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After the recent snowfall, I joined Troy and Ben for a long, 12.5hr tour covering more than 11 miles<|fim_middle|> and Determination chutes being new to us.
In the fading sunlight of late afternoon, we climb back up the skin track we set to the top of Jay's Slide. Taking one last look at our turns from above, cut by the long shadows; we started bootpacking up the Eastern ridge of Fremont Peak to the entrance of Determination chute.
Returning to the car at 9:20pm....all were exhausted, having been without water for the previous 2 hours...but happy to drink a beer and toast a great day of having our mind's erased.
nice shots, but you need a tripod for the movie mr. shakey hands. I... am... tired... today. | , 5000ft in climbing, more than 6000ft in descent. The general plan was to ski Snowslide Canyon, Jay's Slide and Determination chutes with an egress skin/slog out Freidlein Prairie Road to a stashed vehicle.....with Jay's Slide | 62 |
Crane falls on Mercer County home, no injuries reported
Crane falls on Mercer County home
FOX 29's Joann Pileggi has more on a crane collapse in Mercer County.
HAMILTON, N.J. - Authorities say a crane being used to remove a tree at a home in Mercer County somehow crashed into the residence, but surprisingly no one was injured.
The 63,000-pound tri-axle crane came down shortly after noon Friday in Hamilton, while<|fim_middle|> best he could to basically let it slide along the roofline so the whole crane did not fully topple over and hit into the house itself," said homeowner Gary Huy.
The residence sustained some damage in the accident, but the extent and severity was not immediately clear.
The crane remained on the home for several hours as emergency responders secured the scene and sought to determine the safest way to right the machinery. The cause of the accident remains under investigation. | crews were working to remove trees in the back yard of the Miry Brook Road home.
"The crane operator did the | 23 |
Any good pirate knows the best treasures are often the hardest to find. Although Prohibition is long gone, speakeasy-themed bars are all the rage right now—and the more secretive, the better. We've compiled a list of the six hottest hidden speakeasy bars in NYC, and insider tips on how to get into them.
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We recommend Hotel On Rivington in the Lower East Side. | How To Find It: To get to this inconspicuous East Village bar, you first have to go into the second-floor Japanese restaurant Village Yokocho. Once you're in the restaurant, turn left and enter the unmarked door.
Why To Go: You'll find a small, yet effortlessly cool speakeasy bar. They feature Japanese-influenced drinks that have gained a serious cult following among cocktail enthusiasts. Go in a small group early in the night to avoid waiting in line.
How To Find It: Go to 102 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side and find a gated entrance for the "Lower East Side Toy Company." Enter the gate, walk through the alley, and go up the stairs to find the Back Room.
Why To Go: The Back Room is one of only two current speakeasies that actually operated back in Prohibition. It played host to numerous actors and gangsters of the time, and we guarantee you'll still feel the energy of the roaring twenties. Specialty cocktails are served Prohibition-style in teacups, and the decor feels like you've stumbled into a 1920's mansion. Craving an even more exclusive experience? A trick bookcase leads into a secret VIP lounge.
How To Find It: Enter the West Village Five Guys Burgers (at the corner of Bleeker and Barrow Streets) and walk to the cash register. Turn to your left and you'll see a bouncer in front of an unmarked door. Enter and go upstairs.
Why To Go: You'll find a dimly-lit and undeniably trendy cocktail bar, with creative specialties like The First Lady—a cocktail made with matcha green tea and egg whites. Go early if you want a spot, the space is intimate and fills up fast.
How To Find It: Go inside East Village's Crif Dogs (a popular hot dog joint), and you'll have to walk into a retro phonebooth to enter Please Don't Tell.
Why To Go: Looking past the obvious irony of the name Please Don't Tell, this bar is a fun and welcome twist on the typical cocktail-dominated speakeasy. Please Don't Tell has managed to bring deep-fried hot dogs into the mix and features a unique menu of fried specialties. Plus, they still have high-quality cocktails to keep the speakeasy purists happy. The vibe? You'll find ultra-comfy leather booths and eclectic taxidermy-decorated walls.
How To Find It: We hope you're up for a challenge, because this is one of the toughest NYC speakeasy bars to find. You have to walk into a seemingly normal Midtown office building at 211 E 43rd Street, go past a security guard, and head downstairs into the basement.
Why To Go: If you're a fan of sake, this is the speakeasy for you. You'll find an extensive menu complete with sake, sake cocktails, and sake flights—and the servers are more than happy to guide guests into the world of sake. Plus, they serve Japanese tapas that'll make you swear you're in Tokyo.
How To Find It: Attaboy gives true meaning to the phrase "hidden in plain sight." To find it, you need to go to 134 Eldridge Street in the Lower East Side. There you'll find an unmarked door with only an old "AB 134" decal on it. Knock on the door and you'll gain entry.
Why To Go: First off, Attaboy has no drink menu. Instead, their expert bartenders will ask you about your tastes and mix up your very own special creation. The speakeasy-style ambiance and mixologist-concocted cocktails is what keeps New Yorkers coming back. And back. And back. Seriously, expect a wait on most nights, and keep in mind that parties of over six are not accepted.
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The All-Star Game
Tuesday, July 19 2022 @ 02:00 PM EDT
Contributed by: Magpie
Baseball has always had the best all-star game, despite the best efforts of the people who run the game to screw that up as well. And every few years, I update this lengthy piece about the mid-season classic and toss it up here...
Obviously football can't have the best all-star game. The NFL plays their all-star game after the championship has been decided. They don't dare do it while the season is on, because football is so desperately dangerous that no one would want their best players taking part. But who could possibly care about football after the Super Bowl? I have enough trouble caring before the Super Bowl.
But baseball's all-star game is also far better than the NBA and NHL all-star games, which at least are staged in mid-season. The reason why is simple enough, though. The baseball all-star game looks like real baseball. With a zillion substitutions, true - but what's actually happening on the field looks exactly like regular baseball.
