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The world of national politics made its presence known at Yankee Stadium on Sunday when a pro-Donald Trump banner was unfurled "Trump 2020" on the railing of the upper deck in right field.
The "Trump 2020" banner was unfurled by<|fim_middle|> during the 2016 election. | fans during the eighth inning of the Yankees' win over the Kansas City Royals. Photographs of the banner not surprisingly began to surface shortly afterward on social media.
It remains unclear at this time how long the banner was allowed to be displayed, nor how the fans managed to sneak it into the ballpark.
Trump of course has not fostered an antagonistic relationship with Major League Baseball, which stands in stark contrast to the frequent war of words he has waged with the NFL, and to a lesser extent, the NBA, during his presidency. That aside, Yahoo notes that Yankee Stadium is a somewhat surprising place to see a pro-Trump banner, as the President only garnered five percent of the vote in the Bronx | 140 |
Discussion in 'Health & Wellness' started by Chas Hankins, Mar 13, 2019.
My bunny Willow is<|fim_middle|> looks wrong, can't really say why", and learning about health assessments and distress indicators so that you can say "this mouse is displaying mildly ruffled fur and some degree of lethargy, but is still alert and responsive, likely indicating some physical pain but no major illness".
So: you believe your rabbits like being put on their back. What are you basing your assessment that they like it on? We often have to be careful to not view our animals' behaviours though human perspectives. For example, the viral "guilty look" in dogs is used by many people as an actual indicator of wrongdoing, despite a study done by Horowitz actually entirely debunking the idea that the behaviour is at all associated with disobedience. In fact the study found that dogs are more likely to display the guilty look when they have done nothing wrong and are being falsely accused, and don't show it at all if they have disobeyed but the owner has no awareness of this.
But because the behaviour resembles human guilty behavior, people have anthropomorphized it and don't critically analyze the triggers and causes.
Rabbit body language is so different from human or even dog body language that it's quite hard to objectively assess their enjoyment of something. Knowing that tonic immobility is an established phenomenon, how can you tell the difference between a rabbit that is frightened of one that is enjoying themselves?
If you try to flip a rabbit on their back and they struggle and keep flipping themselves over, of course they're not enjoying it. But if you flip them over and they stay that way, breathing slowly and completely relaxing their muscles... that's what tonic immobility is. The only reason we now definitely know it's actually a bad thing is because the hormones produced in this state were analyzed and identified as hormones associated with fear and stress, not calm and relaxation.
You can't even really try and rate avoidance behaviour like we normally would (I know Lahi hated the experience of meds because previously he came to recognize the oral syringe and flee when he saw me get it out) because we know that a rabbit put into tonic immobility on a frequent basis becomes more prone to it, and instead of fleeing a stressful situation they become more likely to enter tonic immobility instead. Tonic immobility is at its core a survival behaviour of prey species (chickens actually do the same thing if you hold them upside down by their feet), and so the more the rabbit experiences it the more it becomes hardwired as a behaviour that successfully ensures survival.
This means that I successfully trained Lahi to eat things that I give to him by bothering him until he ate it. When Delilah first came to me she would react to syringes by tucking her face down and avoiding it. Lahi has been taught that things will stop getting shoved in his face if he eats whatever it is, and so his reaction to a syringe is to start furiously gnawing on it. This is called negative reinforcement: increasing a desired behaviour by removing a negative stimulus.
This is also why your car beeps at you until you put your seatbelt on. Negative reinforcement!
So the issue with tonic immobility is that a rabbit is experiencing a cause-and-effect of being put down after they go limp and stop struggling. Since things like clipping nails are not something you can opt out of doing, a rabbit struggling won't achieve their desired effect of making the unpleasant experience stop, and so they learn to stop struggling. That doesn't mean they like it.
When handling animals, we consistently reinforce passively accepting unpleasant things we do to them, simply through whatever we're doing being over when they cooperate. Struggling doesn't make us stop. (This is also why a dog should never be punished for growling—if growling doesn't make people back off, and they are punished for growling, they now have no resort to warn people that they feel threatened and so go straight to biting. Because biting definitely makes people back off.) The ultimate goal therefore of training an animal to be handled is to reduce stress and harm as much as possible and encourage active cooperation.
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So to be quite honest I'm not sure how I would go about objectively assessing a rabbit's enjoyment of being put on their back, and differentiating it from a fear response that has been negatively reinforced. The only conclusive indicator would be if a rabbit flopped over on their back voluntarily, without any obvious motivators for doing so other than being pet in that position. Zoo animals are trained to voluntarily present limbs for veterinary procedures such as blood draws or nail trims in exchange for food rewards (saw an amazing video of a polar bear voluntarily doing this) as an alternative to drugging them into compliance, but they wouldn't do it without that reward. Milk cows can initially be trained with food to allow themselves to be milked by a robot, but once they have experienced it as a stress-free procedure, they don't need the food reward as the milking process removes the uncomfortable fullness of their udder. Sheep that are handled respectfully present themselves voluntarily to be sheared, as wool is thick and heavy and hot and they associate being sheared with feeling more comfortable afterward.
Similarly, sheep will not present themselves for shearing if their wool is short. The shearing itself is not enjoyable, only the reduction in discomfort.
Use these ideas to critically analyze behaviour! Did Lahi cooperate with his medicine when I got it over with quickly and put him down immediately? Yes, but the fact that he would try to avoid me when it was time for his meds suggests that it was still a stressful experience for him. Once I started letting him chill for a little while after I finished his meds, giving him lots of food, he instead seemed to be eager to be picked up when it was time for his meds. His cooperation during the procedure didn't change, but the decrease in avoidance behaviours suggests that his stress during the procedure has decreased, and that his subjective experience of the procedure has become more positive than negative.
Hope you enjoyed this foray into the theories of applied animal behavioural psychology and that you can use this to critically assess the motivations behind your animal's behaviour. SCIENCE!!
@Liung wow! That completely changed the way I will clip Bugs' nails, brush, and force feed him! I usually will stop and give him a treat when he bites me while doing those things. I'm teaching him he will get out of it by biting me, and get a treat too. I will have to re-teach him to just take it lol. Thank you for sharing that!
@Alyssa and Bugs♡ yes, precisely! If you stop to give him the treat, you're reinforcing whatever immediately preceded you stopping. If he bites, as much as possible you should not react, and keep going. If he's gone a little bit with no biting or struggling, then stop to give him a treat. Ideally you'd have a second person feeding him treats AS you do whatever it is that needs doing. Or just put some food directly in front of him to munch on as you do it!
Teaching an animal to not do something is harder, but if you wanted to specifically target biting through a training method you'd likely use fading. Have him in your lap, and every, say, 3 seconds that he goes without biting you, he gets a treat. If he bites you, loud NO! and no treat for 6 seconds. Once he's consistently going 3 seconds with no biting, increase it to 6 seconds and no treat for 12 seconds if he bites. Ideally he will eventually understand that it's the not biting that's being rewarded, and you can keep increasing the time interval. Once it's a decent amount of time, start randomizing it. Random interval reinforcement produces a much stronger behaviour than set interval, and is the principle behind why gambling is so addictive. | due to give birth by the 16th. I have been reading through some of the forums and seen what bunny nails can do to newborn kits. Should I cut her nails or will her kits be fine?
It depends, bunny nails should be clipped about once a month, more or less depending on your individual rabbit. Can you post a picture of her nails and do they seem extremely sharp to you?
They are long and sharp enough to bring blood if she kicks off you. I was able to trim them a bit while she was snacking on some greens. I don't believe her previous owners ever trimmed her nails because they didn't really have a need to.
They need to be trimmed frequently due to the possibility of them breaking the whole nail off. I had it happen to me not too long ago. I trim all of mine about once a month but this particular rabbit is my mom's and she (the rabbit) won't really let anyone touch her but my mom and my mom hadn't gotten her out to trim them in a while and so, unfortunately, I had to stress her out a bit by chasing her around the cage to catch her because she doesn't like to be touched by me and I couldn't let it go any longer and she ended up getting a nail caught in something and breaking the whole thing off, there was blood everywhere and it took me 15 minutes of holding pressure on it to get it to stop bleeding. What I do is sit in the floor legs straight out with bunny in hand and then flip bunny over on back on the floor and then grab hold of the tip of one of the bunny's ears and apply light pressure this calms them down enough so you can trim their nails real fast. For more wild spirited buns, you may have to wrap them in a towel to trim them.
But with her being pregnant, I would wait until right after she has the babies so you won't hurt the babies if she tries to run off or fight you.
You should try to cut her nails, in my opinion. (So she doesn't injure the babies jumping in and out of the nest.) You don't need to trim them too short, just get the sharp tips off.
I was able to trim "most" of them without her really caring, I will try to trim the rest of them tomorrow since I don't want to stress her out since she is so close to kindling.
What I do is sit in the floor legs straight out with bunny in hand and then flip bunny over on back on the floor and then grab hold of the tip of one of the bunny's ears and apply light pressure this calms them down enough so you can trim their nails real fast. For more wild spirited buns, you may have to wrap them in a towel to trim them.
Honestly what you've described sounds a lot like trancing—please don't do this. Being forced to lie on their backs is not good for rabbits, and a rabbit that is put on their back and then becomes pliant and "calm" is actually in a state of tonic immobility—a fear response.
Bunny burritos are fine, just don't flip them over on their backs. I hold my buns in my lap as I'm sitting on a chair, so that their legs are tucked into the dip between my legs, and they feel comfy and secure. Then I pull a leg out to the side and clip the nails with one arm over their back to keep them still. Delilah often needs to be burritoed to accomplish this.
But keep in mind that burritos are very restraining and therefore stressful to rabbits. Wrapping a dog or a cat or even a human in a blanket calms them down and makes them feel safe. But those are all predators. Putting a bunny burrito is only for if they would struggle otherwise and hurt you or themselves.
One trick I have learned from psychology: brains tend to take the last moment of an experience and colour the entire memory of the experience with that emotion. The instinct when you're doing something stressful to your buns like nail trims or medicine is to get it over with and put them down immediately. But, if after you're done, you hold onto them a little longer without actually doing anything to them, that lessens the association of stress. If you can get them to take a treat from you while still in your lap/on the table, great. If not, give it to them immediately after putting them down.
Once I started doing this Lahi went from anticipating his meds and running away to anticipating his meds and actually waiting to let me pick him up. He was looking forward to them, because it was the treat at the end that was most strongly associated in his mind, not the stress of being syringe fed.
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Good idea. I will try that when I clip our Charlie's nails next.
That's very true I've noticed that too.
For keeping rabbit on their back I wanted to ask, I've got a very placid girl 9 months old from a very nice and relaxed family with three girls, she shows zero aggression and lets me keep her on her back and cuddle and she's not stressed at all. Another male rabbit was rescued he had his quiet couple weeks but now he also lets me hold him and showing his belly to me without any problem, they actually both like it. But my other two rabbits don't like it clearly, one is 4,5 months old lionhead he actually lets me a lot, but he won't stay still if I want to see his belly, he's very active. He loves to be petted he's very sweet, just maybe doesn't feel safe. My lop girl 4 months old and she is very defensive she probably had some bad experience in her previous family she wouldn't let me to do that to her. That is interesting why the first two are liking it.
Gonna ramble a bit about some principles of behavioural psychology. I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know your rabbits and what you're basing your assumptions on, so I'm going to babble about how objective behavioural assessment works in the hopes that you'll be able to use it to assess your rabbits' behaviour yourself and explain how you've come to your conclusion. I find often that knowing the basic theories and understanding the factors involved helps to both shape the way you look at things and clarify how to talk about them. It's the difference between looking at an animal and saying "something | 1,342 |
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The following five criteria must be met in order for a diagnosis to be made:
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Some of these hyperactive or inattentive behaviors must have been present before age 7 years.
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Bars in Zhuhai
A great selection of foreign and local bars all over the city
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Opened in April of 2010, The Office Bar promotes itself as Zhuhai's "first bar dedicated to sports, good beer, sub sandwiches and salads." With around 15 different sub-style sandwich options to choose from, they can accommodate just about the pickiest of pallets. For beer, popular favourites such as Heineken, Strongbow and Bitburger Premium Pilsner are served on tap. They also offer 15 varieties of international brand bottled beer. For those of you who prefer spirits, 17 different cocktails and over 12 shooters are at your fingertips.
A satellite feed to three HDTVs provides live access to the biggest international sporting events. If being a spectator is not your cup of tea, you are welcome to indulge yourself in a game of pool or darts on the in-house pool table and dartboard. Free WIFI is also provided for those who like to mix business with pleasure or just feel like surfing the web while enjoying a cold one.
The Office Bar has been recently renovated to provide additional seating, and various special events are held weekly.
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2) Michael's Bar (Lucky Iris)
Previously known as Ryan's Bar, Michael's Bar is widely considered by the local and expat community as one of the oldest expat bars in Zhuhai; and like any fine wine, it has only gotten better with age. Located just a few metres away from previously mentioned The Office Bar, Michael's Bar offers a laid back atmosphere combined with a local feel. A lot of the "veteran" expats in Zhuhai are regulars here, and it's not uncommon to see the owner and staff members having conversations with the patrons like old friends.
For those American expats who are having withdrawals from the taste of Mexico, Michael's Bar is one of the few venues in Zhuhai that offers Mexican food. Every week there are three Mexican nights from 18:00<|fim_middle|>, Zhuhai – opposite the China Post office, next to UBC Coffee
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Original page: echinacities.com | -close: Monday is burrito night, Tuesday tacos and Wednesday asadas. At 15 RMB for the meal, it's hard to find a better deal in Zhuhai.
Michael's Bar definitely doesn't forget the ladies either. Every Thursday night is Ladies Night, offering ladies 5 RMB vodka mixers or Asahi from the tap. Sorry guys, the deal only stands for the ladies, but it gives a chance to show the ladies that chivalry isn't dead so buy a girl a drink.
Everyday lunch roast specials include alternatives of chicken, beef, pork or lamb including selections of roast potatoe, roast pumpkin, green salad or Italian tomatoe salad.
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3) Mary's Aul Sod
Perhaps the newest edition to the expat bar scene, Mary's Aul Sod boasts the title of being the "first Irish pub in Zhuhai". Two Irish gentlemen who felt that Zhuhai was lacking in traditional western pubs opened this pleasant pub in May. Mary's Aul Sod features a plethora of rare Irish whiskeys that would make any spirit lover kiss the Blarney Stone for joy. If you're not a spirit lover and feeling a little "green" with envy at the whiskey options, the luck of the Irish is smiling on you too; both Guinness and Kilkenny Irish beers are served on tap and 30 RMB per glass and 50 RMB per pint (which the owners say are the cheapest in town).
Mary's Aul Sod offers two floors of seating, including patio and indoor seating on the first floor and balcony and indoor seating on the second floor. Friendly, bilingual staff members are always on their toes to make sure your cup never runs dry.
Expats are encouraged to come support their local sports teams, as all major sporting events are shown with English commentary. When not in the mood for sports, you can catch up on your BBC world news and chat about international politics.
Mary's Aul Sod's motto states "A place where strangers meet and friends are near" and as a new player on the expat bar scene, it seems to be doing a pretty good job living up to it.
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Greening of the church is nice, but we've got purpling, too, for Advent!
Before I headed homeward for Thanksgiving week with my family, I made a few changes in Sunday school wing. My favorite is the interactive bulletin board featuring our Nativity windows and their symbols. More info is found on the back of the blue cards.
I also changed out the worship bags for children.<|fim_middle|> book, Christmas book and Nativity lacing cards for the youngest ones.
At the entrance to the education wing, I added a Family Resource bulletin board that highlights Advent events, our ongoing UMCOR mission, has Christmas picture books to borrow and our Advent devotional. We printed up copies of a Jesse Tree devotional found online here . Our fall was spend learning about Old Testament ancestors of Jesus, so this is a great wrap up of fall and tie into Advent. The Family Tree of Jesus is our Advent skit, too!
Other updates I forgot to take pictures of include changing the children's altar to purple, adding an Advent wreath, setting up an empty manger prayer station and making an Advent candle bulletin board for the children's worship room.
Now that I've got everything squared away at work until Saturday's greening of the church, I feel like I can enjoy Thanksgiving with my family. Peace and blessings to you and yours! | Each one includes and activity pad or coloring | 8 |
Should you construct a patio or deck in your lawn? Just how do you recognize which one is ideal for you, your way of<|fim_middle|> of, decks offer an appeal, unlike any other room. You could take a nap on a deck without a pillow and still be rather comfy. | life and your home? And how can you differentiate them, anyhow?
For design beginners, let's clarify this matter. Patio is a Spanish word, which indicates it is a yard of a residence or structure. A yard is generally an open room bordered by wall surfaces or various other frameworks or is a ground location beside a residence or a house.
A patio varies from a yard because it does not need to be bordered by wall surfaces. It's comparable to a yard because it's an open area that could be positioned straight on the ground.
Patios could be connected to a home or removed. They are commonly made and designed with the landscape of your house in mind. Patios are functional: they could tackle any kind of form and be developed with a range of products, such as concrete, pavers, rock, floor tile, block, stones, rock, or crushed rock. They can also include various furniture and added features like fountains and patio swings. A lot of outdoor patios are established on a concrete piece or a sand and stone base. Given that outdoor patios are developed at or around the ground degree, they do not need security barriers.
Decks are mainly constructed from timber or a composite timber product or plastic, like Trex. Popular timbers for outdoor decking consist of redwood, cedar, and pressure-treated ache. Appropriately taken care | 274 |
Before you slide on your shamrock sunglasses and gulp down that green food and drink this St. Patrick's Day, remember to make a MyMusicCloud playlist of songs by your favorite Irish singers: Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, and Bruce Springsteen. What? You didn't know they're Irish?
Kurt Cobain: The Nirvana singer wasn't just a grunger, he was also a Greenie. Cobain hailed from Northern Ireland, where his family was originally named "Cobane." Kurt's ancestors Samuel and Letitia Cobane reportedly left their Irish farm five generations ago to start anew as shoemakers in the state of Washington. Kurt's Irish cousin, Fionnola O'Reilly, discovered this and their family ties while researching her family's heritage over six years, according to Irish Central.
Macklemore: You might know the Grammy-winning rapper from his hits, "Thrift Shop" and "Same Love," but in "Irish<|fim_middle|> "Bruce O'Hagan." "O'Hagan, that's right," Springsteen told her and the crowd. "I come from the O'Hagans. We're related somehow." In fact, he's descended from Martha O' Hagan, who married Bruce's grandfather. Later, he accepted a giant, red Irish passport from another Irish fan.
So celebrate Ireland this St. Patrick's Day with songs from your favorite pop artists on MyMusicCloud, the only cloud-based music storage service that lets you mix and listen to your music anywhere, on any portable device – computers, smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. | Celebration," Macklemore gives props to his Gaelic homeland. "Heart, blue collared workers and family, My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty," he raps. That's because the Seattle musician's real name is Ben Haggerty. "The song is about celebrating life. It celebrates my ancestry and culture," he tells Rap Ireland.
Bruce Springsteen: Can't detect an Irish lilt in the Boss's New Jersey growl? While touring Ireland in 2013, he spotted a fan's sign that read: | 112 |
This was my first year going to the Georgetown Christmas Market and it was great. All the best things about a<|fim_middle|> is a procession with St. Nicholas.
We had chestnuts as our first snack, then baked treats at Cake prior to visiting the different shops. We had lunch and some mulled wine at Troia's. My meatball sub was all kinds of cheesy.
I'm not going to lie. One of the best things was the cuteness of this angel dog.
There is still a little time! The market runs this weekend, December 10 and 11th as well. | small historical Colorado mountain town at Christmas. There were actually chestnuts and an open fire. Chestnuts are fairly new to me. My first time eating Heisse Maroni when I went to Switzerland in 2006.
Spiced nuts (gebrannte mandeln) are also common in European Christmas markets and the different flavors offered in Georgetown were delicious. I'm trying to figure out how I could recreate the ginger orange almonds I tried. There are also stalls of handcrafts...I now am the proud owner of a small glass wine rack. The market runs the first two weekends in December on the weekends. Each day at noon there | 131 |
CHARLOTTE, NC – ImagineSoftware, a leading provider of medical billing solutions, announces its 9th annual Client Conference to be held on Wednesday, May 6th through Friday, May 8th, 2015 at the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, NC. The 2015 Client Conference is expected to be the largest conference in the company's history with clients, partners and industry leaders attending from all across the United States.
The three day conference will include client appreciation events and provide Imagine clients with an opportunity for peer learning and best practice sharing, hands-on product demonstrations, and an in-depth look at current changes in the healthcare industry including ICD-10, PQRS, and Meaningful Use. The Client Conference will also spotlight the latest updates and functions of the company's current software within ImagineBilling™, ImagineAppliance™.
ImagineSoftware will also unveil its new patent-pending addition to the Imagine suite, ImagineLogic™, at this year's Client Conference. ImagineLogic™ gives clients the power to make smart<|fim_middle|> in the industry, share their successes, and make sure they're getting the most out of our products. It's equally helpful for us to learn more about our clients and find out how we can improve our products to make their lives easier," stated company Marketing Director, Bethany Khashman.
This year's conference theme, "The World of Imagine," will encourage clients to explore the capabilities of Imagine's current products and services while continuing to inspire the advancement of Imagine's software suite through their suggestions, feedback and ideas. ImagineSoftware will honor clients during the Annual Client Appreciation Dinner and announce the winners of the Annual Client Awards. | , fast business decisions.
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At 40 square miles the Cotswold Water Park is approximately the same size as the Island of Jersey. It is that part of the Upper Thames catchment in North Wiltshire & South Gloucestershire which has been subjected to over 50 years of sand & gravel extraction.
For detailed information on the Cotswold Water Park .
Cirencester is the nearest of the Cotswolds Market Towns and as you would expect there are plenty of places to shop and numerous inns but lodgings and accommodation in the town centre is a little limited.
The Bull Pen is located at the edge of the village of Poole Keynes, some 4 miles from Cirencester. It is now a family home and offers comfortable accommodation for visitors in a quiet location overlooking open fields, on the edge of the Water Park.
Originally in 1836 as a granary and stables for a working farm, latterly, part has been used for a bull pen for the farm opposite.
Converted in 2008, it offers two en-suite double bedrooms with comfortable furnishings, LCD freeview television and Wi Fi. A further double bedroom with twin beds is available on request. The bathrooms are well equipped with separate showers and baths. There is ample off road parking space.
Breakfast - a Continental Breakfast is provided.
Nearby - we are close to Cotswold Airport, Cirencester, Cotswold Water Park and are convenient for Bath, Cheltenham, Westonbirt and Badminton.
Kemble main line station is about 2 miles.
The Thames Path is but a short walk away and the source of the River Thames a little further at about 4 miles. There are number of excellent pubs and restaurants in the vicinity.
Tariff – Prices are per room per night:- Double Room en-suite - £84.00 (inclusive of breakfast).
The luxury self-catering apartments offer stylish, flexible accommodation with kitchen facilities - perfect for a family or group. You will have full access to the hotel's facilities.
Daisy Chain, Cotswold Family Holidays, is a luxury 5 bedroomed contemporary glass fronted home with wonderful uninterrupted views over a large lake. It is situated on the private Lower Mill Estate Nature Reserve in Cotswolds Water Park and is perfect for Cotswold Family Holidays.
Daisy Chain sleeps nine in five bedrooms, with two ensuite bathrooms and one family bathroom. There are two double rooms, a twin bedded room, a bunkbed room and a single room. There is also a cot and a travel cot if required.
Families are very welcome and the property is well equipped to make your holiday that little bit easier. The accommodation is spread over three floors with the living accommodation on the first floor to make<|fim_middle|> – making this an ideal location for those seeking more active pursuits. Enjoy a bite to eat in the waterside café and savour the superb views. | the most of the amazing views over the lake. Unlike many properties the house enjoys uninterrupted view.
The Lower Mill Estate is a 550 acre private estate and nature reserve. There are numerous walks or cycle rides to enjoy, bird hides to enjoy the multitude of birds or why not try to spot the beavers or otters that live wild on the estate. If fishing is for you, fishing permits are provided with the property.
For a bit more action, there are a multitude of other activities available within a few miles - from windsurfing to waterskiing, aerial adventures to golf you are bound to find something new to have a go at. The Cotswolds Country Park and Beach is just a short bike ride from Lower Mill - here you can have a sailing or windsurfing lesson, play on the sandy beach or hire boats or bikes.
Idyllically located within the ever popular Cotswold Water Park, each luxury Scandinavian timber lodge boasts a modern and contemporary interior and all boast magnificent lake views in a truly breathtaking location.
The perfect retreat for a relaxing break away from it all, the lodges are ideal for those seeking a base from which to explore this delightful local area which is world renowned for its picture postcard villages and wealth of National Trust and English Heritage properties.
The Cotswold Water Park boasts over 130 lakes, so watersports opportunities abound. Excellent fishing* opportunities for all ages and abilities are available too | 293 |
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Babb Brothers BBQ & Blues opened two weeks ago as the first restaurant in the new Trinity Groves project, which hopes to one day energize the area just west of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. Investors Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Butch McGregor plucked cook Mike Babb out<|fim_middle|>. It'll be interesting to see how the entire area settles into the overall Dallas dining scene, particularly with such discerning palates for good barbecue. | of the catering business and gave him a shot at running his own place.
The restaurant is brightly designed and decorated, with guitars, corona buckets and flat-screen TVs providing some splash. A large patio area has at least 20 wooden picnic tables and a very small stage set up in the far corner -- Babb likes to croon on occasion. Inside, the red checkered tablecloths and long tables give it a feel of a barbecue joint that's been around for years.
The service is friendly and heads up. The staff anticipates problems or needs -- for instance, the sliced beef sandwich comes topped with a blue cheese cole slaw, but they ask customers if they prefer it on the side before they build the sandwich. I had kids with me and they offered extra plates and bread. When we were sitting outside, someone came out to check on us.
We ordered a three-meat plate that came with two big sides all for $12, which is enough food for two adults. The sliced brisket sandwich is also two meals. Romano is surely pulling some of his bread for the sandwiches from Eatzi's -- the meat sandwich comes with a ciabatta-type bun.
Two weeks into things, Babb's is humming along great. The vibe here is easygoing, definitely family-friendly and potentially a good spot to hang with friends | 273 |
From Digital Economy to Digital Citizens: the end of Digital Economy Research Centre
Open Lab at Newcastle University and Northumbria University are celebrating the end of the Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC), which began in 2015.
DERC was initiated Patrick Olivier and Pete Wright and engaged a huge number of researchers across both universities.
Dave Kirk, the director of Open Lab explained: "The footprint of DERC has been enormous. From this one large project we have produced dozens of smaller projects, supported the careers of over 80 researchers from early-career to more seasoned academics and through the engagements themselves connected with tens of thousands of members of the public across the region and internationally."
What is the Digital Economy Research Centre? Dave Kirk, Director of Open Lab, explains
The aim of the Digital Economy Research Centre
The Digital Economy Research Centre has aimed to design, develop, and evaluate new digitally-mediated models of citizen participation. DERC engaged with communities, the third sector, local government and industry in developing the future of local service provision and local democracy.
Starting the DERC programme, the overarching challenges were significant. From considering how to develop new technologies using open and citizen-generated data to developing participatory methods to support citizen-led public services, the backbone of this research was a commitment to social inclusion.
The main research themes of DERC address the development of models of digitally-enabled citizen participation in local democracy, planning, public health, social care and education, and we explored new civic media to support these.
The research methods were participatory, action-based, and embedded in the real world.
Highlights from the DERC projects
From receiving over 23,000 public responses to shape the new Tyne and Wear Metro to building an online dietary capture and analysis tool used in at least 158 individual research studies across the world – DERC's has pioneered new models of 'digital civics' research.
Working with around 20 community and industry partners, DERC had an extensive programme of research, knowledge exchange and public engagement activities.
Find out more about the projects from DERC in this booklet.
Read more: Digital Economy Research Centre
Through this we've explored new ways of empowering communities and engaging citizens in the digital economy.
From Digital Economy to Digital Citizens
"Following the success of DERC we have launched our EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Centre for Digital Citizens. We are taking the core themes investigated within DERC and are using that knowledge to foster further digital social innovations with communities. In doing this we are continuing our journey to change discourses from a focus on 'smart cities' to supporting smart(er) citizens, in urban, rural and coastal places;" said Dave Kirk.
The Centre for Digital Citizens will take an inclusive, participatory approach to the design and evaluation of new technologies and services that support 'smart', 'data-rich' living in urban, rural and coastal communities.
Core to the Centre's work will be the incubation of sustainable 'Digital Social Innovations' (DSI) that<|fim_middle|> | HCI research | Digital Civics | Newcastle University | Cookies | will ensure digital technologies support diverse communities and will have long-lasting social value and impact beyond the life of the Centre.
Watch the full livestream from the end of DERC event held on 8 December at the Catalyst in Newcastle featuring talks from Jenny Nelson, Newcastle City Council, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, UCL, Shaun Hazeldine, IFRC, Austin Toombs and Colin Gray, Purdue University and Sarah McManus and Huw Lewis, NEXUS.
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St. Luke Lutheran Church – Is It Sunday Yet?
After a busy but refreshing day of worship this past Sunday, I drove our children home and they all went their separate ways, some to play and some to read. I was in the kitchen setting out lunch items when I heard a small voice singing in another room.
I moved closer and listened as our 4-year old daughter kept on singing the refrain of Kip Fox's Sound of Grace. She had heard it sung it in worship just a few hours before and now was quietly singing, "Grace, sweet grace, a mighty waterfall…" She was thirsty that Sunday morning and Jesus had filled her up.
Please know that<|fim_middle|> worship in Grace Sweet Grace: An Interview. | I can't get my 4-year old to drink water. She has always been this way. Throughout the day this little girl runs and dances through the house. She sings and yells and reminds everyone she is alive. But does she drink any water? No. One would think that at some point she would get thirsty. Sometimes she does but often she continues on unfazed by a dry pallet and parched lips.
I've often asked myself if I have that same thirst? Do I desperately long to come to the house of our God to receive his gifts? Do I need Jesus so much that I ask each day if tomorrow is Sunday yet? I long to have that kind of thirst.
Psalm 42 was one of the readings in worship this past Sunday. My wife and I have long held the fourth verse as fitting for our little girl.
On Sunday my little girl was very spiritually thirsty and she remembered where that thirst had been quenched time and time again. She went to the house of God under the protection of Jesus. She shouted praise in her quiet, reserved way. And her thirst for Jesus was quenched again.
Her grandmother died two months ago and since then she has been thirsting for God to act, for Jesus to come, and for the Mighty One to raise her grandma. That's her hope, her prayer, and her thirst these days and she longs to go to worship because it is where she meets Jesus whose sweet grace runs like a waterfall of life in the face of that death.
In worship she hears Jesus in his word. In worship she remembers her baptism and makes the sign of the cross. In worship she receives Jesus' blessing and benediction.
In worship she confesses her faith in Jesus and the Resurrection of the Dead. In worship she returns praise for this grace that is a fountain for her soul. And, despite another week where Jesus has not yet returned, in worship she is refreshed to keep thirsting and hoping for Jesus to come and raise her grandma.
And, despite another week where Jesus has not yet returned, in worship she is refreshed to keep thirsting and hoping for Jesus to come and raise her grandma.
This past Sunday Pastor Rossow, proclaiming this sweet grace of Jesus that refreshes our deepest thirst at our most desperate times, said: "This is not just a promise for the bedside, it is a promise for the graveside." I needed that grace as I joined my little girl in clinging to the hope that my mother, her grandmother, is going to rise and live again because of Jesus.
My little girl loves to go to worship. She thirsts for it each week. And after seeing her there today, hearing her singing about sweet grace, and having Jesus quench both our thirsts, I am longing for worship to come again!
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors were the hare, and the Utah Jazz were the tortoise.
The hare won this match Tuesday night.
Stephen Curry scored a game-high 22 points as Golden State took a 1-0 lead in its Western Conference semifinal playoff series by defeating the Utah Jazz 106-94 at Oracle Arena. The Warriors were the first team to have five players with five or more assists in a playoff game since the Seattle SuperSonics did it against the Phoenix Suns in 1993. The Jazz didn't have a single player reach five assists, marking this game as the first in NBA playoff history in which one team had at least five players with five assists while the other team had zero.
Warriors acting head coach Mike Brown warned his team that the Jazz are No. 1 in points per possession in transition, despite ranking dead last in pace. Golden State won that battle in Game 1<|fim_middle|> Jazz big man Boris Diaw was in the paint in between Green and JaVale McGee. In anticipation of Green throwing an alley-oop, Diaw stayed with McGee. Green just took it in for a jam. As they ran back on defense, Green acknowledged McGee's impact on the play by running over to him for a high-five.
Curry, who made 7 of 11 shots from the field, tweaked an ankle in the third quarter. But he returned to the floor for 21 seconds in the fourth.
"Just routine maintenance," he said. "Whether it's in the back or on the bench or in between quarters or whenever it happens. It's nothing to worry about."
It was a game where the Warriors never trailed, leading the Jazz by as many as 21 points. Game 2 will be Thursday night at Oracle Arena. | , outscoring the Jazz 29-6 in fast-break points.
"We weren't clicking with making shots early on, but our defense just really gave us an opportunity to kind of find that [running] flow," Curry said. "And that's what you need in the playoffs to really assert yourself and get the momentum on your side."
