be required by law to charge per kWh – do you agree?"
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Check out MYEV.com for more details: https://www.myev.com | 00 and it's now close to the target of 30,000, which was expected to be achieved by the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. We guess it will be achieved on time, but it's nothing extraordinary taking into consideration the massive sales volume planed. ID.3 1ST special edition (30,000 vehicles), medium battery pack (58 kWh, 420 km / 261 miles of WLTP range), starting below €40,000 in Germany before the deduction of the subsidy, in four colors and three trim versions"
https://insideevs.com/news/366001/volkswagen-id3-reservations-exceed-27000/
FORD'S PLANS FOR 2 MIDSIZED CROSSOVERS ON ITS BEV PLATFORM
"Ford's plans to produce next-generation electric cars in Michigan are becoming more concrete. Two battery-electric mid-range crossover models are apparently planned, one for the Ford brand and another for the Lincoln brand, according to a media report. Both models would be based new BEV platform that was announced in March of this year." according to Electrive: "The two new BEVs, which have code-named CDX746 and CDX747 by Automotive News as they leaked the news, are planned for 2023 and will go into production in Flat Rock, Michigan at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023. According to what Automotive News says are "three sources with knowledge of Ford's plans", the vehicles will be similar in size to the Ford Edge, which is also available in Europe."
Ford plans 2 mid-sized crossovers on new BEV platform
AUSTRALIA'S ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING NETWORK EXPANDS
"The National Roads and Motorists' Association (NRMA) has completed half of its planned 40 station electric vehicle (EV) recharging network with the opening of its latest location in Bega, NSW." reports Carsguide.com.au: "The NRMA's public charging network is currently free to use for all EV owners, however, the organisation will implement a fee in future for all non-members."
https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/australias-electric-car-charging-network-expands-75771
2021 BMW INEXT RETURNS IN NEW TEASERS SHOWING PROTOTYPES PRODUCTION
Anthony Karr at Motor1 has the lowdown on the BMW iNEXT: "Following the first teaser images of the BMW iNEXT, released in March, May, and July, the all-electric SUV is returning in a series of new preliminary images and a video, showing pre-production prototypes in camouflage. The test cars were produced at the company's Pilot Plant in the heart of the Research & Innovation Centre (FIZ) and will be used for road tests and preparations for actual mass production. BMW's | 614 |
Metro rail formal test run begins in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Commercial operation to begin by late 2022, says Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader. The test run of Bangladesh's first-ever metro train service on the viaduct in the capital has begun.<|fim_middle|> train is to cross three stations on its way Uttara North, Uttara Central, and Uttara South. As it is a mainline performance test, the train is being operated at a slow pace and without any passengers. | The formal trial operations started at around 11:54am on Sunday after the Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the event by waving a green flag. The minister told reporters that after a total of 14 months of performance test which includes five months of trial run, the commercial operation of metro rail in Dhaka will begin by the end of 2022. The set of the metro train, comprising of six coaches, left Diabari depot at Uttara for Pallabi station. The electric | 110 |
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We have a full-time premium audit specialist on staff with more than 35 years of premium audit experience to ensure that our clients are not overcharged on their premium audits. We have been so successful in this area with our own clients that we now offer these services to clients of other insurance agencies through our Audit Review Services Program.
Audit Review Services offers non-insurance clients the opportunity to have their own premium audits checked for accuracy, but we don't stop there. We also check experience modification calculations, claim loss runs and perform policy reviews. If we do not find any errors, we do not charge a fee. If we do find errors, we share equally in the savings.
People's United Insurance Agency also offers a Safety Management System as an integral part of our risk management service. The "Safety Strategy" is a loss control system for employer Workers' Compensation, property, liability and automobile exposures. It is designed to help employers comply with OSHA and related state safety laws. The system has over 115 hazard topics built in, with customizable options for your specific needs.
Over 25 years ago, we formed a Special Programs division to focus solely on coverage for affinity groups. Today, serving hundreds of agents and brokers, People's United Insurance Agency is one of the most experienced Managing General Agents and regional administrators of special programs in New England. In addition, several of our programs are available in all 50 states.
People's United Insurance Agency has been a Liquor Liability Managing General Underwriter for 25 years. Now, through our partnership with an A-rated company, we offer an expanded program that covers all classes of liquor licensees in all 50 states, including coverage up to $1,000,000 each common cause/$1,000,000 aggregate. All classes of risk with a valid liquor liability license are considered, including special events. Risks with adult entertainment are ineligible.
For a quote, please complete, sign and submit a People's United Insurance Agency liquor liability application (non-binding indications can be provided from competitor's applications).
To learn more about coverage or eligibility, please call our Special Programs division at 800-639-7526 or email programs@peoples.com.
People's United Insurance Agency is a member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society and the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices.
This Lawyers Professional Liability Program is administered countrywide by Target Insurance Services, but in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, it is offered through People's United Insurance Agency. For details about the Program (coverage features, applications, etc.), please visit http://www.target-capital.com/prog_lawyers.asp.
If you have questions about coverage or eligibility in Connecticut, Massachusetts or New York, please call our Special Programs division at 800-639-7526 or email programs@peoples.com.
As an "A" rated carrier and financial leader since 1852, The Hanover has developed a dedicated team of Underwriters, Risk Managers and Claims Specialists composed of highly knowledgeable professionals who have been underwriting and servicing accountant firms for more than 20 years. They understand the industry and challenges you are facing in today's rough economic conditions, and are dedicated to helping you manage your risks and meet your insurance needs.
To learn more, please call our Special Programs division at 800-639-7526 or email programs@peoples.com.
Your clients demand a custom solution when they come to you for an orthotic or prosthetic device. And just like your clients, your business demands an insurance solution custom-tailored to your industry's unique risks — complete coverage that will protect all facets of your business.
That's why People's United Insurance Agency has teamed up with The Hanover, a proven and stable performer | 2,659 |
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GIRLS TALK AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
Earlier this month I was invited to attend and participate as a mentor for an event in partnership with St Paul's Cathedral for International Women's Day.
The mentoring event was hosted by Girls Talk London, an organisation founded by Vanessa Sanyauke which connects young women with senior and leading women in competitive and male dominated industries through informal Q & A sessions to discuss their career journey and offer tips and advice.
It was such a fantastic and inspiring evening. To engage with 50 young girls aged 16-25 and observe them take action to find out the information they required to help move forward with their career choices, was truly a wonderful thing to see. Some were initially shy, unsure whether to ask their question (but soon opened up), whilst others were so eager to get their question(s) answered that they literally couldn't keep still.
I was honoured to be included as one of those women to help provide advice based on my own personal and profession life lessons to the group of young ladies. A<|fim_middle|> space.
Before I sign off I'd like to give one of my mentees from the evening Gabrielle a shout out. You were a joy to talk to. I sincerely look forward to see you move forward with your business idea.
To watch the event's keynote speaker (Hemione Hudson, a partner at Pricewaterhouse Cooper), please click here
For more information on Girls Talk London, please click here
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Watch Carrie Underwood Perform New Song, "Low," & Chat With Stephen Colbert: "I Feel Like Women Are the Backbone of Country Music"
by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | October 4, 2019
Carrie Underwood stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Oct. 3 for a sit-down interview and to perform her new song, "Low."
During her interview with Stephen, Carrie chatted about her 15th anniversary of trying out for American Idol, flying on a plane for the first time, getting college credits while on Idol, hosting the upcoming CMA Awards with Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire and more.
When Stephen asked Carrie about the CMA Awards' theme<|fim_middle|>" and her interview below.
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category: NCD News | related posts: carrie underwood, CMA Awards, Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Low, Stephen Colbert | this year—celebrating the legacy of women in country music—she was ready to explain.
"I feel like women are the backbone of country music, when you think back to some of the greatest country artists of all time, like Dolly, Reba, Loretta, Patsy, yeah, Tammy—they don't even need last names," said Carrie. "They taught me how to sing, they taught me how to act, how to dress, how to be onstage, they taught me that anything was possible. They're why I get to do what I get to do, so I'm glad we're celebrating that and hopefully we can keep that legacy going."
After the chat, Carrie performed "Low," a tune she co-penned with Hillary Lindsey and David Garcia for her 2018 album, Cry Pretty.
Check out Carrie's performance of "Low | 180 |
Home > News > BrakeSafe Breaks Record with 5th Award Win of the Year
BrakeSafe Breaks Record with 5th Award Win of the Year
Vehicle safety experts Vision Techniques have concluded the year with yet another award win for their rollaway preventing system VT BrakeSafe – which brings the<|fim_middle|> the first company to install BrakeSafe across their fleet of vehicles with the intention to integrate BrakeSafe on all new vehicles as standard, with procurement manager Kirk Ennis describing the system as "an essential purchase" for the coming years.
For more information about the system or if you would like to make an enquiry or an order, please don't hesitate to contact the BrakeSafe team on 0845 322 8709 or by email at info@brake-safe.com | award total to five wins across a variety of transport award ceremonies.
The most recent award win was at the Commercial Fleet Safety Awards in November where the 'Built in Britain' safety system won the Best Product Award sponsored by Fiat Professional. The event took place at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole on the 30th November and was attended by over 500 key players in the industry, including the FTA, BT Fleet, Volvo, DAF Trucks and Isuzu.
"We believe this award wins will provide us with a platform to educate different companies, businesses and councils on how new technology can solve a problem that has been faced by countless fleet operators" Explained owner Michael Hanson, as seen above.
BrakeSafe is the only system that will actually prevent a runaway from happening rather than simply warning the driver. The vehicle handbrake is automatically applied if the driver forgets it when leaving the vehicle, recognising multiple sensor inputs including the door position, whether the vehicle is running and if the driver is sitting on the seat.
The internationally patented system is a 'one of a kind', as no other system is able to actually prevent a rollaway from happening. The technology is also suitable for all makes and models of large vehicles and is suitable for new install or retrofit.
The rest of VT's 2016 trophy cabinet is filled with award wins from the municipal, construction and freight industries. The first award was won at the Tipex Exhibition in Harrogate as sponsored by Iveco, closely followed by the prestigious Motor Transport Awards, where VT won the award for Best Innovation as sponsored by Goodyear.
Later in the year, BrakeSafe won the highly sought after Vehicle, Plant and Machinery award at the CIWM Awards in the waste sector before winning the 'Best New Product' award at the recent Commercial Fleet Safety Awards.
Vision Techniques believe the wealth of awards is a clear message that UK-built innovation that can solve the problems faced by the industry no matter what type of vehicle they operate – and this recognition helps convey that message.
Steve Hurd, National Sales Manager at Vision Techniques, said, "BrakeSafe and Vision Techniques have had a brilliant year bringing home all these awards. Winning Best Product at the Commercial Fleet Safety Awards has been like the cherry on the cake. What a great way to round up 2016."
VT recently announced that British Gypsum was | 481 |
Geminid meteor shower: How and when to watch on Thursday and Friday
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© Ben Woodgates/CNNiReport The Geminid meteor shower is scheduled to peak overnight in the United States, but Ben Woodgates got an early look at the phenomenon in northern New Zealand. Woodgates said he had never done night photography before, so he ended up taking about 750 photographs overnight and experimented with different settings until he found something that looked good
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week, so hope for clear skies that will let you see a beautiful show of green fireballs on Thursday and Friday. This will be the last -- and strongest -- meteor shower of the year, according to NASA.
This phenomenon was first recorded in 1862 and causes a show each December.
In the hours before sunrise Friday, the most meteors will be visible in the North American sky, peaking about 7:30 a.m. ET, predicts Sky & Telescope. To see when they will peak in your part of the world, check here.
But the morning isn't your only chance. On Thursday and Friday, keep an eye on the sky a few hours after sunset -- just keep the moon at your back.
Although the Geminid shower is known for its "shooting stars," the number of meteors visible depends on the time and how dark it is. There will be fewer of them earlier in the evening, but the shower should hit a maximum of about 100 per hour around 2 a.m., NASA said. For those in the suburbs, expect about 30 to 40 per hour. And if you're in a city like New<|fim_middle|> eye. The comet is expected to come closest to Earth and peak Sunday.
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https://tech.dailynews.us.com/2018/12/geminid-meteor-shower-how-and-when-to.html | York, San Francisco or Atlanta, you probably won't see anything.
Early evening meteors may be longer, with dramatic streaks that last several seconds. Later on, the meteors will present quicker streaks or leave trails of smoke that appear to glow.
The asteroid 3200 Phaethon is responsible for this meteor shower, which is unusual because comets usually create meteor showers with icy debris. Scientists have debated the very nature of what Phaethon is. The closely tracked near-Earth asteroid has been likened to comets, so it's been called a "rock comet."
Phaethon was discovered in October 1983 and named after the Greek myth about the son of Helios, the sun god, because it closely approaches our sun.
Phaethon orbits the sun closer than any other asteroid and takes 1.4 years to orbit it. The asteroid heats to about 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit on closest approach to the sun, which causes it to shed dusty debris.
These particles cause the meteor shower when they plunge into Earth's atmosphere at 22 miles per second, vaporizing in the streaks we call "shooting stars."
If you live in an urban area, you may want to drive to a place that isn't littered with city lights that will obstruct your view. If you're able to find an area unaffected by light pollution, meteors could be visible every couple of minutes from 10 p.m. until dawn.
Find an open area with a wide view of the sky, and don't forget to bundle up. Make sure you have a chair or blanket so you can look straight up. And give your eyes about 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness -- without looking at your phone -- so meteors are easier to spot.
While you're keeping an eye out for the meteor shower, you might see a small, foggy green patch in the sky, NASA said. That will be Comet 46P/Wirtanen, which is making its closest approach to Earth -- within 7 million miles -- for the next 20 years. And it will be visible to the naked | 452 |
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This recipe for Bircher Muesli With Seasonal Fruits requires soaking the oats, barley flakes, wheat, rye, flaxseed, raisins, and cinnamon in almond milk. So, do make this muesli the night before for a quick and healthy breakfast the next day. Just before serving, mix in some fresh fruits, crunchy almond slices, and a good drizzle of honey on top. Suggest serving it chilled during the summer months and slightly warm during the winter/colder seasons. This is another perfect "pick-me up" breakfast! Have fun making this version or feel free to experiment with any fruits, nuts, or juices combination of your own choice. Enjoy!
Combine, muesli, sultanas, almond milk, and a pinch of sea salt in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for about 6 hours or overnight.
To serve, mix in the yogurt (if using), some cinnamon and top with fruits, almond slices, and a good drizzle of honey | 331 |
<|fim_middle|> | The theory of evolution burst like a great storm cloud on the intellectual world of the mid-nineteenth century, and brought widespread public controversy and debate with it. Soon, however, the evolutionary way of viewing life became almost all-pervasive; scientists of all kinds, historians, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and many others would all adopt its tenets in order to interpret the world in general and the human race in particular.
Reactions in the Christian church varied from immediate acceptance to long-term hostility. Today the controversy continues unabated and is the subject of many debates, seminars and publications.
Green Eye of the Storm offers a unique and fascinating introduction to this debate, seeing it through the lives of four distinguished men who struggled with the evolutionary theory in very different contexts: Philip Henry Gosse, George John Romanes, Arthur Rendle Short and his son John Rendle-Short the author of this book. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the life, times and intellectual development of these men and will be of interest to all who have an interest in them or the religious and scientific movements with which their names are associated. | 231 |
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Wonderful review of DEADLY SPIRITS by chloesbooksblog!
Private Investigator Mac McClellan<|fim_middle|> like to thank the author E.Michael Helms for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for my fair and honest review. | reluctantly joins his girlfriend Kate in a nightly excursion with the Palmetto Paranormal society. During the trip the society president is found dead at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck. The death though ruled as an accident raises Mac's suspicions and when more bodies start turning up Mac is convinced there is more at play than the ghostly spirits.
This is the fourth book in the series but can read as a stand-alone. I enjoyed trying to guess who the killer was but got it completely wrong. The dialogue was witty and hilarious and I loved the interaction between Mac and his dog Henry. 4 stars from me for this good old-fashioned mystery with interesting characters.
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"As one of the nation's premier tertiary institutions, The University of Western Australia is pleased to partner with BIZLINK, a wholly Western Australian-owned and operated Disability Employment Service provider. Since partnering with BIZLINK in 2011, UWA has had the pleasure of employing 21 BIZLINK clients across various UWA sites. Earlier in 2018, BIZLINK placed another five clients within the University IT Department, bringing the number of UWA employees currently supported by BIZLINK to 17.
Whether it's supporting website updates within the Human Resources Department, cleaning non-recyclable plant pots for continued use in the plant growth facilities area<|fim_middle|> services available to local young people who experience higher than average barriers to employment as a result of disability or culturally linguistically diverse (CALD) background. | or re-stocking paper and toner in student printers across the various precincts, UWA employees supported by BIZLINK are a regular presence on campus. UWA is appreciative of BIZLINK's outstanding work to ensure clients are suitably matched based on our requirements and that the support is available 24/7 for as long as is required, not only to new employees but also other staff.
"South Metropolitan TAFE have successfully worked in partnership with BIZLINK since 2015 to source suitable employees to further the SMTAFE inclusive employment strategy. SMTAFE and BIZLINK have established a strong relationship based on an understanding of both organisation's desired outcomes for employees with a disability.
Working with BIZLINK to source suitable candidates provides confidence that applicants referred to the College have already been screened, understand what working at SM TAFE involves and importantly that support will be provided to successful appointees on an ongoing basis. Currently SMTAFE has six employees working in TAFE Job Skills Centres, Corporate Support and Teaching Administration roles across multiple campuses.
"BIZLINK has provided an excellent service to our school since 2006. The service provided is second to none. The BIZLINK staff are enthusiastic, supportive and caring and always have a positive attitude. BIZLINK have provided many opportunities for our students including School Based Traineeships, paid work and work readiness courses.
The staff at BIZLINK are wonderful they provide a professional quality service to our students with disabilities and challenges. The parents of our students who have dealings with the staff from BIZLINK are always impressed with their commitment to supporting their child and the opportunities they provide.
"The students have thoroughly enjoyed the TASTE program and have learned some excellent skills in the process. They are highly enthusiastic about applying for jobs and are feeling more confident. Students enjoyed being in a mixed student group and going off site to various excursions and meeting new people. Being collected each week and being off campus is a good way for the students to develop responsibility and independence.
"In 2011 the City of Joondalup was proud to partner with BIZLINK in the delivery of a new Transition Assistance School to Employment (TASTE) program, providing start-up financial support for the then pilot project through the City's Community Funding Program.
The TASTE program is a fantastic initiative which addresses a real gap in the provision of support | 487 |
calculation which is used to measure the cash which a company produce from its operation and measure the business activity by subtracting the operating expenses from total revenue.
OCF shows that the operation of the company produces how much cash without regard to interest or investment.
For example, a manufacturing company sells product and make more money as compared to the expenses of the product.
In other words, cash outflows must be less than cash inflows so that the company is profitable and easily pay its bills.
Investors and creditors use OCF to find the status of the company whether the company is successful or not. Investors find that the company can make enough money from the operations of the company to maintain and grow the company or operation of the company can't make enough money. This is an important concept because it shows the health of the company.
Public companies report this number on a quarterly financial statement or annual financial statement to find the health of the company.
Operating cash flow (OCF) formula can be calculated by subtracting the operating expenses from total revenue.
The above equation of operating cash flow is so simple to calculate but it does not give the information of cash, cash source, and operation of the company. That's why GAAP requires the companies to use the indirect method of calculating cash flow from operations.
For the indirect method OCF equation adjust the net income for changing in the noncash account on the balance sheet. After the adjustment of it in the account receivable and inventory, depreciation and amortization added back in the net income.
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From the above result, it is clear that Maria generates 55,000 dollars from her operations. So left amount after the paying of bills at the end of year Maria has 55,000 dollars. She can invest this amount for new business or reinvest in the current business.
Mostly analysts compare the cash flow number with other ratios. Many ratios can easily be manipulated by the management but cash flow ratio cannot be easily manipulated by the management. The company earned cash and spend cash. Analyst like to analyze the cash flow of the company because through this, analysts easily see the area of the operation which has the problem.
If the net income of the company is high but OCF is low it may be due to the bad receivable performance from the customer. It may be because of the high revenue gain by the company but reduce it with accelerated depreciation on the income statement. Since depreciation added back in the net income in operating cash flow calculator, accelerated depreciation does not affect the operating cash flow.
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The Pavements Don't Speak: Silencing Street Theatre in Egypt
Although street theatre succeeded in establishing itself as an artistic genre in Egypt in the 2000s, the rising restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly have forced street performers to silence in recent years. Through a series of interviews with artists, this paper addresses the factors that enabled the rise of street theatre, the process of politicization of some of its pioneers, as well as the causes that led to its fall.
People attending the street art festival El Fann Midan (Art is a Square), August 2012. © Omnia Khalil / flickr.com
Yasmin Helal
Journalist and researcher
#Activism #Culture #Egypt
"There are many losses. Some artists went to prison, many have fled the country, and some fell for depression, leaving a vacuum behind."
Such were the words that musician and lyricist Ayman Helmy chose to describe the current state of street theatre in Egypt. While the noise of Cairo's hustle and bustle continues to rise, more street performers like him have been silenced.
Kept out of public spaces by heightened security measures, it is difficult to forecast clearly where street theatre is heading in light of the regime's current crackdown on fundamental freedoms. According to Helmy, the future so far looks bleak.
Given the limited literature on street theatre, shedding light on this form of art is essential to understand the theatre industry in Egypt and to reflect on the politics of public spaces and how they are employed by the masses as a means of protest.
Through a series of interviews with artists, this paper will address the phenomenon of contemporary Egyptian street theatre, including the factors that enabled its rise and the purpose of some of the famous street performances. It will also discuss the process of politicization that the pioneering artists behind street theatre underwent, as well as the causes that led to the fall of street shows.
Breaking out of the establishment
The path of contemporary street theatre in Egypt was paved by many who had fought long and hard to have the potential of this form of art recognized. Founding members of the street theatre troupe Hala, including Helmy and Aly Sobhy, were part of a generation of artists in the late 1990s and early 2000s that had a growing desire to step outside of established cultural institutions. They belonged to a wave of disillusioned youth, fed up with the lack of opportunities and the limited freedom of expression, that emerged to contest an ageing and elitist generation that dominated the traditional theatre institutions and was reluctant to let go.
The art scene in which Helmy and Sobhy began their career as artists was already ripe with politically engaged youth, high audience participation in the street shows, and increased dissidence. Such factors were essential requirements to give birth to contemporary street theatre in the country.
These young artists did not set out to specialize in street shows. All they wanted<|fim_middle|>ahrir in 2011. None of it emerged from a vacuum, but rather it brought back some older traditions, like the previously mentioned Mawaled.
"'Chant louder, chant louder, those who chant will never die'. This chant, which I wrote when I was a student for a protest, was used in 1968 and was forgotten. And it was used again in the protests of 1972 and 1977 and forgotten. It re-emerged in the protests of the early 2000s with the Kefaya movement. Why? Because there were a few older activists who had memorized them from their youth when they attended the protests of the 1960s and the 1970s. So there is an element of continuity," he said.
Despite the unpredictability of how the current crackdown will impact the future of street theatre, Sobhy thinks that it is highly unlikely that this form of art will cease to exist in Egypt. "I don't think that this will bring street theatre to an end whether here or anywhere else. This is a valuable form of artistic expression that has been evolving over the years. A long time ago, we used to have Hakawatis, the traditional storytellers who would move from café to café telling stories on the rhythm of the rababa. With time, this evolved to what became later known as Shadow Theater, and then the Aragoz puppet show emerged."
"The more they try to stifle street theatre, the stronger, more unpredictable, and more diverse it will reemerge and in a completely different form and style," he added. | was to perform somewhere, anywhere that was available. So they took to public spaces like parks and sidewalks to perform their shows and they soon became attached to the experience.
Speaking of his first street show which took place in 1998, another one of Hala's founders Mohammed Abdel Fattah said, "I really liked having an audience that was surprised to find a show as they were walking by. They would then spontaneously stop to watch without being prepared."
For Sobhy, the magic of street shows was all about breaking the laws of theatre. This includes all the unspoken and formal norms that entering traditional theatres entails, in which the roles of the actors and the audience are rigid and predefined. The actors are limited to the stage and restricted by a set script, while the audience can only play a passive role, having to arrive and leave at certain times, remain seated on the same seats, and switch off their phones. None of this applies in the case of street theatre, where the actors and the audience play interchangeable roles; the limits of the former stretch as far and wide as the street allows, and the latter can have a say in how the performance unfolds.
"What drew me more to the idea was the level of freedom that the street provides from all these restrictions. Everything that happens is completely spontaneous. This entailed a high level of creativity, which was very important to me, especially that I had to create concepts that were relevant to the street and what was happening in it," Sobhy said.
Reviving Egyptian theatre
The driving force behind the success of Hala and street theatre was not only these young talents but also the numerous initiatives that believed in them. In the early 2000s, various events and venues sprung up to cater for and support an artistic movement that led to the revival of theatre in Egypt.
This revival has some of its roots in the 1980s that saw a significant rise in the number of independent theatre initiatives. With little material and logistical support from the government, independent theatre groups succeeded in offering shows that played an important role in reinventing theatre in Egypt and "pedestrianized" concepts like freedom of speech and mobility, and in claiming back the street as a free public space for artistic expression. Critics believe that it was this wave that prevented the collapse of theatre in Egypt and laid the seeds for the revival that occurred in the 2000s.
"At the peak of this revival," recalls Helmy when speaking of the 1990s, "a discussion emerged regarding the very nature of independent theatre and whether it should be called autonomous theatre instead. Critics and intellectuals debated the terminology. A lot of efforts were carried out to reach a consensus and a conclusion regarding the meanings of these concepts." Both "autonomous" and "independent" continue to be used as terms to describe this new wave.
Artivism meets political activism
The movement that led to theatre revival in the 1980s and 1990s and eventually gave birth to troupes like Hala and Atfal El Shaware' (Street Children) was not entirely artistic. It happened during a period in Egyptian history when politics was in the air and groups like April 6th Youth and Kefaya (Enough) dominated downtown Cairo, regularly holding street protests and public debates. And just like their peers, young artists were also impacted by this politically charged environment, creating political movements that represented their grievances as artists. This includes the September 5th movement, founded and run by numerous artists, including Hala's founding members.
"It was really a special movement that combined art with politics. This is how I got introduced to other offshoots of Kefaya, like Authors for Change and Artists for Change. There were a lot of movements in the early 2000s that adopted the word "change" in their name, like Doctors for Change and Lawyers for Change. Because I lived through this period, I quickly realized that something different was happening and that I was witnessing an important historical moment," Helmy said.
Named after the date of the Beni Suef theatre fire that occurred in 2005, the September 5th Movement aimed to raise awareness about those that lost their lives on that day. The fire was caused by a candle that fell backstage during one of the shows of the Amateur Theatre Festival. The fact that such an event was held in the underequipped Beni Suef Cultural Palace, located in one of the country's poorest provinces, was just one of the many problems that led to this unfortunate tragedy. There were over 50 casualties in total, including cultural icons such as Dr Saleh Saad, Hazem Shehata, Dr Mohsen Meselhy, and Bahaa El-Merghany. With only one exit, no fire extinguishers, and virtually no staff on-site, the fire caused panic and a stampede. A little too late, an underequipped firefighting squad showed up, with an ambulance with badly trained staff arriving even later. With over 70 injured on site, those who made it to the hospital were treated at insufficiently equipped medical facilities first in Beni Suef and later in Cairo. In an attempt to protest the various errors in the death certificates of the casualties, family members showed up at the morgue but were attacked and beaten by police officers. Of course, none of the failures of the state institutions was accurately reflected in the media reports that were published later.
"This shocking event played a very important role in shaping my awareness and consciousness, and I think this was also the case for many other artists," said Helmy.
Reaching maturity
The evolution of street theatre in Egypt involved the development not just of the performers but of the audience as well, a fact that could be seen in the 2011 uprisings. According to poet and long-time activist Zien el Abdin Fouad, what was particularly amazing about the 2011 uprisings was the level of creativity of individuals that had no artistic background. This turned Tahrir Square into an open theatre stage that hosted various forms of creativity ranging from singing and dancing to performing sarcastic monologues. "It was completely improvised in the spur of the moment," said Fouad of protestors' displays. These impromptu performances often used state propaganda messages, twisting them in a way that was similar to what street theatre troupes like Aftal El Shaware' would do six years later in 2017.
This surge in creativity might seem like a reason to fuel professional street shows, but that was not the case. It had the contrary impact. This climate where everyone was a street artist made it difficult for professional performers to find material for new shows, which partly explains how Hala's street shows came to an end in 2010, shortly before the outbreak of the revolution, and never resumed.
"Sometimes the street outperforms the artist, which is what happened in 2011. We could not keep up with what the people were doing," the troupe's founder Abdelfattah said.
Art in the square
Hala stopped offering street shows but the desire to continue occupying public spaces did not cease to exist. The experience encouraged many of the artists involved to continue offering street shows. With time, artists like Sobhy and Helmy took the concept and transformed it into something newer and bigger. This is evident in the development of artistic movements that gave birth to the street art festival El Fann Midan.
El Fann Midan combined several key ideas, including the contemporary street performances that Hala introduced, the freedom of mobility and of public spaces that Tahrir Square provided, and older concepts like the traditional street festivals, or Mawaled, that were traditionally held to celebrate the birth or death of certain saints. After years of trying, the government succeeded in putting an end to these Mawaled, with just a couple left today in Cairo. Initially, the state started to sponsor initiatives in the 1970s that would offer a replacement that would be more easily controlled like the National Circus and the Folklore Dance troupe. Later in the 1990s, it launched a campaign to divide the open spaces required to hold these festivals. This was mainly done by building walls and banning the Mawaled camps from setting up, which led to a sharp decline in their numbers. However, Mawaled continued to live on in the public imaginary. They were often mentioned by many of the organizers of El Fann Midan as an example of events that enabled the masses to occupy public spaces.
El Fann Midan roughly translates to the art of the square, but "midan" has other meanings as well like platform, space, and sphere. It is this multiple meaning that the event's organizers quite often emphasized during our discussions. Translating this into the public sphere is not quite right in the Cairene context, according to urban historian Nezar AlSayyad.
"I don't think this is really equivalent to the Habermasian public sphere, which has no accurate translation in Arabic. So, in a sense, I think the term 'midan' has always been the most appropriate one to use," he said.
According to him, the "midan" has more than one meaning. Combining the public sphere and the public space, some of its features include being public, communicative, and collective-oriented rather than individual.
"The 'midan' here is not a physical space, it's a concept … that changed over time in the context of Egypt and particularly as manifested in Cairo," he explained. Some of the manifestations include previous protests like the 1919 revolution, but also funerals of public figures like late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and iconic singer Umm Kulthum, both of which passed through Midan Tahrir (Tahrir Square). "I think that the concept of the 'midan' was being born over time. And it took time to mature, both in the minds of the Egyptians and in their use of the physical space."
The first time that El Fann Midan took place was in April 2011, organized by artists and activists from diverse backgrounds. Holding it on Saturday in Abdeen Square, rather than Midan Tahrir, was deliberate so as not to create any conflict with or distractions from Tahrir's usual Friday protests. At its peak, El Fann Midan, funded entirely by private donations, was held in more than 18 provinces, with over 150 participating artists and a live audience of about 4000 individuals. Some of the hosted activities included live shows, public debates, exhibitions, short film screenings, and book fairs. Not only did it provide accessible art to a large audience, it also led to encounters that some artists refer to as a turning point in their creative journey.
The organizers were faced with many hurdles, including lack of funding, but it was the introduction of 2014 Protest Law, which made it hard for such public events to get permission to perform, that brought the festival to its knees, ending it in 2014.
Street artists under attack
Despite the many obstacles imposed by Egyptian authorities after 2014, hope still lingered in the hearts of a few artists that they could still perform. It was not until 2016 and 2017 that the last of such hopes faded. This was around the same time that the satirist troupe Atfal El Shaware' went to jail for insulting the authorities, reflecting the extent of the regime's crackdown on the use of public spaces.
Initially, Atfal El Shaware' was formed by six students from the Jesuit Cultural Center with the aim to tour the country offering street shows. Mostly between 19 and 25 years old, these young and tech-savvy artists introduced a combination between the public and virtual spaces, recording their street performances and sharing them on social media. This, they figured, would allow their content to reach a wider audience. It was a simple idea that later proved to be very powerful and, according to expert analysis, the most dangerous thing a street artist can do in Egypt under the rule of Abdel Fattah El-Sissi.
"We are wanted the six of us … Five have fled but the youngest one among us, the one who has diabetes, has been arrested …" one of the troupe members posted on Twitter in May 2016. Charges held against them included inciting demonstrations and publishing online videos that insult state institutions. They were later arrested in May 2016 remained in pretrial detention for four months before they were sentenced to four years in jail; one of them was sentenced to two years in prison followed by two years on probation.
After their release, they started offering comedy shows on traditional theatre stages with no reference to politics.
Street shows today
Looking back at the significant contributions of street performers, not much of their legacy is visible today. When it comes to these artists, there is little in their present reality that reflects the careers that they initially embarked on.
"Any form of an open public sphere is entirely absent. There is only one voice that is present today; it is that of the government. All these circumstances and more are heading towards only one result: that everything comes crashing down and that everything that emerged with the revolution dies," Helmy said.
It was a shift that neither he nor others like street performer Aly Sobhy could have predicted. When asked whether they still conduct street performances, the response is almost unanimous.
"Unfortunately, not. My last street show was in 2017. The problem is that there have been increasing restrictions in public spaces over the past four years because of the tightening of security measures. This, as well as other reasons, has forced us to stop our work in the street until we see how things go," Sobhy said.
When asked whether he knew anyone who is currently offering street shows, Helmy fell silent, trying to recall any name but to no avail. There are different reasons for this, he said. Funding sources interested in cultural activities have either dried up or shut down. Demoralized, the force that once pushed artists to launch personal initiatives is gone. But, he stressed, the biggest obstacle that restricted their mobility in public spaces is the introduction of Protest Law in 2014. Without having a protest permit, anyone can get arrested.
"You will find some artists locked up in jail for years for breaking this law. A minimum of one year and a maximum of four years. Just for being in the street, regardless of what they were doing," he said.
The government might have succeeded in silencing such initiatives by closing off public spaces, but that does not mean the end of street theatre in Egypt.
Poet Zin el Abdin Fouad believes that there is a strong sense of continuity that is essential to understanding the explosion of street art in T | 3,090 |
GEORGIA TAKES ISLEWORTH EVENT
By Steve Elling and Sentinel Columnist
Georgia Tech's Chan Song knew he was playing in a different sort of tournament when he turned around during the first day of play at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational and saw a familiar figure.
You might have heard of him. The host course's back markers, called the Tiger tees, are named after him.
Throats constricted. Grips tightened. Knees knocked. Tiger Woods stood behind the tee box, arms crossed, and watched as the senior from Orlando and his two playing partners teed off.
"Hey, we all hit the fairway," Song said proudly.