But in the NHL and the NBA, two things happen and they happen in both games. First of all, as played in the modern age, both games depend hugely on defensive systems, on specific ways of playing team defense. This stuff necessarily goes out the window when the game is being played by players who never play together. In the NBA all-star game, you can't take 5 guys at random from 5 different teams, and expect them to rotate smoothly on defense. This applies, although probably not quite as much, in the NHL - where certainly every club also has a defensive system that they attempt to practise.
In addition, in both the NHL and the NBA, an "exhibition-game" mentality is in place. Which in these cases, means we're going to see a non-contact game. No hard fouls, no smearing someone up against the boards or giving them a two-hander in front of the net.
So this is why you get NBA all-star games where the losing team might score 150 points, and NHL all-star games where the losing team might score 8 goals.<|fim_middle|>, more than anyone else - Stan Musial and Willie Mays both played in 24, and Mays started more All-Star games (18) than anyone. Musial's six HRs are the most in All-Star competition - Ted Williams and Fred Lynn each hit four. Lynn, of course, still has the only All-Star grand slam. As no pitcher has ever hit an All-Star homer, the most unlikely home run hitter was probably Cookie Rojas, who hit just 54 of them in his 16 year career. But Rojas took Bill Stoneman of the Expos deep for a two-run shot to put the AL ahead 3-2 in the eighth inning in 1972. Naturally, the AL couldn't hold the lead and lost in extra innings. Willie Mays has the most hits (23), the most at-bats (75), the most stolen bases (6), and the most runs scored (20). Ted Williams drew more walks (11) and drove in more runs (20) than anyone else. But it was the great Detroit second baseman Charlie Gehringer who might have the most impressive slash line - .500/.655/.600 as an All-Star. Derek Jeter's .481/.500/.667 isn't too shabby, either. Mike Trout is still working on his resume - he's only got 17 All-Star at bats, but his 7 hits include two doubles, two homers, and a triple, all making for a very nifty .412/.500/1.000 slash line. Alas, he'll be absent this time around.
Warren Spahn pitched in 17 All-Star games, three times as the starter, far more often than anyone else. But it's Don Drysdale's 19.1 IP and 19 Ks that are All-Star records. Lefty Gomez is the only man to win 3 All-Star Games. Gomez pitched a total of 18 IP in his five All-Star starts, topped off by his famous six-inning outing in 1935. Let's see some manager try that today. Drysdale and Robin Roberts are the only other pitchers to join Gomez in starting five All-Star games. Mel Harder, the old Cleveland southpaw, appeared in four consecutive All-Star games in the late 1930s. He worked 13 scoreless innings, the most by any pitcher in All-Star game history and earned a win and a couple of saves. Mariano Rivera, whose nine scoreless All-Star innings ranks second behind Harder, made 13 relief appearances, second only to Spahn's 14, and has the most saves, with four. | It doesn't seem at all like a regular game, let alone a well-played one, let alone one involving the best players in the league. It looks like a pick-up game.
Baseball doesn't have these problems. There are aspects of team defense to baseball, but none of them are all that complicated. Teams pretty much figured out how to relay throws from the outfield in the 1880s. Middle infielders turning a double play involves a pretty minimal level of team work. Most of what we know as defense in baseball takes place on the pitcher's mound; the next most important item is an individual player's ability to react quickly and properly to a ball put in play. The players may all be members of the same team, but what they do at specific moments very often does not at all require what we generally think of as "team work."
Finally, baseball is a non-contact game most of the time anyway. There are really only three opportunities in the game for contact and collision: 1) a fielder making contact with some part of the stadium, like an outfield wall: 2) a thrown baseball making contact with the hitter; 3) a baserunner making contact with a fielder. These really aren't large parts of the game, anyway. They do happen quite regularly in regular play, and sometimes they can be very significant. But we don't miss them when they're not around. Their absence doesn't distort the game, the way the lack of physical defense completely distorts a hockey game or a basketball game.
It was also to baseball's advantage that everybody kept their own team uniform, rather than wearing some drab and anonymous "All-Star" jersey. Naturally, they messed that up. It was, and remains, possible to do in baseball. This would never work in a game like hockey, where stuff is going on so fast that the players on the ice think of their own teammates as "guys wearing the same colour."
I once posed that very question - why the baseball all-star game was the best - on this very site way back in the day. AWeb made the point that pitchers always want to get the hitters out, and are always going to be trying to make good pitches. Certainly, no one ever wants to experience what happened to Roger Clemens in 2004, or to Tom Glavine in 1992 and 1998. Especially not in front of all your peers, and an audience of... well, millions. And so the pitchers and hitters are competing, and that's usually contagious. Everyone's pride kicks in, everyone wants to show that they deserve to be there as well. And because everybody really is competing, it makes the non-competitive moments, like Larry Walker turning around to hit RH against the Big Unit, both more memorable and (because they're so unusual) less irritating.
So here is a leisurely tour through All-Star history. There have been some very memorable moments.
The first All-Star Game was played on July 6, 1933 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Connie Mack managed the AL squad, and John McGraw came out of retirement to manage the NL squad. The starting pitchers were Wild Bill Hallahan of the Cardinals and Lefty Gomez of the Yankees. In the second inning, Wild Bill walked Jimmy Dykes and Rick Ferrell. With two out, Lefty Gomez (.147 lifetime BAVG) drove in the first run in All-Star Game history with a ground ball single up the middle. The National League players were generally excited about seeing Babe Ruth, and he gave them something to remember in the next inning by swatting a two-run homer to right. It was, of course, the first home run in All-Star game history. The Babe was 38 years old by this time, and he would only be around for one more of these contests. The AL won the first game 4-2
They won the next game, too, but hardly anyone remembers. (Well, how many people in the park that day 88 years ago are still around to remember?) Anyway, Charlie Gehringer led off the game with a single, and Giants starter Carl Hubbell walked Heinie Manush. This brought Babe Ruth to the plate, with two on and none out. Hubbell struck him out. Lou Gehrig was next, and Hubbell struck him out. That brought up the Beast, Jimmie Foxx. Hubbell struck him out too, to retire the side. In the bottom of the first, the NL jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a leadoff homer by Frank Frisch. Hubbell then picked up where he left off, fanning Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the second inning. Having fanned five Hall-of-Famers in a row, he allowed another (Bill Dickey) to reach on a base hit. He then fanned Lefty Gomez to end the inning - Gomez is also a Hall of Famer, although striking out the fifth worst hitter who ever lived (by OPS+, minimum 1000 Plate Appearances) perhaps isn't quite as impressive as getting Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, and Cronin. The AL would later pound on Lon Warneke and Van Mungo for 8 runs on the way to a 9-7 victory that no one ever talks about.