Utah harassed Golden State along the perimeter in an effort to eliminate the long ball. The Jazz had some success, as the Warriors made only 7 of 29 shots from beyond the arc (24.1 percent). But the Jazz didn't have a scheme for taking the wheels off the Warriors' high-speed vehicle.
"It all starts with the defensive side of the ball," said Kevin Durant, who had 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists. "You get stops and rebound, you can run out. But if we're taking the ball out every time, it's hard for us to get into a rhythm in a transition game. So just getting stops."
The Warriors got off to a strong start after seven days off, racing to a 9-0 lead. Utah didn't score its first basket until 7:48 remained in the opening quarter as it missed its first six shots.
Once the Jazz got on the board, they had a problem with turnovers -- specifically, the Warriors scoring off of them. Golden State had only seven turnovers to go with 32 assists, and the Jazz coughed it up 14 times. The Warriors outscored the Jazz 20-4 off turnovers alone.
"They change ends quickly," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. "They back cut. I'll just have to look at the film, but I thought they were smarter, yes, but just more urgent and quicker thinking, more reactive. You have those moments where you're not urgent enough, they just punish you for it."
The Warriors were festive on a night they acknowledged the "We Believe" team from the 2007 postseason. Early in the second quarter the Warriors got a defensive stop and Andre Iguodala zipped a pass up to a sprinting Draymond Green near half court. The versatile power forward pushed it full steam ahead for an acrobatic left-handed layup in traffic.
Green then began staring at his left hand in amazement. He should have been staring at his legs, because the Jazz couldn't keep up.
Jazz center Rudy Gobert is one of the best defenders in the league, but he's not a miracle worker. In the second quarter, Curry caught Gobert out of his comfort zone on the perimeter. Gobert switched on Curry defensively, and the two-time MVP crossed him up with some sharp ballhandling, spinning the big man around in a circle. After the damage was done, with the crowd oohing and ahhing, Curry drove to the basket and finished with a nifty reverse layup.
"We wanted to try to get him out of the paint because that's where he's most effective," Curry said of the play. "He's protecting the rim. ... So if you can get him out and make him guard some guards and some wings and try to make him uncomfortable in those situations, I think it's to our advantage."
Late in the third quarter, Green received the ball on the right wing and took off toward the basket. | 693 |
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Akamai Brings High Definition To The Internet
Cambridge, MA | August 27, 2007
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced that a consistent, high-definition video experience is now possible online via its global content distribution network. Akamai's customers are now delivering HD quality content on Akamai's uniquely distributed edge delivery network that is specifically tuned for optimal delivery of HD files online.
"As broadband connectivity becomes more ubiquitous, users are demanding – and frankly should expect – a high-quality, high-definition video experience on the Internet," said Mike Afergan, chief technology officer, Akamai. "Delivering premium HD content is a critical way for our customers to attract and delight their audiences in today's highly competitive media environment. We are just at the beginning of a very exciting market opportunity for delivering premium HD content. Consumer demand exists, broadband is ready, and businesses are looking for ways to maximize the value of their high-production HD content."
Technical Criteria for delivering HD
HDTV is defined by the industry to be video with significantly high pixel resolution of 1080i, 1080p or 720p. In the broadcast world, the industry is undergoing a series of transformations that are standardizing the delivery of high-definition video to the home. For the Internet, Akamai is making the HD web possible by continuing to refine the infrastructure required to bring the HDTV experience to online audiences. Additionally, Akamai will continue to lead this effort with new service launches, device integration, and partnerships with technology vendors, expected in the coming months.
Akamai has architected its platform to comply with the following technical criteria that content owners must leverage to successfully enable an HD web. Akamai believes that it is the first and only platform to meet these technical requirements which include offering:
Technology and an operational model to operate serving devices in the largest high-throughput networks around the world (servers need to be physically in the networks, as that is where the capacity lies)
Established relationships with the largest high throughput networks
Support for delivery, storage, and management of files greater than 2 Gigabytes
Support of VC-1 and MPEG-4 video standards, achieving visual parity with other broadcast video networks
Support for files with resolutions of 720p, 1080i and 1080p
Client-side technology that is deeply integrated into its delivery system to be deployed as appropriate
Industry studies have proven that without meeting these criteria, online audiences will become impatient, tune out, and find premium HD content that works elsewhere. By ensuring these requirements are met, content providers are able to avoid slow or delayed downloads, the inability to serve HD content in its entirety, download interruptions, limited audience reach, and overall poor end-user satisfaction, which often accompany the download of large files. In addition, multi-player compatibility is crucial to meet the needs of a diverse end user community.
The Market is Ready
"As broadband video viewership has<|fim_middle|>'s network offers high quality content are unmatched on a global scale.
Broadband subscribers are guaranteed to have a faster download, and enjoy a quality HD experience, when downloading content from servers nearby the request. With servers distributed in over 750 cities, Akamai addresses these technology requirements with its unique edge delivery model that reduces latency to levels necessary for a quality HD experience. Because distance matters for high-quality large files, all content, whether it is frequently or rarely requested, must be served closest to the end user. Akamai's unique technology automatically and instantly spreads popular content on-demand for better scalability.
In addition, many large HD videos are not always watched in their entirety. It is therefore optimal to locally cache only the portion of a file that is most requested by end users, which on average is the beginning of the file or movie. This partial caching of HD video enables both popular and less popular, long-tail content to be served from the edge to guarantee optimal performance.
"Akamai's goal is to be able to support 100 Terabits per second of traffic. Our flexible and distributed architecture uniquely positions us to realize that vision and we are aggressively progressing toward that goal," said Afergan. "We are also committed to the long-term objective of building an ecosystem linking content owners, network providers and video platform players to ensure a superior HD web experience wherever last-mile infrastructure permits."
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tbarth@akamai.com | escalated, consumers have raised the stakes by demanding better and better content experiences," said Will Richmond, president and founder of Broadband Directions LLC, a market intelligence and consulting firm specializing in broadband-delivered video. "To deliver against these requirements, media and entertainment companies need to offer higher bit rate files with enhanced online fidelity of video and audio files. Doing so in a scalable and cost-effective manner requires that the necessary infrastructure to support high definition content must be deployed."
"The capacity to deliver high throughput files already exists at the 'edge' – leveraging the massive build-outs occurring in hundreds of individual networks. The challenge comes from how you tap into that capacity. The only way to solve this problem is to deliver from within these networks," continued Akamai's Afergan. "For example, on our distributed platform, we serve more than half of all the files, 500 MB or greater, at more than 1.4 Mbps, and this is only increasing. This demonstrates that, by leveraging the right architecture, there are already a large number of end-users capable of downloading higher quality content. This technical capability coupled with the market demand is exciting for the industry."
Akamai's Unique Architecture for High Throughput Media
To realize this same vision and fidelity in the online world, a 2-hour feature-length movie would need to be encoded at a bit rate of at least 6-8 Mbps, which would result in the file being a size of 5-8 GB. This presents numerous technical challenges to deliver such a high-quality, large file. For instance, delivering a file encoded at 6 Mbps to an audience of one Nielsen ratings point (1,102,000 households) would require 6.6 Terabits of sustained bandwidth, and that doesn't even take into account latency and network congestion.
The availability of very large, last-mile bandwidth connections does not always mean that an end user will be able to completely leverage that access. A critical factor to enable high bit rate delivery of very large HD files is the proximity of the end-user to the server sending the file. As the distance from the server becomes greater, throughput dramatically decreases. Even a seemingly small distance can result in lost throughput due to lower throughput, higher packet loss, and increased latency.
As an example, the only way to achieve 10 to 20 Mbps throughput for typical PC end-users is if the server is less than 20 milliseconds away. The more latency, the longer it takes to download the file, which interrupts the viewing experience and results in a poor end-user experience. Compared with other centralized models, the results that Akamai | 539 |
In my last entry, I noted that geological evidence suggests that some of the rocks that we're working in were formed near the shore of an inland sea, but that the environment became increasingly terrestrial as time passed, with some of the younger rocks representing sand dunes. Over the past two days, most of the fossils we discovered were preserved in the rocks that formed along the shoreline and are the remains of aquatic animals.
Fossil spine from a large xenacanth shark embedded in rocks of the Pedra de Fogo Formation. In life, the spine was located near the animal's head. Scale bar is in centimeters. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
The most impressive of these animals are the large xenacanth sharks (an extinct group of sharks that were common in the Permian). Typically, very little of their skeletons are preserved because they were mostly made of cartilage, a material that decays before it can be fossilized. Most of what we find of them are large spines that were made of a mineralized tissue similar to bone, and which have a distinctive pattern of ornamentation. Last year we found a few of these spines, and the one in the picture above was found yesterday (April 15) by Christian Kammerer. We also found teeth of these sharks last year, but so far haven't discovered any this year.
A second denizen of the<|fim_middle|> and may represent juvenile animals. Although rare today, lungfish have a long history in the fossil record, and are important in evolutionary studies because they are closely related to terrestrial vertebrates.
Lungfish toothplate from the Pedra de Fogo Formation. This is one of the first lungfish fossils to be discovered in these rocks, making it an important specimen. Scale bar is in centimeters. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
Besides lungfish, we found members of the other main group of fish, the ray-finned fish. Several exciting specimens that we discovered yesterday that represent this group are jaws with teeth preserved. Today, in rocks that are slightly younger and probably formed in a more terrestrial environment, we found other specimens of ray-finned fish, but these were still articulated (i.e., the parts of the skeleton were still attached as in life). Martha Richter has seen similar specimens from that locality, and thinks they are early representatives of a group of ray-finned fish that were more common and diverse in the Mesozoic Era of Earth history (about 205 to 65 million years ago).
Jaw of a ray-finned fish showing teeth. Scale bar is in centimeters. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned any synapsid specimens yet. So far we haven't discovered any, but we have found fragmentary remains that seem to represent the archaic amphibians (or temnospondyls) that were common during the Permian Period. Many temnospondyl bones have a distinctive pattern of sculpturing on them that helps to differentiate them from similar-looking fish bones that we also find in these rocks. We only discovered a few of these bones so far, but they are important because they represent terrestrial vertebrates.
A probable skull bone from a temnospondyl amphibian. The sculpturing of the bone helps to differentiate it from similar fish bones found in the same rocks. Scale bar is in centimeters. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
We'll carry on our search for the elusive synapsids tomorrow, but the fossils we collected so far are helping us paint a more complete picture of the animals that were living in the Parnaíba Basin during the Permian. | Pedra de Fogo are lungfish. Very few fossils of lungfish have been discovered previously in these rocks, but yesterday Jose (one of our drivers who is also a good fossil finder) discovered a very large lungfish tooth plate. Unlike us, lungfish only have four teeth in their mouths, and they have a very distinctive shape that makes them easy to recognize. We found additional lungfish toothplates today (April 16), although they were much smaller | 94 |
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This is a story I came across today and it saddened me terribly.I don't hold with mortifying the flesh to amass a fortune.Money is meant to be used (spent).Just make sure that 'one hundred percent of appreciated value is demanded for each coin spent.'Saving and investing are to increase ones ability to make more to spend more in the present and the future.A little delayed gratification is necessary but to punish oneself to hoard money is<|fim_middle|> children. Glover was able to locate a first cousin, Arlene Magdanz, a part-time teacher in San Rafael, Calif., who hadn't seen him in years. Glover expects the probate court to release the fortune to Magdanz after the IRS extracts its cut. (He estimates the federal government's take will be about $800,000.)
The tale of the elderly recluse who turned out to be a millionaire became a brief sensation, with Vine and Glover appearing on the Today show.
Vine eventually sold Samaszko's house for an undisclosed price. Some prospective buyers just wanted to see if there was any more gold hidden there. "One guy had his contractor friend go underneath the house," Vine says. "I told him we went through that place with a fine-toothed comb. Never heard from him again."
It's easy to see why Samaszko's death and the revelations that followed fascinate people. How many of us would have kept $7 million in a crawl space and not touched it? It makes you wonder what other secrets died with him.
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Alex Jones says:
People forget that money is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Money opens doors. Money is to me like energy, you use it in a sustainable way so that you continue to recycle it in an active way rather than hoarding it.
keerthikasingaravel says:
Nice analogy with sustainable energy,Mind if I pinch it for the book you spoke about?
How does a primer/basic book on financial wisdom sound?A book with the basics of what works and what doesn't so that beginners wouldn't have to muddle through and lose money like me?
Maybe a book with info in small paras or bullet points and pictures/info graphics?
A book with the keys that people round the world could use to analyse their situation,economy and local financial products and decide for themselves?
Using the principles of sustainability in your book would be an awesome idea.
I think your ideas about how to construct your book are good. Principles organised in a simple and easy to understand way backed by plenty of graphics. Also including inspirational quotes like you do in your blog, and case studies.
Quotes and case studies are now added to my list.
You are welcome to use my little contributions, there is no copyright to universal ideas.
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A Gold Hoarder's Legacy
Walter Samaszko Jr. was not a guy who wanted company. He covered the windows of his house in Carson City, Nev., with cardboard so the neighbors couldn't see inside. He made the postman stick the mail through the slot in his garage rather than coming to the front door. He was so good at keeping people away that when he died of heart failure at age 69 in June, nobody noticed until his house began to smell. Someone called the sheriff's department. A hazmat team removed Samaszko along with part of the floor he was stuck to.
That's when everybody found out why he hadn't been more sociable: The dour, white-haired recluse had been hoarding $7 million worth of gold coins, most of them hidden in the crawl space beneath the house. Some were in an old washing machine. There were British sovereigns dating back to the 1840s, Austrian ducats, and South African Kruggerands. But mostly Samaszko had collected rolls and rolls of $20 American gold pieces, the kind with double eagles on them. He also had $12,000 in cash, a stock account worth $165,000—and $200 in the bank.
The person who discovered Samaszko's secret was Jeri Vine, a local real estate broker hired to clean up his house. She spent five days combing through his possessions. Samaszko had been prepared for the worst. He owned several guns, gas masks, and survivalist manuals. His cupboards were filled with canned tuna fish. He had a lot of Johnny Mathis tapes. Vine threw most of it out. "We had like a 33-yard dumpster on the driveway," she says. "I filled that thing."
On the fourth day, Vine opened a metal ammunition box in the garage. It was full of gold coins in plastic cases. She called Alan Glover, the public administrator of Carson City. "Alan, get over here immediately!" she told him. "There's so much money it's unbelievable." The sheriff's department returned to the house, this time with metal detectors. It took Glover and three attorneys two days to count all the coins. With the help of a numismatic expert, they determined that Samaszko's clutch was worth $7 million. The gold is being stored in a vault in Reno until a local probate court judge decides its fate.
Samaszko may have been prepared for a societal collapse, but not for his own end. He had no will. Nor did he have any | 543 |
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Net sports are sports where two opposing players or teams compete while being separated by a regulated net that sets the scoring and rules of the game. Games involving nets may include special equipment such as rackets, but others, like volleyball, only require that the players use only their hands to hit the ball over the net to the opposing side. Scoring in net sports are most often determined when the<|fim_middle|> the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam titles. He was also the first male player to win five Wimbledon titles in the Open Era, and he is one of two male players, along with Roger Federer, to appear in French Open and Wimbledon finals for four consecutive years. Borg was a teenage sensation at the beginning of his career, and his unprecedented stardom and consistent success helped to rise the popularity of tennis during the 1970s.
Björn Borg has a height of 5'11" (1.80 m) and plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand. Borg was professionally active from 1973 to 1983.
Björn Borg, born June 6, 1956, is a retired Swedish tennis player. He formerly held the No. 1 tennis player ranking, and between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam titles. He was also the first male player to win five Wimbledon titles in the Open Era.
Plays: Right-handed
Backhand: Two-Handed Backhand
Years Active: 1973-1983
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Badminton Courts are the rectangular surfaces used for the racket sport of badminton. divided in half by a center badminton net, courts are usually marked for both singles or doubles games with boundary widths varying between the two match types. Badminton courts should be surfaced with safe flooring materials for gameplay, that include wood, synthetic, and rubber flooring options.
Badminton Courts have a length of 44' (13.4 m), but double courts are 20' (6.1 m) wide while single courts are reduced to 17' (5.18 m); shrinking by 1.5' (.46 m) on both sides. Service courts are split by a center line dividing the width of the court and are set back from the net by a 'short service line' of 6.5' (1.98 m). Doubles games also require a 'long service line' that is placed 2.5' (.76 m) in from the back boundary. Clearances of 2' (.61 m) should be providing around the entire badminton court.
Badminton Courts are the rectangular surfaces used for the racket sport of badminton. divided in half by a center badminton net, courts are usually marked for both singles or doubles games with boundary widths varying between the two match types.
Width (Full/Doubles): 20' | 6.1 m
Width (Singles): 17' | 5.18 m
Clearance: 2' | .61 m around full perimeter
Material: Wood, synthetic, or rubberized surface
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A Volleyball Set is usually the second contact that a team makes with the ball. A Set should put the ball in the air in a way that the attacker can drive the ball into the opponent's court. The Setter coordinates the offensive movements of the team, and they are the player who determines which other player will attack the ball. With a Set, the player needs to be careful to touch the ball with both hands at the same time; failure to do so results in a less effective Set, as well as the referee called a 'double hit', giving the point to the opposing team.
A Volleyball Set is usually the second contact that a team makes with the ball. A Set should put the ball in the air in a way that the attacker can drive the ball into the opponent's court. The Setter coordinates the offensive movements of the team, and they are the player who determines the attack.
Skill Type: Pass
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5'8" | 1.73 m
Badminton Backhand
17'-20' | 5.18-6.1 m
44' | 13.41 m
880 ft2 | 81.75 m2
https://p3d.in/e/XLKyo
Badminton Drop Shot
Badminton Forehand
20' | 6.1 m
https://p3d.in/e/Jtidi
8.66"-9.06" | 220-230 mm
1" | 25.4 mm (Handle)
26.18"-26.77" | 665-680 mm
2.46-3.35 oz | 70-95 g
https://p3d.in/e/9QB7A
Badminton Serve
Badminton Smash
Badminton Stance
5'4.5" | 1.64 m
Carolina Marín
Chen Meng
Ding Ning
Earvin N'Gapeth
Facundo Conte
Francesca Piccinini
6'.5" | 1.84 m
Gabrielle Reece
Ivan Zaytsev
Jan-Ove Waldner
Jaqueline Carvalho
Kyle Yates
Lin Dan
Liu Shiwen
Ma Long
Michelle Esquivel
2.874"-2.972" | 73-75.5 mm (Diameter)
.78-.935 oz | 22-26.5 g
https://p3d.in/e/J6b8i
Pickleball Court
880 ft² | 81.8 m²
https://p3d.in/e/PySsF
Pickleball Net
36" | 91.44 cm (Post)
22' | 6.71 m (Overall)
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Pickleball Paddle
7"-8.25" | 177.8-209.6 mm
1.25" | 31.8 mm
15.5"-17" | 39.37-43.18 cm (Max)
6.5-9.5 oz | 185-270 g
https://p3d.in/e/0nscV
Ping-Pong Ball
1.57" | 40 mm (Diameter)
.095 oz | 2.7 g
https://p3d.in/e/LJdco
Ping-Pong Paddle
5.9" | 15 cm
.85"-.91" | 21.8-23 mm
9.45"-10.25" | 24-26 cm
2.47-3.53 oz | 70-100 g
https://p3d.in/e/b3gyH
Ratchanok Intanon
2.28"-2.68" | 58-68 mm
.167-.194 oz | 4.75-5.5 g
https://p3d.in/e/mNQ0p
Simone Jardim
Table Tennis Clearances
https://p3d.in/e/uQeQ9
Tai Tzu-Ying
2.575"-2.7" | 6.54-6.86 cm (Diameter)
1.975-2.095 oz | 56-59.4 g
https://p3d.in/e/nVkNk
36' | 11 m
2,808 ft2 | 260.9 m2
https://p3d.in/e/Mzr1w
Tennis Fence
10'-12' | 3.05-3.66 m
10' | 3.05 m (Panels)
2.5"-3" | 6.35-7.62 cm (Posts)
https://p3d.in/e/4LyG1
Tennis Net
36" | 91.4 cm (Center); 42" | 106.7 cm (Net Post)
42' | 12.8 m
.1"-.14" | 2.5-3.5 mm (Net Cord)
https://p3d.in/e/DQs6e
Tennis Racket - Midplus
10.625" | 27 cm
.625" | 15.9 mm
27"-27.5" | 68.6-69.9 cm
9-11 oz | 255-312 g
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Tennis Umpire Chair - Traditional
6'4" | 193 cm
2' | 61 cm
4' | 122 cm
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Tyson McGuffin
Viktor Axelsen
8.15"-8.39" | 20.7-21.3 cm (Diameter)
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Volleyball Attack
Volleyball Block
Volleyball Bump
29.5' | 9 m
1,743 ft2 | 161 m2
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Volleyball Dig
Volleyball Dive
Volleyball Jump Serve
Volleyball Net
7'4.35"-7' 11.7" | 2.24-2.43 m
36' | 10.97 m (Total)
.16" | 4 mm
https://p3d.in/e/crCQZ
Volleyball Set
Volleyball Underhand Serve
Viktor Axelsen, born January 4, 1994, is a Danish badminton player. He was the 2017 World Champion and the bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Axelsen won the 2010 World Junior Championships, being the first ever European player to hold the title, and he was also crowned the European men's singles champion in 2016 and 2018. His greatest strength is his offensive play with his steep and powerful smash. His cross court net shots and ability to cut off many push shots further strengthen his offensive play.
Viktor Axelsen has a height of 6'4" (1.93 m).
Viktor Axelsen, born January 4, 1994, is a Danish badminton player. He was the 2017 World Champion and the bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Axelsen won the 2010 World Junior Championships, being the first ever European player to hold the title.
Nationality: Denmark
Years Active: 2010—
Viktor Axelsen standing, swinging, jumping
Wikipedia - Viktor Axelsen
The primary role of a Tennis Fence is to keep Tennis Balls contained within the playing court area. The selvage of the bottom, top, and top caps are knuckled for security. A Tennis Fence can come in a variety of materials, from traditional timber to steel frames with chain link fabric. The main consideration when choosing a Tennis Fence is the degree of privacy desired.
Some more sophisticated materials include wood, vinyl, ornamental aluminum, or a combination of materials. A vinyl-coated chain link fence is a good choice, as the fused and adhered vinyl-coating protects the core wire from rust and corrosion. Some Tennis Fences include a feature gate hardware for added protection.
Tennis Fences have a total height of 10'-12' (3.05-3.66 m), panel width of 10' (3.05 m), and posts with diameters of between 2.5"-3" (6.35-7.62 cm).
The primary role of a Tennis Fence is to keep Tennis Balls contained within the playing court area. The selvage of the bottom, top, and top caps are knuckled for security. A Tennis Fence can come in a variety of materials, from traditional timber to steel frames with chain link fabric.
Total Enclosure Size: 120' x 60' | 36.58 x 18.29 m
Materials: Coated steel posts; chain link fence
Tennis Fence front (panels), front (simple)
Björn Borg, born June 6, 1956, is a retired Swedish tennis player. He formerly held the No. 1 tennis player ranking, and between 1974 and 1981, he became | 2,116 |
Published: Apr 13 at 11:06 p.m.
Updated: Apr 15 at <|fim_middle|> the game, all waving small Cape Breton flags but the Halifax fans were loud throughout the game.
The Hurricanes move on to play the Moncton Magic in the Atlantic Division Final. Moncton was the top team in the regular season and defeated Halifax five out of six times.
Thomas was traded from Moncton this past off-season, and this playoff match-up is a little more special for him. | 7:34 a.m.
The Halifax Hurricanes conquered the Cape Breton Highlanders in a blowout Game 5 victory in NBL Canada playoff action on Saturday night at the Scotiabank Centre.
Mike Poole and Terry Thomas combined for 51 points to lead Halifax to a 121-76 victory and propel them to the Atlantic Division Finals.
The first quarter was close with Halifax having a 23-19 lead, but the game blew open as Halifax won the second and third quarters by a combined score of 72-32. The Hurricanes were unstoppable. It didn't matter if the points came from the paint, tips, mid-range jumpers or three-point shots, they were hitting all-of-them. They shot 56.8 per cent from the field and 45.2 from three.
Thomas finished with 26 points and Poole 25.
"After five games you know what a team does and (Cape Breton) didn't really change much defensively through the games, so we knew what we wanted to look for today, so we just executed and hit our shots today," said Poole.
For Cape Breton, this was a disappointing end to their season. Outside of Game 2, the rest were decided by 10 points or less. Even though they won an elimination game in Game 4 playing the deciding one in Halifax was a different experience.
Cape Breton's two top players, Bruce Massey and Devin Sweetney combined for 26 points in the game.
In this game the building was electric and about 100 Cape Breton fans came down to watch | 341 |
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ScriptDrop marches towards 1b patients served, turning down an acquisition offer in the process
In cover story, issue one, the update by jayclouse 02/28/2019 Leave a Comment
by Jay Clouse
Change and growth are about the only constants for Nick Potts these days.
When I first met Nick, he was working in customer support at CoverMyMeds. CMM was still a startup and a long way off from their exit to McKesson in excess of $1B, making them Columbus's first unicorn startup.
I remember thinking he must've been a great coworker – from figuring out how to get called down to Contestant's Row on the Price is Right and winning the Showcase Showdown to organizing a company-wide lottery ticket pool, he just seemed smart.
"How I do with things is I go into research mode," Nick told us in April 2018. "So I researched the process to get on Price is Right."
That intelligence and intention has served him well as the founder and CEO of his own startup, ScriptDrop. ScriptDrop provides prescription delivery by seamlessly connecting pharmacies to their network of couriers.
When we first talked to Nick in April 2018, they were in 10 states and had 13 team members.
Since that interview, ScriptDrop has seen rapid growth. They are now live in over 24 states across the US, with the biggest states being California and Texas. They've grown from 13 employees to 30 full time employees and they are doing it all from Columbus, Ohio.
That growth has been met with a lot of outside interest. First, the ScriptDrop team walked away from $17M in committed ICO investment in early 2018. Then, in mid-2018, ScriptDrop received a "fairly substantial" acquisition offer. Nick and his team have been faced with some high-stakes decisions.
"I have a lot of conviction and am super stubborn. From the very beginning I've said this is not about money for me. So, when those opportunities came up, we of course listened to the offer from the monetary perspective…but then I had dozens of questions on<|fim_middle|> have as good of a relationship with your investors and board members as possible."
ScriptDrop subleased part of their office as the team grows to another Columbus startup, SHARE. SHARE is a microtransit service, and their proximity has led to a lot of collaboration and shared knowledge, an unexpected benefit that Nick says is "fantastic."
After a year of growth that he calls, "pretty astounding," Nick says ScriptDrop is poised for an even bigger year.
The company's model to enter into large partnerships began with Albertsons. Today, ScriptDrop works with six different pharmacy partners. It just formed a strategic partnership with Postmates and their courier network, which covers 80% of ScriptDrop's US market.
Nick and his team also won a large RFP with a hospital system, which will give them the ability to offer prescription delivery at the physician's office for the first time – instead of at pharmacies.
And in the next couple of months, the team is planning to release their first consumer-facing application to create a new growth channel.
Nick has grown a lot personally, too. From the early beginnings of the company, he and his team have worked with an executive coach to strengthen their relationships as a team.
Despite the growth, Nick says ScriptDrop will never leave Columbus, though he leaves the door open for satellite offices. With a strong team, an office to grow into, and a lot of strategic partners, Nick is looking ahead.
"We have already had a very big year, and this is only the beginning. We have a number of investors who are very interested and issued term sheets, but we want to do it very thoughtfully," Nick said. "This next investor is important strategically for ScriptDrop — we are bringing on a partner, not a check. So we need to be hyper selective."
Jay Clouse is co-founder of The Up Company, co-host of the upside podcast, and author for Linkedin Learning / Lynda.com. Jay spent the last 6+ years as a global organizer and facilitator for Startup Weekend, based in Columbus, OH. He built and sold a ticketing company (Tixers), worked for a venture-backed startup in Columbus (Olive), and now runs an online accelerator for early stage founders (Unreal Collective).
listen to upside | the structure, autonomy, and sticking with the vision."
Nick and the ScriptDrop team came to the conclusion that the ICO wouldn't benefit patients and the acquisition offer was being made defensively. Neither was in line with ScriptDrop's mission to help one billion patients.
The growth of the ScriptDrop team has come, in part, due to an acquisition of their own.
In November, 2018, ScriptDrop acquired Matched Pattern, a nine-person software engineering firm led by veteran Columbus developers.
But the acquisition didn't come without its own challenges.
"We planned for it a lot, but it's never as seamless as we conceptually think it will be. Everyone was fully bought in, excited…but you have to reset communications the day that happens," Nick said.
"We were used to communicating one way, but we effectively doubled [headcount] on a Monday. We had to reset communications and the way we communicate, and it's definitely more challenging than we thought it would be."
The team, occupying three separate offices, quickly outgrew the available space at Rev1 Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund in Columbus, Ohio, which offers startup services, space, mentoring, and connections.
Once again, Nick was forced to make a decision.
For four months, he worked with a real estate agent to find a new office to call home for the growing team. They landed in the former office of 2Checkout, an early online payments company.
At CoverMyMeds, Nick saw firsthand what it looked like for a team of over 100 employees to moved into a new office space.
"It was a very tricky transition," he said, "and they executed it really well, but it was still a lot of work and time spent elsewhere instead of growing the business. Which as a smaller company, is very difficult for us to do right now."
So they moved into a space that was about five times larger than he needed initially, with a total capacity that he estimates around 150.
Between turning down a major acquisition offer, acquiring Matched Pattern, and moving into an office much larger than their immediate needs, Nick says he's felt some tension with investors, which he explained as growing pains.
"Scriptdrop could grow faster than I can grow. I may not always be the right person to run this company," he said. "It's the same with investors. As a company if you scale quickly, you could grow more quickly than they could help you with."
"Some take it really well and some do not take it really well. The key is trying to | 523 |
On Thursday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their Board of<|fim_middle|> enabled the Thalians to contribute millions to the Mental Health Center at Cedars-Sinai and to UCLA's Operation Mend, which helps military veterans recover from the physical and psychological wounds of war.
All three awards will be presented at the Academy's 7th Annual Governors Awards held on Saturday, November 14 in Los Angeles. | Governors decision to present special Oscar statuettes to Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds and Gena Rowlands.
Lee is a trail-blazing director, champion of independent film, and Academy Award nominee best known for "Do the Right Thing," "Malcolm X" and "Inside Man." Lee's feature credits include "Mo' Better Blues," "Jungle Fever," "Crooklyn," "He Got Game," "Miracle at St. Anna" and "Red Hook Summer." He currently serves as the artistic director of the graduate film program at NYU.
Rowlands started her career in 1950s live television. Since then she has appeared in 40 feature films including "Lonely Are the Brave," "Faces," "Minnie and Moskowitz," "Opening Night," "Another Woman," "Unhook the Stars," "Hope Floats," "Playing by Heart," "The Notebook" and "Broken English." Most notably, she received Academy Award nominations for her performances in "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) and "Gloria" (1980), both directed by her husband and frequent collaborator, John Cassavetes.
What isn't so well known about Reynolds is her work as a founding member of the Thalians, a charitable organization conceived and sustained by entertainers to promote awareness and treatment of mental health issues. She served as president almost continuously from 1957 to 2011, adding numerous terms as board chair and frequently presiding over its annual fundraising gala. Her tireless efforts have | 322 |
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Newcomer Yana Rose Releases Single 'Tainted Heart' and Debut EP
Yana Rose only started releasing music this year, and has already developed a distinct sound that sets her apart from the rest. Even though she lives in the singer-songwriter field, she offers a little more from a production standpoint and her new EP 'Another Missed Sunset' is testament to that.
Focus track 'Tainted Heart' tells an introspective tale of love that went wrong. Her lyrics give a great description of a modern day breakup, and even though the meaning behind it is quite sad, It's something you could hear on the radio, or in a club, which is quite impressive in its own right.
When asked about the song, she says.
<|fim_middle|> Yana, and it's exciting to imagine what the next chapter brings. Check out the new EP below. | "Tainted Heart was my way of reflecting on a past situation with fresh eyes. I was head over heels for this guy at the time and the small potential that we could end up together kept me holding on for any bit of hope. Now, years after it's ended, I can look back on all of it a bit more objectively and see how awful of a situation that was for me and how its effects smear into the present."
It's not hard to envision a big response to this track as she embarks on the next step of her journey, moving fast into 2023. For now, this year has been a great one for | 131 |
Q: Find a farm's database server and instance in PowerShell How can I find the SQL server name AND instance where my databases are stored using PowerShell? Assuming I am not using an alias and can't check cliconfg.
In servers in farm, I can see the server name but no the instance. I have the<|fim_middle|>([System.string]::IsNullOrEmpty($s.Instance))
{
$svc.DisplayName
}
else
{
$svc.DispalyName + "\" + $s.Instance
}
}
}
}
Stop-SPAssignment -Global
| same issue if I run
Get-SPServer | select name
If I select any of the other properties (role, serviceinstances, etc.) only the name gets displayed.
Another close one was the cmdlet Get-SPDatabase with parameter -ServerInstance.. but I have to know the server instance.
