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<|fim_middle|>! | FTW represents NH at the WECode Conference!
Members of the Future Tech Women Group and students at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Pauline Wilk, Valerie Therrien, and Meagan Wolf, joined their Dyn mentors, Bethany Ross, Kelly O'Hara, and Jackie Wegman, and traveled to Harvard in February for the WeCode (Women Engineers Code) Conference! What a great bonding trip! FTW was proud to represent New Hampshire women in technology, as they were the only group from New Hampshire to attend.
The girls got to hear from many prominent women in the Computer Science world, like Kimber Lockhart and Rebecca Parsons, speak their hearts out, telling their stories of success, and encouraging females in the computer science and engineering fields to be confident and believe in themselves. Being one of these girls, I certainly left inspired! Especially from my talk at lunch with a few young female Facebook employees. We will definitely be going back for more fun next year | 196 |
We<|fim_middle|> the way. | were able to score tickets for the ¡opening day! of the Flower HOUSE in Hamtramck. I had been counting down the days since May, when I saw a photo of a preliminary version of the house. My daughter was excited about our Flower House adventure, because she had seen the article too.
Awesome for us that the girls' school was a half-day today. So I scooped them up, ushered them across the playground- miraculously without climbing or swinging on anything- and we hit the road. We love doing things in Hamtramck; there's never been a shortage of things to see and do. Today our mission was clear: we would see the Flower House.
Floral designers from around the US descended upon Lisa Waud's abandoned Hamtramck home, dubbed Flower House, to decorate the dilapidated structure with thousands of fresh blooms. The home was purchased at an auction for $250. There are flowers throughout the house, from top to bottom. In the bathroom, in the closet, adorning the staircase. There's a flowing waterfall made from plants in the dining room. It is amazing, stunning and exciting all at once.
Visitors to the house can walk throughout the home at designated timeframes; this is a ticketed event. The house will be available for viewing from October 16 through the 18, 2015. The actual home will then be disassembled and its materials re-used and repurposed.
A favorite room was the bedroom that contained an actual bed made from flowers and branches; my personal fave was the fountain room and the staircases- yes, both of them. Simple + elegant all | 342 |
Dubai is an affluent trade route between the East and the West, Dubai has played a dominant role for centuries in the international physical gold market, a dominance which has grown further over the past decades.Today, Dubai is known as the City of Gold.
Today, Dubai is known as the City of Gold.
At Emirates Gold, they specialise in the processing of precious metals such as gold and silver and manufacture a wide range of products, including various types and sizes of gold bars, coins, medals and other objects.
Over the past years, Emirates Gold has rapidly moved up the ranks to a position of leadership, with a large share of the fine gold market. They are rated one of the top companies in the world in the field of gold and silver production.
In 2005, Emirates Gold was the first<|fim_middle|> purity of the final products. | refinery in the Middle East to be accredited the status of Dubai Good Delivery. Their processes meet worldwide standards and are certified by industry experts (including ISO 9001 for quality, ISO 14001 for environmental management, OHSAS 18001 for occupational health and safety management, and ISO 10002 for customer satisfaction). They take a lot of pride in the quality and | 86 |
EXPLORE A VAST WORLD: Explore a giant world, from the burning desert in the south to the snow-capped mountains in the north. Discover ancient cultures, ruins, and dungeons. SURVIVE: Stay warm, cool yourself down, drink and eat, weather scouring sandstorms, prevent your mind from being corrupted when exploring<|fim_middle|> more, then deck out your creations with a wide variety of different furniture, crafting stations, and NPC guards. DOMINATE: Wage war against your enemies, use siege weapons and explosives and see their walls crumble to dust, then unleash your savage fury in violent and brutal combat. BUILD AN ARMY OF THRALLS: Capture NPCs, drag them back to your base, and use the Wheel of Pain to break their will. Turn them into archers, crafters, entertainers, and more for your settlements. BECOME A GOD: Sacrifice your enemies on the altar of your god then summon and take control of their huge, towering avatar. Crush enemies and entire buildings under your avatar's feet. PLAY TOGETHER OR ALONE: Play alone locally or fight for survival and dominance in persistent multiplayer on public servers. You can also host your own server and invite others to join you. | dark dungeons, and battle vicious monsters to stay alive. BUILD: Harvest resources to craft tools and weapons, then build anything from a small home to entire cities piece by piece. Build walls, traps, elevators, and | 44 |
Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 28, 2016<|fim_middle|>Prime Minister Harris said that some people want to criticize but yet do not want to hear the response to their criticism.
"My humility, my love for the people, my passion for those things in which I believe—and passion has to be expressed—is an important attribute of (my) leadership," Prime Minister Harris said.
"I will always be passionate about the people's business and I am not going to be weary by the propagandists," he added. | (SKNIS): Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, has vowed to defend his tri-partite Government of National Unity that is under two years in office against those who make false and malicious statements intended to harm its reputation.
Speaking to calumniators of his administration, Prime Minister Harris said that his government has been given a clear five year mandate by the people and that this mandate will not be derailed nor dictated to by those intent on undermining the government with calculated plots.
"Some will like it and some may not like it; that is left to the political marketplace but when the test of time will come people will judge me for having done what we could do and I would have done it passionately because that is who I am, passionate in nature. I believe in it and once I believe in it, I will give it my all," Dr. Harris added.
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Most people nowadays prefer taking pictures using their smartphones. It is the device that most people would likely use for taking photos simply because it is always the one that's readily available. And with smartphones coming with better camera sensors, it might be a bit<|fim_middle|>ounds or US$46. Its MSRP when it comes out is expected to be around 69 UK Pounds or around US$99. | redundant for some people to even own a separate digital camera. What smartphone owners can do instead is check out this unique snappgrip smartphone case for their iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones.
The snappgrip smartphone case is unique because it is designed not just to protect your smartphone but also provide a unique way to transform it into a digital camera of sorts. The casing comes with a camera control unit that can be attached easily into the smartphone case. What it does is create a way for people to take pictures using their smartphones right from a digital camera experience. It syncs with the smartphone via Bluetooth can comes with typical digital camera functions like a shutter button, zoom mode as well as flash function.
With the snappgrip, smartphone photographers can now enjoy that digital camera feel when taking photos or videos. This case is compatible with the recent iPhone models as well as with the Samsung Galaxy SIII. A free downloadable app is available at the Apple App Store and Google Play to allow the snappgrip camera controller to communicate with your smartphone. The snappgrip is currently available for pre-order at around 29 UK P | 228 |
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Is YOUR 'Air Conditioner Frozen' Like Shawn's?
This could happen to you this summer! If so, check our monthly air conditioning service specials for extra savings. | th, 2013 by & filed under Air Conditioning.
Having an air conditioner frozen is not as fun as eating an ice pop, but just as common in the summer months. Let's share a cautionary tale of our friends, The McConnells.
Shawn and Suzanne McConnell were new homeowners in the Lawrenceville area. Newly married, young and ambitious, they were about to spend the first summer in their new home.
It was mid-July and Suzanne had taken a week off work to unpack and get settled in. The temperatures were 100+ and the house was full of boxes and packing material. When Shawn went outside to deliver the broken-down boxes to the recycling bin, he noticed their air conditioner was covered with ice, looking similar to an igloo.
1) Turn off the air conditioner at the thermostat. Allow time for it to defrost and check the air filters. Once it has defrosted, check the airflow. Clean or replace dirty filters or remove any visible obstructions. You would be surprised how often this is all that is needed.
2) Turn your fan ON. Let the fan run to restore airflow.
3) If those first two steps don't correct the problem, call a service professional. A professional HVAC service technician has the expertise and equipment to perform a complete tuneup on your system. They will troubleshoot airflow restrictions and repair leaks or equipment damage on the spot.
Shawn was able to replace the air filter and fix it himself, which gave him a lot of homeowner confidence. We also gained a lifelong customer and have been servicing The McConnells for the past three years in their lovely home.
Beyond dirty air filters, refrigerant leaks are the top issue we see in our customer's homes. Don't just keep adding refrigerant to correct the problem. It's expensive and leaving a leak over time can | 377 |
Footage has emerged of the moment Harrison Ford's plane drifted out of view before crash landing on a Los Angeles golf course on Thursday.
Harrison was flying a 70-year old World War II era PT-22 plane when it suffered apparent engine failure shortly after taking off from Santa Monica airport.
It's reported that Harrison asked "where am I?" as a group of bystanders pulled from the wreckage of his plane.
A spokesperson from the National Transportation Safety Board says that investigations are underway into the cause of the crash, but that it might take about a year for the final report to be released.
It's reported that Harrison suffered a broken<|fim_middle|> wrecked a helicopter in Santa Clara, California with his flight instructor in what he later described as mechanical failure.
Among other roles, Harrison is famous for playing Han Solo in Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the franchise of the same name. | arm and a nasty gash to his head, but is otherwise fine.
'Indy' previously crashed in 1999 when he | 29 |
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Mountain Brook Schools Calendar with Holidays 2023
The Mountain Brook Schools Calendar for the 2022-2023 school year is now available. This calendar includes all the important dates for the upcoming school year, such as holidays, breaks, and start and end dates. Families can use this calendar to plan ahead for the upcoming school year and make sure they are prepared for everything that is coming up.
Mountain Brook Schools Calendar 2022-2023
Mountain Brook, Alabama is home to some of the best schools in the state, and keeping track of important dates and events on the school calendar is crucial for both parents and students. The Mountain Brook Schools Calendar is an essential tool for staying informed and organized throughout the school year.
<|fim_middle|>22-2023 Tagged With: Mountain Brook Schools Calendar, Mountain Brook Schools Calendar 2022, Mountain Brook Schools Calendar 2023, Mountain Brook Schools Holiday Calendar, Mountain Brook Schools Holidays | One of the best things about the Mountain Brook Schools Calendar is that it is easily accessible to anyone who needs it. The calendar can be found on the official website of the Mountain Brook Schools, which is regularly updated with the latest information. The website also features other useful resources such as school news, staff directories, and contact information for school administrators.
The Mountain Brook Schools Calendar is designed to provide parents and students with all the information they need to stay informed about important dates and events throughout the school year. The calendar includes important dates such as school holidays, early dismissal days, and parent-teacher conference days. It also includes information about school events such as sports games, performances, and fundraisers.
Mountain Brook Schools Break for the academic year 2022-2023
List of holidays of Mountain Brook Schools, 2022- 2023
Thanksgiving Break 2022 23 November 2022 – 25 November 2022 Wednesday – Friday
Christmas Break 2022 19 December 2022 – 3 January 2023 Monday – Tuesday
Mountain Brook Schools Holidays 2022-2023
One of the most important features of the Mountain Brook Schools Calendar is that it is user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar is divided into months and includes a detailed list of events and dates for each month. Additionally, the calendar can be easily searched by event, date, or school, making it easy to find the information you need.
Another important aspect of the Mountain Brook Schools Calendar is that it is available in a variety of formats. The calendar can be viewed online, downloaded as a PDF, or even added to your personal calendar so you never miss an important date or event. This makes it easy for parents and students to stay informed and organized, no matter how busy their schedule may be.
In conclusion, the Mountain Brook School Calendar is an essential tool for staying informed and organized throughout the school year. The calendar is easily accessible, user-friendly, and available in a variety of formats. Parents and students can use the calendar to stay informed about important dates and events, school holidays, early dismissal days and much more. With the help of Mountain Brook Schools Calendar, parents and students can stay on top of their schedule and make the most of the school year.
Mountain Brook Schools Holiday Calendar 2022-2023
Please note that these dates are subject to change if necessary due to inclement weather or other unforeseen circumstances. As the final school year of the 2021-2022 comes to a close, students and staff of Mountain Brook Schools can begin looking forward to the upcoming 2022-2023 school year. Kindly inquire consistently for any changes that might happen, or it is advised to visit the Mountain Brook Schools site for their 2022-2023 endorsed schedule.
Ques: When is the Last Day of Mountain Brook Schools?
Ans: The last day of school for Mountain Brook Schools is May 24, 2023. This date may be subject to change due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. However, students and staff can expect the last day of school to be on this date barring any changes.
Ques: When Does School Start in Mountain Brook Schools?
Ans: The first day of school for students in Mountain Brook Schools is Wednesday, August 10th , 2022.
Ques: When is Mountain Brook Schools Spring Break?
Ans: Mountain Brook Schools Spring break will be from 27th March 2023 to 31st March 2023.
Ques: First Day of Mountain Brook Schools?
Ans: The first day of the Mountain Brook Schools is 10th August 2022.
Ques: Mountain Brook Schools Christmas Break?
Ans: Christmas break in Mountain Brook Schools are from 19th December 2022 to 3rd January 2023.
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Indomitable, indefatigable, and inflexible have all been words to describe the Mid –Yorkshires constabulary's Andy Dalziel. But more surprising is how many people call him friend. No matter how exasperated Ellie and Peter Pascoe, or Sgt. Wield get with "Fat Andy" there is no thought in any of their minds of that presence ever vanishing.
Like a mountain or other large part of the scenery seen every day, life without Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel coercing the next round out of his subordinates is unimaginable. Which makes his being brought down by a bomb at a suspected terrorist site all the more unbelievable. Not just laid up for a few days either, but in a coma from which he may never rise again.
Terror and terrorism confined to London in modern Great Britain and no matter how far north your go, even into the wilds of Yorkshire; its effects are being felt. With Andy down it's up to his far more politically correct subordinate Peter Pascoe to liaison with the Counter terrorist troops that storm the Mid-Yorkshire police headquarters in an attempt to drag as much information out of the site's ruins as possible.
In Death Comes For The Fat Man Reginald Hill has gathered together his familiar cast of characters from the Mid Yorkshire constab<|fim_middle|> mourned. Death Comes For The Fat Man is available in Canada through Random House Canada and various online retailers like Amazon.ca. | ulary and thrown them up against every police officers' worst nightmare. A beloved colleague brought down in the line of duty and you're not able or allowed to do anything about seeking out those responsible.
For Peter Pascoe his frustration at being relegated to the sidelines by the counter terrorist squad is only made worse by the feelings of guilt he is suffering for having been literally sheltered from the worst of the blast by the bulk of his superior officer. It only increases his frustration and anger to find out that those responsible are in actual fact vigilante anti-terrorists who are being covertly assisted by the very people who are supposed to be investigating their activities.
In other words Reginald Hill has set-up all the right ingredients for a typical hunt the spy among the spies while you hunt down the killers that has been the hallmark of good British mystery writing since Le Carré. But the wonderful thing about Reginald Hill books is the fact that he goes off in directions unexpected and poses questions that maybe some of us would rather not think about.
There's a great deal of fuss made these days about the intelligent person's murder mystery as opposed to the old fashioned pulp fiction style of Raymond Chandler, or the detective pulling it out of the hat style popularized by Dame Agatha. But even they have become formulaic with the troubled, alcohol plagued, solitary male who can't keep a relationship on the rails, or the woman who has to be as tough as the men but keep in touch with her feminine side. You wonder when they ever have time to do any police work they're so troubled.
That's the great thing about Reginald Hill's books. He never loses track of who his people are and what they do for a living. Instead of making it an oddity for a cop to be human and have emotions, while all those around him or her are either on the take or louts of the first degree, it is commonplace among his characters.
He is also far too adroit a writer to ever make all of his villains evil wankers carrying bags marked swag, or to let liberal niceties prevent him from writing truths. For example in some parts of England today there are elements in the Muslim community who would have supported the decision to bomb the underground and who could very well be planning some other such activity.
The bomb that caught Andy was their handiwork, although it was the occupants of the video store who were the target and the police were just an unfortunate accident. You see the Templers have decided to carry on the work of their namesakes and kill the Infidels who have in their eyes escaped justice. In other words found not guilty by the courts but not by the Templers.
At first Peter has a policeman's usual abhorrence for vigilantes and their scorn for the systems of government. But what if Andy were to die? What might happen if he caught up to the Templers who did this and Andy had crossed over as he continually threatened to do? What is fuelling his obsession to hunt them down at all costs if not a need for vengeance?
Is he that much different from them? When he realizes how well protected they are, and they might just get away with it he begins to wonder. What would he do if he found out they would escape prosecution, or get off with a slap on the wrist because knowing and proving are two different things?
These are his thoughts as he hunts for Andy's attackers across England. Sneaking around behind the backs of his new friends in Counter Terrorism, who have conveniently seconded him to their service where they hope to keep him under wraps. But Peter hasn't been under the tutelage of Andy Dalziel all these years for nothing. Piece by piece he puts together the jigsaw puzzle with help from the most unlikely of sources.
Constable Hector, who thought he heard the shot that brought everyone to the scene, has always been a standing joke around the dept. The idiot child of the Mid-Yorkshire force turns out though to be close to savant when it comes to drawing faces from memory.
When someone tries to clean up a loose end in Hector and tries a hit and run that fails, Hector is able to draw the driver's face from memory. When the same face turns up on the back of a novel about counter terrorism in the Gulf War, as its author, and in Hector's room trying to visit him after the accident Peter knows they have one of their men.
Reginald Hill delivers another wonderful book with two of the most memorable detectives in the Parthenon of British detective writing. How many other authors have created a character that can dominate it even when they are laid up in a coma for the majority of the book. Oh all right Andy does a little astral projecting, negotiates with death on occasion, but it's nawt much more then he usually does in a day's work, as I'm sure he'd be the first to tell you over the pint that you bought him.
Reginald Hill writes books that are about people who happen to solve crimes because they are cops, but they are also people and as such he has succeeded in bringing one of the most human faces to policing of any of the writers of crime fiction alive today. Death Comes For The Fat Man is touching, scary, funny, and very human all at once.
There is a crime to be solved, and murders to be prevented, but there are also lives to live and hopefully to be celebrated and not | 1,109 |
The morphology of 26 species of the genus Tripos was studied among a total of 51 species of this genus, which were taken using 20 μm net samples from June 2006 to January 2011 at 14 stations around Jeju Island. Of these, 23 species were first described as new records in Korean waters and 3 species were redescribed. Short descriptions and synonyms are given for each species in the present study. The dinoflagellates of family Ceratiaceae include marine and freshwater species, belonged to originally the genus Ceratium . Recently, this genus were divided into a new combination with the genus Tripos , which contains the marine species, and the original genus Ceratium , including the freshwater species. We used the Tripos genus for the marine species in this study as a valid name.
As one genus of Dinophyceae, the genus Ceratium created by Schrank (1793) is one of the most important phytoplankton. The common size of Ceratium is large, which make them easy to collect. Morphological features of the Ceratium based on the tough theca are essential for taxonomic analysis. The genus includes a large number of species as plankton, and is widely distributed in all over the world ocean as well as rarely in freshwaters, such<|fim_middle|> Ceratium vultur f. angulatum ( Jørgensen 1911 ) J. Schiller 1937 .
Reference : Cleve 1900 , p. 15, T. 7, fig. 5.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2014-02.
Description : The whole shape is similar to the Ceratium vultur , but the distance between both antapical horns is very wide (about 1,800 μm). The epithecal and the hypothecal body are rigid.
Size : Length 60–70 μm (apical horn only), width 20–40 μm.
Sampling : September 2008 in the northeastern sea of Jeju Island.
Basionym : Ceratium robustum Ostenfeld & Johannes Schmidt 1901.
Synonym : Ceratium vultur f. robustum (Ostenfeld & Johannes Schmidt 1901) F.J.R. Taylor 1976 .
Reference : Cleve 1990, p. 15, T. 7, fig. 5; Fujioka 1990 , p. 61, pl. 30, fig. 6.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2014-03.
Description : The epitheca is relatively small, and the apical horn is short. Both antapical horns are long, and the right antapical horn is longer. The wings in the antapical horn and the hypotheca are characterized.
Size : Length 300–400 μm, width 50–90 μm.
Sampling : July 2010 in J8 (Gosan-ri coast).
Gómez et al. (2010) insisted the separation of the genus Ceratium into two distinct genera, a new genus name Neoceratium for the marine species and the Ceratium for the freshwater species, on the basis of both the number of cingular plates and the considerable evolutionary distance of their respective SSU rDNA sequences, which form two well-defined monophyletic clades. However, Calado and Huisman (2010) commented a priority of the new genus name Neoceratium as they proposed a valid genus name Tripos . Recently, Gómez (2013) moved all species of the genus Neoceratium to the genus Tripos with a checklist. Regarding the name of species in the both genera, the Ceratium is neuter, but the Tripos is masculine. Therefore, most of the adjectival epithets should be changed accordingly. Thus, the use of the Tripos genus name and the new combinations will induce numerous misspellings of the epithets and considerable confusion. The present study follows the new combination of the genus Tripos Bory 1823 and the treatment of basionym and homotypic synonym proposed by Gómez (2013) . Cercaria tripos O.F. Müller 1776 is the basionym of the genus Tripos , where many varieties and forma are included, and the name of type species is also changed to Tripos muelleri according to nomenclature priority ( Gómez 2013 ).
A total of 36 Ceratium species in Korean waters were described by Shim (1994) . Shim et al. (1981) described 10 Ceratium species in Yeosu Bay, and Han and Yoo (1983) described 5 Ceratium species in Jinhae Bay. In addition Kim et al. (2013) reported 4 Ceratium species as first record in Korean waters. The present study suggests that all marine Ceratium species should move to the genus Tripos proposed by Gómez (2013) . Over the last several years, we have found a total of 51 Tripos species that were identified around Jeju Island. Of these, 23 species were recorded for the first time in the adjacent sea of Jeju Island, as well as in Korean waters.
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resource (NIBR), funded by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea (NIBR201401204), and also supported by Jeju Sea Grant Center, funded by the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries (MOF) of the Republic of Korea.
JB Lee , SJ An , HS Chung , and MMR Shah , "New records of genus Tripos (Dinophyceae) around Jeju Island, Korea", Journal of Ecology and Environment, vol. 4, no. 4, Nov 2014. | as lake and river. Over 120 marine species including varieties or forms have been described, but 62 among them are considered valid ( Gómez 2005 ). Only four species with several varieties belong to freshwater species ( Popovski and Pfiester 1990 ).
Many marine species belonged to the genus Ceratium have been moved to a new genus, Neoceratium , by Gómez et al. (2010) , while freshwater species remains in the original genus Ceratium . The number of cingular plates and the considerable evolutionary distance of their respective small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (SSU rDNA) sequences are suggested as diagnosis to transfer to the Neoceratium genus for the marine species ( Gómez et al. 2010 , Tunin-Ley et al. 2012 ). However, Calado and Huisman (2010) remarked the priority for older synonyms of the Ceratium such as Tripos and other nomenclatural problems. Gómez (2010) insisted a confusion in using the Tripos , but recently Gómez (2013) reinstated the genus name of Tripos to replace the genus Neoceratium . To date, a total of 51 Ceratium species were identified around Jeju Island, which appeared in taxonomical monographs and ecological reports. Of these, 23 species were reported as new records in Korean waters. This study describes the newly recorded species with respect to classification and an easy taxonomical key based on light microscopy (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) criteria, and also provides the checklist of the genus Tripos based on the new combination.
Samplings were done from 14 stations located around Jeju Island during the period from June 2006 to May 2011 ( Table 1 ). Plankton samples were obtained using a 20 μm pore size plankton net and fixed with formaldehyde (final concentration of 0.4%) or glutaraldehyde (final concentration of about 1%). Planktonic dinoflagellates were identified using an Axioplan microscope (Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany). To make slide specimens for one species, the dinoflagellate samples were washed with distilled water, and then proceeded by the method described in Kim et al. (2013) . For more detail observation, dinoflagellate cells were isolated with a micropipette, placed on a cover slip, air-dried, and coated with gold for observation with a Field Emission Scanning Electron microscope (JSM-6700F; JEOL, Tokyo, Japan). For identification, several monographs were used that were reported from different oceans, such as the Indian Ocean ( Taylor 1976 ), the seas adjacent to Japan ( Yamaji 1984 : 97-158), the British and the Atlantic Ocean ( Dodge 1982 , 1985 ), the Kuroshio Current ( Fujioka 1990 ) and Korean waters ( Shim 1994 : 349-419). For classification, the new combination with the genus Tripos was cited from Gómez (2013) .
A total of 51 species of the genus Tripos were identified and classified from Jeju Island, as shown below. Among them, 23 species are described as a new record in Korean waters and 3 species are redescribed in this paper. An asterisk (*) mark indicates a newly recorded species and two asterisk (**) mark indicates a redescribed species. The criteria for the identification of this genus include cell shape, apical and antapical horn shape, girdle displacement, thecal tabulation and ornamentation, apical and antapical spine or wing shape, etc. Photos were taken by LM and SEM focused on the criteria from the dorsal and ventral views.
Light micrographs of the genus Tripos. (a) T. axialis (DV), (b) T. contortus (DV), (c) T. fusus var. schuettii (DV), (d) T. geniculatus (DV), (e) T. gibberus var. sinistrus (VV), (f ) T. gracilis var. symmetricus (DV), (g) T. mollis (DV), (h) T. incisus (VV). Scale bars, 20 μm; DV, dorsal view; VV, ventral view.
Basionym : Ceratium axiale Kofoid 1907 .
Synonym : Neoceratium axiale ( Kofoid 1907 ) F. Gómez; D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
References : Kofoid 1907 , p. 170, pl. 4, fig. 26; Fujioka 1990 , p. 51, pl. 25, fig. 3.
Specimen examined : NIBRFL0000125563 at the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), Incheon.
Description : The antapical horn is asymmetrically curved, like a bow. The apical horn is fine and long, with 1.5–2 times the length of the body. The part that links the epithecal body and the apical horn is smoothly curved.
Size : Length 220–240 μm, width 50–60 μm.
Sampling : November 2009 in J7 (Chagwido coast, see Table 1 for the sign of sampling sites).
Basionym : Ceratium gibberum var. contortum Gourret 1883 .
Synonym : Ceratium contortum ( Gourret 1883 ) Cleve 1900 ; Neoceratium contortum ( Gourret 1883 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
References : Gourret 1883 , T. 2, fig. 33; Yamaji 1984 , p. 140, pl. 46, fig. 10; Shim 1994 , p. 362, fig. 430; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 4, fig. 8, pl. 5, fig. 1, pl. 8, fig. 6, pl. 11, fig. 8, pl. 12, fig. 1.
Description : The cell shape is long, with a quite long apical horn that is slightly curved. The antapical horns stretch in both directions, the right antapical horn is more curved in the middle part.
Size : Length 190–200 μm, width 50–60 μm.
Sampling : September 2010 in the southern sea of Jeju Island.
Basionym : Ceratium fusus var. schuettii Lemmermann 1899.
Synonym : Ceratium fusus var. schuettii Lemmermann 1899.
Reference : Yamaji 1984 , p. 139, pl. 45, fig. 5.
Specimen examined : NIBRFL0000125589; Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-04 at the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), Incheon.
Description : The body shape seems similar to that of the Ceratium fusus . The difference is that the epitheca is bulbous in shape and extends to a strong apical horn cone. The antapical horn has a single curved as long as the calyx. The apical horn is relatively short compared to the antapical horn.
Size : Length 250–350 μm, width 30–40 μm.
Sampling : July 2010 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Basionym : Ceratium fusus var. geniculatum Lemmermann 1899.
Synonym : Ceratium geniculatum (Lemmermann 1899) Cleve 1900 ; Neoceratium geniculatum (Lemmermann 1899) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 ; Ceratium tricarinatum Kofoid.
References : Karsten 1907 , pl. 50, fig. 3a, b; Subrahmanyan 1968 , p. 28, figs. 43-45; Fujioka 1990 , p. 55, pl. 27, figs, 2a, b; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 1, fig. 3, pl. 10, fig. 2.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-08.
Description : The cells are spindle-shaped and relatively long. The cell body is long and clearly constricted in the middle. The epitheca is inflated, its distal part suddenly draws into an apical horn, and the hypotheca tapers into a long left antapical horn that is slightly curved. The apical horn is positioned closer to the left side of the cell, and is notably deflected to the left at its base. A reduced right antapical horn is present. The widest point is adjacent to the cingulum and also to the front of the constriction in the middle of the cell body.
Size : Length 150–160 μm, width 10–20 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium gibberum var. sinistrum Gourret 1883 .
Synonym : Ceratium gibberum f. sinistrum ( Gourret 1883 ) Jørgensen 1911 .
Reference : Yamaji 1984 , p. 140, pl. 46, fig. 5.
Description : The cell shape is slightly thick and flat. The apical horn is relatively stretched and the antapical horn is severely curved towards the dorsal side.
Size : Length 150–230 μm, width 100–130 μm.
Sampling : January 2011 in J14 (Seongsan-ri coast).
Basionym : Ceratium symmetricum Pavillard 1905 .
Synonym : Ceratium gracile var. symmetricum ( Pavillard 1905 ) Jørgensen 1911 .
Reference : Yamaji 1984 , p. 145, pl. 47, fig. 13.
Description : The cell is medium in size and slightly thin. The apical horn is slightly curved and upright, but both antapical horns have the same length and thickness. The girdle furrow is distinct and never converges.
Size : Length 100–130 μm, width 50–70 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium furca var. incisum G. Karsten 1906.
Synonym : Ceratium incisum (G. Karsten 1906) Jørgensen 1911 ; Neoceratium incisum (G. Karsten 1906) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
Reference : Karsten 1907 , T. 23, fig. 6a, b; Fujioka 1990 , p. 55, pl. 27, fig. 8.
Description : The antapical horn stretches downward sharply. The left antapical horn is 2 times longer and 1.5 times thicker than right one. The apical horn is not distinguished.
Size : Length 260–280 μm, width 15–20 μm.
Sampling : January 2010 in J14 (Seongsan-ri coast).
Light micrographs and scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the genus Tripos. (a) T. limulus (VV), (b) T. longissimus (DV), (c) T. macroceros var. gallicus (DV), (d) T. massiliensis var. massiliensis (DV), (e) T. paradoxides (VV), (f ) T. lamellicornis (SEM, DV). Scale bars, 20 μm; DV, dorsal view; VV, ventral view.
Basionym : Ceratium lamellicorne Kofoid 1908 .
Synonym : Ceratium lamellicorne Kofoid 1908 .
Reference : Yamaji 1984 , p. 146, pl. 48, fig. 8.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2007-02.
Description : The antapical base is narrow and long, and stretched to the apical horn. The widest wing of the antapical horn is 2–2.5 times wider than the base part and is separate from the apical horn. The outside of the antapical horn has many gearwheel-like protuberances.
Size : Length 140–150 μm, width 48–54 μm.
Sampling : November 2006 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Basionym : Ceratium tripos var. limulus C.H.G. Pouchet 1883.
Synonym : Ceratium limulus (C.H.G. Pouchet 1883) Gourret 188 3; Neoceratium limulus (C.H.G. Pouchet 1883) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
References : Gourret 1883 , p. 33, T. 1, fig. 7; Fujioka 1990 , p. 57, pl. 28, fig. 1; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 4, fig. 3, pl. 11, fig. 4.
Description : The apical horn length is relatively short, and there are protruding horns from both sides of the epitheca. The antapical horn is thick and stretches out and upward.
Size : Length 160–170 μm, width 80–90 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium tripos f. longissimum Schröder 1900 .
Synonym : Ceratium longissimum ( Schröder 1900 ) Kofoid 1907 ; Neoceratium longissimum ( Schröder 1900 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
Reference : Schröder 1900 , p. 16, T. 1, fig. 171; Wood 1963 , p. 298, fig. 228.
Description : Both sides of the antapical horn stretch upward with almost equal length, and the apical horn also has a straight, upright line. The bodies of the epitheca and the hypotheca are slightly small, but the whole body is bigger than the normal middle size of the genus Ceratium .
Size : Length 200–210 μm, width 30–40 μm.
Sampling : January 2010 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Basionym : Ceratium gallicum Kofoid 1907 .
Synonym : Ceratium macroceros var. gallicum ( Kofoid 1907 ) N. Peters 1934.
Reference : Dodge 1982 , p. 235, fig. 31a; Yamaji 1984 , p. 146, pl. 48, fig. 13; Shim 1994 , p. 374, fig. 448; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 6, fig. 4, pl. 8, fig. 4, pl. 13, fig. 3.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2010-04.