The AL made it three in a row the next year, behind 6 (six!) strong innings from Lefty Gomez. Finally, in 1936, the NL managed to win one of these affairs. Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell tossed six scoreless innings between them. Joe DiMaggio became the first rookie to start an All-Star game, and it didn't go well - he went 0-5 and made an error in right field that led to an unearned run.
The 1937 game might very well have been the most significant All-Star game ever played. A Hall of Fame career was changed, drastically, that afternoon. President Roosevelt himself was in attendance at Washington's Griffith Stadium. Dizzy Dean is reported to have asked for the day off, but Cardinals owner Sam Breadon prevailed upon him to pitch. Dean had gone 82-32 over the previous three years, set an NL record for strikeouts in a game (17), and went into the All-Star break with a 12-3 record. He was 26 years old, and he had already won 133 games in the majors. But in the bottom of the third, with two out, Joe DiMaggio singled and Lou Gehrig homered to give the AL a 2-0 lead. The next batter, Cleveland's Earl Averill, hit a line drive back through the box that caught Dean on the foot, fracturing his toe. ("Fractured?" cried Dean. "The darn thing's broke.") St.Louis was in 4th place, 6 games back. They lost 8 of their next 13 games, and Dean returned to the rotation on July 21, just two weeks after being injured. Attempting to pitch with his broken toe, he injured his arm, and went 1-7 over the rest of the season. He would win just 16 more games in his career, the last of them before turning 30.
The NL won in 1938, thanks to some less than memorable AL defense. Frank McCormick led off the 7th with a single and Leo Durocher dropped a bunt down the third base line. Because Lou Gehrig was at 1B, the AL had Jimmie Foxx playing 3B. It had been years since Foxx had spent much time at 3B, and he threw the ball into the right field corner. Joe DiMaggio, playing RF because Earl Averill was in centre, tracked down the errant peg and threw it back in. Alas, DiMaggio threw it over the backstop. Which is how Leo Durocher scored on his own bunt single. In an All-Star Game.
After an AL win in 1939, in 1940 five NL pitchers combined on a three-hitter for the first All-Star shutout. A year later, the NL was trying to win consecutive All-Star games for the first time ever. It was July 8, 1941 - Ted Williams of the Red Sox was hitting .405, and Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees had a 48 game hitting streak. Pittsburgh's fogotten great Arky Vaughan had earlier become the first man to hit two homers in an All-Star Game - the four runs that scored had pushed the NL to a 5-3 lead heading for the bottom of the ninth. With one out, Ken Keltner and Joe Gordon hit singles. Cecil Travis walked to load the bases for DiMaggio. Cubs pitcher Claude Passeau got DiMaggio to hit a game-ending DP ball to short, but the relay throw from second-baseman Billy Herman went wide, allowing Keltner to score and bringing Williams to the plate. The Kid came through, launching a massive three-run walkoff homer against the Tiger Stadium roof. It's one of the first great All-Star highlights preserved in film. I assume we've all seen the shot of Ted clapping his hands in delight as he runs down the first base line. I mean, that's what YouTube is for.
The AL won the first two World War II all-star games. Cleveland's Lou Boudreau became first man to lead off an All-Star game with a homer; Tommy Henrich added a two-run shot later in the inning as the AL won 3-1. Their victory in the 1943 game was notable for two reasons. First, it was the first All-Star Game played at night. Second, Joe McCarthy had taken some flak over the years for playing his Yankees in the All-Star game at the expense of the other AL stars. So in 1943, he left all five of his Yankees on the dugout bench, and won the game with the rest of the league. I think it was said of Don Shula that he could "take his and beat you, or he could take yours and beat you." Joe McCarthy actually did it. Greatest manager who ever lived, I will brook no argument on this!
The NL managed to win the 1944 game, giving them just their 4th win in the first 12 games. They were planning to play at Fenway in 1945, but the game was cancelled because of travel restrictions. So they reassembled at Fenway in 1946, and Ted Williams took charge in a 12-0 AL blow-out, going 4-4 with two homers, a walk, and 5 RBI. The entertainment highlight came when Rip Sewell tried throwing his famous "eephus" pitch - a ridiculously slow blooper ball - to Ted Williams. Probably not the guy you want to mess around with, especially with a couple of runners on board. But the NL was already trailing by 9-0, so whatever. Teddy Ballgame waited while the drifted into the hitting area, and promptly sent it out into the bullpen for his second homer of the day.
The AL won again in 1947 and 1948, giving them an 11-4 mark in what was by now known as "The Midsummer Classic." The 1949 game was the first integrated All-Star game. While Larry Doby was on hand for the AL, the NL featured Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe. The AL had a secret weapon, however. Joe DiMaggio had missed almost the entire first half with a heel injury and wasn't voted to the starting lineup. But he was added as a reserve, and ended up starting the game after Tommy Henrich hurt his knee. Joltin' Joe drove in three runs, and the AL won yet again.
And then the tide turned. The National League won six of the next seven all-star games. It took them fourteen innings to win the 1950 game on Red Schoendienst's homer. The game's most significant moment occurred in the first inning, however. Ralph Kiner drove a ball to deep left field, and Ted Williams made a leaping catch against the wall. Unfortunately, for the Red Sox, he broke his elbow on the play (he stayed in the game, and drove in the run that gave the AL a 3-2 lead before leaving.) He would be out of action until mid-September.