I found this block of C# code, but I'm not sure how to run it. Can someone explain how I can run the C# code to get instance name?
A: If you use the commandlet Get-SPDatabase there are several properties of the returned object that can give you the information you need.
$db = (Get-SPDatabase)[0]
$db.Server
Will print out the full server name, and I would assume instance, for that database. Another interesting property would be
$db.DatabaseConnectionString
That will print out something like
Data Source=SP2013;Initial Catalog=SP2013_State_Service_DB;Integrated Security=True;Enlist=False;Pooling=True;Min Pool Size=0;Max Pool Size=100;Connect Timeout=15
Data Source will contain the full server and instance name as well. I'll convert that code for you and add it as an edit.
Here is the code on the link you gave converted to PoSh. I have not wrapped it in a function as I am not sure how you might want to use it...
if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null )
{
Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
}
Start-SPAssignment -Global
$farm = Get-SPFarm
foreach ($server in $farm.Servers)
{
foreach ($svc in $server.ServiceInstances)
{
if($svc -is [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDatabaseServiceInstance])
{
$s = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDatabaseServiceInstance]$svc;
if | 412 |
Tag: A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Striking Replica watch
Easily the quirkiest and most entertaining-to-describe watch collection made by German A. Lange & Söhne Replica watch is the Zeitwerk. Originally surfaced about a decade ago, that the Zeitwerk set is typified with its digital hour and electronic minute screen for the moment<|fim_middle|> testimonials concerning the"best watches," then proceed to make a purchase not ultimately understanding or enjoying what they're purchasing. This is sometimes unfortunate because the road to knowing many nice timepieces isn't one of merely earning enough money, but rather of being educated enough to love the art form and technology behind it. In other words, nobody actually understands what makes the Zeitwerk Strikng Time a intriguing machine or complex timepiece unless they have spent years being subjected to the subject of horology.
Having said that, place a Zeitwerk Dramatic Time watch into the hands of a rookie watch enthusiast and they'll no doubt be impressed. The weighty solid gold instance, handsome dial, and gorgeous hand-decorated and -built movement are exciting for anyone to experience. To understand how an Replica A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Jumping Seconds Watch movement feels distinct in contrast to lesser ones, to fathom the intriguing complexity of this motion (like the continuous force mechanism), and to appreciate the many hours of decoration and craft that enter every watch is a level of culture that can't be purchased — but just earned.
Author replicaonlinePosted on November 18, 2020 November 18, 2020 Categories A. Lange & Söhne RplicaTags A. Lange & Söhne Rplica, A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk Striking Replica watch | , along with a conventional analog subsidiary seconds dial and power reserve indicator. The total design of the watch is motivated by an historical"digital clock" in Dresden's opera house that was developed in collaboration with the founder of the brand in the 19th century. A. Lange & Söhne Rec watchmakers and movement engineers have clearly had an enjoyable time together with the Zeitwerk, that is currently its own family of watches inside the Saxon brand. What I feel nobody initially anticipated was for this more"modern-looking" set from the otherwise highly conventional manufacturer to be an area where A. Lange & Söhne experiments with musical (chiming) watch.
Today, I have an comprehensive look in the A. Lange & Sohne Zeitwerk Dramatic Time (initially surfaced on aBlogtoWatch here) — that is a $100,000-plus timepiece which melodically chimes once every 15 minutes, behaving as a"quarter-striker" (in the classical parlance). This function may be switched on or off and can be a less common chiming function together with the more common minute repeater. A. Lange & Sohne does, indeed, make minute repeater versions of this Zeitwerk — as well as other"strikers" that really are another breed (such as the Zeitwerk Decimal Strike). The complexity in explaining these watches complete and nuances that make these various models distinct from one puts this assortment of watches into a basket that I'll refer as being for"experienced collectors and timepiece experts only."
Let's reflect on this concept for a moment. There's a tendency for well-funded novice watch collectors to go online, reference a handful of"top 10 lists" and | 357 |
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About a dozen years ago, Porter-Cable introduced the "world's first" cordless router, powered by a 19.2-volt nickel-cadmium battery. The battery sat on top of the tool, which made it a bit top-heavy, but the performance seemed adequate in the few minutes that I got to play with it.
I thought then, as I do now, that a cordless router made sense. No more cord to sling over my shoulder. But the router is no longer in production.
Last month, DeWalt introduced the "world's first" cordless<|fim_middle|> vs. old and reliable
Delta brand enters new independent arena
New look coming soon to Woodshop News | 8-1/4" contractor saw and two 12" miter saws, powered by 60-volt lithium-ion batteries. Again, these tools appear to perform as well as their corded cousins. But unlike the router, I see no real need for these tools. I work in a shop with plenty of outlets. If I worked on a job site in the middle of nowhere, without power, then I'd probably be more impressed.
But the 60-volt batteries are interesting. They're called Flex-Volt because they can run DeWalt's 20- to 120-volt tools.
The Flex-Volt batteries have 15 four-volt cells. When used with a 20-volt tool, they run in three groups of five cells, each group running in parallel, to output 20 volts. DeWalt says the Flex-Volt batteries provide up to four times the runtime of its 20-volt Max batteries. Two battery packs are combined to run the new 120-volt miter saws.
"The impact of the Flex-Volt system will be felt throughout the construction industry on each and every job site," says Frank Mannarino, president of DeWalt's professional products group. "This new platform packs the power required for heavy-duty applications, makes it easy to exchange corded tools for cordless and ensures that our existing 20-volt Max users get the benefit of added runtime without making the 20-volt Max system obsolete."
Meanwhile, Milwaukee Tool introduced its "One-Key" system that links tool batteries to a phone-based app. A.J. Hamler reports:
"One-Key monitors and reports on tools equipped with the system, but adds map-based tracking capabilities and a host of other features. You can, for example, control a tool's characteristics for specific jobs.
"Let's say you want an impact driver to have a specific torque and speed for a job featuring hundreds of similar driving tasks — such as a deck — just call it up on the app and set what you want. Now, start driving deck screws. The driver uses the ramp-up speed you set, drives at the speed you want and cuts out automatically at the exact moment the correct torque tells it the screw is set flush while you're still holding the trigger. Load up another screw, press it to the work, and it powers up and repeats the process as many times as you want.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. You can tell a One-Key-equipped reciprocating saw how to cut to maximize battery life and minimize heat buildup. Instruct a job-site light how bright you want it, how long to shine and when to turn off. Can't find a tool? Call it up on the app and see who it was assigned to and then find it on a map."
What will they think of next?
This article originally appeared in the August 2016 issue.
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Silver State Sights - The Fourth Ward School
Located at 537 South "C" Street in Virginia CIty
By Ben Deach
Published: Oct. 20, 2020 at 12:10 PM PDT
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. (KOLO) - As you enter Virginia City from the side closest to Carson City, it's one of the first buildings you come across, and one that you can<|fim_middle|> after a fire burned down so much of the town.
"It's unique in every place," said Executive Director Nora Stefu. "Even coming up the stairs and opening that 50 pound door to come into the museum."
The building is authentic, but the upkeep and restoration has been a year's long process.
"Several million dollars later thanks to the people who had the foresight to protect this building back in the 40′s and 50′s, we now have a Comstock icon," said Virginia City native Ron Gallagher.
The Fourth Ward School could accommodate more than 1,000 students and was very advanced technologically for its time with indoor flushing toilets and plumbing on each floor, drinking fountains, single desks for each student, and an advanced heating and ventilation system.
Classes took place at the fourth ward until 1936, and fifty years later the building was reopened at the museum it is now. Today you'll find a classroom set up like it would have been when it was open. An alumni room, even a museum dedicated to the mining that made Virginia City famous.
Copyright 2020 KOLO. All rights reserved. | 't help but take notice of.
The Fourth Ward School is a four story building that like so many buildings in Virginia City was built in 1876 – the year | 35 |
Q: Theoretical calculation of DDR3L transfer speed I am not sure if this questions belongs to this stack exchange site but I didn't find other better one. In case it doesn't, let me know and I will move it to some other place.
I am working with a QorIQ T2080 Soc and DDR3L (DDR3-1866 mode, cycle time: 1.071ns @ CL=13 ) memory (model MT41K256M16). The configuration of the DDR3L allows me 1866M/T Data Rate with a 64bits bus-width, so, the theoretical peak achievable data-rate would be 14.9GB/s (1866Mhz * 64bits/8). However, performing a DMA memory copy test, the data-transfer-rate that I obtain is about 4GB<|fim_middle|> source and destination of your transfers happen to reside in different banks, there may be no additional cost of opening a page. Otherwise, the controller may have to close and open pages on every access, which would slow down the transfers significantly (~30-50 ns each time). The controller may also choose to close the DRAM page after each access, implementing so called "closed page" policy, if configured to do so.
There will always be page open/close overhead when crossing pages, but it should be amortized in large sequential reads and writes.
Unfortunately, to get a more definitive answer, you have to dig through the DRAM and SoC/DMA controller datasheets, if they are available.
ADDED: I forgot to ask: why are you concerned about DMA memory to memory throughput? Since DMA is mostly intended for device access, it may not be designed for high speed and you may have better luck copying memory by CPU.
| /s (2GB/s x 2 because I am copying memory).
I would like to understand where this value comes from.
From what I know, correct me if I am wrong, DMAs normally create the data path when moving memory, and so, data doesn't go through them. Therefore, I didn't consider it as a data-rate limiting factor.
I reached the conclusion that the memory could be the limiting factor and made the following supposition:
The datasheet specify a burst length of 8 transactions of the bus size (64b). It is also specified a CAS latency of 13 for each column access to the memory (cycle time of 1.07ns). As I said before, the maximum peak achievable data-rate should be 14.9GB/s. However, each time we access a new column from the ram, data will only be received during 8 cycles at a frequency of 1866Mhz and then we will have to wait the true latency [3]: CL * 1.07 = 13.9 ns . Hence, I obtain a theoretical worst case:
$$ \frac{64B \: transferred \; in \; a \; burst }{\frac{8 \: burst \; length}{1.866 \: Ghz}+14ns}= 3.4 \; GB/s$$
In [1] they mention that commonly the DDR controller is able to obtain a higher throughput, getting even close to the peak data-rate.
My question is: Is this supposition right?
Other sources where I looked:
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*DDR2 data rate and data bus confusion
*DDR3 Data Prefetch
*Memory Performance Speed Latency
A: Your calculation of the peak throughput is correct, given the input.
The actual throughput largely depends on the design of the DMA and DRAM controllers. The 3.4 GB/s is a good approximation, but it relies on the assumption that the DMA controller does one 64-byte transfer at a time and each transfer hits already opened (active) DRAM bank.
In DRAM, reads and writes may be partially overlapping, so that the column address of the next operation is sent to the DRAM chip while it is still transferring data for the previous access. This is how actual throughput may get close to the theoretical peak. For this to happen, there should be enough buffer space to store the burst data, obviously. In memory to CPU transfers, usually the CPU cache can quickly consume or produce a relatively large chunk of bytes, when prefetching from memory. I am not sure about DMA controllers, though. Your DMA controller may have FIFO buffers, but I don't know if there are big enough to sustain a transfer longer than a single burst. Lacking enough buffers may be the reason you are not getting close to the theoretical throughput.
Another aspect is related to DRAM pages. In order to issue reads and writes, the corresponding page has to be open ("activated"). Typically, DRAM chips consist of several banks, each having its own page buffer. If | 637 |
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5 Myths of Ad Tech
April 1, 2013 by Brian Morrissey
As the march toward automated ad buying continues, many marketers get headaches with the crowded landscape charts, impenetrable jargon and byzantine supply chain that appears to be adding just as much complexity as it's stripping out.
We spoke to executives on the buy and sell side for what they see as the misunderstanding of how these markets operate. A big theme you'll often hear is around the lack of transparency. For all the talk of ad tech providing a far better system than relationship-driven sales and ad networks, there's plenty going on behind the scenes that is far from clear.
The Highest Bid Wins
Many would have you believe that the online ad system is just like Wall Street. Wrong. There are many differences. One of the biggest is the winning bid price is hardly transparent. The practices of "bid biasing" is common through exchanges. That means that one buyer's bid will be registered at a higher price than the others. Now, if you're the bidder who bid $2 for an impression and the "winner" bid $1.75, biasing feels a bit like penalizing you. Biasing is done for a variety of reasons, including the same kind of relationship-driven features of regular ad sales.
Brands Get What They Pay For
One of the most controversial facets of ad tech is arbitrage. Ad networks were dinged for years because they arbitraged ad inventory. They'd clear big margins through these resale methods, much to the consternation of both agencies and publishers. There are now questions surrounding arbitrage methods of trading desks. Often these agency entities act more like a vendor than an agent of the client. GroupM, in particular, is often called out by competitors for taking a "semi-transparent" approach to disclosing to clients whether it is arbitraging inventory. (GroupM says clients know full well its approach.) The debate brings up the point that transactional transparency in exchanges is still more of an ideal than a reality.
The Private Exchange Nirvana
Private exchanges were supposed to solve many of the problems publishers faced with automated ad buying. The shift to ad exchanges for improved efficiency left publishers dealing with severe pressure on their CPMs across the board. At the same time, publishers knew that many direct-response budgets were only going to programmatic buys, meaning they'll never get at them without a solution. Private exchanges, in theory, provide that middle ground of added operational efficiency along with control over pricing and sales conflict to put a publisher at ease. The problem: "There's no scale there," as one publisher said.
Big-Data Era
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Long hours, low pay, endless hateful comments and today's starkly polarized political climate is adding fuel to the fire, according to social media managers. | yet it always was the lifeblood of marketing. If anything, there's just more of it now to hopefully turn into insights that turn into business results. The ad tech world has a data fetish. The feeling is the more, the better. This isn't the case. "The value of data and all the ways you can target through overlays is very much in question," said one publisher. "We're at this precipice where publishers might take it all back ourselves."
Exchanges Filter Out Bad Inventory
This is a myth that's long been hard to buy into. The entire premise of ad tech, more often than not, is to churn ever more volume. This volume addiction can be seen in how the industry speaks of itself. Ad tech players brag about how many transactions they handle, how many impressions they see and how much data they crunch. The flaw is there's a business-model problem. Ad tech middlemen get paid when transactions happen, whether they should or not. Publishers, at least those with gobs of inventory on exchanges, certainly want more transactions. So do many agencies, ultimately, since they just want to fulfill an arbitrary number on a spreadsheet — and they have an interest through trading desks of more transactions. The result: there's a lot of junk being bought and sold. "There is a lot of | 267 |
Green Back, Motivated
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. --With his four-game suspension in the past, tight end Virgil Green will no longer be working out at a local fitness center every day.
He also might have less time to play Madden and watch SportsCenter, which Green said were his primary post-workout activities.
When he rejoined his teammates Monday at the club<|fim_middle|> be in meetings and see his work ethic and where he's at, it just motivates me as a young player," he said. "Just being on the field with Peyton, you just feel like everything is at ease, everything is under control because he has been in every situation you could ever imagine. So just being on the field with him is always exciting."
Though he regrets the time he missed, Green said the experience, as a whole, was a positive one. He returns to the team with an amplified appreciation for the opportunity he has with the Broncos, after working out with athletes who are still looking for a home in the NFL.
"I got to just appreciate the situation I'm in because some guys weren't able to come to a team today," Green said.
"Honestly, it brought back a new excitement for me now," he continued. "I'm excited just to practice. I can't wait to get to practice. This experience really hasn't been bad for me because I've just embraced the positive things that have come with it." | 's Dove Valley headquarters, it didn't seem like the second-year tight end had any problem with that.
"I woke up this morning and I couldn't even stay in my bed," said Green with a smile stretched across his face. "I just got up, started listening to music and getting my day going, getting back to my old ways. Today (felt) much like Christmas Day."
The 2011 seventh-round draft pick played in 15 games last year, his rookie campaign, contributing mostly as a blocker.
While Green said he watched "every snap" of the Broncos' games this year, getting through Sundays was the most difficult.
"On gamedays, it seemed like forever," he said. "You're just watching the game, like, 'Man, I wish I could be out there.'"
Now that he's back with the team, Green is looking forward to building chemistry with the quarterback leading the Broncos. The 24-year old said he has been watching Peyton Manning since he was 10 years old. Being on the same team as Manning is a reality that he could hardly describe.
"Just to be in practice with the guy, just to | 239 |
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For the sixteenth time in a row, Armin van Buuren locked himself in the studio to select the right tracks for this seminal mix album. | JOOF Editions Vol.3
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Labeled "a national treasure of Trance Music" by Radio 1's Pete Tong, John has dropped his brand of underground science at more than 160 venues over the last 3 years. His record label J00F Recordings and his radio show, Global Trance Grooves, provides the most diehard of fanbases with their monthly fix of J00F.
There's no one who lives, breaths & personifies the electronic music underground like John 00 Fleming. In 2014 he mixed and released the second of his epic 4hr-long JOOF Editions music compilations. Over the following twelve months, the release established itself as the ne plus ultra in breaking the fourth wall and liberating the dusk-till-dawn set from the confines of the club.
To build JOOF Editions Volume 3', he has marshaled an impressive production contingent to power its gripping, enthralling, near 300-minute runtime. From Moby to Matt Holliday, Airwave to Ticon, Max Graham to Manu Riga, it incorporates the work of legend and nu-guard alike.
Fittingly, the album also comes with much music from inside the JOOF label group. In and amongst its 50+ tracks, you'll find the studio wares of Rick Pier O'Neil, The Digital Blonde, Ovnimoon, Gordey Tsukanov, Satinka and other producers too numerous to mention. You'll also find plenty from imaginative, deeper-frequency operators like Jerome Isma-Ae, Gai Barone, Tim Penner, as well as hurricane force trancerteers like Sean Tyas, Will Atkinson, Christopher Lawrence and Relativ.
A musical jigsaw, a sonic mosaic, a can't-miss experience, 'The Journey' passages darker corridors, emerges into light-filled rooms… and then heads straight back down the rabbit hole again. Entertained? You will be! Compilation to be | 465 |
in: Articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Casablanca-class escort carriers,
World War II escort aircraft carriers of the United States
Ships built in Washington (state)
USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81)
USS Severn (AO-61) (foreground) and USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81), (background) steaming together
Name: USS Rudyerd Bay
Builder: Kaiser Shipyards
Laid down: 24 October 1943
Launched: 12 January 1944
Commissioned: 25 February 1944
Decommissioned: 11 June 1946
Struck: 1 August 1959
Fate: Sold for scrapping January 1960
Class & type: Casablanca-class escort carrier
Displacement: 7,800 tons (light)
10,400 tons (full load)
Length: 512 ft 3 in (156.13 m) overall
Beam: 65 ft 2 in (19.86 m)
108 ft 1 in (32.94 m) maximum width
Draft: 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion: 2 × 5-cylinder reciprocating Skinner Unaflow engines
4 × 285 psi boilers
2 shafts, 9,000 shp<|fim_middle|>Steamer Bay
Cape Esperance
Takanis Bay
Thetis Bay
Makassar Strait
Windham Bay
Makin Island
Lunga Point
Bismarck Sea
Salamaua
Matanikau
Preceded by: Sangamon class
Followed by: Commencement Bay class
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Speed: 19.3 knots (35.7 km/h)
Range: 10,240 nmi (18,960 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 860 officers and men
Embarked Squadron: 50 to 56 officers and men
Total: 910 to 916 officers and men.
Armament: 1 × 5-inch/38 cal. DP gun
16 × 40 mm AA cannon in 8 twin mounts
20 × 20 mm AA machine guns in single mounts
Aircraft carried: 28
Part of: United States Pacific Fleet (1944-1946)
Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946-1959)
Operations: Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
Philippines campaign
Invasion of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Operation Magic Carpet
Awards: 5 Battle stars
USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1118) on 24 October 1943 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, in Vancouver, Washington; launched on 12 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Scott E. Peck; acquired by the Navy on 25 February 1944, and commissioned the same day, with Captain C. S. Smiley in command.
Following shakedown off southern California, Rudyerd Bay ferried planes to Espiritu Santo in April and May; then she conducted qualification exercises off California into July. After this, she made another ferry run, this time to Majuro from 20 July to 26 July, escorted by O'Flaherty. On her return, she embarked Composite Squadron 77 (VC-77) and, on 8 August, she again headed west. At Eniwetok, she joined Task Group 30.8 (TG 30.8), the fast carrier forces' replenishment group, with which she arrived at Manus on 31 August.
During early September, she covered the replenishment group as the Third Fleet supported the Palau campaign. In October, she continued that cover as strikes against the Philippines began. On 18 October, she took on survivors of the Houston, transported them to Ulithi; whence in November, she resumed covering operations which continued into the new year.
On 29 December, Rudyerd Bay, with Nehenta Bay, tankers, and other ships, departed Ulithi. In the Philippine Sea until 10 January 1945, the replenishment group shifted to the South China Sea as the fast carriers continued support of the Lingayen assault and conducted strikes against enemy installations and shipping from Indochina to Formosa. On 22 January, they retired, via the Sulu and Mindanao Seas and Leyte Gulf, to Ulithi.
Rudyerd Bay remained at Ulithi until 10 February. She then proceeded to Saipan to prepare for the assault on Iwo Jima. Departing the Marianas in TG 51.17, she provided air cover for the troop transports en route to the Volcano Islands, from 16 February to 18 February. On the 18th, she joined TG 52.2 and from then until 8 March, operated to the east of Iwo Jima as VC-77 flew support missions over the contested island and antisubmarine patrols over the surrounding waters.
Anchored at Ulithi from 11 March to 20 March, Rudyerd Bay, with VC-96 now embarked, got underway for the Ryukyus in Task Unit 52.1.2 (TU 52.1.2) on 21 March. On 25 March, she arrived at her position 60 miles to the south of Okinawa and began launching strikes against enemy positions on Kerama Retto and on Okinawa. With the exceptions of 1 April and 8 April, VC-96 flew daily support missions until 17 April. On 13 April, 14 April, and 15 April, the squadron target was shifted from Okinawa Gunto to Sakishima Gunto. On 17 April, Rudyerd Bay rotated to TG 50.8. For the next 10 days, she provided air cover for that group, then returned to TG 52.1 and resumed support missions for the troops fighting ashore. On 8 May, she again joined TG 50.8, which she covered until retiring from the Ryukyus on 20 May. By that time, VC-96 had flown 1,257 missions in support of the Okinawa offensive.
Rudyerd Bay arrived at Guam on 23 May, detached VC-96, and embarked VC-85 as passengers for transport back to the United States.
By the end of July, the escort carrier had completed a shipyard overhaul and had been reassigned to plane ferry duty. On 1 August, she departed Alameda for the Marshalls. On 14 August, hostilities ceased. Rudyerd Bay continued on, discharged cargo and passengers at Eniwetok, then proceeded to Ulithi and the Philippines, whence she moved VC-33 to Okinawa. There, she embarked another squadron for the voyage back to California.
On 8 October, she arrived at San Francisco, underwent repairs and alterations to enable her to carry troops, then joined the "Magic-Carpet" fleet. Into the new year, she brought veterans of the Pacific war back to the United States. On 23 January 1946, she completed her last trans-Pacific run; and on 18 February, she departed California for the east coast. Transiting the Panama Canal on 28 February, she off-loaded aircraft at Jacksonville, Florida, in early March, and proceeded to Boston to begin inactivation.
Decommissioned on 11 June 1946, Rudyerd Bay, redesignated CVU-81 on 12 June 1955, and AKV-29 in 1959, remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, berthed at Boston, Massachusetts, until struck from the Navy List on 1 August 1959. In January 1960, she was sold to Cantieri Navali Santa Maria, Genoa, Italy, for scrapping.
Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81) earned five battle stars during World War II.
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Casablanca-class escort carrier
Liscome Bay
Manila Bay
Natoma Bay
St. Lo
Kalinin Bay
Kasaan Bay
Fanshaw Bay
Kitkun Bay
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Hoggatt Bay
Kadashan Bay
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Ommaney Bay
Petrof Bay
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Sargent Bay
Shamrock Bay
Shipley Bay
Sitkoh Bay
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In my dream work with clients, I help them explore the potential metaphors of their dreams and to enhance their 'dream learning' as part of their own personal growth. | It's not about giving your power over to others–but about releasing it from within yourself!
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Winston W<|fim_middle|> tell stories of human relationships. | ächter Fine Art, New York, is excited to announce The Pleasure Garden, Catherine Howe's first exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by art critic and journalist Sarah Schmerler. Recently, Howe exchanged her studio in Midtown Manhattan for a barn in the Hudson Valley as a means of retreat and…
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Jil Weinstock and Amanda Manitach. Working in different media, both artists create purposeful patterns in their works through the arrangement of objects, lines, and text as a means to create symbolic narratives about identity and place. Both Weinstock and Manitach explore language in their work, examining and playing with the shifting meaning of text as its context is changed or removed.
"Vapor," An Exhibition of New Sculpture Works by Ann Gardner
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to announce Vapor, an exhibition of new sculpture works by Ann Gardner. Inspired by air and water, these shimmering mosaics, glass domes, and orbs create dynamic experiences for viewers as they move around them.
Venn Luminosity, a new exhibition by Michael Schultheis
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to announce Venn Luminosity, a poetic new series of large-scale acrylic paintings and bronze sculptures by Michael Schultheis. Drawing on the concept of a Venn diagram in which two circles overlap, Schultheis uses mathematics to | 308 |
More than 20 Million<|fim_middle|>'t mean every single family would benefit. I've corrected the text to reflect this. | Families Would Benefit From an Increase in the Minimum Wage
The CBO released a study today on the effect of raising the minimum wage to $10.10. The chart below shows their main finding: millions of families outside the upper middle class would see a net increase in income (partly from higher wages and partly from higher economic growth) while families in the top 20 percent would see a decline (primarily from having to pay slightly higher prices for goods and services):
The cost of this higher income is fewer jobs: CBO estimates that employment would fall by about 0.3 percent, or 500,000 workers. That strikes me as being on the high side of consensus estimates, but it's probably in the right ballpark.
As economic policies go, that's not bad. In the real world, there's no such thing as a policy that has benefits with zero costs. There are always compromises. In this case, in return for the small job losses, 16 million workers would get a direct wage increase; another 8 million would get an indirect wage increase; and nearly a million workers would be lifted out of poverty. That's about as good as it gets.
All that said, this is a report that I suspect CBO shouldn't have bothered doing. Their value-add lies in assessing the effects of legislation that no one else is studying. But the minimum wage has been studied to death. CBO really has nothing to add here except its own judgment about how to average out the dozens of estimates in published academic papers. In other words, they aren't adding anything important to the conversation at all. This report is going to get a lot of attention, but it really doesn't teach us anything new.
UPDATE: This post originally said that 80 percent of all families would benefit from a minimum wage increase. But the CBO figures don't actually say that. Families throughout the bottom 80 percent of the income spectrum would benefit, and each individual income bucket that CBO studied would see a net increase in income, but that doesn | 424 |
How we sold 50% in 12 hours?
100 tickets were released March 21st at 12:00.
The day our whole team had been eagerly anticipating. We all gathered round at 11:55 and sat watching the screen, praying that everything would go to plan. There has been months of planning to get to a point where we could release tickets. This is the fourth Startup Extreme and each year we aim to improve upon the last.
Startup Extreme is limited capacity and invite only, where most tickets are pre-booked through partners. Today we only had 100 tickets to release to the open guestlist.
AUTOMATING THE S*** OUT OF IT!
This year,<|fim_middle|> to get on the guest list and receive your personal access code to buy a ticket.
Ambitious startup-founders, investors, media and innovators can apply to join. | our goal was to perfect the logistics. The quicker the planning, marketing & automising was completed, the more time it would leave us to maximise the Startup Extreme experience.
"We saw ticket after ticket being snapped up in record speed"
This goal saw us automising our ticketing process, we had dabbled with this in the past but had never set out to automise from day 1. The process was assisted by our trusty CRM system - Hubspot & helped along with Eventbrite, Typeform, Zapier to name a few!
Automation is a fantastic process and is widely used as a way to save time, reduce costs, reduce errors, increase transparency in business. Whereas once it was only considered by big corporations, it is now becoming ever more popular with startups & scaleups. Read about why it could benefit your business here.
This process allowed us to watch ticket after ticket sell out; it was surreal. Cheers filled the room. Though we had hoped the event would be popular amongst the startup community, we were amazed to see such high levels of interest in the weeks leading up to ticket release. Automating saved us tonnes of time, allowing us to keep those interested informed and up to speed.
Hard work by each member of the team and a fantastic automation process translated into 50% of tickets selling out on launch day, massively exceeding our expectations! To those lucky ticket holders, we promise to give you an experience to remember on 12th - 14th June 2018.
- Startup Extreme Dream team finally automising the ticket release and seeing those first tickets fly away!
Interested in attending Startup Extreme 2018?
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2015 has seen Girrawheen Senior High School<|fim_middle|> Girrawheen and many have signed up to volunteer again in 2016. The School Volunteer Program is a fantastic part of Girrawheen Senior High School and will continue to help young people succeed. | welcome some new faces to the School Volunteer Program, as well as having our much loved long term volunteers return to help our students out. The School Volunteer Program aims to strengthen school engagement by providing high quality mentoring programs. Volunteers undergo training to help them support students and ultimately improve both the education and life outcomes for our students. Volunteers are matched with a student and act as a mentor for that student over the course of a year.
This year we have seen the positive influence that mentors impart on our students as students have built their confidence, improved literacy and continued to develop pro social behaviour. Mentors have engaged in various activities with students including cooking, basketball, reading, art projects and general help with school work.
Volunteers in the program have detailed their positive experience whilst working with students at | 156 |
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The 5G Race Is On, Now That The Technology Is Almost Ready
With most of the final touches in place, companies will start mass-producing chips to get superfast phones in your hands by 2019.
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By Sean Captain 4 minute Read
Fifth-generation wireless, aka 5G, is on its way from theoretical to almost reality, now that engineers have finalized the technical standards for a major part of it. That means companies like Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung can start mass-producing the chips that will power faster cellular connections in phones by 2019 and a host of other devices, such cars and drones, in the following years.
How much faster will it be? Possibly up to 5 gigabits per second download—beating the best smartphones today, which peak around a still-impressive 1Gbps. For reference, the average wired home broadband speed in the U.S. is just 0.064Gbps. That hints at a near future in which you're not stuck with the one or two (or zero) home and office broadband providers in your neighborhood. 5G has another kind of speed boost: The delay, or latency from when you request data like a web page to when you get something back, could be as little as 1 millisecond—10 times faster than today's 4G.
Related: The Wild Technology That Will Make 5G Wireless Work
Those are best-case scenarios, and it will still take a while to see what 5G services end up looking like. Wireless providers and equipment makers will spend the next year continuing limited trials in parts of cities—as small as a shopping center or a few apartment buildings.
5G services will initially run on top of 4G networks. The fast radio connection between devices and cell towers will be pure 5G. That's the component that has just been finalized. But all the technology behind the towers—the routing, the divvying of bandwidth—will use current technologies that don't include 5G capabilities beyond pure speed. The "core network" standards that make those capabilities possible may be finalized in the next six to nine months. "In cases where an operator already has an LTE network…they can use this first release and start to place orders, build out their network, and have devices for sale under that network probably as early as 2019," says Rob Topol, general manager for 5G advanced technologies at Intel.
The 5G Yet To Come
The second part of 5G will enable services well beyond phones. Those include ultra-reliable, mission-critical connections for autonomous cars and drones; guaranteed low latency for devices like wireless VR headsets; and low-power, low-bandwidth modes for ubiquitous "internet of things" connected devices like environmental sensors. "The core foundation of 5G is, you build a system that can evolve and adapt<|fim_middle|> a building's wired internet connection with a wireless link, typically to a roof-mounted antenna. This could be much cheaper than laying new fiber-optic cables and might allow new competitors to challenge the near monopolies of giant ISPs like Comcast or Charter.
Although the giant ISPs are also pursuing this business. Verizon has announced plans to provide fixed wireless in five cities in 2018, with Sacramento the first city announced. AT&T is testing fixed 5G connections in a market in Waco, Texas.
"They're going to…find out what's the interference like, what happens when everyone hops on at the same time, what are all the little nuances they need to understand before they can do wider and wider deployments," says Menezes. He follows up with an observation that applies to 5G as a whole. "Until they can start to do that, they're not going to be able to figure out what types of uses are going to make money."
Sean Captain is a Bay Area technology, science, and policy journalist. Follow him on Twitter @seancaptain. | to various requirements and new market opportunities through the lifetime of the system," says Serge Willenegger, an engineer and SVP for product management at Qualcomm who helped develop the 5G standard.
Finishing the radio standard first provides extra time for lots of things that engineers still have to figure out. One major challenge is the very short-range "millimeter wave" frequencies needed to provide the extra capacity that everything-connected 5G networks will need. The signals can't even travel as far as Wi-Fi signals, and can be blocked by obstacles as small as tree leaves.
Estimates from just a few months ago predicted that wireless carriers would have to install up to 300,000 new cellular transmitters in the U.S.—tripling the country's number of cell sites and causing a zoning nightmare. Chipmaker Qualcomm, however, believes the technology can work with a lot fewer antennas. Just using current cell sites, it was able to provide coverage for most of a several major U.S. cities, such as 65% for San Francisco. (Call me skeptical, through. I can barely get 4G in my apartment in the geographic heart of SF.)