The inaugural college event at Isleworth Country Club, Orlando's exclusive enclave to the stars, was dubbed a hit, too. Despite the starry distractions, the University of Georgia managed to win the 16-team showcase by a comfortable 10 strokes over Oklahoma State with a 54-hole total of 1-under 863.
On a day when the tees at Florida's longest and toughest-rated course were<|fim_middle|>'s great."
The trio of invitees from around the neighborhood, so to speak, basically drowned in the Butler Chain. None of Florida's five players managed to break 78 in the third round and the Gators finished 11th, six shots ahead of Florida State. Host school UCF finished tied for 13th,, though the pats on the back from the other teams for helping stage the event made them feel a little better.
"We struggled," UCF Coach Nick Clinard said. "It's a little disappointing because we're a lot better than this."
Few college tournaments are, apparently.
"I don't think there is a tournament in college golf that's better-run than this and we'll do our best next year to make it even better," Clinard said. | stretched to 7,490 yards, Georgia finished Tuesday's third round with a 2-under team total, the best of the day by five shots. Perhaps they were duly inspired by those in the gallery at various times.
At points during the two-day event, tour players Woods, Mark O'Meara, Lee Janzen, Charles Howell, John Cook, Matt Kuchar, Scott Hoch and Hunter Mahan all watched a few shots or loitered around the scoreboard near the 18th green. The college boys were in various stages of awe.
"I know Tiger -- we kick it," Song said, smirking. "We played in a scramble tournament together in '99, right before he went nuts. I'm taking credit for those two years."
Even the coaches were impressed.
"One word -- awesome," said Georgia Coach Chris Haack. "I think this tournament has a chance to become one of the premier events in college golf.
"You see all those [pros] hanging around and think, 'This is pretty cool.' It shows you that they embraced it."
The golf course itself wasn't quite as hospitable, of course. Only three players broke 70 in the final round Tuesday after officials backed the tees up. Play backed up, too -- it took more than five hours for the final group to negotiate the difficult course, which carries the highest handicap rating in Florida.
Georgia also toted away the medalist trophy, sort of. Sophomore Chris Kirk shot 71 in the final round to tie Oklahoma State freshman Pablo Martin at 7-under overall, then beat Martin to the awards stand and snapped up the lone silver-plated serving tray.
"Wrestle for it?" Kirk said to Martin.
A playoff for low-individual honors was discussed for several minutes, but since the round ran late, both teams had planes to catch. So the two, who played together Tuesday, were declared co-winners. Kirk, who birdied Nos. 13-16 to climb into a tie with Martin, said he was OK with the decision, which gave him his first college win.
"A win is a win, I guess," said Kirk, who made a 6-footer for par on the final hole to secure the tie.
Martin, a supremely skilled freshman from Spain who finished third as an amateur in the European Tour's Spanish Open last year, seemed inclined to participate in the playoff.
"If you win that way it doesn't taste as good," Martin said.
Oklahoma State, a nine-time national champion, was less than giddy about finishing behind Georgia, too.
"The day you say it's OK to finish second is the day you need to go do something else," Coach Mike Holder said.
The low rounds of the day were recorded by Ryan Posey of Oklahoma State and Webb Simpson of Wake Forest, who both shot 67.
"I love the course," Posey said. "It's long. It's hard. It | 607 |
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A winning collaboration, the brainchild of MC Lou Star (of Big Day Out's Boiler Room fame), paired with the musical producer chops of Guy Cooper from Serotonin Productions/Human Records. With their debut album under their belts, all indications point to a very promising year for this dance/pop/electro combo.
The last single 'Hello' is a straight out of the box killer with a dance beat, big choruses and heartfelt emotional lyrics. The unique sound, a product of varied and diverse influences ranging from The Who to Goldfrapp. 'Hello' follows up from their 2019 single 'Favourite' which was a standout track on Australian radio and in the clubs.
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For Victoria Royals head coach Dan Price, the gamble is worth the risk for the game he loves.
Equipped with a law degree and steady job at a Calgary firm, Price decided to enter the uncertain world of coaching. His first job would come in 2006 as an assistant with the WHL's Chilliwack Bruins (now the Victoria Royals) for three seasons.
After a three-year stint as head coach and general manager of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Drumheller Dragons, he would make the jump back to the WHL with the Tri-City Americans for two seasons as an assistant. Price would return to the Royals organization in 2016, taking over the reigns as head coach from Dave Lowry in 2017.
Now in his fourth season with Victoria, Price has led the Royals to a winning record each season and has drawn praise for his ability to communicate with his players. Find out what it was like to give up a career in law, his teaching philosophy, and how he's preparing himself for the next stage of his career in this week's edition of the Glass and Out Podcast!
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Big Data, Standards
Why the Data Economy Needs Standards to Thrive
Michel Girard
Although not visible or understood by the average customer, standards keep the economy running. Standards describe and define the importance of a process, product, service or system. Standards provide a level playing field for industry and help build trust between participants in supply chains. When it comes to tangible goods – from a screw, to a toaster to a car – there's an expectation that products will have gone through this process of creating a standard so that consumers can know that it's safe and works properly.
With the advent and growth of the internet, it became possible for anybody around the world to design a new app and deploy it within weeks after it was created.<|fim_middle|> that what you're going to be buying at the store will have gone through this process of creating a standard so that you know it's safe and you know it works properly.
With the growth of the internet, it became possible for anybody around the world to design a new app and deploy it within weeks after it was created. So, we have billions of devices used by billions of people, generating incredible amounts of data and we don't really know what big tech companies are doing with that data. So, standards development organizations are looking at this and thinking through, how can we frame this new big data economy in a way that everybody wins.
We need to create data value chains that are kind of similar to supply chains in the tangible world. And here we have the need to standardize three segments into that chain. Upstream, the first one is data collection, that's where a lot of data is being harvested from social media platforms, it can be from your phone. In addition to that, you can add all of those Internet of Things sensors, those IOT sensors that are being installed on roads, on streetlights. And the challenge is, is there a way for us to grade the data — so there will be some data that's very high quality, that's very reliable and other that is not as reliable and you may not want to use it. So, we need to create an architecture for data collection.
The second one is about data access. So, once you've created or collected data, others will want to use it. There are no platforms right now to share that data, to access that data, to exchange that data. So, you'll need standards to establish the rules of the game when it comes to what is the data that I can access and what should be kept private.
And then downstream, there's analytics. We've invested billions of dollars in Canada in AI firms and we have a lot of very creative people putting a lot of effort to create the next great algorithm but data analytics won't survive if we don't create the right infrastructure for them to access high-quality data and then can apply to solve a variety of problems.
If we don't do anything, then you could see three or four large big tech companies taking over how data is managed, how it's treated — it could be for the good, it could also be for the bad and people are concerned about that. I think with standardization, what you can do is establish a new balance, a new equilibrium as opposed to what we're seeing now.
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Canada Needs Standards to Support Big Data Analytics | Unfortunately, the standards which were needed for these new products had to be developed at a pace that established SDOs (Standards Development Organizations) could not meet. This standards void has resulted in a wave of incidents involving the improper, unethical or illegal sharing of data and a resulting reluctance by companies to enter into the largely unregulated data marketplace.
The solution presented in this video by CIGI senior fellow Michel Girard, is to frame big data collection in a consistent manner, in order to help create ecosystems where big and small companies can thrive while consumers and users are protected. How can this be done? Girard suggests that a 'big data value chain' (similar to other tangible value chains) would allow participants in supply chains to collect, access and use data in a safe and predictable manner. Failing to act, Girard concludes, could result in three or four large big tech companies taking over how data is managed.
Standards are the tools that make the economy run. They are the "handshake" between various parts of products or systems.
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In all four versions of the Vintago (opaline white, ivory, blue, and black), the basic hue of the date disk and the colour of the numerals are selected to match the dial.
The transparent crystal case back reveals the Swiss-made Sellita SW200-1 automatic movement beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour and offering a power reserve of 38 hours.
Specialised in mechanical single-hand watches, German watchmaker MeisterSinger keeps expanding its collection with new product lines. The latest one, presented at Baselworld 2019, is called Vintago. The four new MeisterSinger Vintago models will be available from April 2019 with a retail price of Euro 1,690. | reminiscent of the style the 1960s, just like the brushed stainless steel case which comes in a discreet 38 mm diameter case offering water resistance to a pressure of 5 bar (around 50 metres / 165 feet). The watch is thin enough to elegantly slip under a shirt cuff and comfortable on the wrist thanks to its size and lightness.
The curved single hand indicating the time rotates over a multi-level dial with an original | 95 |
A week on a fitness retreat in idyllic Kefalonia…an incredible experience and chance to re-boot, for sure. But can seven short days really make a long-lasting, noticeable difference?
As many of you know, I recently had the opportunity to take Barreworks out of Richmond and into a stunning spot in the middle of the sun-kissed Ionian islands. This was no 'juice-cleanse meditation', rather a physically challenging and (thankfully) nutritionally rewarding experience. Within the confines of a fabulous 5* hotel and in it's surrounding countryside, we hiked, biked, ran, swam, cycled and BARRE'd ourselves into the shape of our lives.
The hardest part for me was not just giving up caffeine for the week of the retreat, but a week beforehand, in order to avoid caffeine-withdrawal headaches whilst in Kefalonia. I confess to drinking three coffees per day. And I'll admit, sometimes I use it as a crutch (when I'm exhausted) or as an appetite suppressant (when I have no time to eat in between classes).
In short, I definitely had a caffeine dependency. After two days of headaches (and genuinely missing the taste!) I started to feel great. And less anxious. I didn't need to panic if I wasn't going to get a coffee 'in time' because it just wasn't an option. I was thirsty, so I drank lots of water. Far more than usual. Small pockets of cellulite improved in appearance (no word of a lie) and I had to find energy from far more reliable sources. No bad thing!
A glass or two of wine on a Saturday evening is about the extent of my alcohol consumption. Maybe a G&T on a Sunday<|fim_middle|> The fact remains that even the tiniest adjustments to your routine can (and do!) make a big difference over a period of time. Being obliged to commit to this way of life for only a week has really opened my eyes to the fact that we can all make changes. All the time. And that it's so worth doing.
Watch this space (and save your pennies) for Barreworks in Kefalonia 2108, it's going to be incredible. | afternoon. No big deal to go without, and the thought of it didn't bother me in the slightest. But to let your body rest and detox for effectively two weeks has quite an effect. No poor food choices, no dehydration, no water retention. Boom.
Most exercise professionals will tell you that they have somewhat unorthodox eating patterns. We often work at key meal times and we generally don't want to feel full before a workout, but need to know that we won't feel faint or experience muscle atrophy either.
I can function quite well on very little food (to a point). I like to train fasted and can go for hours between meal times. This is not something to brag about, but it is a consequence of my work. Often I crash when I suddenly realise I need fuel, and we all know what poor choices that can result in!
The thought of having breakfast at 8am, a snack at 11am, lunch at 12.30pm, juices at 4pm and dinner at 7pm was totally alien. And slightly scary actually. How was I going to manage all of that? But surprisingly I did – and for the first couple of days, I was even hungry. In spite of their regularity, these nutritionally balanced meals, smaller in size than my usual serving didn't satisfy me at first. But when my metabolism adjusted, I didn't have a single hunger pang. I felt light, but energised. Excited to see what the next meal would be, but not desperate for it.
Of course, I teach barre every day. I also run a fair bit and walk my (large) dogs in Richmond Park (hiking was of no concern to me). I cycle to the studio every day. And for good measure, I usually throw in a few heavy weight-lifting sessions per week.
I definitely did less strenuous exercise while I was on the retreat. I only had time for short 'tabata' style workouts in the gym (and no heavy weights). But it was more focused. My runs were hilly, very hilly. Bike rides were the same. The hiking was on rocky terrain – and with more hills (the likes of which we don't have in Richmond Park). Amongst the group Barreworks classes, I also took private workouts with the guests. And with our barre overlooking the sea, we had some fairly strong winds to challenge our balance even more than usual.
We also (because of the heat) had exercise sessions scheduled very early (pre-breakfast) or late afternoon/early evening. Instead of perking ourselves up with coffee, we started the day with a workout, or took the 'afternoon' slump head-on and plié'd right through it. It was less of a treadmill, much more a rollercoaster. Peaks throughout the day, perfectly timed around meal and snack times with rest in between.
You either love it or hate it. But this was just one example of the immune-boosting, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying ingredients slipped into our (delicious and beautifully presented) dairy-free, gluten-free cuisine during the week by our dedicated Chef, the talented Mr Alan Whichert. Turmeric, ginger, lemon, spring water, a dash of maple syrup. Take twice a day in between meals. For me, it's a keeper.
As someone who lives in London, noise pollution (planes, trains, sirens, noisy neighbours) is a given. And you think you are quite accustomed to it actually. I thought I slept well. Usually I'm too physically tired to stay up late, or count sheep once I get under the duvet. But deep, un-interrupted sleep (with no caffeine or alcohol to stimulate you) is a whole other world of wonderful. And leaping out of bed at 6am, or earlier on some days was effortless.
I have returned feeling, well, like a racehorse to be honest! In absolute peak condition.
People have commented on my leaner silhouette, but I also feel different. Not necessarily 'rested', but squeaky clean. My metabolism is boosted, my muscles are a little stronger and 'cleaner' (feedback from a recent deep tissue massage). Mentally I feel resilient and sharp. My eyes look brighter (zero hours in front of a screen), my skin is glowing and my hair is more glossy. My lungs feel expansive and full of fresh air, my stomach feels settled, less bloated, more taught.
Will it last, I wonder? Well, some things I have no control over (sunshine, noise pollution) but others are completely within my control. | 949 |
This article outlines NICVA's policy with regards to health and safety in the workplace.
NICVA places the greatest importance on health and safety matters and undertakes to conduct operations in such a way as to ensure the health and safety of all its employees, visitors<|fim_middle|> who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
To ensure staff members are aware of the legal requirements and their responsibilities, NICVA has provided within the Health and Safety Handbook all the relevant information regarding organisational rules and procedures. They are supplied for the benefit of staff and the benefit of others – staff should familiarise themselves with them.
To take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.
To co-operate with any duty or requirement imposed by NICVA or by statutory obligations.
To refrain from the wilful measures or interference with anything provided in the interests of health and safety and welfare.
To report any hazards found.
FIRE – notices instructing staff on how to act on discovering a fire and/or hearing the fire alarm are displayed in all rooms (refer to NICVA's Fire and Evacuation Procedures).
BOMB WARNINGS – security and safety procedures.
FIRST AID – first aid equipment is available at reception on the ground floor (refer to NICVA's Fire and Evacuation Procedure).
ACCIDENTS – for accidents involving injury to any person(s), the most immediate requirement is for first aid to be administered. All accidents causing death or major injury, or any dangerous occurrence, will be reported immediately. Within seven days a written report will be completed and sent to the area office by the Director of Corporate Services (or his/her specified nominee).
Each member of staff is aware of and understands organisational policy in relation to emergency arrangements in the event of fire, bomb alert or other emergency.
Staff work in a manner that prevents risk to themselves or others.
All machinery, equipment and substances used in their units are properly used in accordance with supplier's instructions, which must be readily available.
Safety devices are properly adjusted and maintained.
All machinery and equipment is frequently inspected to make sure it is properly maintained and safe to use.
Good standards of housekeeping are maintained.
Regular reviews of working practices are carried out to improve health and safety.
Protective clothing and/or equipment is provided and used where necessary.
All staff are aware that violation of procedures, instigated by management in the interests of the safety and welfare of employees and other people on the premises, constitutes an offence in law.
Disregard for health and safety procedures by employees may result in disciplinary action being taken by management. | and the general public. Therefore, it is NICVA's policy to comply rigorously with all health and safety legislation, codes of practice, best guidance and work methods.
Furthermore it is NICVA's objective to create and develop an environment in which there is a conscious awareness of the vital importance of health and safety through education, training and supervision.
To do all that is reasonably practicable to prevent personal injury and damage to property and to protect everyone from foreseeable work hazards including the public insofar as they come into contact with NICVA.
To provide training, instruction and supervision to enable employees to perform their work safely and efficiently.
Using the protective equipment provided.
Reporting incidents that led or may lead to injury or damage.
Assisting in the investigation of accidents with the object of introducing measures to prevent recurrence.
In order to create a healthy and safe working environment and to develop an awareness of the importance of health and safety a full statement of the principles and practices governing health and safety is issued to all new employees. It is their duty to make themselves fully conversant with the contents of this document.
Ensure that equipment and working practices are safe and offer no hazard and risk to health.
Ensure that all necessary precautions are taken in respect of the safe use of equipment and resources.
Provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure the health and safety at work of all employees.
Maintain all places of work and work equipment under its control in a safe condition, free from risk to health and safety.
Provide adequate facilities for the welfare of employees.
Safeguard the health and safety of visitors and of any members of the general public who could be affected by its activities.
Provide all necessary information relating to health and safety in respect of procedures and services and where necessary consult with employees or their representatives.
Review and update the policy as and when necessary particularly in respect of major changes within NICVA premises and/or changes in legislation and bring these changes to the attention of all employees.
Ensure that all employees are mindful of their health and safety responsibilities.
Ensure the policy is monitored in the workplace.
The health and safety legislation not only places duties on management but also on staff members to look after their own health and safety and that of others | 446 |
New Volvo SUV Feature Highlights & Trim<|fim_middle|> have noticed its smooth, eye-catching design. But there's more to what you see. The XC90 has seating for up to seven, an expansive cargo area, and the latest in Volvo tech and safety features. It offers the T5 and T6 powertrain options and offers stability when driving to turn corners and maneuver tight spaces easily.
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The new Volvo XC40 is a great compact SUV for the busy downtown Ann Arbor or the narrow streets of Ypsilanti. The XC40 comes with two powertrain options, the T4 or T5, with an estimated combined 26 mpg. The light and airy interior includes features that keep the driver and passengers in mind and enough cargo space to take your friends and all their gear up north for a weekend.
The compact Volvo XC60 is a luxury SUV that pairs thoughtful design with safety and tech signature to Volvo. Great for daily commutes, family outings, and trips to trails and parks in Jackson. Choose from two powertrain options - T5 and T6 - for up to 316 horsepower as you zip around town and up and down I-94. With up to 63.3 cubic feet of space, transport all your cargo with ease.
If you've caught a glimpse of the new Volvo XC90 SUV in Brighton, you must | 273 |
India implements reforms to improve ease of doing business
Elizabeth Geib2018-05-24T14:14:43-05:00January 1, 2018|
Region/Countries: Asia, India Industry: Multiple Sectors Date: January 2018
Why this is important to Wisconsin businesses: The reforms are already working to increase foreign direct investment.
In his presentation of the 2018-19 Union Budget to Parliament on Feb. 1, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley emphasized the importance of ease of doing business. The Indian government has successfully implemented a series of fundamental structural reforms. Consequently, foreign direct investment (FDI) equity inflow has increased significantly, from $21.8 billion in 2012-13 to $43.5 billion in 2016-17. In the current year, FDI equity inflow has gone up by 17 percent to $25.4 billion for the period April-September, compared to $21.6 billion for the same period in 2016-17.
The measures taken by the government have made it much easier to do business in India. The goods and services tax, established to subsume various indirect taxes levied at different levels, has paved the way for a transparent indirect tax regime. Benefits to the poor have been targeted more effectively with the use of digital technology. The demonetization of high-value currency has reduced the amount of cash currency in circulation in India. It has increased the taxation base and spurred greater digitization of the economy. The insolvency and bankruptcy code has changed the lender-debtor relationship. The recapitalized banks will now have a greater ability to support growth. All these structural reforms in the medium and long term will help the Indian economy achieve stronger growth.
The Indian economy is on the recovery track, with the manufacturing sector back on a good growth path and the services sector having resumed its high growth rates of over 8 percent. India's exports are projected to grow by 15 percent in 2017-18. India's Economic Survey for 2017-18 has pegged the country's growth at 6.75 percent for 2<|fim_middle|> and Maximum Governance" has inspired government agencies in implementing legislative, administrative and policy reforms. These reforms led to a massive jump in India's ease of doing business rankings. India jumped 30 places and entered the top 100 club in the World Bank's 2018 Ease of Doing Business report.
The Indian government has opened up private investment in defense production, including liberalizing FDI. It will issue a separate policy for hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are suitable for attracting foreign investments in several areas, especially for startups and venture capital firms. | 017-18 and over 7 percent for 2018-19. At present, India is a $2.5 trillion economy – the seventh-largest in the world (expected to become fifth-largest soon), and third-largest in terms of purchasing power parity.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of "Minimum Government | 69 |
80-Year-Old Survives<|fim_middle|> from Cuba, said he survived by not thinking too much about his desperate situation.
"You can't start thinking for one second what's happening to you, because it will take over," Siberio said. "The sensation that you can die at any moment is constant." | More Than 18 Hours in Atlantic
MIAMI – An 80-year-old diver spent 18 hours holding on to a buoy in the cold, rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean (search) before a relative found him Sunday, ending an exhaustive search off the Florida Keys (search).
Ignacio Siberio said he survived with the help of a wetsuit and instincts developed from more than 60 years of free diving and spear fishing. He did not require hospitalization, but was recovering at his weekend home in Tavernier on Sunday night.
"I'm feeling OK, but I got back home pretty beaten up, because I was all night and all day in one spot without moving," Siberio told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Siberio, a lawyer who immigrated to the United States from Cuba (search), went in his boat to one of his favorite spear fishing spots off Tavernier around 11 a.m. Saturday. By about 2:30 p.m. he realized the boat was no longer anchored.
Siberio said he furiously swam after the boat for about three miles before giving up, grabbing a buoy to a lobster trap and watching his boat drift away in roughly 300-foot-deep waters.
As night fell, the temperature dropped to the 50s in the coldest South Florida night this fall. Winds picked up from the north, churning the seas and tossing Siberio around.
Siberio, who dives nearly every weekend, said his experience helped him know how to handle the ocean currents and how to cope with the cold water by keeping his body moving.
"You have to concentrate mentally in an extraordinary way so that you don't get to the point that the cold, the danger, and the fact you are helpless make you quit," Siberio said. "When you quit, it's over."
Meanwhile, Siberio's wife called his great-nephew Carlos Lopez to ask if they were together. Lopez realized there may be trouble and called the U.S. Coast Guard, which began a search with aircraft and boats.
Lopez and friend Roberto Garcia drove from Miami to the Keys, hopped on their boats and began looking for Siberio's boat in 4- to 6-foot seas in the dead of night. They ran into trouble themselves, with Lopez's boat running aground and needing a tow to shore.
The Coast Guard stopped its search about 2 a.m., but Siberio kept fighting. He mustered all his mental and physical strength to move his legs underwater to prevent hypothermia from settling in.
He battled until after daybreak, when he began swimming to shore, more than 10 miles away.
Siberio's family grew even more worried Sunday morning, when the Coast Guard found his boat about 23 miles east of Elliott Key — roughly more than 40 miles from where Siberio began diving Saturday.
Lopez and Garcia continued searching aboard Garcia's boat. At about 10:30 a.m., Garcia spotted Siberio about four miles offshore. They pulled him onto their boat and called the Coast Guard.
Lopez marveled at the strength of his great-uncle. Lopez says that medical personnel were concerned when they finding that Siberio's heart rate was 56 beats per minute, but Siberio told him that was his normal rate.
Siberio, a lawyer who immigrated to the United States | 699 |
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Luck Series # 5 – Sun Mounts and Markings
When it comes to signs of luck in our hands, single lines, stars and triangles on the Sun mount rank as being indicators of success and happiness in life. Our shining Sun, sustainer of life, is represented in palmistry by fire (ring) fingers, and in their underlying pads of flesh. Fire fingers, and the mounds at their roots, are named after Apollo, the Sun god.
As capacitors of potential energy, Sun mounts relate to flair, personal style, self-expression and talent, especially in the creative arts. Single vertical lines, triangles and stars on Sun mounts support the likelihood of the owner enjoying the rewards of financial security in old age, along with fulfilled contentment and satisfaction with what they have achieved.
Single, clear-c ut, deep and straight vertical lines etched above heart lines on Sun mounts are fire-governed energy channels for creativity. These minor fire, or Sun lines, ("lines of capability" – W. Benham) are auspicious palmar markings for luck. This positive marker suggests super-charged potential for accomplishing great achievement. Owners are likely to have optimistic, outgoing, attractively warm-hearted and generous traits. People with deep and clear sun lines exude warmth and friendliness, resulting their being well-liked. Depending on other palmar features, they are potentially spontaneous, versatile and innovative. Not only will they bring their creativity to life, but they will also achieve recognition, wealth and success. This feature can also strongly indicate the likelihood of inheritance.
Conceivably, stars on Sun mounts will combust in the owner the fiery energies of the mount and of the emerging well-formed finger above. With this sign of creative brilliance in their hands, people with stars under their ring fingers are also believed to be gifted, perhaps destined for visibility, celebrity status and the spotlight. In all likelihood, fortune will smile upon them. A lucky gambler may have Sun mount stars and long fire fingers with whorl finger print glyphs.
Little triangles on Sun mounts suggest constructive, practical creativity. This marking can signal architectural flair. Owners have unique skills and talents and are lovers of art and beauty.
It must be noted that owners of these markings who are publicly visible also have a need for privacy and alone time. Significantly, theirs is a longing for inner stillness and spiritual rest.
Some say more luck, some say less, but 3 vertical lines, or the rarely found 'trident', which is a line that forks into 3 under ring fingers, also relate to potential in the luck department. It might be that wealth, recognition and distinction are aspected in the trident, but in the 5 element chirology system, 3 vertical lines on Sun mounts are considered to be dispersive rather than focused, suggesting that owners are inclined to scatter their energies.
It is said that people with no significantly recognised name, fame or amount of money, will not have these signs in their hands. They may have creative talents but they have to work harder at living.
There remains the question "is there such a thing as luck?" Many events that influence our lives are seemingly beyond our control. Things happen by chance, and not as a result of our own efforts. The concept of "luck" is defined as "a purposeless, unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favourably or unfavourably for an individual, group or cause."
Circumstances seem to operate for or against us, but research proves that believing in luck as being a force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you, will attract a net gain for fortunes, and vice versa.
Bel<|fim_middle|>, I as reader would encourage the person's optimism and positivity, but would not predict any definite "lucky" outcome.
Developed by The First Step - View Sitemap | ief in luck is self-reinforcing, while believing in bad luck, and expecting the worst, ensures that "existence will go looking for the match", and exactly as you have ordered, you will attract bad luck. Consider that belief in bad luck is a self-abandoning positionality, as research shows that "lucky" people are more relaxed and open, while "unlucky" people are generally more tense and anxious.
"Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good." Richard Wiseman.
Lastly, to increase your luck, cultivate gratitude. Social scientists who study gratitude have found that gratitude produces a remarkable array of physical, psychological, and social changes.
"Gratitude, in particular, is a currency we can spend freely without fear of bankruptcy." Robert H Frank.
Please Note: The counselling and coaching system of 5 element chirology is not a predictive hand reading system. Predictions are deemed unethical. Based on these above-mentioned markings in a set of hands | 245 |
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In a treasure trove of World War II letters, a daughter uncovers her father and his friends' long-hidden histories. Adventurers Against Their Will is a gripping wartime adventure, a fascinating account of WWII archival reconstruction, and a searching exploration of memory, family, and the will to survive.
What people are saying about Adventurers Against Their Will and author Joanie Schirm…
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"Adventurers Against Their Will is a brilliant and compelling account of men and women caught in the turbulence of war. Part insightful history and part family drama, the book leads readers on a journey into the past, answering many questions and posing new ones along the way. Joanie Schirm has made a fresh and vital contribution to our understanding of world War II's impact on the lives of people in Central Europe."
Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State
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"Adventurers Against Their Will is a powerful wartime story revolving around true historical events. Based on scrupulous research, Joanie Schirm has dug deep into her own family history and beyond to recreate the lost world of Jewish culture in interwar Czechoslovakia and the horrors that followed during the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. An emotionally powerful book for anyone interested in the vanished universe of early twentieth-century Central Europe and the war that destroyed it."
Robert Gerwarth, author of Hitler's Hangman: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
"I could say that this reads like a novel but I've read a lot of novels set during the Holocaust and most of them, no matter how carefully researched, fall flat; you can always tell precisely where the research stops and the plot begins. What makes Adventurers Against Their Will so compelling is that none of its characters are aware of the roles they're playing. It's heartbreaking to realize how forward-looking and hopeful they'd been—how excited to be a part of Masaryk's doomed democracy. Their warts-and-all humanity brings home the horror of what was lost so much more powerfully than the pathos of cheap storytelling ever could."
Arthur Goldwag, author of The New Hate
"In the dynamic world of publishing today, the value of a good story told by a passionate, well-suited author is more important than ever. I believe Adventurers Against Their Will has all the elements for success – adventure, mystery, tragedy, love, discovery and truth."
Ann Sonntag, Former Publisher, Orlando Business Journal, a publication of American City Business Journals, the largest publisher of business journal in the U.S.
"I first came in contact with Joanie Schirm in 1991 when we worked together to bring the World Cup games to Orlando. It was no small feat. Quickly I knew she reflected perfectly what Walt Disney called the Four C's: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy. I had no idea she would later use all these "C's" so productively again to deliver the story of a lifetime – her father's – in the book My Dear Boy, the companion book to Adventurers Against Their Will. I predict it will someday make a fine movie. As a 1992 recipient of the prestigious Walt Disney World Dreamers and Doers Award, I know this strawberry blond force of nature will turn the book in to a best seller."
Richard Nunis, Past Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
"Some writers have a great story but don't know how to tell it. Other writers tell it well but don't really have a great story. In Adventurers Against Their Will, Joanie Schirm not only has a great story but knows how to tell it."
James Coffin, Executive Director, Interfaith Council of Central Florida
"In Adventurers Against Their Will, Joanie Schirm has reached deeply into the well of her own family's past and the unfolding events in Europe at the very moment the world was erupting into the conflagration that history calls World War II. Meticulously researched by Schirm, the voices of seven letter writers from her father's historic collection of 400 correspondences echo from 1939-1946, revealing the hopes, fears, desires, and all-too-late realizations of would-be victims caught up in stasis, emigration, immigration, and most dastardly, "resettlement" – that Nazi euphemism for transit to concentration, or death, camps. Since forty-four of Schirm's family members met this latter fate, Joanie Schirm's own retrospective, scholarly odyssey via the letters is poignant, indeed, containing timely messages for generations now and those yet to come."
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The designers have used the wonderful natural terrain to its full advantage and have produced a course which is suited to golfers of all playing levels. The variable lengths and uneven lies resulting from the undulating terrain will ensure that you have to call upon all of your shot-making skills to conquer this course.
My pick of the holes on the outward nine includes the brute of a par-3, 2nd which is 260 yards from the back tees – only relief is that it's downhill and the green is generously large. The 5th is the second of back-to-back par-5's and measures 708 yards!! It starts with a medium to long carry off the<|fim_middle|> you have to take on the water and hazard if you want to attack the pin – less accomplished golfers will probably want to bail out right.
The shortest par-4 on the course to start the back nine so you can open your shoulders but beware the raised bunkers in the centre of the fairway and then it's a tough approach to an elevated green. The par-5, 11th is probably the most difficult on the course with a very narrow fairway lined by water on one side and jungle on the other. Great view over the entire area from the 12th tee box. This long par- 3 is made shorter as there is a 50 metre drop from tee to green so you probably need to choose at least 2 clubs less than you would normally. The 16th is another par-3 and you play from another elevated tee to an island green which is quite generous in size. The 17th is great fun and is a sharp dogleg which demands and accurate tee shot between the fairway bunkers and an accurate approach to the green which is surrounded by water in front and to the left.
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Al-Bar'ah is a Bedouin musical tradition from the Dhofar mountains in southern Oman. It takes the form of a warlike dance performed to drums and the chanting of poetry in a local tribal dialect. Al-Bar'ah is performed in a half circle formed by ten to thirty men and women. As they chant and clap, two male dancers holding khanjars (daggers) perform codified dance movements, brandishing<|fim_middle|> drum rhythms and dance movements. The musical accompaniment is provided by the al-kasir, al-rahmâni and ad-daff drums and al-qassaba flute. The dance is performed outdoors, on occasions such as weddings, circumcisions and religious feasts. As for other Omani Bedouin dances, class and other distinctions are erased, as tribal leaders perform alongside the most humble of the population. The tradition represents the chivalric spirit, strength, courage, generosity and hospitality associated with Bedouins. The dance also emphasizes poetic themes of love and flirtation. Al-Bar'ah has many practitioners from Dhofar, who contribute to maintaining and transmitting its poetic variety and practice. | their daggers above shoulder level. The dancers' steps are uncomplicated, but coordination with other performers and the music requires considerable skill. Each tribe has its own characteristic form of al-Bar'ah, possessing different | 42 |
Baringa Townhomes
Life at Aura
For Sale at Aura
Buying & Building
Aura Business Park
Construction commences on Aura's first childcare centre
Stockland has announced it is extending its community building capabilities to provide much needed childcare facilities for future families across its residential masterplanned communities.
Work has commenced on the first childcare centre located in the heart of Stockland's award-winning Aura community, with a pipeline of another six centres underway across Australia.
The revolutionary $3.7 million centre will feature a 952 square metre outdoor play space and provide a ground-breaking STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and<|fim_middle|> care service over 2017-18. With Australia's birth and population rate consistently on the rise and revenues set to increase by 34.2% to $12.1 billion by 2019-20, we see growth in the sector as a true opportunity[1]."
Stockland will develop and own each centre building, sourcing leading early education partners to run the centres. The new childcare centre at Aura will be operated by Goodstart Early Learning, Australia's largest early learning provider.
Goodstart Early Learning Baringa will be co-located directly opposite the new Baringa Primary School which also offers a STEM focussed curriculum as well as a robotics laboratory, a recording studio and 3D printers. The childcare centre will offer 132 spaces to local families and is expected to open in January 2019.
Adrian Allen, Aura Project Director for Stockland, said the unique facility would mark a key milestone for the community.
"Providing our residents with access to innovative childcare and education options early on in the development lifecycle, gives future generations the best possible start in life and makes working easier for mums and dads," Mr Allen said.
"We know how important education is to families and we look forward to providing our youngest residents with easy access to one of the Sunshine Coast's leading childcare centres.
"Those children will then have the opportunity to further their STEM education at the Baringa State Primary School, which opened in January this year and features a robotics laboratory, a recording studio and 3D printers."
The centre will be located directly opposite the Baringa State Primary School and be easily accessible via the Aura Veloway and the extensive network of dedicated walking and cycle paths.
Works are also underway for a new four new parks and a civic plaza within the suburb to provide a variety of new play areas and a dedicated space for events, festivals and fairs.
"Baringa is shaping up to be a thriving community that's already leading the way in innovative parks, state-of-the-art learning hubs and sustainability initiatives," Mr Allen said.
"More than 400 people are now calling the suburb home and we look forward to welcoming many more residents into our community this year."
Construction is continuing on the Aura Business Park and work will start this year on the first residential stages of Aura Central, which upon completion will provide hundreds of jobs and new homes to locals. | Mathematics) focused approach to early learning education.