Description : The apical horn is slightly obliquely stretched, and the antapical horn is separated in a fan shape. The back side of the antapical horn has many spines, and the girdle furrow has a clear, oblique line.
Size : Length 250–350 μm.
Sampling : November 2010 in J8 (Gosan-ri coast).
Basionym : Ceratium tripos var. massiliense Gourret 1883 .
Synonym : Ceratium massiliense var. massiliense ( Gourret 1883 ) Balech.
Reference : Gourret 1883 , p. 27, T. 1, fig. 2; Fujioka 1990 , p. 57, pl. 28, fig. 7; Licea et al. 1995 , pl. 19, fig. 6.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2008-03.
Description : The antapical horn is very long, curved like a bow. The apical horn is slightly shorter than the antapical horn. The main body is relatively small, compared to the three long horns, but it looks well balanced in shape to float.
Size : Length 400–500 μm, width 80–90 μm.
Sampling : September 2008 in J14 (Seongsan-ri coast).
Basionym : Certium molle Kofoid 1907 .
Synonym : Certium molle Kofoid 1907 ; Ceratium intermedium (Jörgensen) Jörgensen; Ceratium claviger Kofoid.
Reference : Yamaji 1984 , p. 152, pl. 50, fig. 10.
Description : The antapical horn is fine, long, and stretches upward. Numerous spine are visible around the base of the hypotheca. The apical horn is as long as the antapical one and has a similar length, but the cell body is relatively small.
Size : Length 210–220 μm, width 30–40 μm.
Sampling : November 2009 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Light micrographs of the genus Tripos. (a) T. symmetricus (VV), (b) T. teres (DV), (c) T. muelleri var. atlanticus (VV), (d) T. muelleri var. pulchellus (DV), (e) T. vultur f. robustus (DV), (f ) T. vultur f. angulatum (DV). Scale bars, 20 μm; DV, dorsal view; VV, ventral view.
Basionym : Ceratium tripos f. atlanticum Ostenfeld 1903.
Synonym : Ceratium tripos var. atlanticum (Ostenfeld 1903) Paulsen 1908; Neoceratium tripos var. atlanticum (Ostenfeld 1903) A.F. Krachmalny 2011.
Reference : Jørgensen 1911 , pl. 10; Yamaji 1984 , p. 145, pl. 47, fig. 4-; Fujioka 1990 , p. 61, pl. 30, fig. 2..
Specimen examined : NIBRFL0000125604; Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-07.
Description : The body shape is similar to that of the Ceratium tripos , but it is concave at the bottom of the body. The furrow of the girdle has a characteristic curvature. The left horn is slightly smaller than the right horn.
Size : Length 90–120 μm, width 45–60 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium pulchellum Schröder 1906 .
Synonym : Ceratium tripos var. pulchellum ( Schröder 1906 ) López 1955 ex Sournia 1973.
Reference : Schröder 1906 , p. 358, fig. 27; Fujioka 1990 , p. 61, pl. 30, fig. 3.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2008-04.
Description : The whole body shape is similar to the Ceratium tripos . The hypothecal body is swollen, and the right antapical horn is curved towards the inner side.
Size : Length 190–200 μm, width 80–90 μm.
Sampling : October 2008 in J9 (Hamo-ri coast).
Light micrographs of the genus Tripos. (a) T. platycornis var. cuneatus (DV), (b) T. porrectus f. megasomus (DV), (c) T. pulchellum f. semipulchellum (DV), (d) T. palmatus (DV), (e) T. ranipes var. palmatus (VV), (f ) T. reflexus (DV). Scale bars, 20 μm; DV, dorsal view; VV, ventral view.
Basionym : Ceratium tripos var. macroceros Schröder 1900 .
Synonym : Ceratium palmatum ( Schröder 1900 ) G. Karsten 1907 .
Reference : Cleve 1900 , p. 15, T. 7, fig. 1; Yamaji 1984 , p. 146, pl. 48, fig. 10.
Description : The apical horn is bent as it stretches upward, and the end of the antapical horn is split in the shape of fingers. Numerous spines are located around the outside of the antapical horn and the base of the hypothecal body.
Size : Length 130–150 μm, width 30–40 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium paradoxides Cleve 1900 .
Synonym : Neoceratium paradoxides ( Cleve 1900 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
Reference : Cleve 1900 , p. 15, T. 7, fig. 14; Yamaji 1984 , p. 146, pl. 50, fig. 5; Fujioka 1990 , p. 57, pl. 28, fig. 8.
Description : The apical horn is short and slightly thick. The upper side of the epitheca displays swelling in the shape of a half quadrangle around the right and left side of the apical horn. The antapical horn is very thick, but becomes thinner towards the end of the horn. A net shape of mesh is visible on a wide surface area of the epithecal upper body.
Size : Length 230–250 μm, width 110–120 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium platycorne var. cuneatum Jørgensen 1911 .
Synonym : Ceratium platycorne var. cuneatum Jørgensen 1911 .
Reference : Jørgensen 1911 , p. 59, fig. 126.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2007-03.
Description : The hypothecal base is relatively narrow, and both antapical horns have flat and wide wings that stretch upward. The widest part of the wing is 2 times the length of the base part of the antapical horn. The wing is separate from the epithecal body and the apical horn. The end of the antapical horn is truncated, like a knife face.
Size : Length 350–400 μm, width 80–90 μm.
Sampling : February 2007 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Basionym : Ceratium porrectum f. megasomum Jørgensen 1911 .
Synonym : Ceratium porrectum f. megasomum Jørgensen 1911 ; Ceratium ponectum f. megasoma Jørgensen.
Reference : Jørgensen 1911 , p. 34, fig. 64; Schiller 1937 , pp. 590; Subrahmanyan 1968 , p. 129; Yamaji 1984 , p. 159, pl. 51, fig. 4; Fujioka 1990 , p. 59, pl. 29, fig. 2.
Specimen examined : NIBRFL0000125603 ( Ceratium ponectum f. megasoma Jørgensen); Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-05 ( Ceratium porrectum f. megasoma ).
Description : This is a robust species. The left contour of the epitheca become strongly convex and is abruptly drawn out into a robust, short anterior horn, which is strikingly broadened at the base and covered with toothed ridges in old, large individuals. The distal portion is narrowed. The antapical horns are uniformly arched and are generally rather short; they are approximately as long as or at times longer than the cell body, diverging at the apex, and parallel to rarely somewhat converging; the right horn is usually somewhat slender and shorter. The armor is robust, with lists, pores, and winged lists.
Size : Length 130–150 μm, width 50–70 μm.
Sampling : May 2010, January 2011 in J14 (Seongsan-ri coast).
Basionym : Ceratium pulchellum f. semipulchellum Jørgensen 1920.
Synonym : Ceratium pulchellum f. semipulchellum Jørgensen 1920.
Reference : Schröder 1906 , p. 358, fig. 27.
Specimen examined : NIBRFL0000125606; Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-06.
Description : The body is always longer than it is broad. The posterior contour is clearly convex, particularly on the right side. The apical horn is strikingly long and robust, uniformly broad up to the apex, and rarely broader in the middle than at the end. The hypotheca is slightly concave, almost straight, and slightly inclined to the left side contour. The posterior contour of the cell is convex, usually uniformly merging with the left antapical horn, whereas the right is clearly delimited (slightly so with a very small right horn). The antapical horns are rather short and less robust than the apical horn; the left one is particularly beautifully and uniformly arched, with the ends directed almost parallel to the apical horn, or the left sometimes somewhat divergent. The right horn is clearly more weakly developed than the left. The winged lists are absent.
Size : Length 120–150 μm, width 45–55 μm.
Sampling : July 2010 in J13 (Pyosun-ri coast).
Basionym : Ceratium tripos var. macroceros f. palmatum Schröder 1900 .
Synonym : Ceratium ranipes var. palmatum ( Schröder 1900 ) Jørgensen 1920.
Reference : Cleve 1900 , p. 15, T. 7, fig. 1; Fujioka 1990 , p. 59, pl. 29, fig. 4.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2007-05.
Description : The end of the antapical horns looks like a fen shape and is characterized with fine projects. The projects have 6 radial axes stretching outside of them.
Size : Length 300–350 μm, width 60–80 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium reflexum Cleve 1900 .
Synonym : Neoceratium reflexum ( Cleve 1900 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
Reference : Cleve 1900 , p. 15, T. 7, figs. 8, 9; Yamaji 1984 , p. 159, pl. 51, fig. 5-; Fujioka 1990 , p. 59, pl. 29, fig. 6.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-09.
Description : The species is of a medium size and has very characteristic features. The body is slightly compressed. The epitheca is broad and low. The hypotheca is almost double the length of the epitheca. All three horns, particularly the apical one, have a widened base and a thick wall towards the apex, are narrow and thin walled at the proximal part, and are beset with more or less clear and somewhat dentate winged lists. The lists are well developed on the transverse furrow. The left horn at the base is at first oblique and points backward, then bends back and is somewhat twisted. The right horn is approximately the same length or usually somewhat longer. The base is perpendicular to the body, then suddenly bends forward and is almost straight; it diverges less than 20–25° relative to the apical horn. The armor usually clears with small but robust, twisted lists and striking pores. In the orientation of the posterior, the horn of this species is unique.
Size : Length 200–250 μm.
Sampling : October 2010 in J7 (Chagwido coast).
Synonym : Neoceratium symmetricum ( Pavillard 1905 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 ; Ceratium gracile (Gourret) Jørgensen.
References : Pavillard 1905 , p. 52, T. 1, fig. 4; Shim 1994 , p. 378, fig. 454; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 5, fig. 9, pl. 12, fig. 9.
Specimen examined : Unrecorded species no. LJB2013-10.
Description : The cell body has convex sides, sometimes slightly inflated on the left side, with a notably convex posterior margin that lacks a notch between the antapical horns, which are slightly longer than they are wide. The apical horn is rather short, slightly curved, and positioned centrally. The antapical horns are relatively long, continuously curved, directed anteriorly, and positioned at about equal distance from the cell body. The widest point is adjacent to the cingulum and the antapical horns.
Basionym : Ceratium teres Kofoid 1907 .
Synonym : Neoceratium teres ( Kofoid 1907 ) F. Gómez, D. Moreira & P. López-García 2010 .
Reference : Kofoid 1907 , p. 308, T. 29, figs. 34-36; Yamaji 1984 , p. 134, pl. 44, fig. 17; Okolodkov 2010 , pl. 3, fig. 4, pl. 10., fig. 12.
Description : The apical horn is very thin, long, and upwardly straight. The main body is relatively big compared to the horn. The antapical horn is very short and blunt. The right antapical horn is 2 times longer than the left one.
Size : Length 90–100 μm, width 15–20 μm.
Basionym : Ceratium sumatranum f. angulatum Jørgensen 1911 .
Synonym : | 7,434 |
Night view of Burj Al Arab - The tallest tower of the world.
The tour can never end without visiting the two icons of Dubai :) Burj Khalifa & Burj Al Arab.
The fourth day of our tour started with the visit to the Burj Khalifa which is located at down town, Dubai. Burj basically means "tower". Burj<|fim_middle|>". I was born n raised there n truly miss the this city. as always, nice pics! | Khalifa is the tallest tower in the world with 160 floors to its credit. It was initially called as the Burj Dubai, but was renamed as Burj Khalifa to honor the UAE President, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support during the financial crisis.
We chanced to get tickets to elevate up to the 124th floor of the tower. Entered the elevator with heights of enthusiasm to get to the top. Ooops felt as if I was flying on a jet. It hardly took half a min to reach the 124th floor.
A walk around the 124th floor with glass walls could give a panoramic view of the beautiful city with tall grey buildings, brown lands and blue see. Sadly its almost void of greenery.
The water fall structure at the mall runs through the entire height of the mall with diving fiber glass human sculptures which are extremely attractive and beautiful.
The entrance to the Burj Al Arab is through the Dubai mall. Hence it was the next spot that we had spent our time at.
Dubai Mall is again a place of records. Its the world's largest shopping mall based on total area. It has total internal floor area of 5.9 million square feet. Awwwwwwww.. Yup even I was awestruck at the facts!!
The next stop for the afternoon hunger needs was at the California Pizza Kitchen(CPK).
We quenched our thirst with Italian sodas of Mango, Peach and Kiwi flavors.
Roamed around the mall for the rest of the day.
Through few high sources we got a chance to sight see the hotel and it gave us sheer bliss and goose bumps all over.
The Burj Al Arab stands 321 m high on an artificial island 280 m out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic structure whose shape mimics the sail of a ship.
The hotel has totally 27 floors as per the lift, but each floor has a sub floor making it a total of 54 floors.
All the suits are posh with super luxurious interiors and top notch technology.
It was a set menu which basically had three classifications - vegetarian, eggetarian and non-vegetarian.
The other option chosen by my pals were Sunny side up and hash potatoes. They look really cute :) I loved the hash potatoes too. Perfect in texture.
Along with this we had some toasted bread accompanied by butter and four flavors of jam.
They look awesome. Wonderful pics.
Woww those macarons, yummm!! beautiful clicks and wonderful write up Nithya..
Mouthwatering...... looks like you had a blast.
Wonderful clicks and I loved the macaroons click very much as it tempts me so much :) lovely place and lovely clicks!
The macaroons look colorful and the clicks are spectacular Nithya.
Wow girl..amazing pics! You had lots of fun in dubai :) Sorry da missed your earlier posts, wasnt keeping too well, take care!
ah! glad you got to see my "home | 641 |
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21, 2016 – The No. 17-ranked Washington University in St. Louis volleyball program honored its three senior members during the Active Ankle Invitational, which the Bears opened with a 3-0 win over the University of Dubuque and followed with a 3-1 loss against No. 8 University of Texas at Dallas Friday evening in the Field House.
The Bears (16-9 Overall) held the Spartans of Dubuque (13-14 Overall) to a hitting average of .078 in the straight sets victory while keeping the score close to the Comets of Dallas (22-1) for the first three sets until dropping the fourth with a 10-point gap.
The Bears dominant effort was distributed throughout much of the roster as 15 Bears saw action on the court. WashU totaled 41 kills<|fim_middle|> within two points, 21-19 but Texas-Dallas scored four of the next six to take the set and match lead.
WashU attempted a rally in the fourth set, trimming the Comets lead from eight to five points but Dallas proved too much while securing the set and match 25-15.
The action continues tomorrow in the Active Ankle Invitational as the Bears will face Millikin University at 1:30 p.m. and No. 3 Wittenberg University at 3:30 p.m. Be sure to stay up to date on all the Bears scores and award by following @WashUBears on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | compared to Dubuques 27, and also finished with a large discrepancy in digs (60-40).
Sophomore Julianne Malek attacked the ball at a highly efficient rate, totaling 10 kills on 17 attempts (.529 hitting percentage). Senior Rexi Sheredy was not far behind totaling nine kills on 18 hits (.500).
Freshman Chloe Stile finished the match with 33 kills while fellow setter sophomore Savannah Zhang played multiple sets and contributed four assists.
The senior duo of Caroline Dupont and Amanada Palucki were formidable at the net. The duo combined for nine or the Bears 12 block assists. Freshman Zoe Baxter led the team with digs, totaling 21 in the contest. Sheredy added 11 too.
During the first set, WashU closed out a close score down the stretch behind kills from Sheredy, Ifeoma Ufondu and the game point from Malek.
The Bears cruised to an early 8-2 lead in the second set. The Spartans went on a 7-1 run to even things up at 9-all but WashU proceeded to score 16 of the next 20 points, winning the set 25-13.
Dubuque held a 10-6 advantage in the third set but a kill from Abby Selcho helped turn the momentum. WashU evened the score at 13-13 on an ace from Sheredy and continued to tack on points, totaling a 21-13 advantage. Malek once again closed the set, with a match point kill set up by Zhang.
Prior to the match, WashU honored its three senior members in Caroline Dupont, Amanda Palucki and Rexi Sheredy. The trio has had a significant impact on the success of the Bears in their four year careers. Dupont, Palucki and Sheredy combined for 24 of the Bears 46 kills against Texas-Dallas.
Dupont led the team with 12 kills, while Selcho's impressive seven kills on 12 attempts led the Bears in efficiency (.583). WashU finished with less errors than the Comets, but Texas-Dallas outscored the Bears in kills 61-46.
Sheredy led the Bears with 23 digs on the night while sophomore Loren Shin added nine. Dupont contributed on six blocks while Malek, Palucki and Selcho each assisted on three others.
WashU jumped ahead in the first set, 5-2, on kills from Dupont, Ufondu and Palucki. The nationally ranked teams kept the score within two points of each other down the stretch until the Comets scored the final five points.
In the second set, the Bears rallied from a 14-7 deficit. Clutch service from Baxter, Stile, Sheredy and Dupont put the Bears within a single point of evening the games at on apiece. However a Michelle Toro kill momentarily postponed things until Malek finished her fourth set of the day with a kill. In fact, Malek closed out all four set victories by the Bears Friday evening.
The third set was tightly contested as well. Multiple kills from Palucki helped the Bears out to a 5-2 advantage. The Comets followed with an eight point run to retake the lead. The Bears closed the gap on well placed hits from Ufondu and Dupont. The kills brought the Bears | 726 |
Hit & Run by your last web designer?
The web design industry is rife with designers who adopt the 'hit and run' mentality. They come in, promising the world, they then under deliver, take your money, and if they don't vanish altogether, they<|fim_middle|> trust and transparency.
This in turn paves the way for us to succeed together!
Tell me your story... and let's give you a happy ending! | become almost impossible to get hold of afterwards. Sound familiar?
NOBODY DESERVES TO BE TREATED LIKE THIS!
Through the years of my own design experience, I have come to realise that my own true success is based on the success of my clients. The only way to create real value is to place a vested interest into each project I take on. By adopting a sense of ownership, I approach each design as though it were my own. This premise is the foundation on which I do business, on which I base my recommendations & advice and on which I create my clients' designs.
The result of this is that I build good and solid, long standing business relationships with my clients which are based on mutual | 143 |
Getting married is a dream come true, but budgeting for the wedding can be a challenge. Prices can seem high, but the good news is average numbers account for events of all shapes and sizes, and may not reflect what you're planning. Here are some average wedding costs, according to The Knot 2015 Real Wedding Study (unless otherwise noted), along with ideas to help you make a practical budget.
You may have heard the average wedding costs more than $32,000. This figure is higher than what many couples spend since it includes the cost of big-ticket weddings. Almost 40% of couples<|fim_middle|>As with any major expense, make a budget for your wedding, set savings goals and stay on track.
Once you've set a budget, calculate how long it takes to reach your goal with our savings goal calculator.
Celebrating your nuptials in January, February or March, when venues often offer discount rates.
Avoiding Saturday—the most expensive day to marry.
Having a morning or afternoon wedding, when rates are lower.
Weigh your celebration costs against other financial goals such as paying down student debt or buying a house.
Households with auto loans owe an average of $27,865 on them.
Households with student debt owe $48,591 on average for these loans.
Whatever your wedding goals are, it's important to work within your budget. A Bank of America savings account can help you save the right amount for your special day. | manage to spend $10,000 or less on their big day, according to The Wedding Report.
Remember, these are average costs. Don't feel like you need to spend this much.
91% of couples help pay for their weddings.
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That's right, the controversial incandescent bulb ban is on hold which means you can enjoy the inexpensive glow of incandescent light for a few more months and look at other types of lighting like LED light bulbs or fluorescent lights.
I love lighting! I love every kind of lighting, including candles, to create mood, atmosphere and warmth - and the right lighting makes all the difference. So what kinds of light bulbs are there - let's quickly run through them.. so you know what you're dealing with.
Incandescent light - an electric current heats a metal filament which glows warm light quality that is great for skin tones. These bulbs are inexpensive but burn out quickly. They come in lots of colors such as amber, light blue and pink and used easily with dimmer switches. However, an incandescent bulb ban is being imposed and these bulbs will be no longer available in stores. Or will they... the government-mandated incandescent bulb ban was overturned in December. What can you do with old bulbs? Here is one cheeky suggestion.
Fluorescent lights are gas-discharge lamps. Mercury vapors are excited using electricity. The upside is that fluorescent lights don't break easily so they last longer. Unfortunately, they can make you and your room look a little green! Check packaging for the color of the light. The photo below shows a clever combination of incandescent lighting surrounded by four recessed fluorescent lights and covered by mounting. Fluorescent lights are not exactly a favorite, often showing a harsh, bright white light but fluorescent lights are changing.
Light-emitting diode (LED) lights glow when an electric current passes through a semi conductor. LEDs are the most energy-efficient bulb and the most expensive; lasting up<|fim_middle|>So, what watts should you use in an overhead light? What about in a porch light? If you want to know read this article on Lighting Tips - How to Get the Best Out of Your Task Lighting for your porch, desk lighting, halls, recessed and more and the recommended wattage to use or move on to Floor Lamps- How to Choose Floor Lamps that Rock.
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They're short, sweet and will get you into the decorating mood! | to 16 times longer than incandescent bulbs. They are also available for dimmers.
A recent New York Times article has more details on bulb differences. To find out more about other types of bulbs read this buying guide.
The amount of energy they use is one thing but for me it's also about the type of lighting they give off and that comes back to what you are using your lighting for - mood lighting (about 40 watts), task lighting (about 100 watts) and average lighting (often 60-75 watts). Remember, these are the incandescent light numbers. For the equivalent fluorescent or LED wattage, divide the incandescent wattage by four. That means mood lighting of 10 watt LEDs is the same as 40 watts on an incandescent bulb.
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New Jersey sets out strategic plan for offshore wind
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The state of New Jersey, on the east coast of the United States, has set out its strategy to achieve 7.5 GW of offshore wind by 2035. The new strategy document outlines future procurements and details steps in a plan to realize the wind's deployment. The Offshore Wind Strategic Plan (OWSP) incorporates scientific studies and data, state agency input, industry expertise, and stakeholder input.
The Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, described the<|fim_middle|> a once-in-a-generation opportunity for New Jersey. By investing in this renewable resource we can provide jobs, clean energy, and millions of dollars in economic activity for our state. The new Offshore Wind Strategic Plan is a comprehensive roadmap for achieving Governor Murphy's goal of 7,500 megawatts of installed capacity by 2035 and ensures we are working toward the best value for New Jersey ratepayers." | plan as "a critical blueprint that will guide us toward our goal of 7,500 megawatts of offshore wind power by 2035 and help us achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2050."
In addition to its 2018 solicitation, for 1.1 GW, the state is planning five offshore wind Requests for Proposals (RFP), as follows:
- RFP 2 in 2020 (for 1.2 GW, operational by 2026)
As part of the OWSP, 12,500 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, east of the state and ranging from areas off Long Island to Maryland, were evaluated. The study area includes the majority of leased areas and some planned future areas in the New York Bight.
There are five "critical" areas of study in the OWSP:
- Environmental and natural resource protection
- Commercial and recreational fisheries
- Supply chain and workforce development
- Ports and harbours
- Energy markets and transmission
For each topic, the OWSP describes its strategic importance, includes a summary of stakeholder outreach, conveys current studies and findings, and outlines "specific recommendations for successful offshore wind development." In particular, the plan calls for additional studies into fisheries, grid connection, and ports.
Last year, the BPU announced the winner of its 2018 solicitation for 1.1 GW. Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted secured rights to the site with the Ocean Wind project with support from New Jersey utility company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG). Located off the coast of Atlantic City, the project is poised to be New Jersey's first commercial scale offshore wind farm. Subject to its final investment decision, the wind farm is expected to be completed by 2024.
Joseph L. Fiordaliso, President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities said of the plan: "Offshore wind represents | 406 |
Dillon Beach, California, is a quaint coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, approximately 60 miles north of San Francisco. Its seaside location offers ample opportunities for activities like swimming, surfing, boating, fishing and sand castle building. Two<|fim_middle|> which is available from the Bear Valley Visitor Center, before starting your adventure.
For those seeking a more amenity-filled vacation, stay at Dillon Beach Resort (dillonbeachresort.com) located directly on the beach. Make reservations by calling 707-878-2696. The rustic resort has three cabins available for rent with fully-equipped kitchens and can accommodate up to six people. An on-site cafe serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. A general store sells groceries, camping essentials, propane and souvenirs.
Schreiber, Sarah. "Camping in Dillon Beach, California." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/camping-dillon-beach-california-105878.html. Accessed 21 April 2019. | options for camping are located in Dillon Beach, with three others a close drive or kayak ride away.
Make reservations at Lawson's Landing (lawsonslanding.com), the only Dillon Beach campground. Reservations must be made online at least two days in advance. Campers can set up tents or RVs in sites located in an open meadow that overlooks the ocean at this campground, which has been in operation since 1957. Facilities include picnic tables, fire rings, a boathouse and restrooms. Showers and laundry facilities are not available at the campground. A boat launch is on-site, providing opportunities for fishing. Clamming is also popular at Lawson's Landing.
Camp at Doran Regional Park, 15.4 miles from Dillon Beach in Bodega Bay. Make reservations by calling 707-565-2267. Doran Campground (sonoma-county.org) is in the park, which has two miles of beachfront access, offering recreational opportunities including kite flying, surfing, swimming and fishing. Individual campsites for tents or RVs are on-site, but with no hookups offered. Coin-operated showers, flush toilets and restrooms with electrical outlets are available for campers. The park also includes a boat launch, fish-cleaning station, picnic spots and boat-rinsing station.
Escape with an RV getaway to Bodega Bay RV Park, (bodegabayrvpark.com) located 16.5 miles from Dillon Beach on 5.5 acres of land. Make reservations by calling 800-201-6864. The beach is a five-minute drive away. The park has a total of 72 sites, 49 of which have full hookup options. On-site amenities include hot showers, laundromat, ice, restaurant, horseshoe pit, arcade, fishing, dump station and bocce ball court. Golf, horse trails and hiking trails are all within close proximity.
Try a back-country camping adventure at Point Reyes National Seashore, (nps.gov) approximately 22 miles from Dillon Beach. Kayak from the Dillon Beach Lawson's Landing Campground into Tomales Bay, a 15-mile long tidal water body, to access some of the park's campgrounds. Hike to other campsites, which are two and a half to eight miles from the parking area. Purchase a camping permit, | 502 |
Future stars will coming to Boston this summer. The Cape Cod Baseball League announced Thursday that the All-Star Game will take place at Fen<|fim_middle|> a silent auction featuring various baseball memorabilia.
Discounted concession items will also be offered for those that just want to enjoy the park's atmosphere and the famous Fenway Franks.
All tickets are general admission and priced at $10. They can be purchased online, or by phone at (877) REDSOX-9. The Red Sox' TTY number for hearing-impaired fans is (617) 226-6644. | way on Wednesday, July 28, at 7:05 p.m.
The Cape Cod League All-Star Game is a prestigious event, and many former Cape Cod Leaguers have gone onto the big leagues, including the Red Sox' Jason Varitek (Hyannis in 1991, 1993), Kevin Youkilis (Bourne, 2000), Jacoby Ellsbury (Falmouth, 2004) and Mike Lowell (Chatham, 1994). The 2010 game will mark the 46th in the league's "modern era" and the 23rd using the present East Division vs. West Division format.
The event will be an exciting, family-friendly night at Fenway, offering an action-packed game. Before the first pitch is thrown, there will be a Home Run Derby, autograph session with the All-Stars and | 197 |
Question: Can a Christian Lose Salvation or is it true that they have eternal security? Is the statement "<|fim_middle|> "obedient to death." (Philippians 2:8 WEB).
Does this mean we are saved by works? Actually, no, we are still saved by grace. Read more about The Meaning of Repentance and Salvation.
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This passage alone makes it clear that it is possible for those who claim to believe in Jesus Christ to have their name removed from the book of life, but what would cause this to happen? And does this mean that it's possible for a christian to lose their salvation?
Again, this statement seems to indicate that the elect won't leave the faith, and those who do leave have proven themselves to not be saved. However, what about those who say they are Christians, but continue to sin?
Again, Paul is speaking to "believers" (those who claim to be Christian), urging them to repent of evil or else they will not be saved.
However, in context, Paul is not talking about a person's choice to not be saved by sinning. Rather, Paul is talking about being a martyr, saying that nothing (death or otherwise) can separate us from Christ's love and power. The same Paul who makes this statement in Romans also makes the above statement in 1 Corinthians about evildoers not being saved due to their actions.
Further Evidence for "Once Saved Always Saved"
So to answer the question: Can a Christian lose salvation? The answer is "yes" in the sense that "believers" can have their names removed from the book of life if they continue to live a life of sin (Revelation 3:5).
However it should be clarified that if a person does continue to sin, then they were probably never a true believer in the first place (1 John 2:19), because we "show" what we truly believe by our actions.
Anyone can say they believe in Christ, and they can even think they are sincere about it, but if you oppose Christ with your actions, as Paul says, "by their actions they deny him," (Titus 1:16) by sinning, then you are lying when you say you know Christ and are saved. Essentially, believing that you are saved while you continue to deny Christ with your actions is deceiving yourself.
So then, can a true Christian lose salvation? No. It is impossible for anyone who is a true Christian to lose their salvation. However, whether they are a true Christian is seen by their actions that support their belief, and it is also important that this person be marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 1:22).
According to John, anyone who claims to be a Christian should live in obedience to God like Jesus did, saying, "Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did." (1 John 2:6 NIV).
And how did Jesus walk? Jesus lived in complete obedience to that Father, even | 551 |
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THIS week, we will introduce the subject of broadband and show how it can<|fim_middle|>: Focus on telecoms
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The evolution and application of information and communications technology (ICT) services in every aspect of our lives has changed the scope of the digital divide to include the gap in the access to internet and broadband services.
Broadband has become a critical factor in Africa's development ultimately influencing the way we communicate, operate, govern and interact. The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) is cognisant of the need for universally accessible broadband and has embarked on programmes that ensure fast uptake of the broadband services while maintaining quality services.
Undoubledly, communication infrastructure is at the helm of telecommunication service delivery and as such, Zambia has witnessed proliferation of these infrastructure installations such as optic fibre cables and communication masts.
A standard for installation, maintenance and inspection has become essential, taking into account the many related problems associated with poor installation and lack of maintenance.
It is in this vein, that ZICTA in conjunction with the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS), has since engaged the relevant stakeholders in standardisation of installation of communication infrastructure in the ICT sector. This will enable coordinated installations, quality assurance, reduce on downtime and will also maintain the network integrity.
With the advent of technological evolution of broadcasting television and the subsequent ongoing migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT), there is need to protect the consumers from sub-standard set-top boxes and television sets.
To address this issue, the standardisation Technical Committee (TC) developed standards for both the set-top box and the integrated digital television (iDTV) sets that would have an embedded digital tuner. This iDTV will, in the long run, enable phasing out of the set-top boxes and replace the current analogue television sets.
In order to enhance the mobile broadband services, ZICTA, after the digital migration deadline of June 2015, will allocate the resulting digital dividend spectrum for mobile broadband services. The authority has also opened up spectrum for deployment of other broadband services in other spectrum bands such as the 2.3GHz and 10.5GHz.
The following are among the services that benefit from the availability of broadband services:
Education, culture, and entertainment
Broadband can overcome geographical and financial barriers to provide access to a wide range of educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities and resources.
Telehealth and telemedicine
Broadband can facilitate provision of medical care to unserved and underserved populations through remote diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and consultations with specialists.
Economic Development/E-Commerce
Broadband can promote economic development and revitalisation through electronic commerce (e-commerce) by:
• Creating new jobs and attracting new industries
• Providing access to regional, national, and worldwide markets
Electronic government (e-government)
Electronic government can help streamline people's interaction with government agencies, and provide information about government policies, procedures, benefits, and programs.
Broadband communications services
Broadband provides access to new telecommunications technologies such as Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP), allowing voice communication using the Internet.
Communications services for people with disabilities
Broadband permits users of telecommunications relay services (TRS) to use video relay services (VRS) to communicate more easily, quickly, and expressively with voice telephone users.