The NL won again in 1951, 1952 (a rain-shortened affair), and 1953 to make it four in a row. The 1953 game featured the only All-Star appearance of one the greatest pitchers who ever lived. But the NL showed 47 year old (we think!) Satchel Paige no deference at all, roughing him up for three hits and a couple of runs in his one inning.
Al Rosen hit a pair of homers off Robin Roberts in the 1954 game and the AL won an 11-9 slugfest to break off the NL winning streak at four games. Then the NL won again in 1955 and 1956. In 1955, Stan Musial hit the fourth of his six All-Star homers - this one came in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the NL a 6-5 victory, the second walkoff homer in All-Star history. Stan the Man hit another in the 1956 game, which also saw Willie Mays hit his first All-Star homer in a 7-3 NL win.
In 1957, we encountered the first fan voting controversy. An organized write-in campaign resulted in almost the entire Cincinnati lineup being voted to start the All-Star game. Stan Musial was the only exception. An outraged Commissioner Ford Frick responded by removing outfielders Gus Bell and Wally Post in favour of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Manager Walt Alston allowed Don Hoak and Roy McMillan to bat once before bringing in Ed Matthews and Ernie Banks. And Frick eliminated the fan vote, assigning responsibility for choosing the teams to a vote of players, managers, and coaches. The AL won the game, and won again in 1958.
In 1959, the majors tried a brief (four-year) experiment with playing two All-Star Games: in 1959, they played one in July, and a second game in August. The leagues split the games in 1959, 1960, and 1962. The 1960 games were played just two days apart: the second game saw Stan Musial hit his 6th and last All-Star homer, and Willie Mays have his second three hit game.
The first game in 1961 was played in San Francisco's Candelstick Park, Folks, Candelstick Point may not have been the best place in the world to build a baseball stadium. It's pleasant enough during the day, but in the evenings, fog and damp roll in from the San Francisco Bay. Along with gusts of wind. Big, powerful gusts of wind, winds strong enough to lift the huge cage teams use for batting practice into the air and set it down around second base. Such gusts would surely be strong enough to make a grown man lose his balance, especially if he happened to be standing on one leg at the time, and Giants relief ace Stu Miller was not exactly a large fellow, weighing at most 165 pounds. With the NL holding a 3-2 lead, one out and runners on first and second, Miller came on to close the game. A gust of wind knocked him off balance, and he balked the runners up. The tying run then scored on Ken Boyer's error. Catcher Smokey Burgess then dropped a foul pop fly. Miller rallied to fan Tony Kubek, but yet another error, this one by second baseman Don Zimmer loaded the bases. But for some reason, Hoyt Wilhelm hit for himself - the AL was not out of players - and Miller retired him to escape the jam. In the tenth inning, another error by Boyer allowed Nellie Fox to score the go-ahead run, but Wilhelm had nothing left by the tenth inning - Aaron singled, Mays doubled, he hit Frank Robinson with a pitch, and Clemente singled to walk it off.
In the second 1961 game, we had the first tied All-Star game. This one was created by a Boston downpour, with the two teams headed for extra innings in a 1-1 game. The AL's win in the second 1962 game staved off the NL's attempt to even the overall series: the AL still held a 17-15 lead as the majors returned to playing one game a year in 1963. And then - the National League won the next eight in a row, every year from 1963 through 1970.
It was the era of Mays, Aaron, Robinson, and Clemente. The junior circuit seemed utterly unable to compete. A sample NL lineup (1965):
Mays, cf
Aaron, rf
Stargell, lf (later replaced by Clemente)
Allen, 3b (later replaced by Santo)
Torre, c
Banks, 1b
Rose, 2b
Wills, ss
Marichal, p (later replaced by, among others, Jim Maloney, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, and Bob Gibson.)
Billy Williams and Frank Robinson made pinch-hitting appearances.
Johnny Callison hit a three run walkoff homer off Dick (the Monster) Radatz to end the 1964 game. Willie Mays led off the next game with a home run, won by the NL when Ron Santo singled off Sam McDowell to score Mays and break up a seventh inning tie. The teams went to extra innings the following year, and Maury Wills singled home Tim McCarver in the bottom of the tenth. Tony Perez won the 1967 game with a 15th inning homer off Catfish Hunter to settle the longest All-Star game ever played to that point. The NL won in 1968 when Willie Mays led off the game with a single, took second on an errant pickoff, third on a wild pitch, and scored when Willie McCovey hit into a double play. That was the game's only run - it was, after all, the Year of the Pitcher. This game also saw Mickey Mantle's final All-Star appearance - he hobbled up to the plate to hit for Sam McDowell, and struck out against Tom Seaver.
Willie McCovey hit a pair of homers and the NL slugged their way to a 9-3 win in the 1969 game, the first game that saw Expos (Staub), Padres (Canizzaro), Royals (Rodriguez), and Pilots (Mincher) taking part. The 1970 game was played in Cincinnati, and was interesting for a number of reasons. The AL squad included a couple of players named Stottlemyre and Alomar; the NL team had an outfielder named Gaston, who would go on to manage the sons of Mel and Sandy to a couple of world championships. But the most memorable moment of the game came on the game's final play. The game was tied at 4-4 going into the 12th inning. With two out, Pete Rose and Billy Grabarkewitz singled. Jim Hickman of the Cubs then hit a single to CF. Rose came barrelling around third, and absolutely creamed Cleveland catcher Ray Fosse, knocking the ball loose and scoring the winning run. Fosse was never quite the same player again.
In 1971, the AL finally won one. Hank Aaron's first All-Star homer helped the Nationals to an early 3-0 lead. But in the bottom of the third, Luis Aparicio singled and Reggie Jackson pinch-hit for Vida Blue. Jackson drove the ball an estimated 540 feet off the light tower at Tiger Stadium, as jaws dropped all over North America. It simply didn't seem possible to hit a baseball that far. Not even on television. Later in the inning, Frank Robinson became the first man to homer for both leagues in All-Star play (he had already become the first man to win an MVP in both leagues.) The AL had stopped the bleeding at last, although they now trailed in the series 23-18.