Ben Cantwell, Stockland General Manager for Medium Density and Retirement Living Development, said: "We are excited to start construction on Stockland's first standalone childcare centre, outside of the retail portfolio."
"This development is in line with our strategy to deliver the best communities in the country – providing excellent outcomes for residents and providing key infrastructure close to home.
"Approximately 1.3 million children are expected to attend some form of child | 96 |
Cleaning barbecue grill grates may not be the most exciting activity on your summer schedule, but if you plan on cooking outdoors it is a task that needs to be done. Here are three techniques you can use.
Like most with most items that require cleaning, barbecue grill grates can be cleaned using a variety of different methods. To put them broadly, these methods are burning, brushing and soaking.
Cleaning grill grates by burning them does not<|fim_middle|> rinsing and cleanup a little bit easier.
An alternative soaking method to use is pouring a cup of ammonia on the barbecue grill grates and letting them set in a plastic garbage bag for 12 hours. If you use this one, it's very important that you rinse well, since the ammonia flavor could seep into your food.
The brushing method is a quick fix that you should do after every time you use your grill. It's best to do so when the grill is still hot. Just be careful not to touch the grates with your hands.
– Stand in front of your grill and place the head of the grill brush on top of it.
– Starting at the top of the left side, move the brush in the direction of the wires on the grates.
– Continue brushing in this manner until you have cleaned the entire grill.
– Shake the brush over a garbage bag to remove any debris from it.
– Debris that fell into the grill should burn off the next time you use it.
Next Clean Your Oven Without Using Detergents. Right On Time For Christmas! | mean setting them on fire. It just means heating them up to a high temperature so that any remaining food or grease is easily cooked off. There are two ways to do this. One is to cover the top of the grates in aluminum foil, turn the grill on high and then close the lid. Leave it on for 15 minutes. Then open it and use your grill brush to brush off the white ash that will now be there.
The second way is to put your barbecue grill grates in a self-cleaning oven and run them through the cleaning process. Be cautious with this one since it could end up discoloring your barbecue grill grates. If you don't mind what color they are, it is a simple method to use.
– Fill a large bucket with hot water and with a quarter cup of the dish soap.
– Stir in a quarter cup of baking soda until you have a good lather in your bucket.
– Drop the grates in the bucket and let them soak for an hour.
– Scrub them with a steel wool pad to remove any remaining debris.
– Rinse the grates with your garden hose.
You can also soak your grates in the kitchen sink if they are small enough to fit. This will make | 254 |
Pour the whiskey into a cocktail shaker and add the teabags. Let steep 15 minutes. Remove the tea bags<|fim_middle|> Irish Breakfast tea instead. The resulting drink is elegant, fun, and a little moody. Perfect for an award show!
Instead of fussing with simple syrup, I used Whole Earth Sweetener Agave 50 to sweeten these cocktails. You might remember them from my Sweet Potato Blender Muffins (if you haven't tried them yet, what are you waiting for?).
The Agave 50 is a blend of agave and stevia, so it has 50% less calories per serving as traditional agave. It has a neutral taste, so it's perfect for using in cocktails. Their Whole Earth Sweetener Honey 50, a blend of honey and stevia, also works really well in this drink – it reads a little sweeter, and the honey goes really well with the blood orange flavor.
Like the rest of their products (Baking Blend, Nature Sweet® zero calorie packets, Turbinado Raw Cane 50, and Monk Fruit Juice Concentrate), the Agave 50 and Honey 50 are non-GMO Project Verified and don't have any weird aftertaste.
You can find Whole Earth Sweetener products at your local grocery stores (I've purchased them from ShopRite and Price Chopper). They're also available on Amazon.
This looks awesome! I can't wait until blood oranges are back in season at my farmer's market. I'm definitely going to try this!
This looks awesome! Blood Orange cocktails are my favorite!
Definitely liking the sound of these!
These look incredible! I would love one right now!
I love a good cocktail, I definitely want to try this!
I'll have to be on the lookout for Whole Earth products…I don't think I've ever seen them before. This cocktail looks amazing!! | , squeezing them gently to extract the most flavor possible.
Add the blood orange juice, lemon juice, and Whole Earth Sweetener Agave 50 or Honey 50. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well.
Add ice to four double old fashioned glasses. Strain the cocktail over the ice. Garnish with mint. If desired, top with club soda.
Take advantage of what's left of citrus season with these Blood Orange, Tea + Whiskey Cocktails.
Making cocktails with tea has been my thing lately. It all started with these Earl Grey Apple Cider Cocktails, then kicked into high gear after I had an amazing Earl Grey Breakfast Martini earlier this fall. For this whiskey cocktail, I decided to take a detour from Earl Grey and infuse the whiskey with | 160 |
Bonneveau est une commune française située dans le département de Loir-et-Cher en région Centre-Val de Loire. Ses habitants s'appelaient les Bonnevatiers et Bonnevatières, aujourd'hui ils s'appellent Bonnevaliers et Bonnevalières.
Localisée au nord du département, la commune fait partie de la petite région agricole « le Perche vendômois », région naturelle accidentée composée de vallons, de plateaux, de collines, de crêtes et de vallées.
L'occupation des sols est marquée par l'importance des espaces agricoles et naturels qui occupent la quasi-totalité du territoire communal. Aucun espace naturel présentant un intérêt patrimonial n'est toutefois recensé sur la commune dans l'inventaire national du patrimoine naturel. En 2010, l'orientation technico-économique de l'agriculture sur la commune est la culture des céréales et des oléoprotéagineux. À l'instar du département qui a vu disparaître le quart de ses exploitations en dix ans, le nombre d'exploitations agricoles a fortement diminué, passant de 25 en 1988, à 9 en 2000, puis à 7 en 2010.
Le patrimoine architectural de la commune comprend deux bâtiments portés à l'inventaire des monuments historiques : l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bonneveau, classée en 1961 et inscrite en 2008, et le château de Matval, inscrit en 1971 puis en 2009.
Géographie
Localisation et communes limitrophes
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La commune de Bonneveau se trouve au nord du département de Loir-et-Cher, dans la petite région agricole du Perche vendômois. À vol d'oiseau, elle se situe à de Blois, préfecture du département, à de Vendôme, sous-préfecture, et à de Savigny-sur-Braye, chef-lieu du canton du Perche dont dépend la commune depuis 2015. La commune fait en outre partie du bassin de vie de Saint-Calais.
Les communes les plus proches sont :
Bessé-sur-Braye ()(72), Cellé (), Lavenay ()(72), La Chapelle-Huon ()(72), Sougé (), Troo (), Saint-Jacques-des-Guérets (), La Chapelle-Gaugain ()(72) et Fontaine-les-Coteaux ().
La commune se situe dans la région naturelle du Perche vendômois.
Hydrographie
La commune est drainée par la Braye (), l'Anillé et par divers petits cours d'eau, constituant un réseau hydrographique de de longueur totale.
La Braye, d'une longueur totale de , prend sa source dans la commune de Ceton et se jette dans le Loir à Vallée-de-Ronsard, après avoir traversé .
Sur le plan piscicole, ce cours d'eau est classé en deuxième catégorie, où le peuplement piscicole dominant est constitué de poissons blancs (cyprinidés) et de carnassiers (brochet, sandre et perche).
Climat
La commune bénéficie d'un climat « océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France définie en 2010. Ce type affecte l'ensemble du Bassin parisien avec une extension vers le sud, et en particulier la plus grande partie du département de Loir-et-Cher. Le climat reste océanique mais avec de belles dégradations. Les températures sont intermédiaires et les précipitations sont faibles (moins de de cumul annuel), surtout en été, mais les pluies tombent en moyenne sur en janvier et sur 8 en juillet, valeurs moyennes rapportées à l'ensemble français. La variabilité interannuelle des précipitations est minimale tandis que celle des températures est élevée.
Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir cette typologie comportent pour les températures et 8 pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent aux données mensuelles sur la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-contre. Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont pu depuis évoluer.
Milieux naturels et biodiversité
Aucun espace naturel présentant un intérêt patrimonial n'est recensé sur la commune dans l'inventaire national du patrimoine naturel.
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Urbanisme
Typologie
Selon la terminologie définie par l'Insee et le zonage publié en 2020, Bonneveau est une commune urbaine. Elle appartient en effet à l'unité urbaine de Bessé-sur-Braye, une agglomération inter-régionale regroupant deux communes et en .
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.
Occupation des sols
L'occupation des sols est marquée par l'importance des espaces agricoles et naturels (96,8 %). La répartition détaillée ressortant de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover millésimée 2012 est la suivante :
terres arables (11,6 %),
cultures permanentes (0,6 %),
zones agricoles hétérogènes (15,4 %),
prairies (3,5 %),
forêts (65,2 %),
milieux à végétation arbustive ou herbacée (0,7 %),
zones urbanisées (1 %),
espaces verts artificialisés non agricoles (0,5 %),
zones industrielles et commerciales et réseaux de communication (1,7 %),
eaux continentales (0,5 %).
Planification
La loi SRU du a incité fortement les communes à se regrouper au sein d'un établissement public, pour déterminer les<|fim_middle|>.
Une villa gallo-romaine devait être placée à l'extrémité d'une plaine, au sommet d'où la vue s'étendait. Les coteaux fertiles, les voies de communication et les cours d'eau semblaient indispensables. La villa de Bonnevau avait tous ces avantages.
Les seigneurs de la châtellerie de Bonneveau furent nombreux aussi bien que les usufruitiers. Les comtes et ducs de Vendôme furent propriétaires mais n'hésitèrent pas à distribuer leur possession à titre précaire.
Le Prochassy de Bonnevvau, maisons, caves, cour contenait trois arpents. Le lieu-dit actuel, Porchassy et, ou Pourchassy serait bien le lieu dont il est question.
Le fief de la Godelinière aurait appartenu à Jacques Godelin.
La cure de Bonnevau relevait de la châtellerie d'après l'aveu de Jean Bâtard de Bourbon.
Église de Bonnevau
La première église fut sans doute dépendante de la villa de Gajanus.
Les mérovingiens et carolingiens embellir cet oratoire. Agrandie, elle fut détruite par les Normands et reconstruite les comtes de Vendôme vers la fin du .
Au , elle est remarquable par ses peintures murales. Les stalles du chœur furent agrandies en 1792.
En 1845, une restauration importante fut effectuée par la commune. En 1853, trois contreforts sud furent construits pour une éventuelle inclinaison du côté du cimetière.
En 1894, la pose d'un vitrail sur la façade principale, lustres et autres ornements s'embellir.
Jusqu'en 1892, le cimetière, comme presque partout, entourait l'église.
Vers 1820, acheta un nouveau terrain, à une centaine de mètres sur la route de Tröo, pour y établir un nouveau cimetière.
L'ancien et le nouveaux presbytère.
En 1793, à l'est de l'abside, c'était une maison à étage, à grands toits. Depuis la Révolution, elle passa dans différentes mains.
Un autre fut construit sur un terrain donné par la famille de Montesquiou. Petite et en mauvais état, elle fut restaurée, embellie et agrandie en 1869.
Poème dédié au paysage
"J'aime à rêver près de ton onde,
Braye, dont les flots silencieux
Semblent dire aux heureux du monde:
Le bonheur est dans ces lieux.
Le nénuphar, d'étoiles jaunes,
Constelle l'émail de tes eaux,
Où se mire, parmi les aulnes,
La blanche aigrette des roseaux.
Je vous aime, ô belles prairies
Où j'ai goûté tant de plaisir;
Riants coteaux, rives fleuries,
de vous, j'aime à me souvenir !"
P.H.
Politique et administration
Découpage territorial
La commune de Bonneveau est membre de la Communauté d'agglomération Territoires Vendômois, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé le .
Elle est rattachée sur le plan administratif à l'arrondissement de Vendôme, au département de Loir-et-Cher et à la région Centre-Val de Loire, en tant que circonscriptions administratives. Sur le plan électoral, elle est rattachée au canton du Perche depuis 2015 pour l'élection des conseillers départementaux et à la troisième circonscription de Loir-et-Cher pour les élections législatives.
Politique et administration municipale
Conseil municipal et maire
Le conseil municipal de Bonneveau, commune de moins de , est élu au scrutin majoritaire plurinominal avec listes ouvertes et panachage. Compte tenu de la population communale, le nombre de sièges au conseil municipal est de 11. Le maire, à la fois agent de l'État et exécutif de la commune en tant que collectivité territoriale, est élu par le conseil municipal au scrutin secret lors de la première réunion du conseil suivant les élections municipales, pour un mandat de six ans, c'est-à-dire pour la durée du mandat du conseil.
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Population et société
Démographie
Évolution démographique
Pyramide des âges
La population de la commune est relativement âgée.
En 2018, le taux de personnes d'un âge inférieur à s'élève à 25,2 %, soit en dessous de la moyenne départementale (31,3 %). À l'inverse, le taux de personnes d'âge supérieur à est de 36,0 % la même année, alors qu'il est de 31,6 % au niveau départemental.
En 2018, la commune comptait pour , soit un taux de 50,33 % de femmes, légèrement inférieur au taux départemental (51,45 %).
Les pyramides des âges de la commune et du département s'établissent comme suit.
Économie
Secteurs d'activité
Le tableau ci-dessous détaille le nombre d'entreprises implantées à Bonneveau selon leur secteur d'activité et le nombre de leurs salariés :
Le secteur du commerce, transports et services divers est prépondérant sur la commune (14 entreprises sur 35) néanmoins le secteur agricole reste important puisqu'en proportions (31,4 %), il est plus important qu'au niveau départemental (11,8 %).
Sur les implantées à Bonneveau en 2016, 28 ne font appel à aucun salarié et 7 comptent 1 à .
Au , la commune est classée en zone de revitalisation rurale (ZRR), un dispositif visant à aider le développement des territoires ruraux principalement à travers des mesures fiscales et sociales. Des mesures spécifiques en faveur du développement économique s'y appliquent également.
Agriculture
En 2010, l'orientation technico-économique de l'agriculture sur la commune est la polyculture et le polyélevage. Le département a perdu près d'un quart de ses exploitations en , entre 2000 et 2010 (c'est le département de la région Centre-Val de Loire qui en compte le moins). Cette tendance se retrouve également au niveau de la commune où le nombre d'exploitations est passé de 22 en 1988 à 12 en 2000 puis à 9 en 2010. Parallèlement, la taille de ces exploitations augmente, passant de en 1988 à en 2010.
Le tableau ci-dessous présente les principales caractéristiques des exploitations agricoles de Bonneveau, observées sur une période de :
Produits labellisés
Le territoire de la commune est intégré aux aires de productions de divers produits bénéficiant d'une indication géographique protégée (IGP) : le bœuf du Maine, les porcs de la Sarthe, le vin Val-de-loire, les volailles de Loué, les volailles de l'Orléanais, les volailles du Maine et les œufs de Loué.
Culture locale et patrimoine
Lieux et monuments
Château de Matval, inscrit comme monument historique en 1971.
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Bonneveau, classée monument historique en 1961.
Personnalités liées à la commune
Philippe Djanoumoff, photographe.
Héraldique
Voir aussi
Bibliographie
Articles connexes
Liste des communes de Loir-et-Cher
Unité urbaine de Bessé-sur-Braye
Liens externes
Bonneveau sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
Notes et références
Notes
Références
Bonneveau
Unité urbaine de Bessé-sur-Braye | partis d'aménagement de l'espace au sein d'un SCoT, un document essentiel d'orientation stratégique des politiques publiques à une grande échelle. La commune est dans le territoire du SCOT des Territoires du Grand Vendômois, approuvé en 2006 et dont la révision a été prescrite en 2017, pour tenir compte de l'élargissement de périmètre.
En matière de planification, la commune disposait en 2017 d'une carte communale approuvée.
Habitat et logement
Le tableau ci-dessous présente la typologie des logements à Bonneveau en 2016 en comparaison avec celle du Loir-et-Cher et de la France entière. Une caractéristique marquante du parc de logements est ainsi une proportion de résidences secondaires et logements occasionnels (13,2 %) inférieure à celle du département (18 %) mais supérieure à celle de la France entière (9,6 %). Concernant le statut d'occupation de ces logements, 82,9 % des habitants de la commune sont propriétaires de leur logement (82,9 % en 2011), contre 68,1 % pour le Loir-et-Cher et 57,6 pour la France entière.
Risques majeurs
Le territoire communal de Bonneveau est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : inondations (par débordement de la Braye ou par ruissellement), climatiques (hiver exceptionnel ou canicule), mouvements de terrains ou sismique (sismicité très faible).
Il est également exposé à un risque technologique : le transport de matières dangereuses.
Risques naturels
Les mouvements de terrains susceptibles de se produire sur la commune sont soit liés au retrait-gonflement des argiles, soit des chutes de blocs, soit des glissements de terrains, soit des effondrements liés à des cavités souterraines. Le phénomène de retrait-gonflement des argiles est la conséquence d'un changement d'humidité des sols argileux. Les argiles sont capables de fixer l'eau disponible mais aussi de la perdre en se rétractant en cas de sécheresse. Ce phénomène peut provoquer des dégâts très importants sur les constructions (fissures, déformations des ouvertures) pouvant rendre inhabitables certains locaux. La carte de zonage de cet aléa peut être consultée sur le site de l'observatoire national des risques naturels Georisques. Une autre carte permet de prendre connaissance des cavités souterraines localisées sur la commune.
L'inventaire des crues historiques en France établi par Maurice Campion en 1864 ne mentionne pas la Braye. L'atlas des zones inondables de la Braye élaboré en mai 2007 s'est donc appuyé sur les relevés hydrométriques existants depuis la mise en place d'échelles de crues. Le débit de la crue de référence varie ainsi entre 140 et selon les sections.
Risques technologiques
Le risque de transport de marchandises dangereuses sur la commune est lié à sa traversée par une canalisation de transport de gaz. Un accident se produisant sur une telle infrastructure est en effet susceptible d'avoir des effets graves au bâti ou aux personnes jusqu'à , selon la nature du matériau transporté. Des dispositions d'urbanisme peuvent être préconisées en conséquence.
Toponymie
Les noms de Matval, Matovallum, Matvallis, et Bona Vallis seraient d'origine celtique.
Le nom de chaque lieu dit émane de son utilité ou ses habitants. Par exemple, les Planches toujours d'actualité, étaient nécessaires pour traverser le ruisseau. La Barazerie ou Harazerie, évoquaient les haras. La Pouletterie datant de la fin du siècle, pour vous surprendre était un lieu où le propriétaire avait tenté de fabriquer des couveuses artificielles.
Histoire
Matval ou Bonneveau.
Comme le dit l'Abbé Martin au début du siècle, sa production consiste en blés, vins et foins, pommiers, poiriers, noyers, pruniers, cerisiers, cognassiers, cormiers etc.
Les Mérovingiens et Carolingiens ont séjourné à Bonnevau.
Le château de la Godelinière daterait du début du siècle. Celui de la Massuère serait plus jeune de 100 ans.
César a évoqué dans bien des villages, comme à Bonnevau, les rochers dans lesquels les cavernes étaient habitées. Les souterrains du château de l'ancien château sont des galeries parallèles, larges et élevées.
Les autres souterrains avaient de nombreuses ramifications qui les menaient à l'église. Entre autres affaissements, en 1842, l'un s'est produit dans la sacristie.
Matval et les romains.
Pour reprendre les paroles de l'abbé Martin, l'étendue de ce territoire fut donné en partie, vers 240, comme récompense à Gajanus, un seigneur romain qui permit la construction d'églises.
Matval devint chef-lieu que Clovis agrandit de la source du ruisseau de Coulonges jusqu'à la rivière " la Braye", à Souge.
À sa mort, Childebert, son fils, hérita, entre autres domaines, de celui de Matval. Vers 524, Childebert s'installe à Matval avec la reine Ultrogothe, sa nouvelle épouse espagnole.
Après des heurts, une charte d'environ du 13 galendes de février, la IVe année de son règne fut signée par, entre autres, l'évêque du Mans, par le délégué roi Wilbrich et par cinq comtes et un vicomte. C'était, dit l'abbé Martin, la cour du roi rassemblée à Bonnevau auprès de Childebert.
Les romains
Les mérovingiens
Dans chaque grand domaine, il y avait un officier monétaire.
Frappe de monnaie à Bonnevau
Des pièces en or ou trien, pour respecter le langage de l'abbé martin et celui de Incendie de la godelinière.l'époque, de l'époque mérovingienne ont été retrouvées dans différents coins de France. En Vendée, sous le nom significatif de Matoval.
Les Carolingiens.
L'abbé Voisin livra bataille à Matval, à ses fils révoltés de jalousie par la préférence de leur père pour un garçon issu du mariage avec Judith, la fille du comte de Bavière. Ce fut le dernier roi à habiter Bonnevau.
Dans toutes les provinces, l'excès du mal produisit une révolution. Ces luttes qui prirent de l'ampleur et les mystères menèrent à la reconnaissance de deux familles, celle des ducs de France et des comtes d'Anjou.
Après Charles le Chauve, Robert devint la source des capétiens. Puis, son beau-fils Hugues lui succéda, puis ses deux frères, Eudes et Robert.
Depuis cette époque, malgré sa notoriété, l'histoire ne parle plus de Matval. Sa célébrité, malgré tout, au Moyen-Âge comme aux temps modernes sera conservée.
Puis, les années passant, l'histoire, les évènements et les prêtres continueront à faire vivre et bouger ce territoire jusqu'en 1814.
Bonneval sur Braye et le manoir féodal
Après tous ces combats et bouleversements et destructions, les habitants réfugiés et vécurent dans les carrières du voisinage comme à Trôo ou Troü pour les Anglais.
Les Scandinaves renversèrent les villas royales. Il reste aujourd'hui, des débris de châteaux féodaux restent visibles. le château de Matval, on ne peut douter, date du Moyen Âge.
Au , l'ancien manoir fut remplacé par un nouveau château. Seule la tour fut conservée | 1,988 |
Business intelligence is a mission-critical function for the modern organization. The more accessible your organization makes self-service analytics, the more users in your organization will be empowered to make informed business decisions.
Teams rely on rapid-fire analytics to make decisions that matter right now not in hours or days. This reliance on data requires systems that are fast and easy to configure to meet the availability needs of the enterprise.
This paper provides an overview and recommendations for deploying Tableau Server 9.0 at scale. It includes example deployment scenarios and planning considerations to help you ensure that you size your deployment for success. The recommendations covered in this paper are informed by scale testing we have performed and published in the more extensive Tableau Server 9.0 Scalability: Powering Self<|fim_middle|> community at a larger scale, globally.
Figure 2 shows how Tableau can scale up in an organization to meet the business requirements for self-service analytics, while effectively managing data access. | -Service Analytics at Scale white paper.
Why self-service analytics at scale?
The more access that your organization provides to self-service analytics, the more users in your organization can make informed business decisions.
This concept is illustrated in Figure 1. The origin of the horizontal axis is an organization where data and analytics are created and managed in a traditional BI report factory. At the furthest end of the horizontal axis, users are empowered. They rely on self-service analytics to understand, view, and pivot data as primary input when they make business decisions.
The vertical axis shows the range of data access and availability within the organization. When you restrict access to data, keeping it under centralized control, your organization cannot realize the potential of self service at scale.
Users must have access to relevant and timely data to support real-time analytic business decisions.
Conversely, if you open up data without any controls, shadow IT might become the norm and bring with it a destabilizing culture of data anarchy.
A successful self-service analytical culture is a balance of managed data access and empowered business users. Tableau Server provides secure, scalable access to your business data. Tableau Desktop provides the powerful analytic client experience that your employees can use to evaluate, pivot, interrogate, visualize, and share data.
When you think about scaling a Tableau Server deployment, it's useful to understand how Tableau often grows through an organization. We call this the "land and expand" phenomenon. A "land" is an entry point where someone in an organization discovers Tableau and downloads a single desktop or champions a Tableau Server installation for a pioneer group.
Using Tableau Server combined with larger Tableau Desktop penetration (the "expand"), more groups share content securely and easily without needing a lot of help from IT.
As use expands, IT engages to support the business in deploying, maintaining, and supporting the Tableau user community.
In addition, Tableau Drive provides a methodology to allow larger teams to successfully adopt Tableau with Agile best practices in mind. As customers grow, they often invest in Tableau Server to support their user | 421 |
In 2011, while serving as<|fim_middle|> this new role goes beyond the concussion protocol and looks forward to participating in player safety discussions on a more strategic level. | president of USA Hockey's California affiliate, Steve Laing assembled a committee comprised of two board directors and two medical experts to research and vet California's first statewide concussion legislation, Assembly Bill 25. Effective in Jan. 2012, the legislation only applied to public school sports, however, Laing challenged the Concussion Committee to take the basics of this legislation and create a comprehensive concussion education, awareness and protocol program that could be implemented statewide in hockey.
The resulting concussion protocol program has been in place in California since 2012, becoming the cornerstone of the Pacific District's ongoing commitment to increasing the safety of youth hockey in its affiliates.
Fast forward to today and the Pacific District is committed not only to player safety but also to the innovation it takes to continually advance new ideas and programming, as well as support the common visions shared with USA Hockey in terms of player safety and player development. In Feb. 2017, the Pacific District implemented concussion protocols that build on the original California program, but also reflect the specific concussion legislation requirements of its affiliate members. This mandatory protocol is a key component of the Pacific District's commitment to educating its membership – players, coaches, parents, managers, athletes, volunteers and leadership – about the importance of being able to recognize the symptoms of a concussion and the critical need to ensure that a concussed player is clinically evaluated and diagnosed, recovers fully and is safely returned to participation. The protocol includes an acknowledgement for coaches and parents/guardians, any additional state-required forms and acknowledgements, and a library of educational information and tools for member programs to draw from to educate their membership.
Expanding and implementing the protocol for the Pacific District is Jaime Campbell. In a newly created pilot program, Jaime will fill the role of player safety/concussion awareness representative. Laing said selecting Campbell was an easy choice and a unanimous decision by the board members.
Campbell says it has been a labor of love to be part of the concussion program from the beginning, and she's excited to see it expand across the Pacific District.
USA Hockey is pleased to see the Pacific District take a leadership role in developing the player safety coordinator role.
Expanding the basic components of the concussion protocol throughout the district, then for each individual state affiliate (building in legislative requirements) was the first step for Campbell. With the tools and materials in place, she is now visiting each state affiliate providing training and education on how to implement and use the protocol. Campbell acknowledges that new programs are sometimes met with some hesitancy, but she's ready to work through it.
Campbell's personal commitment to the program was formed by the very people who inspired the need for it.
These programs are not a one-time undertaking, and they are not self-sustaining. There is a constant need for this education to continue each season as new parents, athletes and volunteers join the growing ranks of USA Hockey in its Pacific District affiliates, as well as continual changes in state legislation. The key to a program's longevity will be in the commitment of leadership to continually evaluate, revise and adjust to current information, research, technology and legislation.
Campbell knows | 637 |
BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable French Brands 2019
Total brand value rises 12% as Louis Vuitton retains top spot and Chanel takes second place.
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Luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès dominate the BrandZTM Top 50 Most Valuable French Brands 2019 ranking, demonstrating the powerful position of traditional fashion houses within the country's corporate landscape.
In the second annual BrandZ France ranking, released<|fim_middle|>) up by 34%.
Value doesn't mean what it used to: French shoppers are buying less but buying better. A decade ago, 29% of people said they wanted better fresh produce; now it's 33%. More than half of French consumers say they will willingly pay more for higher quality.
Online shopping has room to grow: 34 million French consumers bought something online last year, up 13% higher than a year earlier. Technology and fashion are the go-to categories online, but penetration of other sectors, especially fast-moving consumer goods remains low by global standards. Key growth areas are women, under-35s and residents of smaller towns and cities.
Older people could well be the future of consumption: Nearly a third of the French population is aged 55-plus and the proportion is growing. They also account for more than 40% of spending on consumer goods and are on the lookout for great food, fashion, travel and tech.
Small is beautiful: Shoppers are seeking ways to support local food producers, and 58% say they want to buy as local as possible. Supermarkets and national brands are now promoting the regional heritage of selected produce, and a new brand, C'est qui le Patron? (Who's the boss?), co-created with consumers, is successfully selling a growing range of fresh food, from milk and butter to burger patties.
Background and methodology
Commissioned by WPP, the valuation behind the BrandZ™ Top 50 Most Valuable French Brands was conducted by brand equity research experts Kantar. The methodology mirrors that used to calculate the annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking, which is now in its 13th year.
The ranking combines rigorously analysed market data from Bloomberg and Kantar with extensive consumer insights. Globally, our research covers 3.6 million consumers and more than 122,000 different brands in over 50 markets. In France, we interviewed more than 101,000 consumers for over 1,100 brands in 88 categories. The ability of any brand to power business growth relies on how it is perceived by customers. As the only brand valuation ranking grounded in consumer opinion, BrandZ's analysis enables French brands to identify their strength in the market and provides clear strategic guidance on how to boost value for the long-term.
The BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable French Brands is the most definitive and robust ranking of the country's brands available, and the brands ranked all meet these eligibility criteria:
Brand is originally created in France
The brand is owned by a listed company or a private company with financials publicly available
The suite of BrandZ brand valuations and reports also includes China, India, Latin America, Brazil, Spain, UK, US, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Australia, South Africa and Italy | today by WPP and Kantar which tracks and anticipates the evolving environment for the country's biggest names, Louis Vuitton takes first place ($46.4 billion), Chanel second ($39.2 billion) and Hermès third ($31.5 billion).
Overall, the luxury sector now accounts for 47% of the total value of the ranking with two of the six new entries further boosting its dominance, via brands Céline (No. 38, $1.1 billion) and Van Cleef & Arpels (No. 43, $937 million). Other newcomers are personal care brand Vichy (No. 41, $954 million), home appliances brand Tefal (No. 46, $774 million), ice cream brand Carte D'Or (No. 44, $931 million) and retailer Maisons Du Monde (No. 49, $665 million).
The total value of the BrandZ French Top 50 rose 12%. While this is significantly ahead of the 2.3% increase in the country's GDP, it looks less favourable when compared to the 21% rise in total brand value seen in the BrandZ Global Top 100 Brands earlier this year.
One potential reason for the growth lag could be the comparatively low perceived innovation score for France's top brands. Taking 100 as the benchmark score for this measure, the Top 50 most valuable French brands average 103 compared to 113 for both the BrandZ Global Top 50 and the US Top 50 rankings.
But some French brands are already delivering on innovation with initiatives that include encouraging staff to act as brand ambassadors on social media and providing opportunities for consumers to test products. Sports retailer Decathlon (No. 24 $2.2 billion) is viewed by consumers as the most disruptive brand within the ranking, indexing 158 for "shaking things up".
The BrandZ Top 10 Most Valuable French Brands 2019
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However, perceived innovation isn't just about product development or the use of technology, and other brands are looking to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to boost their standing as consumer interest in protecting the world around them grows. When a brand's CSR fits with its purpose and is communicated well, it has the potential to become as powerful a brand value driver as digital has been in recent years.
Those brands in the Top 50 that consumers perceive as highly socially responsible have grown by an average of 14% over the past year, double the rate for brands that are low scorers. Brands in the Top 10 for CSR include Decathlon, Michelin (No.11, $6.4 billion), Air France (No. 50, $658 million) and Credit Agricole (No. 23, $2.4 billion).
David Roth, WPP, said: "France gave us the word entrepreneur, and there is a huge opportunity for brands that can lead and shake things up for their consumers. Innovation is the fastest route to brand value growth, but companies should explore all forms of innovation as they seek the best, most authentic solutions for their brand."
The best opportunity for brands to boost the innovation message remains partnerships between traditional and new brands. Oil brand Total (No. 13, $5.9 billion) has teamed up with Blablacar to offer money off vouchers that boost uptake of the carpooling company's services, while telecoms provider Orange (No. 5 $20.1 billion) has been streaming music service Deezer's exclusive mobile network provider in France for more than five years.
Pierre Gomy, Managing Director Brand & Communications at Kantar TNS, Kantar Millward Brown, said: "French corporates can be quite traditional – and that has served them well in the past – but it's important for brand growth to break out of that behaviour. Consumers are increasingly looking for innovation and CSR offers the opportunity for businesses to redefine themselves beyond digital and product to include corporate behaviour. Traditional behaviour, particularly among France's formerly state-owned companies, can also include a much greater sense of mindfulness towards the environment and employees, something they can leverage as a huge point of difference."
Key trends highlighted in the BrandZ French Top 50 study include:
Dior is the fastest riser: Dior (No. 17, $4.4 billion) was the fastest riser in the ranking, up 58%, with Rémy Martin (No. 25, $2.2 billion) growing by 39% and Saint Laurent (No. 19, $3.6 billion | 1,005 |
Family and friends of Melissa Mull are raising money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with her heart transplant.
Melissa, 44, was suddenly diagnosed July 2016 with acute congestive heart failure and severe cardiomyopathy. On Oct. 7th, 2016, Melissa received the gift of life, a heart transplant at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Melissa is a kind, gentle soul who cares about all living things. She is the mother of one daughter, Hadley, and enjoys close relationships with her family.
She grew up in the Pottstown area and graduated from Owen J. Roberts High School. Prior to her July illness, she was an avid fitness enthusiast and worked full time as a logistic manager.
Transplants are life-saving, but financially draining. Even with insurance, Melissa is facing very high expenses including cobra, medications, co-p<|fim_middle|> Getting biopsies every 2 weeks for now. Today marks 3 weeks from transplant!
I have had the journey myself,hit me up if you want to chat, hang tough, congratulations!
Keep up the good work! I love you!
Melissa, I'll be thinking of you and sending you positive energy for a quick recovery.
All the very best Melissa with your recovery and "new life". | ays, lab fees and frequent travel back to Penn.
To help with the financial burden of Melissa's uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign has been created in her honor! It has been established with Help Hope Live, a trusted non-profit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for over 30 years. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law, and are held by Help Hope Live in the Heart Transplant Fund, and administered for transplant expenses only.
Please consider a contribution to Melissa's campaign and click on the Donate Now button.
Thank you for your prayers, support, and generosity. Please feel free to share Melissa's page and keep an eye on her campaign page at www.helphopelive.org as we will be posting updates regularly.
Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.This campaign is administered by Help Hope Live, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing fundraising assistance to transplant and catastrophic injury patients. Information:1-800-642-8399.
April 7th marks Melissa's 6 months out from transplant. She is doing well and will have her monthly heart biopsy on April 3rd.
Merry Christmas! We are so thankful to be able to celebrate Christmas with Melissa and her new heart! Her biopsy on Tuesday, Dec. 20th was 1R which is great! Keep up the good work Melissa and thank you all for your support! I am so happy to be making this journey with you!
Melissa had another cardiac biopsy yesterday and the results were a zero rejection, which is excellent news! That allows her steroid to be reduced which is also good news! Thank you for your support.
So far no rejection to Melissa's new heart. | 364 |
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it will<|fim_middle|> to stream content both live and on demand in any format. For on-demand requests, Akamai identifies the optimal server closest to the user, routes the streams and delivers them from the "edge" of the Internet.