The applicants can access our ZICTA websites www.zicta. zm or (onlinesystems.zicta.zm), info@zicta.zm or contact us on the following telephone numbers 0211 244424,244427 or 241236
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Duluth, MN is one of America's cities on the rise, one of the best adventure hubs in the world, even the Best Town in America. From our perch on the shores of Lake Superior, Duluth is where The College of St. Scholastica calls home. And with an international experience that combines a diverse, rigorous education with a welcoming, inclusive community, you can too.
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Graduate in Four Years — Guaranteed
At many colleges it may take up to six years to earn an undergraduate degree, which can cause problems with student visas and cost you a lot more money. At St. Scholastica, if you follow our guidelines, you will graduate in four years — guaranteed — or any remaining courses are free.
Outcomes of a St. Scholastica Education
And once you graduate, you'll be able to use your degree. In fact, view the outcomes of graduates within six months of graduation. Columbia University, Harvard, University of Paris and University of Milan are a few of the universities that have accepted St. Scholastica international students into post-graduate (Doctoral, MA, MBA, MD) programs.
Find Lifelong Friends. Make Lifelong Memories.
With more than 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 27 countries, we have a vibrant and<|fim_middle|> is mandatory for all new international students.
Do I need health insurance?
Yes, all international students are required to opt-in (enroll) in the College's health insurance plan. View the Student Health Insurance page for more information.
What is housing like on campus?
Freshmen live in Somers Hall, which provides dorm and suite rooms for students. Somers Hall also includes Greenview Dining Room, laundry facilities, lounges and kitchenettes. View Campus Housing for more information about first-year and upper-class housing available on campus.
Are there student clubs?
St. Scholastica has a variety of clubs to meet the interest of students. View a list of the clubs and organizations on campus. | active student body. From athletics to student clubs to recreation to ministry to living on campus, the College offers plenty of opportunities for you to connect with other students, explore Duluth and shape your own college experience.
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Already Accepted?
View the steps to complete once you've been accepted to St. Scholastica.
International students are students who wish to pursue an academic program or degree at the College of St. Scholastica and are in the United States on an educational immigration status of F-1 visa.
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Contact the Admissions office at admissions@css.edu for admission information.
International Student Application for Undergraduate Admission
An international student is one who is not a U.S. national, a U.S. permanent resident, a permanent resident of the Northern Mariana Islands or a permanent resident of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and is planning to attend The College of St. Scholastica on an F-1 Visa.
International Application Deadlines
All application materials must be received by the following dates (for all applicants except those from Canada or current F-1 Visa holders):
Fall semester – July 15
Spring semester – Nov. 15
Applicants from Canada or current F-1 Visa holders:
Fall semester – Aug. 15
Spring semester – Dec. 15
Due to the timeline for the visa interview process, application materials received after these dates will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Academic Readiness
Applicants must have completed a secondary school. This program should include coursework in the humanities, laboratory sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and history.
English Proficiency
All applicants for admission must demonstrate their ability to participate in college courses where English is the language of instruction by achieving acceptable scores on one of the following exams (dated within two years of application):
Minimum Scores of:
79 on the internet based TOEFL
213 on the computer based TOEFL
550 on the paper based TOEFL (taken before July 2017)
57 paper based TOEFL (taken after July 2017)
Minimum score of 105
Minimum Score of 6.5
Students transferring from another institution may apply for admittance for any academic semester. Transfer applicants must have earned a minimum of a C average (2.0 GPA) or equivalent and be eligible to return to the college or university he or she is leaving to attend St. Scholastica. Foreign post-secondary/university level transcripts can be evaluated by NACES and AICES member organizations.
If international students have taken International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP) or College in the Schools (CITS) credits through accredited institutions, these credits may transfer to St. Scholastica. However, the College will need to perform an official transcript evaluation to see exactly which of the IB, AP or CITS may transfer to St. Scholastica. International students will need to have an official transcript sent to the College from the institution that the IB, AP or CITS courses were taken.
International Students applying to The College of St. Scholastica must submit the following materials:
A completed St. Scholastica International Student Application Form, which includes a written essay.*
Copies of all secondary and post-secondary school transcripts. English translations must be included with these transcripts. Foreign post-secondary/university level transcripts can be evaluated by NACES and AICES member organizations, and that evaluation must be sent along with the transcript.
TOEFL test scores (including the TWE (Test of Written English) Essay Rating), IELTS Test Scores (if the student has these available) or Duolingo test score. For direct reporting of your TOEFL test scores, use code 6107.
An essay on a significant event that has happened in your life and your reaction to it. Must be a minimum of 500 words in length.
A completed St. Scholastica International Student Scholarship form and copies of bank statements (used to determine additional financial aid after acceptance and I-20 eligibility).
* The College of St. Scholastica reviews complete International applications on a rolling basis to determine acceptance to the College.
International students are required to live on campus two years. However, if you are a college transfer student bringing in 12 or more college credits earned after high school or a non-traditional aged student, students may qualify to live off campus. Please note, the Global Benedictine Scholarship level may have mandatory residency requirements.
All admitted international students will receive a Global Benedictine Scholarship award. Additional need- based grant funding may be available upon completion of the St. Scholastica International Student Scholarship form.
A student's Global Benedictine Scholarship is renewable for up to three additional years or until receiving a bachelor's degree as long as you maintain full-time enrollment status, 67% completion rate and a 2.0 GPA, or better.
Estimated Annual Expenses
Estimated Annual Expenses 2022-23*
Tuition: $38,750 (includes $500 deposit)
Fees: $735 (Technology, Orientation, Health Services, Students Services)
Estimated Health Insurance (required): $2,600
Estimated costs for books: $1,200
Estimated personal expenses: $2,500
Estimated total costs: $56,781
* This estimate is based on U.S. dollars for first-time students and doesn't include financial aid provided by the College.
Admissions and Application Process
Do I need to take the SAT/ACT?
We do not require SAT/ACT for international students.
Do you accept the Common Application?
Yes. We prefer that you use The College of St. Scholastica International Application but will accept the Common Application available on the Common App website.
Does St. Scholastica admit transfer students?
Yes, St. Scholastica welcomes transfer students. Contact international@css.edu, our international admissions counselor, for more information.
Can I finish my application first, then forward the rest of the required documents or are they all due at the same time?
You can complete your application first, then forward the remaining required documents to international@css.edu, our international admissions counselor.
What is St. Scholastica's policy regarding the use of agents?
Agents who may be retained by students to help with the application process are not recognized as representatives of The College of St. Scholastica and do not have a contractual agreement or partnership to represent the College
F-1 Visa Process
What are the visa requirements for international students?
In order to study full-time in the United States, international students need to apply for and be approved for the F-1 student visa. Your admissions counselor will assist you with the process of applying for a F-1 visa after acceptance.
Do you offer an ESL program?
The College of St. Scholastica does not offer an ESL program.
May I transfer credits from other institutions?
Academic transcripts from other institutions are carefully reviewed by the College and credit is awarded as appropriate. Those who have taken IB, AP and similar advanced coursework are eligible to have credits awarded for their work.
What if I don't know what major I want to pursue?
No problem. The College of St. Scholastica has a Deciding Major program that assists students in making this important decision.
Do you have an honors program? How do I become a part of it?
The College of St. Scholastica does offer an honors program for its undergraduate students. Learn more information about the honors program.
Do you offer scholarships?
Yes. The College of St. Scholastica awards scholarships to students based on an evaluation of their application and the accompanying materials (i.e., official secondary and/or post-secondary school transcripts and essay).
Note: Scholarship terms will not be changed once a student arrives on campus. The scholarship is renewable for up to three additional years as long as you maintain full-time enrollment status and Satisfactory Academic Progress.
Do you offer any athletics scholarships or financial aid?
As a NCAA Division III school, The College of St. Scholastica does not offer athletics scholarships. Learn more information about non-athletic scholarships and finances.
Can I apply for other scholarships? How do I do so?
Students are welcome to apply for outside scholarships.
Can I create a payment plan for my tuition?
The College of St. Scholastica does offer payment plans. Contact Student Accounts to discuss options.
May I work?
Students on an F-1 visa are eligible to work on campus for up to 20 hours per week during the school year. Additional off-campus internship opportunities may be available within the student's academic major.
How do I get advice from professionals regarding career paths and career exploration?
The College of St. Scholastica has a career services department dedicated to helping students explore and identify a career path. Learn more about Career Services. Student academic and career clubs, such as the pre-med club or math club, are also great resources. View a list of the clubs and organizations on campus.
What opportunities are available for undergraduate research, internships and experiential learning?
Various departments on campus provide support to match undergraduate students with opportunities in their field of study.
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Are there volunteer opportunities?
Volunteerism is an important part of student life at The College of St. Scholastica. Volunteer opportunities are available through student clubs, departments and external organizations.
What is the weather like in Minnesota?
Minnesota, like the rest of the northern states and countries, has four seasons. You will need to be prepared both for beautifully warm days and for cold and snowy winter weather. Our international students greatly enjoy the range of winter activities available.
May I live off campus?
All undergraduate students (U.S. and International) are required to live on campus their freshman and sophomore years (first two years). Individual scholarships may require you to live on campus for the duration of your educational journey at St. Scholastica.
This enables students to easily participate in campus activities and get to know their classmates and professors quickly.
May I stay on campus during breaks, including summer?
During short breaks including winter break and spring break), there are no additional room charges. Students will have to provide and prepare their own food during break because dining services are limited or closed. Additional charges will apply for students wishing to stay on campus during summer break.
Is there an international student orientation?
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Valcourt, Quebec/Canada, April 18, 2016 – Can-Am X-Team racers had a successful weekend, winning both the premier XC1 Pro UTV and the 4×4 Pro classes at the 2016 Big Buck GNCC in Union, S.C. Kyle Chaney drove his Can-Am Maverick side-by-side to the XC1 Pro UTV win, while Can-Am Renegade ATV racer Kevin Cunningham notched a victory in the 4×4 Pro class.
"We consider it a great weekend anytime we earn victories in the talent-laden, competitive GNCC Pro classes," said Jeff Leclerc, Racing Project Leader, Can-Am. "Kyle Chaney and Cody Miller had an outstanding race at Big Buck, finishing 1-2 on the day. We actually had four Maverick side-by-side pilots finish in the top-five overall, so it was a good day. Kevin Cunningham also made another statement today, winning the 4×4 Pro class aboard his Can-Am Renegade by almost a minute and making the overall morning podium."
Chaney, the reigning two-time XC1 Pro UTV class champion, put in a dominating performance behind the wheel of his Chaney Racing / Can-Am Maverick side-by-side, beating 29 other drivers to the finish line. The Ohio racer led every lap and ended up winning the UTV session and class overall. The victory also pulled Chaney closer to fellow Maverick side-by-side racer Cody Miller in the points race.
"I'm thrilled to put my Chaney Racing / Can-Am Maverick back on top of the GNCC podium and be joined by my Can-Am teammate Cody Miller. I have to also give thanks to my entire team and dedicated sponsors for supporting me this year. This was a huge step in the right direction after a small setback at the opener. We will continue to push hard for more wins at the next four rounds as we pursue a three-peat."
Miller, who finished second to Chaney, has two successive podiums this year and is the current XC1 Pro UTV points leader heading into round three. Can-Am Maverick side-by-side racers Tim Farr and John Yokley finished fourth and fifth, respectively, at Big Buck.
In ATV action, Cunningham (Cunningham Racing / Can-Am) led the way at Big Buck, landing his Can-Am Renegade 4×4 ATV on the 10 a.m. overall podium, as well as notching his first 4×4 Pro class win this season. His victory pulled him to within one point of the class points leader heading into round five of the ATV series. Can-Am Renegade ATV racers Zac Zakowski and defending champion Bryan Buckhannon finished in the top five of the 4×4 Pro ranks, earning fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Big Buck GNCC hosted round four of the ATV series and round two of the UTV series. Round five of the ATV series and round three of the UTV series is slated for the weekend of April 30, at inaugural CST Tires Camp Coker Bullet GNCC in Society Hill, S.C.
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When you<|fim_middle|>ally named "The Copy Cat") was started in 1989 to support my oldest son, Joe, in his DECA club activities. One day he came home really visibly upset. When I asked him the source of his displeasure he replied in his frustration, "Dad, there is not a single place from Buckley to Sumner to have copies made. The closest is Puyallup. Didn't you study to be a printer?" Well, he had me there. With his help and persistence, we proceeded to obtain a black and white copier (producing a "blazing" 10 sheets per minute) to support his club. Soon, other people in the area found out I had a copier and began asking me to copy materials for them. Joe, being the entrepreneur that he was, suggested I get a business license. I realized I was having fun and had a passion for printing, so I did. In 2009, we changed the name to "Foremost Printing" to more closely align our name with our business intent – to make your printing needs "foremost". | take your printing project to Foremost Printing in Auburn, Washington, you'll get the best quality product with the most personal service at a reasonable price within a reasonable time. You'll be treated with care and respect as an individual while we listen to your printing needs. Working with you to meet or exceed your expectations is exciting to us!
Across the commercial printing industry, you'll find that most printers don't really pay attention to details like Foremost printing does. Other printers may just take your file and run the print job without discussing your requirements, the application of the printing project, and the details that are important to you. At Foremost Printing, we'll ask you about the media (the material on which your message is printed) and the graphics (to make sure they are of the best quality and that they correctly communicate your message) and other factors to ensure you receive a quality product!
Your print job will be completed on the best equipment available. In addition to having a variety of equipment options in our shop, we also partner with a number of commercial printers throughout the Seattle area – some who are specialists in various aspects of printing – to make sure your print job is completed using the right equipment based on your requirements. It's like having a friend in the printing business with virtually unlimited printing resources!
Consistency – that's the basic criteria for everything we do. If we can't produce excellent results for you, we won't take the job. At the same time, we'll always be happy to work with you on how you can optimize the quality based on your requirements.
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Mirror, Mirror | Drawing on a mix of classics
Elizabeth Wellington, Inquirer Fashion Writer
Center City designer Sarah Van Aken works on her fall line. She finds her signature style in elements from many decades.
GERALD S. WILLIAMS / Inquirer Staff Photographer
Look at the windows of your favorite clothing stores. Everywhere from Anthropologie to Marshalls, retailers are selling a mash-up of looks from decades past, including cap-sleeved blouses (1950s), skimming shifts (1960s), and preppy tennis dresses (1980s).
Which means the time is right for Center City designer Sarah Van Aken.
Following in the footsteps of Marc Jacobs and Catherine Malandrino, Van Aken specializes in mixing elements from previous decades to create a modern signature style.
"I definitely have a 1940s sensibility," said the designer, 31. "But I'm influenced by the round necklines of the 1920s and the jersey fabrics of the 1970s as well."
Van Aken is already well known throughout Philadelphia's fashion community for her Van Aken men's and women's custom-tailored shirts. A former executive manager at the Marathon Grill, she launched a line of restaurant uniforms in October called Van Aken Signature; waiters and waitresses at New York's Gotham Bar & Grill wear her purple- and white-striped preppy designs.
But I think she'll be best known for her ready-to-wear line, SAVA, which has grown from six silky camisoles to a 30-piece fall grouping. The collection will debut in boutiques in Washington, Los Angeles and Dallas this<|fim_middle|> 1950s, which also reminds us of the 1980s," he said.
What these fashions have in common is that they lean more toward classic than casual. And that's part of the reason Van Aken set out to be a fashion designer.
"I just got tired of not dressing up anymore," said Van Aken, wearing a pencil skirt and cinched jacket from her line. "There is definitely a void in the market for sophisticated clothing that fits everyday women."
Van Aken graduated from the University of Delaware in 1998 with a degree in fine arts. That year she moved to New York, where she worked in the garment district for two years. In 2000, she moved back to Philadelphia to work at the Marathon Grill, where she rose to executive manager.
She left Marathon Grill at the end of 2004 to write a detailed business plan. She wanted to finance her company without the help of a backer so that her vision - designing wearable clothes for ordinary women - would not be muddied.
"Who in their right mind would want to give me a half million dollars to start a fashion company?" she asks, rhetorically.
So far, Van Aken has invested more than $100,000 in her businesses, all of which were launched early last year. The profits from her custom shirt and uniform ventures provided the money for the Italian and French fabrics used in the SAVA line.
One thing that has helped her remain independent is that she has some control over the manufacturing. While working at Marathon, she met Imitiaz Karim, from Bangladesh. Through his connections, she opened a manufacturing plant there, where the majority of her ready-to-wear line is made (her custom shirts and uniforms are made in the United States).
Van Aken also finances her company through selling real estate with Philadelphia-based developer Wayne Zukin, who owns the building at 1700 Sansom St. where she houses her operation.
There, she is currently working on her spring 2008 collection, a series of dotted and printed fabrics tacked to the wall. That series will still include her camisole dresses, with their 1920s feel. The rest, she's still trying to figure out.
"I really want to be among the biggest apparel companies in the country," Van Aken said. "Who knows, maybe I can be the next Banana Republic."
Sarah Van Aken can be reached at 215-496-0408. Her studio is at 1700 Sansom St., 7th Floor, 19103.
Contact fashion writer Elizabeth Wellington at 215-854-2704. Read her recent work at http://go.philly.com/elizabethwellington.
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Lauren McCutcheon, For The Inquirer | year. Molletta, in Old City, and the Bryn Mawr boutique Skirt will also carry the line, starting in midsummer.
For a first collection, SAVA is impressive, as Van Aken has a definite point of view. Some pieces are simple: A wrap dress that comes in burgundy and black is an easy sell. A deep V-neck brocade shift with metallic strands is dressy and decorative.
Many of her camisoles - my favorite is a wide-strapped empire-waist dress with expertly placed tucks - have been elongated into shiny maroon and cobalt-blue dresses. The high-waisted pencil skirts and camel-hair cropped jackets that Van Aken is often seen out on the town wearing can be mixed into any working girl's wardrobe.
"All of her stuff has hints of the early 1950s and 1970s; it's like a modern version of a classic," said Christa Bevilacqua, a co-owner of Molletta. "She hits each timetable with a sophistication across the board."
The blend trend is a strong one this summer, thanks in part to our continuing fascination with the dress.
Coatdresses are fashionable, as are empire-waist dresses, as is my latest addiction, the trapeze dress. This summer, expect to see women move through decades with each change of clothes. In other words, it isn't Katharine or Jackie, it's both.
"The future may be far ahead of us, but the creative minds of the day's fashion designers are all about taking the prior influences and reinterpreting them," said Tom Julian, director of trends for McCann Erickson, a New York-based advertising agency.
"There are the sculpted and structured 1940s and 1950s looks and the resort-wear | 382 |
"Flick of the Wrist" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as a double A-side with "Killer Queen" in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and most other territories. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack.
Background
Freddie Mercury explained that the unpleasant character in the song was not based on anyone in particular: "I wrote it as a sort of tongue-in-cheek story about the con-men and rip-off artists we're always running into. Our manager would like to think it's about him, but it's not."
The song includes Freddie Mercury singing octave vocals throughout the verses, and the chorus features a call-and-response style section between the backing and lead vocal parts. When Brian May returned to work having recovered from his hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.
Album version
As it appears on the album, "Flick of the Wrist" is the middle song of a three-track series of songs which seamlessly overlap<|fim_middle|>, Queen recorded a BBC session at Maida Vale 4 Studios in London, England. One of the songs recorded was "Flick of the Wrist". This performance features parts of the original album backing track with new vocals by Freddie Mercury and a new guitar solo by Brian May, differing entirely from that which appears on the album.
Personnel
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano
Brian May - electric lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, percussion, backing vocals
John Deacon - bass
References
External links
Lyrics at Queen official website
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1974 singles
Songs written by Freddie Mercury
Song recordings produced by Roy Thomas Baker
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Glam rock songs | , segueing from one to the next: "Tenement Funster", "Flick of the Wrist" and "Lily of the Valley". Each song was recorded separately and later mixed together to form the unbroken stretch of music. Because of this structure, the record company had to select points to separate each track on CD re-issues of the album. "Flick of the Wrist," in this way, starts with the crescendo ending of "Tenement Funster" and ends abruptly before the last line of the song "...baby, you've been had." This last lyric appears at the beginning of the next CD track, "Lily of the Valley".
The original, non-segued master recordings of "Tenement Funster," "Flick of the Wrist" and "Lily of the Valley" were used for certain single releases, such the Japanese 3-inch CD single re-issue of Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy ("Tenement Funster"), the Dutch AA-side version of "Flick of the Wrist" (see below) and the 1975 US-only re-issue of "Keep Yourself Alive" ("Lily of the Valley"). Thus, a standalone version of "Flick of the Wrist" is available.
Single versions
All the single versions and edits are from the original album recording.
The Dutch AA-side version features the complete song without the seguing, overlapping sections from "Tenement Funster" and "Lily of the Valley".
The UK AA-side version features almost the same complete version as the Dutch version, but with a few notes edited at the beginning. This version also features on the 1991 Japanese 3-inch CD single of "Killer Queen"/"Flick of the Wrist."
The US AA-side version (the same as issued in Canada) has a much more pronounced edit at the beginning, with the first 18 seconds of the song absent. It ends with a fade-out over the segue into "Lily of the Valley," where the latter's opening piano is heard.
The UK's 1987 3-inch CD single re-issue starts with the crescendo segue which ends "Tenement Funster." It ends with a fade-out before the song is properly over, missing the last line "Baby, you've been had."
BBC Version
On 16 October 1974 | 491 |
This costume worked great for our Marty Stouffer's Wild America and wife Costume, we tried to look like wilderness<|fim_middle|> with a dress. | people from the 70s. It also worked wonderful for Hedig when we went as Harry Potter fans.
My inspiration for this costume came from this Masked SNOWY OWL, but I didn't like all t he soft felt on the wings for my little. Here is a Pilots cap tutorial from Sew Liberated that I used for the cap, then I just added little petal shaped felt folded and tacked down.
I bought STIFF felt at the craft store and ironed the folds and Sharpeed the "V" feather marks on it. I stitched down all the shoulder folds to make sure they stayed together. There is also Velcro on the shoulders as well as a small elastic (that didn't stay well on one side) to hold the wing to the arm, not necessary, the Velcro on the shoulders should be enough.
The owl is wearing white tights and a long sleeved onsie with some white diaper covers that came | 195 |
Science Teachers as Public Health Educators: How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Reshaped the Roles and Experiences of K-12 Science Teachers?
This study will further the field's understanding of the role that science teachers play in adapting their instruction during a public health crisis, how they address emergent ideas throughout the unfolding of the pandemic, and the impacts that the pandemic has had on science teachers themselves.
When a global health crisis emerges, students at all levels turn to their science teachers for information and, at times, reassurance, according to researchers at Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI). Science teachers serve a critically important public health function and become an important part of the nation's response efforts. Since 2020, tens of thousands of science teachers in the United States have helped students grapple with the reality of SARS-COV-2 and COVID-19. This includes not only supporting the emergent scientific learning opportunities, but also functioning as public health educators and advocates in the midst of the global pandemic. HRI explored the early role of science teachers during the pandemic with a prior RAPID project, which demonstrated that science teachers were engaged in a wide variety of educational activities with students related to the pandemic and public health education. However, now nearly two years into<|fim_middle|>, Inc.
February, 2022 to January, 2023
Peggy Trygstad
Co-Principal Investigator | the global pandemic, there are a number of new topics that have arisen to explore with respect to science education, including vaccines and long-term immunity that were not able to be assessed early in the pandemic. This study will further the field's understanding of the role that science teachers play in adapting their instruction during a public health crisis, how they address emergent ideas throughout the unfolding of the pandemic, and the impacts that the pandemic has had on science teachers themselves.
The research will build on the prior RAPID award (#2027397) and return to the sample of science teachers studied in that context. HRI will collect survey data to explore the following questions: (1) How does the pandemic continue to influence teachers' science instruction (for example, instructional time, instructional strategies), and how has that influence shifted? (2) How has teaching about COVID evolved? What new topics (for example, vaccines) have they taken up in the context of COVID? (3) What factors now exert the greatest influence on science teachers' teaching about COVID, and how do those differ from the factors at play in the spring of 2020? (4) What are the impacts of the pandemic on science teachers themselves, including manageability of workload, opportunities for professional growth/development, physical/mental wellness, and job satisfaction? Using the Theory of Planned Behavior, the survey will be constructed to identify factors that predict whether teachers take up the topic. The survey will also collect data about how teachers address the virus and its transmission with their students. HRI will disaggregate survey data by school-, class-, student-, and teacher-level variables to identify patterns in student opportunities. Survey data will be supplemented by interviews with 50 survey respondents to gather more in-depth information related to the constructs of interest. Study findings will be immediately shared through a preliminary report that focuses on the survey data; presentations and dissemination through practitioner and research organizations; and policy briefs to the CDC and NIH to acknowledge the role of science teachers as public health advocates and encouraging those agencies to make resources available to science teachers to support this role.
Horizon Research | 430 |
One of Lotusland unusual gardens.
But somehow, despite the obstacles, the goal was accomplished. Canvases were stretched, research completed, compositions imagined and developed, colors mixed and diligently applied to the canvas. The goal was to create completely new work, relevant to Lotusland itself, a legendary garden in Santa Barbara,<|fim_middle|> the shells.
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So despite the obstacles my goal was accomplished. The reward was on the wall.
What are your obstacles? What are your goals?
Here's hoping you achieve them all! Just ignore those pesky obstacles!
Interesting to learn where the clam shell image came from in your work- and then to see the site. Congrats on great work and overcoming your obstacles, count them among your many successes and things to be proud of. | California, a location too distant for onsight research.
And the research was extensive. I spent a lot of time online, exploring photos of the garden. What a great place to explore! Lotusland is truly amazing. Envisioned by Ganna Walska, a Polish opera singer, the gardens boggle the mind and refresh the heart and soul. The Water Garden was mostly dormant, but others were fabulous. To name a few: the Japanese Garden, Blue Garden, Cactus Garden, Australian Garden… each one fabulously unique and fascinating. Ms. Walska used light and living plants as her palette. I would love to wander there for a few days painting. Or a few weeks.
I discovered that Ganna Walska used giant clamshells as decor in her gardens which inspired me to paint them with nests nestled inside the luminous sculptural forms of | 177 |
Industry consolidation was fast and furious this year. We rank the deals by quality, not quantity.
Storage mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continued at a clip through 2006, from run-of-the-mill market consolidation deals, to technology additions, to completely orthogonal purchases that left many industry analysts scratching their heads.
Quality, not quantity, is what counts on this list. We're less interested in the size of the deal, or how many companies a vendor has acquired. We're more interested in how vendors chose to spend their M&A dollars and what this indicates for product development and market trends. Some of the best acquisitions of the year were software purchases in which a traditional storage player added important new functionality to an existing product line.
Startups selling heterogeneous replication and continuous data protection (CDP) software cleaned up this year. As standalone technologies, these products pulled in plenty of punters, but the consensus among them has been that these functions need to be integrated into existing backup and replication products. The acquirers below are hard at work on this integration process.
Microsoft's acquisition of String Bean Software Inc. in March was an important trigger for iSCSI adoption. It provided the company with iSCSI target software that turns a Windows file server into an iSCSI storage device. It lets OEMs build systems that support file and block storage while providing snapshots through Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Dell Inc. are selling systems based on this software and analysts expect these products to win the small to medium business market.
Settling years of speculation, Brocade Communications Systems Inc. finally acquired McData Corp. in August in an all stock deal valued at $713 million. The move brought together two longstanding rivals in a bid to compete more effectively with a bigger rival -- Cisco Systems Inc. The product integration details have still yet to be made official, but Brocade has been assuring users since the merger that none of the key McData products, namely its director switches, will be killed off any time soon. A "converged platform" around 10 GB technology is expected sometime in 2008, but Brocade has been thin on details about this.
Brocade made another bold move in March, buying file virtualization player, NuView Inc., adding to the company's steadily growing software business. Analysts have said Brocade's bid to diversify is a wise one, given Cisco's claws into the market, but its success will depend on its ability to build up new channels outside of its existing OEM partners.
Since these deals went down, Brocade's stock has steadily risen from $5.14 to a high of $8.98 at the end of November.
Acquisitions by QLogic Corp. and LSI Logic Corp. of virtualization "plug-ins" from Troika Networks Inc. (a chip) and StoreAge Networking Technologies (software that runs on a switch), as well as QLogic's acquisition of InfiniBand maker PathScale, could bode well for network-based storage virtualization that doesn't take a director-class switch to implement.
Analysts said at the time of the deals that the QLogic pickups point to products that can move data really fast while also applying intelligence to that data in the form of virtualization. LSI and StoreAge, meanwhile, could combine to "pool" Engenio Information Technology Inc.'s midrange arrays<|fim_middle|> first dedupe IP to be folded into products from a major storage vendor.
Other EMC deals included: Internosis, Interlink , Authentica, NearTek, ProActivity Inc., nLayers LTD, all of which represented further steps in EMC's attempt to transition itself into a software company.
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What are the pros and cons of working with a storage VAR for small businesses? | .
Symantec Corp. and Veritas (as well as NetApp and Decru Inc.) are saying, "I told you so!" EMC Corp. became the next big company to jump on the storage / security bandwagon as vendors everywhere revved their marketing engines to emphasize the importance of securing data.
EMC raised a stir among industry watchers (to say nothing of shareholders) when it shelled out $2.1 billion for security-token maker RSA Security Inc.. Even those who could see wisdom in the acquisition largely agreed that EMC had overpaid; those who didn't agree with the acquisition considered it a potential disaster. Meanwhile, EMC still hasn't filled in some integration gaps between other companies it acquired years ago -- Legato and Documentum, for example, though that has begun to change this year as well. Skeptics are wondering if EMC bit off more than it could chew.
Backups are not archives -- this much the industry has agreed on over the last year and a half. But what are archives? How are they best implemented? Should the focus be on controlling the growth of data associated with certain applications, such as Exchange, or on legal discovery and compliance? What about file systems and databases other than email servers?
HP's acquisition of database archiver OuterBay was the most interesting in this category. OuterBay pares down relational databases while keeping the "relational" part intact through data stubs and stores the data in an XML "wrapper" so it can be accessed later, even if the original database application is no longer available. These are two factors that go a long way toward solving some of the issues with database archiving, as well as long-term retention of data.
Iron Mountain Inc., meanwhile, has been busy branching out from its traditional tape-handling business and adding online disaster recovery, and archiving startup LiveVault was a big step into the e-discovery, replication and disk-based storage market.
Finally, Zantaz Inc.'s acquisition of Singlecast adds not only search and indexing functions to its email archive repositories but also allows for the archiving system to take action on emails that might be inappropriate or subject to e-discovery. This is similar to a spam filter -- a further layer of automation for users with enough on their plate to manage as it is.
The big guys may be on to something when it comes to differentiating themselves through software, or it could just be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Either way, hardware was very clearly out of style in 2006 as tape makers Quantum Corp., Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), Tandberg Data and Exabyte Corp., as well as disk drive makers Seagate Technology and Maxtor Corp., banded together for survival.
Emulex Corp. acquired ASIC and firmware components maker Sierra Logic Inc. for $180 million in cash, and assumed debt and stock in late August.
Sierra Logic's embedded bridges and routers enable integration of low-cost SATA disk drives into Fibre Channel (FC) systems. Sierra Logic OEMs include Engenio Information Technologies Inc., Hitachi LTD, NetApp., NEC Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Xyratex -- its market share in FC-SATA bridging is estimated at 85%.
Meanwhile, Emulex had been spearheading an effort to create a direct FC-SATA protocol through the T11 standards committee, but the acquisition suggested that either that effort wasn't going so well, or that SATA was heating up so much that Emulex felt the need to jump more aggressively into the market.
The remote and branch office became a major concern this year as data growth continued everywhere. Many organizations began to consolidate data storage both within the data center, as well as geographically and helping them serve files from a central location were some of this year's big winners in storage in the form of the WAFS companies. Networking vendor Packeteer snapped up Tacit Networks Inc. to add the capability to its product portfolio, and while it wasn't exactly an acquisition, Riverbed Technology Inc.'s initial public offering (IPO) was another seal of confidence on the market as a whole.