So the National League went out and won the next eleven games, every year from 1972 through 1982. They won in extra-innings in 1972 - the NL had now won all seven All-Star games that had gone to extra-innings. They won handily in 1973 and 1974. They regularly spotted the AL leads, and then came back to beat them. They hung a loss on Catfish Hunter in 1975 and Mark Fidrych in 1976. They beat the crap out of Jim Palmer in 1977 (Joe Morgan led off the game with a homer, and Luzinski and Garvey also took him deep.) That game also saw the first Blue Jay All-Star, the old Dodger Ron Fairly. He pinch-hit for Bill Campbell in the seventh and struck out against Tom Seaver.
The NL beat the crap out of Rich Gossage in 1978, scoring four runs off the Goose in the bottom of the eighth to win that one 7-3. In 1979, they won 7-6 after Dave Parker in RF threw out Jim Rice at third base in the seventh inning, and Brian Downing at home in the eighth. In 1981, the All-Star game was the first game played after the mid-season strike was settled. The NL got a solo homer from Dave Parker, a pair of solo shots from Gary Carter (the last man to hit two homers in an All-Star game) and a two run homer by Mike Schmidt off Rollie Fingers in the eighth to win it 5-4. AL manager Jim Frey ran out of position players before it was over, and Dave Stieb had to bat against Bruce Sutter in the ninth inning. He struck out. Of course he did.
In 1982, the NL won the first All-Star game played in a foreign country. (That would be Montreal, of course!) By 1983, St.Louis manager Whitey Herzog was suggesting that it might actually be a good thing if the AL finally won one of these games, after losing 19 of the previous 20. Coincidentally or not, Herzog's NL squad that July did not include Steve Carlton, or Tom Seaver, or Bruce Sutter, or Nolan Ryan. Mario Soto, an outstanding pitcher, got the start: but he was followed by Atlee Hammaker, Bill Dawley, Dave Dravecky, and Pascual Perez. You will not find their plaques in Cooperstown, however hard you look. Fred Lynn hit the first ever All-Star grand slam, and the AL cruised to an easy 13-3 win. Didn't seem to bother Whitey at all. Dave Stieb started and worked three hitless inning, allowing an unearned run, to get the win.
The NL won in 1984, as Fernanda Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combined to strike out six hitters in a row in the middle innings. Alfredo Griffin went to the game as Damaso Garcia's guest, and ended up being added to the team after Alan Trammell was injured. The NL won again in 1985, but the AL stopped this streak at a measly two games. Roger Clemens made his All-Star debut in Houston in 1986 and announced his presence with authority; he started the game and retired all nine NL hitters who faced him. The NL highlight was Valenzuela again, who struck out five in a row to match Carl Hubbell's legendary feat from the 1934 game. Valenzuela fanned Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken, Jesse Barfield, Lou Whitaker, and Ted Higuera - not bad, but not quite Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, and Cronin.
In 1987, the greatest year of the hitter in many a moon, it took 13 innings before anyone could score in the All-Star Game. One of the interesting twists to this game was the presence of a pitcher on the AL team who had won zero games up to that point in the season. This had never happened before. HIs name was Tom Henke, and as it happened he never would win a single game in 1987. He almost won this game, however. Henke was the pitcher of record when the AL put the winning run on second with one out in the bottom of the ninth. They couldn't cash him in, and Henke worked the 10th and 11th as well, while Blue Jays fans screamed horrible, horrible things at Boston manager John McNamara, who was running the AL squad. (Henke actually worked into a third inning more than half a dozen times that season. Two weeks after this game, Jimy Williams allowed Henke to give up a run to blow a save in his second inning of work - and then give up another run to lose the game in his fourth inning of work.) Anyway, the NL finally scored the winning run off Oakland's Jay Howell in the 13thj inning.
At this point, the AL regained its bearings and ran off six straight wins of their own. It was just like old times. In 1988, Terry Steinbach, who had hit a HR in the first major league at bat, hit a HR in his first All-Star bat; he later added a game winning sac fly. In 1989, Bo Jackson began building his legend. He ended the NL first with a fine catch off Pedro Guerrero with two men on base; then he led off for the AL with a monstrous homer off Rick Reuschel. In 1990, six AL pitchers shut down the NL on just two singles. After a lengthy rain delay, veteran Texas second-baseman Julio Franco greeted Rob Dibble with a two-run double to account for the game's only runs. Yes, Julio was a nine-year veteran in 1990. Discuss among yourselves what that made him in 2007. Dave Stieb worked two innings in what was his seventh, and final, all-star appearance. No other Blue Jay has appeared as often - Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter, and Jose Bautista each played in five games as Blue Jays. Roy Halladay was named to the team six times (as was Bautista) but Doc only pitched in the game four times as a Jay.
The game came to Toronto in 1991, and Blue Jay Jimmy Key was the pitcher of record and got the win when Cal Ripken ripped a three-run homer off Dennis Martinez. In 1992, Tom Glavine retired Roberto Alomar to start the game: he then allowed seven consecutive singles (Boggs, Puckett, Carter, McGwire, Ripken, Griffey, S.Alomar) to settle this one in a hurry. The AL won Cito Gaston's first All-Star game in 1993. This was the game when Randy Johnson sailed his first pitch over John Kruk's head; Kruk then waved feebly at the next three offerings, all the while practically running out of the batter's box. The game ended with hometown favourite Mike Mussina throwing in the Camden Yards bullpen, as Duane Ward finished the game. And oh, the howling that ensued.