Dynamic streaming is a new feature in Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 delivered over Akamai's streaming platform that seamlessly switches between different quality versions of a single video stream to deliver the optimal viewing experience for the consumer. Dynamic streaming allows Flash-based video players to dynamically shift to end-user machines with different capabilities, such as lower processing power, or slower Internet connections. This solution enables delivery of a true HD Internet experience for users whose local environments can support it, while offering a dynamic, buffer-free experience that delivers the best picture quality possible when conditions are less than ideal. These breakthroughs improve the quality of video delivered over the Web and offer richer interactive experiences for users, encouraging viewers to spend more time online and enabling publishers to more effectively monetize content.
Akamai encoding technology partner, Inlet Technologies, was the first to provide VoD support for Adobe Dynamic Streaming after integrating the functionality of Flash Media Server 3.5 with Armada, Inlet's fully-automated media transcoding and workflow solution. In addition to supporting VoD functionality, Inlet also supports live Dynamic Streaming with Inlet's SpinnakerTM family of live encoding appliances. Inlet's products are being used to encode all content on the showcase companion site. "This endeavor is a compelling opportunity to team with Akamai to bring the highest quality online viewing experience to a global audience," said Neal Page, Inlet CEO. "We are committed to working with our technology partners to improve all aspects of the online video business by applying advanced technology solutions to real-world applications." | ensure the availability and performance of the destination site for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, as well as deliver hours of high definition (HD) video content on demand. During last year's event, more than 1 million people visited the festival's site, and organizers expect an increase in site visitors this year.
With a global audience of international film fans and an aggressive plan for video coverage of the event, the Cannes Film Festival is leveraging Akamai's global platform in order to provide a high-quality, scalable site experience. Available at www.festival-cannes.com, Akamai will be streaming movie trailers for many of the films being screened that day. The site also features coverage of photo calls, press conferences, red carpet appearances and other events occurring throughout the competition.
Akamai and the Cannes Film Festival have also launched a showcase website to complement the festival's day-to-day coverage. This companion site - http://www.festival-cannes.com/hd/en/ - will offer a collection of movie trailers in true 720p HD resolution using dynamic streaming with Adobe® Flash® Media Server 3.5 over Akamai's global distribution platform. The HD showcase videos will be shown in both English and French languages. In addition, daily footage of events will be highlighted in a range of variable bitrates to maximize the viewer's experience.
"The Festival de Cannes is a global event of great interest across the film industry," said Troy Snyder, Executive Producer, Digital Media, Akamai. "The Internet is a perfect medium to enable a worldwide audience to get a closer look at the films being screened at this year's event, as well as enable them to get a first look at expanded coverage direct from the festival at this exciting international entertainment event."
The Cannes Film Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world and should receive considerable media coverage. Due to the global interest of the event, Akamai is working with Cannes Film Festival organizers to deliver a smoother video viewing experience that is reflective of the high-artistic standards the festival has come to represent.
Akamai combines proprietary streaming technology with the reach and capacity of the Akamai platform - the world's largest fault-tolerant network including 48,000 servers in 70 countries - | 467 |
See the beauty and grandeur of both Palo Duro Canyon and Tule Canyon by driving north from Texas 86 on to Texas <|fim_middle|>Famed cattleman, Charles Goodnight, purchased 140,000 acres around Quitaque in 1882 and named it the "Quitaque Ranch". The headquarters for this ranch was built on the upper reaches of Quitaque Creek, south of the current town site. "Colonel" Goodnight, as he was called, fenced the ranch for his 2,000 head of "Lazy F" cattle in 1883.
In 1927, Quitaque went from being a stage-stop to a rail stop along the railroad spur from the main Fort Worth to Denver rail line. In 1989, the railroad spur was abandoned and 64 miles of it were turned into a trail for hiking, biking, and horseback riding.
The community has been and still is primarily a ranching and farming community. However, with Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway nearby and abundant wildlife habitat all around, Quitaque is becoming a well-known location for outdoor enthusiasts. There are many opportunities for hunting, wildlife watching and photography, biking, camping, and just relaxing in Quitaque. Folks in town are friendly and you will find a welcome smile everywhere you go.
You can find just about everything you need in Quitaque. It has a bank with ATM, restaurants, guest houses, grocery store, hardware store, convenience store, weekly newspaper, library with internet access, thrift shop, post office, farm supply store, beauty salons, automotive repair shops, community center (large group meeting facility), and gift shops. Visit www.quitaque.org for more details. | 207 from Silverton to Claude on one of the premier scenic drives in Texas.
See the edge of the High Plains along the Caprock as it joins the Rolling Plains on Texas 256 traveling east from Silverton along the northern boundary of Caprock Canyons State Park down historic Schotts Cap road.
Texas 86 from Silverton to Quitaque provides another scenic route down the edge of the Caprock with wonderful views.
Travel south out of Quitaque on FM 1065 for four miles, then take FM 689 to cross Caprock Canyons State Park Trailway at Monk's Crossing and ascend the Caprock for a spectacular view.
"Quitaque" (pronounced "Kitty-kway) was at one time used to refer to the region just beneath the Caprock escarpment, north of the Quitaque peaks and south of the Little Red River. Now, Quitaque is the name of a small town that is steeped in western heritage and breathtaking scenery.
Quitaque has a long history of occupation by people from many cultures, beginning 10,000 years ago. North of town, on the shores of Lake Theo, archeologists unearthed evidence of the Folsom culture at a bison kill site that is now marked by a Texas Historical Marker. More recent evidence of occupation by the Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches abound throughout the Quitaque Valley. When Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado traveled through this area in the 1500's, the people he encountered were the Apaches. However, not long after Coronado's expedition, the Apaches were forced out of the area by the Comanches.
The Quitaque Valley was a stronghold of the Comanches during the 1700s and 1800s. They traded livestock and slaves for weapons and goods with Comancheros from New Mexico. One of the first known settlers to this area was a Comanchero named Jose Tafoya who had a dugout on the Quitaque Creek.
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Miller<|fim_middle|> allows for more arc-on time to increase productivity. | Electric will showcase its latest welding and safety equipment, including new power sources and welding-automation solutions. It also will host live welding demonstrations, providing visitors with hand-on experience with the equipment. These demonstrations will be paired with solutions from Miller-recommended partners—Hobart filler metals, Bernard semi-automatic welding guns and Tregaskiss robotic guns.
Among the many new-product innovations on display will be the ArcReach Stick/TIG Remote (shown), designed for use with Miller's compatible XMT 350 CC/CV, XMT 450 CC/CV and Dimension 650. The remote allows welding operators to change weld settings at the weld joint, which reduces downtime and improves safety—no more unnecessary trips to the power source. The remote also eliminates the need to settle for less-than-optimal welding parameters to improve weld quality, and it | 175 |
Belgium: Extraordinary works of Renaissance artist Breugel the Elder feature on latest Europa Star coins
August 28, 2019 By Michael Alexander Leave a Comment
The National Bank of Belgium has issued new silver Proof collector coins which are part of the Europa Star programme, a unique numismatic project that was first launched in 2004, bringing various European monetary institutions together around a common annual theme<|fim_middle|> the 9th September 1569 and was buried in Brussels. Today it is known that about 40 generally accepted surviving paintings, 12 of which are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, survived after his death, though a number of others are known to have been lost.
The Royal Dutch Mint produces the coins under licensing of the Royal Belgian Mint on behalf of the National Bank of Belgium. The design is the work of well-known artist Luc Luycx, which depicts a particular detail from Bruegel's work entitled The Battle of the Moneybags and the Strongboxes (1563).
A special technical etching application (MPI technique) is also used in the coin's production to highlight the background imagery of this particular print.
The motif on the reverse side includes a common design which is included on all the countries' coins taking part in the Europa Star programme. The design features, as its primary focus, a star that inspired from the logo. In the centre is the common national standard design denoting Belgium and is designed by Luc Luycx. It includes an EU map partially encircled with the words BELGIE BELGIQUE BELGIEN, representing the three official languages of Belgium. The denomination of 10 EURO and the year of issue, 2019, are placed to the right of the map.
Weight Diameter Quality
Maximum Mintage
18.7 g 33 mm Proof
The Proof-quality silver coins are individually encapsulated and presented in a custom-branded Royal Belgian Mint case decorated with the 12 stars representing the European Union and are accompanied by a serially numbered certificate of authenticity. For additional information about this coin and others issued by the National Bank of Belgium, please visit the website of the Royal Mint of Belgium.
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Filed Under: 2019, Coin Articles, Columns, Royal Belgian Mint, Royal Dutch Mint, Technology, Technology and Numismatics, World Coins | . Each of the coins in this series has the unique characteristic of being marked with a stylised "E" logo which resembles the euro insignia, along with a star. The programme was relaunched in 2016, highlighting the Ages of Europe. This year's theme focuses on the Renaissance era, defined as a period in European history between the 14th and 17th centuries that led to the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.
Belgium's contribution features the life and artworks of Pieter Breugel the Elder (c.1525-30–1569) on the 450th anniversary of his death. He has been described as one of the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. A painter and printmaker from Brabant, he was best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes, pioneering the practice of fusing these two particular subjects as the focus in large paintings. Not much is known about the early life of Breugel. It is believed that he was born between the years 1525 to 1530 and possibly in the town of Breda, located in the province of North Brabant, in the present-day Netherlands. The time of his birth was deduced from the fact that Bruegel entered the Antwerp Painters' Guild in 1551. Even less is known about Bruegel's family, but it has been hypothesised that he may have come from a predominantly peasant background, which may have accounted for the many depictions of a peasant-theme or way of life in much of his work. He studied under the Antwerp master painter Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550), whose daughter, Mayken Coecke Bruegel, he would marry in 1563. The couple lived in Brussels, and together they would have three children: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (c. 1564/65-1638), who would become a renowned painter in his own right; Maria (born 1566), and Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), also a renowned painter during his lifetime.
Bruegel became a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting, cultivating a reputation for his innovative choices of subject matter and stark imagery. Curiously, Bruegel painted no formal or traditional portraits, which, in this era, was considered a mainstay of Flemish art. After his training in Italy, he returned in 1555 to Belgium and settled in the city of Antwerp, working mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publishers of the day. It was at the end of that decade that he switched to painting as his main medium. It was at this time where much of his most famous works of art would emerge, during little more than a decade before his early death. While at the height of his notoriety, Bruegel died in his early 40s on | 641 |
Ditch dry chicken. From the stove to the oven, learn how Gordon creates a simple, yet delicious entrée using this humble protein. You won't want to miss the way Chef Ramsay roasts his root vegetables before plating this dish.
I started learning again now it is make me more curious again... And also motivating .
Found it very interesting and can't wait to get started. So let's go!
Amazing class! Best class yet that I've taken so far.. Bravo, Chef!
I've learned so much about cooking and feel inspired to make amazing dishes for my family.
Love the way to cut those vegetables! I am so bad with plating this totally gonna help! This series makes cooking so much fun and honestly I learned so many tips like how to deal with the garlic! Really inspired and happy, I know I am going to improve my cooking so much from these classes, thank you Gordon Ramsey!!
Has anyone that tried this done it in an electric oven? Does it make a difference?
I don't know why but unfortunately I'm<|fim_middle|> in leu of the veal stuff he uses. Tips for others: Buy the smallest chicken you can. I had a 6lb chicken, and the breasts were huuuuge. Don't use as much butter as the pdf says to. Watch Gordon and guess how much he uses.
Finally got around to making this today! Absolutely incredible! My young kids weren't crazy about the beets and turnips, will likely use different veggies next time more suitable for them. However, I will forever make chicken this way. Delicious!
The way he works with the vegetables and chicken is a home run. I can see myself adapting this whole process to different vegetables and doing the chicken with different herbs. Just love him!
The chicken was so moist and tender that I could hardly believe! The root vegetables were also fagrent and sweet that I couldn't believe how yummy it was. (And I normally avoid vegetables) I have to admit that I fucked up the sauce, but the vegetables were so amazing that it balanced the taste out nicely. I'll definitely give it another go. Thanks, Gordon! You are the best cooking teacher I've ever had! | not able to watch the videos with my 3g, anyone knows why?
Update, and I'm so satisfied. I didn't have any baby turnips or beet roots so I used fingerling potatoes. Still, the flavor is off the charts! I used chicken stock which I reduced | 58 |
Captain Jacques Rudolph and head coach Toby Radford say the small size of Glamorgan's squad is responsible for their Championship struggles in recent months.
Glamorgan ended fourth in Division Two<|fim_middle|> third for a long time and it's only in the last two or three games we've dropped off," said South African Rudolph.
"But we have a very small squad and I think it's still a terrific effort."
Glamorgan re-took fourth position from Northants on the last evening of the campaign, after picking up 12 points against Gloucestershire.
"I think we've laid some good foundations," added Rudolph.
"Hopefully we can have a few additions next year but if not, we have to stay mentally strong and try to play the way we have done this year."
Chief executive Hugh Morris has spoken of the aim to sign seam bowlers and an additional batsman if the price is right.
But the county may see Craig Meschede return to Somerset if they cannot agree an extension of his loan deal.
Glamorgan won four and drew four in the first half of their four-day campaign, but lost four and drew four in the second half.
The team had won three and lost six in each of the three previous seasons.
Head coach Toby Radford summed up: "To use footballing parlance, it was a season of two halves.
"Up till 12 July we were unbeaten and won four in a row to equal the record.
"In the second half of the season we had a couple of losses and had to fight lots of rearguard actions as we started to get mentally and physically fatigued.
"Overall, the top four was the target we set and we see that as a major improvement in Championship cricket.
"I hope we can find one or two extra players, I'll be knocking on the door above me in the club to say that if we really want to push for it [promotion] we need a couple of extras."
Meanwhile Rudolph is hoping for more home advantage in limited-overs cricket next season, after Glamorgan lost five out of seven T20 home games and saw their One-Day Cup campaign wrecked by a second points deduction, this time for a dangerous pitch.
"Generally you would think that with home advantage and good pitches you should be able to do that [win more games] which we haven't really had.
"Away from home we've played incredibly well [in T20].
"It will be interesting to see what Robin [acting head groundsman [Robin Saxton] and his team will come up with, hopefully we can see an improvement."
The club will announce its annual awards in conjunction with the St Helen's Balconiers supporters group on Monday, 28 September. | after a draw against Gloucestershire.
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Soaring economic inequality has led economists and executives to reconsider capitalism in its current form. Rajiv Joshi, managing director of the B Team, a nonprofit group of business and government leaders, says his organization envisions a future in which companies do more than respect human rights and follow environmentally sustainable practices. They become agents of change.
Can capitalism today advance rights and social justice?
He talked about compassion, connectedness and caring as the basis of human interaction, and yet the system that evolved subsequently bore very little resemblance to the idea that we are all responsible for the well-being of others, and if our system is not designed in the right way, if it diminishes the well-being of some, that is a cost that we all have to pay.
For low-income consumers with no credit history, getting a loan can be difficult. With support from the Ford Foundation, companies like Core Innovation Capital and Progreso Financiero are changing how the system works.
If you look at the model of capitalism we have today and you look forward, we face a world in which food prices are likely to rise up to 40 percent between now and 2020. The world's population is set to reach about 9.5 billion by 2050. We're set for an increase of not just 2 degrees in temperatures but, by some estimates, a rise in mean global temperatures of 4 to 6 degrees and beyond. Extremes in some countries will be so catastrophic that whole ecosystems won't exist beyond the midway point of the century.
At the same time, inequality has reached frightening levels, where the top 300 people have more wealth than the bottom 3 billion people, and climate change has the potential to wipe away any gains that we have made over the whole of the past half century. If capitalism is to truly advance human well-being, we need to fundamentally transform the role business plays in society. Especially when the top 3,000 companies are responsible for 30 percent of the environmental impact, and inequality is based, in part, on an unfair distribution of benefits in business.
How did corporations reshape Smith's original idea?
When you look at corporations at the very beginning of the 19th century, they were formed as vehicles to address challenges that communities faced, whether they were coordination challenges of trying to build railroads across vast distances to transport goods and services to people who needed them most or whether they were designed to help provide essential services to people at scale.
But somewhere along the line, corporations became predominantly focused on maximizing shareholder benefit and financial returns—often at the cost of any other forms of benefit and often without paying the true cost of their activities. Investors, with a desire for short-term financial gains, became the principal influence on corporate behavior.
Where should business go from here?
We believe there is a bright future for business—an inclusive model of capitalism that could really drive sustainable prosperity. It looks like a world in which business has the right aspirations, where we're celebrating the right kind of leadership and where there's true accounting—a world where companies don't just look at the financial bottom line but actually look at the true impacts of their production in terms of the resources they're using from nature and the impacts they're having on society.
"We believe there is a bright future for business—an inclusive model of capitalism that could really drive sustainable prosperity."
It looks like a world where business models not only do zero harm to the planet but also provide a net positive contribution—restoring ecosystems and sustaining nature. A world in which the structures of business have changed, and the corporation exists with the obligation to drive not just shareholder value but meaningful value for all stakeholders. Where capital has true returns and starts flowing disproportionately into companies that actually generate long-term value for people and the planet.
The future of capitalism needs to be about ensuring that there's full transparency and that businesses are free from corruption, that businesses are held accountable for the kinds of goods and services that they produce and how they produce them, where people and the planet are represented at the highest levels within companies and throughout their supply chains wherever decisions<|fim_middle|> isn't actually destroying our ecosystems, our livelihoods or our social fabric.
However, some of the biggest changes needed are clearly in transforming current business practices. We can't address climate change or tackle inequality without rewiring the primary engine of economic activity. But to do this, we also need to redefine our overall measures of success, from GDP to quarterly earnings to the brands we celebrate—everyone needs to act together if we are to bring about the change we urgently need for a planet in peril.
Rajiv Joshi is the managing director of the B Team, a not-for-profit organization co-founded by Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, and Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of Puma, a German sporting goods firm. He also serves as a trustee of Oxfam, advising the organization on policy, campaigns and global programs. Joshi is an elected board member and corporate secretary of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, a network of civil society organizations based in Johannesburg. He previously served as acting executive director and head of programs for the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a civil society organization working to end poverty and inequality. | are made that affect them.
It looks like ensuring that businesses are working toward the long run and that the metrics that we have today are redefined so that success is not just about the dollar figures that companies create in terms of our current indices of success, but where we celebrate companies that can demonstrate benefits to people and the planet.
And just like the days of the Industrial Revolution in developed countries, where pioneers like Robert Owen decided to build factories on higher principles than the commercial behaviors of the time, working with trade unions to ensure that workers could collectively bargain for improvements in their pay and conditions, and providing free education and health care for employees, we need to see a revolution in the way business is conducted in some of the world's poorest places, to ensure all workers are treated with dignity—in environments that enable them to thrive.
How do you begin to change the course of capitalism?
Redefining capitalism isn't just about redefining business. It is also about redefining the roles that governments play, the roles that civil societies play and other pieces of the puzzle, from regulations to social norms and the transforming of consumer practices. But if we were truly redefining a model of capitalism that was working in the interest of people and the planet, it would mean that civil society was empowered and strengthened to hold businesses and governments accountable—citizen action can be the detergent that helps wash away corruption. However, in many parts of the world, the space for civil society to engage is shrinking rapidly, threatening good governance and democracy. Changing capitalism would also mean that civil society organizations, businesses and governments would actually increasingly see their role as working together to kind of steer the world in the right direction and solve problems and not to see problem solving and challenges that we face collectively as being in the domain of only one of the sectors but as actually the responsibility that falls on all of us.
Collaboration is no longer just a luxury; it's a necessity. And we can't wait until the seas have gone black and the forests have burned before we start working together across these sectors.
What about the demand side—what's the role of citizens in that collaboration?
Consumers would mobilize behind brands and choose products and services that actually are good for the planet and would shift incentive structures—so that what we produce in the first place | 467 |
Occupational injuries, fatal and non-fatal, are serious public health concerns which are largely preventable through efforts such as occupational health surveillance, enforcement, outreach, compliance assistance, training, and education.
In New Jersey, there have been more than 1,000 fatal work-related injuries since <|fim_middle|> fatalities were a result of transportation incidents and falls, slips, and trips.
Successful approaches to making New Jersey workplaces healthier and safer begin by collecting the information necessary to understand the problem. Using multiple data sources to track workplace injury and illness, the NJDOH Occupational Health Surveillance Unit develops intervention strategies and practical solutions to reduce hazards in New Jersey workplaces. For example, Occupational Health Indicators provide a snapshot of the health of New Jersey workers and can be used by public health officials to track work-related adverse health effects and their causes.
In New Jersey, there are nearly 3,000 work-related hospitalizations per year. | 2000. The largest proportion of workplace | 10 |
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It is common to find organizations recruiting individuals for testing that do not have a formal background or prior experience in this field. The principle that drives such organizations is that 'anyone can be put to testing'. Often, such task is delegated to developers on the bench. However, testing is a specialized process and may not be efficiently performed by unskilled people, not wary of the different methodologies used in software testing.
Testing a system completely is not possible because there are too many combinations of data and user input<|fim_middle|> because it brings in booked revenue. Likewise, software development is a creative activity which results in the generation of an eventual product, which in turn will generate revenue. It is directly constructive. Testing, however, is a destructive activity in which problems in the product under development are brought to light. Testing costs money, yet the results can lead to delays in the product release and eventual revenue.
Connect with KiwiQA to leverage focused capability for Software Testing services. | and program paths, as well as hardware or software platforms on which the tested product runs, to allow complete testing in a reasonable period of time. Even if testing a system entirely could take place, it would be extremely expensive for the efforts to be equivalent to costs involved.
A general rule in testing is that there is simply not enough time and money to test everything. The goal is to test well-enough to deliver 'good enough' software quality. Thus, priority or importance of the tests plays a very important role in determining which tests should be preferred over the others.
In addition, no matter how good your software may be, it runs on an operating system with bugs, with device drivers that have bugs, on computer hardware that has bugs, and so on. The bugs in the environment on which your software runs can also cause problems in your software. Further, since there exist a virtually infinite variety of computer hardware and operating systems (and their associated bugs) on which your software may be run by your customers, there is no way to test them all.
A zero-defect software is, therefore, a myth. If your software could deliver a reliable performance without serious bugs affecting its usability, the objective of software testing is complete.
Actually, software testing is partly a combination of both quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) activity. Quality control refers to measurement or inspection activities that are intended to compare the actual results with the expected results of a project. This is only a subset of software testing, as QC rarely takes the customer's needs as a priority. Possible examples of QC-related testing include regression testing. In actuality, software testing is a process of exploration in which there is an iterative evolving process of test design, execution, and problem identification.
Product release schedules have been driven very hard by forces such as the need to be first to market, thereby putting extreme pressure on the speed of development. When project schedules slip, testing gets squeezed the most. There have been great advances in software development platforms and tools, both proprietary and available as shareware, open source or freeware, that significantly accelerate the development process. In addition, software development methodologies such as Agile and Extreme Programming speed up software development. However, traditional testing has not kept pace with these advances and has not experienced a corresponding increase in speed. This leads to the perception that testing slows us down, as it hasn't sped up as the development process has over the course of time.
While software testing is a part of the overall software development process, it is actually a very separate function. It is common to use software development, software design and programming interchangeably. It is not, however, common to say 'software development' when you mean 'software testing'.
Consider this illustration- Often, people think of sales and marketing together. The two words are often spoken together as if to describe a single function: the generation of revenue. However, these are two very different activities. Marketing spends money, which could be viewed as an indirect sales activity because it ultimately generates leads and opportunities that turn into revenue. Sales, however, makes money | 624 |
This work presents two new methods for the prevention<|fim_middle|> and its implementation. | and identification of failures caused by short-circuit between rails or breakage of them in Railway Track Circuits (in portuguese is Circuito de Via - CDV). One of the methods (Railway Track Circuit Fault Locator, LFCDV - in portuguese is Localizador de Falhas em Circuito de Via) aims to identify and locate faults in track circuits caused by low impedance points between rails, or broken rails, and is based on the frequency domain reflectometry technique. The second method (Preventive Measurement in Railway Track Circuit, MPCDV - in portuguese is Medição Preventiva em Circuito de Via) was developed to measure the impedance between rails along a rail network in order to identify low impedance points preventively. Two instrumentation systems were developed specifically to validate the proposed methods through field tests in the MRS logistics network. The tests showed that the LFCDV method is able to identify problems in the CDV and to locate them with good accuracy. Regarding the MPCDV method, the tests showed its ability to identify low impedance points for values up to 9.3 , that is, a value much higher than the 0.1 used as an upper limit to detect when a railway section is not available for traffic, demonstrating the validity of the proposed method | 261 |
Stories from Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Fourth graders enjoy field trip all about agriculture (Local News ~ 10/02/13)
By Jessica Moore Staff Writer Fourth graders from schools all over the county arrived at the Dairy Research and Education Center on New Lake Road<|fim_middle|> the injury bug the past three weeks and that has given several players the opportunity to step up and play and they've done just that."
Samuels runs wild over Tigers (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
Winchester was Friday night's destination for the Marshall County Tigers, who took on non-region foe Franklin County (2-3, 1-1) with the Rebels getting the last yell, beating the Lewisburg squad 47-34. Rebel tailback D.J. Samuels had a career night, rushing for 357 yards and scoring five touchdowns as Franklin County jumped out to an early 28-7 first quarter lead.
No-quit Rockets fall late to Pats (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
Forrest boarded the yellow bus for a short ride to Page Friday night for a Homecoming match-up and spotted the Pats 10 points before storming back to take a fourth quarter lead, only to see a late TD pass by Patriot standout quarterback Zak Mizell spoil the upset bid in a 27-24 loss. "That was a battle and I am very proud of the guys," said Forrest head coach Brian Coleman. "That was probably one of the worst first quarters of football we have played, but the guys didn't give up and fought really hard to get back in the game with an opportunity to win at the end."
Tigerettes knock out E. Hickman (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
The Marshall County Tigerettes (7-6-1) snapped their three-game losing streak on Monday night when they went on the road and whipped the East Hickman Lady Eagles 5-0. Marshall County controlled the contest from start to finish and built a 3-0 lead in the first half before tacking on two more goals in the second stanza en route to recording their fifth shutout of the year. "We're trying to get prepared for our game against Lincoln County tomorrow and for our first round District tournament game against Spring Hill. I feel better about our chances tomorrow and about our chances against Spring Hill," said MCHS coach Mark Redferrin.
Bulldogs shut down Zion (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
The Cornersville Bulldogs (3-3) picked up a much needed win on Friday night when they traveled to Columbia and defeated the Zion Christian Academy Eagles 19-6 to snap a two-game losing streak. Cornersville got off to a promising start and grabbed a 6-0 lead early in the first quarter when quarterback Stone Riner hit wide out Tyler Lowery for a 30-yard touchdown strike on CHS' opening drive. The Bulldogs failed on the extra point attempt to keep the margin at six. | Friday for a morning full of fun and learning. The purpose of the field trip was to teach the children about farming, farm life, and where their food comes from. ...
Huge crowd applauds Charlie Daniels (Local News ~ 10/02/13)
By Jessica Moore Staff Writer The Goats, Music, and More Festival this year was a major success. "How proud Lewisburg ought to be for this year's success of Goats, Music and More," exclaimed Mayor Jim Bingham Monday evening. "We can hold our head high for what happened this weekend."...
Whitehead suggests compromise on water rate increase (Local News ~ 10/02/13)
By Karen Hall Editor Cutting the proposed increase in water and sewer rates in half was suggested by Councilman Odie Whitehead Jr. at a City Council work session Monday. "It would be a good gesture," Whitehead said. "We could reach a happy medium." Then, he said, after six months at the new rate, the water board could look again at consumption and see if water usage had gone up...
Arrested on a warrant for extortion Eric Beall, 44, Todd Avenue. Bond; $6,000; court date: Nov. 12. Thefts and vandalism reported An elderly Lewisburg man reported to Marshall County Sheriff's Department a person claiming to be his grandson phoned and said he was in jail in Mexico, and needed money for legal fees and bond. In the course of a week, the victim sent 10 Moneygrams, for a total of $18,382.50 including fees, to people in Texas...
James Calvin Smith (Obituary ~ 10/02/13)
James Calvin Smith, 50, of Belfast, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at his residence. A native of Athens, Ala., Mr. Smith was the son of the late Mearl Wayne Smith, who was from Alabama, and Elbalene Burgett Thompson of Belfast. Along with his mother, he is also survived by two brothers, Paul Smith and David Smith of the Caney Springs Community, and two sisters, Jeannie (Jeff) Reese and Jamie (William) McDaniel, both of Lewisburg. ...
Karen Cranfield Morrow (Obituary ~ 10/02/13)
Karen Cranfield Morrow, 70, of Franklin, died Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Mrs. Morrow was retired from the State Comptrollers Office, and was a member of Willow Springs Garden Club and of Brentwood United Methodist Church. She was an avid member of Brentwood Concord YMCA...
Yvette Marie Gallagher (Obituary ~ 10/02/13)
Yvette Marie Gallagher, 91, of Lewisburg, passed away at her home on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Yvette was born a Canadian in 1921 to her late parents, Henry and Fabiolla Meriea. In her younger years, she loved to square dance. Traveling was also another love for Yvette...
CA blasts Lady Bulldogs (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
After defeating East Hickman (6-0) and Culleoka (3-1) the previous week, the Cornersville Lady Bulldogs had their modest two-game winning streak snapped on Thursday afternoon when they were thumped 9-1 by a strong Columbia Academy squad, which claimed the top seed in the southern division of the District 11-A standings. Having lost to CA 10-2 in their previous encounter on Sept. 16, the Lady Bulldogs (5-4-1, 4-3-1 District) put up a fight at the start of the game and trailed only 1-0 late in the first half.
FMS ends 4-game skid, halts Raiders (High School Sports ~ 10/02/13)
The FMS Rockets were on hard times, losing four straight ballgames before a huge 46-12 win at Moore County Thursday night snapped the skid. "It did feel great to get back on the right track going into our last game versus county rival Cornersville," said FMS head coach Bart Joyce. "We have been hit with | 921 |
Solana Beach denies appeal in ongoing development dispute
By Claire Harlin
A local couple's plan to tear down an 800-square-foot<|fim_middle|> 7,700-square-foot home and not change any dirt or change any grading or anything," Roberts said. | single family home and build a 7,700-square-foot duplex was stopped in its tracks on July 11, when the Solana Beach City Council unanimously affirmed that the applicants need a development review permit (DRP).
The hearing, which resulted in a nearly two-hour deliberation among residents and the council, was called to discuss the applicants' appeal of the city's determination that the project was incomplete. The property, located on a 10,000-square-foot lot on North Rios Avenue, is owned by John and Kristin Murk.
The Murks' original application for a structural development permit was submitted in 2010, and in 2011 the city added provisions to an ordinance that would require the Murks to have a DRP as well. The applicants contend that only requirements existing in 2010 apply, and their project was stymied by the city. They also said they were subject to a rigorous review and were treated differently than other applicants.
City Councilman Mike Nichols said that claim could not be further from the truth, and he takes offense by it.
"We have so much stuff to do, and to think up an ordinance to stop a specific project, that's just absurd," he said.
Councilman Dave Roberts pointed out that the city even hired a third party engineer to review the case.
"We have to have fiscal discipline here, and if we did that on every case our city would be broke," Roberts said. "It is our responsibility to follow the rules that are in place, not only for the Murks but for everyone in this community."
Much of the deliberation involves a discrepancy in proposed grading figures. The applicants proposed there would be no-to-little grading, which was inconsistent with property evaluations that determined the sloped land would require more grading than proposed in order to keep water from running into the neighbors' properties.
"You can't tear down an 800-square-foot house on a 10,000-square-foot lot and build a | 415 |
W<|fim_middle|>: www.wdtinc.com. | DT Inks Deal with TornadosVideo.Net
by admin, on Feb 13, 2009 1:24:49 PM
Norman, OK, February 13, 2009--TornadoVideos.net, the premiere source of professional extreme weather photography and news for production companies, media, and weather enthusiasts, and Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT), the world's leading weather services company, are joining forces to market tornado and other extreme weather event videos to broadcasters and video production companies, worldwide.
TornadoVideos.net (TVN) deploys a close network of storm observers who drive to severe storms, hurricanes, winter or ice storms, and other visually intense weather conditions to document breaking news and live weather events on video. TVN has gained national media attention by virtue of its just-in-time and live high quality video, and the regular series of interviews it conducts after capturing severe weather event video footage. TVN has also gained notoriety due to their involvement with The Discovery Channel's series Storm Chasers.
"WDT's extensive relationships with nationwide broadcasters are a perfect fit for our extreme weather content," said Reed Timmer, Founder and Storm Chaser, TVN. "TVN members will now have a powerful distribution channel through which they can distribute their storm chase footage, as well as other live or breaking news material. WDT is simply the best in the weather business, and this is a really great combination of content and distribution," said Reed.
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About TornadosVideos.net TornadoVideos.net provides breaking news video, stock footage, and phone and television interviews to media networks worldwide. When natural disasters strike, TVN stormchasers are guaranteed to be at ground zero documenting all aspects of the storm. The tornado, hurricane, hail, and blizzard footage shot by the daring TVN stormchasers is unsurpassed in terms of intensity, quality, and drama. TVN has provided such services to the following news networks over the last several years: CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, Good Morning America, the BBC, The Weather Channel, and Univision. Interested media outlets can contact Reed Timmer via cell phone at 405-761-2807 or email atreed@tornadovideos.net.
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09/29/2012 11:37 EDT | Updated 11/29/2012 05:12 EST
Tsunami of Industrial Development Threatens B.C.'s Sacred Headwaters
This is not a story of Tibet or the Amazon. It is a story of my own backyard, a land known to the Tahltan people and all the First Nations of British Columbia as the Sacred Headwaters. Through time, isolation has been the area's saving grace;<|fim_middle|> tear into the headwater valley itself, on a massive scale, with open pit anthracite coal operations that would level entire mountains.
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For more than a decade the Tahltan clans, Wolf and Crow, have actively opposed these assaults on their land, rivers and lakes. Men, women and children, old and young, even elders in wheelchairs have stood in rain and snow, blockading the only road access to the interior. For them the Sacred Headwaters is home, their kitchen and sanctuary, the burial grounds of their ancestors and the nursery of generations as yet unborn.
With the support of every municipality downstream, of every locally elected politician in every party, the Tahltan to date have blunted these efforts to violate their homeland. But now everything hangs in the balance. The fate of the country will be decided in the coming year.
Just before my old friend Alex died at 96, he gave me a gift, a tool carved by his grandfather from caribou bone in 1910, when Alex was a boy. It was a specialized tool, used by a trapper to skin out the eyelids of wolves. It was only after Alex passed away that I realized that the eyelids in question were my own and that Alex, having done so much to allow me to see, was in his own way saying goodbye.
Now surely he is calling out for all of us to open our eyes to what is happening in the north. The Tahltan have called for the creation of a Tribal Heritage Reserve that will protect the Sacred Headwaters, and in doing so create the greatest protected area in British Columbia, a vast and pristine wilderness that will reach all the way to the protected areas of Alaska.
The voices of all people deserve to be heard. Surely no amount of methane gas, coal, copper or gold can compensate for the sacrifice of a place that can be the Sacred Headwaters for all citizens of the world.