The most interesting storage acquisition EMC made this year was probably Avamar Technologies, which adds deduplication to backup software and became the | 870 |
How Riot Control Works
by Ed Grabianowski
Crowd-control Philosophy: Prevention
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Today's riot control units aren't usually called riot squads -- they are crowd-management units. Instead of trying to "beat" the rioters in battle, the police just try to calm them down and get them to go home. The use of force, even non-lethal force, is a last resort.
The first step in crowd management is making sure a riot doesn't happen in the first place. Although sometimes riots erupt unexpectedly, they are frequently tied to planned protests and organized strikes. When the police think there is the potential that such a situation could get out of control, they contact the organizers and leaders of the protest or strike ahead of time. They set up ground rules that the protestors are to follow, and they designate a specific area for the event to happen in. The police assign specially trained officers to monitor the event. The point is that the police will simply provide a presence and work to ensure that everyone stays safe. Only if the ground rules are broken will any police action be needed at all.
Even if the officers themselves disagree with the opinions of the protestors, they are trained to maintain an unbiased attitude. "That's part of America," said Sgt. Bauer of the Cheektowaga Police Department. "You're allowed to have a voice." The officers try not to look at the protestors as enemies. Instead, they recognize that they are part of the community that the police are entrusted to protect and serve. "You can't go in like stormtroopers," said Sgt. Bauer.
While officers are trained to stay polite with the people in the crowd, they are careful to not give off an air of subservience. The police have to be seen as being in charge and in control at all times, even while they stay passive and allow the crowd to operate within the ground rules set out ahead of time.
Sometimes, though, these preventative measures don't work, and a riot breaks out despite police efforts to keep everyone calm.
Past Mistakes
A lot of the methods used by police and soldiers to control riots in the past actually made riots worse. In fact, only in the last few decades have effective riot-control strategies been developed.
Earlier riot-control squads had a "police versus the rioters" mentality. They approached a riot like a battle in which they had to beat or shoot the rioters into submission. A riot squad would form a skirmish line and charge into the rioters with nightsticks swinging. Often, they would try to pin the rioters into a corner to leave them no escape. This only intensified the rioters' fear and anger and escalated the violence.
There are many instances in which police assigned to assist people and stop rioting instead chose to take sides in the riot. This could amount to simply standing by and watching while the riot went on or actually joining one side to fight against the other if the riot consisted of two opposing groups. In the worst situations, otherwise peaceful crowds were attacked by police. In these cases, it was the police themselves who were the riot | 616 |
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Retail is set at $400. Stay tuned in to KicksOnFire for additional updates as we head onto the new year. | , as well as additional images of the forthcoming Air Jordan 4 Pinnacle in Black have emerged, following a previous closer look.
Rumored to debut sometime in Spring 2016, the model is essentially labeled as a premium iteration of the iconic silhouette. Flaunting a tumbled leather construction doused in Black, the stealthy profile is adorned with faux pony hair implemented across its tongue and vamp section. The model's signature netting overlay is absent with the application of this material to further place an emphasis on its luxurious makeup for lifestyle appeal.
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What Happens If You Get Locked Out?
I wanted to tell a funny story to brag on some of our employees.
A customer of ours recently got locked out of their house that we're in the process of building a sunroom on.
They got home<|fim_middle|> we can help you in a similar way if you get locked out or anything else happens. Our folks have even been known to look for escaped dogs and deliver CPR to a customer before. | from a trip and couldn't get inside. The battery to their garage door opener had died. The batteries on their electronic front door lock were dead. The back door that they had a key to had been enclosed in our new sunroom, which was all locked up as well. They didn't have keys to the sunroom because we were still working on it.
It's like their house was conspiring against them.
Oh, did I mention that this all happened on a Sunday?
None of us work on Sundays, and you can't find anyone around the office…usually.
At the moment our customers were sitting in the office parking lot hoping someone might be around, one of our employees drove by. They stopped and asked if they could help with anything.
Less than half an hour later we had someone in the office, pulling their new sunroom keys from the project folder, and getting them inside their home.
It was a weird chain of events that led to this, but a very fortuitous meeting with one of our employees. I'm glad our folks are willing to do things like this, even on their days off.
It shows that our folks feel an ownership in how the company is perceived and operates. They're not just employees. They're valued teammates.
It goes above and beyond the normal operations. Off time on a Sunday and they were willing to jump in.
It helps keep our clients happy.
It helps build our business. I love how things like this turn into referrals. I can just imagine our customers recommending us to their friends and neighbors and saying, "Of course they do great work, but can you believe what they did when…" It makes for a great party story.
I hope | 343 |
We're in the final countdown for 2018 with just one more issue of Four Hundred Monitor to go. While most of us look forward to a little rest and relaxation over the holidays, we also recognize that we need to start gearing up for the New Year. The same goes for us here at IT Jungle. We are ready for the break but also looking toward the future and what we want to accomplish in 2019. If you're a planner, you might want to check out our calendar listing below where you will find info about some valuable conferences in 2019. If you're looking for some last-minute knowledge, check out the first link below for some free training from COMMON.
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El camino que llega al faro es la Ruta Provincial 1.
Historia
El gobierno de Argentina construyó este faro en terrenos donados por la familia Fenton en el verano de 1904, la primera luz se produjo con gas de origen de petróleo, su luz característica era blanca y los destellos se producían cada 5 segundos.
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Track listing: Impromptu; Wheaten Sky; Esperanca; Ambivalence; Sanctus; Epiphany;<|fim_middle|> Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth.
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Quite simply, Company produced some of the most stimulating improvised music you will ever hear.These recordings date from the Company Week held in June and July 1982. Having begun in 1976, by 1982 this annual improvisation festival was an established (and eagerly awaited) part of the calendar (even if the venue and time of ...
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Vince Mendoza: Epiphany
By DAVE HUGHES
Vince Mendoza is a highly creative and cerebral composer and arranger. Epiphany represents perhaps his most ambitious work to date, a full symphonic program with jazz soloists. The program works the classical to jazz spectrum thoroughly, although most of the emphasis is on modern classical; the suite never quite lets loose on a full jazz romp. ...
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Vince Mendoza is a highly creative and cerebral composer and arranger. This release represents perhaps his most ambitious work to date, a full symphonic program with jazz soloists. The program works the classical to jazz spectrum thoroughly, although most of the emphasis is on modern classical; the suite never quite lets loose on a ...
This writer first became aware of composer/arranger Vince Mendoza back in the 1980's. His Blue Note releases, "Start Here" and "Instructions Inside" both featured an assemblage of cutting edge modern day jazz musicians such as, Peter Erskine and John Scofield. Mendoza's writing and arranging skills were much ballyhooed; hence, critical acclaim was at his doorstep. Since ...
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Vince Mendoza is a 37-year-old American composer and arranger well regarded for his work in both classical and jazz fields. In the latter genre, Mendoza has composed and arranged for Peter Erskine ( Transition ), the Yellowjackets ( Greenhouse ), Kyle Eastwood ( From There To Here ), and dozens of other artists.Mendoza's two ...
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Vince Mendoza/London Symphony Orchestra: Epiphany
By JOHN KELMAN
In and out of print since its initial release in '99, composer/arranger Vince Mendoza's Epiphany represents one of the finest examples of orchestration in a jazz setting. While there have been other fine examples of large-scale blending, they have often simply retrofitted existing material, as was the case with last year's Promises Kept , where pianist ...
Label: Incus
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Clonal Diversity and Resistance Mechanisms in Tetracycline-Nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Poland
Radosław Izdebski, Ewa Sadowy, Janusz Fiett, Paweł Grzesiowski, Marek Gniadkowski, Waleria Hryniewicz
Radosław Izdebski
National Medicines Institute, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland
Ewa Sadowy
Janusz Fiett
Paweł Grzesiowski
Marek Gniadkowski
Waleria Hryniewicz
For correspondence: waleria@cls.edu.pl
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01384-06
The frequency of tetracycline resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Poland is one of the highest in Europe. The aim of this study was to analyze the clonal diversity and resistance determinants of tetracycline-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae isolates identified in Poland and to investigate the effect of tetracycline resistance on their susceptibilities to tigecycline, doxycycline, and minocycline. We have analyzed 866 pneumococcal isolates collected from 1998 to 2003 from patients with respiratory tract diseases, and 242 of these (27.9%) were found to be resistant to tetracycline. All of the resistant isolates were characterized by testing of their susceptibilities to other antimicrobials, serotyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and identification of tetracycline resistance genes and transposons. Selected isolates representing the main PFGE types were analyzed by multilocus sequence typing. Among the isolates investigated, 27 serotypes and 146 various PFGE patterns, grouped into 90 types, were discerned. The most common PFGE type, corresponding to serotype 19F and sequence type 423, was represented by 22.3% of all of the tetracycline-resistant isolates. The tet(M) gene was the sole resistance gene in the group of isolates studied, and in over 96% of the isolates, the Tn916 family of tet(M)-containing conjugative transposons was detected. Several isolates contained specific variants of the transposons, the Tn1545-like, Tn3872-like, or Tn2009-like element. The correlation between the MICs of tetracycline, doxycycline, and minocycline was revealed, whereas no cross-resistance to tetracycline and tigecycline was observed.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common cause of serious and often life-threatening infections such as pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis, as well as upper respiratory tract infections, like otitis media or sinusitis. During the past few years, pneumococcal populations have become increasingly resistant to various antimicrobials, including tetracyclines. In Poland the rates of resistance of S. pneumoniae and other gram-positive bacteria to tetracycline are among the highest in Europe (20, 22), but despite this, the level of tetracycline consumption in Poland remains high in comparison to the levels of consumption in other European countries (http://www.esac.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*ESAC2&n=4666).
Three distinct mechanisms of resistance to tetracycline in bacteria have been described so far, including active efflux, ribosome protection by chaperone proteins, and enzymatic inactivation of the compound. In S. pneumoniae, this resistance results from the acquisition of one of two genes, tet(M) or, sporadically, tet(O), both of which encode ribosome protection proteins (50). The main source of the tet(M) gene is conjugative transposons of the Tn916 family (41), the particular members of which, e.g., Tn5251, differ from Tn916 mostly in their nucleotide sequence (40). Some of these elements also contain other resistance genes, e.g., Tn1545 [erm(B), which encodes resistance to macrolides, and aph3′-III, which encodes resistance to kanamycin] (6, 7), Tn3703 [erm(B)] (27, 28), Tn3872 [erm(B) within Tn917] (32), and Tn2009 [mef(E), which encodes resistance to macrolides and which exists within the mega element] (11). On the other hand, several Tn916-like transposons with tet(M) [and, sometimes, erm(B)] got inserted into other elements, thus forming larger structures, e.g., Tn3701 with Tn3703 inside (8, 28). Some of these structures also carry the chloramphenicol resistance gene cat, e.g., Tn5253 (insertion of Tn5251 into cat-containing Tn5252) (1) and Tn3951 (21). As a result, clinical isolates of S. pneumoniae are often resistant to tetracycline and to other compounds. In the United States, more than 60% of erythromycin-resistant pneumococci are simultaneously resistant to tetracycline (13); and in some European countries, e.g., Spain and Italy, over 80% (31, 46) of erythromycin-resistant pneumococci are simultaneously resistant to tetracycline. In 95% of such isolates, the presence of the int-Tn gene, which encodes the transposase of the Tn916 family, was detected (34).
Only limited data concerning tetracycline resistance in S. pneumoniae, as well as the susceptibilities of resistant strains to a novel antibiotic, tigecycline, are available. The main objective of this analysis was to reveal the molecular epidemiology of tetracycline-resistant S. pneumoniae isolates in Poland and to investigate the relationship between tetracycline resistance and susceptibilities to tigecycline, doxycycline, minocycline, and other antimicrobials.
(Parts of this work were presented at the 15th ECCMID, 2 to 5 April 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark [R. Izdebski, E. Sadowy, and W. Hryniewicz, Abstr. 15th ECCMID, abstr. P1032, 2005], and the 5th ISPPD, 2 to 6 April 2006, Alice Springs, Australia [R. Izdebski, E. Sadowy, and W. Hryniewicz, Abstr. 5th ISPPD, abstr. PO13.03, 2006].)
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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Mar 2007, 51 (4) 1155-1163; DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01384-06
You are going to email the following Clonal Diversity and Resistance Mechanisms in Tetracycline-Nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates in Poland | (bioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) and solubility in sodium deoxycholate (35). The collection of isolates was a part of that used in studies of the nonsusceptibility of Polish pneumococci to β-lactams and fluoroquinolones. Serotype, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data, as well as the β-lactam MICs for 52 isolates among those that were nonsusceptible to penicillin and tetracycline, are published separately (44). The data for four ciprofloxacin- and tetracycline-nonsusceptible isolates are also published separately (43). In this work, the PFGE typing of these isolates was repeated for the whole group of tetracycline-resistant organisms.
Geographic distribution of tetracycline-resistant S. pneumoniae isolates in the study. The solid circles indicate the health care centers where the isolates were identified. Abbreviations of towns: BE, Be[strok]lchatów; BY, Bydgoszcz; CZ, Częstochowa; EL, E[strok]lk; GD, Gdańsk; GR, Grajewo; KO, Ko[strok]lobrzeg; KR, Kraków; LU, Lublin; LO, [strok]Lódź; ML, M[strok]lawa; OP, Opole; PR, Przemyśl; RA, Radom; RM, Rawa Mazowiecka; SA, Sanok; SO, Sochaczew; ST, Stargard; SU, Suwa[strok]lki; SZ, Szczecin; WA, Warszawa; WR, Wroc[strok]law; ZA, Zabrze; ZM, Zamość; ZW, Zawiercie. Numbers of isolates are shown in parentheses. *, 28 is the total number of isolates from five health care centers in Warsaw.
Susceptibility testing.The initial screening of tetracycline susceptibility was performed by the disk diffusion method, as recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) (5). For all tetracycline-resistant isolates, the MICs of a wider set of antimicrobials were determined by the broth microdilution method, as recommended by the CLSI (5). The following agents were tested: tetracycline, doxycycline, penicillin G, erythromycin, and chloramphenicol (Sigma-Aldrich, Steinheim, Germany); tigecycline and minocycline (Wyeth, Pearl River, NY); clindamycin and linezolid (Pharmacia Upjohn, Kalamazoo; MI); levofloxacin and telithromycin (Aventis Pharma, Romainville, France); teicoplanin and rifampin (Gruppo Lepetit, Lainate, Italy); cefotaxime (ICN Biomedicals, Aurora, OH); meropenem (Astra Zeneca, Cheshire, United Kingdom); vancomycin (Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN); and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Roche, Basel, Switzerland). S. pneumoniae strain ATCC 49619 was included for quality control purposes. The appropriate CLSI criteria were used for the interpretation of the results (5). For doxycycline, minocycline, and teicoplanin, the guidelines of the Societe Francaise de Microbiologie (http://www.sfm.asso.fr/nouv/general.php?pa=2) were adopted. For tigecycline the FDA breakpoints (http://www.fda.gov/cder/foi/label/2005/021821lbl.pdf) were applied.
Analysis of resistance determinants.Bacterial genomic DNAs were prepared with a Genomic Mini kit (A&A Biotechnology, Gdynia, Poland) and were used as templates for PCR. The isolates were tested for the presence of the tet(M) and tet(O) genes by PCR, as described elsewhere (14, 49). The PCR detection of the erm(B) and mef(E) genes was carried out with all isolates resistant to erythromycin [with primers ermBF and ermBR and primers MEF3 and MEF4 for the erm(B) and mef(E) genes, respectively], as reported previously (10, 48). The transposase gene int-Tn, specific for the Tn916 family of transposons, was detected by PCR, as described by others (38). The identification of Tn916-like and Tn1545-like transposons was performed by PCR with primers O13 and O14 as reported by Poyart et al. (37). The distinction of Tn1545-like elements was carried out by amplification of the aph3′-III gene promoter (primers aphF [5′-GGAACAGTGAATTGGAGTTC-3′] and aphR [5′-GACATTCCTTCCGTATC-3′]), as well as of the aph3′-III-erm(B) region, also with primers aphF and ermBR. For the detection of Tn5253, the region of the right junction between Tn5251 (Tn916-like) and Tn5252 was analyzed by using primers 5252F (5′-CCTCCTGATTCCAGTGTC-3′) and 5251R (5′-GATTCTTCGCTGAACGAC-3′). Tn5252 alone was detected by PCR of its transposase gene, int-Tn5252 (47). The isolates that were negative by PCR with primers O13 and O14 (37) were subjected to other analyses. Tn3872 was detected by three PCRs with primers O13 and O20, O23 and O14, and O19 and O22, respectively (37). The presence of Tn3951 was tested by PCR of the region between erm(B) and tet(M) with primers ermBF and tetMR. The isolates that were mef(E) positive were analyzed for the presence of the Tn2009 element (11) by PCR with primers MEF4 and O14 (10, 37).
In order to study the structural polymorphism of the tet(M) gene, tet(M) amplicons were digested with the SsiI restriction enzyme (an isoschizomer of AciI; Fermentas, Vilnius, Lithuania) and separated in 1% agarose gels (14).
Serotyping.Serotyping was performed by PCR with primers specific for genes responsible for the biosynthesis of types 1, 3, 4, 6A, 6B, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F, and 23F of the capsular polysaccharide (4, 26, 36). The serotypes of the remaining isolates and of randomly selected representatives of the pneumococci serotyped by PCR were determined by the capsular swelling method at the Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
PFGE and MLST analyses.Genomic DNA for PFGE was isolated as described by others (29), digested with the SmaI restriction enzyme (Fermentas), and separated in a CHEF-DR III system (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA). Two isolates were considered indistinguishable when they shared PFGE patterns and were considered related when they showed a difference of one to three bands from each other. The dendrogram was constructed with Molecular Analyst software (version 1.12; Bio-Rad) by using the unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages clustering method with a Dice coefficient and a position tolerance of 1.5%. MLST of selected isolates representing the main PFGE types was performed as described previously (17). Particular allele numbers and sequence types (STs) were identified by using the MLST database (http://www.mlst.net).
Statistical analysis.For statistical analysis, the χ2 test, the Fisher exact test, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were used.
Tetracycline-resistant isolates.Two hundred forty-two isolates, which represented 27.9% of all 866 isolates studied, were resistant to tetracycline. The percentages of tetracycline-resistant isolates were 25.4, 34.6, 28.5, 26.5, 26.3, and 21.6 during six consecutive years (1998 to 2003), respectively. Resistant isolates were recovered in all of the collaborating medical centers. The frequency of tetracycline resistance did not vary significantly over the 6 years studied, as shown by the χ2 and Fisher exact tests. However, a constant downward trend in the prevalence of resistant isolates was observed from 1999 to 2003 (P < 0.03; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test).
Susceptibilities to antimicrobial agents.The tetracycline-resistant isolates showed various levels of susceptibility to the other antimicrobials studied (Table 1). A total of 80.1% and 75.6% of the isolates were nonsusceptible to doxycycline and minocycline, respectively, but all isolates were susceptible to tigecycline (MICs, ≤0.003 to 0.06 μg/ml). A total of 11.2% and 14.9% of the isolates were penicillin intermediate and penicillin resistant, respectively. The rates of resistance to erythromycin and chloramphenicol were 26.4% and 39.2%, respectively. A good correlation between the MICs of tetracycline, doxycycline, and minocycline was observed (Table 2), whereas no correlation existed between the tetracycline and the tigecycline MICs. Similarly, no link between the level of resistance to penicillin or erythromycin and the MICs of tigecycline was observed.
Distribution of MICs of 17 antimicrobial agents for tetracycline-resistant isolates
Number of isolates and correlation between MICs of tetracycline and doxycycline, tetracycline and minocycline, and tetracycline and tigecycline
Serotyping, PFGE, and MLST analyses.Serotypes, PFGE types, and the MLST data are shown in Table 3. Altogether, 27 serotypes were present in the group of isolates investigated. The majority of isolates (78.1%) comprised five serotypes: 19F (69 isolates [28.5%]), 23F (60 isolates [24.8%]), 6B (27 isolates [11.2%]), 6A (17 isolates [7.0%]), and 14 (16 isolates [6.6%]).
Distribution of serotypes, PFGE types and subtypes, STs, and resistance to antimicrobial agents among tetracycline-resistant isolates
The PFGE analysis revealed 146 various DNA patterns and classified these into 90 types. Among the most prevalent isolates of serotype 19F, 13 PFGE types were present, with type 1 (55 isolates) being highly predominant. Together with PFGE types 2, 10, and 12, type 1 corresponded to ST423 and its single-locus variant (SLV), ST1815. Consideration of three non-type 19F isolates of PFGE type 1 and ST423 as well shows that the ST423 clonal group consisted of 63 tetracycline-resistant isolates (26.0%) altogether. Isolates of serotype 23F showed higher levels of diversity, comprising 19 PFGE types. Almost half of these isolates (26 isolates) were represented by ST602 and its two SLVs, ST440 and ST1479. The isolates of serotype 6B represented four PFGE types. This group was dominated by ST315, which corresponds to international clone Poland6B-20 (16 isolates).
Tetracycline resistance determinants.All of the tetracycline-resistant isolates possessed the tet(M) gene and were negative by the tet(O) PCR. For the further analysis of tet(M)-carrying transposons, the isolates were split into four phenotypic groups with respect to resistance to tetracycline (TETr), erythromycin (ERYr), and chloramphenicol (CHLr), namely, TETr; TETr and ERYr; TETr and CHLr; and TETr, ERYr, and CHLr. Among the 96 TETr isolates, the int-Tn gene, which codes for the transposase of the Tn916 family of elements, was detected in 91 isolates; and the O13-O14 PCR, positive results of which indicate an intact structure of the Tn916-like transposons behind the tet(M) gene (37), was positive for 94 isolates (PCR product size, ∼600 bp). Forty-eight of the 51 isolates in the TETr and ERYr group were positive by PCR of the int-Tn gene. Four of these most probably carried the Tn1545-like elements, as suggested by the positive O13-O14 PCR result (37) and amplification of the aph3′-III gene promoter (product size, ∼100 bp) and the aph3′-III-erm(B) region (∼3.5 kb). Five further isolates were found to contain the Tn3872-like transposons, being negative by the O13-O14 PCR but yielding products of the expected size in PCRs with primers O13 and O20 (∼1.4 kb), O23 and O14 (∼2.7 kb), and O19 and O22 (∼2.4 kb) (37). The vast majority of the remaining isolates of the TETr and ERYr group were positive by the O13-O14 PCR and possessed the erm(B) gene; however, PCR of the erm(B)-tet(M) region excluded the possibility of the presence of a transposon associated with Tn3951 (28). Two isolates were erm(B) negative but carried the mef(E) gene, which is responsible for erythromycin resistance; and these two isolates were found to contain the Tn2009-like elements, as suggested by the positive PCR with primers MEF4 and O14 (product size, ∼3.3 kb). All of the 82 isolates in the TETr and CHLr group carried the int-Tn gene and were positive by the O13-O14 PCR (37). Only five of these isolates produced the amplicon of the transposase gene specific for the cat gene-containing Tn5252 (product size, ∼900 bp); however, the Tn916-like and Tn5252-like elements did not form a Tn5253-like structure in any of the isolates, as revealed by the lack of a product by PCR mapping of the junction region (1). All of the 13 isolates in the TETr, ERYr, and CHLr group carried the int-Tn gene. Three of these contained the Tn3872-like element and one contained the Tn1545-like element. The presence of an isolate with Tn3951 carrying cat, erm(B), and tet(M) (28) was excluded. One other isolate possessed mef(E) instead of erm(B); however, tet(M) and mef(E) were not located in the Tn2009-like structure (11). The cat gene of this isolate was present in the Tn5252-like transposon but, again, not in the Tn5253-like configuration (1).
The tet(M) PCR-RFLP analysis showed seven polymorphs of the gene with three predominant profiles: profiles D (38.8%), A (27.7%), and G (19.0%). Three of these corresponded to restriction maps of tet(M) alleles previously identified in Tn916 (GenBank accession number U09422; profile G), Tn5251 (GenBank accession number X90939; profile A), and Tn1545 (GenBank accession number X04388; profile B). There was no strict correlation between tet(M) polymorphs and particular transposon variants, as illustrated by the fact that profile B (2.5%) was found in only the Tn916 family of elements, which had no Tn1545-like structure, whereas profile A was observed not only in Tn916-like transposons but also in Tn1545-like and Tn3872-like transposons. The majority of the tet(M) polymorphs were present in multiple S. pneumoniae clones; the only exception was polymorph B, which fully correlated with ST272 and ST2140 (SLVs of Poland23F-16).
Characterization of tetracycline-susceptible isolates.Since the group of tetracycline-resistant S. pneumoniae isolates contained a highly prevalent fraction of closely related 19F/ST423 isolates, we decided to compare them with isolates of the same serotype from among the remaining 624 tetracycline-susceptible isolates. Among these, only three isolates (0.5%) of serotype 19F were found, and these represented ST423 (two isolates) and unrelated ST2142 (one isolate). One of the ST423 isolates, for which the tetracycline MIC was 2 μg/ml, possessed the tet(M) gene; and its PFGE profile was identical to that of PFGE subtype 1a, which was the most prevalent in the tetracycline-resistant serotype 19F group. The other ST423 and ST2142 isolates had tetracycline MICs of 0.12 μg/ml and lacked the tet(M) and tet(O) genes. The ST423 isolate had a unique PFGE pattern, although its PFGE pattern was related to that of the most frequent subtype, subtype 1a (pattern 1k).
Tetracyclines are low-cost antibiotics, and because of that they are attractive for use in countries with limited health care budgets. This could be one of explanations for their high level of consumption in Poland (http://www.esac.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*ESAC2&n=4666), despite the significant prevalence of resistance to these drugs among clinically important pathogens (20, 22). Although tetracycline-resistant S. pneumoniae isolates have been reported in all parts of the world, only a limited number of studies have addressed the question of the genotypic and phenotypic diversities of such isolates. In particular, only fragmentary data of this kind have been available in Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In accordance with the findings of previous studies (15, 20, 22), we found a relatively high frequency of resistance to this compound (27.9%; standard deviation, 4.2%), with a slight downward trend over the period from 1999 to 2003. This tendency may be associated with the fact that tetracycline consumption has been kept at a relatively constant level in recent years (4.6 defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants per day [DID] in 1997 and 4.5 DID in 2001), whereas the total level of antibiotic use in Poland has been systematically increasing (19.3 DID in 1997 to 27.2 DID in 2001) (http://www.esac.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*ESAC2&n=4666).
A positive correlation between tetracycline MICs and those of doxycycline and minocycline was observed in the analysis, which was in congruence with the findings presented in earlier reports (12, 25). All of the tetracycline-resistant isolates retained clear susceptibility to tigecycline, similar to the findings of previous reports from Europe, North America, and Asia (3, 12, 19, 52; T. S. Bouchillon, T. S., B. Johnson, J. Johnson, D. Hoban, M. Hackel, M. Person, M. Dowzicky, 15th Eur. Congr. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., abstr. P805, 2005; T. S. Bouchillon, T. S., B. Johnson, J. Johnson, D. Hoban, M. Hackel, M. Person, M. Dowzicky, 15th Eur. Congr. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., abstr. P806, 2005; S. B. Johnson, T. Stevens, J. Johnson, D. Hoban, A. Hsiung, and M. Dowzicky, 15th Eur. Congr. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., abstr. P807, 2005). So far no cross-resistance to tetracycline and tigecycline has been observed in pneumococci, and it is possible that the risk of selection of tigecycline-resistant organisms with tetracyclines may be low by definition. These findings, together with those presented in reports on the excellent activity of tigecycline against other agents that cause community-acquired respiratory tract infections (2, 16, 24, 42), position it to be among the promising therapeutic options under certain circumstances for these types of infections (18).
The tet(M) gene was the only determinant of resistance identified in the isolates studied, which was in accordance with the seldom occurrence of the tet(O) gene (30, 51). To our knowledge, in Europe only the tet(M) gene has been detected so far in pneumococci (15, 45). The analysis of the tet(M)-carrying mobile elements revealed their remarkable diversity in the population studied. Two hundred thirty-four isolates (96.7%) carried the int-Tn gene, which codes for the transposase of the Tn916 family of transposons, which has confirmed the role of these conjugative elements as major determinants of tetracycline resistance in S. pneumoniae (34, 39). The sporadic isolates that were negative by the int-Tn PCR could either possess specific structural variants of the Tn916-like elements or, eventually, other transposon types. Interestingly, among the isolates that, apart from their resistance to the tetracyclines, were resistant to erythromycin and/or chloramphenicol, the presence of elements that determine such coresistance that have been described so far seems to be rare, as exemplified by the fact that only eight isolates had a Tn3872-like transposon; five isolates had a Tn1545-like transposon; two isolates had a Tn2009-like transposon; and no isolates had a Tn5253, Tn3951, or Tn2010 transposon (9). It is possible that in most of these isolates, tet(M) resided in Tn916-like elements, whereas the erm(B) and cat genes were located in separate transposons. This could, for example, be the case for several chloramphenicol-resistant isolates, in which cat-containing transposon Tn5252 was detected, but not in association with tet(M), as is the case in Tn5253. However, the possibility could not be excluded that a significant fraction of isolates resistant to tetracycline and erythromycin possessed tet(M) and erm(B) located in other than Tn1545-like or Tn3872-like structures of the Tn916 family, such as Tn3701 (28).
A single S. pneumoniae serotype may include genetically diverse clones that can be distinguished by PFGE and MLST. In this study, a remarkable diversity of PFGE patterns and STs was observed in all major serotypes (serotypes 6A, 6B, 14, 19F, and 23F). Each of these serotypes was dominated by specific clones, namely, ST423 in serotype 19F; ST81, ST440, and ST602 in serotype 23F; ST315 in serotype 6B; ST490 in serotype 6A; and ST143 in serotype 14. This observation suggests that the high prevalence of resistance to tetracycline in S. pneumoniae in Poland is mainly the result of the spread of a relatively few clones, especially ST423 of serotype 19F. The particular role of serotype 19F is underlined by the fact that only 3 of 624 tetracycline-susceptible isolates in the study represented this common serotype, which means that almost each Polish pneumococcus of serotype 19F is resistant to tetracycline. Of the 26 international multiresistant clones of pneumococci recognized so far (33), 17 clones are resistant to tetracycline. In our analysis, representatives of eight such clones (with two SLVs) were detected, and these constituted 24.0% of the isolates. These results demonstrated that, apart from ST423, the international S. pneumoniae clones contribute significantly to the spread of tetracycline resistance as well. The currently available pneumococcal vaccines, PCV7 and PPV23, cover 75.2% and 86.8% of the serotypes of the isolates studied, respectively. However, clones of vaccine serotypes may be gradually replaced by those of nonvaccine serotypes because of, among other reasons, capsule switching (23). It probably occurred among the study isolates, although mostly to serotypes covered by the vaccines; e.g., three ST423 isolates represented serotype 3, 18C, or 23F instead of serotype 19F.
In summary, this work has provided useful comparative data for future studies, presenting the findings of a complex molecular analysis of Polish tetracycline-resistant S. pneumoniae isolates. The observed high frequency of resistance to tetracycline among the S. pneumoniae organisms isolated in Poland appears to arise from the spread of a relatively few epidemic clones that harbor the tet(M) gene, located in transposons of the Tn916 family, as the sole resistance determinant. The data obtained confirmed the observations on the cross-resistance between tetracycline, doxycycline, and minocycline and showed that tigecycline has very good activity against the tetracycline-resistant isolates. Moreover, the results of the study create a strong experimental basis for elaboration of therapeutic recommendations aimed at the prevention of the further dissemination of tetracycline resistance among S. pneumoniae isolates in Poland.
This study was supported by the grant from the Polish Ministry of Education and Science (grant 2P05D 095 29).
We acknowledge the use of the S. pneumoniae MLST database, which is located at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, and which is funded by the Wellcome Trust. We thank Wyeth Research for the tigecycline standard.
Received 6 November 2006.
Returned for modification 10 December 2006.