Beyond technology, companies also have to test business models, says Bill Menezes, principal research analyst at Gartner. "Even though the vendor community like Qualcomm and Ericson, the carriers like ATT and Verizon and SK Telecom [in Korea] have identified potential use cases for [5G], none of them has been able to substantiate that they are going to be actual business cases," that people will pay for, he says.
One example is 5G fixed wireless. It replaces | 338 |
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auDA signs new Registry Licence Agreement with AusRegistry
Posted by Jo Lim on 18 November 2005
Future profits from org.au and asn.au sales to fund Australian Internet user organisations
Melbourne, 18 November 2005 - .au Domain Administration (auDA), the .au Domain Name Administrator, today announced that existing .au registry operator, AusRegistry, has signed a new Registry Licence Agreement with auDA following a competitive tendering process.
Chris Disspain CEO of auDA said, "AusRegistry was re-awarded the registry licence because of its superior technical & operational support, innovative marketing and education initiatives and its commitment to service excellence. As such, it's no surprise the majority of auDA accredited registrars provided letters of support in AusRegistry's tender document."
To coincide with the new appointment, AusRegistry has announced it will help fund the further development of Australia's Internet industry by donating future profits of sales of org.au and asn.au domain names to select Internet user organizations.
In addition, AusRegistry will provide all auDA accredited registrars with enhanced financial and administrative support (via its Marketing Subsidy Program) to educate Australian Internet users about the .au namespace.
Mr Disspain applauded AusRegistry's commitment to the Internet industry. He said, "These initiatives are evidence of AusRegistry's commitment to offering innovative services to registrars and its passionate support of Australian Internet users."
auDA and AusRegistry predict continued growth of .au registrations
Today's announcements come at a time of rapid growth of .au domain name registrations. In September 2005 the total number of registered com.au and net.au domain names exceeded 550,000. auDA and AusRegistry also forecast continued strong growth of .au registrations by businesses, not-for-profit groups and individuals alike.
"Australian Internet users are continuing to realise the integrity of the .au domain name system and also want to differentiate themselves on the World Wide Web by promoting their Australian nationality," Mr Disspain said.
AusRegistry to<|fim_middle|> the following functions:
develop and implement domain name policy
license 2LD registry operators
accredit and license registrars
implement consumer safeguards
facilitate .au Dispute Resolution Policy
represent .au at ICANN and other international fora.
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To kick off its new four-year term AusRegistry will also provide additional services to auDA accredited registrars including advanced, real time, statistical information and reporting. These services will help registrars gauge their overall business performance, analyse trends in the .au market and measure the success of their marketing campaigns.
To complement these services AusRegistry has committed to upgrading its hardware and software throughout 2006 in order to remain at the forefront of technological innovation.
Mr Disspain said he looked forward to working with AusRegistry for a second four-year term and thanked AusRegistry for its performance during the first term.
"I would like to congratulate AusRegistry for being awarded a second term. auDA is looking forward to partnering with them to further develop the Internet for the benefit of all Australians," Mr Disspain concluded.
.au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is an Australian not-for-profit company vested with the responsibility of operating the .au domain for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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David advises startups as well as high-growth businesses in the fields of design, media, technology and other creative sectors.
He is also a keynote speaker on business models and business growth in the creative and digital industries at events and conferences for startups.
Hundreds of creative and digital start-ups have benefited from David's creative industries business advice, coaching, mentoring, training workshops , books and presentations.
David works internationally helping creative and digital enterprises become even more successful. He does this by working with creative entrepreneurs to devise business models and marketing strategies that achieve success.
In the United Kingdom he has advised many startups in the creative and digital industries.
In Malaysia, David gave a presentation on business models in the creative and digital industries to startups based at Startup Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
David's first book 'T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity' has been described as a 'bible for startups' and is also highly acclaimed by creative entrepreneurs in established and high growth businesses<|fim_middle|> manage creative people.
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Contact David Parrish's offices in London, Manchester or Liverpool to find out more about how David can help your startup business, conference, event or other project to help startups in the creative, digital and cultural industries world-wide. | .
David has helped hundreds of businesses (including startups) in more than 50 countries to achieve greater success on their own terms, using smart business development techniques that fit with their creativity, ambitions and values.
David is a popular and inspiring keynote speaker at startup conference and startup events world wide. He is one of the most respected creative industries keynote speakers on creative enterprise, the creative economy, and creativity in business. His speaks about startup management as well as issues for more established businesses. He specialises in speaking at conferences and events for creative, digital and cultural enterprises including design, media and technology businesses. David is listed as a TED Speaker and was the keynote speaker at TEDx Napoli on the subject of creativity.
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<|fim_middle|> customers—this can create trust with partner organizations, supply chain, and customers
What else can organizations do to protect their websites?
For further details concerning these cybersecurity best practices, it is recommended that organizations view the document entitled, "Security considerations for your website (ITSM.60.005)".
Not only does the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security elaborate on the items discussed above, but it also provides a helpful checklist for organizations to use when developing and managing their websites. The checklist summarizes measures that are suggested to be implemented in order to address the common web application risks.
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By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 5 Minutes Read January 4, 2022
Security considerations for organizations' websites
On November 3, 2021, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security released an important document for governments as well as small/medium and large enterprises—it is entitled, "Security considerations when developing and managing your website (ITSAP.60.005)". It discusses security and privacy protection measures that organizations can start using in order to tackle the issue of cyber threats that can compromise websites.
While websites serve an important function for organizations, it is important to acknowledge that there are some significant dangers to be aware of—cyber threats have the potential to seriously compromise a website. The resulting damage can be considerable and affect business functions, revenue, and reputation.
What exactly are the threats? Some examples include:
injection attacks—any exploitation where a threat actor provides an untrusted input such as malicious code into a system to modify operations or data
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks—a threat actor uses XSS to compromise a web server and inject malicious code into trusted websites. When users visit the website, their browsers execute the script, putting cookies, session tokens, or sensitive information at risk. XSS attacks exploit the trust that a user has in a website
cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks—an attack that tricks users into executing unwanted actions in their browsers, such as logging out, downloading account information, or uploading a site cookie. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a website has in a user's browser
Not only do these common threats affect the organizations involved, but they also affect their supply chains, affiliated organizations, and customers.
Consequently, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security aims to reduce the likelihood and impact of threats by recommending that organizations develop and maintain their websites with security in mind. There are several security and privacy protection measures that can be taken to begin the process of properly protecting an organization's website and minimizing the risks.
How can organizations begin to address cyber threats that can compromise a website?
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security points out that an organization's website is essentially a gateway between the Internet and an organization. The main goal of threat actors is to exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in order to steal, alter, or delete sensitive data such as vendor portals, customer data, sales leads, or operational and financial information.
This is why it is important to observe the following recommended security and privacy best practices with the following main themes in mind:
Secure architecture: The website's architecture includes elements, relationships, selected components, and design principles. These things need to be secure, and this can be accomplished by applying principles such as segregation and redundancy. Another important thing to do is to require the use of HTTPS by default on the website to ensure sensitive data, such as authentication data and propriety information, is encrypted in transit
Access control: Since access controls define who can access what resources on the website and restrict what information they can see and use, it is necessary to define specific access controls and implement the principle of least privilege to ensure that users only have the access needed to carry out their authorized functions. Organizations are also recommended to consider all web application access control layers such as application presentation layer or data layer, and permissions such as URL-based, file system and server, and application business logic. It is critical to identify access control layers in coding standards and rigorously test them before deploying web services
Authentication: Authentication issues are critical because they deal with the mechanisms used to validate a user's identity. It is necessary to implement a strong password policy that includes multi-factor authentication (MFA) for additional security. It is never a good idea to send passwords in plaintext over the Internet—use hashes and encryption instead. Organizations can also lock accounts and delay logins following a series of unsuccessful login attempts (make sure that there is a secure account recovery process)
Service providers: Organizations that use a service provider may not have access to the infrastructure or control over the associated security functions. But the important thing to remember is that an organization is still legally responsible for protecting the confidentiality and integrity of the data. Therefore, organizations are recommended to review a service provider's data security and privacy protection capabilities and policies before contracting with the company. When working with a service provider, it is a good practice to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the organization and the service provider when it comes to security
Input validation: This involves verifying that users and applications can only input properly formed data, such as in fields, forms, or queries. Since all inputs on the website should be considered untrusted, it is important to validate inputs within the web services, including ones in these areas: client browsers; web application firewalls; web servers; databases; and application business logic. And it is important to validate inputs as early as possible in the process to reduce strain on the servers. To control inputs, it is necessary to enforce expected input lengths to weed out invalid values and limit free-form inputs to minimize the risk of script injection. It is also necessary to protect valuable information about the database by hiding structured query language (SQL) error messages from end users
Secure configuration: Organizations are recommended to review configurations to identify any vulnerabilities such as unused ports or services, unprotected files, or directories. Also, it is important to turn off directory browsing to protect the website's structure. Other good practices include removing any unnecessary web operation files, disabling browser credential caching to protect sensitive information, and implementing configuration management to promote secure coding and maintain baselines across the organization
Session management: Threat actors want to interrupt or hijack sessions to intercept data or impersonate authenticated users. Organizations are recommended to randomize session identifiers to prevent threat actors from inferring with session identifier sequences. It is also important that session identifiers have an acceptable minimum length to protect against brute force attacks. In addition, it is important to store sensitive session tracking data on web service servers with an appropriate retention period, and destroy it at the expiry date. Another good practice is to expire session data when a user logs out or is inactive for a specified time. In terms of session cookies, it is necessary to use the secure cookie attribute to prevent cookies from being sent over an unencrypted channel
Secure operations: Organizations are recommended to prevent, identify, and respond to cyber threats and incidents involving their websites. To accomplish this goal, it is necessary to continuously monitor website activity for anomalous behaviours, such as repeated log-in or injection attempts, or credential stuffing attacks. To promote the ongoing security and functionality of web services, it is important to implement a patch management process to acquire, test, and install patches and updates on systems and devices. Organizations are also recommended to patch underlying systems, content management systems, web applications, and plug-ins. Another good practice is to promote security awareness within the organization and with | 1,406 |
Founded in 2005 by Henry Wang Yao-Hui, Chatime helped revolutionise traditional tea making by developing tea machines that could make all kinds of fancy blends with a consistent quality. His progressive take on the loose leaf has made Chatime<|fim_middle|> till your heart's content.
Little did Mr Wang Yao-Hui know how far his tea machines would go. | the byword for fun, cocktail-like teas.
One of the world's biggest tea blend dispensaries, Chatime has over 1000 stores across the Far East, USA and UK and has sold over 100 million drinks to date. Tea-riffic.
And they don't source their tea, they grow it, on their plantation in Nantou, Taiwan.
Tea alchemy underpins Chatime's thinking – from the tea brewing methodology to the perfect ice-to-cup ratio, every nuance has been considered. Even their bubble tea tapioca balls are freshly made, on-site, each day.
Their signature cold Milk Tea comes in more varieties than could fill a Chinese junk, including Matcha, Oolong, Jasmine, Brown Rice Green, Taro and Chocolate.
From heatwave-busting Lychee, Passion Fruit or Mango Coolers to frozen Ice Blends and frappes, Chatime present the ultimate summer drinking solutions.
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We report a male infant with congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) who presented with hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia since birth. Serum sodium started to increase at 39 days. Although there was no polyuria, urine osmolality was 71 mOsm/kg, when serum osmolality was 296 mOsm/kg with plasma arginine vasopressin 22.5 pg/mL. He was thus diagnosed as NDI. An undetectable level of urine calcium and unsuppressed intact parathyroid hormone suggested hyperparathyroidism including calcium-sensing receptor mutations that could cause hypercalcemia-induced NDI. Polyuria became apparent after the initiation of i.v. infusion for the treatment of hypernatremia. Low calcium and low sodium formula with hypotonic fluid infusion did not correct hypernatremia, hypercalcemia, or hyperphosphatemia. Hydrochlorothiazide and subsequently added celecoxib effectively decreased urine output and corrected electrolytes abnormalities. Normal serum electrolytes were maintained after the discontinuation of low calcium formula. The genetic analysis revealed a large deletion of the arginine vasopressin receptor-2 (AVPR2) gene but no pathogenic variant in the calcium-sensing receptor (CASR) gene. Whether hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia were caused by dehydration alone or in combination with other mechanisms remains to be clarified.
Congenital NDI can present with neonatal hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia.
Hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia can be treated with low calcium and low sodium formula, hydration, hydrochlorothiazide, and celecoxib.
Genetic testing is sometimes necessary in the differentiating diagnosis of hypercalcemia associated with NDI.
A novel SOX10 nonsense mutation in a patient with Kallmann syndrome and Waardenburg syndrome
Tetsuji Wakabayashi, Akihito Takei, Nobukazu Okada, Miki Shinohara, Manabu Takahashi, Shuichi Nagashima, Kenta Okada, Ken Ebihara, and Shun Ishibashi
The underlying genetic drivers of Kallmann syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism due to impairment in the development of olfactory axons and in the migration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GNRH)-producing neurons during embryonic development, remain largely unknown. SOX10, a key transcription factor involved in the development of neural crest cells and established as one of the causative genes of Waardenburg syndrome, has been shown to be a causative gene of Kallmann syndrome. A 17-year-old male patient, who was diagnosed with Waardenburg syndrome on the basis of a hearing impairment and hypopigmented iris at childhood, was referred to our department because of anosmia and delayed puberty. As clinical examination revealed an aplastic olfactory bulb and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, we diagnosed him as having Kallmann syndrome. Incidentally, we elucidated that he also presented with subclinical hypothyroidism without evidence of autoimmune thyroiditis. Direct sequence analysis detected a nonsense SOX10 mutation (c.373C>T, p.Glu125X) in this patient. Since this nonsense mutation has never been published as a germline variant, the SOX10 substitution is a novel mutation that results in Kallmann syndrome and Waardenburg syndrome. This case substantiates the significance of SOX10 as a genetic cause of Kallmann syndrome and Waardenburg syndrome, which possibly share a common pathway in the development of neural crest cells.
Kallmann syndrome and Waardenburg syndrome possibly share a common pathway during neural crest cell development.
SOX10, a key transcription factor involved in the development of neural crest cells, is a common causative gene of Kallmann syndrome and Waardenburg syndrome.
Careful evaluation about various phenotypic features may reveal the unknown genetic drivers of Kallmann syndrome.
Growth hormone treatment for short stature associated with duplication of the NSD1 Sotos syndrome gene
Isaac T Bernhardt, Alistair J Gunn, and Philippa J Carter
NSD1 deletions are associated with the Sotos syndrome, a syndrome of overgrowth in childhood without evidence of endocrine disturbance. Duplications involving the NSD1 gene have been reported to be associated with a 'reverse Sotos syndrome' phenotype, characterised by short stature, microcephaly, dysmorphic features and developmental delay. A 2-year-old girl with short stature, dysmorphic features and developmental delay was found to have duplication of 5q32.2–5q32.3, which includes the NSD1 gene. Growth hormone stimulation testing was normal. Growth hormone therapy was initiated at 5 years of age due to severe short stature and growth failure, with height 3.35 standard deviations (SDS) below the median. Growth velocity increased markedly, by +4.91 SDS in the first year of treatment. At the time of last follow-up at 9 years and 11 months, she had achieved a height within 1 SDS of the median. This is the first report of growth hormone therapy for the short stature associated with duplication of the NSD1 gene, showing that despite normal pituitary function, exogenous growth hormone can dramatically improve linear growth.
Sotos syndrome is a disorder of childhood overgrowth caused by NSD1 deletions.
Duplications involving NSD1 cause a 'reverse Sotos syndrome' phenotype characterised by short stature and microcephaly.
The contrasting phenotypes of NSD1 deletions and duplications suggest a dose effect.
Stimulated growth hormone secretion is normal in children with NSD1 deletions and duplications.
Growth hormone therapy can be very effective in children with NSD1 duplications, comparable to the response seen in severe growth hormone deficiency.
Nutritional issues in a diabetic patient with Kearns–Sayre syndrome
Alicja Szwilling, Katarzyna Dzygalo, and Jędrzej Nowaczyk
Kearns–Sayre syndrome (KSS) is a multi-system mitochondrial disease with wide clinical presentation. We describe the case of a 16-year-old girl with KSS accompanied by insulin-dependent diabetes, eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), Fanconi syndrome, insufficiency of parathyroid gland and severe nutritional problems. Based on recent knowledge, ketogenic diet was introduced to improve metabolic and neurological condition, however in our patient we observed its bad consequences. Unresolved nutritional disorders forced us to proceed with esophagogastroduodenoscopy which revealed EoE. PEG procedure was performed and elemental diet with PPI's was introduced leading to general improvement in the patient's health condition.
Nutrition is an important factor in supportive care of patients with KSS.
Ketogenic diet in patients affected by mitochondrial diseases and diabetes requires careful selection and monitoring.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case that shows the coexistence of EoE, insulin-dependent diabetes and KSS.
Management of severe hypertriglyceridemia due to lipoprotein lipase deficiency in children
Sarah W Y Poon, Karen K Y Leung, and Joanna Y L Tung
Severe hypertriglyceridemia is an endocrine emergency and is associated with acute pancreatitis and hyperviscosity syndrome. We describe an infant with lipoprotein lipase deficiency with severe hypertriglyceridemia who presented with acute pancreatitis. She was managed acutely with fasting and intravenous insulin infusion, followed by low-fat diet with no pharmacological agent. Subsequent follow-up until the age of 5 years showed satisfactory lipid profile and she has normal growth and development.
Hypertriglyceridemia-induced acute pancreatitis has significant morbidity and mortality, and prompt treatment is imperative.
When no secondary causes are readily identified, genetic evaluation should be pursued in hypertriglyceridemia in children.
Intravenous insulin is a safe and effective acute treatment for hypertriglyceridemia in children, even in infants.
Long-term management with dietary modifications alone could be effective for primary hypertriglyceridemia due to lipoprotein lipase deficiency, at least in early childhood phase.
Familial GATA6 mutation causing variably expressed diabetes mellitus and cardiac and renal abnormalities
Yang Timothy Du, Lynette Moore, Nicola K Poplawski, and Sunita M C De Sousa
A 26-year-old man presented with a combination of permanent neonatal diabetes due to pancreatic aplasia, complex congenital heart disease, central hypogonadism and growth hormone deficiency, structural renal abnormalities with proteinuria, umbilical hernia, neurocognitive impairment and dysmorphic features. His older brother had diabetes mellitus due to pancreatic hypoplasia, complex congenital heart disease, hypospadias and umbilical hernia. Their father had an atrial septal defect, umbilical hernia and diabetes mellitus diagnosed incidentally in adulthood on employment screening. The proband's paternal grandmother had a congenital heart defect. Genetic testing of the proband revealed a novel heterozygous missense variant (Chr18:g.19761441T>C, c.1330T>C, p.Cys444Arg) in exon 4 of GATA6, which is class 5 (pathogenic) using American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guidelines and is likely to account for his multisystem disorder. The same variant was detected in his brother and father, but not his paternal grandmother. This novel variant of GATA6 likely occurred de novo in the father with autosomal dominant inheritance in the proband and his brother. The case is exceptional as very few families with monogenic diabetes due to GATA6 mutations have been reported to date and we describe a new link between GATA6 and renal pathology.
Monogenic diabetes should be suspected in patients presenting with syndromic features, multisystem congenital disease, neonatal-onset diabetes and/or a suggestive family history.
Recognition and identification of genetic diabetes may improve patient understanding and empowerment and allow for better tailored management.
Identification of a genetic disorder may have important implications for family planning.
Hepatoblastoma and Wilms' tumour in an infant with Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome and diazoxide resistant congenital hyperinsulinism
Saurabh Uppal, James Blackburn, Mohammed Didi, Rajeev Shukla, James Hayden, and Senthil Senniappan
Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) can be associated with embryonal tumours and congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). We present an infant with BWS who developed congenital hepatoblastoma and Wilms' tumour during infancy. The infant presented with recurrent hypoglycaemia requiring high intravenous glucose infusion and was biochemically confirmed to have CHI. He was resistant to diazoxide but responded well to octreotide and was switched to Lanreotide at 1 year of age. Genetic analysis for mutations of ABCC8 and KCNJ11 were negative. He had clinical features suggestive of BWS. Methylation-sensitive multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification revealed hypomethylation at KCNQ1OT1:TSS-DMR and hypermethylation at H19 /IGF2:IG-DMR consistent with mosaic UPD(11p15). Hepatoblastoma was detected on day 4 of life, which was resistant to chemotherapy, requiring surgical resection. He developed Wilms' tumour at 3 months of age, which also showed poor response to induction chemotherapy with vincristine and actinomycin D. Surgical resection of Wilms' tumour was followed by post-operative chemotherapy intensified with cycles containing cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, carboplatin and etoposide, in addition to receiving flank radiotherapy. We report, for the first time, an uncommon association of hepatoblastoma and Wilms' tumour in BWS in early infancy. Early onset tumours may show resistance to chemotherapy. UPD(11p15) is likely associated with persistent CHI in BWS.
Long-acting somatostatin analogues are effective in managing persistent CHI in BWS.
UPD(11)pat genotype may be a pointer to persistent and severe CHI.
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Missplicing due to a synonymous, T96= exonic substitution in the T-box transcription factor TBX19 resulting in isolated ACTH deficiency
Ashwini Maudhoo, Avinaash Maharaj, Federica Buonocore, Gabriel Angel Martos-Moreno, Jesús Argente, John C Achermann, Li F Chan, and Lou A Metherell
Congenital isolated ACTH deficiency (IAD) is a rare condition characterised by low plasma ACTH and serum cortisol with normal production of other pituitary hormones. TBX19 (also known as TPIT) is a T-box pituitary restricted transcription factor important for POMC gene transcription and terminal differentiation of POMC-expressing cells. TBX19 gene mutations have been shown to cause neonatal-onset congenital IAD. We report a neonate of Romanian origin, who presented at 15 h of life with respiratory arrest and hypoglycaemia which recurred over the following 2 weeks. Biochemical investigations revealed IAD, with undetectable serum cortisol (cortisol < 1 μg/dL; normal range (NR): 7.8–26.2) and plasma ACTH levels within the normal range (22.1 pg/mL; NR: 4.7–48.8). He responded to hydrocortisone treatment. Patient DNA was analysed by a HaloPlex next-generation sequencing array targeting genes for adrenal insufficiency. A novel homozygous synonymous mutation p.Thr96= (Chr1:168260482; c.288G>A; rs376493164; allele frequency 1 × 10−5, no homozygous) was found in exon 2 of the TBX19 gene. The effect of this was assessed by an in vitro splicing assay, which revealed aberrant splicing of exon 2 giving rise to a mutant mRNA transcript whereas the WT vector spliced exon 2 normally. This was identified as the likely cause of IAD in the patient. The predicted protein product would be non-functional in keeping with the complete loss of cortisol production and early presentation in the patient.
Synonymous variants (a nucleotide change that does not alter protein sequence) usually thought to be benign may still have detrimental effects on RNA and protein function causing disease. Hence, they should not be ignored, especially if very rare in public databases.
In vitro splicing assays can be employed to characterise the consequence of intronic and exonic nucleotide gene changes that may alter splicing.
Establishing a diagnosis due to a TBX19 mutation is important as it defines a condition of isolated ACTH deficiency not associated with additional pituitary deficiencies.
Rapid response to leptin therapy in a FPLD patient with a novel PPARG missense variant
Fiona Melzer, Corinna Geisler, Dominik M Schulte, and Matthias Laudes
Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) syndromes are rare heterogeneous disorders especially in women characterized by selective loss of adipose tissue, reduced leptin levels and severe metabolic abnormalities. Here we report a 34-year-old female with a novel heterozygotic c.485 thymine>guanine (T>G) missense variant (p.phenylalanine162cysteine; (Phe162Cys)) in exon 4 of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) gene, developing a non-ketotic diabetes and severe hypertriglyceridemia with triglyceride concentrations >50 mmol/L. In this case, a particular interesting feature in comparison to other known PPARG mutations in FPLD is that while glycaemic control could be achieved through standard anti-diabetic medication, hypertriglyceridemia did neither respond to fibrate nor to omega-3-fatty acid therapy. This might suggest a lipid metabolism driven phenotype of the novel PPARG c.485T>G missense variant. Notably, recombinant leptin replacement therapy (metreleptin (Myalepta®)) was initiated showing a rapid and profound effect on triglyceride levels as well as on liver function tests and satiety feeling. Unfortunately, severe allergic skin reactions developed at the side of injection which could be covered by anti-histaminc treatment. We conclude that the heterozygous PPARG c.485T>G variant is a yet undescribed molecular basis underlying FPLD with difficulties predominantly to control hypertriglyceridemia and that recombinant leptin therapy may be effective in affected subjects.
Heterozygous c.485T>G variant in PPARG is most likely a cause for FPLD in humans.
This variant results in a special metabolic phenotype with a predominant dysregulation of triglyceride metabolism not responding to standard lipid lowering therapy.
Recombinant leptin therapy is effective in rapidly improving hypertriglyceridemia.
Atypical progeroid syndrome (p.E262K LMNA mutation): a rare cause of short stature and osteoporosis
Marina Yukina, Nurana Nuralieva, Ekaterina Sorkina, Ekaterina Troshina, Anatoly Tiulpakov, Zhanna Belaya, and Galina Melnichenko
Lamin A/C (LMNA) gene mutations cause a heterogeneous group of progeroid disorders, including Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome, mandibuloacral dysplasia, atypical progeroid syndrome (APS) and generalized lipodystrophy-associated progeroid syndrome (GLPS). All of those syndromes are associated with some progeroid features, lipodystrophy and metabolic complications but vary differently depending on a particular mutation and even patients carrying the same gene variant are known to have clinical heterogeneity. We report a new 30-year-old female patient from Russia with an APS and generalized lipodystrophy (GL) due to the heterozygous de novo LMNA p.E262K mutation and compare her clinical and metabolic features to those of other described patients with APS. Despite many health issues, short stature, skeletal problems, GL and late diagnosis of APS, our patient seems to be relatively metabolically healthy for her age when compared to previously described patients with APS.
Atypical progeroid syndromes (APS) are rare and heterogenic with different age of onset and degree of metabolic disorders, which makes this diagnosis very challenging for clinicians and may be missed until the adulthood.
The clinical picture of the APS depends on a particular mutation in the LMNA gene, but may vary even between the patients with the same mutation.
The APS due to a heterozygous LMNA p.E262K mutation, which we report in this patient, seems to have association with the generalized lipodystrophy, short stature and osteoporosis, but otherwise, it seems to cause relatively mild metabolic complications by the age of 30.
The patients with APS and lipodystrophy syndromes require a personalized and multidisciplinary approach, and so they should be referred to highly specialized reference-centres for diagnostics and treatment as early as possible.
Because of the high heterogeneity of such a rare disease as APS, every patient's description is noteworthy for a better understanding of this challenging syndrome, including the analysis of genotype-phenotype correlations.
An infant with congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus presenting with hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia
Katsuo Tao, Midori Awazu, M | 2,397 |
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In need of a stiff drink on Friday night, I met fellow food bloggers Ed, Jess and Penny at Der Raum for cocktails. We ended up having several, from cucumber-tinged Millers martinis disgorging clouds of liquid nitrogen (no, really) to the cocktail called Pharmacy (which involved a pill jar full of pear and roasted capsicum gin, a syringe full of Aperol and a red and white pill filled with citrus sherbet).
Follow up multiple Der Raum cocktails with a Love Pho phở chaser, then Japanese beers and gin and tonics chez moi until the wee hours and you're left with several hungover food bloggers come Saturday morning. As I shuffled through the Prahran Market in a near-catatonic state, unable to make decisions re mushroom selection and wincing as trolleys scraped noisily over concrete, it was only the prospect of dinner that night at Cumulus Inc that kept me going. Oh, Cumulus!
Regular readers will know that I'm an ardent fan of Andrew McConnell's CBD Eating House and Bar. I've had breakfast at Cumulus Inc several times, but the two times I'd previously visited for dinner were both over a year ago, so I was keen for a nocturnal revisit. Luckily, best-friend-K was easily talked into it (after spending all day at intensive classes for a masters subject she's doing, she was in dire need of a few drinks and a good feed).
With no other commitments that night, we'd agreed that we'd be happy to wait for however long it'd take to get a table, given the no bookings policy. We got there just after 7pm and were ushered to the corner next to the coat rack, where we stood sipping on drinks and waiting... and waiting... and waiting... an hour and a half, before being seated up at the bar overlooking the kitchen. Yes it's a pain to have to wait that long (especially while standing), but mad props to the charismatic host who was doing a great job keeping the punters happy under the circumstances.
Later in the evening he dropped by to see how our meal was going, addressing us by name and chatting briefly about Piemontese wines (our 2007 Sottimano Dolcetto d'Alba, $62, was exquisite).
Any flicker of irritation we'd felt at the wait was<|fim_middle|> remembered me, but mentioned and thanked me for the write-up I did in March on the MF&WF Oyster Class. I'm such a food nerd!
Oh! You make me want to go back again! I am sooo in love with the place. Maybe I should do breakfast this sat! Wanna join me?
What the hell is 'labne'?
Okay i am totally going to Cumulus Inc now. That rum baba looks amazing. To tell the truth I have never had a good one - often they are somehow a combination of too dry and too bitterly alcoholic.
The cumulus inc logo photo looks like a tattoo. Have you got their logo tattooed somewhere on your person?
The portions look great and I'm thinking about dropping in just for the rum baba on my way home. Yum!
Clapping your hands with glee upon the arrvial of food? You've been spending too much time with what Wallpaper* magazine describes as "men with closely-cropped haircuts, perfectly buffed nails and subscriptions to this magazine".
Thanks for the invite Penny, but on Saturday I'll be assisting my Mum in preparing a big Italian lunch for my Nonna and Nonno's wedding anniversary. But enjoy - if you haven't already had it, order the 65/65 egg!
Hey Brett - well, he has met me twice: introduced a year ago at Cumulus Inc, then we spoke again in March at the oyster class, when I mentioned the blog and Andrew patiently taught me how to shuck oysters.
Labne is a white Middle Eastern yoghurt cheese made from cow milk. It's awesome.
Hi Esz: the beauty of the rum baba at Cumulus is that it's fluffy (not dry), and you can make it exactly as alcoholic as you want it!
I love the quail too, anonymous!
Nearly went there today, but pushed it back to next week. Definitely can't wait now!
must come to Melbourne soon, I want that rum baba!!!! | promptly snuffed out as soon as the food started arriving. We eschewed ordering oysters this time, starting instead with grilled quail halves wrapped in vine leaf, with pistachio and labne ($7 each). Cunningly skewered and devilishly juicy.
The kitchen charcuterie selection ($23). Clockwise from top left: hand cut Sicilian salami, prosciutto di Parma, wagyu bresaola with remoulade and pheasant terrine with prune. While the fennel seed-flecked salami and the prosciutto were perfectly nice, the bresaola and terrine were exceptional.
I already raved about the wagyu bresaola last time: I love remoulade and bresaola, but it's the teeny tiny shavings of fresh horseradish that really make the dish memorable. And as for the pheasant terrine, the punchy gamey flavour was nicely counterbalanced by the spiced prunes. Don't know how I'll be able to resist ordering these two again next time.
B-f-K is not much of a gnocchi fan, but I cajoled her into letting me order the baked gnocchi with Jerusalem artichokes, taleggio and truffle ($17). There is NOTHING in this dish that I don't love. Yes it was super-rich, but that's the point. Shared, it was brilliant: I couldn't decide whether I liked the enveloping softness of the cheesy gnocchi or the texture of the Jerusalem artichokes more.
The one dish that left us a little lukewarm was the Rockdale 240 day grain fed scotch fillet, with glazed shallots, nettle and horseradish ($38). Don't get me wrong, the rare fillet had been expertly prepared... but the shaved horseradish just made me reminisce about the wagyu bresaola, and as I mentioned in the review of our first visit b-f-K is not big with the nettles. We both agreed that we should have skipped a big meat dish in favour of the cracked wheat and freekeh salad with preserved lemon and barberries that we'd enjoyed on our first visit.
We did however both adore the special that we ordered, roasted organic (fantastically tasty) baby carrots with dukkah and labne. Because one can never have too much labne.
And for dessert, we ordered the rum baba with aged rum ($17). After the meal we'd had, we really ought to have settled for just a pair of lemon curd madeleines instead... but I'd had my heart set on ordering the rum baba again, ever since I tried it over a year ago at an extravagant weeknight Cumulus dinner with the charming A.
When it arrived I couldn't resist clapping my hands together in appreciative glee. Taken from the oven before our eyes, the light, fluffy, briochey cake was posed in a small puddle of crème pâtissière and brought to us. It was accompanied by a bottle of 7 year old Havana Club from the bar, which was left with us so that we could pour as much or as little rum as we wanted. Make no mistake, the Cumulus Inc rum baba is TO DIE FOR.
Oh, and at the end of the meal Andrew McConnell walked in (having finished meal service at Cutler & Co) and came over for a brief chat. I tried to remain cool and casual, but was secretly totally starstruck and geeked out that Andrew McConnell not only recognised and | 745 |
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The British Council: delivering world-class service, worldwide
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By anyone's standards, the British Council is a truly global organisation. Operating in more than 100 countries, its role is to work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year teaching English, sharing the arts and delivering education and society programmes. It's an important mission, and one that would be impossible without a consistently high level of customer service.