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Wade Davis Author, Anthropologist
This is not a story of Tibet or the Amazon, of life on the Arctic ice or in the searing sands of the Sahara. It is a story of my own backyard, a land known to the Tahltan people and all the First Nations of British Columbia as the Sacred Headwaters, the birthplace of the three great free flowing salmon rivers of home, the Stikine, Skeena and Nass.
It is a high broad valley, nestled among mountains that score every horizon. In a long day, perhaps two, you can follow the tracks of grizzly and wolf, caribou and moose, and drink from the very sources of the rivers that cradled the great civilization of the Pacific Northwest.
When in 1879 John Muir experienced but the lower third of the Stikine he called it a Yosemite a hundred miles long, and he later named his beloved dog after this river of his enchantment. The Grand Canyon of the Stikine, Canada's greatest canyon, often described as the K2 of whitewater challenges, was not successfully run by kayak until 1985; since then fewer than 50 men and women, all world-class athletes, have made it through. No raft has ever done so.
In the lower 48 the farthest you can get away from a maintained road is 20 miles (32 km); in this northwest quadrant of British Columbia, an area the size of Oregon, there is one road, a narrow ribbon of tarmac heading north to the Yukon along the flank of the Coast Mountains.
I followed this road north in the 1970s, soon after it was built, to take a job as the first park ranger in the Spatsizi, the Serengeti of Canada. The job description was deliciously vague, wilderness assessment and public relations. In two four-month seasons I encountered but a dozen people.
In the course of my wanderings I came upon a shaman's grave, which led to an encounter with remarkable man, a Gitxsan elder who had lived all his life in the bush as a hunter and trapper. For more than 30 years I recorded stories from Alex, the myths of Wy-ghet, the trickster transformer of Gitxsan lore, who in his folly taught the people the proper way to live on the land. These were all whimsical tales of moral gratitude played out against and within the backdrop of nature.
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B.C.'s Sacred Headwaters
Through time, isolation has been the country's saving grace; now this very isolation could be its doom. The tar sands, Enbridge and Keystone pipelines -- these are just elements of a tsunami of industrial development sweeping over the Canadian north. In Tahltan territory alone there are 41 major projects, some with considerable promise, some of great concern.
On Todagin Mountain, a wildlife sanctuary in the sky, revered by the Tahltan as the home of the largest population of Stone sheep in the world, Imperial Metals intends to build a massive open pit copper and gold mine processing 30,000 tons of rock a day for 30 years. The project design calls for hundreds of millions of tons of toxic tailings to be dumped into the lakes of the headwaters, poisoning the source of the Iskut, the main tributary of the Stikine.
In the very meadows of the Sacred Headwaters, Shell seeks to extract methane gas by fracking coal seams that underlie a million acre tenure, drilling as many as 6,000 wells and injecting into the ground millions of gallons of toxic chemicals. The result would be a network of roads, pipelines, and flaring wellheads all producing gas to be shipped east to fuel the expansion of the tar sands.
Fortune Minerals would | 815 |
AeroSafety World July–August 2017
Two Years On
Editorial Page
by Frank Jackman | Editor-in-Chief | August 24, 2017
In the two years since the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented its new "compliance philosophy," the number of enforcement actions taken by the agency has declined 70 percent,<|fim_middle|> is essential to continuing to improve the industry's safety performance.
Also essential to the industry's future will be the evolution of regulatory oversight around the world to include more of a focus on identify and mitigating safety issues as quickly as possible and less emphasis on meting out punishments for honest mistakes. | according to a recent speech by Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety Ali Bahrami. In the same time frame, FAA has corrected more than 8,000 safety issues through nonenforcement "compliance actions."
FAA describes a compliance action as "an open and transparent safety information exchange" between FAA and the certificate holder. "Its only purpose is to restore compliance and to identify and correct the underlying causes that led to the deviation," FAA says.
While it's hard to assess such a sweeping effort's overall success after just two years, the early results are encouraging. FAA has been clear that enforcement action is still an option for stakeholders who will not or cannot comply, yet it still has been able to address thousands of safety issues through non-punitive compliance actions.
The goal of the compliance philosophy is to foster an open, problem-solving approach to allow safety problems to be understood through proactive exchange of information and effective compliance, according to FAA, which also says it "recognizes that in many situations, enforcement can inhibit the open exchange of information with industry. However, through increased sharing of safety data among FAA organizations, industry and international peers, we can better identify emerging hazards and predict associated aviation safety risks."
The increased sharing of safety data among all aviation stakeholders is one of the goals of the Foundation's Global Safety Information Project. We strongly believe that effective collection and analysis of safety data, and the sharing of safety information among departments within an organization and among stakeholders across the spectrum of aviation sectors, | 301 |
It's been awhile since I wrote anything, and there are many things I'd love to write more about. Sadly, time is a limited resource and I've been managing to keep quite busy. For now, I'll stick to an update about a wave of change in my life.
Over the last year and a half I've had the absolutely wonderful pleasure of working with my dear friends at Asquera in beautiful Berlin. It has given me ample opportunity to learn, teach, and get experience with a wide range of topics. I will carry the lessons I learned, and the passions I acquired with me for the rest of my life.
Not only did I have the chance to work with early stage tech startups, non-profits, and multinational companies shipping thousands of physical products daily, I also got to teach at companies I admire and respect, and work in a professional capacity to organize a number of successful conferences. All of it has been made even more enjoyable by the awesome people I got to work with, and the incredible folks they introduced me to.
If you're interested in doing some client work alongside<|fim_middle|> it's a bright one. | incredible, ethical, and competent people, learning German, or wandering Europe, I could only reccomend working with them.
The simple passing of time brought me into a situation where my lease was over, and this meant I needed to move. For those not aware, finding new flats in Berlin is rather difficult, and I wasn't really looking forward to this.
I started looking half-heartedly well over a month ago, but I struggled. It wasn't because I wasn't finding things I was interested in, it was because I simply didn't know what I was looking for. I discovered that both in a flat, and in life, I was in a bit of a passive, limbo state.
I was, in a way, satisfied. An abundance of great friends, frequent new adventures, and the lack of real worry about money meant I had little to complain about.
While in Zürich for RustFest I chatted with one of labs at ETH about a possibile opportunity. It was rather spontaneous and I was rather surprised how seriously I took it all. Since I'm not particularly interested in a PhD right now, nothing came out it it. That interaction brought me to a realization: I no longer had a long term goal.
For most of my time alive I've righted my shoulders towards (sometimes lofty) long term goals, and walked. They are not always goals I reached, or even good goals, but they are goals nonetheless. I learnt not to treat these long term goals as the 'word of god,' but instead as an anchor with which to align my short term goals. The long term goals might evolve, change, or even be usurped entirely by another, but they still served their purpose.
Professionally, I found myself primarily working for clients where I didn't feel ownership over a product. I wanted them to succeed, and I wanted their product to be amazing, but the passion was different. It didn't feel quite as vibrant as the passion you feel towards something that is the direct, long term responsibility of your team.
Academically, I had little need to do research for what I tended to work on for clients, their challenges were rarely particularly scientifically interesting. Still, I found myself toying about with different API designs, reading papers about things like gossip protocols, but I rarely got to apply these ideas.
Neither of these offered me particularly interesting or ambitious goals. Perhaps it was time for a change.
So if I wanted a change, what did I really want? I found myself on an intense soul search, and eventually formulated what I was looking for.
On a professional and academic level it was fairly easy: I wanted to work in distributed systems, databases, and 'DevOps' roles. Furthermore, I'm interested in teaching, writing, giving talks, and offering workshops. There is more to life than your profession.
Finding direction in my personal life was much more elusive. It ultimately came down to lifestyle, I realized I wanted to work remotely, so I could choose my location in the world. This is a big ask for many jobs, and I knew it would seriously limit my choices. Given that I wasn't searching with any urgency, this was not a huge worry.
This lead into the natural question of where would I live?. The truth of the matter is that most places aren't that far anymore. Going from Berlin to Pittsburgh for a two day conference is an entirely reasonable affair.
I'm grateful to have friends in nearly every time zone these days, and I'm always happy to make more. No matter where I choose to live I will be far away from a group of friends, and I do not consider friend groups something that can be measured against one another. Conferences, events, and wanderlust will reconnect us regularly. Instead, I considered the place itself.
In that regard, I've yet to find a place I enjoy more than the Strait of Jaun De Fuca where I grew up. While this area wasn't a firm decision, it was a preference. Places like Iceland or Sweden were also of interest to me. Living in Canada would have the benefit of not needing a visa, and being able to plant some roots, even if I was frequently travelling.
Just a looking for a systems/operations/research focused remote Rust job with lots of teaching. Impossible, right? Well, at least I knew what would make me change.
Recently I've developed more and more of an interest in databases. They occupy such a fundamental position in most of the systems we construct, are such a mystery to some people, and are so often neglected (despite their value and importance.) Seeing the difference between a properly administrated database and one which is just 'used' is incredible, and I realize that even small improvements in the database can yield huge results elsewhere.
A couple weeks ago I connected with Dongxu Haung, a founder of PingCAP, and we had a great chat about distributed database such as TiDB which PingCAP is working on. I originally encountered the company when I was working on Raft-rs in university, they were also working on an implementation (also in Rust) at the same time, and we both learnt from each other.
The discussion evolved and I found myself talking with members of their team (such as Liu) about Rust, error handling strategies, benchmarking, Raft, and many other fascinating topics. I had a chance to dig around their codebase and was pleased with what I saw. Lots to do, but the code shows competence, the reviews show care, and the project seems healthy. This was a codebase I wanted to work in, that I wanted to help maintain.
On shortly after christmas I woke up to find a letter of offer from PingCAP, and I am happy to say that I have accepted this offer, and will be joining them as a Senior Database Engineer starting in April.
I'm looking forward to this new dawn, while looking longingly back at the lovely, wild night of adventure that proceeded it. In the meantime, please feel encouraged to reach out to me if you'd like to learn more about TiDB, TiKV, or the raft crate coming soon.
Together, we build the future, let's make sure | 1,264 |
Cairns<|fim_middle|> automatics are simply the best way to see Cairns. The hardest aspect of these little bikes is pulling over to take photos or go for a swim. | is ideal for scooter riding. Most cities where you can hire scooters you can only run around town and blow the horn. In Cairns you can not only buzz around the city but you can also visit magnificent rainforest locations and beautiful tropical beaches.
The northern beaches provide visitors with sandy beaches with overhanging coconut palms. Swim and sunbake or explore the quaint shops of Palm Cove. Sit in a coffee shop sipping your latte as you gaze out over the South Pacific.
The world heritage rainforests on the doorstep of Cairns offer terrific scooter riding. There is nothing like riding under the canopy of the rainforest with the smells and sounds of the jungle. Visit white water rivers, mountain lakes and crystal clear swimming holes where you have the opportunity to immerse yourself in pure mountain water and have a free massage in the cascades. This is a truly memorable experience.
"No crowds...no queues! Awesome! Best day in Cairns!"
"The greatest day ever! Must do the scooter whoo-hoo! Fun times!"
"Sooo much fun! Really worth it! We'll definately come back for a ride when we're up here again."
"Most fun I've ever had for 70 bucks!"
Our fleet of 4 stroke single seat scooters with proven Honda reliability are easy to ride and very economical to run. A low seat height makes them ideal for lady riders and the strong engine capacity carries the heavier loads with ease. There is good storage space under the seat for the towels and perhaps lunch.
These road legal 50cc Pit Bikes are some of the best fun you will ever have on two wheels.
Stronger and more aggressive these semi | 339 |
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the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from her throne. It had taken disaster to do it, but still.
Julie Anne Long
Between the Devil and Ian Eversea Quotes
Lavender? He went still. Perhaps he had died, and heaven—some might argue that heaven wouldn't have been his destination, but he rather trusted the Creator to sort it all out fairly—smelled of lavender. He hoped not. His idea of heaven smelled of horses and brandy and the sea air exhaling rhythmically over the Sussex Downs and the back of Louisa Porter's neck. He breathed in again, and it was still there: a single note of lavender, soft and faintly astringent amidst all the darker smells, as incongruous as a petal atop charred ruins. And unless a hothouse bouquet had been sent to wherever he was in honor of his arrival… There was a woman in the room with him. Seconds later, like a conjurer concluding a trick, she whipped the sack from his head.
The Perils of Pleasure Quotes
The cheek of the man. She liked cheek. She liked a man who spoke to her as if she was a person, an equal as if she were in on the joke.
Cheek Quotes It Happened One Midnight Quotes
There had been counts in his life before. Counts before dueling pistols were fired. Counts before footraces and horse races. Counts in his head to postpone his release while some beautiful woman lay beneath him.
She didn't want to need anything, particularly something—or someone—she quite simply couldn't have. Too much had been taken from her already, and she'd had enough of accommodating pain, of straightening her spine, of soldiering on
Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he'd drawn them into being.
Love Quotes / Kiss Quotes Lips Quotes What I Did For a Duke Quotes
Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality.
But now he understood why someone would write things like 'she walked in beauty like the night' and so forth. Because poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a time.
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But she bravely kept her eyes open; she was both lost and found in the soft, burning depths of his eyes.
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confidence. He contained worlds.
Like No Other Lover Quotes
she would be incapable of not broaching. It took
What I Did For a Duke Quotes
Does she make you laugh?" He thought about this. "She laughs a good deal when I'm about," he allowed. Did Colin Eversea really want to be laughed at rather than with his entire life? He was the most maddening person she'd ever met, but his humor contained angles; he used it both to deflect and persuade. And if one could see around it, one would see into vulnerability.
Rebecca stared back at him, still dazed. She'd forgotten how to speak; it seemed an unimportant skill, anyhow, when such kisses were to be had, when a whole world could be made from a kiss.
Kiss Quotes The runaway duke Quotes
She slid her arms
It hurt. And just as there seemed to be no end in the kinds of pleasure he could give or to the ways in which she loved him, and because of this, no end to the way he could hurt her, again and again and again.
How the Marquess Was Won Quotes
she wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.
You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.
Should I apologize for my species for trotting out the same compliment again and again? Isn't it better than having none at all?""When you hear the same one again and again, it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that it's the only thing of note about one's person.
Be kind to the spider. It's simply working hard to be itself. And don't tell the maids,
A few deep breaths would take care of that. She studied the horse and took deep breaths.
there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.
He wasn't at all what she expected. No: this wasn't true. He was everything she'd expected from everything she'd read about him—he was irritating, frivolous, arrogant, disconcertingly charming. It was just that she would not have suspected his intelligence had depth, that his wit was in part defense, that his charm was a result of, in part, startlingly acute perception and even…grace.
And home, Elise, is anywhere love is. Any you are my love.
It Started With a Scandal Quotes
But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.
Nonchalance, she could have told Argosy, does not pay.
the brightening he detected in the room around him might just be the whites of dozens of eyes as they widened [upon him]
Murmured to him nonsense, which is the language of love,
He just hadn't expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn't remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.
The Legend of Lyon Redmond Quotes
Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.
Forgiveness Quotes / Comprehension Quotes
Such a fragile way to sustain a whole life: on a web one weaves for oneself.
And for a moment he simply held her and she held onto him.It might have been the most perfect moment of his life so far.
It Happened One Midnight Quotes
He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.
Beauty Quotes / Beautiful Quotes Like No Other Lover Quotes Profile Quotes
He was a relentlessly cheerful presence, talked only of himself but so good-naturedly that she indulged him. He certainly laughed a good deal. Something about his laugh made her feel more alone than if she were standing on a high cliff at the end of the world, shouting her name into the void to hear it echo back at her.
Because he spoke to her the way no one else had ever spoken to her, which meant he saw her in a way no one else saw her.
He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her.He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.
This man offered her forever.And if Prescott had asked a month ago...If he'd asked the day before she'd encountered Jonathan Redmond at midnight outside the Duke of Greyfolk's house...Ah, but she was a different woman now. One kiss had changed that.And a ballroom orgasm.
Colin could not recall a single women ever regarding him with anything so neutral<|fim_middle|> so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one's own prejudices.
Clever Quotes Prejudice Quotes
And in his weariness, only one word came to Jonathan, like a prayer. Tommy, he thought, invoking what was good and real. Tommy. The word for love in his world right now. Tommy. And he supposed the word that occurred to you in your darkest moments...well, that word meant love. That was perhaps how you knew. And perhaps that was the purpose of dark moments.
Lovely as a spring day but not the sort to make one envious, any more than one would envy the sun its ability to shine.
Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple from a tree. | as detachment.It suddenly seemed important to ascertain if she was pretty, in the same way it was necessary to know whether a man was armed.
Colin Quotes
Backward now?' he suggested.'Are you going to call out our lovemaking like a billiards game?
Life is short, Tommy. Short and dangerous. A bit like you.
Only two things kept her from loathing him.The expression on his face when he'd said, "France." And the expression on his face when he'd said, "home.
Historical romance Quotes It Started With a Scandal Quotes
You wouldn't consider riding me, would you?' he asked politely.'You've lovely manners," she purred. 'But of course.
The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.
How the Marquess Was Won Quotes Romantic Quotes
Do the girls emerge quite ruined for marriage after you stuff them full of knowledge?""I should imagine most of our girls emerge less tolerant of fools, if that's what you mean."- Dryden and Phoebe
Humor Quotes
You believed in me,' he said slowly. 'You trusted me.''Of course I did. That, and I love you more than life itself.'She saw her words enter him like cupid's arrow. He closed his eyes swiftly, as if bracing against an onslaught of emotion. He mouthed something that might have been 'Hallelujah.'Then he opened them again, as if he couldn't bear not to see her in the aftermath of those words.'Say it again.''I love you.' Those magical powerful words that she never dreamed she'd be able to say to anyone.And look, look what it did to Jonathan Redmond's face when she said them. What a humbling power she held.He recovered, and smiled a slow satisfied smile. 'Of course you love me. How could you help it?
She mulled how very Jonathan of him to effortlessly find his way to her when she needed him, labyrinth or no. Just as he'd effortlessly uncovered her secrets. But that was simply because he'd been born knowing the secret to her. He was hers and she was his. Just as there was one key for every lock
A nondescript place, but it had inevitably changed over the years; one of the old oaks had been split by lightning and now lay on its side, and the others had grown into behemoths around their fallen comrade.
The one thing she'd been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was | 533 |
Adventure Books for Kids
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Escape from Furnace
By (author) Alexander Gordon Smith
More pulse-pounding action and shocking surprises in the fourth installment of the Escape from Furnace series! Forever altered by his experience in Furnace Penetentiary, Alex has done the impossible and escaped. But the battle for freedom is only just beginning. Charged with his superhuman abilities, Alex must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison, the man known as Alfred Furnace. And to do that he must stop running and finally confront his greatest fears. Praise for Death Sentence (Escape from Furnace Book 3): "In this third installment of the Furnace series, Gordon-Smith has pulled out all the stops. It is a tour de force of action and adventure... Honestly, this reviewer could not put this book down, having thoroughly enjoyed all of the novels in this series, and will anxiously await the release of Fugitives: Escape from Furnace 4. . . . Please continue to wow us, Mr. Gordon Smith--your books are a pleasure to read." --VOYA Praise for Solitary<|fim_middle|> leave the audience wanting more. Smith's prose is fast paced, witty, and sometimes downright terrifying. Some of the images he creates could manifest into a nightmare or two. Teens who are looking for a great thriller/horror story will definitely want to pick up these novels." --VOYA "My biggest success story last year was when a student, a fifth year senior, attended a booktalk and couldn't wait to read Lockdown. It was the first book he read all the way through in five years of high school. I was privileged to get the galley from a conference for Solitary and gave it to him. I told him to keep the book--in less than a week he returned it to me in pristine condition and wanted more." --Librarian, Washington High School, Sioux Falls, SD
About Alexander Gordon Smith
ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH lives in Norwich, England. He is a co-founder of Fear Driven Films, which is currently producing its first feature film. The Escape from Furnace series marks his publishing debut in the United States.
1 1% (29) | (Escape from Furnace Book 2): "Fast paced and packed with nail-biting scenarios . . . This is a dark story with a dark ending, but the gritty action and compelling characters will have reluctant readers enthralled." --School Library Journal "Once again, Smith has created a thrill ride that will leave the audience wanting more. Smith's prose is fast paced, witty, and sometimes downright terrifying. Some of the images he creates could manifest into a nightmare or two. Teens who are looking for a great thriller/horror story will definitely want to pick up these novels." --VOYA "Adrenaline-fueled action infuses the narrative as it did in Lockdown (2009), keeping the pages turning. . . . The author knows what keeps his readers locked to the page and delivers it soundly." --Kirkus Reviews Breathlessly paced. --Booklist Praise for Lockdown (Escape from Furnace Book 3):
"Fresh and ferocious, Lockdown will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises." --James Patterson "Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun! Sign me up for a life sentence of Alexander Gordon Smith!" --Darren Shan, author of the Demonata series Also by Alexander Gordon Smith:
The Devil's Engine series
The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers (Book 1)
The Devil's Engine: Hellfighters (Book 2)
The Devil's Engine: Hellwalkers (Book 3) The Fury The Escape from Furnace series
Lockdown (Book 1)
Solitary (Book 2)
Death Sentence (Book 3)
Fugitives (Book 4)
Execution (Book 5)
Publication date 18 Sep 2012
Publisher St Martin's Press
"Fresh and ferocious . . . Will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises." --James Patterson "Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun! Sign me up for a life sentence of Alexander Gordon Smith!" --Darren Shan, author of the Demonata series "Uniquely horrifying." --Realms of Fantasy "Gritty action and compelling characters will have reluctant readers enthralled." --School Library Journal "Breathlessly paced and soaked with blood, mucus, and less savory substances. . . . Readers who relish lurid imagery . . . will continue to be riveted and left eager for the next disgust-o-rama episode." --Booklist "A thrill ride that will | 517 |
Making new healthy habits feels too difficult for you? Want to keep everything in order when you plan on starting to exercise, walk, run, sleep more, eat healthy food, or whatever you want to make a habit of? A handy tool called HabitMinder can help you become more organized and healthy by reminding and informing you about all your scheduled exercises. This application seems useful to some extent for everyone. But your experience can be spoiled by the bugs that we've found during our weekly Bug Crawl.
Tap on the '<|fim_middle|> the team or to learn new technologies. | House' button.
Choose new habit and swipe it left.
Tap on 2 icons at the same time.
Nothing happened, app continues to work.
At the 'Count' field input '5000000000000000'.
There is a message 'Please add correct value'.
Bug Crawl's sole purpose is to stress the importance of testing for all software products that hit the market. No one is ensured against bugs, of course. But still, most if not all of them can be eliminated by conducting the right set of tests. It's too bad that some companies skip this part and release their creations raw. But some just don't have an opportunity to sustain the whole additional team of QA engineers. For such companies, often the smartest way would be to outsource quality assurance to third parties, not having to hire additional members to | 178 |
El Cedro is another farmhouse Jester King release, this time featuring dry-hopping with Citra, aging on cedar spirals, and lots of brett character.
It is unfiltered, unpasteurized, and naturally carbonated through re-fermentation in the bottle with Brettanomyces. Tough to nail down an exact style, as always with the Jester King wilds/sours, but we're going with Saison again.
As for construction, the malt bill is two-row and wheat malt, with the hopping duties carried out with Columbus and Citra. As per usual, the fermentation is taken care of with farmhouse yeast and local native yeast and souring bacteria.
It combines tropical, fruity hop flavor and aroma with funky, barnyard yeast character and the unique flavor and aromatics of Spanish Cedar.
Well this all sounds fabulous, so let's get stuck in.
Appearance: A thoroughly-hazy golden body capped by two fingers of creamy white head that fades slowly, leaving brilliant lacing. Top marks.
Aroma: A mix of funky Brett, green and citrusy hops, tropical fruit, mild cedar, and a laid-back crackery malt body. A hint of booze once it has warmed.
Taste: Up front, a mix of rich barnyard Brett, tart citrus juice, tropical fruit, white pepper, green and strongly bitter hops, and mild cedar. Underneath, a wheat and pale malt backbone that grounds everything nicely. Just a little mild spice from the alcohol throughout. Lots of funk, citrus, green and herbal hops, cedar, and husky pale malt in the big finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied and creamy with medium carbonation and a bone-dry finish. Very mild heat from alcohol.
Drinkability: Drinks much faster than the alcohol content would suggest, so watch out.
Verdict: El Cedro is a solid big Brett Saison with a nice cedar component blended in. It's very much a Jester King beer that fits right into the lineup. There are a lot of intense components here, but everything comes together nicely.
Note: These tasting notes are based on the 6th batch of this beer when fresh.
Brewery: Jester King Craft Brewery | Beer: Das Wunderkind!
Das Wunderkind! is a blend of Das Überkind and fresh, hoppy beer. The process of blending these types of beer together is called bière de coupage, and used to be quite standard.
When released, Jester King were very proud of the result, calling it "the best encapsulation of our brewing philosophy that we've released thus far" and that "it's brewed so that people who drink it will experience the "sense of place" or terroir of our brewery in the Texas Hill Country."
This kid is unfiltered, unpasteurized, and naturally conditioned. It can be a little hard to pin down the exact style with these beers, but Jester King refer to it as a "blended Saison", so Saison it is.
As for construction, the malt bill is two-row, wheat malt, amber malt and flaked oats with a hop bill of Goldings, Sorachi Ace, Nelson Sauvin and Falconer's Flight. Fermentation is handled by farmhouse yeast and native yeast and souring bacteria from the area.
Das Wunderkind is dry, highly attenuated, unspiced, tart, floral, and funky.
Sounds wudnerful, let's pop the top.
Appearance: A thoroughly hazy golden-straw body capped by a finger and a half of fluffy white head that fades slowly, leaving excellent lacing.
Aroma: A mix of barnyard funk, citrusy and green hops, golden and tropical fruit, and pale malt.
Taste: A similar mix of funk, green and herbal hops, orchard fruit, and a hint of white pepper all over a backbone of grainy pale malt. It's all very well balanced. Green and bitter hops, mild funk, and husky pale malt in the finish.
Mouthfeel: Light bodied and refreshing with medium carbonation and a lightly tart and dry finish.
Drinkability: Drinks easily for funk fans, quenching all the way, as you may expect given the style and alcohol content.
Verdict: Das Wunderkind! is a lovely, restrained, quaffable, and well balanced funky Saison. It goes back easily while never being boring thanks to its wealth of character, and is clearly a product of Jester King.
Note: These tasting notes are based on the 17th batch of this beer when fresh.
One of Jester King's staple sours, Das Überkind serves as a base for the blended Das Wunderkind! as well as most of their fruit re-fermentation beers. It's also a pretty awesome beer in its own right.
It is unfiltered, unpasteurized, 100% oak barrel-aged for months. Jester King describe it as a "Vieille Saison" (or old Saison), so we're going with the trusty Saison label here.
As for construction, the malt bill is Pilsner, two-row, wheat malt, and Caramunich with a hop bill of Czech Saaz and East Kent Goldings. Fermentation is handled by farmhouse yeast and native yeast and souring bacteria from the area.
All of the time and steps that went into making Das Überkind result in an "old" beer that's fruity, funky, and sour, with undertones of sherry and oak.
My mouth is watering already, let's dive in.
Appearance: A thoroughly hazy golden-straw body capped by small bubbly white head that burns off quickly, leaving bare, patchy lacing.
Aroma: A mix of tart and sour citrus and golden fruit, vinegar, very mild green hops, pale malt, and some oak.
Taste: Like the aroma, it's a mix of sour fruit, mild vinegar, a hint of funk, oak, mild citrusy hops, and a solid backbone of grainy pale malt. Nothing from the alcohol. It's all balanced nicely, with all of the elements interacting positively. Mildly tart golden fruit, husky pale malt, and a little oak in the finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light bodied with medium carbonation and a drying and mildly puckering finish. No sign of the booze.
Drinkability: With the sourness, this drinks just a little slower than the alcohol content<|fim_middle|> this expertly toes the line between sour enough to be interesting and sour enough to drink slowly.
Note: These tasting notes are based on the 3rd batch of this beer when fresh.
One thing about Jester King is that they don't mind going small. It's not very often you see someone release a beer with less alcohol with a Bud Light in a 750ml bottle, but Jester King has a whole suite of them. Releasing premium session beers is one of their missions.
Le Petit Prince is the slightest of all of them, at a scant 2.9% ABV. Hearkening back to the days where water was suspect and beer was safe, this beer is styled int he manner of the light, hoppy, low alcohol table beers of the time.
It is unfiltered, unpasteurized, and 100% naturally conditioned. I'm going to go ahead and throw it into the somewhat catchall Saison style, like many other Jester King beers.
As for construction, the malt bill calls for two-row and wheat malt, with the hop bill consisting of Perle, Fuggle, and Czech Saaz. As per usual, fermentation duties are performed by farmhouse yeast and native yeast and souring bacteria from the local area.
This is a beer we've been excited about for quite some time now, as we believe that it's a clear, simple expression of the delicate, delightful interplay between noble hops and farmhouse yeast.
This should be interesting, let's head to le petit royal court and check it out.
Appearance: A thoroughly hazy lemon-hay body capped by two fingers of fluffy white head that fade in average time, leaving brilliant lacing.
Aroma: A mix of funky yeast, lemony and grassy hops, and sweet pale malt. It's not particularly intense, but well sorted.
Taste: Like the aroma, it's a light and airy mix of funky yeast and mildly bitter hops over a backbone of delicate sweet grainy malt. Everything is balanced perfectly, with an overall profile that is light in intensity but rich in character. Husky and sweet light malt and bitter green hops in the finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light bodied with crisp medium-high carbonation and a drying finish.
Drinkability: As expected given the aim and alcohol content, this drinks supremely easily.
Verdict: Living up to its stated purpose in full, Le Petit Prince is a pretty genius beer; it's light, delicate, masterfully balanced, thoroughly sessionable, and yet still full of character and enjoyable to the last sip. Another great Saison from Jester King that's true to the brand.
Note: These tasting notes are based on the 13th batch of this beer when fresh. | would suggest.
Verdict: Das Uberkind is a great little barrel-aged sour Saison that drinks perfectly. Mildly sour, | 26 |
Up first was Portland's Sabateur. I'm always stuck with the fact that their confidence is that which is rarely seen even in the most seasoned bands. On this night, their enthusiasm and stage moves made it seem as if they would be comfortable in the headlining slot, with Judas Priest opening up for them at the Moda Center. With some refinement, they are positioned to go far.
Another local staple, Chainbound, was up next. This was t he first moment when the crowd started to mosh. Tyler Heppner is a great front man and guitarist, and is quite pleasant to look at. Beauty aside, the men in Chainbound have a brand of metal that is enjoyable even if you aren't intimately familiar with their music. They've definitely found the key and built a foundation for making exciting and enjoyable metal.
Hometown band Silver Talon was up next. I heard snickers in the audience when they walked out looking like they were straight out of the 80s…much like Mark Wahlberg's band in Rockstar prior to getting the Steel Dragon gig. However, snickers were quickly quashed when the began to perform, especially when the vocalist opened his mouth and the amazing vocal quality came rushing out. They are incredibly good, entertaining, and refined. By the end of their set they definitely had won over the crowd.
Powerglove took the stage 20+ minutes late due to a few technical issues. And, unfortunately, when Ben Cohen (guitarist) came out he said, "We've had a bit of bad news. Gabriel our keyboardist is currently in the hospital getting his appendix out. We talked about cancelling the show, but we decided we would try to give you the best show we could." I know Portland holds a special part in Powerglove's history; it was 2008 when they were asked to open up for DragonForce at the Roseland Theater, and after that show, they were added to the tour officially with DragonForce. Ben is a<|fim_middle|> and Super Mario Brothers. They even threw in the them songs to Power Rangers, Pokemon, and "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid. It was a wonderful evening that would make any 80s kid happy.
From all of us at MIRP, we wish Gabriel a speedy recovery. We look forward to your healthy return. | spectacular guitarist and performer. Even with one member down, he commanded the stage and gave an amazing performance. If you've never seen them, you should make it a point to.
Their version of classic video game theme songs, and 90s cartoon jingles is mind-blowing. They started off their set with the theme to Tetris, and if you played video games in the 80s you know this theme well. Powerglove had a big screen behind them with images of the inspirations for the songs they were playing, which gave even more nostalgic visual to the already memory-packed show.
They took us through the ages with renditions of the theme melodies to Megaman , Sonic the Hedgehog, | 146 |
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Álbumes de Legacy Recordings
Álbumes en inglés | Dance es sexagesimosexto álbum de estudio del músico estadounidense Willie Nelson publicado por la compañía discográfica Legacy Recordings el 16 de abril de 2013. Producido por Buddy Cannon, incluye una colección de clásicos que Nelson y su hermana Bobbie tocaron a lo largo de sus respectivas carreras musicales.
Grabación
Let's Face the Music and Dance incluye una serie de clásicos de pop, jazz, rock y country así como una nueva versión de "Is the Better Part Over", una composición de Nelson grabada para su álbum de 1989 A Horse Called Music. Fue grabado en los Pedernales Studios de Nelson en Austin (Texas) bajo la producción de Buddy Cannon y mezclado en Budro Music Repair Shop por Butch Carr. El álbum se enfoca en la relación musical con su hermana, Bobbie, dado que los clásicos fueron interpretados por ambos a lo largo de su juventud y de sus carreras musicales.
Publicación
Let's Face the Music and Dance, publicado el 16 de abril de 2013, fue el segundo álbum de Nelson lanzado bajo su nuevo contrato con Legacy Recordings.
Lista de canciones
Posición en listas
Referencias
Álbumes de Willie Nelson
Álbumes de 201 | 297 |
Giovanni Battista Sertorio (* 25. März 1805 in Lugano; † 11. April 1871 ebenda) war ein Schweizer Maler.
Leben
Giovanni Battista Sertorio war als Sohn des Pietro Antonio Sertorio, Holzhandwerkers, und der Elisabetta Corbellini. Nach seinen Studien in der Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Mailand unterrichtete er von 1835 bis 1847 an der ersten Zeichenschule für Baumeister in Lugano. Er malte zahlreiche Porträts von Woh<|fim_middle|>uderschaft Mariä Empfängnis sowie für Kapellen der Region Sottoceneri und in der Lombardei. Er war mit dem Schriftsteller Antonio Fogazzaro bekannt, der ihn im Roman Piccolo mondo antico als Dialektdichter und Gitarrenspieler vorstellte.
Literatur
Anna Cotti Capelli: Gli artisti Sartori e i Sertori. In: Cenobio, 1973, Nr. 3, S. 171–174.
Arte in Ticino 1803–2003, Band 1, Ausstellungskatalog. Lugano 2001, S. 436.
Weblinks
G.B.Sertorio: cappella mortuaria dei Conti Sormani-Andreani (italienisch) auf it.wikisource.org/wiki
Maler (Schweiz)
Person (Bioggio)
Person (Lugano)
Schweizer
Geboren 1805
Gestorben 1871
Mann | ltätern des Spitals Santa Maria von Lugano.