↵▿ Published ahead of print on 8 January 2007.
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Oregon Elite Heading East For Summer Basketball Playoff
on June 12, 2014 by ASGR Basketball
Veteran Oregon Elite coach Gary Lavender will be bringing his club east in July, and Lavender is looking<|fim_middle|> strong athlete with very good footwork. She will bang inside and score down low." | forward to the challenge.
"Things are a little different with the clubs on the East Coast," he said. "I think the clubs have a little more significance on the East Coast. On the West Coast, the traditional view is that your high school team comes first, and the club program is second. But, I think that is starting to change. I think the players out here are figuring out that they need to be seen if they want to open up opportunities at the next level. We are starting to catch up to the East Coast mentality."
Oregon Elite will be competing against top-flight competition in July at the Summer Basketball Playoff in Charlotte. The Summer Basketball Playoff will follow in Charlotte, NC, from July 27-29. The Summer Basketball Playoff will feature 72 of the nation's elite club teams. The Playoff will be held at the same time as the Nike Nationals, which will be played two hours away in North Augusta, SC.
The Elite club is powered by Kate McWilliams (2015, 6-2, G), who is rated as the No. 73 recruit in her class by the All Star Girls Report.
"Kate is a great athlete, a tremendous leaper, and she has a great understanding of the game. She is the daughter of a coach, and she has been around the game since she was an infant," Lavender said. "She is a coach on the floor for us, and she is outstanding on both ends of the court."
"McWilliams is a versatile athlete who could play a lot of different positions," added ASGR analyst Bret McCormick. "She can post up, put it on the floor, and shoot the three. Plus, she has a high basketball IQ."
Lavender also expects to get huge contributions from three 6-2 post players — Dagny McConnell (2015, a San Francisco verbal), Emma Gibb (2016) and Peyton Carroll (2016).
"Dagny is a four-five player who has very long arms. She is effective facing the basket, and she is very competitive," the coach said. "Emma comes from a very small high school, but she is a big time talent. She is a very physical player who has a great touch inside. Peyton is also a rugged player, and she has very soft hands. She catches everything in the post, and she has a great post-up game. Both Emma and Peyton are working hard to expand their perimeter skills."
"McConnell is a skilled player who likes to face the basket, and she has a nice touch out to about 16 feet," added McCormick. "Gibb is athletic and active. She runs the court, and she can step out to 15 feet. Carroll is a | 571 |
(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the University of York are part of an international research team that has made a significant step forward in understanding the processes naturally occurring enzymes use to degrade microbe-resistant biomass, a key aim in the development of biofuels.
The research is part of ongoing study of a recently<|fim_middle|> Nature Chemical Biology ("The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases"), the research shows in unprecedented detail how the 'active site' of the enzyme changes when it binds to plant cell wall cellulose, and this knowledge is important in advancing understanding of the reaction chemistry.
Professor Walton said: "LPMOs have overturned our thinking about biomass degradation in biology; they are also essential components in the commercial production of bioethanol from cellulosic feedstocks. This new structure will help chemists and biochemists improve the efficiencies of these important enzymes."
Professor Davies added: "When we can understand structure and chemistry we can improve environmentally-friendly processes for the benefit of all. This work, by a combined European team, gives us unparalleled molecular insight into one of the key reactions catalysed by fungi. It is truly exciting."
The new research resulted from a European consortium project entitled Critical Enzymes for Sustainable Biofuels from Cellulose (CESBIC) involving York and the Universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge, CNRS Aix-Marseille Université, France, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and industrial partner Novozymes A/S in Denmark. | discovered family of enzymes produced by fungi and bacteria, which are able to break down tough cellulose-based materials such as plant stems.
Understanding the chemistry behind these natural processes will help scientists to recreate and potentially improve them for industrial purposes, principally the production of biofuels from sustainable sources.
The team, including Professor Paul Walton and Professor Gideon Davies of the Department of Chemistry at York, today presents the first published molecular structure of one of the key enzymes (lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases or LPMOs) involved in these processes.
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Science Minister Chris Skidmore said: "The challenge of working in space focuses some of the UK's most brilliant minds. These experts can also help transform our lives for the better here on Earth.
"The huge potential of space technology isn't just about reaching out into the universe: it's here on earth that its greatest impact<|fim_middle|>ateUK, the European Space Agency and the National Physical Laboratory – organisations that provide a significant capability to high-science based early-stage companies such as Adaptix. | can be seen, from 5G to tackling climate change or ensuring we can all benefit through space-inspired healthcare technologies such as these.
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The power company has increased the water flow to 750 CFS on Friday night and will run until Wednesday night<|fim_middle|>. | . The increase in water flow has triggered a moderate but steady run of Chinook salmon and Coho salmon on Saturday, there also has been a few steelhead added into the mix. The fish activity for Sunday had dropped off slightly near the DSR. However there was a decent run through the DSR on Sunday afternoon. After that the fishing has slowed back down dramatically. This is nothing new, the salmon run when they decide to run and unfortunately they do not post their schedule on the internet for all of us. It will take two to four days for these fish to spread out through the river. Right now there is a big void of fish in the mid section of the river, hopefully this will change soon. For me the biggest challenge has been trying to figure out what flies the salmon want. It seems every day I have to go through the process of figuring out a successful fly pattern. What worked yesterday does not necessarily mean it will work today.
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Casting a Wide Net: Mohamed Farag's Research in Metabolomics and Plant Biochemistry Leaves Impact Across Industries
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t+1.646.632.3738 (New York Office) | throughout the day. Glucose is one of thousands of metabolites, or chemicals, that define the phenotype (appearance, development and behavior) of an organism.
"What I specialize in is not looking at one chemical within an organism, but rather the entire symphony of chemicals," explained Mohamed Farag, Alexander von Humbolt fellow professor and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) fellow in the Department of Chemistry, whose research applies metabolomics, or the study of these dynamic chemicals, to answer biological questions in medicine, herbal drug analysis and agriculture.
Mohamed Farag
For the second year in a row, Farag joins other AUC faculty in being recognized as one of the top 2% most impactful scientists globally by Stanford-Elsevier's Scopus. The list is created by experts at Stanford University, based on data from Elsevier's Scopus. It includes the top 2% scientists in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields, and provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship-adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.
Farag gave another analogy for metabolomics: "We don't go fishing for just one fish, but rather use a big net to catch as many chemicals as we can. This will provide a better explanation of the biological system we are investigating."
Metabolomics has proven to be immensely useful in evaluating the effectiveness of drugs, assessing nutritional regimens and identifying drugs within plants. It also has uses in early disease detection, personalized medicine and biomarker discovery. "You can also use it to understand the ecological relationship between microorganisms, as these relationships are also governed by chemicals," Farag added.
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Beyond metabolomics, his specialties also include natural products chemistry and plant biochemistry. Farag completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in pharmacology at Cairo University before moving to the United States to pursue a PhD in plant biochemistry at Texas Tech University.
Among numerous research impacts, the professor is responsible for developing a better method for measuring quality in phytopharmaceuticals, or herbal drugs, which in turn has defined the quality control system for certain herbal drugs exported outside of Egypt.
He has also done extensive research on Egypt's coral reefs, which in recent years have suffered greatly as a result of climate change. Looking at the process through which coral loses its red and blue color and dies, known as coral bleaching, Farag and his team identified the chemicals that serve as markers to indicate that corals are dying, which in turn allow for a greater, long-term understanding of the process.
While completing his PhD in the early 2000s, Farag discovered a naturally occurring chemical in bacteria that encourages plant growth and can be harnessed as a fertilizer, which, if adopted as an agricultural chemical, could have a major impact on the industry as a whole.
"[At the time], this phenomenon was relatively new," said Farag. "I was among the first to address such plant-microbe interactions in the air. "Many people know that they interact physically in the soil living together, but no one has ever thought that they would communicate with each other in such a way."
How does Farag conduct his research, exactly? "The story of metabolomics involves three aspects: A sample collection, measurement of the sample and then data analysis," he said. After a sample is collected, a technique called mass spectrometry is employed to identify the chemicals within a sample. The third step, Farag's specialty, entails analyzing the massive amount of data using bioinformatic tools, or software programs that can extract the important information from samples. "Because these are huge data sets, you cannot use an Excel spreadsheet," he explained. "[The analysis] requires much more advanced tools.
While much of his work involves computers and intellectual skill, Farag entered his specialization via the other side of the brain, so to speak. "Originally I'm a painter," he admitted. "I'm not a man that would enjoy exploring synthetic chemical reactions — I would have found it a bit tough to digest. So this was the way in; it was a hobby."
Farag was able to infuse his hobby with his research when he took botany courses while studying pharmacy. "I was amazed with plants in general, and I discovered that while what we see on the outside is pretty, there is much more on the inside."
While he is currently on hiatus from painting, Farag enjoys running daily at AUC's Sports Center, noting the positive effects the exercise has on his stress levels.
Contributing to more than 250 papers and having close to 7,000 citations and an H index of 41, Farag has received a handful of awards, including Abdul Hameed Shoman Award in 2006, Egypt Higher State Incentive Award in 2012, Cairo University Incentive Award in 2009, TWAS award in science diplomacy in 2014 and the Mass Spectroscopy Performance Award from Texas Tech in 2004.
Farag has taught at Cairo University and the Technical University of Munich and has been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Germany and a fellow at the Samuel Noble Foundation and James Graham Brown Cancer Center in the United States.
The professor is most grateful for the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship he received in 2009, which allowed him to | 1,126 |
Christmas can be an enormously challenging time of year. For all those who struggle to create the perfect Christmas, the hard work and time that goes into the preparations can diminish our being able to personally experience the joy this season can bring. Even if we come close, there is still that ultimate letdown after the gifts are opened, the meals are shared and the family returns to their everyday life. Maybe the real goal is not finding the perfect gift or creating the perfect environment. Maybe the real objective of Christmas is in finding that lasting joy that the key players in the original story experienced. Why was Mary joyful when she was told that she was chosen to bear and raise the Son of God? Why would the shepherds leave their sheep and joyously proclaim the birth of the savior to all who would listen?
According to the Gospel accounts in Luke and Matthew, joy and the birth of the Savior go hand-in-hand. The joy that Mary, Elizabeth, the shepherds, Simeon and Anna felt during that first Christmas was lasting and life changing. The birth of Christ did not eliminate their problems or do away with their pain, it gave them the hope that they needed. Their joy transcended their everyday struggles because this baby did not represent a distant uncaring deity, this Christ-child represented "God with us." The<|fim_middle|> Christ? Do any of them illustrate the hope and joy this season should bring? If not, consider creating some new traditions that communicate the true meaning of the season. | memory of this story of God stepping into our lives became a constant reminder that God cares about me personally and that He has, does and always will have my back. That type of joy is still available to us, today.
· How would you define joy? Is it different from happiness?
· Why do you think the original Christmas story brought such joy to Mary, Elizabeth, the shepherds, etc.?
· What are some traditions you can create/re-emphasize this year that will help others understand the meaning and find the joy of Christmas?
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Ireland's Fastest Woman Ever Reaping Benefits Of Move To Waterford
By PJ Browne Jul 27, 2018 3:57 PM
Phil Healy is in the form of her life. It's an<|fim_middle|> 200m, it gets the junior girls to step up.
"They're running 11.5, 11.6. If you're running those times last few years, you see the national record at 11.40 and you're not that far off it.
"Now, they see a new target at 11.2. It gets everyone to step up and everyone to work together building into the relay, everyone working as a unit."
The 100m and 200m will be Healy's races in Berlin as she chooses to forgo the 400m. That distance - one she has previously called her preferred event - is a long-term objective.
"You see across Europe that the majority of the best 400m athletes are 27, 28 and into their 30s.
"It's an absolute speed event and becoming more so. It's all about getting through 200 as quickly as possible.
"If you build on the speed across the 100m and 200m, you'll obviously have more in reserve to come home in the last 200m and be comfortable going through in the first 200m.
"Capitalise on the speed that we have at the moment and transition that into the 400m in years to come."
Phil Healy was speaking at the launch of the Irish Life Health National Senior Track & Field Championships which takes place this weekend, July 28 and 29, at Morton Stadium, Santry.
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The evidence: a 400m indoor PB of 52.08, an outdoor 400m PB of 52.19, a 100m PB of 11.28, a 200m PB of 22.99 - those times have all been run in the past six months.
The latter two were also the Irish records - she's now the fastest Irish woman ever over 100m and 200m.
"I was tagged in a tweet earlier that it's the first time in 40 years that a woman has the 100m and 200m records," Healy told Balls just a day after breaking the 200m record at the Cork City Sports earlier this month. Michelle Carroll was the last woman to achieve the feat Healy mentions.
That 200m run made her first Irish woman to dip below 23 seconds for the distance, bettering Sarah Reilly's 17-year-old mark of 23.02.
"The signs have always been there. Like, I've been in a training block for the last four weeks. I've been saying to my coach Shane McCormack, 'Just let me race', but obviously I had to finish out the block.
"Conditions were not ideal, there was a strong headwind on the bend. So I was like, 'Right, this might not happen.'
"I had a really quick Canadian outside me and I knew if I ran her down on the bend and just transitioned off, quick time would be possible.
"It was exciting and the atmosphere was absolutely super."
An effervescent character made all the bubblier by her recent exploits, the 23-year-old believes there are even faster times in her future.
When she broke the 100m record at Morton Stadium in June - beating the previous record jointly held by Ailis McSweeney and Amy Foster at 11.40 - she did so in what was supposed to be a warm-up run for the 400m later in the evening. Five weeks earlier, she had run 11.16 but the wind was well over the legal limit at 3m/s.
"I was going to Geneva at the start of June and that was going to be my first 400m race.
"I was saying to Shane that I wanted a run out to practice pacing. We were looking at the weather and conditions were looking ideal for the 100m as well. We said we'd have a blowout before the 400m race and take it into Geneva that weekend as well.
"Sometimes, it's hard to get yourself up for such a low key race when there's hardly anyone there.
"It was just exciting to jump in and break the record, under the radar."
Shane McCormack has been her coach since late 2013. For the majority of that time, the two worked remotely; the athlete in college at UCC and the coach based between Wexford and Waterford.
While it worked, it was not an ideal dynamic. That changed this year when Healy moved to Waterford to start a part-time Masters course at WIT.
"Cork ran its time. What we achieved in Cork for four years was absolutely super be we were remote.
"He might have seen me every second week, sometimes it was once a month.
"When I didn't have a group there, he just made it work. It just shows how talented he is in getting me motivated and getting the best out of me. We went to major championships every single year and we overachieved to a point for our set-up.
"This year, I moved to Waterford and I'm reaping all the benefits of that."
That closer contact with her coach has put the accelerator pedal down on her career.
Shane sees everything. He can make the tweaks - if he wants to add something in or take something back.
If I was in Cork, I was just running the session that was on paper, basically, and racing with the stopwatch as my coach.
We could be timing a rep now and the time may not be good but he'd see different aspects to it. His eyes are on me, seeing what form I'm in and if he has to add something in or pull something back. He's made lots of tweaks throughout the season. He makes the big calls for me. He'll decide if I'm racing or not.
It just makes everything so much easier having the whole training group around. The majority of them are lads. It gets them to step up because they don't want to be beaten by me in training. I also have them to chase.
It's just the whole unit working together and that's the atmosphere Shane brings. Everyone is working together and everyone is feeding off each other.
Next year will be the final one of her Masters in Waterford but she won't be leaving the city. Healy can see herself staying there for next few years at least.
"It's what works. We've a great team around us between physios, psychologists, nutritionists, physiologists - there's a great team. Shane is the main leader, controls everything.
"He knows what works for me, what doesn't work, the right times to bring people in and the wrong times."
These are exciting days in Irish athletics. Records are being broken and young talents are winning medals at international level. The Irish women's U20 4x100m relay team won silver at the World Championships in Finland earlier this month.
Healy and her sister Joan ran the relay with two members of that medal-winning team at the Diamond League meeting in London last weekend. She will do so again at next month's European Championships in Berlin.
"I set the record in the 100m and | 1,213 |
Young gun Lou Taylor Pucci (pic courtesy of Kaleidoscope Entertainment)
Watching 80 minutes of this movie will certainly be less traumatic than working in a convenience store or joining a fraternity.
Why do college fraternities give themselves those fancy Greek names? In Animal House John Belushi's Bluto was part of the confederacy of toga-wearing dunces known as Delta Tau Chi. In Will Canon's feature debut, Brotherhood, the trail of stolen toilet seats and botched robberies leads straight to the door of Sigma Zeta Chi. If you ask me, that big sign outside the frat house should just read "MORON IDIOT CRETIN" – it would save everyone a lot of time.
Canon's movie isn't a comedy: it's a brisk, tense and entertaining thriller, which begins with a bunch of pledges carrying out a series of convenience store robberies. It's all part of one of those lame hazing rituals – you know the ones that often seem to involve paddles, nudity and sexual humiliation. The twist here is that no one is supposed to get robbed, because there's a guy standing outside handing out bags of cash<|fim_middle|> Berg's Very Bad Things (1998) and the blockbuster comedy The Hangover, there's always mileage in the all-encompassing genre of Schadenfreude, or perhaps I should call it FUBAR.
I like the fact Brotherhood plays it relatively straight and doesn't try to be too clever or knowing with the material or the characters. There are moments of sheer absurdity, as when the enraged members of a neighbouring sorority set fire to the lawn in retaliation for the theft of their underwear and toilet seats. There's even a dark streak of humour in the plight of poor Mike, whose complicity is key to getting these assholes of the hook. Without giving too much away, there is also a nasty sting in the tale to one of the pranks we saw earlier in the evening.
The performances are uniformly strong, with Foster's swaggering alpha male act competing with Morgan's misguided but somehow likeable newbie for control of this rapidly deteriorating situation. The shaky camerawork reflects the air of total panic, without becoming too distracting.
Best of all, the script by Canon and Douglas Simon is well paced and doesn't resort to plot developments that are either totally unbelievable or excessively violent. There's a pleasing circularity to a storyline that begins with a string of fake robberies and culminates with a couple of guys trying to hand back money to an utterly bemused convenience store clerk.
The 80 minutes you spend watching Brotherhood may not be the most rewarding of your life, but the experience will certainly be less traumatic than working in a convenience store or joining a fraternity.
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This being "frat world", of course, it all goes horribly wrong. (They'd probably prefer the term "tits up".) When the swag man fails to intercept pledge Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci), he attempts to do the stick-up and ends up with a bullet in his shoulder. (Aspiring pranksters should note that yelling "We're not really robbing you" doesn't help in these situations.) Then pledge Adam (Mean Creek's Trevor Morgan) realises that he knows Mike, the hapless clerk behind the counter, who's been shooting at them.
This opening sequence is an exemplary lesson in how to set up a movie: everyone looks sweaty and says fuck a lot, while the frantic action is scored with driving rock music. The revelations about the fake robberies and the prior relationship between Adam and Mike offer strong hints as to the direction of the plot.
It's carry on at your convenience for Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci)
Back at the "house", partying and routine pranks rapidly give way to a battle of wills between Frank (Jon Foster) the fraternity's leader and Adam, the voice of reason. Let's give the film-makers credit here for realistically portraying Kevin's injury as messy, bloody and potentially life-threatening. It's not quite up to the nerve-shredding standards of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, but Kevin's ordeal is a good deal less sanitised than in many Hollywood movies.
While he writhes in agony, the argument rages over whether to take him to a hospital. But Frank's sole concern, of course, is protecting this pack of racist, sexist, dimwits from the long arm of the law. So the list of crimes grows to include kidnapping, attempted blackmail and assault – with a sprinkling of choice racial epithets.
Of course there are numerous precedents for a set-up in which a group of men blunder from one mistake into ever deeper water. From botched heist movies, to black comedies like Peter | 422 |
Anchor Bay presents
Schlock (1972)
"This thing has been frozen in ice for 20 million years. So I figure it must be lonely."
- Detective Sgt. Wino (Saul Kahan)
Stars: John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi, Eliza Garrett, John Chambers
Other Stars: Harriet White Medin, Charles Villiers, Eric Allison,
Director: John Landis
Manufacturer: Crest National
MPAA Rating: PG for (violence; R-rated language in Commentary)
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John Landis is one of the modern greats of comedy, having made such films as The Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House and The Blues Brothers. Rick Baker is one of the most acclaimed makeup artists today, having won fully one-third of the Oscars® in the makeup category since it began in 1981. Something not everyone knows is that they essentially got their start in the same place, in the do-it-yourself horror<|fim_middle|> worthwhile extras and a flawless transfer make this one a must-buy. | -comedy Schlock. This parody of Joan Crawford's Trog also satirizes many films and much of modern life (especially television).
In a small California town, 769 people are dead, victims of a "Banana Killer" who leaves peels at the scenes of his crimes. Unknown to the police, headed by Det. Sgt. Wino (Saul Kahan), the killer is in fact the Missing Link, genus Schlockthropus (director Landis, in makeup by Baker). How he managed all this carnage is questionable, since our view of him is pretty benign. He does, however, get enraged every now and then, especially when someone comes between him and his love, blind Mindy Binerman (Eliza Garrett), who thinks that he's a dog. Schlock continues his rampage through a high school dance, an ice cream parlor and a movie theater, among other venues, until a rooftop small-scale King Kong-homage climax.
Originally intended to be the filmed with a bad gorilla suit, Schlock took a historic turn when Landis was referred to Baker. His Schlockthropus suit is highly effective and looks quite real; Landis makes the most of it with behavior that is alternately apelike and humanesque. The lifelike quality makes more credible the persistent rumors that Baker or Planet of the Apes makeup wizard John Chambers (who plays a National Guard captain here) was responsible for the ape suit in the infamous home movie that purports to be of Bigfoot. Baker and Chambers aren't talking.
The comedy is broad and heavily Jewish in flavor, reflecting Landis' own upbringing (he was only 21 at the time). There is a fair amount of slapstick, but the best parts are the film satires. Especially notable is a 2001 satire of the "ape with the jawbone" scene. Others are less likely to elicit a laugh today: who remembers Elvira Madigan or Euell Gibbons any more? But for those who do, these are effective gags. There is some tasteless and funny humor at the expense of the blind Mindy, as well as numerous non sequiturs. Why, for instance, is Mrs. Binerman (cult favorite Harriet White Medin, under the pseudonym Enrica Blankey) keeping plastic walnuts in the microwave? Why does the doctor who removes Mindy's bandages walk into the closet? Probably funniest is the running gag of the fictitious movie, See You Next Wednesday, which metamorphoses from love story to war drama to dinosaur movie (actually distributor Jack H. Harris' Dinosaurus). During the theater sequence, The Blob (another Harris production), intercut with See You Next Wednesday, is playing, including the bit where the cast is watching Daughter of Horror (yet another Harris vehicle). We thus get the highly weird sensation of watching a movie of people watching a movie featuring people watching a movie....my head hurts.
Novice director Landis does a surprisingly competent job here for a 21-year-old with no prior experience. He acknowledges that he didn't have proper coverage for many of the scenes, but he obscures this fact artfully with good editing, so that one doesn't really even notice the lack of different perspectives on certain scenes. The theater sequence feels like padding, but we learn from the commentary that it is in fact padding, shot eight months later at Harris' behest to fill out feature time. Famous Monsters of Filmland editor Forrest J. Ackerman has a bit part in this sequence that is pretty amusing. The pacing in general works well, and other than some bits being dated the humor stands up well.
Rating for Style: B
Rating for Substance: B-
Image Transfer Review: Anchor Bay's anamorphic widescreen transfer is just gorgeous. It's impossible to believe that this film was shot in 14 days for $61,000. It looks terrific, with no damage visible whatsoever. Colors are like new, blacks are solid and shadow detail is good. The picture is crisp and detailed throughout. I was expecting much worse than this fabulous presentation. Considering this is a single layer disc, I have to acknowledge Crest National as the new champions of DVD compression. No artifacts are visible at all.
Image Transfer Grade: A+
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Audio Transfer Review: The 2.0 mono is clean and noise-free. Dialogue is clear throughout. Music sounds slightly tinny and cheesy, but that is no doubt a relic of the low-budget origins of the film. Really nothing to complain about here.
Audio Transfer Grade: B+
Animated menu with music
Cast and Crew Biographies
Cast and Crew Filmographies
1 Feature/Episode commentary by John Landis and Rick Baker
Packaging: Alpha
4 Radio Spots
Stills Gallery
Extras Review: The foremost extra is a commentary from Landis and Baker. They're in excellent form here and their amusement is infectious (though the viewer should be warned the language gets R-rated at times). They have loads of stories to tell, and there are dead spots only rarely. Predictably, much of the time is devoted to the Schlock suit itself, and the details of its creation are interesting for those with a technical bent, and the general conversation is amusing enough to keep the interest of those not so technically minded.
In addition to a trailer, there are four radio spots of varying length, a still gallery featuring about 20 stills, plus posters and pages from the pressbook. Finally, there are lengthy bios and selected filmographies for both Landis and Baker. This is a terrific package for what is admittedly a very minor film.
Extras Grade: A-
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Growing tomato plants indoors or vegetables<|fim_middle|> neighbors at a profit. | through hydroponics has earned the favor of many people because of the low amounts of pesticides that may be found in them. In most cases there in no pesticides used since there is no use of any soil that may harbor pests. Other chemicals common with plants grown on soil such as herbicides are also not present. As such therefore, the health of the consumer of these plants is guaranteed. You don't have to fear anything.
The other advantage of deciding to build hydroponic system as opposed to using soil is that you can now grow that plant you have always desired to grow. You can now have that hydroponic lettuce or even grow hydroponic vegetables, herbs, fruits and other plants of your choice. This technology has awed may people by the fact that it lets your plants grow larger than if you were to use the traditional way of growing plants on the soil. There is the power for you to completely control the environment within which these plants are grown. The rate at which the plants grow is also increased. There are those who incorporate the green house technology to create hydroponic greenhouse systems that ensure the plants grow day and night. A plant that would take 4 months to mature can now only take two months. How incredible?
With enough financial resources, you can actually buy Hydroponics Online or from any other physical store with all the features incorporated. The features here include watering, lighting in addition to feeding the plants. There has been a misguided rumor by a few people that hydroponic indoor gardening is cumbersome and very expensive. However, it should be noted that the work involved here is very minimal. The system you buy or make at home here with the necessary building guidelines will handle much of the work for you. Managing the lighting system will be as easy as switching on a button or buttons. Water flow will also be as easy as turning on the right water taps.
All in all, you have to understand that the systems here are designed to run themselves. If you can't afford to buy one of the systems there is always some expert somewhere who can make one for you from home. You can also opt to design one yourself following expert advice in the right book or persons. In the end you will be so proud to realize that you don't have to visit the grocers any more. Whatever you can buy from the grocers is right buy your side in your home. You can also sell to | 488 |
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Works neat, with ice, or as a mixer. I have to advise that bourbon drinkers keep a bottle of Knob Creek on hand, well, always.
Knob Creek is clearly among the most common and popular premium bourbons on the market today. Produced by Jim Beam brands in Clermont, KY, Knob Creek is the mainstay of the Jim Beam Small Batch Collection. Created by Booker Noe himself, Knob Creek is a small batch bourbon, bottled at 100 proof, and sold in more restaurants, bars, home bars, and airports than you can shake a stick at.
Knob Creek seems to be one half of bourbon's version of the Coke/Pepsi dichotomy. It seems that every bourbon drinker regards either Knob Creek or Woodford Reserve as the starting point for premium bourbon, and very few people care for both. I've always been a Knob Creek kind of guy, and probably drink it more than any other bourbon. In fact, I keep a large decanter of it on my bar at all times. I'm not entirely sure why I haven't got around to reviewing it yet, but it's time that was remedied.
Knob Creek is packaged in a short, square bottle with cream label and black wax over the cork. It's not particularly eye-catching, but it is attractive.
The bourbon is a very dark coppery-brown color.
HUGE whiffs of aged, soaked oak hit the nose right off the bat. It's like being in an oak boathouse. But caramel and maple syrup are prominent as well.
The front of the tongue gets a sweet maple syrup taste immediately upon sipping this bourbon. As the flavors move across the tongue, there are definite notes of roasted sunflower seeds and tannin from the oak barrels.
The finish is long, with the tannins remaining prominent. There is an alcohol burn that is probably stronger than the 100 proof suggests it should be. But there is also a lingering caramel sweetness along with oak on the tail end.
Knob Creek is sort of the perfect bourbon. I don't mean to say it's the best bourbon, because that's simply not true. But it works for everything. You can sip it neat, and it's good. You can add ice or water and it retains its flavors and aromas with little change. It mixes very well for cocktails without overwhelming the drink or being overwhelmed itself. It's cheap enough that you shouldn't mind if a guest mixes it with cola, and good enough on its own with enough street cred in the bourbon community that bourbon snobs will rarely, if ever, turn their noses up if offered a glass. It's also abundant enough that you can find it or replace it easily. So I have to advise that bourbon drinkers keep a bottle of Knob Creek on hand, well, always.
Is that really Fred Noe's autograph on the bottle? How cool!
It is. I actaully have a couple different bottles of Knob Creek. I reviewed it using what's in my decanter, but I thought the autographed bottle made for a better photo.
Fred did a tasting and signing at Liquor Barn, a local big box chain, about a<|fim_middle|> or better as other ones more expensive.
Agreed- its a perfect bourbon based on quality, price and availability , mainly on quality. | year ago.
If you're buying to make cocktails may as well get something cheaper. Drinking neat or with a little ice- this hits the point on great quality/price range.
The "Jim Beam" company has it worked out . Knob Creek 100 is a great bourbon a a reasonable price.
Looks like they changed the label a bit, smaller, getting away from the "reused newspaper" motif. Highly recommend this bourbon. It is as good | 94 |
I have not read America The Philosophical by Carlin Romano. But I read a review of it by Peter Caws, a British American philosopher, who scoffs at the idea that America is philosophical.
I am thinking he is of a certain British character that only sees the crassness of America and thus can't see beyond his own bias, which can't see that it is really a hive of philosophical<|fim_middle|> is that an important part of philosophy is about framing ideas so that they are comprehensible and can be put into practice. America has excelled in this area of philosophy, something that scoffers of America being philosophical don't understand. | activity and experimentation. American is more philosophical than he thinks, perhaps the most philosophical nation in the world. Why he doesn't see this is because it is of an operational, gritty kind, not of the ivory tower nature he is accustomed to.
I just bought "America The Philosophical" by Carlin Romano. One thing that dawned on me as I started reading it | 76 |
well<|fim_middle|> was SUPPOSED to be 2014's print, but it got lost in the shuffle (if you pledged and were hoping to get it back then, sorry! lemme know and i'll send it your way... ) ... so, it's all ready to go for 2017.
5.5x8.5" on fine art archival print paper, only available for a donation to the PMC.
can't do this without you, so thank you.
well, C2E2 is this weekend... and i'm still home in Massachusetts, working on ... stuff i can't quite talk about yet.
pretty straightforward, first come, first serve as time allows, i'll be doing sketches friday april 21 thru monday april 24.
all art will be on 8.5 x11 or so, so shipping will be a flat $10 USPS priority mail (and barring unforeseen circumstances) mailed out by thursday, april 27! | , seems like it's gonna be one of those weekends... a NOT AT ANY CON sketch weekend!
okay, so i'm slowly getting on board with the 21st century.
hey, it's my patreon page!
i'll continue to post art online elsewhere, but if you want access to it all first, here's the way to get it.
time flies... it's coming up on august 5 and this year's Pan Mass Challenge.
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100th Post! A Belated Account of Ayton 2014
I'm quite pleased to have made it to a hundred posts. You're never sure with this sort of thing if you'll keep it going or if it will just fizzle out. Anyway, it's been fun so far so I'll see if I can get to 200.
I didn't have much new to post about but then, with Ayton 2015 fast approaching, I realised that I never did share my account of the Ayton 2014 campaign, other than with Henry Hyde. So, here is the official Medetian history, not too biased I hope, but naturally concentrating on my perspective of the pre-weekend planning and the on-table events themselves..