With 10.9 million face-to-face and 116 million digital interactions as demonstrated in the 2013/14 annual report, across a wide spread of geographical and cultural environments, this represent a major organisational challenge. What's more, the customer base is extremely diverse, from individual language students to entire national education ministries. Although the British Council is partly funded by a government grant, it increasingly has to stand on its own feet financially. Success in areas such as English and exams mean that less than 20 per cent of British Council funding now comes from the government, but it is a competitive market, and sustaining this level of growth cannot be taken for granted.
"We wanted to do more, and better"
The British Council recognised that its success depended upon providing a high quality customer experience all over the world and so, eight years ago, joined The Institute of Customer Service. Customer Management Director,<|fim_middle|> business benefit. The Institute qualifications fulfil this requirement as they enable organisations to train staff wherever they are; it has a network of in-house assessors and coaches who deliver training face-to-face and remotely via telephone, videoconference or Skype.
To emphasise the strategic importance of the programme, the British Council's former Chief Executive, Martin Davidson, took a qualification alongside colleagues across the global network. "Martin was in London, and was coached remotely by a Warsaw-based colleague," says Susan. "The fact that our Chief Executive took a qualification himself shows, at the highest possible level, just how important customer service and professional development for customer service is." With well-established groups in Africa, the Americas, China, India, Europe and Eastern Europe, some 279 people have now been through the British Council's Institute's Professional Qualifications programme, helping to ensure a consistent, high level of service is being delivered across the globe.
"World-class best practice"
Has the British Council seen tangible business benefits from the improved service its customer service improvement programme has helped to deliver? Susan is unequivocal: "Yes, for sure. Working with The Institute has provided us with professional insight in support of our improvement projects across the global network. We started with the basics. Before we started this project we couldn't say with certainty how many phone calls and emails we were answering. Now we have trend data over several years, as well as activities like mystery shopping and customer surveys, so we're able to see where we are. In many parts of the world we're exceeding our targets, and we have pockets of world-class best practice emerging in unexpected places , Colombia for one. Bangladesh is another success story. Despite significant technological challenges, not least the poor state of the telecommunications system, the team has found ways to effectively engage with customers – an effort rewarded during the Institute's Customer Service Week campaign which the British Council has promoted as a global initiative across its network."
"Our customers are happier"
Susan comments: "Overall we've made considerable progress in responding more effectively to customer enquiries, being more accessible and being able to target investment, resource, time, management and support where it's most needed. Customers are happier with the experience they are getting at the British Council, and staff are happier because they know the direction, and they understand the standards that they are expected to work to. The Institute's Professional Qualifications have also had considerable impact on staff engagement in this area of our work. Staff are more engaged because they're being listened to, their ideas are being used. It's got to be good for our business."
"Word class service"
There are other business benefits from the Institute's Professional Qualifications programme. In one country, a staff member running English language exams was repeatedly asked about opening a new centre in a neighbouring city. As part of her Institute qualification she developed a customer feedback project proving the demand, and a new centre was opened as a result. Susan points out: "This was a slice of the market that we had previously missed out on. Through the qualifications, a staff member was encouraged to think beyond her specific job, to see an opportunity and find a way of acting on it." Susan believes that staff from many different countries join the British Council because they share its values, and service has become an expression of that. "Wherever they're from, our staff around the world know are our ambassadors, providing the best of British Council service."
"Excellent partners, and good friends"
Susan says The Institute of Customer Service has been, excellent partners on the British Council's customer service journey. "They are really helpful on all levels. Our account manager works with us across all product areas and we have a counterpart in The Institute to troubleshoot any administrative challenges too. It's a great relationship; they are good business partners and also good friends." The journey is ongoing. Susan admits that in some parts of the world, there are still outstanding technological challenges, while in other areas unstable environments pose challenges to maintaining service levels at all times. "Nevertheless," she says, "our customer experience, building trust, inspiring through our products and services and making it easy for people to do business with us, is really strong. Trust is our USP, both when we're selling a language course, and representing the UK as a whole."
Leadership support which is vital to the success of the Institute qualifications programme continues with the appointment of a new Chief Executive at the British Council. Ciarán Devane congratulated a group of 14 staff who recently achieved their Institute qualifications. He was also full of praise for four Coaches who received Institute Coach Qualifications, the first in the British Council to take their coaching support to this level. "This cohort has come away with new and strengthened skills in customer services, communications and coaching."
Eva ChoongCustomer Management Director, The British Council | Eva Choong believes the benefits of membership were obvious: "Our market was growing rapidly, so we needed to find a way to scale up and professionalise our approach to customer service. There was an awareness that the world is becoming more sophisticated and customer expectations are growing, so we wanted to do more, and do it better."
"It was good for business"
To improve service, The British Council embarked upon a fixed term 'Customer Service Excellence' project, which has now become an integral, ongoing part of the corporate structure. They worked with The Institute to ensure best practice and professional knowledge informed the project. Eva leads a team of seven based in the UK, which supports almost 1000 people globally in delivering consistently good service at front line, managerial and strategic levels. She recalls: "It was seen that by focusing on customer service, putting resource into it and clarifying what was expected locally and globally, we were achieving better results. It was good for business. You couldn't just do it for two years, this was something we needed to be doing all the time. Our Chief Executive was coached remotely by a colleague based in Warsaw using technology."
To ensure consistency of experience, the British Council uses The Institute's Professional Qualifications as part of its main framework for customer service training worldwide. Susan Burnett acts as Global Qualifications Programme Manager (QPM), with responsibility for ensuring that the British Council derives the maximum | 285 |
About Dr. Rigo,
<|fim_middle|> Chêneau, who become Dr. Rigo's mentor. Their work together led to the to the evolution of the Chêneau Brace. Dr Rigo further developed 3D bracing concepts and initiated standardization methods, leading to international recognition for his '3D Bracing Concept by Rigo' (also referred to as Rigo-Cheneau type braces). In 2002, Dr Rigo taught as an Invited Professor at the Bundesfachschule für Orthopädie-Technik Dortmund (BUFA), Germany. In 1991 Dr Rigo commenced teaching on spinal deformities at the Physiotherapy School Gimbernat (Universidad Autónoma Barcelona UAB) until 2017.
Dr. Rigo taught the Schroth method throughout the world from 1989 until 2008 and since then has taught under the name of BSPTS-Concept by Rigo.
BSPTS-Concept by Rigo is an evolution of the original Schroth method, with influences from the French and Italian schools. It is an approach of Physiotherapy Scoliosis Specific Exercises (PSSE) that is integrated within a Multidisciplinary Scoliosis Care Team, following a Bio-Psycho-Social Model, working in accordance with evidence-based medicine.
Dr Rigo is one of the founding members of the international Society of Scoliosis Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) and was their first Present in 2006 until 2008. He was also Associate Editor of Scoliosis Journal, later called Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders, until 2018.
During his whole professional life, Dr. Rigo has been consulting with children, adolescents, adults and their families from around the world, who suffer spinal deformities, in his clinic in Barcelona (Rigo Quera Salvá SLP), Spain.
Dr. Rigo has chaired three main International meetings in Barcelona:
SIRER meeting in 1996 (President of Honor, Prof. Alf Nachemson)
International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities in 2004 (starting SOSORT)
SOSORT meeting in 2011
He is one of the Founder Members of the SOSORT and first President (2006-8). Chair of the Educational Committee of the SOSORT (2009-2016)
Associated Editor of Scoliosis Journal, later Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders until 2018 | BSPTS Medical Director
Dr. Manuel Rigo, M.D., Ph.D.
(Palma de Mallorca 1958)
'Licenciado Medicina y Cirugía', Universidad Autónoma Barcelona (UAB), 1981
'Doctor Medicina y Cirugía' Universidad Córdoba, 2001
Dr Rigo's first specialty was in Allergy and Clinical medicine. However, in 1985 he redirected his career to the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with special interest in Bracing and Physiotherapy for Scoliosis and other spinal deformity conditions, working at the Elena Salvá Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
Scientific Publications, last 16 years
In 1988, Dr Rigo began collaborating with Dr. Jacques | 170 |
A few days had passed since Gramps had been admitted. He had broken his leg and that was the reason why he couldn't stand. The incident had put a damper on my holiday mood. There were just three days left before my grandparents left. Gramps had spent most of his time in the hospital. Grandma tried to comfort me in her own way. She baked, cooked and even played Jenga and football with me. Somehow it was not the same. I missed Gramps.
I heard the door open and I watched as Dad helped Gramps in. He was on a wheelchair. There were definitely not going to be any walks in the near future. I flung myself at him and gave him a big hug.
"Careful dear! His leg isn't fully healed yet!" said my Mom. I nodded and took a step back.
"It's great to be back." said Gramps. Even though I went to meet him everyday, I found him looking drained and tired.
"I've got hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookies waiting for you." said Grandma. She bent down and gave Gramps a kiss on the forehead.
"For me or for him?" asked Gramps nodding my way and laughing.
"For everyone!" replied Grandma laughing.
The weather was still playing truant. We could hear the wind outside and the rain splattered across the windows. My Dad lit a fire and we sat in the living room with hot chocolate. Grandma had outdone herself. The cookies were magnificent. Gramps called my Dad over.
"Very sure." replied Gramps. My father just nodded and came back with a carefully wrapped package. He handed it over to Gramps.
"This is for you." said Gramps. He handed over the package to me.
"It's the 49ers' sweater." said Gramps with a smile.
"The one that belonged to Joe Perry?" I asked. My jaw dropped down in astonishment.
"Yes. I think that you deserve it. You were very brave that day. If it wasn't for you who knows what would have happened. I want you to have it as a token of my appreciation." said Gramps with a smile.
"Aren't you going to open it?" asked my Dad smiling.
"Yes! Yes I am!" I replied. I gently pulled on the strings that held the parcel together. Opening the parcel I glanced at the sweater with reverence. It was an amazing gift. One I felt that I didn't deserve. I guess that's the reason why they say that only grandparents have the right to pamper their grandchildren. I made a vow to keep it extremely carefully. Picking the sweater up, I proudly paraded around the room so that everyone could see my new gift. It did not turn out to be such a bad vacation after all. In fact, my grandparents decided to stay on a little longer. They waited two whole months for Gramps' leg to heal. I was definitely happy about that development. Though my grandparent's vacation started out at a rather rocky start, the rest of the vacation went along smoothly. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did!
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The next day was dull. We spent most our day indoors. Jenga was the game<|fim_middle|> done, I dragged Gramps upstairs. I wanted to show him my room. I had discovered a new passion. Football! It had all started after I watched a game in which the 49ers were playing in. My Dad was watching Television and I joined him. That's when the fascination started. After that day I never let my Dad rest. Poor guy! Every holiday was spent teaching me football. I think that he kind of enjoys it!
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"I was wondering…." I said trailing off as I watched Grandma bring out a set of hot chocolate cookies.
Gramps erupted in laughter. His chuckles could be heard bouncing off the walls of the house. He laughed so much that everyone came running to see what happened. Wiping tears from his eyes, my grandfather repeated what I had asked him. I couldn't understand what he found so funny. It was innocent question after all. Mom and Dad joined the laughter.
"Thanks for the compliment!" said Grandma as she bent down to kiss me. I was baffled. What had I said that was so funny? It was only later that Gramps explained to me. Grandma was a strict dietitian. She kept track of everyone's diet. Everything changed when we kids were around. Otherwise poor Gramps was stuck eating salads and fruits! That didn't sound like fun at all!
After putting away our Jenga, Gramps suggested going out for a stroll. My mom warned us to take umbrellas. Nodding my grandfather picked out his long stout umbrella from the night stand. I had my smaller one with me. It was given to me as a gift from my uncle.
The roads were slushy from the rain. Catching hold of Gramps' hand, we strolled down the streets. My house was a long way off from the city. In fact it was close to a thick forested area. A road ran through the forest. It was one of those big highways. It connected the city with other cities. Gramps loved to take a path just off the highway. It wound it's way into the forest and was a very pleasant walk. Gramps loved the peace and quiet that engulfed him as he strolled along.
This time however he had a talkative grandson at his side. Somehow I don't think he minded. I filled him on what I had learned about football and how my Dad allowed me to watch the football games with him. He gamely joined in on the conversation. I never knew that Gramps was such a big fan of football till that date. He even told me that he had a 49ers jersey. It had been given to him as a gift from his grandfather. The jersey belonged to the legendary Joe Perry. I was so excited when I heard it. I asked him whether he had brought it with him and he said yes. My Dad had told him that I had become a fan of the 49ers and he had decided to bring it along just to show it to me.
I couldn't wait to get home. I wanted to see the sweater so badly! Imagine… The very same sweater that Joe Perry wore!
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The sky may have looked gloomy all day but I was excited. So excited that I could not sleep. I'm Matt by the way. I'm ten years old and I live with my parents in a really cozy house.
I could hear the wind howling outside. The temperature had really dropped. My dad said that the weather forecast had predicted rain. I hoped that they were wrong. My grandparents were on their way. They were due to arrive the next morning. That was enough to get me excited. Better still… I did not have to share them with any of my cousins. They were going to be with me for two whole weeks. I couldn't wait.
I really can't remember how I fell of to sleep. I can however tell you how I got up. Sunlight filtered in through my window and fell on my face. Blinking, I tried to recollect my thoughts. That's when the smell of freshly made pancakes tickled my nose. Grandma's special pancakes! That got me up and out of bed. Without even bothering to run a comb through my hair, I bounded down the stairs and flung myself into my grandmother's waiting arms. I heard a chuckle behind me.
"Don't I get a hug?" asked a familiar voice. I wasted no time in throwing my arms round my grandfather's neck. He was sitting in the easy chair and that placed him at the perfect height for my assualt.
"I missed you!" said Grandma. She walked over and ruffled my hair.
"I missed you too!" I replied.
"Why don't you go and brush your teeth? We can have breakfast together then." said Gramps as he set me down on the floor. I really didn't want to leave them for even a minute but the pancakes looked delicious. I knew I wasn't going to get a bite unless I washed up. I dashed back upstairs and shouted a quick 'Good morning' to my parents as I bolted past them on the stairs. It wasn't long before I was seated at the table with a huge helping of pancakes on my platter.
"Mother! He will fall sick that way!" said my mother as my grandmother drenched my pancakes in a generous helping of maple syrup.
"You don't worry about that. It's a grandmother's privilege to spoil her grandchildren rotten!" said Grandma smiling. Who was I to complain. I gorged myself on the pancakes. Oh… My cousins were going to be so jealous when I told them! We loved our grandparents and the only thing we ever fought about was for their time.
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Na física das partículas, s<|fim_middle|>ação pode trocar o sabor de uma partícula: a força nuclear fraca.
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Física de partículas
Leis de conservação | abor é um conjunto de números quânticos (ou simetria) que caracteriza diversos tipos de quarks e léptons - duas subfamílias de férmions -, os quais seriam indistinguíveis com base em outras propriedades. Portanto, os sabores permitem distinguir certas classes de partículas cujas demais propriedades (carga elétrica, interatividade etc.) são similares. Na teoria eletrofraca, tal simetria é uma simetria de gauge e se manifesta justamente na mudança do sabor. Na cromodinâmica quântica, é uma simetria global, também chamada quiral.
No modelo padrão das partículas subatômicas — em que é possível distinguir quarks e léptons — os léptons se diferenciam em seis sabores (e, μ, τ, νe, νμ e ντ, que representam respectivamente o elétron, o múon, o tau, o neutrino do elétron, o neutrino do múon e o neutrino do tau</sub>); também os quarks se apresentam em seis sabores (u, d, s, c, b, t, que são as letras iniciais das palavras up, down, strange, charm, bottom e top, respectivamente). As denominações dos sabores foram introduzidas por Murray Gell-Mann, que nomeou o quark strange, por ocasião da detecção do kaon, em 1964.
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IT Operations and Management>DataOps
What Is DataOps?
DataOps is a collection of processes and technologies that provide real-time and predictive insights from large quantities of data. This article explores the pros and cons of the technology.
Bob Scheier | Dec 16, 2021
DataOps describes the processes and technologies designed to cost-effectively deliver timely, quality data to the users and applications that require it. It aims to do that by replacing what are often rigid, fragile custom links between disparate data sources and data consumers with well-defined, easily usable and automated processes for continuously updating, integrating and transforming data into the required format and sharing it.
DataOps uses principles from Agile development and DevOps (which combines software development with operations to speed software development) to "reinvent data management as an automated, process-based IT service that can empower both data professionals and downstream consumers spanning (business intelligence) users, data analysts, data scientists, and business users," according to a June 2021 report from market researcher Omdia.
Among the aims of DataOps, according to the DataOps Manifesto, are "to satisfy the customer through the early and continuous delivery of valuable analytic insights from a couple of minutes to weeks," "welcome evolving customer needs, and … embrace them to generate competitive advantage" and deliver reproducible results by "versioning" – tracking the states of everything from data to hardware and software used to deliver each data set or analytic result.
DataOps is driven by growing needs for real-time and predictive insights, as well as the increasing use of artificial intelligence that requires large amounts of data to identify trends and make predictions.
Some of the underlying functions of DataOps can be provided by legacy tools such as master data management (MDM) platforms (which assure the accuracy and integrity of data) for hybrid and multicloud deployments, by newer tools from cloud providers, and by emerging disciplines such as AIOps that use artificial intelligence to automate the deployment, monitoring and optimization of IT resources.
How Does DataOps Work?
DataOps first requires visibility into the state of enterprise data assets and which are being used, or could be used, to generate business insights. This visibility is often provided through the use of data hubs or data catalogs that tap metadata – data about the data – to help data managers and users easily understand and access large amounts of enterprise data.
With this knowledge, data managers can create scripts and application programming interfaces (<|fim_middle|> require a data engineer to create a query in the system to, for example, join two tables together," says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst, AI platforms, data and analytics at Omdia.
DataOps also requires data scientists to work more closely with business users to understand their needs, and for those business users to describe those needs so data scientists can create the right "data services" for them. Creating DataOps centers of excellence in the business units helps non-technical data owners "understand the importance and value in the nuances of working with the data such that they can take eventual ownership and stewardship of the data they're working closely with," says Shimmin. It allows them input into important DataOps processes such as the design of data catalogs, he says.
What Are the Benefits of DataOps?
The greatest benefit of DataOps is faster access to the ever-changing variety of data and types of analytics needed to meet dynamic business challenges. "The use of metadata to describe data assets and delivery of data via application programming interfaces (APIs) can help enterprise practitioners unify disparate data stores across multiple cloud platforms without having to physically move, replicate, or virtualize data," according to the Omdia report. "This approach will allow businesses to build a more central and complete picture of their business without having to disrupt existing infrastructure investments."
DataOps can "democratize" access to data to a broader range of business users and reduce the need for hard-to-find data scientists to develop custom queries or integration to meet each new data requirement. It can also prevent seemingly minor changes to data sources, such as how a semantic model defines a date string, from compromising the results of a downstream system such as an AI application by automating the testing and remediation of potential problems, says Shimmin.
What Are the Drawbacks of DataOps?
Done wrong, DataOps can create hard to share silos of data as business units or departments build their own data hubs in relatively low-cost public cloud platforms without following enterprise standards in areas such as security, compliance or data definitions.
It also requires purchasing, implementing and supporting multiple tools to provide everything from version control of code and data to data integration, metadata management, data governance, security and compliance, among other needs. Tools supporting operationalization of analytics and AI pipelines for purposes such as DataOps usually have overlapping capabilities that make it even more difficult to identify the right product and framework for implementation, says Gartner analyst Soyeb Barot in a January 2021 report.
DataOps implementations can also be hobbled by, among things, the over-reliance on fragile extract, transform and load (ETL) pipelines; a reluctance or inability to invest in data governance and management; the continued explosion of data to manage; and integration complexities, according to the Omdia report. For such reasons, Shimmin estimates that fewer than one in five enterprises has successfully implemented DataOps.
Examples of DataOps
IBM Cloud Pak for Data provides tools for data integration, data preparation, replication, governance, cataloging and quality, as well as MDM. IBM claims Cloud Pak for Data support and integration with its IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog helps customers "activate business-ready data for AI and analytics with intelligent cataloging, backed by active metadata and policy management."
Informatica provides tools for data privacy management, data preparation, data cataloging, MDM, cloud-native data delivery services and data governance, which leverage its AI augmentation and automation platform, CLAIRE. The company uses CLAIRE "to great effect in addressing DataOps concerns such as continuous operations through self-healing routines, auto-tuning, autoscaling, and smart shutdown of services," according to Omdia.
DataKitchen
DataKitchen's DataOps Platform supports cloud and hybrid cloud deployments in areas including data observability, automated testing, continuous deployment through orchestration and automation, a single management platform for multiple analytic pipelines, and self-service access to data and analytical insights. DataKitchen, one of the leading backers of the DataOps drive, positions itself as an orchestrator of the tools needed for DataOps that a business already owns, says the Omdia report.
GoodData
GoodData's data-as-a-service offering delivers metrics, analytics and other assets to business consumers via a rich API. This provides a single data service layer, says Omdia, "from which companies can build and deploy their own analytics apps in a flexible manner using a single source of truth that is secure and compliant with corporate data security and privacy mandates."
Delphix
Delphix's Data Platform provides a programmable data infrastructure designed to automate data operations including continuous integration and delivery cloud migrations, and compliance. The platform integrates with platforms ranging from mainframes to cloud-native applications, automating "data delivery and access, whether on premises or in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment," Delphix claims.
DataOps adopters will continue to seek centralized data governance tools and processes that help assure security and compliance but are easier to use than in those they have adopted in the past, according to Shimmin. While some DataOps vendors will focus on point solutions and others on overarching platforms, all have a strong incentive to ensure their offerings can easily integrate and share information with each other, says Shimmin. Such capabilities will lead, he predicts, to CloudOps giving way to "data fabrics" or "data meshes" that enable local business units to control, analyze and share their own data to meet pressing business needs while meeting enterprise security and compliance requirements.
To be successful at CloudOps, businesses cannot "consider data as a discrete resource akin to oil that must be centralized and processed one time only for incorporation into a refined, exhaustible fuel like gasoline," says the Omdia report. "Rather, companies need to look at data as an ever changing and highly malleable form of energy, something that can move about freely, combining and recombining again to power a myriad of insights across the enterprise." | APIs) that automate the collection, validation, integration and analysis of data from multiple sources. Ideally, these automated processes allow users to access data analytics "as a service" much like they use other applications in the cloud. They can also automate the detection and response to unexpected usage demands, configuration changes and errors, as well as accommodate new sources of data such as from sensors on the internet of things.
"When a consumer like a business analyst says they need a new query in SQL or Tableau, it doesn't | 103 |
Productions / The Price
David Suchet delivers a comic tour de force as a silver-tongued 89 year old furniture dealer in Arthur Miller's 'masterpiece' (Daily Telegraph), THE PRICE.
Two brothers, Victor and<|fim_middle|> American Dream – transfers from a sell-out run at the Theatre Royal Bath where it was hugely acclaimed by critics and audiences alike.
★★★★★ 'David Suchet…mesmerising. Jonathan Church's exemplary production, Simon Higlett's astonishing design. A superb play. BOX OFFICE GOLD' Daily Telegraph | Walter Franz, one a New York cop nearing retirement, the other a successful surgeon meet for the first time in sixteen years to sell their family furniture stored in the attic of a condemned New York brownstone. Revelation follows stunning revelation as each brother realises the price they have paid for heart breaking decisions made decades earlier.
Overseeing the psychological battlefield is the wily veteran appraiser, Gregory Solomon, who has his own demons to conquer as well as securing the best possible price for the Franz family possessions.
David Suchet, revisiting the work of Arthur Miller after his legendary award-winning performance in All My Sons, plays Gregory Solomon. He is joined by Olivier Award winner Brendan Coyle(nominated for BAFTA and Emmy Awards for his acclaimed role as Mr Bates in Downton Abbey) who plays Victor Franz. Adrian Lukis plays Walter Franz and Sara Stewart plays Esther Franz, Victor's wife.
This fiftieth anniversary production of Arthur Miller's richly affecting play – which, like his better known works, mines his preoccupation with the pleasures and perils of the | 216 |
DIMECC HighTech Results | FINAL REPORT: BSA "Breakthrough Steels and Applications"
The overall goal set for the DIMECC Breakthrough Steels and Applications program (2014-2017) was to enable a renewal of the Finnish metal and engineering industries through major improvements in their offerings and global competitiveness brought about by the intelligent use of novel advanced steel products. The program was built around the entire steel value chain. Altogether, 31<|fim_middle|> for innovative business solutions based on new materials and material combinations.
The DIMECC BSA program drived the development and the intelligent use of novel advanced steel products in key applications. Key emphasis was on the applications concerned are central to the Finnish engineering industry: 1) offshore and marine, 2) arctic structures, 3) power generation, 4) mining and mineral processing, 5) lifting, handling, and transport, 6) waste recycling, 7) bioenergy, and 8) processing industry. Many of these areas have been identified as emerging technologies with a huge future business potential.
The industry-led BSA program have concentrated on creating new capabilities in chosen areas, based on specific industry needs. The program has developed, for example, optimal corrosion- and high-temperature-resistant material solutions for new industrial processes and applications, such as renewable energy, bioprocesses, and water management. The program has also established a solid scientific and experimental basis, including fabrication, welding, fatigue, and long-term performance, to change the current design rules and enable practical implementation of highly energy- and material-efficient structures in these applications.
The final report illustrates the great results, from scientific novelties to market-ready products, achieved in the DIMECC BSA program! | companies in the metals and engineering industry, steel producers and foundries, as well as 7 research organizations with high-level international partners participated in the program. The final report presents the research results and impact of the DIMECC BSA program.
Steel is and will continue to be one of the main building blocks of sustainable society. At the moment, Finland is among world innovation leaders in novel steel technologies and products. Operating in a rapidly changing global market requires new thinking and new kind of risk taking capabilities. The climate challenge, ever-increasing demand for cost and resource efficiency, and new and harsher application environments call | 123 |
Citrix recommends upgrading all VDAs to the latest version to enable access to all the newest features.
The Moto Calc Workbench Specifying Motor Information Specifying Battery Information Specifying a Drive System Specifying a Speed Control Specifying Airframe Information Specifying Restrictions Options What is a Database Browser?
You can specify a range for the number of cells, gear ratio, propeller diameter, and propeller pitch, and Moto Calc will produce a table of predictions for each combination.
Moto Calc will predict weight, current, voltage at the motor terminals, input power, output power, power loss, motor efficiency, motor RPM, power-loading, electrical efficiency, motor RPM, propeller or fan RPM, static thrust, pitch speed, and run time.
You can add or remove machines from a machine catalog, as well as rename, change the description, or manage a catalog's Active Directory computer accounts.
Maintaining catalogs can also include making sure each machine has the latest OS updates, anti-virus software updates, operating system upgrades, or configuration changes.
After you roll out an updated/new master image, you can roll it back.
This might be necessary if issues occur with the newly-updated machines.
If you choose to update the image immediately, configure a distribution time and notifications.
It will also predict stall speed, hands-off level flight speed, throttle, and motor temperature, optimal level flight speed, throttle, and motor temperature, maximum level flight speed, rate of climb, and power-off rate of sink.
M<|fim_middle|>, either update an existing master image or create a new one on your host hypervisor. | oto Calc's graphing facility can plot any two parameters against any other (for example, lift and drag vs. If you have particular requirements, such as a minimum run time, maximum current, or maximum power loss (which is dissipated as heat), you can use Moto Calc's filter facility to filter out the unacceptable combinations.
By producing a table of predictions, Moto Calc lets you determine the optimum propeller size and/or gear ratio for your particular application.
Moto Calc can also do an in-flight analysis for a particular combination of components, predicting lift, drag, current, voltage, power, motor and electrical efficiency, RPM, thrust, pitch speed, propeller and overall efficiency, and run time at various flight speeds.
Before you update the Machine Catalog | 152 |
If you're working in an academic or large corporate or government setting, changes are you're going to have a network in place using Active Directory or an open-source equivalent. Every user in the organization will have some sort of an account to use. If you're building an internal web-application or desktop-application, it doesn't make a lot of sense to give the user another set of credentials. Instead, you can validate users by checking the permissions existing Active Directory accounts.
The source code to check a user's credentials in Active Directory using C# or Visual Basic is actually fairly minimal. This works with both ASP.NET and with Windows Forms (or WPF for that matter) if you're building a desktop application.
You'll need to make use of the System.DirectoryServices library that comes with Visual Studio<|fim_middle|> the AD authentication side.
Now that you've been able to authenticate to AD, how hard would it be to create a function that allows a user to change their password?
It's actually not that difficult at all. You just create a DirectoryEntry object and use the .Invoke method to change the password.
Just what I needed. Thanks for the tutorial.
Do you know if this still works now that there are newer versions of ASP.Net? Or if there is an easier way of authenticating/authorizing users for an intranet? | . You can add this to your ASP.NET code-behind page or your C# class for your Windows forms like this.
(2) Create An Authentication Function.
Here's a basic function that will check a user's permissions on a given domain. Essentially, it will try to create an Active Directory entry using the provided credentials, and it can successfully create a valid entry, we know that the user is authenticated. Otherwise, it'll return false.
That's really all there is to it. Microsoft has an extensive aritcle on MSDN that covers active directory authentication in .NET that you might want to check out as well.
This is awesome and will come in handy. I'm usually lazy and just use IIS to handle | 147 |
North Carolina Courage
McCall Zerboni Voted NWSL Player of the Week for the Second Time in 2018 Season
By NC Courage Communications, 05/01/18, 3:00PM<|fim_middle|> policy. ©2020 SportsEngine, Inc. | EDT
CHICAGO (May 1, 2018) – North Carolina Courage midfielder McCall Zerboni was voted the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Player of the Week by the NWSL Media Association for Week 5 of the 2018 NWSL season.
Zerboni, 31, helped lead the Courage to their second consecutive road victory in a 2-0 win over the Houston Dash at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. North Carolina are now undefeated in six games posting a 5-0-1 record.
The Camarillo, Calif. native continues to play a key role in the attack as North Carolina received goals by Crystal Dunn and Kristen Hamilton while also contributing on the defensive end to guide the Courage to their fourth clean sheet of the 2018 season. (Watch highlights)
The U.S. international finished the match against Houston with eight tackles, an 83.6 percent passing accuracy and two chances created on 87 touches.
It is the second time Zerboni has been honored as the NWSL Player of the Week after being recognized in Week 3 and the third time a North Carolina Courage player has won the award.
The North Carolina Courage will return to action against the Chicago Red Stars on Sunday, May 6 at 3 p.m. ET at Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C.
The NWSL Player of the Week is selected each week of the regular season by the NWSL Media Association, a collection of writers that cover the league on a consistent basis. For more information on the NWSL Media Association, follow them on Twitter.
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This is my absolute favorite drama ever. (One of the links above is to my site.) It can be taken as a detective story--actually, some of the scenes are obviously directly influenced by Sherlock Holmes--but it can also be seen as an examination of the human condition, and as a commentary on very real issues facing Japanese society, namely deception, blind obedience and self-sacrifice. It is also very well-acted, well-directed, and well-produced--not a second of film is wasted--with smooth, indie-influenced cinematography that increasingly darkens the mood as through each sub-plot as the underlying story progresses. The comic relief throughout creates a fondness for the characters that grows and grows, leaving the viewer devastated at the tragic ending. No other drama has yet impacted me as much as this one.
Aside from the rather repetitive and seemingly juvenile first couple of episodes, this dorama leads the viewer down a deceptively simple path through the first couple of episodes and then takes you completely by surprise as twist<|fim_middle|> scenes, so, you can't get bored. Because of this I started to like Nakatani Miki. I think she's awesome actress. Also Watabe Atsuro was great here too.
Great cast (great lead duo with Watabe Atsuro and Nakatani Miki) and stories. I really liked that each episode was a story in itself, and in addition to that there was a lot of cahracter development and a back-story that became the main story towards the end episodes. Good dorama.
I have never been a big fan of the one episode conclusion series's but this one is fantastic. Cases are predictable but it's damn entertaining and gets very intense near the end. Watabe Atsuro at his finest in this drama and Nakatani Miki is wonderfully quirky. "Tres bien."
If you like Trick, you'll probably like this one too. The humor is just as quirky, but the ambience is darker and more serious...reminiscent of film noir. Make sure you watch the special and movie as well (in that order), lest the ending leave you very unsatisfied.
A quirky, scarey, funny, puzzling detective show. Miki Nakatani is brilliant as the childlike genius Shibata Jun. And Watabe Atsuro makes a great sidekick. And now, 2 years after buying my first copy, I've finally gotten another. This one with English subs!
A very different drama but it kept my attention till the end. It won the best drama in 99. The ending is quite surprising! It has the power to draw you in for more. The last epidsode was first rate�cMust see. The special is quite good too.
Really good mystery drama! This is a new genre than what I'm used to, but I was pleasantly surprised. There is a lot of suspense and it is very engaging watching Shibata Jun and her partner try to solve the "unsolved cases" from the past.
I rate this a 10/10!! This is a great mystery drama with combines of suspense and a bit of humor. I think Miki and Atsuro is best together. ^_^ Too bad the ending is a bit sad.