Sertorio malte religiöse Bilder für verschiedene Kirchen in Lugano, für die Br | 33 |
By Andrew Gillen, Ph.D.|October 16, 2020
Originally published in Minding the Campus
Most people and institutions are held accountable, however imperfectly. We all know of a charlatan who has yet to be exposed, or a shady institution that is coasting on its reputation, but eventually, the truth wins out.
With any luck, that moment has arrived for higher education. Last fall's publication of the most comprehensive college outcomes data to date will expose which parts of higher education are failing students. For the first time, students can look up the typical earnings and debt of graduates from the exact college and major they are considering.
This data enables more informed decision-making by students and parents. Previously, students were asked to make the biggest financial decision of their life with extremely limited information. Many "everyone should go to college" advocates tirelessly repeated the mantra that college graduates earn an extra $1 million over their careers (the true value after accounting for the cost of college including student loans is closer to $300,000). And for the past few years, students have been able to find the average salary among a college's graduates.
This earlier trickle of information was not nearly detailed enough. Knowledge of the average salary by school doesn't help students choose between majors like nursing or biology. With so little information to help students make wise choices, it is not surprising that 37% of college students realized a negative return on their investment.
The new data helps change that. Rather than a vague "college is worth it (on average)" mentality and a quick check of the average salary for an entire university, students can now look up the median salary for the specific colleges and majors they are considering. As awareness of this data increases, colleges will face consumer-driven accountability from students and parents making more informed choices, which will lead to dramatic changes in enrollment patterns.
While consumer-driven accountability will have the largest effect on higher education, massive government subsidies also open the door to government-driven accountability. In 2017, Pew calculated that governments subsidized higher education to the tune of $173 billion ($75 billion federal—not counting student loans, $87 billion state, and $11 billion local). These colossal taxpayer investments have not required much accountability.
At the federal level, accountability consists of three prongs, none of which are sufficiently tough. The first prong is disclosure—universities are required to submit data to the Department of Education, such as their graduation rate. The second prong is accreditation. For a university's students to be eligible for federal financial aid programs like the Pell grant or student loans, the university must be accredited by an organization that ensures they are meeting minimal educational requirements. The third prong is the Cohort Default Rate, which will terminate future aid eligibility for colleges where 30% or more of students default on their student loans.
There are two main problems with these accountability mechanisms. First, they are too lenient. There are no sanctions or rewards attached to the data disclosure requirements. Accreditation teams are made up from the very institutions being accredited and often only evaluate a campus once per decade. Universities that already have accreditation rarely lose it, while universities without accreditation can rarely obtain it. If that sounds like a cartel designed to protect incumbents and<|fim_middle|> student's loan payment based on their income, has largely made the Cohort Default Rate obsolete, because even students that don't pay a cent might not be in default under these repayment plans. These income-driven programs are a good idea, but their introduction neuters the only federal accountability mechanism with any teeth.
But the greater problem with these accountability mechanisms is that they are applied to entire universities. It would be shocking if every part of a university was high-performing or low-performing. For example, an institution with a low default rate could nevertheless have programs with high default rates, and vice versa. Yet the policy sledgehammers of accreditation and default rates apply to institutions as a whole, rather than selectively applying to its failing programs.
Wouldn't it be better to wield an accountability scalpel that only targets the poorly performing parts of a university? Fortunately, the program-level data allow us to introduce these accountability scalpels. For example, in a new report, we at the Texas Public Policy Foundation examined all of the programs at public universities in the state of Texas and found that there were 58 associate's, bachelor's, or master's degree programs that failed a debt-to-earnings test.
Thousands of students are enrolling in these programs every year. But note that even Prairie View A&M University, which had the most failing programs (eight), still had just as many programs pass or on probation. Thus, there is little reason to sanction all of Prairie View A&M University. Instead, we should target the eight failing programs, leaving the rest of the university alone. This targeted approach should be applied to generally high-performing universities too. Programs that fail this debt-to-earnings test at elite institutions include Yale's studio and fine arts program and a dentistry program at Harvard. These programs should not avoid accountability just because the rest of the university is high-performing.
The release of this detailed data promises to generate two seismic shifts in the accountability landscape for higher education: more informed consumers and program-level (rather than institution-level) accountability based on labor market outcomes. Both of these changes are long overdue reforms that will help mend higher education for the next generation.
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And the 30% Cohort Default Rate is too lenient. A 2013 analysis found there were at least 120 universities where students were more likely to default on their student loans than to graduate. Moreover, the introduction of income-driven repayment plans, which vary a | 71 |
Tissues represent an interesting type of matter: active matter. The basic elements of tissues, the cells, divide or die, consume energy on the scale of their constituents, exert forces onto their surrounding and dissipate energy, which results in non-equilibrium systems. Tissue growth is involved in many biological processes and understanding its generic phenomena is, thus, not only important from a physical point of view. In this thesis, we are interested in the mechanics of issue growth in the context of the homeostatic pressure theory. The homeostatic pressure is defined as the pressure that has to be exerted onto a tissue, growing in a biochemically constant environment, in order to balance cell division and cell death. However, experimental observations show that tissue growth is dominated by surface effects in the sense that high division rates at the surface can compensate for an on average dying core. Thus, the homeost<|fim_middle|> from boundary phenomena and a surprising flow of cells perpendicular to the main migration direction, the simulations are able to reproduce the experimentally observed quantities very well. | atic pressure is better defined as a bulk property. We study the growth with a negative homeostatic pressure, which means that without the surface growth effect such a tissue has to be kept under tension to ensure a stable steady state. A mesoscale simulation technique is used, where individual cells are represented by two point particles, interacting like soft sticky spheres. Growth is modeled by a force that repels the particles of one cell until new particles are introduced, when the cell reaches a certain size. Additionally, DPD like interactions and a constant rate of cell death concludes the active part. This approach is used to explore the dependence of the homeostatic pressure on different model parameters. Additionally, we measure the bulk growth rates of tissue spheroids under different mechanical stresses and compare our results to the data of in vitro experiments of tissue spheroids under pressure. We fit the simulations to this experimental data and extract a homeostatic pressure of the order of -1 to -2kPa. Furthermore, we find a new tissue state: a tensile membrane. In this state, the tissue forms a relatively thin sheet, where a characteristic tension develops for tissues with a negative homeostatic pressure. It is sustained by growth at the surface and death in the bulk. In addition, we study the interface dynamics of two competing tissues with a homeostatic pressure difference. In the theory of homeostatic pressure, this difference leads to a take-over of the tissue with the higher homeostatic pressure. Starting from a theoretical point of view, we solve the dynamics for the one dimensional problem without diffusion and find the interface to propagate at a constant velocity. We use the same simulation technique as above to study the interface dynamics in two dimensions and compare our results to the analytical solution. The dependence of the interface velocity on the homeostatic pressure difference between the tissues as well as the predicted stress profiles match well with the simulations. Furthermore, we analyze the scaling behavior of the interface width w, which develops initially as a power law w~t^beta and saturates depending on the system size L for later times w_sat~L^alpha. We find a growth exponent beta=0.4 and a roughness exponent alpha=0.25. While the growth exponent roughly fits into the KPZ universality class, the measured roughness exponent is substantially smaller. At last, we study divisional alignment in expanding monolayered cell sheets. We extend the simulations with a previously established motility mechanism and compare the results to the experimental data of MDCK cell sheets that invade narrow microchannels. In the experiments, we find a strong correlation between the division orientation and the emergent flow. However, cell division correlates best with the main axis of the strain rate tensor, which is related to the main axis of the stress tensor. This supports the notion that divisions are aligned by the local stress as opposed to the local velocity. Apart | 588 |
Happy- if you're Canadian, holiday- Monday! I was up particularly early today and thought it only seemed fitting to do a little administrative work- emails pile up mighty quickly- and get to a little blogging. I recently was sent a few new EcoTools products, and one of which as the very neat Pure Complexion Facial Sponge for Sensitive Skin. Read on for more info!
The EcoTools Pure Complexion Sponge is the new kid on the cleansing block, except the concept is far from new. The EcoTools sponge is made up of<|fim_middle|> concept. I've noticed many sponges are round, while this one has an egg shape with a pointed tip, and found the tip to work nicely to wash around my eyes, nose and mouth. Good thinking, EcoTools! Have you tried this- or any other Konjac sponge? Thoughts? | all natural ingredients, including Konjac. which is a highly renewable root plant that is indigenous to Asia. It's been used traditionally as a detoxifying dietary staple and as a naturally exfoliating sponge in Japan. Quite a few brands make Konjac cleansing sponges, but EcoTools is the first drugstore level brand to produce one.
The sponge doesn't look like much- especially when dry, it looks like an egg shaped hunk of foam- but fear not, as it softens when wet. When you place the sponge under water it plumps and softens. To use it, you simply add a bit of your favourite cleanser, give the sponge a squeeze to get a little froth going and scrub yo' face with it. Simple. The sponge is delicate, and doesn't really feel like it's exfoliating, but once you rinse your face it does leave skin smooth and gently exfoliated. It's not a harsh scrub at all, and as such is fine for everyday use. That said, EcoTools also has a Deep Cleansing version (it's grey) which contains bamboo charcoal. I haven't tried it, so I can't say if it has a different texture or provides a firmer scrub.
Overall, I quite like this! It's a simple, yet effective | 266 |
Greek odyssey
The harbor at Cape Sounion is well known for its famous Temple of Poseidon, which overlooks the Aegean Sea to the south. The bay below the temple has a mud/sand bottom, providing good hold for our plow anchor.
In the fall of 1988, we began planning a sailing trip to Greece. "We" includes our friends Jeff and Glenna, who got married the week before departure, and Sandy and myself, who are longtime sailing companions. With keen anticipation, we scurried off to our local library to read articles on sailing in Greece. Unfortunately, we could find nothing about chartering a small sailboat in Greece. Somewhat discouraged by this lack of information, I decided that when we returned, I'd write an article that might be useful to anyone else considering a similar venture. We returned; here's the article.
In Greece, there are two bareboat options — going with a flotilla or going alone. A "flotilla" is 8 to 12 boats under the guidance of a lead yacht. For someone with limited sailing experience, a flotilla is the way to go. The lead yacht has a captain, hostess and mechanic who provide information and assistance with everything from route planning to anchoring. They even tell you where the rocks are and which restaurants serve the best kalamari (squid). For the most part, except for a few "free sailing" days, the boats remain in close proximity with prearranged destinations.
What really tipped the scale in favor of an individual charter over a flotilla was the sailing area available to us. In Greece, there is a group of islands in the Aegean Sea, between the mainland and Crete, called the "Cyclades." Friends who had vacationed on these various islands had nothing but good stuff to report. It seemed no one had spent much time visiting other areas — the Ionions, Sporades, and Saronics, all of which offer flotilla sailing. We wanted to see the Cyclades, and to do so meant we had to go on our own. Perfect!
We booked through a U.S. based Charter Company, Valef Yachts, in February for 10 days in May. They provided a 33′ Carter (the Eleni A ) which is a comfortable-sized boat for four people. The only exception is the cramped quarterberth — if two people sleep there, they have to turn over in unison. The boat rented for $2400 (Canadian) with a 50% deposit required on the date of booking. Once paid, we received a charter agreement, an equipment list and a "menu" allowing us to pre-order our food and beverages. We only ordered beverages — wine, beer, soft drinks and bottled water — since we planned on eating most of our meals in restaurants along the way.
The charter agreement required at least two people to have sailing certificates although it did not stipulate the level of those certificates. Both Jeff and Glenna had completed an intermediate Canadian Yachting Association course, including a week's sail with an instructor. Sandy had an introductory CYA Sailing Certificate, and I had completed various courses including Advanced Piloting through the Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons. A résumé of the captain's sailing experience was also required.
The Charter Company suggested we do some pre-reading in a book entitled Greek Waters Pilot. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate a copy in our library or local bookstores. As it turned out, this book was on board our boat and proved most useful as a guide to the islands. It not only included information on the ancient history of each island, but also details on approaches, mooring areas, facilities, and depths of harbors and channels. It even included some photographs similar to Sailing Directions in Canada. The edition we had on board was 1982, but a later edition (1987) has been published.
If you're planning a sail in Greece, I would recommend late May or early June, primarily because of the weather and the crowds. In July and August, the average temperature is "hot" (33º C.) and the wind, known as a "meltemi", blows from the north up to 30 knots,<|fim_middle|> from Athens with lightning, rain, and wind, lots of wind! Why is it that "lots of wind" on a sunny day is what sailors crave; the same wind on a stormy day is scary? Too scary to put on the working jib and reef the main? Yes, the majority (3 to 1) ruled we motor with the rationale that we would get there sooner and have more time to clean the boat. Now that's something to look forward to on my holiday! Besides, as Sandy pointed out, "there are no other sailboats in sight." This is Sandy's big stick — there must be a reason why no other boats are out. As the wind whistled through the rigging at 25 knots, I could think of no good reason … but we motored anyway!
We arrived at the marina a couple of hours early, giving us time to scrub down the boat (in the only rain of the trip), pack our gear, and have a final congratulatory drink! The owner arrived soon after, checked over the boat, returned our damage deposit (minus $8 for a broken head plunger — a small price to pay!), and bade us farewell as we headed back to Tony's pension for one last fling in Athens. We flew to London the next day. From there, Jeff and Glenna visited Portugal to continue their honeymoon while Sandy and I motored up to Scotland (on the wrong side of the road!). But that's another story…!
Essentials for sailing in Greece:
peanut butter (large jar) and toilet paper (soft, one roll per person)
towels and face cloths (less expensive hotels do not provide them)
suntan lotion, lip balm, and sailing hats
sun glasses with neck strap
binoculars (unless they are already on board)
snorkel mask (for seeing under water when your anchor's stuck)
plastic bags (small garbage-can size)
paper towels (to clean up Ouzo spills)
Canadian flag (as a courtesy to fly while sailing, and in airports!)
For info:
Valef Yachts
Website: www.valefyachts.com | creating a very choppy sea. Going south on a run would be great, but beating back at the end of a holiday could be arduous. Also, most tourists, both Europeans and North Americans, travel to Greece in the very busy summer months. Getting to Greece from Canada can be expensive if you fly direct to Athens. We saved $500 by flying to London; then to Athens.
We arrived in Athens at 2300 which was 1400 (9 hours earlier) in Edmonton. Ever try to sleep in a strange bed in a strange country when you're all excited about going sailing and your body tells you it's the middle of the afternoon? It didn't help at all to have a horde of motorbikes racing up and down the street outside our hotel!
We had planned to spend a couple of days in Athens before picking up our boat. This would allow us to partially recover from jet lag and also give us a chance to do some sightseeing and shopping for our trip. Based on recommendations of friends who had stayed there, we had made reservations at Tony's pension. Tony speaks very good English, is an avid sailor, and his reasonably priced hotel is within easy walking distance of both the Acropolis and the Plaka (a major shopping and entertainment area). We were fortunate in being there on a Friday, the one day of the week when the locals bring their produce to market, just a block from Tony's.
We had read about scurvy at sea so we made sure to stock up on fresh fruit (and Ouzo, which we knew was a major source of vitamin C!). Although we had taken advantage of the duty-free shop at the airport to purchase liquid refreshments, we discovered that prices were considerably lower in Greek liquor stores.
Early Saturday morning, we packed up our groceries and headed for Kalamaki Marina in Piraeus, a 15-minute taxi ride. The owner met us at the boat, gave us an orientation, took our $900 U.S. Money Order as damage deposit, and wished us "Bon Voyage." Within two hours, we were close hauled, heading south to Cape Sounion, which is still on the mainland but a good "jumping off" point to reach the islands the next day. The harbour at Cape Sounion has just one hotel and a taverna on the beach. Since most of the other boaters were at the taverna, we decided to go there as well — a bad choice! Most of our meal went to the slightly overweight dog, which wandered among the tables looking for handouts. Fortunately, we had brought along a large jar of peanut butter; so off we went for a late night snack!
The next morning, we got up early and climbed the hill to the temple, built in 444 B.C. Fifteen Doric columns remain standing on a rocky bluff overlooking the sea, an appropriate setting for "God of the Seas." Under way again, the wind picked up from the south, our direction of travel. We eventually tacked our way to a pretty little cove immediately north of our destination on the west coast of Kithnos. Dropping the hook in 10 feet of crystal-clear water, we had our first swim in the Mediterranean. The water itself was the bluest I have ever seen, but the marine life, probably because of the absence of tidal zones, was not as abundant as you'll find off Vancouver Island. Oh well, life's a tradeoff — blue and warm water for crabs and starfish!
After a little sunning on the beach, we motored around the point and anchored for the night in Mericha Harbor. It was here where we had one of our best Greek salads of the trip – at an outdoor taverna overlooking the harbor. We watched the sunset while sipping Retsina, a Greek table wine flavored with resin (pinesap). This is not the wine you would order to impress your friends, unless they happen to be woodpeckers with an affinity for pine trees! It has a very bitter taste, which requires some getting used to, but one thing you can say about it: a bottle lasts a long time! We found out later that you can order this wine without the resin, which is much more palatable.
Before dinner, we also had a chance to shower, for $2.00 each, which was the going rate at most hotels. Showers in Greece are not like showers back home. Most noticeably, they are open to the rest of the bathroom, which invariably leads to soggy toilet paper!
On our third day, we got underway early, again heading south into a brisk southerly. As we sailed between two islands, the wind blew erratically from different directions, presumably due to land effects. At one point, the wind actually felt hot and strong providing us with a sample of the meltemi (literally "hot wind"). After motoring through a few calm spots, the wind again picked up, allowing one long tack to Vathi Harbor on the island of Sifnos. Again we anchored — this time with a half-dozen other boats from various countries. During our entire trip, we only encountered two other boats flying Canadian courtesy flags. Most boats came from Germany, England, Holland or France. It's quite entertaining to be in a small cafe with six tables of sailors, all speaking a different language!
Vathi is a quiet little village not yet affected by tourism: no streets, no cars — just a dirt path with a few donkeys ridden sidesaddle. On the shore is a church, taverna, and a few small shops and houses — population 50. The taverna had one entree: spaghetti, with or without meatballs. The meal wasn't great but it was cheap, cheap: the bill for two large beers, a half bottle of wine, Greek salads, bread, and spaghetti came to under $20. In Greece, the tips and taxes are included in the bill unless the menu indicates prices are "without service."
It was here that some Swiss sailors suggested our plan to go to Santorini (about 10 hours away in a good blow) was a bit ambitious. They suggested Paros as an alternative, which was only half the distance. After scanning our charts and appraising our progress, we agreed that we were spending too much time on the boat and not enough on land, exploring the islands. OK then, we would spend two days on Paros, putting us halfway through our trip. The next morning we got underway by 0700, to reach Paros by early afternoon.
While planning the trip, I had been concerned about the possibility of being out of sight of land while travelling between islands. Not to worry — the visibility of 8 to 10 miles in haze was sufficient to get us started in the right direction. If we couldn't see our destination, which was more often than not, we obtained a "Fix" off the island we were leaving and from there, plotted a course to our destination. In Greece, navigation is simplified because there are virtually no tides, and current is negligible. Also, "variation" between Magnetic and True courses (about 2º East) can be ignored for practical purposes.
As we docked in Paros, we were greeted by "Christopher," a charter sailor from England, whose boat was tied off directly behind us. Having been there for over three weeks, his help was invaluable. We found out about showers, tavernas, restaurants and tons of stuff about islands he had visited. In nearly every port, we encountered sailors who were eager to share their experiences. A chap from Australia, who had wintered in Paros, said he counted 23 gale-force storms during his stay, the most recent one occurring in early May just three weeks before our arrival. We were very fortunate in that regard — the weather was sunny and warm (about 25º C) almost every day with a steady 10-to-20 knot breeze blowing for several hours at least part of every day. There seemed to be no consistent daily pattern to the winds. Some days, they would blow in the morning, even before we were underway; other days, they would freshen in the afternoon. By evening, winds were generally calm, allowing for restful sleeps.
To explore the island, we rented a couple of motorbikes. On the far-east side, we watched several wind-surfers reaching and jibing in a beautiful little bay off Golden Beach. Wetsuits and funboards were in abundance, although rental boards would not be available until the tourist season, starting around June 1st.
We visited a picturesque little fishing village (Naoussa) in the northeast corner of the island where we squeamishly watched a fisherman beating an octopus against the rocks to tenderize the meat. We also stopped inland at a quaint little village (Lefkes) for lunch. Most of the buildings in this village were made of pure white marble from a nearby quarry, which supplied marble for Venus De Milo and for Napoleon's tomb.
By the fifth day of our trip, our contract required us to be at the furthermost point in our cruise and we were, 95 miles from Piraeus. Our next stop would be Mykonos, another popular tourist destination 25 miles northeast. Christopher had advised us to get there early, at least by 1400, if we wanted a spot at the dock. We cast off at dawn, turning north into a light breeze blowing directly from Mykonos! We zigged and zagged until our speed dropped below 2 knots; then motored. About noon, we began to make out an island in the haze and the wind had freshened to 20 knots, providing us an exciting beam reach to the harbor, a nice way to end the day.
In Paros, we had docked in the Canadian fashion, parallel to the dock. However, the typical method of docking in Greece is "stern to the quay:" you drop anchor about four or five boat lengths out and back in. Since it's helpful to have someone on the quay to throw a stern line, Jeff got off before we anchored. We also considered it prudent to firmly "set" our anchor before reaching the quay to ensure it would hold should the wind pick up. Finally, we used spring lines tied forward to hold us straight ahead.
Mykonos is a very romantic place with narrow streets, whitewashed buildings, windmills overlooking a peaceful bay, and colorful fishing boats bobbing at anchor. Several bars provide spectacular views of the sunset and play classical music to sooth the savage sailors. The next morning, as we sipped Greek coffees at one of the outdoor cafes that ring the harbor, we observed an old man resting on a bench in front of a church; an old woman leading a donkey with baskets of fresh-cut flowers; a priest in flowing robes; a fisherman, complete with weathered face and cap, mending his nets, and a friendly pink pelican ("Petros") who strolls through the marketplace as the mascot of Mykonos. We kept waiting for Zorba to dance on the rooftops!
At this point in our journey, we had a choice of destinations — Syros or Tinos — each about equal distance along our return route. We reviewed pictures and descriptions of the two ports in a book we had purchased – The Greek Islands – which proved to be a handy reference for things to see and do on each island. We opted for Syros after reading this excerpt: "As one sails into the island's harbor, Hermoupolis, the view of the town is truly splendid, with its impressive mansions." It's true: buildings extend from the quayside a half mile upward to the top of the hill. Very impressive! Unfortunately, the book forgot to mention the odors that are created when sewage from all those buildings arrives in the harbor. There would be no swimming off the boat tonight!
While the harbor itself was not what we had expected, our early evening walk up the hill through the streets and alleys more than made up for it, broadening our perspective of Greek life away from the tourist scene. A group of young boys were playing basketball without a net; small girls saying "Hello – Goodbye" in a friendly attempt to practice their English; a grandmother — sweeping out her house — who allowed us to take her picture but only after she removed her scarf; two boys who encouraged us to play "soccer" on a crude miniature table game; and an old man who, as custodian, unlocked a Greek Orthodox Church, encouraging us to have a look inside. Our personal safety was never at risk — everyone we met was friendly and attentive to our feeble attempts at communicating. We felt honored to be able to experience this aspect of life in Greece, which very few tourists get to see. Only five yachts were at the quay and we never met their occupants on our excursion into the hills.
At 1900, we topped up our fuel tanks by walking to the local gas station and arranging for the fuel truck to come to the quay. Diesel fuel, at 45 cents a liter, is usually delivered to the quay around 0900 and 1600, but can be obtained at other times for a small fee. The next day, we set course for the east coast of Kithnos. We had been on the west side of this island earlier in our trip and had heard about the medicinal springs at Loutra, the waters of which are presumably beneficial for all sorts of ailments, including hangovers! Again, the wind was favorable, pushing us along at 7 knots under a full genoa and main. This 4-hour sail, on a blue-sky day, was more therapeutic than any spring could ever be!
Loutra is another of those quiet little villages with one taverna and several small shops. A new hotel was just being built adjacent to the hot springs and should prove to be a popular tourist attraction. On our visit, the fishing boats numbered 12, the yachts five, all at the quay. In our attempt to back in, we were pushed sideways by a strong crosswind, requiring us to go forward several times. Little did we know that in doing so, we were wrapping our anchor chain around the flukes of a large Queen-Mary-type anchor. Fortunately, the next morning the water was dead calm, allowing us to observe and unravel the chain by maneuvering our boat in the appropriate directions. We found out later that this large anchor belonged to a freighter that had gone aground in a storm just outside the harbor. It remains there today as a reminder that "the sea hath no mercy" and as extra ground tackle for unsuspecting yachties!
Anchor up and motor out! And motor we did. The wind was too light to give us more than 2 knots and we had a 40-mile passage ahead in order to get to the island of Egina for our last night out. This plan would put us within 4 hours of our homeport for an easy sail the last day. Finally, the wind picked up enough to allow us a brief sail to our destination, Agina Marina — a scenic little bay in the north-east corner of the island. Most boaters who visit Egina use a more sheltered and crowded harbor on the northwest corner; however, we wanted a quiet anchorage on our last night out.
Following a swim (the only harbor where we did so), we rowed ashore, showered, and had dinner at a cafe overlooking the bay. After dinner, we strolled along the main street, which has a more western flavor than the towns in the Cyclades: a horse drawn carriage, rock-and-roll music, a wagon-wheel fence, and numerous ice cream shops. This island is part of the Saronics Group and is very popular with Europeans, being only a short hydrofoil ride from Piraeus.
The next day, our last sailing day, we awoke to a strong offshore breeze. Although eager to sail, we had decided to rent motorbikes and visit the Temple of Aphaia, just a few miles from town. These miles are all uphill providing great views of the harbor, which Sandy refused to look at unless the motorbike was completely stopped!
Today, all that remains of the ancient temple are some 20 columns and a few foundations of buildings long since decayed. We took our mandatory pictures and left, hoping to get underway while the wind was up.
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Hoorn (LEN) – A strong performance from the Italian crew of Rachele Bruni, Simone Ruffini and Federico Vanelli ended in an easy win in the 5km team event, held in a time-trial format at the European Open Water Championships in Hoorn in the Netherlands.
From the beginning they dictated a great pace and right at the half way they were well in the leading position with a gap of 11.8 seconds, ahead of the Germans. Over the second lap the "Squadra Azzurri" could not be stopped and they grabbed the gold in 55:59.3 minutes.
For the Italians it was the fourth victory in the team event since the 2008 inauguration. "We must say a big thank to Rachele Bruni, she was very strong. she was the secret for our victory", Simone Ruffini stated. The praised female swimmer was member of all four winning Italian teams at the Europeans.
In the runner-up German team Rob Muffels was also part of last year's world triumph, but the<|fim_middle|> their line-up. The title-holder and host Dutch team fielded three youngsters and they didn't have any chance to reach the podium this time. | other two, Christian Reichert and Isabelle Haerle were missing from today's race as they are busy with their Olympic preparations. Instead, Finnia Wunram and Andreas Waschburger joined the team in Hoorn. They came second at the end (56:37.0min), Wunram had a tough race after she had swum in the 5km race a day earlier, finishing runner-up as well.
For the first time Hungary managed to clinch a medal in this event (56:42.6min), courtesy of Eva Risztov, Mark Papp and Daniel Szekely, they managed to finish ahead the Brits who has the 5km women champion, Danielle Huskisson and the men's bronze medallist Caleb Hughes in | 162 |
Fairfield Honors Classes of 2020 and 2021
This week of in-person Academic Celebrations and virtual Commencements will culminate with an in-person Academic Celebration for the undergraduate Class of 2020 on Saturday, May 22 and virtual Commencement Ceremonies for graduate and undergraduate members of the Class of 2021 on Sunday, May 23.
"Our work is not to train, it is to educate individuals to 'go set the world on fire.'"
— President Mark R. Nemec, PhD
Fairfield University has been proudly honoring the achievements of the Classes of 2020 and 2021 with virtual Commencement ceremonies and a series of smaller, in-person academic celebrations held throughout this week. Under cloudless, brilliant skies, family and friends gathered for celebrations on Bellarmine Lawn overlooking the Long Island Sound as President Mark R. Nemec, PhD, provosts, deans, and faculty members recognized each graduate's success.
Graduate and Professional Studies:
A graduate and professional studies ceremony for the Class of 2020 was held virtually on Saturday, May 15 at 9:30 a.m., to honor advanced degree recipients from Fairfield's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Charles F. Dolan School of Business, School of Engineering, and the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions. The exercises were led by Fairfield University Provost Christine Siegel, PhD. The Most Reverend Frank J. Caggiano, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, opened the ceremony with an invocation. Graduate student Nicole J. Phillips '20 D<|fim_middle|> all Class of 2021 undergraduate and graduate degrees are scheduled for Sunday, May 23 at 9:30 a.m. This year's speaker for the Class of 2021 undergraduate and graduate virtual ceremonies, Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
The total number of degrees expected to be conferred are: 966 bachelor's, 405 master's, 23 sixth-year certificates, and 41 doctorates.
For more information or to view livestreams and virtual ceremonies, please visit: Fairfield.edu/commencement.
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Fairfield President Mark R. Nemec, PhD, was the featured Commencement Speaker. He encouraged the graduate Class of 2020 to "never stop asking questions. Never lose sight of the power of inquiry... and never forget, that no matter what profession or what further study you choose to pursue, you are called to be stewards. You are called to leave all you touch, better than when you found it."
More than 700 graduates from the Class of 2020 are expected back to campus for in-person academic celebrations and the traditional walk across Bellarmine Terrace on Saturday, May 22, at 9:30 a.m. for both the College of Arts and Sciences and the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, and at 2 p.m. for both the Charles F. Dolan School of Business and the School of Engineering.
A special celebratory event for all members of the Class of 2020 will be scheduled during the University's Fall Alumni & Family Weekend.
Graduate & Professional Studies:
On Sunday, May 16 at 9:30 a.m., Fairfield University held an in-person academic celebration for Class of 2021 graduate and professional studies students from Fairfield's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Charles F. Dolan School of Business, School of Engineering, and Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions. The celebration was held on Bellarmine Lawn and presided over by Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions Dean Laurie Grupp, PhD, Provost Siegel, and the Reverend Paul Rourke, S.J., who led the opening prayer.
"Our work is not to train, it is to educate individuals to 'go set the world on fire,'" said President Nemec in concluding remarks. "For we, as a Jesuit Catholic institution, are committed to universal truth and justice. We, as a Jesuit Catholic university, most humbly acknowledge no one individual or collective owns this truth or knows the path to justice..."
On Monday, May 17, Fairfield's series of in-person academic celebrations kicked off with the Class of 2021 undergraduates from the College of Arts and Sciences at 9:30 a.m. and at 2 p.m. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Richard Greenwald, PhD, welcomed the graduates and Fr. Rourke led the invocation prayer: "As our graduates commence the next stage in their journey, we ask you God to inspire them with your spirit to transform the world as they have transformed our University. Give them hearts on fire and minds alive to the needs and challenges of our world."
Prior to the recognition of each graduate by name, Provost Siegel addressed the graduates and referenced their resilience amid the challenges of the pandemic: "...Class of 2021, as I look across this lawn at you who were faced with an abrupt and unexpected transition in your education...one for which you had to adapt to new ways of learning, new routines, and higher expectations, and one through which you worked tirelessly to earn bachelor's degrees... I say to you, I knew you could do it all along."
In-person academic celebrations for undergraduates in the Charles F. Dolan School of Business took place on Tuesday, May 18, at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Dean of the Dolan School Zhan Li, DBA, welcomed graduates and their families and led the order of exercises. Assistant to the dean, the Reverend Gregory Konz, S.J., offered the opening prayer. Following Provost Siegel's introduction and the celebration of degrees, President Nemec offered concluding remarks.
On Wednesday, May 19, undergraduates in the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies were honored at 9:30 a.m., and the School of Engineering's academic celebration took place at 2 p.m. Egan School Dean Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, FAAN, and Dean of the School of Engineering Andres L. Carrano, PhD, welcomed graduates, families, and invited guests at the respective academic celebrations.The Reverend Michael Tunney, S.J., provided a prayer for both celebrations: "Let us take up all of the skills and talents that we have discovered here, lavishly, to heal and lift up our human community — to build up the common good of all in our world. Help us O God to be on fire...with your desire for wisdom rooted in our faiths and human reason." Celebrations followed the same format with Provost Siegel's introductory remarks, celebration of degrees, and concluding remarks by President Nemec.
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'How Long Will It Take to Settle My Jones Act Case?'
Many clients have an understandable concern about how long it will take to settle their Jones Act cases. Because a variety of maritime injuries and circumstances are involved in a Jones Act case, resolution times vary. Some Jones Act cases can be settled in only a few months, but others may take a few years.<|fim_middle|> takes to resolve Jones Act cases varies, the most important part of all Jones Act cases is the need for injured seamen and families of maritime workers killed at sea to take action as soon as possible. In addition to the statute of limitations for victims, a negligent employer may be taking actions that can negatively affect your claim from its investigation of the accident, hiring investigators, taking statements of crew members and witnesses to hiring doctors to examine the injured seaman. Latti & Anderson LLP understands the dramatic ways in which maritime injuries affect not just the lives of workers, but entire families. We work tirelessly to pursue the maximum possible compensation that our clients need and deserve, and our Boston firm has obtained several multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for clients under the Jones Act. Latti & Anderson LLP has also arrived at several successful resolutions through mediation, including a $2.5 million settlement this past September for an individual who sustained numerous injuries after being electrocuted while on board a vessel.
You can find more information about the Jones Act on our website. If you or a loved one sustained a catastrophic injury in a maritime accident, fill out the form on this page to let our Jones Act lawyers review your case or contact our firm today at (800) 392-6072 to take advantage of a free initial consultation.
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Lawyers for the insurance company or your employer will hold out as long as possible to avoid settling your case. Injured workers and the families of seamen killed on the job will want to work with a Jones Act attorney who does not rush to conclude a case by accepting a settlement that is less than what the client needs and deserves.
Jones Act cases settle when two parties are able to come to agreement on number. In certain occasions, the parties may be able to resolve the dispute through mediation. In this process, an independent third party called a mediator—usually a retired lawyer or judge—with no financial interest in the case will try to help the two parties arrive at a resolution. If the case is not settled during mediation, the amounts offered by both sides remain confidential and none of the information will be shared with a jury if the case proceeds to be heard in court.
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McConaughey can't rescue 'Free State of Jones'
Gary Ross' film, about a southern farmer who leads a revolt against the Confederacy, could have been intriguing. Instead, it's one-note.
Critic's rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
"Free State of Jones" is a well-intentioned slog through a potentially fascinating bit of Civil War history, brought to life only by Matthew McConaughey's performance, and then only occasionally.
Note: It's two hours and 19 minutes long, so make that a long slog.