Ayton 2014 – Grenouisse Ascendant (but not for long..)
The Medetian Experience
General Barolo, on finding himself appointed to the role of the Duke's Chief of Staff, set about making the best of this dubious honour. Reining in some of the more impetuous allied commanders (Borscht and Darien
particularly) was the first priority so that a discussion could take place
about plans and timings. A conference was duly called and hosted by General Hauptzeige in the Governor's Palace in Castell Sebastian. Numerous ideas were put forth, although geography, initial deployments and limited campaign time clearly suggested a two-pronged invasion, from the east by land, and from the west by sea.
With the Duke absent, the fact that the conference generated a reasonably
coherent plan, with everyone more or less in agreement, was a welcome surprise. That the various contingents' own intentions (some of which were already being implemented!) were largely incorporated in the combined plan was no doubt the reason for such co-operation.
In short, the aggressive Borschtians, already occupying the
island off the Duchy's southern coast, were to invade Granprix from west of the capital and its river lines. The Prunkland bridging column, kindly loaned by Hauptzeige, would go with them to assist in their advance east, and the doughty Wheyeydians would take ship to land in their support. Subject to what opposition they encountered, they would attempt to approach Pescadrix from the west and hopefully draw off a proportion of the defenders' strength.
The eastern pincer would be a larger affair, with the main army departing Kap Ludwig and marching straight for Pescadrix, intending to smash through any opposition it encountered. The Medetians would lead on the
coast road, with light troops covering the hilly right flank where enemy advanced forces might be lurking. The rest of the main army would follow closely, consisting of the infantry and light troops of Darien, and the army of Prunkland, who would be last to depart. The Granprixian forces under the Duke would land by sea further along the coast and thereby link up with the main army, creating a combined (and hopefully unstoppable) force of over 2,000 figures.
The Darien cavalry, a mighty host in itself, would leave early and make its way north west through the hills and forests, aiming to cut the road north of Pescadrix and sever the enemy's communications with Grenouisse. This force would then move south to close the net around the capital and hopefully re-join the main army for a final show-down close to the city. This part of the plan was altered mid-campaign as the cavalry column
would not have arrived in time, so instead the Darienite cavalry marched to the right of the main army and was close enough to be able to make a crucial contribution to both battles.
Substantial naval forces would carry out a number of operations, including escorting the Borschtians, Wheyeydians and Granprixians to their landing sites, scouting the enemy coast for activity and defences, covering the main army's left flank from enemy naval intervention, and keeping an eye on things back at Castell Sebastian in case a coup de main was attempted by anyone ('friend' or foe). The weather was, as always, unpredictable but in the main these activities were carried out without too much mis-hap. Naval clashes took place, and a major battle is understood to have taken place late in the campaign, of which reports have not yet been received.
Many plots, intrigues and subterfuges were also planned during this period, and some were even implemented; a most interesting time it certainly was! General E Pickled, apparently dithering to and fro on the coast road, was shot and wounded in the arm despite his cavalry escort, leading to suggestions that his own side might have been responsible. The true motives of the Darienites and their Inquisition were suspected by many among the Duke's allies, and efforts were made to observe their actions and restrict their access to the Kap once the army had departed. Prunkland in particular was sensitive to the risk of a coup in Castell Sebastian when the campaign was occupying our attention, and contingencies were put in place to defend against dastardly actions from disappearing cavalry columns, disguised infantry, mischievous feathered natives and sneaky naval forces.
Map of the
Granprixian Invasion Plan (click to enlarge)
Purple – Main Army; Medetia, Prunkland and Darien main force
Green – Darien Cavalry (although in the end they didn't travel this far to the north)
Grey – Duke Zigor and his Granprixians
Red – Borscht
Orange – Wheyedia
The Campaign Itself
Somewhat amazingly, due to a combination of a reasonably straight forward plan, some curious enemy dispositions, a bit of luck, and a tremendous fighting spirit, the invasion proceeded very nearly as intended.
The enemy were unable to strongly oppose the main army and fell back before it, abandoning prepared positions without a fight. The army marched forward cautiously but in good spirits, eager to get at the enemy.
Granprixian guerilleros were encountered, providing intelligence, confirming that the enemy were out of position guarding against non-existent threats to the north west, and offering assistance in the coming fight. Both were welcome. Some naval skirmishes took place off the coast but, coming as they did after the key landings, without serious impact on the land campaign.
Finally, after a sedate march through the gentle Granprixian littoral, we found an enemy army that was ready to give battle.
First Battle
The enemy (the armies of Gateway and Altefritzenberg) took up a strong position anchored on the coast and village to their right (Gateway), with wooded hills and earthwork fortifications to their left (Altefritzenberg),
and with their combined cavalry in the plain between. Granprixian forces were assigned the extreme left of our attacking army, aiming to capture the village and had assault troops, led by their Grenadiers, literally advancing along the beach. The forces of Darien, Prunkland and Medetia occupied the centre and right of the army, with their units intermingled to give best advantage. A very strong cavalry force (largely from Darien) deployed to the right of the Granprixians, opposite the enemy cavalry. A mighty combined battery dominated the centre, and both close order and light infantry faced the hills and woods ready to advance and throw the enemy from them.
In short, the battle for the village was one of tough fighting and attrition, decided only when the enemy army retreated. Some local guerilleros also swept in by boat behind the Gateway line, intent on causing mischief and
confusion. Meanwhile the grand battery pulverised the enemy positions, and some of their cavalry, forcing the Altefritzenbergers to make the decision between being destroyed in place or advancing to their doom. They bravely chose the latter and, by coming to grips with our infantry down the slopes, actually protected themselves from much of the artillery's fire. The skirmishes among the woods and ponds were prolonged, but a strong column of Medetian battalions, led by the Bravence Regiment, was pushing forward inexorably on the extreme right flank and when the enemy facing them finally broke, the end was in sight.
News of our large flanking movement to the north made by the rest of our
cavalry (some 130 figures) also hastened the enemy's decision to give up the fight and save themselves for another day.
The true glory, however, was won on the plain where massed cavalry fought out a tremendous battle of charge and counter-charge. Splendid and in significant numbers though they were, the Gateway regiments, supported by those of Altefritzenberg, were no match for the seemingly endless hordes from<|fim_middle|> grand battery from Prunkland and Medetia covered the centre, smashing enemy units at will once it had won the fierce counter-battery duel with which the battle commenced. While the Darien troops swept across the plain, driving back the Grensouisse cavalry and assaulting the customs house, Prunkland supported them and held the centre. The Medetians engaged their Gateway foes and, while the light infantry fought each other to a standstill, the cavalry (led by Prunkland's finest Cuirassiers) repeated the trouncing of the Gateway mounted arm that they suffered in the first battle. Three fine units were routed and a beautiful standard was captured. With things looking bleak for Gateway, their artillery, supported by the numerous heavy guns on the walls behind them, prevented a general collapse and took a heavy toll on our forces. The Medetian Weissach Grenz, El Z'Teeth Lancers and Rutowski Dragoons were each destroyed trying to come to grips with the Gateway batteries, sacrificing themselves to save the rest of the army from the murderous close range fire.
A cavalry thrust from the Wheyeydians on the other side of the river almost made it to the bridge, but a sudden sighting of Hunmanby's landing on their southern flank drew them off before they could imperil the Gateway left flank and threaten the city. In their place came Granprixian fanatics and more guerilleros, braving artillery fire from the walls as they swept downstream in their boats. Despite losses they captured the bridge and landed beneath the walls themselves, opening fire on enemy troops there.
Final charges and last stands on all parts of the western battlefield saw dramatic and heroic actions on both sides, but when news of the King's capture spread the heart went out of the enemy and the fighting began to
die down. Gateway and Medetia commanders signalled a tacit ceasefire and the brave defenders began to withdraw into the city, where their fate would no doubt be decided by diplomats eager to extract what advantages they could in the peace negotiations.
The word is that Raoul might be ransomed, but what was not in doubt was that Granprix, and in particular its finest jewel Pescadrix, would be returned to Duke Zigor. The army was victorious and, despite the sadness of its losses, the celebrations would reverberate for days!
So ends the account by General Barolo of the liberation of Granprix, this year of Our Lord, 1748.
Author World2DavePosted on 18th March 2015 28th July 2017 Categories LAW Get-togethersTags 18th Century 28mm, Ayton 2014, General
3 thoughts on "100th Post! A Belated Account of Ayton 2014"
Andy McMaster says:
A fine and unbiased account in no way tainted by the rose tinted spectacles of time! 🙂
My troops still have nightmares about all those bloody guns!
A splendid report. Nice to be reminded that I'm not the only one to get clobbered by arty!
World2Dave says:
21st March 2015 at 12:24 am
Yep, Simon likes to spread the pain among all non-'Grand Battery believers'! I just got to roll some supporting dice every now and then!
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Next Next post: New Hussars! | Darien. Light cavalry soaked up the charge of the first Gateway wave, and the Darien Cuirassiers' counter-attack was devastating. Three regiments fell to them in one turn, and in the confusion the legendary General E Pickled was cut down and ridden over while his cavalry fled. Rumours of his death were exaggerated and he has since retired to his estates. His cavalry Brigadier was captured in the same melee.
Although further Gateway battalions and batteries deployed to cover their cavalry's rout, they could only serve as a rearguard while the rest of their battered army left the field to our victorious troops. Casualties had been mercifully light, and we needed only a day to re-group and resume our
march west to liberate Pescadrix.
Second Battle
After a day's rest a short march took us to within sight of the ramparts of Pescadrix, our final objective. The army pivoted on its left flank, which hugged the coast, and swung around to the north of the city, penning the enemy back against it. Our naval scouts informed us that our Borschtian and Wheyeydian allies had fought an indecisive battle to the west two days before and had re-embarked on their ships to land again between the
enemy and the city. General Barolo sent them a message urging them to send a force to approach the city from the west and capture the main bridge over the river.
The enemy again entrenched and made use of what buildings they could in their defences. The Gateway forces deployed in front of the city while to their right were the Altefritzenbergers behind what earthworks they had prepared in time. The enemy right flank hinged on the customs house, which they'd fortified, and bent back to end literally in the surf. A buzz went through our army when it was revealed that the dastardly King Raoul himself was commanding the Grenouissian troops on that flank.
Fittingly, it was the army of Darien, whose priests had recently ex-communicated the King for his un-Christian ways (and, perhaps, for not granting Darien some Granprixian land in exchange for turning a blind eye) who opposed the Grenouissians. Once again massed cavalry would thunder across the plains.
In the centre, to Darien's right, were the Prunklanders, ready to descend from the hills and capture the customs house in conjunction with their Darien allies. The right flank of our army was held by the forces of Medetia, with infantry and cavalry (including some regiments borrowed from the rest of the army) facing off against their counter-parts from the Gateway Alliance. The forces of Granprix itself had marched on a wider arc to the north and were due to come down the main road later in support of the Medetians.
Our battle plan was to pin the enemy in front of the city while rolling him up from his right flank, along the coast. Again, despite suffering setbacks and significant casualties, this plan was successfully executed, culminating in the capture of the despised King by Darien's cavalry as his right flank collapsed.
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Each abstract is formatted to a single page, and is followed by a link to the orginal paper, links to additional resources (which may not be accessible), and a link to the website(s) of the author(s). For those that don't have a subscription to the journal, many of the links to abstracts of the original research papers provide access to the full text and a freely downloadable pdf . Happy readings!
Nature, thanks for compiling this fitting and freely available educational resource! It is a wonderful New Years Gift!
For more on Darwin at Nature. | "for teachers and others wishing to spread awareness of evolution by natural selection." The document is accessible at the link above, which forwards one to a seventeen page pdf file.
The document includes student-friendly "editorial introductions" to 15 papers that have been published in Nature during the past decade. These papers were selected "to illustrate the breadth, depth and power of evolutionary thinking", and | 79 |
Friday, I had lunch at New Hawaii Sea, an Asian fusion spot located at 1475 Williamsbridge Rd. I can't even tell you how many years I passed right by this place without giving it a second glance. Two years ago, I wanted to take my mother out to dinner somewhere new, but was broke as usual, so I figured I would check out somewhere local. I was really impressed by the quality of their service as well as their affordable prices and large portions of food.
For lunch, you have the option of ordering<|fim_middle|>. It just tasted like vanilla ice cream with food coloring. Everything else was great. Boyfriend ordered sushi. He said it was okay. They have really fancy Polynesian drinks, so if you get a chance, try one of those. | just an entree with a side of rice or for an extra dollar you get soup and dessert. I went with the upgrade and ordered wonton soup, twice sauteed pork with brown rice, and green tea ice cream. The only thing I wasn't crazy about was the ice cream | 58 |
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I don't know what I expected when I visited Blue Heron Organic Farm, but it wasn't Ellery Kimball. The enthusiastic 35-year-old is a new breed of farmer. Her seven-acre farm is situated on conservation land in Lincoln, so organic is a must, but she wouldn't have it any other way. "It's the only way that makes sense to me," she says.
Surrounded by farms with CSAs, Ellery is following a different business model. About half of her produce is sold to 12 restaurants in the Boston area, among them Rialto and Hamersley's. A quarter is sold through farmers' markets and another quarter through her farm stand.
"I just like the idea of a farm stand, because people can come in and shop, no matter who they are or what their economic background is," Ellery says.
The Lincoln native began interning at Blue Heron (then called Down to Earth Organic Farm) when she was just 17, with no previous experience in farming. She went on to earn a B.A. in sustainable agriculture and returned to take over the plot after graduation.
"I think it's a very meaningful job, because you're nourishing people, and it's physical, so it's very satisfying work," she says.
Seven acres is small for a farm, and because of the restrictions on conservation land, expansion is not an option. In fact, any major change she makes to it, like planting 14 apple trees this year, has to be preceded by a proposal to the Conservation Commission. No permanent buildings are allowed on the land, so her farm stand, two greenhouses, and chicken coop have to be on wheels. Therefore Ellery's focus is on efficiency, to good effect. The tiny farm grows almost any vegetable imaginable, as well as a flower maze.
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Ellery does this all with just three employees in the summer months, with the help of occasional volunteers. (If you'd like to help out, just drop by the farm anytime Tuesday through Sunday, 7:00 to 5:00). School groups even come out on Fridays to learn about farming. "I wish I had farming mentors when I was 8 years old," Ellery says. "I was 17 when I really learned what a pea and a bean looked like growing, so I think it's great to share with little people the importance of knowing where their food comes from and what it takes to get a salad onto your plate."
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The Committee considered the Draft Report of the Standing Committee on Finance on<|fim_middle|> T Harris (DA) recalled that he had questioned the large budget increases requested. This should be reflected in the report under the second bullet of point three, deliberations.
Mr D Van Rooyen (ANC) moved that bullet four of point four in Stats SA's responses be expanded to include the specific matter raised by the Committee.
Mr D Ross (DA) asked that a recommendation be included to involve labour when calculating the quarterly labour force survey.
Mr Harris recommended that Stats SA had not included enough information on how the Interdepartmental Business Registration Reform Project was to be implemented and that the Committee be sent regular updates.
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Dr Z Luyenge (ANC) agreed with the proposal adding that it should take place after the Cabinet process had been completed.
Mr Harris added that the matter was not to question details of the transport arrangements but purely on SANRAL's finances.
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Mr Ross said that it would be in the national interest if the Minister responded on the SANRAL issue.
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The Committee considered its draft report on Statistics South Africa's (Stats SA) for the 2012/13 financial year.
Ms Z Dlamini – Dubazana (ANC) suggested that the word "status" in 2.2 be replaced with the term "strategic objectives".
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The pillars are octagon in shape with four sided medial panels. Several rock carvings are also found on some of the pillars. The pillar capitals are made of wood and decorated with Pekada carvings. The four sided roof with elevated middle portion is paved with semi cylindrical roof tiles (Sinhala Ulu).
The Ambagaspitiya Ambalama at the 3rd mile post of the Yakkala - Radawana road in Ambagaspitiya village in Palle Tuttiripitya Grama Niladari Division in the Divisional Secretary's Division of Mahara is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 22 November 2002 .
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: No: 1214. 22 November 2002.
Sri Jinendrarama Tempita Viharaya, Warapalana
By Lanka Pradeepa July 20, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Gampaha District, Tempita Vihara No comments
Sri Jinendrarama Tempita Viharaya (or Sri Jinendraramaya) is a Buddhist temple situated in the village of Warapalana in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. The site can be reached by traveling along the Yakkala - Radawana road (B479) about 6.7 km distance from the Yakkala junction.
It is believed that the history of Jinendrarama temple is going back to the latter part of the 18th century (Chandrasoma, 2013; Wijayawardhana, 2010). The other nearby temples, such as Varana, Pilikuttuwa are located some considerable distance from the Warapalana village and therefore, Jinendrarama temple may has been erected as a religious place for the village community during the Kandyan period [(1594 - 1815 A.D.) Wijayawardhana, 2010]. It is said that a Buddhist monk called Veuda Vipassi Thera from Anuradhapura, had pioneered in its establishment (Chandrasoma, 2013; Wijayawardhana, 2010).
The new image house of the temple has been constructed in 1922.
Tempita Viharaya
Tempita Viharas (the temples on pillars) were a popular aspect of many Buddhist temples during the Kandyan period. These structures were usually built on a wooden platform resting on bare stone pillars or stumps which are about 1-4 feet tall. The roof is generally made of timber and held by wooden stumps and walls made of wattle and daub. Wattle walls make the main enclosed shrine room containing the Buddhist sculptures and murals belonging to the Kandyan style. Some Tempita Viharas have narrow verandas and ambulatories circulating the main enclosed space. Construction of these buildings were started in the 17th century and lasted till the end of the 19th century (Wijayawardhana, 2010).
The Tempita Viharaya (the temple on pillars) is the main aspect of this temple with an archaeological significance. It has been built upon 25 granite pillars of about 3 feet tall (Chandrasoma, 2013; Wijayawardhana, 2010). The roof is four sided and paved with semi cylindrical roof tiles (Sinhala Ulu). A stone made flight of steps makes the access to the ambulatory surrounding the Tempita image chamber. The ambulatory is about 3 feet wide and a short wall of about 3 ft. 10 in. tall runs along its outer boundary (Wijayawardhana, 2010). The total Tempita structure is about 19 feet long and 15 feet and 3 inches wide (Chandrasoma, 2013; Wijayawardhana, 2010).
The inside walls of the image chamber is adorned with the paintings and sculptures belonging to the Kandyan style. The main sculpture is a seated Buddha statue accompanied by two standing Buddha statues facing each other at both left and right walls (Chandrasoma, 2013). All the Buddha figures have halos around their bodies. On the sides of the two standing Buddha images are two deities, Vishnu and Kataragama/or Saman (Chandrasoma, 2013; Wijayawardhana, 2010).
The Tempita Viharaya has been restored and conserved by the Archaeology Department.
The Tempita Viharaya situated in Sri Jinendrarama Vihara premises in Udututtiripitiya Grama Niladhari Wasama of the Mahara Divisional Secretary's Division is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 22 November 2002.
1) Chandrasoma, S., 2013. Gampaha Distrikkaye Tempita Vihara (In Sinhala). Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka). Colombo. ISBN: 978-955-9159-85-8. pp.13-17.
2) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1264. 22 November 2002.
3) Wijayawardhana, K., 2010. Sri Lankawe Tampita Vihara (In Sinhala). Dayawansa Jayakody & Company. Colombo. ISBN: 978-955-551-752-2. pp. 12,264-269.
This page was last updated on 7 September 2019
Sri Vivekarama Purana Viharaya, Hewaniwala
By Lanka Pradeepa July 16, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Gampaha District No comments
Sri Vivekarama Purana Viharaya is an old Buddhist temple located in the village of Hewaniwala in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka.
The ancient image house located in Hewaniwala Viwekarama Vihara premises in Palle Tuttiripitiya Grama Niladhari Wasama of the Mahara Divisional Secretary's Division is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 22 November 2002.
Gallindawatta Ambalama, Ambagaspitiya
The Gallindawatta Ambalama is an old wayside rest in the village of Ambagaspitiya in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. The site can be reached by traveling along the Yakkala - Radawana road about 3.7 km distance from the Yakkala junction.
The Ambalama is situated at the verge of a paddy land and has been built by erecting four granite pillars fixed on the ground. The floor is square in shape and paved with stone slabs. The roof is tiled with Sinhala Ulu and held by the four granite pillars. A well built with granite blocks is found adjacent to the Ambalama.
The old Ambalama at Gallinda Watta land in Ambagaspitiya village in Mahara Divisional Secretary's Division is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 22 November 2002 .
Bendiyamulla Tombstone of Karunaratne
By Lanka Pradeepa July 16, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Gampaha District No comments
The Bendiyamulla Tombstone is a monument located on roadside of Gampaha - Miriswatta highway about 1.2 km distance from the Gampaha Hospital. It has been erected to commemorate Mr. Karunaratne, a wealthy landowner.
Karunaratne
Don David Karunaratne was a politician and one of the wealthiest men in Gampaha area. He was elected to parliament at the 1st parliamentary election in 1947, representing the United National Party (UNP), for the Gampaha electorate. After the death of Karunaratne, his remains were deposited in a small stone-built house erected in a land he owned.
Karunaratne is also popular for his social works. Rathnavalee Balika Vidyalaya and Gampaha Base Hospital are said to be established/developed with the help of Karunaratne.
Agra Building
In the 1930s, Karunaratna constructed a palatial mansion called Agra, in Bendiyamulla. After the demise of Karunaratne, the property was inherited to his elder daughter but by the mid-1970s, there were no direct descendants to claim the property. In 1978, the mansion was taken over by the government and converted it into a state property. The mansion is today used as the office of the District Secretariat of Gampaha (Gampaha Kachcheri).
The tomb is quadrangular in shape and has been built on a elevated basement. It can be entered through a flight of steps accompanied by decorated Korawak Gal (balustrades) and Sandakada Pahana (moonstone).
However, a large commercial building has been constructed around the monument recently, disturbing the view as well as the value of the tomb.
The Bendiyamulla Tombstone adjoins Miriswaththa - Gampaha highway belonging to Bendiyamulla village situated in Grama Niladhari Division, Bendiyamulla in the Divisional Secretary's Division, Gampaha is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 12 June 2015.
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1919. 12 June 2015. p.395.
Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery, Polgahawela
By Lanka Pradeepa July 14, 2019 Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Kurunegala District No comments
The Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery (Sinhala: Mahamevnawa Bhavana Asapu Moolasthanaya) located in Polgahawela, Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka is the main Mahamevnawa temple of its chain of monasteries in Sri Lanka.
Mahamevanawa Organization
The organization was established in 1999 in Sri Lanka by Ven. Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thera, in the purpose of spreading the teachings of the Gautama Buddha. At present, there are more than 90 Sri Lankan and international branches including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, South Korea and United States.
Polgahawela Branch
The monastery at Polgahawela was established in Waduwawa village on 14 August 1999. Currently, the temple is home for over 100 monks.
Other Local Branches
Central Province: Kundasale, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, Rattota.
Eastern Province: Ampara, Kantale, Vilgamvehera Raja Maha Viharaya.
North Central Province: Anuradhapura, Galnewa, Habarana, Kahatagasdigiliya, Kebithigollewa, Polonnaruwa.
North Western Province: Anamaduwa, Bowatta, Ibbagamuwa, Mahawa, Polpithigama, Pothuhera, Thamba Kanda, Uyandana.
Sabaragamuwa Province: Balangoda, Eratna, Pinnawala, Siripagama.
Southern Province: Deniyaya, Galle, Matara, Sooriyawewa, Walasmulla.
Uva Province: Bandarawela, Bibila, Buttala, Kataragama, Mahiyanganaya, Mariarawa, Monaragala, Mullegama, Welimada.
Western Province: Bulathsinhala, Divulapitiya, Horana, Kaduwela, Kochchikade, Malabe, Nittambuwa, Serupita.
Thilakarathnarama Viharaya, Borella
By Lanka Pradeepa July 14, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Colombo District No comments
Thilakarathnaramaya (or Thilakarathnaramaya) is a Buddhist temple located in Borella town in Colombo District, Sri Lanka.
The ancient Stupa of Borella Thilakarathnarama Purana Vihara in Borella (South) Grama Niladhari Wasama of the Thimbirigasyaya Divisional Secretary's Division is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 8 July 2005.
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1401. 8 July 2005.
Kengalla Ambalama
By Lanka Pradeepa July 07, 2019 Ambalama, Kandy District No comments
The Kengalla Ambalama is an old wayside rest in the village of Kengalla in Kandy District, Sri Lanka. It is located on roadside of Kandy - Mahiyangana highway (A 26) about 14 km distant from the Kandy town.
Ambalamas are traditional resting places built by locals to accommodate wayfarers who were traveling to distant places. The Ambalama at Kengalla is believed to have been built in 1905 by Karaithylingam Pillai, a wealthy businessman who had migrated from South India (Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009).
The structure is built of stone and rectangular in shape with a short porch in front. Two sets of columns fixed in two concentric tiers bear the roof and make the resting area. The resting area has two levels: the outer low ground and the middle section. The middle section is at a higher level and is said to have been used by people of the privileged caste (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009).
1) De Silva, N.; Chandrasekara, D.P., 2009. Heritage Buildings of Sri Lanka. Colombo: The National Trust Sri Lanka, ISBN: 978-955-0093-01-4. p.168.
2) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1716. 22 July 2011. p.510-511.
Kadugannawa Ambalama
By Lanka Pradeepa July 07, 2019 Ambalama, Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Kegalle District No comments
The Kadugannawa Ambalama is an old wayside rest in the village of Kadugannawa in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. It is located on roadside of Colombo - Kandy highway about 7 km distant from the Pilimatalawa town.
Ambalamas are traditional resting places built by locals to accommodate wayfarers who were traveling to distant places. The Ambalama at Kadugannawa is one such structure built during the British period [(1815-1948) De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009].
The structure has a rectangular ground plan with an additional porch in front (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). The porch is entered through two sets of steps. The inner space of the Ambalama has been divided by a wall (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). The roof is paved with clay tiles and supported by columns and walls made of wattle and daub.
The Ambalama was recently restored by the Ministry of Tourism under the guidance of the Department of Archeology.
Kadugannawa Ambalama in Pahala Kadugannawa Village in the Mahakadurawa Grama Niladhari Wasama of the Mawanella Divisional Secretary's Division is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 22 July 2011.
1) Kadugannawa Ambalama by MediaJet is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Kondagala Pilima Geya
By Lanka Pradeepa July 07, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Image houses, Kegalle District No comments
Kondagala Pilima Geya/Pilimage (or Kondagala Viharaya) is an old image house located in the village of Kondagala in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. The site can be reached by traveling along the Nelundeniya - Galapitamada road about 1.2 km distance from the Nelundeniya junction.
The temple consists of an old image house and a Bodhi tree. Other aspects such as Stupa, preaching hall are not found in the temple premises. The image house has been built on a natural rock plane on which several marks of letters, pillar holes are found. At the entrance of image house is a Makara Thorana (a dragon arch) with two door keepers. Below the Makara Thorana (above the door) is a figure of clock with Roman numerals.
The shrine was renovated and preserved by the Department of Archaeology in 2016.
The old image house and the drain in the natural rock belonging to the Kondagale Vihara premises in the Grama Niladhari Wasama No. 85, Dedigama in the Warakapola Divisional Secretary's Division are archaeological protected monuments, declared by a government gazette notification published on 30 December 2011.
1) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. No: 1739. 30 December 2011. p.1091
Waduwawa Bambaragala Viharaya
By Lanka Pradeepa July 06, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka, Cave temples in Sri Lanka, Kurunegala District No comments
Bambaragala Raja Maha Viharaya is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in the village of Waduwawa in Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka.
The image house of Bambaragala temple contains paintings belonging to the Kandyan tradition. However, the existence of drip-ledged caves suggest that this temple has its roots extending to a very early period, probably to Anuradhapura era (377 B.C.-1017 A.D.).
The cave temple with old paintings and the drip-ledged cave with an inscription in Waduwawa Bambaragala Purana Viharaya in the Divisional Secretary's Division of Alawwa are archaeological protected monuments, declared by government gazette notifications published on 18 January 1974 and 8 July 2005.
1)The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: No: 1401. 8 July 2005.
3) The government gazette notification: No: 95. 18 January 1974.
This page was last updated on 6 July 2019
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Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall
By Lanka Pradeepa July 28, 2019 Colombo District No comments
The Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (also known as BMICH) is a convention center located in the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Given by the People's Republic of China as a gift, the conference hall was built in honor of the foreign policy of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1956 to 1959.
The BMICH is managed by the S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike National Memorial Foundation established on 4 February 1975.
The construction of the hall was initiated on 24 November 1970, by the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The Chinese government donated LKR 35 million towards the construction as a gift to the people of Sri Lanka. On 17 May 1973, the completed conference hall was ceremoniously declared open by S. Bandaranaike.
In 2000, the construction work of the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre was commenced in the same premises with the help of China. Built in memory of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the first stateswoman in the world, the exhibition centre was officially opened in 2003.
The octagonal shaped BMICH building was designed by Dai Niancy who is said to be a prominent figure in the history of modern Chinese architecture (Lu, 2010). The building comprises the main conference & concert hall, delegates lounge, banquet hall and press lounge.
1970 - China and Sri Lanka signed the agreement.
1973 - Opening ceremony of BMICH.
1973 - International Rubber Conference.
1974 - 4th Commonwealth Medical Conference.
1976 - 5th Non-Aligned Movement Summit.
1983 - Commencement of renting office spaces for government organizations.
1991 - 6th SAARC Summit.
1998 - 10th SAARC Summit.
2000 - Construction of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition & Convention Centre.
2003 - Opening of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition & Convention Centre.
2005 - Opening of Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS).
2009 - Opening of Mihilaka Medura and Kamatha.
2012 - Refurbishment of Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition & Convention Centre.
2013 - 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
2014 - World Conference on Youth.
2017 - United Nations Vesak Festival
1) Lu, D. ed., 2010. Third world modernism: architecture, development and identity. Routledge.
2) Official website of the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall - .BMICH#History
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Talaimannar Pier and Railway Station
By Lanka Pradeepa July 28, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Mannar District No comments
The Talaimannar Pier and railway station are located in Talaimannar in Mannar District, Sri Lanka.
The proposal to build a rail bridge across the Palk Strait was originally brought forward by the British government in 1894, in order to facilitate the transportation of workers from Tamil Nadu, India for the tea plantations in Sri Lanka. In 1902, the rail line between Colombo and Kankesanturai was opened and a branch of this railway line was built in 1913, linking Madawachchiya and Talimannar Pier.
The Talaimannar station was opened on 24 February 1914. The pier and railway station were functioned in 1914 to ferried passengers between Talaimannar and Dhanuskodi (Rameswaram, India) At the time, it was considered the cheapest mode of transport of passengers and goods between the two neighbors. In 1967, both piers at Talaimannar and Dhanuskodi were damaged by the "Dhanuskodi Cyclone" which caused to suspend the ferry service between the two countries. Three years later, the infrastructure had been repaired and the ferry service was commenced again.
However, the service had to be abandoned again in 1983/84, due to the escalating war situation in Sri Lanka. The war between the government forces and LTTE (a rebel group designated as a terrorist organization) badly affected the ferry transportation between the two countries. During this period, the railway lines were completely destroyed by the LTTE and the steel bars of the track were used by them to build their bunkers (Thalpawila, 2017).
The Thalaimannar railway station was abandoned in 1990 and reopened on 14 March 2015, after the end of the civil war.
The pier was extending about 960 ft North of the mainland coast and supported a double railway track. The present pier is about 848 ft long and remains in a highly dilapidated state (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018)
A protected monument
The old pier at Thaleimannar belonging to Old Pier village in the Divisional Secretary's Division Thaleimannar is an archaeological protected monument, declared by a government gazette notification published on 24 March 2016.
1) Asanga, M. V. G. K.; Nishantha, I. P. S., 2018. Mannarama Distrikkaya (In Sinhala). Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka). ISBN: 978-955-7457-10-9. p.76.