Sparky Anderson said "What are they complaining about? If I was in a pennant race with Baltimore, Mussina would have pitched at least three innings." (Sparky wasn't kidding, either - that was exactly how he managed in the All-Star game. Pitchers from his division rivals always had to work when Sparky managed.) Gaston, in a pennant race with Baltimore and New York, was not planning on using his own guy, Pat Hentgen, who was just along for the ride; the Yankees had requested that Jimmy Key work no more than one inning. So Gaston tried to be fair to the Orioles as well, and got roasted for it. Regarding Mussina's little exhibition in the bullpen, Cito said "Screw him, I won't take him next year." (What I especially like about that statement is Gaston's confidence that he would indeed be managing the game again the following year.)
But Gaston did take Mussina in 1994, and actually let him pitch in the 8-7 NL win that finally broke off the AL win streak. Lee Smith took a two-run lead into the bottom of the ninth, but Atlanta's Fred McGriff hit a dramatic two run pinch-hit HR to tie the game. Once the game went to extra innings, the NL had it in the bag. The NL always wins when All-Star games go overtime. Baseball celebrated by having a work stoppage and cancelling the World Series.
AL pitchers held the NL batters to just three hits in 1995: however, all of them left the yard at the Ballpark in Arlington, and the NL squeezed out a 3-2 win. They made it three wins in a row in 1996, as nine pitchers teamed up for the 6-0 shutout. The National League then entered a slump that very much resembled the very first days of the All-Star Game. The AL won in 1997 when Sandy Alomar broke up a 1-1 tie with a two run homer off Shawn Estes. This was the game when Randy Johnson's first pitch to Larry Walker sailed over his head; Walker reversed his helmet and took up his stance in the RH batter's box for the next pitch. In 1998, once the two starters (David Wells and Greg Maddux) departed the scene, the floodgates opened: 28 hits and 21 runs followed. Tom Glavine had another nightmarish outing, and the AL won 13-8. At Fenway Park in 1999, Pedro Martinez fanned 5 of the 6 hitters he faced, tying an AL record in a 4-1 win. This game featured Derek Jeter's memorable impression of Nomar Garciaparra in the batter's box, and the unforgettable scene before the game of a frail Ted Williams surrounded by all the game's current stars, who basically just wanted to touch the hem of his garment and share a moment with the greatest hitter who ever lived.
The AL won the next two games, 6-3 in Atlanta and 4-1 in Seattle. This last was Cal Ripken's last All-Star Game. He was voted to start at 3B, but starting SS Alex Rodriguez moved over to third for the first time in his life (not the last!), insisting that Ripken play short, where he had played so well for so many years. Cal hit a HR off Chan Ho Park in the third and won his second All-Star MVP. Albert Pujols made his first major league appearance playing second base (he would make one more, for the Cardinals in an extra-inning affair in 2008.)
In 2002, they played 11 innings in Milwaukee, and then ran out of pitchers. No one was happy about that. So in 2003, they added some spice to the proceedings. Home field advantage would go to the team from whichever league won the All-Star Game, a silly idea that stuck around until 2016. So on this inital occasion the NL handed a 6-3 lead to as impressive a relief corps as one might ever hope to see: Billy Wagner, Eric Gagne, and John Smoltz. But in the seventh inning, Jason Giambi homered off Wagner to make it 6-4. In the eighth, Gagne got roughed up for an RBI double by Vernon Wells and a go-ahead homer by Hank Blalock. It was the only save Gagne would blow all year. Smoltz never did get into the game. But, even with home-field advantage, the Yankees lost the World Series.
In 2004, Roger Clemens was in his first year with his adopted hometown team (Clemens was actually born in Ohio), the Houston Astros. At the tender age of 41, he took a 10-2, 2.54 record into the break and got the start for the mid-summer classic, which was being played at his new home field, Enron Memorial in Houston. His catcher was his longtime nemesis (8-19 with 4 HR) and World Series foe, Mike Piazza. Things did not go well for old Roger. Suzuki doubled, Pudge Rodriguez tripled, and Manny Ramirez hit a three run homer. Giambi reached on an error, Jeter singled, and Soriano hit a three run homer. Piazza firmly denied that he was tipping Clemens' pitches to the AL hitters - why would he do such a thing? - and everyone chose to believe him. Even Roger. Naturally, the AL won the game.
The AL won again in 2005. And 2006. And 2007 and 2008. The latter game took 15 innings, matching the 1967 game as the longest ever - it was settled by Michael Young's walkoff sac fly scoring Justin Morneau. The AL won again in 2009 - Roy Halladay spotted the NL a 3-2 lead, but eventually a Granderson triple and an Adam Jones sac fly gave the AL the 4-3 win. Finally, in 2010, the NL got their first All-Star victory since 1996 when Brian McCann's bases loaded double in the seventh inning cashed three runs. The NL won again in 2011, thanks to Prince Fielder's three run homer off C.J. Wilson, and again in 2012 when they roughed up starter Justin Verlander for five first inning runs, Sandoval's bases loaded triple being the key blow. It was three in a row for the senior circuit.
The NL hasn't won it since. The current AL winning streak stands at eight. They had only begun to name an All-Star MVP in 1961 - Mike Trout led off the 2015 game with a homer and became the first man to be named All-Star MVP in consecutive seasons. Hey, if you never get to play in the post-season.. Previous two time winners were Willie Mays, Steve Garvey, Gary Carter, and Cal Ripken. I'm pretty sure Ted Williams would have got a piece of that action.
Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez roughed up their old teammate Johnny Cueto for second inning homers in 2016, less than a year after they'd all won the World Series together. The AL finally won an extra inning game in 2017 - Robinson Cano homered off Wade Davis in the top of the tenth and Andrew Miller struck out Cody Bellinger for the save. Having finally cracked the code, they won again in extras the following year, as Alex Bregman and future Jay George Springer roughed up future Jay Ross Stripling for tenth inning homers, and J.A. Happ - still a Blue Jay, he'd be traded to the Yankees nine days later - survived a Joey Votto dinger in the bottom half. Future Jay Hyun-Jin Ryu started in 2019, but it was his Dodger teammate Clayton Kershaw who allowed the game's first run, giving the AL a lead they would never relinquish. Future Jays Jose Berrios and Brad Hand both picked up a Hold for their scoreless innings on behalf of the AL - the only Jay invited, Marcus Stroman, didn't get into the game on the only occasion he was named to the team. That was also the fate - selected to just a single All-Star game, and not getting to play - of Dave Lemanczyk in 1979, Ricky Romero in 2011, and Marco Estrada in 2016 But at least you get to hang out with everyone. It's still weird that Steve Delabar pitched in an All-Star game.