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Gary Ross, whose resume includes "Seabiscuit" and the first "Hunger Games" movie, tells the story of Newton Knight, a farmer who served as a nurse on the Confederate side during the war but who, we learn from the start, harbored no illusions as to any sort of glory of the cause. Already cynical about making the rich richer (the true cause of war, he figures), he becomes incensed when he learns of a new Confederate mandate that allows the first son in a household to be exempt from fighting if the family owns at least 20 slaves. When he takes the body of a relative home and sees Confederate soldiers looting their own people's farms (part of a "tax" that is routinely abused), he's had enough. He stands up to the soldiers, virtually ensuring he will be hanged as a deserter.
Instead he flees for the swamps of Mississippi, leaving his wife (Keri Russell, little seen) and young son behind. There he and a group of runaway slaves and, later, other soldiers who have deserted take the fight to the Confederate soldiers who have been stealing food and goods from other Southerners. They aren't exactly fighting for the Union, Knight explains. It's just that they and the Union are fighting the same people.
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The political and societal implications of that fight are intriguing. But rather than explore it in depth, Ross goes another route — that of making Knight a hero, one so selfless, so enlightened, so righteous that you wonder why he didn't just fit him for a halo and be done with it. (Knight has an opposite number, a Confederate lieutenant played by Bill Tangradi, who is just as one-dimensional on the evil side. There is not a lot of subtlety to this story.)
The harmony in Knight's regiment, which includes men and women, make it more like a commune. With the exception of one bad apple, everyone loves everyone — evidently including Knight, who fathers a child with Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a former slave. When the war is over and Knight is reunited with his wife and child, he sets them up in a guest house and lives with Rachel — and the two women raise the new baby as one big happy family.
Ross jumps back and forth to 1948 to show the trial of one of Knight's descendants who has been arrested in Mississippi for marrying a White woman; though he looks White, prosecutors have researched the family tree and believe he's a descendant of Rachel, as well. The penalty — in the 20th century, remember — was imprisonment.
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It's an attempt to show that the racial divide didn't end with the Civil War, but the story already does that. When the war ends, while slaves are now ostensibly free, the south comes up with insidious ways to keep them all but enslaved ("apprenticeships" are particularly ugly). Knight, of course, continues to fight the good fight.
To his credit, McConaughey invests Knight with an intensity that guides his devotion to the cause, even as the cause evolves. The romcom days behind him,<|fim_middle|> if the roles are weakly written.
As a whole, "Free State of Jones" would have benefitted from more nuanced storytelling. Instead it's a flat reading of a story you know has more depth, leaving you intrigued but ultimately unsatisfied.
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'Free State of Jones,' 2.5 stars
Director: Gary Ross.
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell.
Rating: R for brutal battle scenes and disturbing graphic images.
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UMCs, other churches help homeless families stay together as latest affiliate opens in Midlands
COLUMBIA—Never in a million years did Frederica Prince think she and her two sons would be homeless.
"I did everything everyone expected me to do—I raised a family, worked since I was 15 years old, everything I was taught as it relates to the American dream. Finding myself in this predicament was not something I ever expected," Prince said.
A single mother, Prince and her sons found themselves homeless recently after they were forced to move out of her brother's house and her car engine died, and she couldn't get to work and afford a place of their own.<|fim_middle|> Anderson, Beaufort County, Greenville, Lancaster, the Midlands, Pickens County, Spartanburg and York County have Family Promise affiliates. The Aiken area is served by Family Promise of Augusta, Georgia. The Midlands branch of Family Promise opened Dec. 8 after more than two years of hard work. The Prince family is the second to be helped since it began. Currently under development is the next affiliate, in Florence.
"The vast majority of people have a picture in their mind of who is homeless. They don't realize the person sitting next to them in the cubicle at work is homeless," said Kathleen McLean-Titus, executive director of Family Promise of the Midlands. "More than 1,100 kids in the Richland One School District are homeless, and over 2,000 children across the Midlands. The vast majority of people live in their own little bubbles and don't realize the person next to them is living in their car."
Goal: Find housing and a job
Family Promise of the Midlands can accommodate three families at one time, and up to 14 people. The family must include a parent or parental figure (such as a grandparent with custody) and at least one child.
The family must be situationally homeless—because of a specific event, such as job loss or injury—not chronically homeless, plus must have no active drug or alcohol addiction issues, have a clean criminal record and not be fleeing a domestic violence situation. Parents must actively seek work and save money for housing.
"The goal is to find housing and maybe a job," McLean-Titus said.
Formerly with the S.C. Department of Social Services, McLean-Titus had been a foster care manager and independent living coordinator, and she knows how quickly a situational homeless situation can escalate into a long-term problem. She tries to get people back on their feet as quickly as possible, even working with utility companies and landlords to see if they can waive security deposits and other barriers to housing.
If a church or agency has a potential family candidate, that family contacts McLean-Titus, who does a detailed phone screening. If it seems like a family they can help, she then does a face-to-face meeting with the family, asking hard questions and laying out exactly what will be required for the next three months.
"I'm pretty direct about it. I believe in disclosing everything up front," she said.
'An atmosphere to help'
Sunday is the start of the program. The family begins at the Day Center, located on the second floor of Wesley Memorial UMC, Columbia. If they don't have transportation, they are taken to that week's host church, arriving between 5 and 6 p.m. They have dinner and do some activities, then lights out at 10 p.m. They wake at 6 a.m., dress and have breakfast. If they have a car, they can drive to school and work, but if not, they are transported to the Day Center, where schools pick up the children for the day. Adults are expected to either go to their job or stay at the Day Center and apply for jobs all day. Very young children are enrolled in a Head Start daycare program.
Some churches have laundry and showers, but many don't, so in the afternoons after school, the families typically use laundry and shower facilities at the Day Center, then head back to the church between 5 and 6 p.m. to repeat the process (dinner, activities, lights out at 10, wake at 6 a.m. repeat).
They stay at the church all week, and then on Saturdays have a free day, where church members supply entertainment. Bethel UMC was the host church the week the Advocate visited, and they were planning to take their guests to the military museum on Saturday. On Sundays, families often worship with the host church, then they head on to their next week's host church.
Most churches use Sunday school rooms, with one room per family, though some larger families are often split up—the boy children sleeping in a room with the father, and the girl children with the mother.
The week the Advocate visited, Prince and her sons were staying at Bethel UMC, Columbia, where Bonnie Speas is the co-host coordinator. Speas said it takes about 50 volunteers to make it all come together during their host week: some to provide breakfast, dinner and a brownbag lunch; some to provide transportation; some to provide activities; some to sleep over at the church with the families. Speas has six teams under her and said she and her volunteers feel the hard work is all worthwhile.
"Homelessness is an epidemic, and it pulls families apart," Speas said. "I want to create an atmosphere that will help them and make them be independent. God has called us to help people and I feel I've been made a disciple to have a voice to protect the children and these families."
75 percent success rate
Tony McDade, executive director for the Midlands' sister affiliate, GAIHN (Greenville Area Interfaith Housing Network) in Greenville, said he is thrilled to see Family Promise expand into the Columbia area, and he applauds the work of McLean-Titus and the vast network of ecumenical churches who made Family Promise a success.
McDade, a Baptist minister, said United Methodist churches are the backbone of the Family Promise network, and it benefits church families as much as it benefits homeless families.
"This is just another way for Methodist congregations to be Wesleyan in the very best sense," McDade said, noting the need is great—and growing.
"Families are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in our country and county, and one in four homeless persons nationwide is a child under the age of 18," McDade said, adding that each year more than 4,000 people experience homelessness in the Upstate and approximately 1,000 homeless people call Greenville home. GAIHN, which has been open since 2001, not only provides the three-month emergency shelter and meals at host congregations, but also offers short-term (three to six months) or longer-term (12 months or longer) transitional housing, which is something the Midlands affiliate might explore in the future.
Family Promise does make a difference, not just in S.C. but nationwide, McDade said.
"Three of four families who come into Family Promise leave with a job and a place to stay. That's a 75 percent success rate, and that's not bad. That's a solid number," McDade said.
'On the upswing'
As for Prince and her sons, they intend to be among that 75 percent success rate. As of press time, Prince was in her third week at Family Promise and making strong headway into finding a good job. A guardian ad litem, she hopes to find work helping children.
"Through Him all things are possible. In order to get past homelessness, you have to empty out of self, which is to get rid of pride. It's a journey, it's a process, but it has to be done. If God brings you to it, He'll bring you through it," Prince said. "There are always little hiccups in life, and you decide how long it's going to take: a 40-year wilderness period or a 40-day wilderness period."
Now, she said, "I'm on the upswing and finding solutions. I don't have a place of my own, but provisions have been made."
And McLean-Titus and members of more than 15 churches in the Midlands are there by her family's side, cheering them on, offering assistance and support, all in the name of love.
Family Promise is completely nonprofit, and in the Midlands, they are not eligible for government funding for at least another year. They are applying for grants, plus receive private individual and church donations. Currently, they seek funding for a trailer and a part-time caseworker.
To learn more about the organization and how to help, visit www.familypromisemidlands.org.
If you know a family experiencing situational homelessness, call McLean-Titus at 803-832-4765.
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And then, an answered prayer: a free place for her and her sons to live for the next 90 days. Help with transportation. Coaching and assistance with a job hunt. Prayer and love. All courtesy of the newly opened Family Promise of the Midlands.
"It's as if God opened up a window and poured out all his angels," Prince told the Advocate, a wide grin transforming her face and tired eyes gleaming with hope. "They opened up their doors and allowed me and my boys to come in. They treat us as if we're one of them. It's truly a blessing."
Family Promise of the Midlands is the latest affiliate of the Family Promise organization to open in South Carolina, joining seven other affiliates from the Upstate to the Lowcountry. United Methodist churches team up with other churches in their area to host homeless families for a three-month period, plus do what they can to help parents find jobs and get back on their feet for good. Families spend their nights at a church for one week, Sunday evening to Sunday morning, then rotate to another church the next week until their 90 days are up. During the days while children are in school, parents look for jobs or work and save up money, step by step to get their lives back on track. There are 15 ecumenical host churches in the Midlands, plus several support churches, and a church hosts a family once every 15 weeks—less than once a quarter.
So far in S.C., | 318 |
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U.S. Embassy Supports Youth Public Policy Training
Gandaki Province – United States Ambassador Randy W. Berry inaugurated the Pre-Professional Parliamentary Support Program (PPSP) today. The PPSP is a first of its kind fellowship for youth in Nepal that teaches law-making and public policy. Recognizing youth make up 52% of the Nepali voting population, the U.S. Embassy has partnered with Pokhara Research Center (PRC) to organize an online public-policy training for 50 youth aged 20-30 selected from all 11 districts of Gandaki Province. From September 15-19, the participants will learn a range of issues, including geopolitics, diplomacy, federalism, economic policy, and good governance. "Youth not only have the right to be included in political decision-making, but their inclusion strengthens government," said Ambassador Berry. "Bringing Nepal's youth to the policy drafting table ensures that Nepal's democracy represents all of its people."
This project<|fim_middle|> | will organize three camps where 50 participants will be winnowed to a final 12 who will be selected to serve as advisors to Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Gandaki State Assembly. The selected fellows will support MPs research policy areas, draft parliamentary inquiries, prepare for parliamentary discussion, and arrange schedules. | 66 |
Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Billy Gardell may be most famous for his role of "Officer Mike Biggs" in the CBS hit television series, Mike & Molly.
Before Mike & Molly, Gardell co-starred in the critically acclaimed television series Lucky. His other television credits include Yes Dear and Judging Amy, on the Network, My Name is Earl, The Practice, Monk and Gary the Rat. He made his major-motion-picture debut alongside Anthony Quinn and Sylvester Stallone in Avenging Angelo, and had a memorable scene with Billy Bob Thornton in the Cohen Brother's film Bad Santa. He also appeared in You, Me & Dupree.
As a standup comic, Gardell took the long road to Hollywood, stopping at every small town lounge, military base<|fim_middle|> Daytime Emmy nomination as "Best Gameshow Host" for Monopoly Millionaires Club. Currently, Gardell is enjoying his new role as "Herschel Sparks" on the hit sitcom Young Sheldon.
A native of Pittsburgh who currently lives in Los Angeles, Gardell loves Steeler's football, stand-up comedy, his wife Patty and son Will. | and comedy club along the way. His comedy act took him to Los Angeles where his dedication to acting, along with touring as a stand-up comedian, allowed him to grow consistently in both arenas. His stand-up show is a powerhouse. His grounded, down-to-earth point of view strikes a strong chord with audiences. Stories about his rough childhood, wild adolescence and new family life are executed with the skill of a master craftsman. His comedy specials, Billy Gardell: Halftime, premiered on Comedy Central and Billy Gardell Presents Road Dogs premiered on Showtime.
Recently, Gardell has taken a dramatic turn in the CMT series Sun Records as "Colonel Tom Parker," the infamous manager of Elvis Presley. The drama series was inspired by the Broadway musical. In 2016, Gardell received a | 165 |
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World Championships 2015 U23 Time Trial
By Campionissimo - In LATEST ARTICLES, THE GREAT RACE
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Mads Wurtz Schmidt (Denmark)won the U23 time trial event at the World Championships in Richmond, Virginia today, after crossing the line 12 seconds ahead of his closest rival, Maximilian Schachmann (Germany) – to claim the rainbow jersey.
"I was shaking for the last one and a half hours and still am. I just can't believe what I achieved," said Schmidt. "I went hard on the first part, and then I took it a bit easy on the way out the first time, then I went full gas on the headwind on the way back. I won, so there's nothing to say."
Today's race was marshaled via a series of four waves containing 11 riders each – followed by a final wave of eight.
Canada's Sean MacKinnon set the best time of the first wave with a mark of 38:47.08, but his lead didn't last long, as Gregory Daniel (USA), who was the first rider from the second wave – upset MacKinnon's time.
However, Wurtz Schmidt would then go on to trounce Daniel's time, by more than a minute.
The winds began to pick up toward the end of the day, costing many riders valuable time, with only Leonard Kamna (Germany) able to ride his way into the final podium position – earning the bronze medal.
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1 Mads Wurtz Schmidt (Denmark) 0:37:10
2 Maximilian Schachmann (Germany) 0:00:13
3 Lennard Kamna (Germany) 0:00:21
4 Truls Engen Korsaeth (Norway) 0:00:37
5 Owain Doull (Great Britain)
6 James Oram (New Zealand) 0:00:38
7 Miles Scotson (Australia) 0:00:41
8 Thery Schir (Switzerland) 0:00:42
9 Marlen Zmorka (Ukraine) 0:00:43
10 Daniel Eaton (United States of America) 0:00:44
11 Ryan Mullen (Ireland) 0:00:50
12 Davide Martinelli (Italy) 0:00:58
13 Filippo Ganna (Italy) 0:01:00
14 Steven Lammertink (Netherlands) 0:01:04
15 Jan Marcus Karlsson (Sweden) 0:01:12
16 Soren Kragh Ansersen (Denmark) 0:01:19
17 Nathan Van Hooydonck (Belgium) 0:01:27
18 Jose Luis Rodriguez (Chile) 0:01:28
19 Gregory Daniel (United States of America) 0:01:31
20 Sean MacKinnon (Canada) 0:01:37
21 Merhawi Kudus Ghbremedhin (Eritrea) 0:01:43
22 Stepan Astafyev (Kazakhstan) 0:01:46
23 Marc Fournier (France)
24 Krists Neilands (Latvia) 0:01:47
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or C.R.A.B., as we are more commonly known, was formed in August of 1996. We are dedicated to educating the PUBLIC on its rights to use and enjoy our beaches for a variety of recreational pursuits.
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Developers quickly sub-divided the area and declared the beachfront private ... for the exclusive use of the future homeowners. BEACON BEACH, a beloved family beach enjoyed by thousands of beachgoers, was one of the beaches lost to the PUBLIC as a result of the rez<|fim_middle|> TAKE PLACE AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN POINT PLEASANT ON SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2017 FROM NOON 'TIL 4 PM. STOP BY OUR BOOTH AND SAY HELLO!
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As part of it's Stewardship Program C.R.A.B. volunteers have installed and maintain Monofilament Fishing Line Recycling Stations, provided by the NJDEP at the Mantoloking Bridge Fishing Pier in Brick and at Gull Island Park in Point Pleasant Beach. The Ocean County Parks and Recreation Department is implementing improvements to these valuable waterfront areas.
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FAR 15 Rewrite Contents
Industry Lauds New Contracting Rules
By Neil Munro
Lobbyists for large and small companies cheered the latest 200-page draft of the Federal Acquisition Regulations - but then promptly urged they be revised to satisfy their remaining worries.
The new rules, dubbed FAR 15, will govern the award of contracts negotiated by an agency and a single company or those competed among several bidders. The rules are intended to ease agency procurement processes, promote government-contractor discussions and boost the use of commercial technology.
In 1996, federal agencies awarded roughly $200 billion on various types of contracts, including negotiated awards and competitive awards.
Industry's comments on the latest draft are due to the General Services Administration by July 14 and will be incorporated into the final regulation. The rules, which are likely to become effective in the fall, are an outgrowth of the 1995 federal acquisition reform law passed by Congress.
The new draft follows the publication by the GSA of a previous draft in September and July. Earlier versions generated such controversy, as well as more than 1,500 comments from industry, Congress and agencies, that the GSA combined the two drafts into a revised, 200-page document.
"I'd be hesitant to say it is a home run for small companies, but it is improving," said Bruce Hahn, the Arlington, Va.-based lobbyist for the Computer Technology Industry Association, which had argued that the previous draft of the regulations would unfairly exclude small contractors from contracts. Hahn's association represents 6,000 of the smaller companies that sell information technology equipment to systems integrators and other information technology companies.
Bert Concklin, president of the Vienna, Va.-based Professional Services Council which represents many of the larger systems integrators, cheered the new draft, saying it helps contractors strike a balance between quality and price.
"Quality, technical merit and problem-solving may be, and often are, more important than price," included in a contract bid, said Concklin, who lobbies on behalf of 140 large, medium and small companies. Among his members are the federal units of Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md.; Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif.; and GTE Corp., Stamford, Conn.
During the next few weeks, federal contractors and their associations, plus the small-business committees in the House and the Senate, will deliver their comments to the GSA.
"I'm looking for FAR 15 to be fair, fair from the beginning," said Glenn Baer, director of contracts for ARINC Inc., Annapolis, Md. "If you are not fair, [the General Accounting Office] will have [bid] protests up the ying-yang, and the government would not be able to do the job," said Baer, whose company took in $280 million in government contracts last year.
According to one congressional official, the Senate Committee on Small Business may hold hearings on the emerging rules, which he said are too hard on smaller companies. The committee is chaired by Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo.
But the new draft satisfies many of the concerns voiced by small-business lobbyists, said Hahn. For example, the draft relaxes a controversial section<|fim_middle|> 15.3 - Unsolicited Proposals
Subpart 15.4 - Source Selection
Subpart 15.5 - Contract Pricing
Subpart 15.6 - Preaward, Award and Postaward Notifications, Protests and Mistakes | that allowed contract officers to summarily reject bids from suppliers deemed unqualified, said Hahn.
The new draft includes two sections weakening this provision; one section requires contract officers to carefully consider each companies' bid before deciding whether it should be rejected, and a second section allows the companies to continue bidding, even after they are deemed unlikely to be a viable candidate.
Also, the contracting officer must also explain to rejected companies why their bids were quickly rejected. This provision establishes an informal appeals process for companies that feel unfairly excluded, Hahn said.
Concklin urged the government to delete a contradictory section that requires contract officers to reject companies deemed unlikely to be a viable candidate. By eliminating this section, the government can satisfy the concern of small business and quickly begin using the new FAR 15 regulations, he said.
The new draft also allows government contract officers to consider a bidder's performance on previous commercial contracts, instead of only federal contracts. This change will help companies get credit for experience in the commercial sector and will help promote the entry of new companies into the federal sector, Hahn said.
Hahn also welcomed the new draft's demand that contract officers issue only one round of Best and Final Offers, where bidders are forced to resubmit bids, often with lower price tags attached. Without this provision, contract officers can demand several successive BAFOs from bidders, Hahn said.
However, Hahn cautioned that the impact of the regulations depends critically on how agency chiefs and contract officers choose to implement them. Thus, government personnel cuts might prompt overworked contract-officers to exclude too many bidders, unfairly hurting many smaller companies that can do the job, he warned.
Despite his caveats, the rewrite "is moving in the right direction," he said.
Subpart 15.0 - Scope
Subpart 15.1 - Source Selection Processes and Techniques
Subpart 15.2 - Solicitation and Receipt of Proposals and Information
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Spin Alignment Measurements of the K*(0)(892) and phi(1020) Vector Mesons in Heavy Ion Collisions at Root S-NN=200 GeV
David Grosnick, Valparaiso University
Donald D. Koetke, Valparaiso University<|fim_middle|> |
Robert Manweiler, Valparaiso University
Shirvel Stanislaus, Valparaiso University
J. C. Webb, Valparaiso University
STAR Collaboration
We present the first spin alignment measurements for the K*(0)(892) and phi(1020) vector mesons produced at midrapidity with transverse momenta up to 5 GeV/c at root s(NN) = 200 GeV at RHIC. The diagonal spin-density matrix elements with respect to the reaction plane in Au+Au collisions are rho(00) = 0.32 +/- 0.04 (stat) +/- 0.09 (syst) for the K*(0) (0.8 < p(T) < 5.0 GeV/c) and rho(00) = 0.34 +/- 0.02 (stat) +/- 0.03 (syst) for the phi (0.4 < p(T) < 5.0 GeV/c) and are constant with transverse momentum and collision centrality. The data are consistent with the unpolarized expectation of 1/3 and thus no evidence is found for the transfer of the orbital angular momentum of the colliding system to the vector-meson spins. Spin alignments for K-*0 and phi in Au+Au collisions were also measured with respect to the particle's production plane. The phi result, rho(00) = 0.41 +/- 0.02 (stat) +/- 0.04 (syst), is consistent with that in p+p collisions, rho(00) = 0.39 +/- 0.03 (stat) +/- 0.06 (syst), also measured in this work. The measurements thus constrain the possible size of polarization phenomena in the production dynamics of vector mesons.
Grosnick, David; Koetke, Donald D.; Manweiler, Robert; Stanislaus, Shirvel; Webb, J. C.; and STAR Collaboration, "Spin Alignment Measurements of the K*(0)(892) and phi(1020) Vector Mesons in Heavy Ion Collisions at Root S-NN=200 GeV" (2008). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 85. | 494 |
Kayak rescue may trigger signal-device requirement
By Peter J. Devlin, Advocate correspondent
One of the principals in last week's rescue of a woman and two boys after they had spent 15 hours in rented kayaks on Green Bay said the incident could trigger a change in state law to require equipping the boats with signaling devices.
Alison Alter, 43, of Austin, Texas, her son Zach Suri and nephew Thomas Alter of Highland Park, Ill. – both age 9 – were rescued shortly after sunrise last Friday morning in an area of the bay known as Whaleback Shoals, about one mile over the state line into Michigan.
Door County Sheriff's Field Services Lieutenant Jeff<|fim_middle|> with a private vendor for kayak rental at Peninsula State Park, Farley said.
"There's talk of modifying the contract to require some type of signaling device so if this happens again, they could be located a lot easier," he said. "The law in Wisconsin does not require any type of signaling device. Maybe this (incident) might get things done." | Farley told the Door County Board's Law Enforcement Committee the boys were in one kayak with Alison in a second vessel.
After renting the kayaks from a concessionaire at Nicolet Bay in Peninsula State Park around 2:30 p.m. July 10, Farley said "they went to Horseshoe Island," a short distance from the park.
"When they tried to get back, the 9-year-olds could not keep up because of the wind blowing from the southeast," Farley said.
The concessionaire expected the boats back around 4:30 p.m. When they failed to appear, employees searched the waters near Nicolet Bay before telephoning Door County's 911 Emergency Center at 6:25 p.m.
The Gibraltar Fire Department had already established an Incident Command Center when the sheriff's boat arrived on scene, Farley said.
"We set up a second command just north of Horseshoe Island," he said.
With a total of six boats, spaced "about 400 yards apart," rescuers searched in an east-west pattern.
"We had only two hours remaining of daylight and only made one pattern before it got too dark on us," Farley said.
The boats were pulled in after 10 p.m. with plans to resume searching at 5 a.m. Friday. Two helicopters and two boats under command of the U.S. Coast Guard stayed on station all night.
Farley said in talking to Alter later, "She could see the blue lights of our boats, but she had no way to signal us. I think if we had another hour of daylight, we would have found them, but we ran out of daylight."
Shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, the two kayaks were spotted by the crew of a Canadian Air Force C-130 airplane specially equipped for search-and-rescue operations and summoned by the Coast Guard from a base on the north side of Lake Erie.
"When we received the message, my heart was 'Yes,'" Farley said. "But we didn't know yet if they were in the kayaks. If they weren't, that would have meant a totally different kind of search."
The Coast Guard dropped a swimmer near the kayaks from a helicopter, who confirmed all three were safe.
"It was like 'we found them, they're alive and they're basically fine,'" the lieutenant said. "Mom had the foresight to tie the two kayaks together to keep the waves from taking the 9-year-old away from her."
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The man killed in a single-vehicle accident Sunday night in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has been identified as John Ashley Becker, 48, of Texas.
The driver, Kenneth J. Ewing, 43, of Pā<|fim_middle|>10 years in federal prison, and a fine up to $250,000. The charges are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The case is being investigated by the National Park Service, with technical assistance provided by the Hawai'i Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney, Sara Ayabe. | hoa, has been charged in federal court with negligent homicide in the first degree.
A third man was transported by ambulance to Hilo Medical Center for treatment.
Ewing was Ka'ū-bound shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday when he lost control of the white Toyota Tacoma near the 33-mile marker on Hwy. 11 in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. The vehicle rolled over, and ejected all three occupants. Becker was found pinned beneath the truck and pronounced dead on the scene by Hawai'i County Fire Department medics.
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Signed and numbered. 130 of 300. Shepard Fairey's work is a mixture of parody and protest, serves to subvert the very medium to which it attaches itself.
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Frank Shepard Fairey born on February 15, 1970, in Charleston, South Carolina.<|fim_middle|>92, while still an illustration student at RISD, Fairey started his first business venture, Alternate Graphics, to showcase his emerging design and silkscreen printing talents. He created stickers, t-shirts, skateboards, and posters which were all available via black and white mail order catalogs that he distributed. He also did small commercial printing jobs for clients to help cover some of his expenses. In 1994, Helen Stickler created a documentary film, Andre the Giant Has a Posse, that focused on Fairey and the growing phenomenon of his subversive stickers and posters. By 1995, Fairey had two or three full-time employees, two of whom were longtime friends from Charleston, whom he had known through his many years of skateboarding. During this time, he also created a small sister brand, Subliminal Projects, with Blaize Blouin, and released several skateboard and poster designs using this moniker. Fairey created a skateboard video, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), that showcased the small group of skateboarders that he sponsored via Alternate Graphics. In 1996, Fairey moved from Providence, RI, to San Diego, CA, to partner with Andy Howell in Giant Distribution. Shortly thereafter, Fairey partnered up with Dave Kinsey, Phillip De Wolff, and Howell to form First Bureau of Imagery, FBI, a branding, marketing and design firm targeting the emerging action sports market. In 1999, FBI was dissolved and Fairey, Kinsey, and De Wolff formed BLK/MRKT, another branding, marketing, and design firm. During this time, Fairey met his future wife, Amanda Ayala, who began working with him. In 2001, the BLK/MRKT offices were moved from San Diego to Los Angeles and expanded to include a small art gallery. De Wolff's partnership was purchased by Fairey and Kinsey, who became the sole proprietors of the operation, now doing business from an office in the historic Wiltern building located in Koreatown. In 2003, Fairey and Kinsey decided to make a professional split; Fairey kept the location and most of the employees, renamed his agency Studio Number One, and renamed the art gallery Subliminal Projects. Kinsey took the name BLK/MRKT and its gallery, and relocated it to Culver City, CA, where it is still in operation. In 2004, Fairey teamed up with longtime friend Roger Gastman to create a quarterly publication, Swindle. The magazine documents pop culture, fashion, and music, and each issue is released in both soft cover and hardcover. In 2006, Fairey released a comprehensive, hardcover monograph, Supply and Demand, that documents much of his personal and professional design work. The entire book was designed in-house at Studio Number One and it is published by Ginko Press. It is currently in its third edition. Fairey married Amanda Ayala in December of 2001 in Charleston, SC. In June 2005 Amanda gave birth to their first child, daughter Vivienne, named after punk fashion icon, Vivienne Westwood. In January of 2008, their second daughter, Madeline, was born. Fairey's images range in subject from counter-revolutionaries and rock stars to updated takes on political propaganda posters. Marked by the artist's bold graphic style and provocative messages, the images are visually arresting, yet open-ended and ambiguous in intent.
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Matteo Donini aka The Don opened the gallery in march 2008, after being a passionate collector for more than 10 years. After being travelling around Europe and USA, The Don decided to make Italy understand the real value of the art coming from the Streets and learn the real history of Graffiti. His friendship with Bo130 and Microbo started in 1996 and drove ...
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Edward Drake Roe (* 4. Januar 1859 in Elmira; † 11. Dezember 1929 in Massachusetts) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker und Hochschullehrer. Er war von 1901 bis zu seinem Tod John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics an der Syracuse University und gründete 1914 die amerikanische Ehrengesellschaft für Mathematik Pi Mu Epsilon.
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Roe studierte an der Syracuse University und erhielt dort 1880 einen Bachelor-Abschluss und ebenso 1885 an der Harvard University, sowie 1886 einen Master-Abschluss an der Harvard University. 1890 heiratete er Harriet Adelaide Bridge Gourley und adoptierte ihre Tochter Mary Eva Gourley. Nach Unterrichtstätigkeit an der Harvard University und der Boston University war er von 1892 bis 1899 außerordentlicher Professor für Mathematik am Oberlin College, wo er von 1897 bis 1899 beurlaubt wurde. Während dieser Zeit forschte er bei Paul Gordan an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und promovierte 1898. 1901 erhielt er die Raymond French Professor of Mathematics an der Syracuse University. 1904 nahm er am 3. Internationalen Mathematikerkongress in Heidelberg teil und bereiste deutsche<|fim_middle|>859
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Mann | Universitäten. Nachdem 1898 seine erste Frau verstorben war, heiratete er 1911 die Mathematikerin Josephine Robinson. Er veröffentlichte 26 Artikel in Mathematik und mehrere mathematische Lehrbücher und gründete 1914 die amerikanische Ehrengesellschaft für Mathematik Pi Mu Epsilon.
Astronomische Tätigkeit
1906 errichtete er auf seinem eigenen Gelände ein privates Observatorium, das mit einem Alvan-Clark-Äquatorialteleskop ausgestattet war und als eines der am besten ausgestatteten privaten Observatorien des Landes galt. 1919 wurde er zum Direktor des Holden Observatory in Syracuse ernannt. Nach seinem Tod übergaben seine Frau und seine Tochter sein Observatorium mit sämtlicher Ausrüstung dem Harvard College und leisteten auch einen großzügigen Beitrag zu den Kosten eines Gebäudes zur Unterbringung des Teleskops. Roe war Gründer und Präsident der Syracuse Astronomical Society.
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Galileo Galilei ( 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan ( Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science." The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the Galilean moons in his honour,<|fim_middle|> In the end, Cardinal Bellarmine, acting on directives from the Inquisition, delivered him an order not to "hold or defend" the idea that the Earth moves and the Sun stands still at the centre. The decree did not prevent Galileo from discussing heliocentrism hypothetically. For the next several years Galileo stayed well away from the controversy. He revived his project of writing a book on the subject, encouraged by the election of Cardinal Barberini as Pope Urban VIII in 1623. Barberini was a friend and admirer of Galileo, and had opposed the condemnation of Galileo in 1616. The book, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was published in 1632, with formal authorization from the Inquisition and papal permission.
Pope Urban VIII personally asked Galileo to give arguments for and against heliocentrism in the book, and to be careful not to advocate heliocentrism. He made another request, that his own views on the matter be included in Galileo's book. Only the latter of those requests was fulfilled by Galileo. Whether unknowingly or deliberate, Simplicius, the defender of the Aristotelian Geocentric view in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was often caught in his own errors and sometimes came across as a fool. This fact made Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems appear as an advocacy book; an attack on Aristotelian geocentrism and defense of the Copernican theory. To add insult to injury, Galileo put the words of Pope Urban VIII into the mouth of Simplicius. Most historians agree Galileo did not act out of malice and felt blindsided by the reaction to his book. However, the Pope did not take the suspected public ridicule lightly, nor the blatant bias. Galileo had alienated one of his biggest and most powerful supporters, the Pope, and was called to Rome to defend his writings.
Galileo was required to abjure the opinion that the Sun lies motionless at the centre of the universe, and that the Earth is not at its centre and moves; the idea that the Sun is stationary was condemned as "formally heretical." However, while there is no doubt that Pope Urban VIII and the vast majority of Church officials did not believe in heliocentrism, heliocentrism was never formally or officially condemned by the Catholic Church, except insofar as it held (for instance, in the formal condemnation of Galileo) that "The proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical; because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scriptures", and the converse as to the Sun's not revolving around the Earth.
According to popular legend, after recanting his theory that the Earth moved around the Sun, Galileo allegedly muttered the rebellious phrase And yet it moves, but there is no evidence that he actually said this or anything similarly impertinent.
After a period with the friendly Ascanio Piccolomini (the Archbishop of Siena), Galileo was allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the remainder of his life under house arrest, and where he later became blind. It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he dedicated his time to one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials. This book has received high praise from both Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. As a result of this work, Galileo is often called, the "father of modern physics".
Galileo died on January 8, 1642. The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II, wished to bury him in the main body of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors, and to erect a marble mausoleum in his honour. These plans were scrapped, however, after Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protested. He was instead buried in a small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor from the southern transept of the basilica to the sacristy. He was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 after a monument had been erected there in his honour.
On February 15, 1990, in a speech delivered at the Sapienza University of Rome, Cardinal Ratzinger cited some current views on the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that permits us to see how deep the self-doubt of the modern age, of science and technology goes today." Some of the views he cited were those of the philosopher Paul Feyerabend, whom he quoted as saying "The Church at the time of Galileo kept much more closely to reason than did Galileo himself, and she took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's teaching too. Her verdict against Galileo was rational and just and the revision of this verdict can be justified only on the grounds of what is politically opportune." The Cardinal did not clearly indicate whether he agreed or disagreed with Feyerabend's assertions. He did, however, say "It would be foolish to construct an impulsive apologetic on the basis of such views".
On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.
The four large moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo ( Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are often referred to as the 'Galilean moons'.
The Galileo spacecraft was the first spacecraft to enter orbit around Jupiter, where it investigated the planet and its moons from 1995 to 2003.
Galileo is also the name of a proposed, European satellite navigation system.
A transformation between inertial systems in classical mechanics is called a Galilean transformation.
The gal, sometimes called galileo, (symbol Gal) is a non- SI unit of acceleration named after Galileo. The gal is defined as 1 centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s²).
The United Nations scheduled the International Year of Astronomy in 2009 in part to coincide with Galileo's first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope.
Singer-songwriter Ellis Paul wrote and recorded a song Did Galileo Pray. See also commentary on the song published in the June/July 2006 issue of the physics journal Symmetry.