2) Thalpawila, O. N., 2017. Road to Jaffna - Road to Reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, Centre for Heritage Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p.14.
3) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: No: 1960. 24 March 2016. p.229.
Ibbankatuwa Megalithic Cemetery
By Lanka Pradeepa July 28, 2019 Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Matale District, Protohistory of Sri Lanka No comments
Ibbankatuwa Megalithic Cemetery (also known as Ibbankatuwa Proto-historic Burial Site) is an ancient burial site situated in Dambulla in Matale District, Sri Lanka. Extended in an area about 13 hectares, the site comprises a large number of burials in cists made of stone slabs dating to the 7th century B.C.. The cemetery is considered as the biggest and the best-preserved proto-historic burial site in the country.
Cemetery site
The cemetery site is located on the left bank of the Dambulu Oya, a tributary of Kala Oya. It generally consists of stone cist type burial graves of the Megalithic tradition. The burial chambers are square and rectangular in shape and has been constructed by placing granite slabs vertically erected (Karunaratne, 2010). Several chambers were covered with capstones and some of them were visible on the surface even before the excavations. In 1984, surface explorations performed at the site exposed few non-Brahmi symbols (pictograms) inscribed on three separate cist capstones (Seneviratne, 1989).
Large and small clay pots containing human ashes were found placed inside the chambers. Certain clay pots were cylindrical in shape and smaller containers were discovered inside some of these clay vessels. Some tombs consist of multiple urns. A few pots contained minute bone fragments but none of the tombs contained complete or partial skeletons (Karunaratne, 2010).
During the excavations, a large number of beads made of minerals such as clay, carnelian, onyx, agate were found inside the chambers (Karunaratne, 2010). A majority of beads discovered in Ibbankatuwa are said to be exotics originated hundreds of miles away in the peninsular India (Karunaratne, 2010). Cloth pins, bangles, leaf-shaped diadem and metal objects such as iron, copper alloy, and gold were among the other findings of Ibbankatuwa (Karunaratne, 2010).
Settlement site
It is believed that the Ibbankatuwa cemetery was associated with a settlement belonging to the early iron age. Polwatta, an ancient human settlement located not far from the Ibbankatuwa burial site is considered to be the complementary human settlement of this burial site.
The Ibbankatuwa settlement was first excavated during the PGIAR-CCF-KAVA (Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology-Central Cultural Fund-The Kommission fur Algemeine und Vergleichende Archaeologie) collaboration project in 1988 (Karunaratne, 2010). More excavations were done during the 1989, 1990, and 1991 field seasons. According to C14 data, it was found that the site was occupied for several centuries, at least from the Proto-historic/Early-historic transition phase to the middle historic period (Karunaratne, 2010).
Ibbankatuwa is considered as the only Proto-historic cemetery site in Sri Lanka where a corresponding settlement has been excavated (Karunaratne, 2010).
The first excavation was performed in the Ibbankatuwa burial site in 1970 by Dr. Raja De Silva, a former Archaeological Commissioner (Karunaratne, 2010). Consideration was again given to the site in 1982 when the Dambulla Cultural Triangle was established (Karunaratne, 2010). After that, two excavations were conducted in 1988 and 1990, by a team of German (KAVA) and Sri Lankan (CCF & PGIAR) archaeologists lead by Prof. Senake Bandaranayake. They investigated a cluster of 21 burial chambers and its corresponding C14 data revealed that the cluster was in use at least from around 600 B.C..
The third excavation was carried out in August 2015, by the Central Cultural Fund. They excavated a new area located west of the cluster of 21 burial chambers. During this excavation, 47 burials, 26 stone cists and 21 urn burials were discovered by them.
The conserved site was opened for public viewing on 11th February 2017.
A protected site
The megalithic tombs, situated in the village of Ibbankatuwa, in the Grama Niladhari Division of Ibbankatuwa, in the Divisional Secretary's Division of Galewala, are archaeological protected monuments, declared by a government gazette notification published on 23 October 2009.
1) Ibban Katuwa, Sri Lanka 0021 by G41rn8 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
1) Karunaratne, P.P., 2010. Secondary state formation during the early iron age on the island of Sri Lanka: The evolution of a periphery. University of California, San Diego. pp.122-123,180,182, 184-185,190.
2) Seneviratne, S., 1989. Pre-state chieftains and servants of the state: a case study of Parumaka. pp.99-130.
2) The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: No: 1625. 23 October 2009. p.1596.
Tomb of Adam, Talaimannar
By Lanka Pradeepa July 26, 2019 Mannar District, Mosques in Sri Lanka No comments
An Islamic place of worship called by the locals as Tomb of Adam (or Adam's Grave) is located in Urumalai village in Talaimannar in Mannar District, Sri Lanka.
Depending on traditional beliefs, the site is venerated by the local Muslim community as the grave where the giant bodies of Adam and Eve were buried.
The site contains two long semi-cylindrical structures lie on the sand. The structures are about 13 m long and 1.2 m wide (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018). By the side of the two structures is a small boat with the engraving 786 – 1968.
According to the local Muslim community, this is an ancient site with a long history. However, no any valid historical or archaeological evidences have been found from the site (Asanga & Nishantha, 2018).
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Ambagaspitiya Ambalama
By Lanka Pradeepa July 20, 2019 Ambalama, Archaeological sites in Sri Lanka, Gampaha District No comments
The Ambagaspitiya Ambalama is an old wayside rest in the village of Ambagaspitiya in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. The site can be reached by traveling along the Yakkala - Radawana road about 4.7 km distance from the Yakkala junction.
Ambalamas are traditional resting places built by locals to accommodate wayfarers who were traveling to distant places.
The Ambalama has been built by erecting twelve granite pillars. Connecting these twelve pillars, a short wall goes around the structure. On the inside, around the Ambalama, are seats fixed to the short | 3,240 |
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Chip maker Qualcomm on Thursday said it had acquired DesignArt Networks, a company based in Israel that designs small cells to boost mobile capacity on cellular networks.
DesignArt offers small-cell base station and modem designs that will fit in with Qualcomm's wireless connectivity products, which include<|fim_middle|> also makes chips and modems that are used in smartphones and tablets. Some models of the company's latest Snapdragon S4 processor integrate a CPU and modem on a single chip.
Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is agam_shah@idg.com | 4G LTE and Wi-Fi chips and base stations, Qualcomm said. Existing spectrum is under stress from the growing use of mobile devices, and small cells should help solve that problem by forming a distributed network of cells the size of Wi-Fi access points on places like lamp posts and the sides of buildings to add capacity.
Qualcomm declined to disclose the amount it paid for DesignArt Networks. The company already provides wired and wireless technologies used by carriers in base stations. DesignArt's small-cell designs, which are designed to work with LTE networks, will enable the "proliferation of indoor and outdoor small cells" to expand capacity, Qualcomm said.
Small cells are still considered expensive to deploy, and the acquisition will help Qualcomm provide technology for wireless carriers to deploy small cells in a cost-effective manner, the company said.
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In the new laser, this does not occur because the photons are not around long enough to wobble. The atoms are constantly energizing and emitting synchronized photons, but on the average, very few — less than one photon, in fact — stick around between the mirrors.
This average, calculated by the scientists based indirectly on the laser beam's output power, is enough to maintain an oscillating electric field to sustain the atom's synchronized behavior. Almost every photon escapes before it has a chance to bounce around the mirrors and disrupt the synchronized atoms, which causes laser frequency to wobble in standard lasers.
In Thompson's system, atoms are trapped in laser light between two mirrors and then tuned to a rate at which they can switch back and forth between two energy levels using low-power lasers. Each time their energy level drops, the atoms emit photons. The atoms ordinarily would emit one photon per second, but their correlated action boosts that rate ten-thousandfold, making the light superradiant, Thompson said. This "stimulated emission" meets laser definition.
The scientists' measurements found that the stability of the laser beam frequency is less than 1/10,000th as sensitive to mirror motion as in standard optical lasers, which suggests the new approach could improve NIST lasers as much as a thousandfold. Just as important, such lasers could be moved out of the vibration-controlled laboratory and into real-world applications.
Although dim, the stability of the superradiant laser can be transferred by using it as part of a feedback system to "lock" a normal laser's output. It could then be used in atomic clocks to induce the atomic oscillations that are the pendulum ticks of superaccurate timekeepers. The added stability would enable a better match to the atoms' exact frequency, significantly boosting the clock's precision. The improvement also could extend to GPS, optical communications, astronomy and advanced geodetic surveys.
For the superradiant laser design to reach its full stability potential and to be of practical use, Thompson stresses that it will need to be recreated using different atoms, such as strontium, which are better suited for advanced atomic clocks.
The research appeared in the April 5 issue of Nature. | , Colo., April 4, 2012 — A new "superradiant" laser design that traps 1 million rubidium atoms into a 2-cm space between two mirrors produces a deep-red laser beam that could boost the performance of most advanced atomic clocks, communications and navigation systems, and space-based astronomical instruments.
Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, developed the prototype, which has the potential to be 100 to 1000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. The device synchronizes the rubidium atoms with an engineering technique called "phase arrays," in which electromagnetic waves from a large group of identical antennas are carefully synchronized to build a combined wave with special useful features that are not otherwise possible.
Ordinary lasers rely on millions of photons bouncing back and forth between two mirrors, striking atoms in the lasing material and generating copies of themselves to build up intense light. Photons with synchronized wave patterns leak out of the mirrored cavity to form a laser beam. The laser frequency wobbles as the mirrors vibrate | 238 |
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Through sensory‐based hands-on experience, children are introduced to the core curriculum areas of Practical Life, Sensorial, Math, Language and Cultural Studies. Our comprehensive program includes Art, Music, Science, Library and Physical Educational/movement.
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Our Montessori preschool environment supports the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of the child. The teacher thoughtfully prepares the<|fim_middle|> school community, develops a sense of collaboration, and encourages mutual respect and broader thinking. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law. | classroom environment to invite curiosity and stimulate learning. By making independent choices, the child develops self‐ motivation, self‐regulation, and problem-solving skills. Learning moves from the concrete to the abstract through manipulating, experimenting, and discovering. The three‐year cycle is a fundamental element of Montessori education. Within this model, the youngest child looks to and learns from her older peers, who act as role models and classroom leaders. The child remains in the same classroom for three years, beginning as a three-year-old and finishing as a Kindergarten student.
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Yesterday I was reading a friends post on the deregulation of banking. From a strictly must search for article, it wasn't a topic I would actively seek out. I did read the whole thing. At the bottom was a comment from someone the author and I both know. His statement was, what's the point of the article? Why should he be writing about it if he can do nothing about it. This is unfair. It's what the author wanted to write about at that time.
It's a personal blog, so there is no set topic. I'm sure since the author usually covers geek affairs that the transition was jarring. The problem is unless a blog has a stated purpose, it's a platform to speak how you wish. You shouldn't be constrained to a subject. If you find a topic interesting write about it.
I range from retro toys, amusement parks, personal issues, politics, privacy rights, and geek stuff. I'm all over the map. That's just this month. I also see google hits from all over the map coming in and reading my stories. If I wanted to stay within a certain topical sphere, I would setup a new blog to do that. Blogging is cheap and easy. More people should do it. Everyone should feel the freedom of expression that a platform can give you. There is bad with the good.
Like the previously mentioned comment, sometimes you get negative feedback. Your views, writing, and everything in between can be attacked. Sometimes it feels like a marathon to get through<|fim_middle|>'ve also never started a hurricane. I have started some meaningful conversations that have grown into friendships. That is what makes it all worthwhile. | it all. There is always and end. Some people will appreciate what you have written and it will start a dialog.
That's what it is all about. The conversation that you started, even if you are not a participant. The butterfly that started the hurricane is the example I've always liked. I | 61 |
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MODOC's Clint Culberson, Kyle Addison, and John Carlson relocated to Nashville a long time ago from Indiana – the budding musicians had seen a handful of fellow Hoosier bands who were playing similar styles of music make the move; "We just want to make music for a living, that's who we are, that's what we do. We came here thinking we could take the world over; we didn't have jobs or anything, we just went for it," recalls frontman Culberson with a laugh. The trio knew the journey would be a challenge, but soon learned the ropes and started playing significant gigs around town.
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"COME DOWN" – NEW MUSIC from WATER DISTRICT | a town whose alternative music scene is chock full of genres, subgenres, and sub-subgenres, it's refreshing to encounter a band that just plays straightforward rock n' roll. "This latest record is probably the most experimental one we've done. We've always been drawn to it, we bonded over the Stones, the Beatles, and Zeppelin; people may have thought we were too cliché, but we wanted to make loud rock n' roll music with guitars and drums," Culberson explains. "We don't really try to create something that 'might be' cool just to fit into a niche."
Nowadays, however, there's a vicious rumor going around that rock n' roll is dead. "I think it just means corporate rock n' roll is alive," laughs Culberson. "People can be lazy and not search for things, just taking in what they're fed. That goes for politics, or religion, or whatever. You can swallow up what you want, but it doesn't change the fact that other things are out there, you just have to look for them. That may sound harsh, but people don't give credit where it's due. There's a ton of amazing rock n' roll out there, and it can be such a broad term, I don't think people really know what rock n' roll is anymore. There are country singers out there who think they're playing rock n' roll and call themselves rock stars. That may go over like a lead balloon in Nashville, but that's the truth, I think. To me, rock n' roll is a statement of rebellion, freedom, and independence. If you have something relevant to say, and you're pushing a boundary, or doing something that hasn't been done before, or at least making someone feel something, to me, you're creating art. Being relevant is pushing people to do something new or have a new thought. If you're trying to sound like somebody else, it's already too late. If I wanted to sound like War On Drugs or Tame Impala for this record, it's too late. Those are bands I think are relevant that are putting out something new, pushing the envelope, starting new trends, and moving things forward. Saying the same things over and over again may sell, but it doesn't make it relevant."
What is absolutely relevant, though, is Automatic + Voluntary, MODOC's brand new LP, which Culberson says is cohesive and will appeal to a wide demographic. Produced by co-founder of The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson, the record is set for release on February 5th. "Brendan encouraged us to experiment and get weird. We were all really sober during the process, we were all in a different headspace. That was odd, which probably sounds terrible," laughs Culberson, adding, "We really benefited from the focus that was brought. There was a natural high from the musical experimentation we were doing."
The band will host their album release show at The Basement East this Thursday, February 4th, with The JAG and Staying For The Weekend providing support. You can grab a copy of the record a whole day early if you go to the show…but wait, there's more! Since Nashville is MODOC's playground, they don't want anyone to feel left out, so everyone is invited, and the show is FREE. That's right, y'all, zero dollars! See you there!
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Percy Bysshe Shelley. The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. Born on August 4, 1792-the year of the Terror in France-Percy Bysshe Shelley (the Bysshe from his grandfather, a peer of the realm) was the son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley. Shelley's six years at Eton College, which he entered at age 12 in 1804, are more notable for his early love interests and for his early literary endeavors than for what he learned in the formal curriculum.
A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England. The eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley, with one brother and four sisters, he stood in line to inherit not only his grandfather's considerable estate but also a seat in Parliament. He attended Eton College for six years beginning in 1804, and then went on to Oxford University. He began writing poetry while at Eton, but his first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810), in which he voiced his own heretical and atheistic opinions through the villain Zastrozzi.
His major works include the long visionary poems 'Prometheus Unbound' and 'Adonais', an elegy on the death of John Keats. His shorter, classic verses include 'To a Skylark', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Ode to the West Wind'.
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Browse through Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems and quotes. 324 poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley, born the heir to rich estates and the son of an Member of Parliament, went to University College, Oxford in 1810, but in March of the following year he and a friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, were both expelled for the suspected authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. In 1811 he met and eloped to Edinburgh with Harriet Westbrook and, one year later, went with her and her older sister first to Dublin, then to Devon and North Wales, where they stayed for six months into 1813.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, into an aristocratic . In 1814 Shelley traveled abroad with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the daughter of the philosopher and anarchist William Godwin (1756-1836).
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792, at Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex, into an aristocratic family. His father, Timothy Shelley, was a Sussex squire and a member of Parliament. Mary's young stepsister Claire Clairmont was also in the company. During this journey Shelley wrote an unfinished novella, The Assassins (1814).
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Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the most popular English Romantic poets, and is regarded .
He was born on 4th of August 1792 in England. Shelly harbored highly radical social, political views setting him against the existing social norms.
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Reading this, I emphasized completely with Mary Shelley. It's very hard not to fall in love with her husband, when reading his poetry! ;) I think he challenged Christina Rosetti and Baudelaire, who'd been battling for the position of my favorite poet. His work is beautiful, romantic, and paints a vivid, magical picture of other worlds with his works. If you enjoy Algernon Blackwood,
Anne Rice, and Mary Shelley herself, I think you'll love Shelley's work.
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First, William Meredith writes a brief but useful essay to put Shelley's works into a context. He neither overpraises the poet nor dismisses him as overrated.
Second, it's the poetry itself that is crucial for any such volume. On page 28, we come across a poem that I think is wonderful, "Mutability." This indicates that there are few constants, and closes with a couple wonderful lines:
"Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Naught may endure but mutability."
Brief, but telling. One of my favorite of Shelley's poems.
Then, perhaps, my favorite poem of all: "Ozymandias." What a wonderful warning against the Greeks' tragic flaw of hubris. The final five lines say it all:
"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Powerful stuff, speaking to the futility of those who are arrogant.
And so many more poems. . . . The anti-war poem, "Similes for Two Political Characters in 1819," which closes with the line:
"Two vipers tangled into one."
I once used one of his poems, "To Sophia [Miss Stacey]," in a letter to a special person in my life at that time.
And, at this point in my life, his lament about aging, "A Lament," takes on some poignancy.
And so on. . . .
This is a special slim little volume that I bought decades ago, but it still resonates.
Nakora
Why publish a book about Shelley with a picture of a much older man on the cover. Or is that a picture of the author? Shelley died young and there are a number of beautiful and realistic portraits of him available to use, so why be so careless with this cover?
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Wasn't what I had expected.
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Jesús Benito, CEO of Iberclear, said: "MyStandards is a key tool for our participants, who in a collaborative way can benefit from a pool of ideas and knowledge, which will be very useful in implementing the specifications of our standards and in preparing for T2S.The service's open and participative format is one of its main strengths".
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This competition is for existing businesses. Start-ups and established business owners are invited to apply. 10 finalists will be chosen to pitch their business ideas to a national audience for three minutes. First, second and third place winners will be selected by a panel of judges.
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In the spring of 1914, as war efforts overseas mounted, local visionaries saw the need for the services of the American Red Cross in the central mountains of the United States. Volunteers organized to make the "Mountain Division of the Red Cross" which covered Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Utah, and on November 11, 1914 the first Red Cross chapter was granted in the Pikes Peak region. Since then, local Red Cross chapters have increased their focus on services for veterans while continuing to provide the life-saving training and disaster relief for which they are most well-known.
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DETROIT >> Wings coach Mike Babcock has been a big fan of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, whose team won its fourth Super Bowl in 14 years on Sunday.
"He wins," Babcock said. "He's a life-long learner. He wins multiple different ways. They change their roster every year. They build their identity based on what their roster is that year. Their offense is always changing. If he has time to plan he has ways to make your offense go away.
DETROIT >> With the NHL trade deadline less than a month away, Wings coach Mike Babcock and general manager Ken Holland met with that in mind Monday at Joe Louis Arena.
"We talked about our team, our minor league team, but this isn't just about the trade deadline," Babcock said. "Ken and I talk every day I think. There are no surprises, he knows what I want. Now in the end can you do what a guy wants? Is it possible or is the cost too great, short term, long term, all those things.
The Wings have 67 points through 50 games and sit a point behind Tampa Bay for first place overall in the Eastern Conference and three points behind Nashville and Anaheim for first overall in the NHL.
The Wings finished fifth overall in the Western Conference that season and fell in five games to Nashville in the first round of the playoffs.
The Wings' most pressing need is a right-handed-shooting defenseman who can play the point on the power play. Two that could be available are Washington's Mike Green or Buffalo's Tyler Meyers, but they're not going to part with any of their top prospects to obtain them.
The Wings have not been a major player during recent trade deadlines and Henrik Zetterberg doesn't see them doing much on or before March 2.
"Everyone knows when the deadline is and there will be some moves, but if you look back in our history, it's not often that something happens," Zetterberg said. "Last year we had a lot of injuries and we made a deal to get (David) Legwand. This year we're healthy so I don't expect us to do much but if something happens it will happen. It's part of the sport and you just deal with it. | Wings goalie Jimmy Howard.
Howard took part in his first practice with the team Tuesday at Joe Louis Arena, albeit splitting time with Tom McCollum, since injuring his groin in the first period Jan. 10 in Washington.
The best news is he has a target date to return, a week from Wednesday on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"I think we're right on schedule of where we want to be," Howard said. "We don't want to push it too soon, but we also don't want to be out longer than I have to be, so we're doing everything I think at the right pace.
Howard will gradually increase the intensity at practices during the Wings' trip to Colorado and Arizona.
"Basically I bag myself out there so the legs and lungs are ready to go," Howard said.
Howard was injured after he gave the puck away behind the net and then lunged his left leg backwards to try and reach the post before Washington's Troy Brouwer scored just 1:53 into the first period.
He was carted off on a stretcher.
Howard is in the midst of having one of his best seasons in Detroit, posting a 16-7-7 record, with a 2.11 goals-against average and .920 save percentage.
He was also the Wings' lone All-Star choice, but could not participate at the event because of the injury.
Despite his absence Detroit has gone 7-1-0 with Petr Mrazek getting the bulk | 307 |
Update: Review by Nonjatta contributor Serge Valentin added. Scroll beneath my sketchy recollections.
I tasked this one in the Blender's Bar. At first, the nose was not very distinctive. To be honest, I can't remember what I made of it and the notes I made are an illegible scrawl. Later, I picked up the glass and got a stink of boiled milk. Like the Miyagikyou 10, it started quietly in the mouth - sweet and fudgy - but quite quickly a harsher soapy taste made its appearance. This didn't overstay its disconcerted welcome and there was a moderate finish, with vanilla and cereals complicating the sweet dried fruits that had been loitering with intent. It didn't have quite the oomph at the finish of the Miyagikyou 10. Although the 12 is a bit more slick in its presentation, I think I would go for its virile younger sibling in a pinch.
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Nose: Rather light, flowery, honeyed and slightly smoky, reminding me a bit of a young Highland Park. Develops on even more honey (heather indeed) and a slight mashiness. Well, this one isn't complex at all but it's nicely balanced and smooth. Inoffensive.
Mouth: Same. Honey and vanilla flavoured toffee, with a little ginger and again a little nutmeg from the wood. Also faintly resin<|fim_middle|> 12 has had relatively little coverage by either Japanese or English speaking reviewers. A 2005 bottling attracted two write ups on the Maltmaniacs.org webpage. Robert Karlsson and and Michel van Meersbergen both quite established reviewers on the site, gave it 81 ("recommendable") and 87 ("highly recommendable") respectively.
On the Japanese web, the Ichiro Akuto blog describes it briefly on this page. He says it is a "lowland type" whisky with a mild, slightly oily, nose developing into an estery, fruity fragrance. The taste is "mild and smooth". | ous. Perfectly quaffable.
Finish: Medium long, on the same flavours. Excellent malt to pour your neighbours if you see what I mean ('What, you say the Japanese make whiskey? And not bad at that!') 80 points."
Although quite widely distributed, at least in Japan, the Miyagikyou | 67 |
The kite, a Chinese invention, has been praised as the forerunner of the modern aeroplane. In the pavilion of aircraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Museum, Washington D. C., a plaque says, "the earliest aircraft are the kites and missiles of China".
The kite is mainly, but not only, a plaything. It has contributed to science and production. The first planes were shaped after the kite. In 1782, Benjamin Franklin, noted American scientist and statesman, studied lightning and thunder in the sky with the help of a kite and then invented the lightning rod. Kites are still used by some fishermen to lay bait in the sea to attract fish, or by photographers to take pictures of bird's-eye view from high altitude.
The earliest Chinese kites were made of wood and called<|fim_middle|>icheng, Nanjing by the rebel troops under Hou Jing, it was by means of a kite that he sent out an S.O.S. message for outside help.
During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), people began to fix on kites some bamboo strips which, when high in the air, would vibrate and ring in the breeze like a zheng (a stringed instrument). Since then, the popular Chinese name for the kite has become fengzheng (wind zheng). The kites made today in certain localities are fixed with silk strings or rubber bands to give out pleasant ringing in the wind.
It was also believed, for instance, during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), that flying a kite and then letting it go, apart from the pleasure in itself, might send off one's bad luck and illness. Consequently it would bring bad luck if one should pick up a kite lost by other people. This may be dismissed as superstition but may not be altogether without reason: think of the good it will do to a person, ill and depressed all the time, if he or she could go out into the fields and fresh air to fly a kite.
Certain enthusiasts enjoy flying kites during the night. They hang small coloured lanterns on the line with candles burning inside, which go up high in the air to decorate the night sky with strings of glimmering lights, adding much to the fun.
Chinese kites fall into two major categories: those with detachable wings and those with fixed wings. The former can be taken apart and packed in boxes. Easy to carry about, they make good presents. The second category refers to those with fixed, non-detachable frames; they fly better and higher , given a steady wind. Classified by designs and other specifications, there are no less than 300 varieties, including human figures, fish, insects, birds, animals and written characters. In size, they range from 304 metres to only 30 centimetres across.
It is no easy job to make a kite that one can be proud of. For the frame, the right kind of bamboo must be selected. It should be thick and strong for a kite of large dimensions in order to stand the wind pressure. For miniature kites, on the other hand , thin bamboo strips are to be used.
The second step in the making of a kite is the covering of the frame. This is normally done with paper, sometimes with silk. Silk kites are more durable and generally of higher artistic value.
Painting of the kite (the third step) may be done in either of two ways. For mass-produced kites, pre-printed paper is used to cover the frames. Custom-made kites are painted manually after covering. Many of the designs bear messages of good luck; a pine tree and a crane, for example, mean longevity, bats and peaches wish you good fortune and a long life, and so on.
In 1983 a large-scale kite-flying competition was held in Tianjin. A "dragon-headed centipede" of a hundred sections, with a total length of a hundred metres, flown up by a squad of 5 or 6 young men of the Tianjin Fine Arts Factory, thrashed and danced about in the air. A Japanese enthusiast sent up a 300-metre-long kite of a string of 270 sections. These and other successes attracted large crowds and won thunderous applause.
The well-known Weifang (Shandong Province) Kite Festival has become an annual feature in the country, drawing hundreds of participants each April from home and many foreign countries.
As early as two dozen years ago, a film entitled The Kite was jointly made by Chinese and French studios, which sings of Sino-French friendship through the "adventures" of a kite. | muyuan (wooden kites); they date as far back as the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) at least two millennia ago. After the invention of paper, kites began to be made of this new material called zhiyuan (paper kites).
Instead of being playthings, early kites were used for military purposes. Historical records say they were large in size; some were powerful enough to carry men up in the air to observe enemy movements, and others were used to scatter propaganda leaflets over hostile forces. According to the Records of Strange Events (Du Yi Zhi), an ancient work, when Xiao Yan, Emperor Wudi (464-549) of the Liang Dynasty, was surrounded at Ta | 158 |
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Honestly, since we moved in, granted yes, weve had a few issues in our apartment but nothing big and the staff and maintenance team are so generous, caring and address everything almost immediately and I couldnt be more thankful. Im so thankful for them and would recommend 10/10.
DO NOT RENT FROM THIS ESTABLISHMENT. Our stove was broken, we called 3 times and they never came to fix it, our door was knocked in, their solution was to put up a thin wood that broke again after a week, THEN we had to deal with a door that was broken for over a week before they came to fix it again, alexis and the girls in the office are some of the rudest, most horrible people Ive ever met and the security and pet deposits dont cover what theyre for, they will try<|fim_middle|> immediately. The Senior Maintenance Tech attacks any problem with a "Whatever it takes to fix it" attitude! The Flats by the pool are scenic and I enjoy grilling outside knowing that nobody ever tampers with my things kept in my outdoor cabinet.
The most impressive example of customer service I can call to memory was in July when my Air Conditioning broke after 8:00 PM on a weekend and it was fixed within an hour. After experiencing the level of personal care afforded to residents here, I just don't want to live anywhere else. | to make you pay more out of pocket before you leave!!!
My lease clearly states that landlord will pay electric and water for duration of my lease. however they never paid any of the utilities putting me out 1400.00.now im facing eviction over one months rent. 650.00. had the landlord paid the utilities like promised in lease,i would have been ble to pay the months rent. very unprofessional.
I have lived at the Summit Ridge apartments several times while being stationed at Fort Sill. I have to say that the staff provide the greatest customer service I have experienced while renting an apartment. I can simply call the office with any problem ranging from a leak to a disturbance and it gets solved | 148 |
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Orlando Magic 102, Miami Heat 69 -- Discussion Thread
By Evan Dunlap Oct 13, 2007, 4:4<|fim_middle|>Equally important to the Magic's success has been their point guard play. Jameer Nelson and Carlos Arroyo have combined to tally 31 assists to just 11 turnovers. Additionally, they've shot 20-of-45 from the field, or 44.4%. In short, they're distributing the ball, not turning it over too much, and shooting well when they do indeed choose to shoot. If they can maintain that level of discipline throughout the season... wow.
It's only the preseason. It's only the preseason. It's only the preseason. It's only the preseason...
Quick box score notes: Dwight Howard was two blocks away from a triple-double; Pat Garrity lead the Magic in field goal attempts; J.J. Redick needed just 6 shots to score 19 points; The two teams combined for 44 turnovers, with Miami's Brian Chase and Devin Green and Orlando's Howard each having 4. | 1pm EDT
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Photo by Steven M. Dowell, the Orlando Sentinel.
The Magic cruised to a big victory over the Heat in a game in which they never trailed. All five starters for the Magic -- Carlos Arroyo, Keith Bogans, Hedo Turkoglu, Pat Garrity (!), and Dwight Howard -- scored in double-figures. J.J. Redick lead all scorers with 19 points off Orlando's bench.
I'm pleased with the victory, but I still can't get too worked up over whooping up on a team playing without four of its five starters. Losing to what amounted to Udonis Haslem and some D-League hopefuls would have been a colossal embarrassment. However, we should be pleased with our hot shooting, especially from three-point range. As Brian Schmitz mentioned in this morning's Sentinel recap, the Magic are shooting 43.9% from that distance so far this preseason. Hopefully that momentum will carry over into the regular season, as the Magic will want to spread the floor to give Dwight Howard more room to operate in the low post.
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How Far Would You Walk To School?
When was the last time you walked to school? When was the last time you walked to work? Today we live in a society where access to transportation is better and easier taking us wherever we dream of going. We can travel to distant lands and explore the world but we must not forget what it was like to walk for long distances before cars, trains or any other means of transportation was invented.
Travelling the world or driving to a store, was non- existent in my mother's school days. She attended school in Githumu, Kenya (a rural village) where she grew up, and had to walk 6km every day to and from school. This was not easy because she had to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to do chores and be<|fim_middle|> strokes to the hand. From making breakfast to fetching water from a nearby stream, she had chores to do in the morning and most of the time she had no one to help her. Her morning commute was walking down valleys, through bushes and going under barbed wire fences, as she braved the cold morning weather. The rainy season made her walk to school more difficult because the paths would either get muddy or flood, which would force her to walk barefoot so as to prevent her shoes from getting damaged. "In those days it was not scary walking by yourself because the village did not have any crime," she said. The only fear was walking in the dark early in the morning or encountering wild animals, which was rare.
When she came home from school, there were still more chores to do and homework to study. It was the typical chores needed to be done before doing homework. By the time she got down to study, she was hungry and tired, and could barely read the assignment using a kerosene lamp. "There was no electricity but you still had to do your homework," she said. Unless the school had the facilities for study rooms, students like my mother did their homework at home with little to no light.