There was no game in 2020. Last year, of course, Vladimir Guerrero became the first Blue Jay named the game's MVP. Three Jays - Stieb, Key, and Ryan - had been the winning pitcher.
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Delinquent-turned-do<|fim_middle|> the supreme award at last night's New Zealand Aged Care Association's Excellence in Care Awards ceremony. | ctor not to be missed at conference
Jude Barback is looking forward to hearing Dr Paul Wood's compelling story and message at this year's NZACA conference.
Dr Paul Wood strikes me as one of the most self-aware people I've ever come across, and I tell him so.
"No, shit no!" he exclaims. "I've done a lot more [self-analysis] than most people, but I'm still 100 per cent a work in progress."
As a psychologist, Wood is an expert on introspection; his research is all about how people can change and change for the better, and how they can more effectively and deliberately manage their emotions. But it's his life experience that has had the most impact on who he is today.
"My real passion for this space comes from my own experience of transformational change, from my own personal journey of delinquent to doctor," he says.
Wood's journey has probably been more intense than most people's. An awful turn of events saw drug-dependent, unemployed, eighteen-year-old Wood convicted of murder and sent to prison for over a decade.
During his incarceration he started to turn his life around – he threw his energy into study and transforming himself. He gained his undergraduate and master's degrees and began his doctorate, all while in prison.
"I began to understand that in order to focus on really changing my life and having a life of greater meaning and wellbeing, I needed to focus on the inner game.
"I realised I needed to focus on my mindset and how I thought about the world, my beliefs, but also about learning the skills, the insights and the tools that would enable me to more effectively cope with the all-too-human stress and emotion that we all experience, but often have unhealthy ideas and views about."
Wood is right – everyone deals with stress and emotion in its various guises and doses. From Auckland rugby to the Defence Force to the Treasury, his expertise is sought by all sorts of different groups. And now it is the aged care sector's turn – Wood is confirmed to speak on Day 3 at the New Zealand Aged Care Association conference next month.
"The wrapping of our challenges all looks different, but the gift of our misery is the same."
The wrapping of an aged care provider's challenges might indeed look different from those of a loosehead prop, but Wood maintains that emotional fitness is important for us all.
"[Providers] need to proactively and deliberately maintain their emotional fitness, which is really the grit and mental toughness that comes in the heat of the moment, and also the ability to bounce back when they experience the challenges inherently associated with their industry.
"But they also need to maintain the mindset that will enable them to ensure that change is change for the better and that any of the challenging emotions and the experiences within the context of change will be seen and understood in a way that will make them feel more empowered and in control of what's going on."
I'm feeling rather empowered just from our quick chat – delegates certainly won't want to miss Wood's keynote at the NZACA conference next month.
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Oxford University spin<|fim_middle|> | -out becomes 100th member of Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre
The Glasgow-based IBioIC is headed by GSK, Scottish Water and Ingenza and aims to grow the Scottish industry to £900m by 2025
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An Oxford University spin-out has become the 100th member of the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) in Glasgow, a notable milestone in an effort to grow the Scottish industry to £900m by 2025.
Oxford Biotrans joins a network of 100 companies headed by GSK, Scottish Water and Ingenza, many of them small, innovative start-ups with niche specialisms in the biotech sector.
Industrial Biotechnology (IB) is among the fastest-growing sectors in the high added-value industries, whose overall value to the UK is forecast to reach £12bn within eight years.
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Its processes can be used to improve sustainability across a range of disciplines, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and waste generation.
Oxford Biotrans recently raised £2.1m in an investment round that will enable it to further develop its capability in producing high value chemicals from natural sources. Its technology was developed over 20 years of research by Oxford academic Dr Luet Lok Wong, of the university's chemistry department.
The company intends to use its IBioIC links to help scale up the business.
IBioIC was created as a "connector" between industry, academia and government, investing in and facilitating expertise across the sector. It includes 14 start-ups, 42 small and medium sized enterprises and 17 multi-nationals. Its expertise has applications across the food, pharmaceuticals and materials industries.
"IB is changing the world, transitioning products and processes from being petro chemical based to bio-based. Everything we use in our daily lives can be re-imagined using IB processes so tat we are more sustainable," explained IBioIC chief executive Roger Kilburn.
Innovations developed by IBioIC members include anti-microbial cling film made from prawn shells, food flavourings made from timber residues, and the conversion of methane into high quality protein animal feed.
One company has also genetically modified mosquitoes in the battle against malaria and other diseases.
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Man injured in Anish Kapoor art accident at Serralves museum
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British artist Kapoor's 1992 piece, Descent into Limbo, features a cube-shaped building with a 2.5-metre hole set into its floor, which is painted black to give the impression of an infinite drop.
Anish Kapoor's 1992 work, Descent into Limbo, on display at the Serralves museum. Photo courtesy of the Serralves Foundation
An Italian man in his 60s fell over inside the installation at the Serralves, reported local newspaper Público. It is unclear if he fell into the hole or within the general vicinity.
"The visitor has already left the hospital and he is recovering well," a spokesperson from the museum told Dezeen.
The area of the exhibition where the work is displayed has been closed off for repairs.
The museum said all security measures had been followed, including warning signs and a member of gallery staff positioned inside the installation. When the Descent into Limbo reopens the museum plans to add additional warning signs.
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Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments is the first major show for the artist in Portugal, and Descent into Limbo is the oldest of his 56 work's on display in the museum's parklands.