The cases in the middle third weren't that hard to figure out, but from episode 8 on it was excellent. Watabe and Nakatani made a great pair!
Brilliant and quirky mystery series that went off the deep end towards the end. This sudden Lynchian nightmare works too, but not as well.
First 2 episode are kind of predictable. The Middles ones are good, but I didn't like the last three. For the first part, it's a 8.0.
Thought it was a bit overrated, Miki and the rest of the cast were good but the stories were just a bit boring and predictable.
I just finished watching this drama and it has become my favorite already. Nakatani Miki is great as Shibata Jun and Watabe Atsuro as Mayama. The ending was a nice (yet shocking surprise) but the special and movie that followed it were also surprisingly good (unlike other specials and movies that follow great dramas).
One of the best crime doramas ever~~! | after twist emerge. Unquestionably, this police dorama was completely riveting in the second half - truly one of the most well-thought out (in terms of complexity) and well-executed police cases I've seen on TV. The cast played their roles very well; kudos to Nakatani Miki and Watabe Atsuro. As a rating, the first half deserves maybe a 7/10 but the ending was undoubtedly a 10/10. Overall, exceptionally good build up to one of the most suspense-filled endings I have ever watched! Bravo!
Early on, this follows a predicable pattern: a brilliant, somewhat eccentric Tokyo University grad (Miki Nakatani) starts off in the police department's dead file room. With her special abilities for deduction, she manages to solve some of the most baffling dead cases, usually half-way through an episode.
The pattern is fairly uniform. Miki Nakatani is competent, but never a particularly skilled performer. Her relative blandness is matched with a number of skilled, eccentric personalities - and an ending that's completely unpredictable (and really quite thrilling).
I understood what the drama was going for. A witty peculiar drama, which attempted to play on the charisma of the Nakatani Miki and the chemistry of the two lead roles. The story line and the mysteries to be solved were not that compelling and Nakatani Miki could be annoying at times when she becomes oddly high-pitched. Personally, I think TRICK is waaaaaaaaay better. They had similar aims, Keizoku failed and TRICK wins hands down. I did not really find the story clever or interesting.
One of my favorites too, the actors Watabe Atsuro and Nakatani Miki are great and keeps your attention on them.
It's an interesting story, one of the best aspects of this drama is the cast - Watabe Atsuro and Nakatani Miki make a great duo. Nakatani Miki's character who is daughter of the famous detective in Tokyo solves cases that had been unsolved for ages, Watabe Atsuro in the meantime helps her along the way, backing her up and giving more evidence when needed, even she overlooks a few things.
The cases themselves aren't incredibly grabbing - in fact, after the first episode it became a little predictable who the villains were. But I guess that's not the only reason people watch crime dramas, it was always fun seeing how the woman is able to solve the case and what clues she found while doing so. What is done well is the darker story of Watabe Atsuro's character that is woven in little by little with each passing episode which builds up immensely towards the end. I highly recommend this series if you enjoy "Trick" or "Kindaichi" series.
Nakatani Miki is one of the best actresses in Japan today and yesterday. At the time I was watching this, I was studying crime/mystery writing, and this series taught me that one of the most important things for a lead character is distinctiveness, something that describes Shibata Jun in more ways than one. Nakatani did a great job conveying the eccentric qualities of Jun. Though it saddens me that the series' overall plot was a bit of a muddle by the end. Was it all a dream? Reality? I'm not sure even the writers knew what was going on, or why anything had happened the way it did. Regardless, the show was a lot of fun!
The ending was unpredictable and kept me guessing, but slightly unbelievable for me. I think the acting performances elevated this above the material on offer, both the leads were excellent, the support cast were also very good. I enjoyed the deductions in the early cases more, even if some were rather predictable. I was actually not that emotionally attached to the characters as the series approached its climatic conclusions. But overall, a stylish and riveting detective series.
Absolutely superb dorama! Shibata and Mayama are super hilarious together and they just creat a great duo! The dorama also offers lots of great slapstick which I found super hilarious. Not many doramas are able to deliver entertainment humor, but this one certainly does. The cases are very exiting and very well created. TRICK is still my favorite crime dorama, but this one's very high on the list - I'd say second place (and I've watched many crime doramas)!
It's just such a nice watch, really well done detective drama. A bit silly, not too serious and some light comedy here and there. Characters and cast also do their jobs really well, it can't really get much better than that. In the end it gets a lot more serious though, when main storyline comes to an end. It was a bit twisted and much different from episodes before, but really interesting, still liked light episodes more though.
A very odd one this, the first 2/3rds are very similar to Trick where rather implausible mysteries are solved in a semi-lighthearted way. Then suddenly it turns into a different show, very dark, shocking and compelling (though equally as implausible). And it works very well, the odd camera angels and strange asides which where where originally quirky suddenly become disturbing. The SP is OK while the film is a complete mess.
This drama has some very good cases, however, the murderers were so predictable for me. But I like watching how Shibata can solve a crime in such a short time and name all the tricks that the murderers used to commit their crime. I however, didn't like Atsuro's character because he seemed a little bit twisted to me. But I luved Miki's character because she seems so clueless at most time. So funny.
One of the best police mystery endings I have ever seen in any show!! Nakatani Miki plays Shibata very well and Watabe Atsuro played an extremely convincing Mayama. The intermingling of serious scenes and light situations were well peppered throughout the show. Starts with a deceptively slow beginning couple of episodes, this dorama knocks you out towards the end. Very well done!
Ep1-7 were forgettable plots...all predictable. It only started to get exciting thereafter. One small plot that snowballed into a bigger one. I wished the final episode had been really the final episode but the producers ruined a fine script by continuing the drama with SP and a movie. 'Reviving' the characters in the drama is the ultimate nail on the coffin for a bad script.
I adore this dorama!! Out of all the Miki Nakatani doramas I have seen this is my favorite. The special is nice too, but a bit hard to believe.
I wish they'd somehow bring everyone back and make another Keizoku!
The chemistry between Nakatani and Atsuro combined with the comic element really gives you a chance to become fond of the characters.
Quirky to downright weird/dark detective story with brilliant main actress! I watched this after Unfair, two sesons of Psychometrer Eiji, 3 seasons of Trick and 4 seasons of Investigator Mariko - not so much new under the sun. It took me 3, 4 episodes before I got into this series but once I did I loved it. SP, movie and ignoring of plot holes also recommended.
I couldn't get past the first episode. It's painful to watch how hard this drama tries to be "different". It lacks the subtlety and heart that Trick possesses that reels people in and makes the franchise a hit. Everybody is comparing this to Trick, so I thought I would too. Although, it's an unworthy comparison.
Very good series. Probably the oldest that I have ever seen. Plot is good and interesting. It's suspensive and has some comedy | 1,617 |
Jordanian Soprano Zeina Barhoum Plays Carmen's Micaëla in Rimini, Italy
Latin Arab International Film Festival and Forum Join the Arab Cinema Center Partners
Aiming at the Collaboration between the Arab World and Latin America
To accompany it in over 20 international film festivals and markets in 2017, promoting Arab cinema, the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) has revealed the news on adding the Festival Internacional de Cine Latino �rabe (LatinArab International Film Festival) and the LatinArab Coproduction Forum to its list of partners.
Film Analyst Alaa Karkouti, Co-founder of Arab Cinema Center and CEO of MAD Solutions, comments on this step saying, "The joining of LatinArab International Film Festival and the LatinArab Coproduction Forum to the Center's partners is an important step in line with the objectives of the Center in spreading Arab cinema worldwide through providing new opportunities for production and distribution. This partnership with the forum comes after the collaboration between ACC and the forum since its first edition last year, that we expect to continue for a long time."
Edgardo Bechara El Khoury, Executive Director of the LatinArab International Film Festival also comments, "Becoming a member of the Arab Cinema Center is a source of great pride for us and an opportunity to continue to pursue our main objective, to strengthen cultural and audiovisual South-South cooperation through the cinematographic scene."
Christian Mouroux, Artistic Director of the LatinArab International Film Festival and Director of the LatinArab Coproduction Forum says, "We are certain that, thanks to the collaboration of the Arab Cinema Center we shall further encourage Latin Arab co-productions, which our festival has fostered from the beginning."
The LatinArab International Film Festival is considered as the sole festival in the region that connects Latin America to the Arab world through cinema, in addition to being the main tool of cultural exchange between the two regions. Through regular competitions and screenings, the festival celebrates the diversity of voices and the abundance of innovative windows that open up to the real lives of people, society and cities through cinema that dreams of the reality of the two regions and portrays it in ways ranging from sharpness to clarity and poeticism.
LatinArab Coproduction Forum seeks to contribute to the development of joint film production between Latin American and Arab world. This includes films in the development and post-production phases, which have the potential to be included in the joint production process between the two sides.
The Arab Cinema Center (ACC), organized by MAD Solutions for the third year, is an international promotional platform for Arab cinema as it provides the filmmaking industry with a professional window to connect with their counterparts from all over the world through a number of events that it organizes. ACC also provides networking opportunities with representatives of companies and institutions specialized in co-production and international distribution, among others. The Center's activities vary between film market main wings, introduction and networking sessions for Arab and foreign filmmakers, welcome parties, as well as meetings with international organizations and festivals, and the issuance of the Arab Cinema Magazine to be distributed at the leading international film festivals and markets. Furthermore, newsletter subscription is available on ACC's website, allowing users to obtain digital copies of Arab Cinema Magazine, as well as news on ACC's activities, notifications of application dates for grants, festivals and offers from educational and training institutions, updates on Arab films participating in festivals, exclusive news on Arab Cinema LAB, and highlights from ACC partners and their future projects.
<|fim_middle|> cinema to filmmakers inside and outside of the Arab world. It also aims to facilitate filmmakers' access to international markets and help film industry representatives to easily identify Arab film productions.
Since the beginning of 2017, the ACC has made ten stops at international festivals and markets. The festivals attended are the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), Beirut Cinema Platform (BCP) held within the Beirut Cinema Days, Istanbul Film Festival, Tripoli Film Festival, 34th WIPO SCCR in Geneva, Cannes Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Eurasia International Film Festival, and Festival del film Locarno. | ACC also launched an English-language Arab Cinema Guide, available on its website, which is a comprehensive cinematic guide that comprises a variety of tools presented collectively for the first time to offer information on Arab | 38 |
Totoro on Stage
By Helen McCarthy.
I've seen a Catbus live onstage not twenty feet away. I've watched Totoro fly over the heads of a packed audience, all gasping, laughing, cheering and entirely caught up in childlike acceptance of magic. I've seen the<|fim_middle|> as lovely as he is in the film. | conventionally invisible puppeteers and their rods and strings and wind machines and skill and grace and delicacy. I've been transported by music I know by heart, translated and augmented for a new medium. In 55 years of London theatre-going I have never left an auditorium amid a crowd so united in laughter and the joy of life.
It's a strange feeling, writing about My Neighbour Totoro, to write anything but 'Hayao Miyazaki' after 'Director'. But Phelim McDermott has form with musical theatre, although not precisely in this area. He and designer Tom Pye worked on Akhnaten and Aida at the English National Opera. Now McDermott's physical theatre company Improbable bring their circus skills and inventive choreography to anime, using Hisaishi's music and Miyazaki's story as a crossing point between two- and three-dimensional worlds.
This audience obviously knew the bare bones of the story from the original movie, either as a fan or through watching with a child. Two sisters, nine-year-old Satsuki and Mei, four, move to the countryside with their father to be nearer to their sick mother's hospital. Their new neighbours are not just the goodhearted locals who work on the farms near their house, but the ancient spirits of the woodlands around it. In this unusual community, the girls face and deal with changes and challenges, strengthening their own relationship along the way.
The process of transforming that simple story from a luminously beautiful and profoundly moving two-dimensional cartoon to a musical stage show with actors, puppeteers, complex scene changes and two scene-stealing elementals almost too big for the stage, is fraught with difficulty. Whole Hog Theatre confronted similar problems head on in 2013, staging Princess Mononoke in London with a British/Asian cast and crew, and puppets and scenery recycled from junk. Director Alexandra Rutter's production was a magical amulet hanging on a shoestring, justly feted in London and Tokyo. The RSC and Improbable, with Joe Hisaishi and Toshio Suzuki, have captured their own version of that magic.
The cast is a mix of Asian and Caucasian performers, The actress playing Mei, Mei Mac, also played the lead in Princess Mononoke, making her the only actress to have played two Miyazaki heroines on the London stage. Satsuki is played by Ami Okumura Jones, who trained at East 15 Acting School in Loughton. So this is a production about building bridges: between past and present, Britain and Japan, cinema and stage, humans and nature, magic and reality, music and movement, childhood and adulthood, laughter and tears, fear and hope.
My Neighbour Totoro is the jewel in the crown of the Ghibli canon, and there are key elements for which Ghibliophiles demand respect. Those elements are all here, from the solemnity of the fox god whose shelter the girls share in a downpour and the Jizo statues whose protection little Mei seeks when she's lost, to the enormous white knickers that flash under Mei's pink dresses and the straw hat she loses in her first pursuit of the Totoros. The life of a farming community, the immensity of the forest, the country bus stop in the pouring rain, are all here. They're not exactly as you saw them in the film, but they're exactly as you feel them there. The music, beautifully reworked, is performed in the treetops above the action, present yet ethereal, only soloist Ai Ninomiya appearing onstage.
The opening sequence of both film and musical is the arrival of the Kusakabe family, in a van loaded with the trappings of their life in Tokyo, at a rickety old farmhouse with suspect woodwork and soot sprite squatters. Onstage, the ancient theatre tradition of layers of moving flats to mimic a multiplane camera make the transition from a cartoon journey to a real van with Mei and Satsuki in the back seamless.
The susuwatari, the soot sprites rightly more afraid of Mei than she is of them at first meeting, appear throughout the stage version. Grouped together like gangs of extremely small dogs on a walker's leashes, they are handled by a team of astonishingly gifted puppeteers, who transform them into a chorus line as technically perfect as anything Busby Berkeley ever staged, oozing empathy and charm instead of glitz and glamour. One particularly touching tweak to the story has them comforting Mei in a dark moment.
The same brilliant team also handles scene changes (their job description might as well be Dances With Architecture,) and animates rice-fields, grass and flowers, magically accelerated seedlings, a chicken chorus, the iconic greedy goat, the Catbus and the Totoros themselves, with such balletic grace and such a sense of fun that they took their final bow to a huge roar of approval.
Even the opening title card is animated with that sense of fun. It pushes in a sly acknowledgement that Disney may call the film My Neighbor Totoro but the RSC is working in another language. I won't spoil it, but it had the audience in stitches.
As I left the theatre, the Barbican gift shop and box office were closed but the souvenir stand in the foyer was still selling programmes and t-shirts. I overheard one woman in the queue telling her friend that she was trying to get online to book more tickets (mobile reception in the concrete depths of one of London's greatest Brutalist buildings can be erratic) and lamenting the fact that she couldn't buy them on the spot.
I really hope that the RSC's agreement with Ghibli allows them to tour this much-needed explosion of joy, both nationwide and worldwide. Meanwhile, get a ticket while you can.
Helen McCarthy is the author of Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation. My Neighbour Totoro is playing at London's Barbican until 21st January.
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Jean Dewey
Great review, Helen. I really wish I could get to London to see it. Sadly, no time, and I cannot even get into Ghibli World as it is apparently sold out for a while. It sounds like they captured the feelings very well. Is the father just as lovely? I remember thinking when I saw Totoro first that I wished he was my Dad as well.
Helen McCarthy
I hope the show will tour. Its positive energy is very much needed in today's world. The girls' father, beautifully played by Dai Tabuchi, us indeed just | 1,387 |
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The theoretical diesel cycle is the theoretical cycle of a diesel engine, also known as a compression ignition engine.
The theoretical cycle of a thermal engine is a theoretical approximation of its operation to calculate its performance.
The cycle of an internal combustion engine is constituted by the physical and chemical transformations suffered by the fuel during its passage inside the engine.
The study of a real cycle taking into account all the numerous variables, represents a very complex problem. For this reason, it is usually simplified by resorting to theoretical approximations, based on different simplified assumptions.
The fundamental difference between the Otto cycle and the diesel cycle is in the heat introduction phase. In the Otto cycle, the heat is introduced at constant volume, while in the diesel cycle it is carried out at constant pressure. Another difference between both cycles lies in the values of the compression ratio, which varies from 12 to 22 for the diesel engine, while it oscillates only between 6 and 10 for the Otto engine or gasoline engines.
Diagram of the theoretical diesel cycle
As seen in the figure, the ideal diesel cycle consists of four thermal lines that represent:
Adiabatic compression. Without heat exchange. (1-2);
Introduction of heat at constant pressure (2-3);
Adiabatic expansion. Without heat exchange (3-4);
Expulsion of heat at constant volume (4-1).
Ideal thermal performance of the theoretical diesel cycle
During the transformation 2-3 of introduction of heat Q1 at constant pressure, the piston comes into operation, and therefore, the fluid produces the work:
Consequently, the energy equation without flow becomes
and the enthalpy h of the fluid is given by the expression
The equation transforms into
Because the fluid is a perfect gas, we can use, for its enthalpy variation at constant pressure, the expression
Next, the heat introduced will have the following value:
It should be noted that in a transformation with introduction of heat at constant pressure the value of the enthalpy of the active<|fim_middle|> Reducing t & rsquo; that is, the heat introduced at constant pressure, the yield of the diesel cycle is close to that of the otto cycle, with which it matches for t & rsquo; = 1.
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PT - Ciclo Diesel Teórico | fluid varies, while in the case of the transformation at constant volume, the change in the internal energy of the fluid varies. As the subtraction of the heat Q2 is carried out as in the otto cycle, we can write:
Q2 = U4-U1
and as the fluid is a perfect gas and the cycle is ideal:
Q2 = Cv (T4-T1).
Therefore, the ideal thermal performance of the theoretical diesel cycle is valid:
he = (supplied heat - subtracted heat) / heat supplied
expression fully analogous to that found for the ideal performance of the otto theoretical cycle.
For the transformation 2-3 of combustion at constant pressure we have:
For the adiabatic transformations 1-2 of compression and 3-4 of expansion we have, respectively:
from where:
and since they are V4 = V1 and T3 / T2 = V3 / V2, you can write:
Substituting this expression in the ideal thermal performance, it results:
indicating with t & rsquo; the relation between the volumes V3 and V2 at the end and at the beginning, respectively, of the phase of combustion at constant pressure, to which we will give the name of "combustion relation at constant pressure", and remembering that
Finally, we obtain the expression of the ideal thermal performance of the theoretical diesel cycle:
In this expression we see that it is, for the diesel cycle, function of the compression ratio, of the combustion relation at constant pressure and the relation k between the specific heats.
Expressions of the thermal performances of the otto and diesel cycles differ only by the term in parentheses, which is always greater than 1, and, therefore, it appears clear that the same compression ratio is greater for the otto cycle than for the other cycle. for the diesel cycle. | 377 |
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THE NATIONAL REVIEW.
ART. I.-CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE.
The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and Contemporaries, from published and unpublished sources. By G. H. Lewes. 2 vols. Nutt, 1855.
Freundschaftliche Briefe von Goethe und seiner Frau an Nicolaus Meyer, aus den Jahren 1800-1831. Leipzig, Hartung, 1856. [Friendly Letters from Goethe and his Wife to Nicolas Meyer, between the years 1800 and 1831. Leipzic, 1856.]
GOETHE tells us in his Autobiography, that while his mind was wandering about in search of a religious system, and thus passing over the intermediate areas between the various regions of theological belief, he met with a certain phenomenon which seemed to him to belong to none of them, and which he used to call therefore dæmonic influence. 66 It was not divine, for it seemed unintellectual; nor human, for it was no result of understanding; nor diabolic, for it was of beneficent tendency; nor angelic, for you could often notice in it a certain mischievousness. It resembled chance, inasmuch as it demonstrated nothing; but was like providence, inasmuch as it showed symptoms of continuity. Every thing which fetters human agency seemed to yield before it; it seemed to dispose arbitrarily of the necessary elements of our existence." It is not always, says this great observer of life, "the first and best, either in moral nature or in abilities," who possess this magnetic influence, and it is but rarely "that they recommend themselves by goodness of heart; but a gigantic force goes out of them, and they exercise an incredible power over all creatures, nay, even over the elements themselves; and who can say how far this influence may reach? All moral forces united are powerless against them. The masses are fas
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cinated by them. They are only to be conquered by the universe itself," when they enter into conflict with it. Of course Goethe was thinking mainly of Napoleon, and men like him, as he afterwards told Eckermann, when he wrote this passage. Such men put forth, he says, a power, "if not exactly opposite to, yet at least crossing, that of the general moral order of the world; so that the one might be regarded as the woof, the other as the warp.' He adds, that his life-long friend and patron, the Duke of Weimar, had this magnetic influence to such a degree that nobody could resist him, and no work of art ever failed in the poet's hands which the duke had suggested or approved. "He would have been enviable indeed if he could have possessed himself of my ideas and higher strivings; for when the dæmon forsook him, and only the human was left, he knew not how to set to work, and was much troubled at it. In Byron this element was probably very active, giving him such powers of fascination, especially with women. Eckermann, with his usual delightfully childlike simplicity, anxiously asks, "Has not Mephistopheles traits of this nature?" "No," replies Goethe, "Mephistopheles is too negative a being. The dæmonic manifests itself in positive active power among artists. It is found often in musicians, more rarely among painters. In Paganini it shows itself to a high degree, and it is by means of it that he produces such great effects." Of himself he says, "it does not lie in my nature, but I am subject to its influence;" by which Goethe probably meant modestly to disclaim having any personal fascination of this kind over other men, but to indicate, what we know from other conversations he really held to be true, that apparently arbitrary and quite inexplicable impulses had often exercised the most decisive and frequently fortunate influence on his own career. But it is quite clear that Goethe did possess in no common degree this faculty for, in a certain sense, fascinating men by his presence, as well as by his writings. If Byron had more of it as a man, Goethe succeeded in imparting far more of it to his works, and neither his life nor works can be properly judged without reference to its influence. It is something quite distinct from mere beauty, power, or general merit, either of personal character or of literary creation. It is a power which goes out from the individual man, and which can imprint itself only on such writings as carry with them the stamp of individual character; and not always even on those, if, as for example in the case of Byron's earlier works, the play of character is a good deal merged in some exaggerated mood of sentiment. It is not intensity: numbers of writers have surpassed Goethe in the intensity both of literary and personal characteristics. Schiller was a man of far keener and intenser, though narrower nature, and yet he could
not help going into utter captivity to that calm and somewhat limply-constituted mind. It is not even in itself independence or strength of will; for though Goethe had this in a remarkable degree, many others, as probably Schiller, had possessed it in<|fim_middle|> a great dramatist. He could not ever lose himself in his creations: yet it was emphatically this which gave that peculiar and undefinable fascination to those minutelyaccurate observations on life with which all his later prose works
and his conversations are so thickly stocked. You can clearly see that men of strong nature did not submit to Goethe's magnetic influence without a struggle. Schiller, at first intensely repelled from him, was only gradually subdued, though thoroughly and strangely magnetised into idolatry by personal converse, Herder's keen and caustic nature vibrated to the end between the intense repulsion he felt for Goethe's completely unmoral genius, the poet's impartial sympathy for good and evil alike, and the irresistible attractions which his personal influence exerted. Only those could thoroughly cling to Goethe from the first who were not conscious of having any strong intellectual independence to maintain. Women, who love nothing so much as a completely independent self-sustained nature, especially if joined with thorough insight into themselves, were purely fascinated at once. Wieland, who had no intellectual ground to fight for, surrendered without terms. But no man of eminent ability and a different school of thought seemed to approach him without some sense that, if exposed constantly to his immediate influence, he had to choose between fascination and repulsion. Hence his very few intimate male friends: scarcely any man at all able to enter into his mind and share his deeper interests, was likely to be found who could go so completely into captivity to his modes of thought; and, tolerant as he was, the centrifugal force of his mind threw off, to a certain respectful distance, all that the attractive force was not able to appropriate as part of itself. There has been a very similar effect produced by his writings on those even who did not know the man. Novalis fluttered round them, repeatedly expressing his aversion, like a moth round a candle. They invariably repel, at first, English readers with English views of life and duty. As you read more and more, and the characteristic atmosphere of the man is breathed into your life, you find the magnetic force coming strongly over you; you are as a man mesmerised;—you feel his calm independence of so much on which you helplessly lean, combined with his thorough insight into that desire of yours to lean, drawing you irresistibly towards the invisible intellectual centre at which such independent strength and such genial breadth of thought was possible. And yet you feel that you would be in many and various ways lowered in your own eyes if you could think completely as he thought and act as he acted. It becomes a difficult problem, in the presence of so much genius, and beneath so fascinating an eye, "for our better nature stoutly to sustain itself and yield to the dæmonic no more than is reasonable."
* The most pleasant and characteristic sketch of Wieland in English literature is contained in a few pages contributed to the second volume of Mrs. Austin's Characteristics of Goethe, p. 227. | as high a degree, who had been quite destitute of his fascinating talent. If it be expressible in one phrase at all (which it is not), it might be called presence of mind in combination with a deep knowledge of men;-we mean that absolute and complete adequacy to every emergency which gave Napoleon his sang froid at the very turning-point of his great battles, which has descended in some measure on his nephew, and which in the literary world has secured for Johnson his Boswell, and for Goethe his Eckermann. Johnson, indeed, was immeasurably Goethe's inferior in the range of his experience, and, what is of more importance, in his knowledge of man; but he was perhaps his superior in mere presence of mind, and hence was greater in conversation, but less in fascination. The Duke of Wellington had nearly as much presence of mind as Napoleon himself; but he had immeasurably less of the other element of fascination-instinctive knowledge of men, and how to use them.
Goethe is almost unrivalled in the literary world in the degree in which he combines these qualities. Shakespeare may have had them equally, but his dramas are too impersonal to tell us clearly what kind of individual influence he put forth. We should conjecture that his sympathy with men was too vivid to have enabled him to keep, as was the case with Goethe, a part of himself as a permanent reserve-force outside the actual field of action, and ready to turn the flank of any new emergency. Shakespeare can scarcely, we think, have been so uniformly able to detach himself, if he would, from the sympathies and passion of the moment as Goethe certainly was; for Goethe, like the little three-eyed girl (Drei-äuglein) in the German tale, had always an extra organ besides the eyes he slept and wept with, to take note of his own sleep and his own tears, and an extra will, subject to the command of the third eye, ready to rescue the ordinary will from the intricacies of human emotion. Shakespeare's knowledge of life was, we should think, less drawn from constant vigilance and presence of mind in the passing moment (to which we imagine him to have abandoned himself far more completely than Goethe), and more from the power of memory and imagination to reproduce those sympathies again. However this may be, Shakespeare has himself sketched, less perhaps this cool presence of mind itself than the effect which it produces on other men, in his picture of Octavius Cæsar in Antony and Cleopatra. Cæsar's cool self-possessed eye for every emergency, and for the right use of human instruments, and its paralysing effect on Antony's
more attaching and passionate power of character, is a striking example of what Goethe would have called the 'dæmonic' element in human affairs-the element that fascinates men by at once standing out clear and quite independent of their support, and yet indicating the power to read them off and detect for them their own needs and uses. There is always in this kind of magnetic power something repulsive first; but if the repulsion be overcome, the attraction becomes stronger than ever; there is a resistance while the secondary mind is striving to keep its independence, and conscious of the spell,—an intense devotion after he has once relinquished it, and consented to be a disciple or a servant. So the soothsayer tells Antony,
Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is
Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable,
Where Cæsar's is not; but near him, thy angel
Becomes a fear, as being overpowered; therefore
Make space enough between you."
And Goethe, who had, as he says, himself experienced the force of this blind fascination in the Duke of Weimar's influence over him, as well as wielded it in no slight degree, tells Eckermann (himself a captive), "The higher a man stands, the more he is liable to this dæmonic influence; and he must take constant care that his guiding will be not diverted by it from the straight way. . . . This is just the difficult point-for our better nature stoutly to sustain itself, and cede to the dæmonic no more than is reasonable."
In Goethe himself this fascinating power existed as strongly as it is well possible to conceive in a man whose whole intellectual nature was of the sympathetic and contemplative, rather than of the practical cast,-who had no occasion to 'use' men except as literary material,-and who, while he stood out independent of them, and could at will shake off from his feet the dust of long association, yet felt with them as one who understood their nature and had entered into their experience. Goethe's sympathetic and genial insight into man would have been a pure embarrassment to a practical cold-tempered tool-seeker like Napoleon, who never deciphered men through sympathy, but always by an instinctive tact for detecting masterly and workmanlike results. And vice versâ, the imperturbable self-possession and Napoleonic sang froid of judgment, that underlay in Goethe all storms of superficial emotion, was no little embarrassment to him in many of his literary moods. It prevented him, we think, from ever becoming | 1,103 |
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While many students have struggled to find ways to stay entertained or busy during quarantine, seniors Lucas Cai and Samuel Yuan have busied themselves with a rather unique claim to fame: participating in a multinational startup company, working as the app design team for a group made entirely up of fellow highschoolers.
"It's not just an app, it's a full project called PetCode" Cai said. "It's like a smart pet tag. There are some GPS trackers out there, but most of them are pretty bulky and ugly. The point of this is to have something simple and good looking. The tag is pretty simple, just a circular tag with a QR code on it. When you store the tag you can access all kinds of information about your pet, like vaccinations and medical records, and it stores the location of the tag in a database whenever you scan, so if your pet is lost and someone scans it, you'll get a notification and be able to go pick them up."
The PetCode tag has three main components: the tag itself, a mobile app to access the tag, and a website to view your tag information on a desktop device. The team behind the project comes from many different backgrounds, with some members living in California and Canada. Cai and Yuan have been involved in the project since early summer.
"Someone just reached out to me through LinkedIn, and asked since I had competed in some hackathons, where you have 24 hours to come up with some app or website to solve a problem, if I would be interested in this project they had started," Cai said. "Everything's been all online because of the pandemic, but that's worked out and been a pretty good thing for us."
The app and the main PetCode tag are not available to the public yet; the team is finalizing some aspects of their Kickstarter project to release during December; once that goal is met, the transition towards releasing the final product will begin.
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"My plan is just while I have time, I'll try to found my own startup," Yuan said. "With this experience with other highschoolers, I've found it's not that difficult to start making your product. It's pretty cool because you can have something that can help a bunch of people, get a ton of downloads, and really start making some people's lives easier."
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J. Kasper Kramer Simon & Schuster Audio 9781534430686
A powerful middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding her voice and the strength to use it during the final months of the Communist regime in Romania in<|fim_middle|> criticizing Romania's Communist government that Uncle Andrei published—right before he went missing.
Fearing for her safety, Ileana's parents send her to live with the grandparents she's never met, far from the prying eyes and ears of the secret police and their spies, who could be any of the neighbors. But danger is never far away. Now, to save her family and the village she's come to love, Ileana will have to tell the most important story of her life.
"By turns surprising, poetic, and stark, The Story That Cannot Be Told is one that should most certainly be read." —Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author
Author Bio: J. Kasper Kramer
J. Kasper Kramer is an author and English professor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She has a master's degree in creative writing and once upon a time lived in Japan, where she taught at an international school. When she's not curled up with a book, Kramer loves researching lost fairy tales, playing video games, and fostering kittens. Visit her at JKasperKramer.com.
Category: Fiction/Historical
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Audience: Children (8–12)
AE Catalog ID: H7B0227 | 1989. Ileana has always collected stories. Some are about the past, before the leader of her country tore down her home to make room for his golden palace; back when families had enough food, and the hot water worked on more than just Saturday nights. Others are folktales like the one she was named for, which her father used to tell her at bedtime. But some stories can get you in trouble, like the dangerous one criticizing Romania's Communist government that Uncle Andrei published—right before he went missing. Fearing for her safety, Ileana's parents send her to live with the grandparents she's never met, far from the prying eyes and ears of the secret police and their spies, who could be any of the neighbors. But danger is never far away. Now, to save her family and the village she's come to love, Ileana will have to tell the most important story of her life.
A powerful middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding her voice and the strength to use it during the final months of the Communist regime in Romania in 1989.
Ileana has always collected stories. Some are about the past, before the leader of her country tore down her home to make room for his golden palace; back when families had enough food, and the hot water worked on more than just Saturday nights. Others are folktales like the one she was named for, which her father used to tell her at bedtime. But some stories can get you in trouble, like the dangerous one | 326 |
Football Season is More Exciting with FanDuel!
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Daily Fantasy Sports is the ultimate in fantasy sports. For those of you who don't know, fantasy sports is where die hard sports fans build their "dream" or "super" teams in fantasy drafts. The put together a dream team of football, baseball, and the like based on player stats, and then as the season progresses, they collect points based on how well the players in their dream team do. I knew nothing about it until my husband gave it a try. It's actually SUPER fun. I can see why people are so into it. It's exciting to watch your team's progress. Daily Fantasy Sports is the same thing but on a much more interactive level.
My husband is absolutely beside himself with excitement for FanDuel. Not only can he make his dream team and watch it all unfold, he can win money. Throughout football season, FanDuel offers all kinds of tournaments ranging from $1 entries to $2 million dollar prize pools! All you have to do is deposit a minimum of $ | 248 |
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Explore the Bible - 'Noah's Ark'
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Objective: In this exciting episode, we explore the mystery of Noah's Ark.