Attending school in my mother's days was very hard and still is for many students today. The average walking distance for students is 5-6km but it depends on where you live because the schools that provide better quality education might be very far, even if there is a school closer to home. Like the girl in the photo walking to school, my mother's story portrays the challenges that many children living in rural villages continue to face today just to get an education. If you were one of them, how far would you walk to have access to quality education? | in school by 7am, or else be punished with 11 | 15 |
Understanding the federal government's changes to its carbon tax plan
This comes in the middle of an escalating spat over carbon pricing between the federal Liberals and some provinces, and a trade war with the U.S.
Tyler Dawson
The federal government posted some long-awaited details of its carbon-tax system last week, and they included significant changes from its original proposal. At their root, the tweaks are designed to reduce the carbon tax's impact on heavy industry by increasing subsidies on production, which the government hopes will keep businesses from abandoning Canada for countries with lower taxes, or without carbon taxes.
While the carbon tax will affect all of Canadian industry, the most significant changes affect just four sectors: steel and iron, lime, nitrogen fertilizers and cement. As well, the changes will apply only to provinces that haven't come up with their own carbon-reduction schemes or that request it from Ottawa.
However, the announcement comes in the middle of an escalating spat over carbon pricing between the federal Liberals and some provincial governments, and a trade war with the United States that has the potential to have far-reaching consequences for the Canadian economy.
Here's what's new with the carbon tax, what it means, and why you should care.
What exactly has the government announced here?
Basically, Ottawa is increasing its subsidy to heavy industries that emit high levels of pollutants and that, under a system where those emissions will be taxed, it judged to be at a competitive risk vis-à-vis their competitors in other countries.
It is not actually lowering the rate of the proposed carbon tax.
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The industrial carbon tax system works like this: a facility is taxed on each tonne of carbon it emits, but there's a subsidy a facility can get from the government to offset production costs (how much it costs to make a widget.) It's calculated in a tremendously complicated fashion, which Jennifer Winter, a University of Calgary economics professor, kindly explained to the Post.
The government takes an industry emissions standard, calculated by how many emissions are made per widget produced and issues credits based upon that standard, explained Winter. Those credits were going to be set at 70 per cent of industry standard. The revised proposal<|fim_middle|> as a backstop.
Subsidy or not, that battle will still be raging in courtrooms and in legislatures across the country.
Is this basically all about Donald Trump?
Maybe. One of the major difficulties in implementing a carbon tax in Canada will be is that our closest neighbour and biggest trading partner has no nationwide price on carbon. That means the big concern for policymakers is that Canadian businesses won't be able to keep up with their competitors south of the border.
"We don't want to drive industry out of our country," environment minister Catherine McKenna said on Wednesday, as she justified the policy to reporters.
Economist Blake Shaffer described the changes as "smart policy" given the situation in the U.S. and other competing markets.
There's been no hint of action on climate change from the Trump administration or from Republicans in Congress and the U.S. government recently passed a massive corporate tax cut. On top of that, Trump introduced tariffs on Canadian goods going to the U.S. and has threatened to impose massive import taxes on automobiles.
Canada's steel industry — one of the first targets of Trump's protectionist ire — is one of the few industries earmarked for an increased subsidy. A spokesperson for McKenna said the steel industry faced a heightened trade exposure "with or without tariffs."
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Most Read on LFP | would set them at 90 per cent for the four heavy industries mentioned above. Basically, it increases the credits available to industry, indirectly subsidizing production costs. For other industries, it has gone from 70 per cent to 80 per cent.
Those credits reduce the carbon tax payments those industries will need to make, and will be able be banked against future carbon emissions or sold to other firms. Companies won't actually get cash from the government, Winter said.
"The whole point of the subsidy is to ensure that firms facing carbon tax don't need to increase their price all that much because their average production costs, given the subsidy, don't rise all that much," said University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
The idea is that if a company can increase the gap between its carbon tax cost and its production (ie., produce the same number of widgets — or more widgets — with fewer emissions) then it has found a way to both help the environment and pay less carbon tax. In the end, the point of the subsidy (and its increase) is "to prevent leakage of economic activity elsewhere," said Winter.
So are the Liberals essentially walking back their carbon tax plan?
Academics spent Wednesday shouting themselves hoarse on Twitter: No, they aren't, because the tax and the credit are two different levers the government has. The carbon tax remains the same per tonne of carbon emitted, so industry still has the incentive to emit less.
The credits subsidize the production costs of widgets. What this should do is ensure companies don't attempt to emit less, thereby reducing carbon tax payments by way of producing fewer widgets.
Okay. Does this affect me?
Not really, unless you're a steel producer. This is a separate carbon tax from the one you'll see at the gas pumps. But it's still important.
Will this affect the fight between the federal government and the provinces opposed to the carbon tax?
Not in any direct way, but the move has given rhetorical ammunition to some of the anti-carbon tax premiers. As news of the policy spread, Wednesday Prairie politicians pulled out their iPhones and fired a few salvos at Ottawa.
Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe tweeted that, by increasing subsidies, the government was essentially admitting the carbon tax will dampen Canadian competitiveness and hurt the economy.
Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta's opposition United Conservative Party, said it was a "major development," tweeting that the federal government's announcement was a sign that the "resistance from the provinces" was starting to work.
The background to all this: in April, the Saskatchewan government launched a constitutional challenge of the federal carbon tax, arguing it infringed on provincial jurisdiction over natural resources.
If Kenney triumphs in next year's provincial election — and polls consistently show UCP support around 50 per cent — he says he will join Saskatchewan in the fight against the feds. On Twitter, Kenney stressed that he was focused on how the carbon affected things like home heating and gas bills, and not heavy emitters.
Recently-elected Ontario premier Doug Ford is winding down that province's cap-and-trade system and has vowed to fight any attempt by the federal government to install the carbon tax | 648 |
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SEA's VC landscape will soon get more specialised, says ADB Ventures
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Daniel Hersson, Senior Fund Manager at ADB Ventures
Climate change is a reality and the issue warrants urgent attention.
While it is heartening to see many private organisations, celebrities and governments in the Western world come forward with different solutions to address the issue, Asia remains a laggard here.
Perhaps, technology could play a major role in the fight against climate change in this region. For this to happen, startups working for this cause need to be mentored and funded.
ADB Ventures, the impact investment arm of Manila-based Asian Development Bank, is one of the handful of VCs in the region to launch a dedicated fund to back startups, which are making an impact.
In this interview with e27, Daniel Hersson, Senior Fund Manager at ADB Ventures, discusses how the VC firm is striving to make a difference in the region.
Edited excerpts:
How is your investment model different from a traditional VC investor?
We invest in early-stage tech startups that can deliver both financial returns and significant impact. To achieve this, however, we partner and co-invest with both traditional and more impact-focused VCs.
In contrast to most other investors, we have a wide regional reach and strong relationships with governments, large corporates, and financial institutions across Asia.
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We are trying to leverage these unique networks to help entrepreneurs reduce the barriers to access new markets and accelerate their growth. We also bring a lot of credibility to the startups and other investors in terms of our strong focus on impact and development.
ADB Ventures has two investment activities. First, through our main fund, we provide equity capital to early-stage tech startups, similar to other VCs. Our focus is on seed and series A – and, occasionally, later stage. The average initial check size is US$1-2 million.
The impact VC firm also<|fim_middle|> on seed and Series A.
We also need to recognise that there is still an imbalance in where the VC capital in the region is flowing. While overall regional VC investment has grown exponentially, it is still concentrated in relatively few sectors and a relatively few countries. We still have a long way to go.
I think the regional VC landscape will soon get more specialised, similar to what we have seen in a more mature startup ecosystem. Specialist funds focusing on, for example, agritech, logistics, and fintech are already emerging.
We are also seeing some new regional impact VC funds emerging, which is great. We will still have generalist VCs, but I suspect those funds will be relatively fewer, cross-regional, and a lot bigger.
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© 2022 © 2020, asiaconflicts.com All rights reserved | About Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | provides smaller funding, usually to very early-stage tech companies, structured as reimbursable grants. This allows us to engage with entrepreneurs at a very early stage before we potentially make a larger investment.
You support companies tackling climate challenges. Do you have a specific area of interest in this particular vertical?
We target solutions for both climate mitigation and climate resilience. This covers a broad range of sectors and sub-sectors, including clean energy, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, agriculture, and some fintech and health tech solutions, which can play a key role in strengthening Asia's resilience to climate change.
However, within these sectors, we see certain pockets where we think there is significant opportunity for both climate impact and financial returns.
For example, we believe that there is a huge potential in digitalising the way we develop and manage traditional infrastructure. This could lead to both significant climate benefits as well as cost savings.
Likewise, in many industries, we believe we have now reached a point where it is possible to replace traditional materials with new alternative materials that are not just greener but also better and, importantly, more cost-efficient.
Crucially, these solutions have to deliver both significant benefits — significant climate impact and financial ones to the customer. Otherwise, it will not reach the scale required to have a meaningful impact and deliver our targeted financial returns.
Are you also looking at electric vehicles, an industry that has been receiving huge attention of late?
We think electric vehicles (EVs) will have a very significant impact. It goes beyond just replacing traditional combustion engine vehicles. EVs are much more flexible in terms of their design, charging, and even financing. This could redefine the way n we think about mobility in Asia and will open a lot of new investment opportunities.
Just the other week, we announced an investment in Euler Motors, a potentially disruptive Indian EV manufacturer that is seeking to transform last-mile logistics. We believe companies like this have massive potential, not just in India but across Asia.
While ADB is mainly focused on providing loans to the government or big corporates, the VC arm is focused on providing early-stage equity funding. Why don't you also provide debt to startups?
Our focus is on backing high-risk, early-stage Asian startups with potentially disruptive solutions. These entrepreneurs need access to equity capital, ideally patient, as they are yet – and it will take some time – to reach a stable level of positive cash flow. We want to see more of these high-risk startups in Asia.
However, in Asia, particularly for impact-oriented tech startups, there is still a significant gap in equity funding. So, we believe we play a critical role in helping to fill this gap.
Having said that, we also believe that there is a need for more flexible debt in the market. For startups, there is a gap between equity funding and traditional bank financing that needs to be bridged. Even startups with more mature and proven solutions with a strong customer pipeline can often not access affordable debt.
This is holding back their growth and their impact. We need to find solutions to help them transition more quickly from equity-fuelled growth to more leveraged growth.
Also Read: What is Impact Investing?
That is why we are raising a second fund, which will tackle this particular market gap. We aspire to launch a US$100 million+ debt fund targeting tech startups that are slightly further along the commercialisation lifecycle. We are still in the early stages of setting up and fundraising for this fund.
The plan is to have it up and running sometime next year.
How do you evaluate a startup for investment? What are the key factors that you look for in your potential investees?
In many ways, we evaluate startups similarly to a typical VC. Since we invest in early-stage companies operating in emerging markets, we believe that a strong and hungry team, ideally with some experience, is critical. We put a lot of effort into assessing these aspects and getting to know the team before we invest.
Another key aspect that we look for is a solution that can solve a real and a big problem and that can move the needle. We like solutions that change the life of the customer.
We are also often looking at certain minimum market size. A solution may address a similar problem across several countries or a very large problem in a larger country. That's how we get the impact we want, but also the returns.
Of course, we will also look for a good product, a good technology, a good business model, good initial traction, etc. But we are conscious that many of these factors will evolve, particularly in more emerging markets.
Besides, we look at two other critical aspects. The first is the potential impact. We try to assess what the impact could be if the company is successful and the solution is deployed at scale. While the main focus is on assessing the climate impact, we also consider aspects like gender impact.
We integrate impact across the investment life-cycle, from the screening and evaluation stage, to how we structure the investments, and support and monitor our portfolio companies.
The other critical lens is how we can add value. We look for companies and sectors where we believe we can add significant and disproportionate value by leveraging our relationships, our access to people, and access to other sources of financing. If we don't think we can add that value, we will not invest.
How do you measure impact for your portfolio companies? Do you see a correlation between impact and profitability?
Our investment thesis is based on the correlation between impact, profitability, and our returns. We are targeting startups whose core business is highly impactful. In those cases, there is no or limited trade-off. If the company grows exponentially, there will be exponential impact – and we will also get our financial returns.
Of course, you can have growth without impact, and you can also have impact without growth, but that is not in our investment scope.
Impact, as described earlier, is integral to our investment approach and something we consider at each step. However, measuring impact from early-stage technology companies is slightly different from measuring impact from more traditional infrastructure investment.
Many of the startups we back are developing enabling technologies and services. The impact of these solutions is often harder to measure directly but can often be much more significant. It is also hard to know what kind of products and business model a company will have three years down the line, so we need to have some flexibility in that sense.
What does excite you the most about South and Southeast Asian startup scenes? Apart from mobility, which other verticals are you seeing a great potential?
The regional startup ecosystem has evolved significantly in the last 10-20 years, not only in places like India but also in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. There is now a rapidly growing pool of young entrepreneurial talent that simply did not exist before. Many of them gained their experience by helping scale the first wave of regional unicorns like gojek, Flipkart, Lazada, etc.
We are now also seeing some of these entrepreneurs moving into sectors that can have a significant impact. This is exciting.
We see significant opportunities across many sectors. Agriculture is a massive and still largely untapped opportunity, even if it can be very challenging. This includes everything from how we produce food to how we supply it in a much more efficient and climate-smart way.
We also believe there is a lot of room to shake up more traditional sectors, including digitalisation and modernisation of the construction industry and the manufacturing industry.
A good example is our recent investment in Smart Joules. They are combining smart digital technologies and efficient equipment with financial innovation to help significantly reduce energy use in existing commercial buildings. This opportunity exists across Asia.
There used to be a Series A/B crunch in Asia earlier, and now this crunch is in Series C/D stages. What does this indicate? Is it a positive signal? And what does it mean for the region's startup ecosystem?
I think it is a natural and important evolution. One positive take from the Series C/D crunch is that you now have a pool of companies that reached a stage where they are ready and need such funding. So I wouldn't see it as a negative. I think it's just the evolving nature of any startup ecosystem.
It is not just in Asia, but even developed countries have periods when there is a lot of early-stage funding, followed by a period of more later-stage funding. Then it swings back.
Also Read: What do I need to know as a first-time impact investor?
Of course, this means that we need more regional late-stage investors. To some extent, it's already happening. Some of the VCs that raised funds five-six years ago are now raising much larger funds. The average ticket size is also going up.
So I think the series C/D crunch will be addressed by the market over time. If there are good opportunities, capital tends to follow.
However, it is important that we also keep feeding the pool of new early-stage companies. So, we need to continue to also focus | 1,823 |
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Hearing tests are painless and non-invasive. The purpose of a hearing test is to determine if you have a hearing loss, and how mild or severe it is. At O'Grady's Hearing Services we offer a Free Hearing Test so that we can advise you on whether hearing aids are a suitable solution for you.
O'Grady's Hearing is guaranteed to provide you with expertise and advice on the very latest hearing instruments and aids suitable for you. O'Grady's pride themselves on their comprehensive aftercare which is provided to each individual client thereby giving you complete peace of mind for your hearing.
I have been a customer of Gerard O'Grady's for over twenty years, I would like to thank Gerard and his team not only for his help in purchasing my hearing aids but also for the excellent aftercare service that he provides. For example recently one of my hearing aids was damaged and needed repair, I posted them for repair on a Monday and it was swiftly returned by the Thursday. In my opinion Gerard and his team are the best hearing care services around and I would heartily recommend them to anyone in need of hearing care services.
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I have been a customer of O'Grady's for the past 10 years. He is so helpful in making sure that you get the best possible hearing aid for your hearing loss and lifestyle. I have purchased 2 new hearing aids and he was so professional and friendly in setting them up to suit my needs. Being a musician and piano teacher, I had a lot of demands on my hearing aids. Mr O'Grady was so understanding and didn't mind how often I had to see him, to get them just right for me. I found time is very important in adjusting to new aids. I found my brain needed to get used to, and understand sounds, and I also needed to learn to listen properly. Now I enjoy life so much. I'm accepting all invitations and I'm not nervous of meeting new people or noisy | 583 |
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IR Star Conservative of the Week Winnebago County's Jan Klaas
When President George W. Bush landed at Chicago's O'Hare to spend two days celebrating his 60th birthday, newly-elected Winnebago County GOP Chairman Jan Klaas (pictured right) was one of the first to wish him a happy birthday. She, along with a few other distinguished conservatives -- including last week's IR Star Conservative Ruth O'Connell (pictured left) -- was given the distinct honor of greeting Illinois' special guest upon his arrival.
Jan and her husband Craig, residents of Rockford area's Cherry Valley, decided years ago -- before it was as acceptable as it is today -- to homeschool their kids. As the number of Rockford families making the same decision increased, Jan and others organized a local homeschooling group that grew to hundreds of families.
All<|fim_middle|> elected as Winnebago County's GOP Chairman and her exceptional work has been already noticed as she was asked to greet the President last week.
We, too, want to honor Jan Klaas for her longtime service to Illinois conservatives.
She is Illinois Review's Star Conservative of the Week. . . | the while, Jan expanded her interest in conservative issues under the tutelage of Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum and with the encouragement of close co-hort Wendy Owano, the two became active in Winnebago County Republicans.
This past March, Jan was | 55 |
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Steinbrenner Field Renovations: A Sneak Peek
October 6, 2016 in Grapefruit League Teams, New York Yankees
This offseason will see some major changes in the Grapefruit League made for spring training 2017. Today we have some new information about the Steinbrenner Field renovations, sure to please New York Yankees fans.
If you've been to Steinbrenner Field in recent years, you know that the Yankees spring training experience has been mixed: the ballpark, once one of the best in Florida, had been eclipsed by newer and renovated ballparks like Hammond Stadium and JetBlue Park. Fans were expected to stay nine innings in their seats, group spaces were limited at best, and the suites were old and dull.
The Steinbrenner Field renovations this offseason address these shortcomings, adding a slew of upscale amenities, including new loge boxes, cabanas (!), suite upgrades, a right-field beachside bar and more. Here's a list of the upgrades from the Yankees.
Click on the rendering for a larger version.
Loge Boxes, Down First- and Third-Base Lines
Semi-private open-aired boxes available on a full-season basis.
Canopies provide the ultimate shaded area to enjoy baseball.
Access to the premium lounge, located on the upper level of the first-base and third-base Bullpen Clubs.
All-inclusive food & beverage service, including beer, wine, soda and water. Premium alcohol is a la carte.
Designed for groups of 10 or more.
This shaded private area is located in the right-field alley and in close proximity to the right-field pavilion.
This will be available for full season, partial plans and for group outings.
Right-Field Pavilion
The newly enhanced Right-Field Pavilion adds the comfort and shade of a beachside bar to Steinbrenner Field.
Pavilion buyers will have access to a pre-game buffet and two free drink tickets that can be used at the Right-Field bar.
The pavilion can accommodate groups of 20-500 comfortably.
This is available for group purchasers and also individual game sales.
Left-Field Deck
This group party area is an enclosed and shaded left-field deck.
Deck purchasers will have access will have access to a pre-game buffet and two free drink tickets.
Group sizes of 20-100 can easily be accommodated.
Bullpen Clubs: Both First- and Third-Base Lines
Bi-level clubs located down each line.
The upper level has a shaded, private bar area exclusive to Loge Box holders, Club Seat members, and Private Groups.
The lower level is a full bar open to any patron with a ticket to that day's game
Renderings courtesy New York Yankees and Populous.
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An Official Stamp?
Linda S. Lawson February 1, 2003 December 11<|fim_middle|> | , 2008 67
When 112,000 newly-minted M.B.A. graduates seek employment this year, they will face the fiercest competition in a decade. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council, job placement rates for M.B.A. graduates are down 21% from 2001. But the International Certification Institute, a North Carolina-based company, says it is giving candidates an edge by offering the pilot M.B.A. certification exam this spring.
The founders of the Institute, Dr. Bernard Beatty, a professor at Wake Forest University, and Michael Mebane, a retired business executive, believe the test will benefit employers by offering an indication of how well potential employees grasp fundamental business skills. Unlike other certification tests, such as the CPA or Bar Exam, there is no accrediting body administering the exam, nor is it mandatory to pass the exam in order to practice within the business profession.
According to Mebane, 135 M.B.A. course directors were enlisted to critique and comprise testing questions based on courses required for business school accreditation. The exam covers 10 areas: financial management, accounting, macro and microeconomics, marketing, operations management, finance, strategy, quantitative analysis, and organizational behavior. Its impending implementation has spurred a growing debate, particularly among business schools, about its effectiveness.
Anjani Jain, vice dean and director of the graduate division of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, doesn't believe any test can fully quantify knowledge.
"My belief is that to think of the M.B.A. as a credential measured by some bar-type exam is a rather narrow view of the educational experience," he says. "I think that employers appreciate the caliber and knowledge of our students and are not likely to place much weight on the proposed certification."
Mark Rice, dean of Babson College's graduate school of business, agrees — to a point, having taken a number of certification exams. "The good thing is that they say this person has at least a minimal level of knowledge about this professional discipline," he explains. "The certification, however, says nothing about your real capacity to use that knowledge. And so the danger is for certification to be taken as evidence of competence."
Lesser-known business schools, proponents of the exam, view it as an opportunity to quantify their M.B.A. program against others. "It is the great equalizer," says Dr. Benjamin Ola Akande, dean of business and technology at Webster University. "At the end of the day, the test measures whether you have sufficient knowledge of your curriculum regardless of whether you attended Savannah College, Webster, Harvard, or Yale. It is an added level of validation that will at least give an indicator of what your abilities are."
While Mebane says their upcoming exams include students from 23 of the top 30 business schools, he too believes second- and third-tier schools have the most to gain.
"We hear the concerns about the value of the M.B.A.," says Mebane. "Personal circumstances don't allow many to attend a high-end school. This addresses their needs and gives them an opportunity to differentiate themselves."
Ultimately, employers will decide the test's viability. It is still too early to determine whether businesses will
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A (mostly) vegetarian who balances her sweet tooth with a love of hiking and yoga. Needs a daily peanut butter fix.
As the digital nutrition & news editor for EatingWell.com, Lisa Valente is passionate about communicating the latest nutrition science and trends in a clear, concise and relatable way with a goal of balancing nutrition with realism and deliciousness. She also helps<|fim_middle|> include: Tofu Stroganoff, Winter Salad with Halloumi "Croutons" and Roasted Cauliflower & Potato Curry Soup. Born and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Lisa credits New York for her serious love of pizza and bagels. Growing up, you could always find Lisa on the volleyball court or the ski slopes. Thrilled to call Vermont home once again, she loves being outdoors in the mountains and sunshine as much as possible. Don't be surprised if you find her snuggled up with her puppy or a good book in front of the fireplace.
Listening to your body and eating foods that you enjoy and make you feel good.
• Good Balsamic Vinegar: Homemade salad dressings are a must and balsamic is my favorite.
• Good Olive Oil: I practically start every recipe with this, plus it's the other half of my homemade salad dressing.
• Peanut Butter: My favorite toast topper (or just straight from the spoon!).
I'll typically make a pesto pasta dish with whatever vegetables are in the fridge or a big stir-fry. Or it's grilled cheese and soup from the freezer.
Red wine and dark chocolate—two healthy indulgences I have no trouble committing to!
I make this Seeded Whole-Grain Quick Bread all the time. I usually double the recipe, slice, then freeze for a healthy on-the-go breakfast option: toasted and topped with a schmear of peanut butter and drizzle of honey. | set and uphold brand nutrition standards and guide recipe development from a nutrition and health perspective. You can find Lisa sharing her knowledge in an array of EatingWell video content, from Facebook Live segments to a series highlighting the healthiest options to eat while on the road. She joined EatingWell in 2013 as associate nutrition editor for the magazine.
Lisa studied at the University of Vermont, where she completed her undergraduate studies in nutrition, food science and dietetics, and attended the dietetic internship program at Massachusetts General Hospital to become a registered dietitian. She went on to earn a master's degree in nutrition communication from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Prior to EatingWell, Lisa worked as a research dietitian at Griffin Hospital in Connecticut and also taught cooking and nutrition classes. She was a featured speaker at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics annual Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) in 2017.
A vegetarian since 2005 (though she'll occasionally eat seafood), some of Lisa's favorite vegetarian recipes from EatingWell | 219 |
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When does worship begin? 10:30 a.m.
Where are you located? Our address is 800 Lawrenceville Highway, which is approximately 1.5 miles west of the center of downtown Lawrenceville, and 1.5 miles east of the intersection of Lawrenceville Hwy. & Lawrenceville-Suwan<|fim_middle|> are welcome to Christ's Table.
Who may be baptized? Both believers and their children. We believe that the baptism of children witnesses to the truth that God's love claims people before they are able to respond in faith. The church is asked to serve as a family of faith, and promises to provide nurture and guidance to all who are baptized.
Do I need to be re-baptized into the Presbyterian church? No- we believe in one Baptism and acknowledge all who have been baptized with water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. | ee Rd.
What is the style of worship? Worship at Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church is traditional and consistent with the Reformed tradition. Hymns from the 16th to the 21st century are played primarily through the organ and piano – with occasional brass, stings and percussion – that encourage congregational participation and singing. We strive to connect all generations to a God who creates, forgives, liberates, redeems, and loves. The congregation participates in worship through Word, sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, prayer, music, and song. The Lord's Supper is offered the first Sunday of each month, and Baptism upon the request of member families.
Is LPC a conservative or liberal church? As with most PC(USA) churches, ours does not identify with or endorse a political party or ideology. At the same time, we do not shy away from difficult topics; we are are advocates of God's justice, equality, and peace. We believe that the Gospel identifies with current events and modern concerns; sermons are preached "with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other." We encourage faithful discipleship and critical thinking.
Who is welcome? Everyone- no exceptions. Our church is diverse and inclusive; some members were born and raised in Lawrenceville and others have moved from as far away as West Africa. Women, men, and members of the LGBTQ community – young and old – are ordained as teaching and ruling elders in the PC(USA). We welcome long-time Christians as well as spiritual seekers. We welcome those of no belief, those who doubt, and those who long for something more.
How long is worship? About an hour; worship typically concludes at or near 11:30.
Is there a dress code? No. Some men wear suits, and some golf shirts. Some women wear dresses, some don't. We do not care about your outer appearance, but who you are as a person and as a child of God!
What about children? A nursery for newborns- toddlers is provided. Children ages 3- 6 sit with their parents until the Children's Message that takes place near the table. Afterwards, they are invited to attend Children's Worship led by volunteers until worship concludes, but are welcome to remain with parents or grandparents for the entire service.
But what does this church do? To name just a few things: We are involved in the community through our financial and hands-on support of the Lawrenceville Co-Op (a local food pantry), Family Promise (we join other congregations in hosting homeless families), and the Hope Clinic (who provides support to the uninsured and under-insured). Our youth go on local and regional mission trips. We also support the Alliance for International Reforestation (AIR) Guatemala, building clean-burning stoves and planting trees towards efforts of reforestation; we alternate years, sending people one year and resources the next.
How does LPC receive new members? We receive new members through profession of faith (usually for those new to the faith), reaffirmation of faith (usually for those who have not been active for some time), and transfer of church letter (for those moving their membership from another church). LPC receives new members every two-three months. Please speak to Pastor Ryan Jensen to learn more: ryan@lawrencevillepresbyterian.org.
Want to learn more? Come check us out on Sunday or make an appointment with the pastor. If you are open to a conversation, he would love to meet with you after worship, treat you to lunch, or just meet over a cup of coffee at a local coffee shop.
Who may receive communion? All the baptized faithful | 750 |
Q: How to get all strings that do not contain a word at the end? I have 3 strings:
'Table 1.1 - JDH'
'Table 2.<|fim_middle|> - Blahblahblah
| 3.4 - continued'
'Table 1.1 - Blahblahblah'
I need to catch only 2 string by findall():
[('Table 1.1', ' - JDH)]
[('Table 1.1', ' - Blahblahblah)]
My regex str in Python 3 is:
'(Table [\.\d]+)^(.+continued)'
But it does not work, tell me how it is right?
A: the pattern ^(.+continued) doesn't match what you want, the ^ is the begin of line anchor and will fail at that point. You need
((?!.*continued$).+) instead. which matches .+ with the assertion doesn't end with continue.
A: You could use
^(?!.*continued$).+
That is
^ # start of line
(?!.*continued$) # neg. lookahead
.+ # match 1+ characters
See a demo on regex101.com.
In Python:
import re
strings = ['Table 1.1 - JDH', 'Table 2.3.4 - continued', 'Table 1.1 - Blahblahblah']
rx = re.compile(r'^(?!.*continued$).+')
filtered = [string for string in strings if rx.search(string)]
print(filtered)
A: Using endswith
a = ['Table 1.1 - JDH', 'Table 2.3.4 - continued', 'Table 1.1 - Blahblahblah']
for i in a:
if not i.endswith("continued"):
print(i)
Output:
Table 1.1 - JDH
Table 1.1 | 348 |
The goal of this Association, like most, was to attract and retain members by providing them something of great value to help their member's businesses grow.
To achieve this, IntoResults set up a duplicate IntoResults site for them and re-branded it with their Association's colours and images.<|fim_middle|> long to set up - they attracted a lot of members and made additional money.
Members found that their marketing was easy and very fast to set up, with many of the strategies being able to set on automatic mode. This meant that much of their marketing didn't take a lot of time to maintain.
Amazing results from this new service flowed on to members and this in turn benefited the Association. So the good news was 'all around' positive success and satisfying results. | They then helped this Association build up a stock of articles, e-cards, vouchers, images, sales letters and surveys that would be valuable to their members.
Most of their members were in the financial industry and were very challenged by marketing. They were unsure what to do and how to do it and generally the quality and effectiveness of what they did produce was low and therefore they didn't get the required results.
Once they realised that the Association had done most of the work for them by producing all these templates and samples, they jumped at the chance to join the service, because most of the time all they had to do was schedule the date for the material to go out.
Because this Association was facilitating a solution for their members' biggest challenge (effective marketing), and because it didn't take the Association | 160 |
Bloggers Work – And Socialize – Inside Denver's "Big Tent"
By Brian Montopoli
August 26, 2008 / 2:53 PM / CBS News
<|fim_middle|>opoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.com. | (DENVER) A few blocks from the Pepsi Center on Tuesday afternoon, about a hundred bloggers were gathered inside "The Big Tent," a two-story, white tent set up for bloggers to use during the Democratic National Convention.
Jen Bruenjes, a contributing editor at the liberal blog Daily Kos, one of the tent's three primary sponsors, said about 500 bloggers had been credentialed to work out of the space; they paid $100 for the privilege, and in exchange got two meals a day, free wi-fi ("a bigger wireless network than the Denver airport," Bruenjes said), free beer, and the company of their peers.
"We did this to create a resource for bloggers and new media," said Bruenjes, who did much of the work to organize the tent. "The feedback that we got from 2004 was that much of the convention stuff was actually really boring. And we wanted to create a place where we could gather and work and mingle."
(CBS/Brian Montopoli)
The convention's host committee, she said, welcomed the effort to set up the tent.
"It was a relief valve for them," said Bruenjes. "They didn't have the resources to accommodate the number of bloggers that wanted to come to Denver."
Josh Kalven, a blogger with Progress Illinois, said the situation for bloggers in Denver was a substantial improvement over the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004.
"The degree of blogger access and hospitality towards bloggers definitely exceeds the last time around," he said. "It's definitely a testament to the way the medium pervades the political debate. "
The majority of the bloggers in the tent are liberal, though Bruenjes says there are a handful of conservatives credentialed. On the second floor, there is a stage set up where speakers hold court each day, discussing topics like the importance of independent journalism.
Cary Wilson, who blogs at Democratic Underground under the name Hissyspit, compared the Big Tent favorably to the blogger lounge set up inside the Pepsi Center area – where there wasn't working wi-fi access when he visited yesterday.
"The Big Tent's great," he said. "It's kind of a central working point. It could be bigger. But it's a rather happening place. You meet lots of fellow bloggers, and get tips on where things are happening."
As for the efforts of the Democratic Party to accommodate bloggers at the convention, Wilson echoed the prevailing attitude in the room.
"I think they've come a long way," he said. "And could go a lot further too."
Brian Mont | 533 |
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