There is a play called Life of Galileo by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. It was filmed in 1975 as Galileo, with Topol in the title role, and an all-star cast.
A play about Galileo's struggle with the Church, Lamp at Midnight, was first televised in 1966 on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, with Melvyn Douglas as Galileo and Kim Hunter as his daughter. The production also featured an appearance by Roy Scheider in an early role.
Galileo is mentioned in Queen's song, Bohemian Rhapsody.
The American duo Indigo Girls released a song in 1992 about the "king of night vision" whose head was "on the block." Entitled "Galileo," the song hit the #10 spot on the Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, the biggest hit to date for the musical duo.
Galileo is also the title of a song by Amy Grant.
The Philadelphia Atmospheric Sludge Metal band named their 2005 full length "The Galilean Satellites", wherein most songs are about Jupiter and its 4 Galilean moons, specifically Europa.
The Symphonic Metal band Haggard made an album based on the life of Galileo and the legend that he muttered the phrase Eppur si muove meaning "And yet it does move", after being forced to recant, in front of the Inquisition.
The shuttlecraft used in the Star Trek first season episode The Galileo Seven is named after the famed astronomer. When that shuttle is destroyed at the end of the episode, another shuttlecraft is named the Galileo II. | and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.
Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo's opposition to this view resulted in the Catholic Church's prohibiting the advocacy of heliocentrism as potentially factual, because that theory had no decisive proof and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Inquisition.
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany), the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a famous lutenist and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. At the age of 8, his family moved to Florence, but he was left with Jacopo Borghini for two years. He then was educated in the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa, 21 mi southeast of Florence. Although he seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, he enrolled for a medical degree at the University of Pisa at his father's urging. He did not complete this degree, but instead studied mathematics. In 1589, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in Pisa. In 1591 his father died and he was entrusted with the care of his younger brother Michelagnolo. In 1592, he moved to the University of Padua, teaching geometry, mechanics, and astronomy until 1610. During this period Galileo made significant discoveries in both pure science (for example, kinematics of motion, and astronomy) and applied science (for example, strength of materials, improvement of the telescope). His multiple interests included the study of astrology, which in pre-modern disciplinary practice was seen as correlated to the studies of mathematics and astronomy.
Although a devout Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters, Virginia in 1600 and Livia in 1601, and one son, Vincenzio, in 1606. Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were sent to the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on April 2, 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze. Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most of her life. Vincenzio was later legitimized and married Sestilia Bocchineri.
In 1612, opposition arose to the Sun-centered solar system which Galileo supported. In 1614, from the pulpit of Santa Maria Novella, Father Tommaso Caccini (1574–1648) denounced Galileo's opinions on the motion of the Earth, judging them dangerous and close to heresy. Galileo went to Rome to defend himself against these accusations, but, in 1616, Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino personally handed Galileo an admonition enjoining him neither to advocate nor teach Copernican astronomy. During 1621 and 1622 Galileo wrote his first book, The Assayer (Il Saggiatore), which was approved and published in 1623. In 1630, he returned to Rome to apply for a license to print the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632. In October of that year, however, he was ordered to appear before the Holy Office in Rome.
Following a papal trial in which he was found vehemently suspect of heresy, Galileo was placed under house arrest and his movements restricted by the Pope. From 1634 onward he stayed at his country house at Arcetri, outside of Florence. He went completely blind in 1638 and was suffering from a painful hernia and insomnia, so he was permitted to travel to Florence for medical advice. He continued to receive visitors until 1642, when, after suffering fever and heart palpitations, he passed away.
Galileo Galilei pioneered the use of quantitative experiments whose results could be analyzed with mathematical precision. More typical of science at the time were the qualitative studies of William Gilbert, on magnetism and electricity. Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei, a lutenist and music theorist, had performed experiments establishing perhaps the oldest known non-linear relation in physics: for a stretched string, the pitch varies as the square root of the tension. These observations lay within the framework of the Pythagorean tradition of music, well-known to instrument makers, which included the fact that subdividing a string by a whole number produces a harmonious scale. Thus, a limited amount of mathematics had long related music and physical science, and young Galileo could see his own father's observations expand on that tradition.
Galileo is perhaps the first to clearly state that the laws of nature are mathematical. In The Assayer he wrote "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe ... It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures; ...". His mathematical analyses are a further development of a tradition employed by late scholastic natural philosophers, which Galileo learned when he studied philosophy. Although he tried to remain loyal to the Catholic Church, his adherence to experimental results, and their most honest interpretation, led to a rejection of blind allegiance to authority, both philosophical and religious, in matters of science. In broader terms, this aided to separate science from both philosophy and religion; a major development in human thought.
By the standards of his time, Galileo was often willing to change his views in accordance with observation. Philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend also noted the supposedly improper aspects of Galileo's methodology, but he argued that Galileo's methods could be justified retroactively by their results. The bulk of Feyerabend's major work, Against Method (1975), was devoted to an analysis of Galileo, using his astronomical research as a case study to support Feyerabend's own anarchistic theory of scientific method. As he put it: 'Aristotelians ... demanded strong empirical support while the Galileans were content with far-reaching, unsupported and partially refuted theories. I do not criticize them for that; on the contrary, I favour Niels Bohr's "this is not crazy enough."' In order to perform his experiments, Galileo had to set up standards of length and time, so that measurements made on different days and in different laboratories could be compared in a reproducible fashion.
Galileo showed a remarkably modern appreciation for the proper relationship between mathematics, theoretical physics, and experimental physics. He understood the parabola, both in terms of conic sections and in terms of the ordinate (y) varying as the square of the abscissa (x). Galilei further asserted that the parabola was the theoretically-ideal trajectory for uniformly accelerated motion, in the absence of friction and other disturbances. He also noted that there are limits to the validity of this theory, stating that it was appropriate only for laboratory-scale and battlefield-scale trajectories, and noting on theoretical grounds that the parabola could not possibly apply to a trajectory so large as to be comparable to the size of the planet. Thirdly, Galilei recognized that his experimental data would never agree exactly with any theoretical or mathematical form, because of the imprecision of measurement, irreducible friction, and other factors.
Based only on uncertain descriptions of the telescope, invented in the Netherlands in 1608, Galileo, in that same year, made a telescope with about 3x magnification, and later made others with up to about 32x magnification. With this improved device he could see magnified, upright images on the earth - it was what is now known as a terrestrial telescope, or spyglass. He could also use it to observe the sky; for a time he was one of very few who could construct telescopes good enough for that purpose. On 25 August 1609, he demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. His work on the device made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful for their shipping businesses and trading issues. He published his initial telescopic astronomical observations in March 1610 in a short treatise entitled Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger).
On January 7, 1610 Galileo observed with his telescope what he described at the time as "three fixed stars, totally invisible by their smallness", all within a short distance of Jupiter, and lying on a straight line through it. Observations on subsequent nights showed that the positions of these "stars" relative to Jupiter were changing in a way that would have been inexplicable if they had really been fixed stars. On January 10 Galileo noted that one of them had disappeared, an observation which he attributed to its being hidden behind Jupiter. Within a few days he concluded that they were orbiting Jupiter: he had discovered three of Jupiter's four largest satellites (moons): Io, Europa, and Callisto. He discovered the fourth, Ganymede, on January 13. Galileo named the four satellites he had discovered Medicean stars, in honour of his future patron, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Cosimo's three brothers. Later astronomers, however, renamed them Galilean satellites in honour of Galileo himself.
A planet with smaller planets orbiting it was problematic for the orderly, comprehensive picture of the geocentric model of the universe, in which everything was supposed to circle around the Earth. As a consequence, many astronomers and philosophers initially refused to believe that Galileo could have discovered such a thing.
From September 1610, Galileo observed that Venus exhibited a full set of phases similar to that of the Moon. The heliocentric model of the solar system developed by Nicolaus Copernicus predicted that all phases would be visible since the orbit of Venus around the Sun would cause its illuminated hemisphere to face the Earth when it was on the opposite side of the Sun and to face away from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the Sun. In contrast, the geocentric model of Ptolemy predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Venus was thought to remain between the Sun and Earth during its orbit around the Earth. Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus proved that it orbited the Sun and lent support to (but did not prove) the heliocentric model. However, since it refuted the Ptolemaic pure geocentric planetary model, it seems it was the crucial observation that caused the 17th century majority conversion of the scientific community to geoheliocentric geocentric models such as the Tychonic and Capellan models, and was thereby arguably Galileo's historically most important astronomical observation.
Galileo was one of the first Europeans to observe sunspots, although Kepler had unwittingly observed one in 1607, but mistook it for a transit of Mercury.. He also reinterpreted a sunspot observation from the time of Charlemagne, which formerly had been attributed (impossibly) to a transit of Mercury. The very existence of sunspots showed another difficulty with the unchanging perfection of the heavens posited by orthodox Aristotelian celestial physics, but their regular periodic transits also confirmed the dramatic novel prediction of Kepler's Aristotelian celestial dynamics in his 1609 Astronomia Nova that the sun rotates, which was the first successful novel prediction of post-spherist celestial physics. And the annual variations in sunspots' motions, discovered by Francesco Sizzi and others in 1612-1613, provided a powerful argument against both the Ptolemaic system and the geoheliocentric system of Tycho Brahe.A dispute over priority in the discovery of sunspots, and in their interpretation, led Galileo to a long and bitter feud with the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner; in fact, there is little doubt that both of them were beaten by David Fabricius and his son Johannes, looking for confirmation of Kepler's prediction of the sun's rotation. Scheiner quickly adopted Kepler's 1615 proposal of the modern telescope design, which gave larger magnification at the cost of inverted images; Galileo apparently never changed to Kepler's design.
Galileo was the first to report lunar mountains and craters, whose existence he deduced from the patterns of light and shadow on the Moon's surface. He even estimated the mountains' heights from these observations. This led him to the conclusion that the Moon was "rough and uneven, and just like the surface of the Earth itself," rather than a perfect sphere as Aristotle had claimed. Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a multitude of stars packed so densely that they appeared to be clouds from Earth. He located many other stars too distant to be visible with the naked eye. Galileo also observed the planet Neptune in 1612, but did not realize that it was a planet and took no particular notice of it. It appears in his notebooks as one of many unremarkable dim stars.
In 1619, Galileo became embroiled in a controversy with Father Orazio Grassi, professor of mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano. It began as a dispute over the nature of comets, but by the time Galileo had published The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) in 1623, his last salvo in the dispute, it had become a much wider argument over the very nature of Science itself. Because The Assayer contains such a wealth of Galileo's ideas on how Science should be practised, it has been referred to as his scientific manifesto.
Early in 1619, Father Grassi had anonymously published a pamphlet, An Astronomical Disputation on the Three Comets of the Year 1618, which discussed the nature of a comet that had appeared late in November of the previous year. Grassi concluded that the comet was a fiery body which had moved along a segment of a great circle at a constant distance from the earth, and that it had been located well beyond the moon.
Grassi's arguments and conclusions were criticised in a subsequent article, Discourse on the Comets, published under the name of one of Galileo's disciples, a Florentine lawyer named Mario Guiducci, although it had been largely written by Galileo himself. Galileo and Guiducci offered no definitive theory of their own on the nature of comets, although they did present some tentative conjectures which we now know to be mistaken.
In its opening passage, Galileo and Guiducci's Discourse gratuitously insulted the Jesuit Christopher Scheiner, and various uncomplimentary remarks about the professors of the Collegio Romano were scattered throughout the work. The Jesuits were offended, and Grassi soon replied with a polemical tract of his own, The Astronomical and Philosophical Balance, under the pseudonym Lotario Sarsi Sigenzano (an anagram of his full name), purporting to be one of his own pupils.
Cardinal Bellarmine had written in 1615 that the Copernican system could not be defended without "a true physical demonstration that the sun does not circle the earth but the earth circles the sun". Galileo considered his theory of the tides to provide the required physical proof of the motion of the earth. This theory was so important to Galileo that he originally intended to entitle his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems the Dialogue on the Ebb and Flow of the Sea. For Galileo, the tides were caused by the sloshing back and forth of water in the seas as a point on the Earth's surface speeded up and slowed down because of the Earth's rotation on its axis and revolution around the Sun. Galileo circulated his first account of the tides in 1616, addressed to Cardinal Orsini.
In 1609, Galileo was among the first to use a refracting telescope as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. Galileo's telescope was the first instrument given that name by an unidentified Greek poet/theologian, present at a banquet held in 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo a member of his Accademia dei Lincei. The name was derived from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'. In 1610, he used a telescope at close range to magnify the parts of insects. By 1624 he had perfected a compound microscope. He gave one of these instruments to Cardinal Zollern in May of that year for presentation to the Duke of Bavaria, and in September he sent another to Prince Cesi.. The Linceans played a role again in naming the "microscope" a year later when fellow academy member Giovanni Faber coined the word for Galileo's invention from the Greek words μικρόν (micron) meaning "small", and σκοπεῖν (skopein) meaning "to look at". The word was meant to be analogous with "telescope". Illustrations of insects made using one of Galileo's microscopes, and published in 1625, appear to have been the first clear documentation of the use of a compound microscope.
A biography by Galileo's pupil Vincenzo Viviani stated that Galileo had dropped balls of the same material, but different masses, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass. This was contrary to what Aristotle had taught: that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones, in direct proportion to weight. While this story has been retold in popular accounts, it is generally accepted by historians that there is no account by Galileo himself of such an experiment, and that it was at most a thought experiment which did not actually take place. However, Galileo did perform experiments which proved the same thing by rolling balls down inclined planes: falling or rolling objects (rolling is a slower version of falling, as long as the distribution of mass in the objects is the same) are accelerated independently of their mass. Galileo was the first person to demonstrate this via experiment, but he was not—contrary to popular belief—the first to argue that it was true. A number of scholars prior to Galileo wrote -- or showed by experiment -- that in a vacuum, bodies which are composed of the same substance but which have different masses, fall through equal distances in equal times: Lucretius (ca. 99 - ca. 55 B.C.E., Roman poet), John Philoponus (ca. 490 - ca. 570 C.E., Greek philosopher in Alexandria, Egypt), Thomas Bradwardine (ca. 1290 - 1349, scholar at Merton College of Oxford University), Albert of Saxony (1316 - 1390, German cleric and philosopher), Pietro Monte (a.k.a. Petrus Montius, ca. 1457 - 1530, Spanish master at arms who resided in N. Italy), Benedetto Varchi (1502/3 - 1565, Italian historian and poet), Domingo de Soto (1494 - 1560, Spanish cleric and theologian), Giambattista Benedetti (1530 - 1590, Venetian mathematician), Giuseppe Moletti (1531 - 1588, Italian mathematician), and Simon Stevin (1548/9 - 1620, Flemish engineer and mathematician).
Galileo arrived at the correct mathematical law for uniform acceleration: the total distance covered, starting from rest, is proportional to the square of the time ( ), already discovered by Domingo de Soto in the 16th century He expressed this law using geometrical constructions and mathematically-precise words, adhering to the standards of the day. (It remained for others to re-express the law in algebraic terms). But he erroneously claimed gravitational free-fall universally is uniformly accelerated as the fundamental law of motion of his cosmology and cosmogony, a claim that was never generally accepted and soon refuted by the 1660s discovery that it is exponentially increasingly accelerated (a difform motion in scholastic terms) and inversely proportional to distance from its gravitational centre. He also concluded that objects retain their velocity unless a force—often friction—acts upon them, refuting the generally accepted Aristotelian hypothesis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them (philosophical ideas relating to inertia had been proposed by Ibn al-Haytham centuries earlier, as had Jean Buridan, and according to Joseph Needham, Mo Tzu had proposed it centuries before either of them, but this was the first time that it had been mathematically expressed, verified experimentally, and introduced the idea of frictional force, the key breakthrough in validating inertia). Galileo's Principle of Inertia stated: "A body moving on a level surface will continue in the same direction at constant speed unless disturbed." This principle was incorporated into Newton's laws of motion (first law).
Western Christian biblical references Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and 1 Chronicles 16:30 include text stating that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." In the same tradition, Psalm 104:5 says, " the LORD set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Further, Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place, etc."
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INTERVIEW: It was a professional performance
Gav Skelton with reaction to the victory over Newport
The Blues recorded a comfortable home victory over Newport County at Brunton Park on Tuesday evening and we spoke to Gav Skelton shortly after full time about what had been another solid performance.
MATCH REPORT: From the Newport home game
"It was a good victory after Saturday," he said. "It was good to bounce back and be comfortable. We played some good stuff at times, a bit more football, and we're delighted to get back to winning ways.
"After what was a poor game for us against Colchester we needed that kind of response. You're always desperate to get back to positive ways, and we did that. We started well, created some good opportunities, got in front, kicked on, and the goal tally could have been more.
"It's always dangerous when you're only two goals ahead because if they get one, no matter how much you feel in command, it can start to feel that they're getting back at you. Although you<|fim_middle|> far and a fixture backlog to contend with, boss Chris Beech...
MANAGER: Set plays are important
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United boss Chris Beech revealed on Tuesday night that Rotherham loanee Josh Kayode was due to miss out at Harrogate, had the game not been postponed for a second time, having complained about a knee... | 're desperate to keep going forward and win by more goals, it was a professional and comfortable victory for us in the end."
Having got in front so early in the game, he commented: "It does settle you down. I thought, funnily enough, that we started well against Colchester, but unfortunately didn't get the goal.
"Tonight we did and we capitalised on it. You could see everyone get a lift, confidence grew and I thought we put in a really confident performance. With every game you play, all you want to do is win.
"Football is about winning and every three points is vital. You're disappointed after Saturday, of course you are, but you also know that if you win against Newport it means you've won two out of three.
"It gives us something we can hopefully build on as we go into two very tough away games. It's funny, we've drawn a lot of games, you look at the fact we're not getting beat and we're picking up points.
"Now we've had two good performances, one bad one, and picked up six points. You take that hit if you know it's coming because it's pleasing to turn those draws into wins."
GALLERY: The images from the Newport home victory
Looking back at the opening goal, it came from another well delivered set piece situation, with Elliot Watt picking up another assist as he found Omari Patrick with his near post corner.
"It is something you work on and concentrate on, but the basic matter is if you have good delivery and people attack it, it gives you a really good chance," Skelton said. "Elliot's deliveries are really good. We scored one from that and we created other opportunities.
"If people are prepared to put their head on it and attack it, you have a chance. If you score one or two, people get that feeling that it's a good opportunity when we get a set piece. At the moment we're on a good run with that, and hopefully it'll continue.
"Quite a high percentage of goals in this league come from set plays so it's something we look to capitalise on with good deliveries and people attacking the ball.
"Omari got there with his header and it was on target. I thought he was really good overall. He caused them some real problems. He's got excellent ability on the ball, good pace, and when he has the confidence to go direct at people, he becomes a handful. He got a reward for a good performance."
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And the second goal, of course, came from a cool approach from teenager Josh Kayode who immediately snapped up the ball to place it on the spot as soon as the referee blew his whistle.
"Bridgey was lying on the ground, I think, after he'd been fouled so it was up for grabs," he said. "I spoke to Josh about it before the game, he had two goals in two starts, so he was keen.
"He's quiet, but he's very confident, and he wanted to make it three goals in three starts. I thought the penalty was excellent. The keeper knew where he was going but he struck it really clean and I'm really pleased for him.
"Josh is a striker and he wants to score goals. I saw him at Gateshead, he was confident, did well, and it did him the world of good there. He's jumped up two leagues and is showing good signs of progressing.
"There's still a lot more improvement in him but he's willing to run and work hard, and if you do that people buy into you. Your teammates and crowd buy into you, and he gains confidence from that. All round he's another who gave a good performance."
And that performance also once again demonstrated the character within the ranks with the players having got over the setback of the disappointing Colchester result.
"We signed well in January, brought some good characters in, and that's showing now," he explained. "They've got good spirit in terms of that determination, and to bounce back from Saturday was vital, so I'm really pleased for them.
"We're up to 42 points now, and there is a big gap, but that doesn't take away that edge. You have to look at it as yes, we've got away from the bottom, but let's now pull those teams above us closer and see if we can get above them. There won't be a dead rubber in any of these games for us."
And on the absence of Harry McKirdy, he told us: "That was an injury. He didn't train yesterday [Monday] so wasn't available. It's a thigh injury, he's under the treatment of Dolly, and we'll just have to see how that goes before we look at availability for the weekend."
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Siddall & Hilton Products Ltd has scooped a top safety award at the Tata sponsored Livewire awards.
The company triumphed at the national event focussing on improving health and safety at work for people employed in the UK wire and tube industries.
All of the UK's major wire industry employers are members of Live Wire – and Siddall & Hilton<|fim_middle|> loaded safety catch in a travelling crane hook.
Dave was previously injured after catching his glove in the spring loaded catch that is fitted to the crane hook as standard. His solution involved doing away with the spring loading arrangement and replacing it with a naturally closing arrangement, imaginatively named the gravity latch.
Siddall & Hilton Products said this issue had previously been the subject of "near miss" health and safety reports.
The gravity hooks are now in use across the company's site on Birds Royd Lane in Brighouse. Since their installation, there have been no accidents and no reported near misses involving attachment of lifting chains. | Products has supported the concept since its launch five years ago.
The Live Wire Health & Safety Award recognises firms which encourage employees to embrace health and safety at all levels, share best practice across the industry and come up with ideas which improve health and safety in the wire industry.
Siddall & Hilton Products' winning presentation was made by Production Supervisor & Health & Safety Co-Ordinator Gareth Bush and production operative Dave Durrance.
They successfully demonstrated a working solution for an issue experienced throughout the industry – the failure risk of a spring | 107 |
Truman Elementary School kindergarten student not on bus; 'worst nightmare,' says parent
Haidee Eugenio Gilbert
Chris Tajalle, 29, said his 5-year-old daughter had been excited to go to school for the first time on Thursday morning, but that changed when a Harry S. Truman Elementary School teacher allegedly failed to put her on the bus by the end of the first day of class.
Tajalle, of Santa Rita, said he hopes this will not happen again to any family.
"It's any parent's worst nightmare," Tajalle said. "These teachers asked us parents to entrust them with our children; that they will make sure our children are safe and secure."
Tajalle said that just past 3 p.m. Thursday, his brother-in-law informed him that his daughter was not at the bus shelter where she was supposed to be dropped off by the school bus.
The father of five said it took the school about an hour to tell the family that the kindergarten student was safe. When Tajalle picked up his daughter, she said she does not want to go to school anymore.
Guam's public schools get off to relatively smooth start on Thursday
Public schools have emergency response plans, says Guam Department of Education
Superintendent Jon Fernandez said Friday the Guam Department of Education is looking into the matter, adding<|fim_middle|> once I get a chance to get back and see the outcome of that meeting," said Fernandez.
Tajalle said even after the Friday morning meeting with the principal and teacher, he and his family didn't receive an apology. He said that the teacher didn't find his daughter's bus tag.
"She said she assumed my daughter would be picked up. Prior to school opening, we emphasized that my daughter would be a bus rider," Tajalle said. Tajalle said that during the meeting, he was told the teacher left his daughter at the front office where other students also wait to be picked up. Tajalle said the teacher told him she had to be at home at 3 p.m. so she left his daughter there.
Fernandez, meanwhile, said Guam DOE continues to work with the Department of Public Works about concerns with bus pick ups and drop offs during the first two days of classes.
Public school principals, according to Fernandez, are required to report any problem with bus pick up and drop off so that Guam DOE can address the matter with Public Works, which operates school buses.
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Reporter Haidee Eugenio covers Guam's Catholic church issues, education and more. Follow her on Twitter @haidee_eugenio. Follow Pacific Daily News on Facebook/GuamPDN and Instagram @guampdn. | that he's also waiting for the results of Friday morning's meeting between the parents, the school principal and the teacher.
Fernandez said that as a parent of public elementary and middle school students, he understands the Tajalle family's concern and alarm.
"We want to make sure that nothing like that happens again. It could be a number of different issues and reasons but at the end of the day, I want parents to feel confident that we've got the students' safety at the very forefront so it would be addressed | 104 |
My first reaction…Of course not! Are you crazy? Never wanted to go to the Middle East and I certainly don't want to go to Pakistan. Do you know how dangerous it is there?
I was currently going through Priscilla Shirer's study: Jonah – Navigating a Life Interrupted. Through this study it was clear to me that God was allowing several "interruptions" to shake up my spiritual walk. I felt that I needed to step out of my comfort zone and grow my faith in some different areas of my life. God asks Jonah to go to Ninevah and spread the word in one of the most dangerous and volatile areas and to people that Jonah simply does not like because of their hate for God. If you know the story you know Jonah runs, gets swallowed by a large fish and three days later is spit up; he finally resigns to the fact that he can't run and he must obey.
Here's my challenge to you. As you think about spiritual goals you'd like to accomplish this year, what will take your spiritual walk to a deeper level? Are you playing it too safe? Is there an area in your life you feel God wants you to experience a little fear so that you have to put more trust in Him? Do you trust Him enough to step out of your comfort zone?
I have chosen not to run. I can't promise the trip will be easy or even safe.<|fim_middle|> Director of my life and equipping me with a Grammy-winning script that inspires and motivates others.
"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 37:4 NIV).
We all have changes we'd like to make in our life. This means we all have goals we want to accomplish. Yet many people say, "I'm not goal-oriented." The word "goal" can be scary to some people.
If you were an athlete in high school or college, what was your team goal? To win, of course. Everything you did in practice was designed to help you achieve that goal. What is your goal as a Christian? It's to be more Christ-like. This means we work to take purposeful steps, creating the change we want in life. Train our minds to focus on the positives and train our mouths to say kind and loving things to others. It takes work—especially patience and faith. There is only one way to do this and do it well. Have a plan—a plan to keep yourself on target.
God has a plan for my life. He will guide me with the plan.
I will practice strict control.
I will make each step purposeful.
I will run straight toward my goal without wavering.
I discipline my mind and body to do what it should.
I strive for eternal riches.
Paul said it best when he said that the important thing is to take small steps to accomplish the goals God wants you to achieve so you don't get overwhelmed and quit.
"Remember that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize. You also must run in such a way that you will win. All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So, I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step… I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should" (1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NLT). | I doubt I will be swallowed by a fish. I'm more likely to be trampled by a camel. What I do know is when we obey, God provides all we need.
PRAYER: Father, provide us with safe travels in our daily life whether taking a trip out of the country or simply going to work. We know You provide us with protection, guidance and wisdom in all circumstances we encounter. Help us step out of our comfort zone and past the fear in order to do Your will.
BIBLE VERSE: "The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed/" (Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV).
God's Word tells us He works all things for our good. Why do we sometimes struggle with this concept when in the midst of stressful situations? Perhaps you've been laid off from your job. For a year you've been prayerfully looking for a new job to no avail. Now your savings account is almost depleted. You were faithful and purposeful in your marriage but your spouse didn't play by the same rules and you are dealing with divorce. You raised your children with a solid, Christian foundation yet now find yourself dealing with a prodigal.
"God, where are You in this? Why am I going through such hardships? I'm spending daily prayer time with You, I'm faithful with tithing, I'm connected and serving at church. When will You show up and direct me to something better?" Have you ever found yourself asking these questions?
1) God always has a plan. His plan will help us strengthen our faith. God will always work things out for our good (vs. 2).
2) God's timing is always perfect. He's not late. He's not early (vs. 4-6).
3) God is building our faith in our circumstances. He is working in our lives to change us for His glory (vs. 11-15).
How can we apply these concepts to our personal life during tough times? We must seek God. Ask Him to teach us how to walk in complete trust knowing His plan is perfect. Hold on to the promises He has made to us through His Word in the following scriptures: Do not be afraid (Isaiah 41:10). Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6). God will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:13).We have redemption through Christ's blood (Ephesians 1:7).
PRAYER: Father, I am so thankful You are a God of purpose and plans. Help me focus on Your sovereignty when I am going through trials. When my faith is lacking and I question where I am going, help me remember that You have designed me for a specific purpose.
"God not only loves you very much but also has put His hand on you for something special" (1 Thessalonians 1:4 The Message).
"Dear God, please make sure someone is behind me that can read this. If found on the side of the road, drag me across the finish line." This was one of my favorite t-shirt sayings for my first half marathon, the Disney Princess Run.
It was indeed a magical experience! Tiaras, pink tutus, crystal bling and magic wands adorned the 16,000 princess runners. My tiara made me feel like Cinderella even though my running shoes had no resemblance to pretty, glass slippers!
I found humor in the t-shirt phrase at the beginning of the race. As I began to sweat and "sparkle" after a few miles, I realized that running 13.1 miles is no easy feat without the proper training plan.
During practice the key training goal is to increase your endurance through long distance runs. This isn't about speed. The goal is simply to finish the run while incorporating some walk breaks in order to maintain strength and a slow breathing pattern. On race day I felt confident I had prepared myself to simply enjoy the journey, cross the finish line and receive my princess medallion.
Our spiritual run also requires dedicated training. We must train ourselves to spend daily time with God even when we have other deadlines on our agenda. We must devote ourselves to intimate, uninterrupted prayer time with our personal Trainer. We must commit to spiritual strength-training even when our muscles are tired. In this heavenly race, our goal is to finish while giving God our personal best.
Are you confident with your spiritual training plan? Are you committed to doing the hard work now so you can cross the finish line with ease? I believe we all desire to receive a first place medallion for a job well done once we enter the Heavenly Princess Run.
PRAYER: Father, help me to keep my training plan focused on You. Help me to schedule priority time for endurance training through daily quiet time and prayer.
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever" (1 Corinthians 9:24-25 NIV).
Today's devotion is by Sherri Holbert, a co-founder of Walk of Purpose ministries. Read more of her inspirational devotions in DIVAS of the Divine: How to Live as a Designer Original in a Knock-Off World. Study or check out her blog at www.walkofpurpose.blogspot.com.
What did you want to be when you were growing up? Did you want to be a fireman, a princess, the President of the United States, an astronaut? Are you living that dream today? I wanted to be a movie star. As adults, most of us can't see ourselves on the big screen, as a fireman, leading our country, sprinkling fairy dust, or making a trip to the moon.
But in childhood we have a zillion grand things we'd like to be. As we grow and develop, we change our minds and learn new things that appeal to us. God provides us with new experiences that shape who we are and what we are to become. God also puts nuggets of dreams and hopes inside of us but many times we don't live out these dreams because of fear.
Fear is why my name is not on the big screen in your hometown. I let others talk me out of my dream. They said, "You'll never make it. The odds aren't good. You can't make a decent living. You'll be a waitress to supplement your acting career." I let fear allow me to change career paths but God still had a plan for me. He was equipping me for my future "movie star" role.
I have come to realize I am the movie star in my own life! I can produce my own script. I can be a star who inspires others and helps them reach their dreams—maybe not from the big screen but from a local community stage, in a conversation with my girlfriends, or as a life coach willing to motivate and encourage others to overcome fear and follow the dreams God has put in their hearts.
God has equipped us for whatever star role we decide to pursue. He gives us skills, knowledge and strengths to help us live out our dreams. What do you want to be when you grow up? Will you be obedient to God's script for your life? What are you waiting for?
PRAYER: God, thank You for being the Screen | 1,582 |
There are several different ways to create a task in Accelo. From the big blue Create button you can choose<|fim_middle|> it'll also show up on current Task board over on the right-hand side here. If we were to go to Lake Savers' company record you'll be able to see this tasks' area that this is a task and it's pending, Karen has not accepted it yet. It's a thirty-minute task and it's due by March the 13th. | task. You always have to search for an object to put this task against, in this case I'm going to choose the company Lake Savers. You can put details about the task, you can assign it to somebody, I'm going to assign this to Karen, I can determine which skills Karen's going to need to complete this task and I can tag this if I want to. I can specify a due date, then I can suggest that it's going to take Karen thirty minutes to complete this task. When I go ahead and click Create Task this will show up underneath the company record, Lake Savers, and | 125 |
With Heatmaster, you are sure to feel a sense of pride and elegance when you install our open wood fireplaces<|fim_middle|> in the Heatmaster range of open wood fireplaces. | to the aroma of your Toorak home.
A beautiful home deserves nothing less than our Australian Design Award winning open wood fireplace that combines incredible attention to detail with an impressive range of features.
Heatmaster has a range of wood fireplace appliances to compliment your traditional or contemporary home.
We understand the importance of high performing fireplace which aligns with your interior.
Therefore, we have given you the option to choose from our range of stylish decorative fascias, and mantels.
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If you already have a chimney in your Toorak home, Our 'B series' will be a better option for you.
Our 'B series' uninsulated fireplace are designed to slot right into your existing insulated fireplace.
Give your outdoor living space a certain allure by inserting our luxurious outdoor fireplace. We recommend protecting them from the weather to maximize the life of your wood fireplace.
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Designed and manufactured with local Australian brilliance and conditions in mind, you're sure to find the perfect fireplace for your home | 305 |
Ubisoft debuts two new trailers and a behind-the-scenes look at The Crew 2 – Eggplante!
The Crew 2 — Ubisoft's all American open world racer — isn't far from release. In fact, we'll be able to go hands on with it and fly its planes, steer its boats and race its cars on June 29th. As<|fim_middle|> that you'll find most interesting. It provides a glimpse behind closed doors, and offers an idea of what the team has been trying to improve upon prior to release.
Stay tuned for more on The Crew 2. | such, the publisher has ramped up its advertising efforts, with two new trailers and a behind-the-scenes developer diary.
The first couple of videos don't offer much. They're simply short glimpses of gameplay. The first contains brief segments of Zivko airplane racing, while the second shows sports cars speeding through a detailed rendition of Venice, California.
It's the third video, the aforementioned developer diary, | 82 |
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designated as build and release manager for gsa contract administration application division (caad).
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i am currently seeking a challenging career opportunity in a configuration management specialist capacity and am submitting my resume for your review. in advance, i thank you for your time and consideration.
as demonstrated in the accompanying resume, my professional qualifications include dual masters degrees and over 17 years of relevant information technology experience. to complement this background, i possess demonstrated expertise in configuration control, change management, cm project planning, system design/installation, software/hardware, team leadership and project management, as well as strong analytical, problem-solving and managerial capabilities. as an employee, you will find me to be an enthusiastic and disciplined team player, committed to supporting you in achieving your objectives through superior performance.
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In our gift bags from the #NWbloggersmeetup was something my mum snatched off me immediately - Snake Venom Eye Cream* from a brand called Balance, who I hadn't heard of before but you can actually find in the likes of Home Bargains for reaaaaalllly cheap.
The eye cream comes in a nifty little tube with a pointed tip, and contains Syn-A<|fim_middle|>ed out! She hasn't had any reactions to it, and it doesn't make her eye area any more oily - she has oily skin, the polar opposite to me. Ps, how cute is lil' baby me in that photo?!
Sounds like something I may have to buy sometime! | ke, which is for all intents and purposes, fake snake venom. That was a mouthful. It's a "neuropeptide that softens the look of wrinkles and helps reduce expression lines", according to the website.
I'm joking, obviously, but she has been using it every day and she wholeheartedly recommends it. Her eyes do look less tired and puffy, and her wrinkles (sorry mum) have definitely even | 87 |
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