Where did the Ark come to rest? Is it high on a snow-capped mountain, or somewhere else?
What evidence<|fim_middle|> and apologetics and he writes on both subjects for Catholic Online (catholic.org), the World's Catholic Library.
He serves as the first Director of Education for Catholic Online School.
Marshall Connolly | leads many to believe it rests high on the peak of Mt. Ararat? Why can't intrepid explorers get to its remains?
And a question: what would change if the Ark were found and shown to the world? Would people finally believe the truths of the Bible?
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I have to agree, Laos girls do have a natural beauty about them. Please don't become like Korean woman. They fix so much. Make me wanna go back to Laos and look for a gf.
Too much kimchi is bad for you.
I love kimchi, although the kimchi that I had in VTE wasn't so delicious, except for the kimchi that I tried at a North Korean restaurant called Pyongyang. I noticed quite a few Korean restaurants in VTE.
Do not each too much though... One time I had alot of these kimchis in a Japanese resataurant and when I start showing I kept farting and farting and I wished I had a gas mask just to save myself from suffication . Kimchi is very dangerous!
Hmm...no sense of humour. You all still alive?
I have to agree with ya on that buddy !
I like Korean food too.Especially the grilling of meat and such.
You should checkout the numerous Korean (both North and South) restaurants in Vientiane. I prefer the North Korean restaurant called Pyongyang which serves specializes Northern dishes.
Any foodd/flavour differences between North and<|fim_middle|> There's also a dish that originated in the north but widely popular in the south called naengmyeon or cold noodles in English. There's many more examples but I'm too tired to explain the differences now. LOL!!! It's been a long day and a bowl of khao piak sen is calling my name.
'khao piak sen' - what is that? | South?
North has chinese flovor, South, Thai Flavor, East, Viet.
Like any country there's regional differences in various dishes. North Korean cuisine tends to use less chili peppers in their kimchi compared to their counterparts in the south. The southern most part of South Korea tends to use a lot of seafood in their kimchi like whole pickled fish, oysters, squid, etc. The north tends to use ingredients like pine nuts, Asian pears, chestnuts and even ginseng. | 102 |
JAKE LAMOTTA REMEMBERED
It is with saddened hearts that we inform you of the death of former teacher Vincent J. LaMotta, on November 29, 2020 in Wimauma, Florida at the age of 80.
A long-serving colleague, he began teaching at Don Bosco Prep in 1965 and retired in 2002. A native of New York City and of Saint John's University, Vince began his career at Don Bosco Prep as an English teacher and chair of the department, working primarily with the graduating senior class until he was asked to become vice principal for students in 1981.
"Jake", as he was referred to, was known throughout the school community as a man of strong intellect, impeccable character, and a devotion to his family and school that is rivalled by very few.
"When alumni return to visit their alma mater, they invariably inquire about Mr. LaMotta, a man whom they describe as a consummate educator and a gracious friend to the young men of Don Bosco Prep," said Dr. James Scanlon, longtime member of Don Bosco Prep's faculty and administration. "His example as an educator in the tradition of Saint John Bosco continues to pervade our lives."
LaMotta is remembered as being focused on finding the best ways to engage young people in the particularly unique charism of Don Bosco.
"Vinnie had a unique rapport with his students, earning their respect while teaching them to appreciate classic texts from different cultures," said Mr. Paul O'Connor. "His down-to-earth approach and wry sense of humor made his teaching accessible and joyful in a true Salesian spirit. Always fair and equitable, Vinnie recognized each student as an individual and treated each one in a similar manner."
LaMotta became a trusted mentor to many faculty members throughout his years of teaching.
"Vin became an excellent mentor and helped me understand what it is that makes a Don Bosco Prep education so invaluable and lasting for our students," said Mr. Kevin Kilduff, longtime DBP faculty member. "I will be forever grateful to Vin for his friendship and unstinting assistance to me in my formative years as a teacher."
"When I succeeded Vince as the English Department Chairman, he went out of<|fim_middle|>."
Mr. LaMotta's son, Dr. Vincent LaMotta, graduated from Don Bosco Prep in 1991.
Our prayers join those of the LaMotta family, as we remember him with great gratitude for his many years as a Salesian educator. May he rest in peace. | his way to help with my transition into the role," said O'Connor. "His professionalism, generosity of spirit, ever-present sense of humor, patience with his students and Salesian spirit of amorevollezza defined his teaching philosophy and who he was as a person | 53 |
M73 Engines, What's the Newest we can fit?
Thread: M73 Engines, What's the Newest we can fit?
What's the Newest M73 usable in our cars, I've found a couple 2001 M73's in great shape and was wondering if they will work by swapping the usual parts, Thanks!
Later M73 engines have water cooled alternator. The latest you can use is 1997 M73.
If you use the complete engine, it shouldn't matter that the alternator is water cooled. I personally do not like those, but they do work.
Re: Water cooled alt, and dejavu my '97-> '02 V8 swap, so speaking in general terms, not necessarily V12 specific.
On the V8, same circa, the issue was not water vs air cooled per se, but generic ancillary issues.
* The upper hose gained a branch going to the new water alt. Couldn't grab the newer hose because it was for the other/newer app, therefore the new hose had a different shape/routing, therefore incompatible with the e31.
* Compounding that incompatibility BMW had migrated to a fancy clip-on end style (all three ends) whereas we are stuck with our radiators with old-style squared ends. My solution: Cut/splice<|fim_middle|> it with you own adaption computer while you are blipping a slightly rich mix. No harm to standard ops if you don't manage to support it.
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car, Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car, Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, Torque is how far you take the wall with you." | a new clip-on hose with our old-style radiator end.
* The alternator was physically larger, due to the water jacket and increased output (?). In the V8 the new housing did not bump into anything but, general speaking, there could have been a application packaging problem.
* If the max output of the alternator increases substantially, then proper engineering requires us to review the cable gauge.
* The stud on the alt had migrated slightly in style and position. I had to remake the alt cable end, borrowing the eyelet from the later/other app. Fortunately (iirc), it did not in involve lengthening the cable, otherwise start over from that point.
Next topic (because it comes up in the wiki page): The MAP thermostat technology on the V8 could be reverted back to our circa although I elected to have my adaption computer drive this properly. There was a difference in thermostat port styles, and therefore again the issue of hose route and ends just mentioned. On the V8 it was not an option to retain the older housing and port style (because the new housing angles around the alien vanos heads), but my understanding is that it would accept the older uncontrolled thermostat.
Next topic (not mentioned on the V12 wiki page, but it's in play V8): Auxillary air injection might (?) wander into the picture, unless they have it covered by that "electric cat". If air injection is present, you'll want to either cap it inconspicuously or retrofit a pump say behind the sheetmetal ahead of the right side wheel, then drive | 319 |
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The Silver Comet and Chief Ladiga trails join to form one continuous 94-mile (151 km) trail from Smyrna, Georgia to Anniston, Alabama, which together form the second longest rail trail in the U.S. U.S. Bicycle Route 21 follows a portion of Silver Comet Trail from Cedertown to the east end of the trail. steven k scott vision mapping journal pdf This PDF shows the Cobb County section of the trail in great detail: Cobb County Silver Comet Trail Map. If you have run this trail, I would love to hear your experiences.
This PDF shows the Cobb County section of the trail in great detail: Cobb County Silver Comet Trail Map. If you have run this trail, I would love to hear | 172 |
Series INDYCAR SERIES INDY 2021 GMR GRAND PRIX (INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE)
Sunday, 16th May 2021
Podium Results for Grosjean and Palou at the GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Starting from the pole, Honda's Romain Grosjean led a race-high 44 laps in today's GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis, but was unable to hold off a strong closing run from Rinus VeeKay and finished second at the GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis.
May 15, 2021 — SPEEDWAY, Ind.
Romain Grosjean finishes second for Honda on the IMS road course
Alex Palou continues strong run of results with third-place finish
Practice for Indianapolis 500 begins on Tuesday
The result was Grosjean's best finish in three starts this season for Dale Coyne Racing with RWR, and the Formula One veteran was joined on the podium by fellow Honda driver Alex Palou, who now has a third-place finish to go with his win at the season opening Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
Behind, the lead trio, Graham Rahal recorded a strong result after contact on the opening lap damaged the right-side bodywork of his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda. After going "off- sequence" with an early pit stop during the resulting caution period, Rahal was able to combine speed with fuel economy to climb from 24th to finish fifth.
NTT INDYCAR SERIES Manufacturers' Championship (unofficial, after 5 rounds)
Honda 408 pts
Chevrolet 405 pts
The "Month of May" begins this weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with the GMR Grand Prix. Held on the IMS infield road course, Saturday's 85-lap race will kick off three weeks of on-track activities leading up to the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 30.
Honda continues to hold the early-season lead in the 2021 INDYCAR Manufacturers' Championship, with three victories in the first four races this season. After four of 16 races, Honda holds a 14-point advantage (332-318) over rival Chevrolet. The company is seeking its fourth.
Activities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway continue<|fim_middle|>APOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE)
Indianapolis, Indiana United States of America | this week, but move to the historic 2.5- mile oval with four days of practice, starting Tuesday, followed by qualifying next weekend for the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 30.
Romain Grosjean 51
Dale Coyne Racing with RWR
The support I've received from the fans here [after moving from Formula One to INDYCAR in the off-season] has been incredible. Today, we had a great race. The team did a super job, we just got a bit unlucky with some slower cars and traffic. But P2 for just my third race in an Indy car is not too bad! This is why I came here.
Alex Palou 10
Chip Ganassi Racing
It was a good day, after a tough weekend, to be honest. We grabbed a podium, and learned a lot during the race. It was a bit exciting fighting with [Josef] Newgarden there, he was pushing us hard. But the team did an amazing job and we came away with a third-place finish.
Graham Rahal 15
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
To finish fifth, particularly after the contact at the start, was a big deal for us. Honda, the power was good, and also the mileage was there for us to make our [fuel] strategy. So definitely a solid day, and I think we've got a good shot going into the [Indianapolis] 500.
Wayne Gross
Manager of Trackside Support & IndyCar Project Leader, Honda Performance Development
We had a good shot at the victory today, but things didn't quite fall our way. Still, it was great to see both Romain [Grosjean] and Alex [Palou] on the podium.
Scott [Dixon] and Alex are still at the top of the Drivers' Championship, while the manufacturers' race is tightening up, as we thought it would. Thanks to everyone at HPD and our partner teams for their continued hard work, and now it's time to focus all our efforts on claiming our 14th Indianapolis 500 victory.
Published on 16 May 2021 @ 04:22 GMT+0
GMR GRAND PRIX (INDIAN | 481 |
Learn about Photo Albums picture layouts in PowerPoint 2010.
Once you create a Photo Album in PowerPoint 2010, you can do so much more with your photos such as reordering their sequence, changing their brightness and contrast<|fim_middle|>The opens the Edit Photo Album dialog box, as shown in Figure 4. The area highlighted in red in Figure 4 includes the options you will learn in this tutorial -- which is Picture layout.
By default the Picture layout is set to Fit to slide (refer to Figure 4 above).
Choose any of the picture layouts, and you will see a preview of its appearance (highlighted in red in Figure 5) next to the Picture layout drop-down list.
Click the Update button (highlighted in blue in Figure 5) to apply the new layout to your Photo Album.
Save you Photo Album presentation.
Note: You must change the picture layout for all the pictures and slides in your Photo Album presentation -- you cannot have different slides that have different layouts within the same presentation. | levels, etc. However what might not be that apparent is that you can also make changes with the layouts of the individual slides -- such as how many pictures you want to be visible on a single slide. You can also choose to show slide titles (or not), or even show your pictures in full screen view where one individual picture fits the entire slide area. What choices you make will depend entirely upon you -- in this tutorial, you will be aware of these different choices.
Fit to slide shows one picture per slide, in full screen view (see Figure 1).
1 picture shows one picture per slide, but you can also see the slide background since the picture does not cover the entire slide. Similarly 2 pictures and 4 pictures use the same logic to show you 2 and 4 pictures respectively, and show the slide background (see Figure 2).
1 picture with title shows one picture per slide (and the slide title), and you can still see the slide background since the picture does not cover the entire slide. Similarly 2 pictures with title and 4 pictures with title use the same logic, and show 2 and 4 pictures respectively with the slide titles and the slide background (see Figure 3).
Open your existing Photo Album presentation, and choose the Insert tab | Photo Album | Edit Photo Album option.
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Simply picking up a camera and giving it a go is the best way to kickstart a career in film-making, says Ted Evans. Photograph: Charlie Swinbourne.
In August, 80,000 people piled into London's Olympic stadium for the spectacular opening ceremony for the 2012 Paralympic Games. But for one of them, it was the 10 minutes before the ceremony began that were extra special.
Deaf film-maker Ted Evans' 10-minute film, Look Up, which he co-directed with Bim Ajadi, kicked off the live show and was the culmination of months of hard work. "Seeing it on the screens, with thousands of people watching, was like reaching the top of a mountain," he says. "I keep saying to myself, 'did that actually happen?'"
For Evans, who is profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other, making the film was just one stage in a bigger journey. Four years ago, he was unemployed, and by his own admission, "a bit lost".
He had developed a passion for music, spending hours in a shed in his parents' garden composing songs. But after attracting fans on MySpace and gaining interest from a record company, he hit a brick wall.
"I went to meet this guy who was interested in signing me up in Denmark Street, but as soon as he found out I was deaf, his encouragement and enthusiasm just went. I knew instantly he was never going to contact me again and he didn't. That was a little heartbreaking."
Evans found himself at a crossroads. "I knew that it was going to be very difficult to pursue a career in songwriting, but I had no idea what I else I could do." He had made short films at home from a young age, but didn't think he could make a career out of it. "I thought it wouldn't be possible for people like me," he says.
Then, out of the blue, Evans was offered a job as a runner on a new website for deaf people. He'd previously worked with Bim Ajadi composing music for the website's short films. Now, as part of an all-deaf team, Evans quickly progressed to become a director, with support from Ajadi. "We all learned a lot from Bim," he says. "He trained everyone on the team and he's a great role model."
But on New Year's Eve 2009, came another blow. The website was closing, and the entire team were made redundant. Fortunately for Evans, he had just gained a place on the British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust's (BSLBT) short film scheme, Zoom. His resulting film, Go Ahead, helped him get a job as a researcher at the BBC's long-running magazine series for deaf people, See Hear. Again, within a year, he worked his way up to being a director.
It was while he was working on the show, commuting from his home in Hackney to Birmingham every day, that Evans wrote and directed his second short film, The End, which was commissioned by the next stage of the BSLBT's film scheme, Zoom Focus. The half-hour film was made for just £4,000. It is told in a documentary style and looks at the loss of deaf culture in a world where deafness has been cured.
"Originally the idea was simply a question I put to my partner who is a deaf sign language user," he tells me. "If you died and we met again in the afterlife, would you sign to me or speak to me<|fim_middle|> he "relies on professionals when it comes to audio", working closely with sound editors, he also says: "It doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on [music] and it doesn't mean I should not be involved in that aspect of film-making."
Evans feels he has a strong understanding of the role of music in film, which is helped by his background as a musician. "People often say that sound and music is half the film. The key is having respect for it, even if you can't access it in its entirety. As a film-maker you want to reach as many people as possible, and sound provides the audience with information which plays an important part in telling your story."
Does he have any advice for aspiring deaf and disabled film-makers? "My main piece of advice would be to pick up a camera, any movie camera, and simply make films. You will instantly find yourself faced with obstacles and through experiencing them, you will learn how to improve."
After months of hard work, Evans was surrounded by family and friends who were there to see Look Up being shown on the night of the Paralympics opening ceremony. "It was like nothing I've ever experienced in my life," he says. "It was so emotional for many reasons. I worked with so many amazing people and it has done nothing but inspire me." | ? What if you had a choice? That question became the basis of the film."
For Evans, who attended deaf schools, The End was also a chance to highlight the deaf culture that he'd grown up in, but was hidden from wider view. "Most people don't know deaf culture exists and the reality is that deaf people have a lot to offer to society. People have the right to be different." The film won awards at film festivals across the world.
With each job, Evans has worked hard and tried to impress. This ethos paid dividends when it came to directing Look Up. He first worked with Jenny Sealey when he and Ajadi made short documentaries for Sealey's Graeae Theatre Company. Three years on, when Sealey became the co-director of the Paralympics opening ceremony, and was looking to commission a film to get the night started, she thought of them. "That was down to us making films for them for the past three years. If we had done a bad job, we wouldn't have been approached," he says.
Making Look Up meant working with a higher budget than he'd ever had before, and reliable communication on set was crucial. "I use very good sign language interpreters, because communication and understanding what is going on around you is crucial as a director."
Evans has also learned how important sound is in making a film, and although | 282 |
Recreating Joe the Quilter's Cottage: what has the excavation taught us?
Back in September John led an archaeological excavation of the site of Joe the Quilter's cottage (you can learn more about Joe's tragic story and the excavation of his house by clicking here) . Our team of Beamish staff, local volunteers and archaeology students discovered the remains of the walls, flagstone floor and brick chimney breast of Joe's little cottage.
The uncovered remains of Joe the Quilter's Cottage
The clues revealed by the excavation have allowed Clara to piece together a more accurate interpretation of what Joe's cottage originally looked like, which will form the basis of a recreation of the cottage at the Museum.
The initial interpretive plans of the cottage that Clara made, were based on contemporary images and descriptions that were made following Joe's murder in 1826, as well as by using comparisons with other regional cottages of roughly the same age. One very significant plan and elevation printed by W. Davidson in January 1826 (shortly after Joe's murder) of the cottage (which was intended to record grisly details such as where the body was found for the enthralment of the general public) gives an invaluable insight into the rough layout of the building. It suggests that internally the cottage was divided into a main domestic room and a storage room/animal shelter. The front (and only) door is shown as leading immediately into the main room, in which is depicted a recessed fireplace. This plan also gives additional details, including that the bed was located in the south west corner of the main room and that Joe kept his coals to the west of the chimney breast.
A plan of Joe's cottage, published by W. Davidson, shortly after Joe's murder.
Upon excavating the site, the lower two courses of the back wall and rear half of the two gable ends of the cottage were revealed. Unfortunately the front of the cottage has been lost due the disruption caused by the newer boundary wall of the field in which the cottage site sits. These sections of wall revealed that the length of the cottage was actually slightly larger than initially expected, being<|fim_middle|> with thatching techniques.
Clara's interpretation of the cottage in section, showing the wattle and daub room divide, the cruck trusses, and brick chimney breast
The next stage is for Beamish's architect, Steve, to transform Clara's initial interpretative drawings into plans that can be used to recreate the cottage as part of our planned Remaking Beamish project (learn more about Remaking Beamish by clicking here). Look out for more posts for updates about Joe's humble home!
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The hunt for an Inn continues…
Clara studying a plan at the Tyne and Wear Archives in Newcastle's Discovery Museum.
We've been continuing with our search for lost Coaching Inns throughout the North East, and last week Clara and John visited several Archives looking for more information and some plans. Unfortunately, while we did find a number of great plans, most of them were of Inns that are still in business – which is great news for the buildings, but a shame for us!
None of the ones that are lost had plans that are complete enough for us to copy, so the search continues! We did come across a fantastic story from an Inn though. A newspaper from 12th Feb 1790 tells of an duel that took place in a Coaching Inn in Morpeth – thankfully it ended happily – without anyone being injured!
On the evening of Friday night a misunderstanding took place at Morpeth between a Mr B. and a Mr L. in consequence of which they met attended by their seconds in a room of the Phoenix Inn. They took their ground at six yards distance and agreed to fire together. But after poising and looking and looking and poising and chameleon-like alternating and changing colours it was discovered that the pistols would not go off. The seconds then interfered assuring their parties that they had sufficiently proved themselves men of honour which it was said they were highly pleased to hear and the matter was finally adjusted without blood-shed.
Filed under Georgian Coaching Inn, Remaking Beamish
Tagged as Coaching Inn, Georgian, Northumberland Archives, Research, Stories, Tyne and Wear Archives
Collecting Codd Bottles
A sample of the Codd bottles in our collection.
As part of our on going search to find yet more exciting collections to fill W. Smith's Chemist and Photographers', our office is slowly being invaded by funny shaped old bottles…
They're called 'Codd' bottles and were the most common type of bottle used for containing fizzy drinks from the late 19th century until the early 1930s. Patented in 1872 by Hariam Codd, the bottle was sealed by a marble that was forced against the mouth of the bottle by the pressure of the gas produced by the aerated water .inside. To drink the aerated waters inside you used a special opener to push the marble down. Then when tilted upwards, the marble was captured by two checks on either side of the bottle, allowing the drink to flow out.
Locally made Codd bottles.
For the marble feature to work the bottles had to be filled upside down using an inverted bottler. These bottlers are now incredibly rare, we only know of four that are left in the entire country. We are planning to use a modern Japanese version of the Codd bottle, which have screw tops, so that they can be filled upright using a type of bottler that we have in our collections. This also reduces the chance of any potential choking hazards the marble might cause!
A rare surviving Codd bottler, held at the Museum of Bath at Work.
Jim is particularly interested in Codd bottles as a way of telling local history, as each manufacturer of fizzy drinks had their own branded bottles. So far, some of the more unusual examples that we have collected include, one from Newcastle made by R. Emmerson Junior that shows a man riding a penny-farthing, and one from Gateshead with a picture of a bird sitting in a tree. We also have bottles from Stockton, Morpeth, Kirbymoorside, Houghton-le-Spring and many other local places. Our dream is to eventually have a bottle from every village in the North East. Please let us know if you have any that you would like to donate.
Jim is particularly excited about our growing Codd bottle collection.
Filed under Collections, W. Smith's Chemist and Photographer's
Tagged as Codd Bottles, Soda Machine, Stories, W. Smith's Chemist and Photographer's
The dastardly deeds of the infamous Vyvyan Moyle
Those following the progress of our rebuild of Eston Church may have noticed a few references to our resident owl, the Revered Vyvyan Peck. Our choosing the name 'Peck' has a fairly obvious explanation, but the more uncommon 'Vyvyan' is derived from a fascinating story of a 19th Century criminal – The Revered Vyvyan Moyle.
At first glance Moyle, who was born in 1835 to relatively wealthy parents, appeared to be a typical 19th Century vicar of a rural parish. He was appointed Vicar at Eston in 1868, the same year St Helen's was upgraded from a chapel in the parish Ormesby to a parish church, having served as a curate in Ormesby. He was married to Wilhemina Wade, who was allegedly an Irish heiress. Moyle showed all the signs of being a wealthy, successful member of society in the North East – he delivered lectures to influential people (including Members of Parliament) and was apparently generous and well liked. He even paid for a new Gothic-style East window for St Helen's.
Moyle's window from the Chancel, photographed in the 1980s.
The same window when Beamish arrived at St Helen's in 1998. Unfortunately, due to us setting the Church in 1822 this later window isn't included in our rebuild, but we'll endeavor to lay it out somewhere nearby in the churchyard.
Considering his relatively modest income, Moyle lived an extravagant life. His house was what is now the Manor House at Normanby, and he had a vast array of luxurious possessions, including a collection of artwork. The source of this wealth became apparent in December 1872, when Moyle was arrested and charged with four counts of fraud, including forgery. The company he was accursed of defrauding was Jackson, Gill & Co., a furnace makers, who alleged that he had stolen £22,000 – a huge sum in the 1870, worth well into the millions in today's equivalent.
Moyle pleaded guilty, but wasn't given bail because of how serious the charges were. Whilst awaiting trial he was declared bankrupt and the contents of his home were auctioned. At his trial in March 1873 local dignitaries spoke of his previous good character, but this had no impact, and Vyvyan was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. His trial and conviction caused quite a stir of media interest – the story was even reported in the New Zealand press!
He was released on October the 19th 1878, and moved to Berkshire with his wife and family, being titled a 'clergyman without care of souls'. In 1885, despite the circumstances of his conviction being explained to the Bishop, Moyle was given a vicarage and appointed vicar of St Clement's Church, Ashampstead, Reading – the Bishop seeking to give him another chance as a repentant man. In 1895 Vyvyan wrote 'Notes on the Ecclesiastical History of Ashampstead, Berks., for the last 50 years'. It appears that his wife and son (who was also a vicar called Vyvyan) had left him, as they were living in Sussex in 1901.
St Clement's Church, Ashampstead.
Sadly Moyle's peaceful and honest life didn't last. In 1906 at the age of 71 he was tried, alongside a William Davenport, for conspiring to defraud. They were convicted of trying to induce people to be depositors in a false company entitled 'South & South-West Coast Steam Trawling & Fishing Syndicate'. Moyle pleaded guilty and was given eighteen months' hard labour, although this time he didn't survive, and died shortly after his release in 1908.
As far as we know the Revered Vyvyan Peck doesn't share any of the criminal leanings of his namesake…
(Alongside court records, census returns and death indexs, information for this post was drawn from an article on the Normanby History Group's website,which is well worth reading if you'd like more information).
Filed under St Helen's Church
Tagged as Georgian, Historic Construction, Reverend Peck, St Helen's Church, Stories, Vyvyan Moyle
Progress at St Helen's Church
The reclaimed panelling that will be used on the front of the church's gallery.
The work on St Helen's Church is continuing. Yesterday, a section of panelling arrived, which has been reclaimed from a chapel in Butterknowle, County Durham. This panelling is remarkable similar to that which originally made up the front of the gallery at St Helen's and will be used as in its place. In the afternoon we also received a very exciting delivery of cylinder glass (an early method of producing sheet glass), which will be used to glaze the replica Georgian lancet windows in the nave.
Shaun and Dan unpacking yesterday's delivery of cylinder glass.
As well as glazing the windows in the nave, our local specialist glazier Barry Swinburne, will also be working on the two much older windows in the chancel.
The view from the church's gallery. The replica Georgian lancet windows are visible to the side, and the 15th tracery window at the end of the chancel.
The first is a lovely 15th century tracery window which sits behind the site of the altar on the east end of the church. This will be glazed with leaded glass in a diamond pattern, as was typical of the date. The second window was reputedly inserted into the south wall of the chancel by the Tudors. There is no record of what this window looked like, other than that it was a stained glass window that depicted an image of St Helen. Using research done by John into other 16th century windows that showed the saint, Clara has created a design that will be used by Barry to recreate the window using traditional methods. The window design includes a small homage to the Reverend Peck, our resident owl.
Clara's design for the recreated Tudor stained glass window at St Helen's.
Additionally, the two bells that will be installed into St Helen's tower are being sent away this week to be restored by our heritage blacksmith, Andy Basnett. Before the 17th century tower was added, the church had a small medieval belfry with a single bell. Subsequently, another bell was installed into the tower as part of the church's Georgian refurbishment. We have collected two bells, one which dates from 1598 and another from 1778, to represent St Helen's originals. Eventually these will be hung in the belfry to be rung for special events at the church.
The belfry at St Helen's.
Filed under Collections, St Helen's Church
Tagged as Bells, Cylinder glass, Georgian, St Helen's Church, Stained glass, Stories
Stories for the Chemist and Photographer's
Long before we began building the Chemist and Photographer's, along with Lindsay Curry our Head of Engagement, we started looking for some stories of Edwardian Chemists and Photographers in the North East that we could base the interior and stories of our shop on. We knew that Chemists and Photographers often had a close relationship, but have been surprised to find no recorded instances in the North East of a business being both a Chemist and a Photographer's studio. We have however, found plenty of examples of Photographer's Studios, and Chemists selling photographic equipment alongside medical supplies. There a few names that have particularly relevant stories:
A temporary recreation of the interior of a Chemist's Shop in the early days of the Museum.
Mr William Smith was a Chemist in the early 20th Century who based in Durham City, initially on Crossgate Peth and later on Silver Street. William was a Chemist's assistant in 1891, and by 1901 is registered as a Chemist. It's unknown where he learnt his trade, but the remarkable record we have from his prescription books show that he is making a variety of recipes using a variation of the (by 1901) relatively antiquated 'apothecary's system' of weights and measures. These prescription books, alongside some accounts books (both held at the Durham Record Office) give us an incredible record of the concoctions Smith is creating, as well as the kind of equipment he was buying.
George Fillingham and Mason & Co. Ltd
Whilst we don't know of any Chemists who also have photography businesses, we have found a 1911 record of a Photographer – George T Fillingham who is at 69a Saddler Street, right next door to a chain of Chemists – Mason & Co. Ltd, who are at number 69.
The interior of Edis' Photography Shop in the early 1920s.
John Edis
The best recorded Photographer we've discovered is John Reed Edis, who, along with his daughter Daisy, ran a very successful Photographic studio on Saddler Street. Daisy began helping her father aged 13 in 1901 and went on to become a well-known photographer herself. We have Oral History recordings from a number of other female Photographers and Photographer's Assistants from this time, including Thelma Watts and Clara Bolam (née Thomas), demonstrating women's involvement in the industry. A number of the photographs taken by the Edis family have been cataloged and are available to view online via Durham University.
The introduction to Charles Nicol's advertising booklet from 1904.
Charles Nicol
In the Beamish Collection we have a large number of photographs associated with an early 20th Century Photographer based in Newcastle – Charles Nicol. Nicol was from a wealthy family and established his business in his home in South Gosforth in 1900. His photographs include an image of a circus parade including more than a dozen elephants marching through central Newcastle, as well as a shot of the world-famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso outside Central Station.
Hallaway's
One of two Chemist's shops Beamish collected in the early days of the Museum, Hallaway's of Carlisle was run by John Hallaway and his son Robert, as a fantastic example of a Victorian Chemist.
Interior of Walker's Chemist.
Hardcastle and Sons
The second Chemist's shop in the Beamish collection, Hardcastle's of Stockton was famed for their secret recipe – the 'Balm of Gilead' – a great example of individual Chemists creating their own remedies. Hardcastle's also had a link with the famous John Walker – inventor of the friction match – whose stock and effects were removed to Hardcastle's shop upon Walker's retirement in 1858.
J Gilpin and W Owen
An diversification of many Chemists was into the production of Aerated Waters, many had small back-room manufacturing plants, but some, including J Gilpin of 56 Pilgrim Street engaged with mineral water production on a considerable scale. W Owen was another such Chemist. In 1894 his second shop at Barras Bridge had a large mineral water factory behind it. Here, in the 1920s a citrus flavored energy-drink containing glucose, known as 'Lucozade' was prepared.
We're still pulling together stories for the Chemist and Photographer's, so if you have any memories you'd like to contribute, please do add comments, or contact our Community Participation Team via the Museum Switchboard on 0191 370 4000.
Tagged as Interiors, Research, Stories, W. Smith's Chemist and Photographer's | 30' long. As the remains of the two gable walls are intersected by the boundary wall, their total length has to be estimated, based on other archaeological evidence; including information such as the positioning of what we believe are the remains of the chimney breast. This evidence has allowed us to reasonably interpret that the footprint of Joe's cottage was approximately 30′ long by 20′ – still a very small dwelling for what was before the death of Joe's wife, a family home.
A composite of aerial photographs of the excavated site. The overlay in blue shows the initial scaled plan of the cottage and the overlay in red shows the revealed size of the rear and south gable walls.
Other discoveries, were that of the flagstones in front what appear to be the remains of a chimney breast, built from hand-made bricks, and the charred remnants of what we think was a wattle and daub divide between Joe's living and storage rooms. Crucially, all of this evidence helps us to imagine what Joe's home looked like when he was living there.
Clara's interpretation of what the plan of the cottage looked like. The archaeological remains are shown in green. The locations of furniture shown is based on contemporary sources, including an sales notice that listed some of Joe's possessions.
However, unfortunately, archaeology can only take us so far in being able to understand what the cottage looked like. As only the lower courses of walls remained, we had no indication of the position of the doors and windows or what the roof structure was like. To gather this information, Clara had to return to looking at archive sources and other similar local buildings of an contemporary age to Joe's cottage. For example, the etchings of Joe's house that were made to be illustrate publications about his murder show that the cottage had a very shaggy thatched roof with a steep pitch. This led us to agree that the cottage must have been thatched with heather. Heather is often thatched in loose bundles and is left uncombed or trimmed, unlike straw or reed thatch, and therefore it requires a steeper pitch to through water and snow off of it. Additionally, due to its abundance and durability, heather was the most common form of roof covering on vernacular buildings in the North East until the early 19th century. Indeed the moor behind Joe's house would have been full of heather!
The elevation of Joe's cottage that was published by W. Davidson in 1826.
As archival sources and oral histories record, heather was often thatch wet, with the roots intact, and left to form a semi-living roof of up to two foot thick. This of course would have been extremely heavy! Therefore the cottage's roof structure would have had to have been very strong. It is unlikely that the cottage had a 'king' or 'queen' post that required advanced joinery skills, but it may have had a simple 'A' frame truss formed of two principle rafters and a tie beam. However, the combination of the need to support a heavy roof covering, with the requirement of a steep pitch, with the found nature of the cottage's materials and its vernacular design, suggests that it may have had cruck trusses. Crucks are where the principle rafters of a truss are formed by the two halves of a split tree trunk. Often the natural curve of the trunks inevitably created a steep, almost Gothic arch, providing the sharp pitch needed for heather thatch. Recreating the cruck trusses and heather thatch roof will be a particularly exciting challenge, as both methods of construction have almost become lost skills. We are hoping that this is something that our team of volunteers from Warden (where the cottage is located) will help us with, by collecting heather and helping us to experiment | 790 |
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Michelle Hohn's story of Florence
20 Oct Michelle Hohn's story of Florence
Posted at 21:45h in 1940's, Canada by My Mother's story
I sat on the edge of the turquoise bathtub; my tiny bum comfortably seated on the matching chenille mat and pink-slippered feet dangling above the linoleum tile. My mother's focus alternated between her task at hand and her smiling eyes finding mine in the mirror as I watched her.
"You press down gently<|fim_middle|> hot chili peppers (for Dad) in the back. With whatever we didn't eat fresh, Mom made crumble or jams and jellies. She often had flowers in the house— a vase of her peonies, daffodils from the supermarket, or sweet peas from Grandpa's side of the garden.
Summers between 1966 and 1974 were spent at our cabin just outside Edmonton at Wizard Lake; fun times enjoying water sports, quiet, lazy afternoons, and bonfires after dark. Dad was an accomplished water skier and Mom liked to float on the lake on the Dad-made barge, accompanied by a Caesar and a Harlequin romance.
Our life may have been simple, but it was predictable. And stable. Until 1977, when Mom discovered a lump in her left breast. In what may have been the most defining moment of her life – she hesitated. We will never know for certain why. We could (in hindsight of course), understand the fear or denial she may have felt. Or we could look to Mom's only model for what might happen in a similar situation – as her Uncle had left her Aunt Val and their children only a few years before stating he married "A whole woman and not half of one," when Val needed a radical mastectomy.
Mom finally confided in Granny, but it was close to a full year before she sought medical attention. Our competent, intelligent, detail-oriented, take-care-of-everyone-else Mom somehow neglected to take care of herself.
After a biopsy and breast cancer diagnosis in February of 1978, Mom quickly underwent surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. However, her situation was aggressively metastatic. Mom died on March 26, 1980 at the age of 39, when I was eleven and my brother Jeff only six.
I imagine Mom's version of the afterlife to be much like the Hawaii she longed to see. Perhaps she is strolling on a white sand beach, the skirt of her sundress billowing gently with the tropical breeze, or maybe she is gazing into glorious sunsets from a veranda framed by the delicate fragrance of tuber rose and other flowers that she truly loves.
garden, music, untimely death, Wildflower | , but firmly – like this – for about thirty
seconds," she said as she held the eyelash curler in place.
This was one of our girl rituals. It was never too early, she would say, to learn how to take care of your skin or apply cosmetics. I adored how she shared the mystique of femininity before going out for the evening: There was something truly hypnotizing to me about watching her transform into a beautiful, jeweled, and powdery- smelling enchantress.
I was not allowed to play with Mom's make-up, but she bought me my own gloss so we would do our lips together at the end – standing side by side in front of the mirror, hers a frosty bright pink and mine with only a slight tint of color and a delicious cotton candy smell.
I was happy for my Mom and Dad when they went out; my five-year- old emotions aligned with Mom's excitement about the night ahead. I would transport to her destination in my minds' eye after their goodnight kisses, believing her dreams were coming true through good times that she told me that I too would enjoy when I reached womanhood. She was, quite simply, my everything and the most beautiful woman in the world to me.
Back then, there was no reason to believe that anything could ever go wrong.
Florence Lillian Mackiewicz was the eldest of two daughters born to Polish immigrants Vladislava (Lillian)and Alfons Mackiewicz. After immigrating to Canada, Lillian and Alfons met through mutual friends and were married in Edmonton, Alberta on September 9 th , 1939; he a furrier, and she a homemaker. Their home was warm and welcoming, often filled with family and friends, the music of Bobby Vinton, and the aroma of old-country cooking— cabbage rolls, beet soup, and the bacon and onion steam of a seemingly endless supply of perogies.
Florence was born on February 2, 1941, eighteen months after Lillian and Alfons wed and was raised in a home full of a modest kind of abundance—love and laughter. She was a happy, chubby, healthy baby, albeit somewhat choosey with her affections. As a toddler, little Florence preferred the outdoors, entertaining herself for hours in the garden amongst the rows of flowers (roses being her favorite), resting in the shade of the raspberry bushes, or setting-up tea service for her imaginary friends on the lush grass underneath the apple tree.
Florence's sister Zenna was born in 1944, when Florence was three. Charged with her care, she took Zenna everywhere, never making her sister feel like a tag-along, protectively standing-up for her at school, and covering for her mischief at home.
A straight-A student, Florence also took piano lessons and played beautifully. She hoped to teach piano one day: her idea was to have students come to her house for lessons. But once she was married with children, a husband and home, these rather entrepreneurial plans never materialized.
Florence became a striking young woman—5'8", slender and small-waisted, with pale blue eyes, a flawless complexion, and light brown hair that she always wore short. Her legs were long and her walk graceful. She had an enviable skin tone that transformed each summer into a Mediterranean bronze.
Many spoke of Florence's presence; a lightness and elegance that turned heads when she walked into a room. She had a lovely laugh and a good sense of humour, but her social trademark was sharp wit and offering the snappy comeback. She loved to dance, belonged to the curling club and a bowling league, and was a good pool and card player – particularly hearts.
Maintaining the illusion of good-girl throughout adolescence, Florence dated more boys than her parents knew about – favoring boys who had convertibles. She snuck her share of lemon gin and beer, and only close friends and her sister knew that she smoked cigarettes.
Florence always dressed to go out; her sense of style came easy – her outfits, jewelry, shoes, and handbags coordinated in a breezy way. She loved to dress in bright, fun shades, especially her favorite colors of turquoise and pink.
Roses remained her favorite flower and, just like baby Florence, she continued to be selective with her affections into adulthood—quiet and reserved until she got to know someone. To those few, Florence was described as warm, approachable, and a loyal friend and confidante.
After graduating grade 12 with honours in 1958, Florence surprised everyone by opting out of university, declaring she already had a good job as a key punch operator at Medical Services Inc. (MSI). She said
she did not want to waste her time or her parents' money.
MSI was where Florence met Edna, who would become one of her closest friends. Because they lived just two blocks apart, Edna and Florence walked to and from work together every day. Back then women didn't wear sneakers or loafers, so they traversed the miles in stiletto heels and pencil skirts, in all-weather conditions including snow and ice, over difficult and sometimes precarious terrain like gravel roads and even railroad tracks in places!
Florence also met the man who would become her husband through work in 1964, when they were both 23. Having been promoted to department supervisor, it was Florence's job when one of the machines went down to call a technician from International Business Machines (IBM). Enter Gerald Wayne Hohn—6'4", handsome, with black hair, blue-grey eyes, and large capable hands. By day he was professional and clean cut, and off-hours he wore a leather jacket, played guitar, and drove a black convertible MG. On his second
maintenance call, Gerry asked Florence out to a company hayride.
Florence and Gerry dated for just over a year before he proposed; enjoying movies and parties, going to the park, and particularly Stage West Dinner Theatre. They bought and moved into their first home (against both common practice and the views of her Catholic parents) with their cat 'Puss'. They married soon after on November 6, 1965 in Edmonton at St. James United Church, and while Florence had always dreamed of visiting Hawaii, they honeymooned in Yellowstone Park the following spring. The newlyweds enjoyed their first three years of marriage together documented meticulously in photo albums by Florence filled with family, friends, travel adventures, and exquisitely-hosted holiday dinners, all captioned with hand-written block lettering in the white borders.
Florence and Gerry's firstborn, Michelle Marie, arrived on December 29, 1968. Once I was on the scene, Mom left her job to take care of our home and family, a role she took immense pride in. She loved to cook, sew, garden, and make sure everything was just so; she truly thought of her family first and herself second.
I had Mom and Dad's attention to myself for close to five years before my brother, Jeffery David, was born on February 5, 1974. Mom loved her little king with all her heart. Her family, she told her Mom, was now complete.
Mom and Dad were equally engaged in our parenting, perhaps Mom more so with Dad working full time and traveling for business. She was a strict disciplinarian, but sometimes respected our decisions, like
when I told her I was not interested in ballet lessons or becoming a Brownie. Mom proudly took my brother and me to parks and swimming pools in the summer and skating rinks in the winter. She wanted us to get fresh air, use our imaginations, and play. Knowing there would be plenty of time later in life for domestic chores, she often shooed us from the sewing room or kitchen in contrast to our father who encouraged us to stay close and involved in the garage, workshop, or at the barbeque. That said, Mom would always call us
back to lick the sweet remnants off the cake beaters or let us keep her company while she did her hair or makeup.
Mom was very good to her parents (my Granny and Grandpa) and they adored her. Countless hours were spent at their chrome and formica kitchen table where Granny would iron clothes and talk in Polish while Mom and Zenna sipped Nescafe and painted their finger nails. Grandpa preferred to stay out of the woman-talk, but that never prevented Mom from trying to include him or kiss the top of his head while he sat in his recliner in front of the television.
Family life was simple and budgeting was a priority. Mom trimmed our hair (a regular source of conflict between she and I when my bangs came out crooked), sewed window coverings and clothing, baked our
birthday money cakes, and was a disciplined coupon clipper. Her one permissible luxury was her mink coat, which she proudly donned during the deep freeze of Alberta winters.
Mom and Dad enjoyed the rock music of the day, but Mom seemed to need music. As soon as Dad left for work she would turn on the radio, filling the house with the Electric Light Orchestra, Gypsies, Tramps and
Thieves, or songs with a beat like the Lido Shuffle that we'd dance to. She' d call out to me to me turn down the volume while she talked on the telephone, perched on a barstool with her index finger twisting through the long, coiled cord. Music was always on in the car too, where Mom would sing and tap her rings against the steering wheel while she drove.
Mom's love of flowers remained apparent. She bordered the front of the house with geraniums, mums, and snapdragons and tended fruit trees, rhubarb, and | 2,034 |
Oceanic Explorations (TA26)
Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33674/1/459398.pdf
Bedford, Stuart (editor)
Sand, Christophe (editor)
P. Connaughton, Sean (editor)
Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonisation and settlement of the Pacific as it is associated with the arrival of the common ancestors of the Polynesians and many Austronesian-speaking Melanesians more than 3000 years ago. While Lapita archaeology has captured the imagination and sustained the focus of archaeologists for more than 50 years, more recent discoveries have inspired renewed interpretations and assessments. Oceanic Explorations reports on a number of these latest discoveries and includes papers which reassess the Lapita phenomenon in light of this new data. They reflect on a broad range<|fim_middle|>, sampling strategies and ceramic analyses, all of which relate to aspects highlighting both advances and continuing impediments associated with Lapita research.
antiquities; polynesia; melanesia; anthropology; lapita culture; Before Present; Ceramic; Pottery
10.26530/OAPEN_459398
http://press.anu.edu.au
Canberra, 2007
Terra Australis,
http://press.anu.edu.au/about/conditions-use | of interrelated themes including Lapita chronology, patterns of settlement, migration, interaction and exchange, ritual behaviour | 22 |
How early should you begin teaching your children the value of a dollar? It seems like it might never be too early.
I was inspired by this 14 year old who already has four accounts – one of which is his college fund. Every two weeks he makes the trip to the bank to deposit a part of his allowance into his accounts.
Teach your children to save early, save often and save as much as possible. If you need a little inspiration, watch what Jordan Lane Palmer is doing and begin a savings account with your kids today!
And in case you're wondering, savings accounts for children under 18 are usually free!
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That is awesome. It's never too early to start teaching your kids. They are like sponges and they will soak up the information if they hear you talking about it.
I know it's not a contest, but I'll share that my 14 year old started her Roth IRA at 11. We just made her 4th $2000 deposit. Minimum wage is $7.50? She's been getting $10/hr babysitting. Plus tips.
I told her that in exchange for her keeping contemporaneous notes on date/name/hrs/$$, we'd deposit money to her Roth each year.
A chance for us to shift money given to her over the years to Roth.
Very inspiring. More kids should pick a leaf and learn from this and we should teach them, through examples. Financial discipline and ultimate independence is about habits and I think the earlier we do it the better for our kids!
On top of having 2 accounts each (high interest & regular) they both own stock through Comput<|fim_middle|> always easier to spend more that to save or give more. | ershare in Solid Blue Chip paying regular and increasing dividends. My intention is to show them the power of compound growth with time. They each own 3 stocks and on Xmass and Birthday, their grand-parents and myself give them money towards the investments. As they start earning some money on their own, they will be able to add to it as well.
I strongly believe that the parents have to enable children to do that and to even force them. It's not easy at that age to comprehend benefits years in the future (adults have a hard time with it).
This is great! Owning stock at a young age and learning the power of passive income is awesome! I love that you are doing this.
Great idea. I want my kids to have a balance between saving, giving and spending. However, if they lean one way or another, I hope they lean towards saving/giving rather than spending. It is almost | 188 |
The C-Suite and IT Decision Makers: Disconnect or Empathy?
As the saying goes, before you judge someone, you need to walk a mile in their shoes. There's a lot of truth behind this. In the business world in particular, being able to truly understand your colleagues' experiences, challenges, and thought processes is instrumental for any productive collaboration.
For IT decision makers (ITDMs) and the executives in the C-suite in particular, this is nothing but good advice.
Why? Because there are some significant gaps between these two groups of people.
Case in point, a recently published survey taken by members of the C-Suite and ITDMs shows how they are not in step with each other. In particular, it's how they assess cyber threats, costs, and areas of responsibilities.
According to the survey, among the most noticeable disconnects, one third (35 percent) of C-suite executives believe IT teams are responsible for data breaches.
Conversely, one half (50 percent) of IT decision makers consider a data breach to be the responsibility of their senior management team.
Should the inevitable breach happen, there's going to be a lot of finger pointing.
The gaps between IT experts who focus on the technical infrastructure and executives in the C-suite who form business strategy shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. These groups think differently about cyber threats and how they translate into the IT infrastructure and the business itself.
Even though executives in the C-suite are charged with mitigating risk to the business, they don't necessarily see their IT infrastructure as part of that business, but more like the technology that lies underneath it.
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With a more strategic view, and pragmatic one based upon the assumption that getting hacked is inevitable, ITDMs can bring the C-suite into the process and help them truly understand that a reactive stance to cybersecurity can be just as important as a proactive one.
The concept of empathy might contradict what people think about a traditional workplace with competitive and cutthroat qualities. But the reality is that executives need to relate to the people around them, including their IT experts, and that requires empathy.
More often than not, people talk at each other instead of making a distinct effort to listen and discover new opportunities for collaboration. A key catalyst for change is open, two-way communication.
At the end of the day, it's hard to walk in someone else's shoes if you never get up from your desk. Cyber threats and attacks may very well be the motivation for ITDMs and the C-suite to find commonalities, increase understanding, and make decisions based upon collective intelligence versus the constraints of their own personal and professional experiences. | recommend.
When approaching cybersecurity, it's crucial that executives are behind the plan. Without support across all arms of the organization, any policy will struggle to flourish, or deliver the best results.
When it comes to cyber security, it's difficult to balance business priorities. For example, an IT security program might need a certain amount of budget to defend the organization, while the compliance program can get more attention because of regulatory deadlines.
And with corporate governance and compliance falling more squarely into the C-suite, the result can often leave IT teams short on resources to fight the threats that face the business.
Include the C-suite in incident response table-top exercises so they fully understand their roles, and all the possible costs of an attack.
Know your enemy and your cyber exposure, educate the C-suite and employees alike, and use real examples of what can be found around your organization.
Introduce a forward looking, strategic approach to cyber defense and assume that at some point your organization will be breached.
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Birmingham says many studies show that marriage is healthy and beneficial overall, "but the quality of the marriage matters. Just being married, per se, doesn't confer all the possible benefits—and it can include negatives significant enough to affect physical health." She and family life professor Stephen F. Duncan (MS '85) suggest couples experiencing marital ambivalence take positive steps to tip the scales toward marital bliss.
See the Negatives
Every marriage is ambivalent to some degree, says Duncan. Most marriages have their share of negatives, he says, and they should be acknowledged and addressed: "Seeing the negatives is good because they point you to areas that need change. Every couple should inventory their marriage regularly and agree on ways to improve on what's not working." When assessing, couples should look for two of the most powerful marriage eroders—first, negative interactions, and second, unrealistic or unexpressed expectations.
Negative Interactions. Toxic ingredients that can slowly but surely poison a marriage if not addressed include criticism, stonewalling ("the silent treatment"), defensiveness, and contempt, says Duncan. He cites marriage researcher John Gottman, who found that it takes about five positive interactions to override the damage of one negative interaction. Couples who have positives in that five-to-one ratio tend to have better long-term stability and marital happiness. "If interactions are more heavily weighted toward the negative, the Gottman model suggests that those relationships, unless modified to be more positive, can be headed in time toward self-destruction," says Duncan.
Unmet Expectations. Expectations run deep, he says, and couples who don't communicate them are bound to experience disappointment and upset feelings as a spouse appears to ignore an important need. "Expectations come from our families of origin, the media, and our prior relationships," Duncan says. "Sometimes we look for our spouses to be the sum total of all the good things in our prior relationships, which is, of course, unrealistic."
"Our study showed that men and women who experience their marriage as ambivalent have significantly higher blood pressure than those who don't." —Wendy Church Birmingham
Fulfillment of expectations is a "huge" part of whether a marriage builds in strength over time or weakens. But expectations are tricky, says Duncan, because spouses may not be fully aware of their expectations or not clearly express them, assuming that their spouse already understands them.
"Spouses need to identify their expectations, evaluate which ones are unrealistic or unreasonable, and bring out into the light those that are hidden or unspoken," he says. Even if spouses are individually aware of their expectations and those expectations are reasonable, if they're not spoken they can undermine the marriage.
For example, says Duncan, if, after a stressful day at home, a wife expects her husband to intuit that her temper is short and he shouldn't make additional demands on her, her expectation is unrealistic. Instead, he says, "communicate clearly that 'I'm a little cranky right now and I need some distance for a bit and it's not about you.'"
Try a Soft Startup
As couples assess their marriage and determine areas for improvement, they can reduce ambivalence by identifying problems and working together. But asking a spouse to change is a delicate matter—no one wants to be criticized or accused. Duncan says a key factor to success is the "soft startup"—gentle and kind expression of needs.
In addressing concerns Duncan warns against harsh startups, such as, "I can't stand how you choose Pinterest over me" or "All you care about is your guns and your hunting and I'm fed up." He also cautions against public settings for any kind of feedback. Even indirect references to your spouse's shortcomings while you're out with friends is a bad idea. You will embarrass your spouse, and chances are you'll get reinforced by your peer group, both of which will fuel the problems.
For a wife who is feeling emotionally neglected, says Duncan, a soft startup could go something like this: "Sweetheart, I love that you show me you love me by working so hard to provide for our family. Could you show me with words too sometimes?"
Duncan suggests that spouses raise issues softly and privately. "You're much more likely to get an encouraging response if you can say, 'I'm really struggling with how we're communicating. I'm not feeling heard, and I'd like to see that change. Would you be willing to read a book with me? Or go see the bishop or a counselor—someone who is knowledgeable about helping us become more sensitive to one another?'"
Duncan and Birmingham both believe that some degree of ambivalence exists in every marriage. No perfect person or relationship exists. But too much ambivalence is dangerous to both the relationship and to each spouse's physical health, especially long-term heart health. Reducing negatives and increasing positives are possible with effort from both husband and wife, they say.
While in some cases an individual is truly resistant to working on his or her marriage, in most cases, Duncan says, couples can make real progress if they are "willing to sacrifice their pride and their shortcomings for the sake of their spouse and their eternal progression together."
Self-Regulating Can Reduce Ambivalence
If a husband and wife want to become happier and more content in their marriage, both have to be "self-regulators," says family life professor Stephen F. Duncan (MS '85). That means committing oneself to doing what's needed to be the best partner possible. Duncan suggests several guidelines for becoming a better self-regulator:
• Don't expect your partner to change.
• Make conscious, intentional efforts toward improving yourself.
• Regularly check on whether you're doing your part to strengthen your relationship.
• Recognize that marriage is not easy and requires sacrifices from you.
• Confront problems in your marriage with love and patience toward both yourself and your spouse.
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A so-so marriage can create emotional distress and affect blood pressure.
When Melissa (name changed) was married two decades ago, she expected her marriage would be mostly perfect. She didn't anticipate that negatives in her marriage would come so close to outweighing positives. She says her husband struggles to feel empathy, which causes her and their children to feel distant and unloved. But it isn't all bad. She notes that he's a hard worker, provides security, and can be supportive and affectionate at times.
With such back-and-forth feelings, Melissa is never quite sure where she and her husband stand. "I don't share my thoughts and feelings with my spouse because I don't know whether I will be met with support or dismissal," she says. "This has led to increased anxiety and stress for me."
Wendy Church Birmingham (BS '06), an assistant professor of psychology, calls marriages like Melissa's "ambivalent"—they're relationships where many things are working well but enough things aren't that the positives can sometimes feel cancelled out. Birmingham studies the health implications of marriage—strong and struggling. She's found that people like Melissa might have compromised heart health over time.
"Even minor elevations in blood pressure strains the cardiovascular system, and elevated blood pressure increases the risk of future cardiovascular disorders," says Birmingham, lead author of a recent article in The Annals of Behavioral Medicine. "Our study showed that men and women who experience their marriage as ambivalent have significantly higher blood pressure than those who don't."
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Why you should avoid winning 11-0
24 Oct 2018 by Coach EmRatThich
In table tennis, there are some unwritten rules (or called "etiquette") that you should know. Such as, winning someone 11-0 is considered bad, low esteem. Why? Many professional players avoid winning the set 11-0. You should do the same! Here are the reasons.
Winning someone 11-0 is good or bad for your feeling? Maybe it's good for you! But think for your opponent!
The feeling of winning 11-0? Is it like this?
Mercy point in table tennis
Insult or not?
Avoid winning 11-0
What to do when you get the mercy point?
How about the come-back?
This is not the official rules. This rule is for respect and Fairplay.
Mercy point is when you are up 10-0, and give a mercy point 10-1. You should purposely give away a point when it's 10-0.
It is a sign of good sportsmanship and respect. Ma long did this against Ovtcharov in Olympics London 2012 (at the minute of 9:38 in the video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7_hpeiTWA
Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: MA Long – OVTCHAROV Dimitrij [Full Match-Short Form] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7_hpeiTWA)
In table tennis, winning someone with the score of 11-0 is bad for the opponent.
The mercy point rule is just one of those unwritten good sportsmanship rules in table tennis. You should hold your finger up, and say sorry for edge balls.
But some players would feel "insulting" with the mercy point. Here are some of the opinion:
If you "give" someone a point in a competitive match you're as much saying "you're not good enough to win a point any other way I'm that much better than you – or you're that much worse than me. I see it as more of an insult."
And, they prefer loosing 0-11 than getting the mercy point:
I'd rather lose 11:0 playing someone who played to win every point than lose 11:1 and my only point coming from a shot they threw away. Maybe not so bad if the other person doesn't play to win the point, only not to lose.
But losing 11-0 is embarrassing to see on anyone's playing record. Instead of thinking of it as the winning player as being cocky, thinking of it as letting the loser look a little better. The mercy point is to prevent the audience from talking about an 11-0 and laughing. So for me, mercy point is not insulting.
At the amateur and club level, it's OK to win 11-0. Because we are mostly amateur and friendly. Winning 11-0, or 11-1 is the same. It's OK to win 11-0 at the low level.
But at the high level, and professional level, winning someone 11-0 is "mal vu", poorly perceived by the player and the public. In the Asian culture, to show respect to the opponent, you should avoid winning 11-0. You should give them the mercy point.
The mercy point is not the "basement rules" in table tennis. This is the unofficial rules at the professional scene. At the amateur level, there are also some "Skunk Rule": like you win the set at 7-0, or if you lose 11-0 or 10-0, you must perform push-ups or drink two beers.
The best solution here is to say "thanks" and return the mercy.
In Asian culture (or anywhere else), when you get a "gift" from someone, and if you should return it to the sender as soon as possible. So for example, when you are down 0-10. The opponent gave you the mercy point to get 1-10. The next point, you should return the mercy, and no need to play the point. Accept it, and give them free point to finish the set 1-11.
https://www.facebook.com/ITTFWorld/videos/2163180867258830
Here is the final of the Youth Olympics Games 2018. Wang Chuqin has given the "mercy point" to Harimoto Tomokazu. As being lost a game 0-11 is bad in Asian culture, especially at the professional level.
Harimoto Tomokazu also did a very nice action. He returned the mercy to Wang Chuqin. This is the Fairplay action of both players.
But there are some exceptions, it's called "the great comeback" in table tennis. There is some rare situation, that a player made a huge come-back after down 0-10, or 1-10. Watch the video here to understand. (Search "Everything is possible EmRatThich to watch full series).
https://youtu.be/JEj7y2dtWGY
Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ma Long vs Xu Xin – Everything Possible Part 1 (https://youtu.be/JEj7y2dtWGY)
Give mercy point is great. But making the great comeback is even better!
But in general, making a huge come-back at (0-10) is nearly impossible. So mercy point and "mercy return" is the best Fairplay rule and "etiquette" to follow. Give them respect and get the respect!
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Coach EmRatThich was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1983. He started playing table tennis at the age of 8. After finishing his Ph.D. in Paris, University Pierre Marie Curie (Sorbonne University) in 2011, he is now a table tennis coach in a small club in France (about 153 players). Interested in table tennis coaching for a global audience, he founded pingsunday.com, one of the best online coaching programs for table tennis players. Using the Chinese coaching philosophy, his table tennis lessons are free, which allows many table tennis players to improve fast. He can speak English, French, Vietnamese, and a little bit of Chinese.
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Gabriel Lee
5 Apr 2020 at 11:15 pm
If I loose 11-0 People have a the right to laugh, I'd rather not have the mercy point.
I feel like the opposite applies for mercy points. At the lower levels it's true that 11-0 and 11-1 don't really have that much of a difference, but at the high level players are skilled enough to pull a 10-0 comeback since they're especially trained in having a strong mentality, like Timo Boll winning from being behind 10-4. LSW won those times 11-0 because it's simply too risky continuing the match against world class level players. I think the best example and case of a mercy point is when the person who's behind initiates the point, such as when Ma Long did an exhibition point when he was down 10-3 against Xu Xin. It's better etiquette to wait and see if the opponent wants to give up or continue.
But at low level competitions there are still records that people can see
Balazs
3 Jun 2019 at<|fim_middle|>
Nothing bad losing 0-11, mercy points are bad. They raise more questions and things get worse.
Thu hang
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I disagree, I think you show more respect to your opponent if you're taking every point seriously in a competition.
If you give her/him a mercy and expect to get it back, you take away the chance of s/he coming back from 0-10.
I'm happy LSW gave no mercy at the 2019 WTTC SF and Final, and now that seems to set a precedent.
thank you I have won with a player 11-0 .but after watching this video I said him sorry and I didn't lose anyone 11-0
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Stirring words. Yet, surprising. In far too many areas of law — especially constitutional law — judicial review actually is "an empty ritual."
For decades, the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that, with few exceptions, when Congress or a state legislature passes a law, courts must turn a blind eye and accept whatever the government says its purpose is. In other words, the court shouldn't second-guess legislators and examine if the law's stated justification is genuine or a mere pretext, let alone if there is evidence to support the pretext.
Mistakenly labeled the "rational basis test" (because there is nothing rational about it), the doctrine is the ultimate manifestation of judicial abdication. Judges simply say, "I close my eyes to evidence and accept whatever the government has to say as true." It is a rejection of the judiciary's solemn responsibility to determine whether a law is constitutional.
For example, in a case about a transparently protectionist law forbidding opticians from filling eyeglass prescriptions, the Supreme Court turned a blind eye, remarking that "for protection against abuses by legislatures, the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts," even though it called the law "a needless, wasteful requirement." More recently, the court dismissed another challenge because the challengers didn't "negate every conceivable basis" for the law, even if the government didn't actually rely on it.
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This story — of irrational laws preventing people from earning a living — is repeated over and over across the country. And some courts say it's not their place to second guess the government.
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If "ordinary citizens" can call something a fraud when they see one, surely the courts can as well. Yet that "naiveté" is exactly what some interpretations of the rational basis test call on courts to do.
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The Supreme Court should be commended for recognizing that the government shouldn't be able to lie and get away with it. It's now time to apply this self-evident truth to other areas of the law, such as the protection of the right to earn a living. Instead of judicial abdication, they should practice judicial engagement.
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What is it that they say? That if you can't beat them, join them? That's exactly what Microsoft did with their new Edge Chromium browser. But is the Microsoft Edge Chromium safer than Chrome? And is it worth using? Or is it just a copy of the Chrome?
Well, it's for sure better than the previous version of the Edge browser.
Microsoft Edge Chromium is Almost Identical to Google Chrome
Microsft Edge Chromium is built on Google's Chromium engine that Chrome is also built on.
That results in it being almost identical.
Below we've attached a picture of the Edge, Chrome, and also old Edge browser, and as you can see, the new Edge and Chrome look like twins.
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Is Microsoft Edge Chromium looking almost identical to Google Chrome a good thing? For those that have been using Chrome for years, absolutely.
It means that you are right away used to the new platform.
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While we have to acknowledge that both browsers are almost identical in this Microsoft Edge review, it's also worth noting that while they are almost identical, Microsft does a lot of things better and implemented more than a few new features that aren't around on Chrome.
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That's not to say that Microsoft Edge has it all though, as it doesn't support Offline Docs for instance.
The Extensions (Big Thing to Consider When Looking at Whether Microsoft Edge Chromium Is Safer Than Chrome)
If you are wondering is Microsoft Edge Chromium safer than Chrome, then extensions need to be considered.
People love Chrome for the extensions that are supported.
…And Edge Chromium, it now supports extensions that Chrome supports due to the nature of both browsers running the same engine.
That will for sure increase the downloads of the Edge, but if you are wondering is Microsoft Edge Chromium safer than Chrome, from this perspective, both browsers are at a disadvantage, for several reasons.
With the biggest one being that a ton of Chrome extensions, especially the free ones, collect data and can be a malware concern.
Google has been making efforts to investigate extensions and even removed a big portion of them in the last few years and months, but even with that, extensions (not all, but some) can a big privacy risk.
But then again, everything that's free comes at the price of privacy.
Does that mean that you shouldn't use extensions? No. But perhaps be cautious about when you have them on.
Another big aspect to consider is that extensions allow for more complex browser fingerprints to be made which we'll dive on as you continue reading.
The Edge is Incredibly fast
If there's one thing that really stands out about the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser, it's its speed.
Edge looks and behaves like Chrome, but does it much faster.
We've ran more than a few tests with the same tabs and extensions opened, and Edge was coping better with a small number of tabs opened as well as when a ton of tabs were opened.
And if you love having a ton of tabs opened, that might be a reason to get the Microsoft browser.
Is Microsoft Edge Chromium Safer Than Chrome?
This is why you are here.
So is the Microsoft Edge Chromium safer than Chrome?
Well, it's important to make it clear that Chrome isn't the safest browser out there. It's also not the most transparent browser out there.
This is where the Edge can shine.
When you go into Settings and Privacy and Services, you will see 3 tabs.
Basic, Balanced, and Strict.
These privacy settings are much safer than those on Chrome, and for sure much easier to understand. And since understanding is often the issue when it comes to safety, that makes the Microsoft Edge Chromium safer than Chrome.
However, just because the Microsoft Edge Chromium is safer than Chrome doesn't mean it's a fully safe web browser.
…Nor that the safety features are 100% practical.
As when you block trackers, you often break the functionality of websites. And if a website you want to access isn't working, who cares about Microsoft Edge Chromium being safer than Chrome?
And then there's the aspect that Edge doesn't fully block everything because of the fact browser fingerprinting exists.
Everyone has a digital fingerprint online. What that means is that even if you were to change your IP address via a VPN or a proxy, it would still be possible to identify you because the Edge won't spoof what browser you are using, what system you are operating, the language you have set, the timezone you are in, or your canvas fingerprint.
Of course, if tracking is blocked, some of these won't be tracked and websites will instead in many cases stop functioning right, but some of these aspects, even with the strictest safety mode on Chrome are still collectable.
That means you aren't fully safe.
This applies to Microsft Edge Chromium, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
And this is where Kameleo comes in.
Kameleo allows you to change your browser fingerprint instead of blocking it.
With it, you can look like you are using a 5K screen on macOS meanwhile you are on 1080p laptop rocking Windows 10.
You can change your canvas fingerprint, you can change your fonts, timezones, and anything else that can be used to identify you, without destroying the usability of websites, due to the fact Kameleo spoofs your browser fingerprint rather than blocking trackers.
If you'd like to learn more about browser fingerprinting, we do have a guide on it in which we explain this topic in more detail.
To Sum up This Microsoft Edge Review
It's not often that copies are better than the originals.
Microsoft Edge? It's not really a copy, it's just based on open-source Engine that Chrome is built.
…But it is much better than Chrome.
It's faster, slightly slicker, packs a few new features, supports extensions, and overall, is safer, and at least more transparent and easier to understand.
Kameleo Team
Our team consists of IT security experts, professional developers, and privacy enthusiasts who always searching better ways for browser fingerprint protection and developing innovative tools for browser automation and web scraping.
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