The Serrevales museum, which opened in 1999, was designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Also in the grounds is the Casa de Serralves, an art deco villa and museum designed by architects Charles Siclis with José Marques da Silva in the Streamline Moderne style.
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Turner Prize-winning artist Kapoor often plays with optical illusions that create the impression of infinite depths in his work, such as the seemingly bottomless whirlpool he installed in a park in New York in 2017.
The artist, who has been outspoken about opposing Donald Trump, said the piece stood as "obvious" comment on American politics.
In 2016 he acquired exclusive rights to a the blackest black, a pigment developed by British company NanoSystems that absorbs 99.96 per cent of light. Kapoor's attempt to monopolise the colour started a feud with fellow British artist Stuart Semple, who has attempted to bar Kapoor from using the "world's pinkest pink" and a colour-changing pigment.
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The City of Miami Beach, in collaboration with the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority (MBVCA) is pleased to announce the launch of No Vacancy during Art Week Miami Beach, December 2–12, 2020. No Vacancy is a juried art competition that celebrates artists, provokes critical discourse, and invites the public to experience Miami Beach's famed hotels as destination art spaces<|fim_middle|> $20,000 prize awarded by a jury of art experts. The 2020 jury includes Silvia Karman Cubiña, Director and Chief Curator of The Bass Museum of Art; Dennis Scholl, Executive Director of Oolite Arts and Maria Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Perez Art Museum Miami.
Each selected artist received a stipend of $10,000 to realize their project. The winner of the Juried Prize will be announced on December 4, 2020, and the winner of the Public Prize will be announced on December 14, 2020.
Anna Kell Do Not Disturb
Birgit Rathsmann Room for Storms
Coral Morphologic Coral City Camera
Die-Cast (Brenna Geffers & Thom Weaver) Temporary Occupancy
Federico Uribe Animals and Friends
Jillian Mayer Fort
Karelle Levy The Interknit-World Wide Web
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Does Fever-Tree's profit warning signal the death of gin?
As Fever-Tree saw its shares plummet in Jan 2020, IWSR explores the future of gin and the challenges and opportunities facing Fever-Tree as it expands outside of the UK.
Premium mixer company Fever-Tree saw its shares plummet -29% in mid-Jan 2020, after reporting that its UK sales had fallen by -1% in 2019 – a reflection of subdued trading over the Christmas period. Overall, however, the company reported a 9.7% increase in sales to GBP £260.5m for 2019.
Nevertheless, the markets reacted strongly to the news of a slowing UK market, especially as Fever-Tree currently derives around half of its sales (£132.6m) from the UK. Any souring of demand for premium mixers, or the gin market with which Fever-Tree is inextricably linked, would therefore be a source of concern.
"It shouldn't be a source of panic though; the so-called gin renaissance, or 'ginaissance', looks set to continue, albeit at a slower growth rate in markets such as the UK," notes Mark Meek, CEO at IWSR. "Gin was up 32.5% in the UK in 2018; no category can keep repeating that performance. However, Fever-Tree is facing an increasingly competitive market landscape within the mixer category. How the company builds out its global strategy will be paramount in determining its future long-term market success."
Much of the gin category's current growth in the UK is driven by flavoured gins. These are still contributing sizable volumes and helping to maintain consumer interest. Importantly, it is helping the category to broaden its appeal to females and millennials. "The danger is of flavour over-proliferation, particularly with less credible flavours: this happened in vodka a decade ago," adds Humphrey Serjeantson, IWSR's Research Director for Western Europe.
The much lauded 'ginaissance' gathered pace in 2018, posting the largest gain in global beverage alcohol consumption of any category: a rise of 8.3% globally versus 2017. By 2023, the gin category is expected to see a volume CAGR of 4.2% – this will largely be evident in emerging markets as well as in the UK.
Perhaps the most interesting development is that the gin boom is now extending into non-traditional gin markets, such as Japan, and emerging markets including Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Russia. "As gin growth rates slow in markets such as the UK, Fever-Tree would do well to eye emerging gin markets, such as Brazil. Gin's growth in Brazil has been supported by the entry of new brands, including local and craft products, alongside international premium brands and online-exclusive releases," says Meek.
As gin's potential continues to grow, especially in newer markets, the challenge for Fever-Tree will be to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded tonic market. "Fever-Tree is still largely a tonic company and needs to diversify more quickly as it eyes global expansion," notes Meek. The market for premium mixers is likely to grow in tandem with the premiumisation of the spirits market, and IWSR data points to a continuation of the long-running premiumisation trend in most markets. "While there is opportunity to steal market share, Fever-Tree will need to act swiftly. Many premium-positioned competitors are releasing increasingly unique flavours and investing in product innovation, crowding a marketplace that Fever-Tree once dominated," adds Meek.
This is especially important as Fever-Tree continues its expansion into the US. While Fever-Tree did well in the US last year, posting 33% sales growth, there are key considerations it should factor into its long-term US strategy. According to IWSR research, the US gin market is forecast to be static over the next five years. Critical to Fever-Tree's success is its ability to revitalise the image of the gin-and-tonic serve.
The mixer market in the US is vastly different from the UK's. Drinks such as the gin and tonic as poured in the on-premise lack the same flair and finesse as in other key countries, as, to date, tonics have not been positioned as a premium product in the US. "The biggest challenge for Fever-Tree to ensure sustained, long-term success in the US will be to change the consumer perception of the gin and tonic. In order to succeed, Fever-Tree needs to ensure its US pricing strategy gives enough margin for the brand to invest in bartender education and brand activations. It also needs to establish strategic gin partnerships, especially as bar menus play a critical role in influencing the consumers' drinks choices in the US on-premise. The Fever-Tree Tasting Wheel will help provide ammunition here," advises Meek.
When planning for long-term success in the US, product innovation and diversification will be key. Fever-Tree reaped the rewards as the initial disruptor of the gin and tonic and mixer markets in the UK. However, to extend this success in the US for the long term, Fever-Tree will need to account for regional consumer and bartender preferences, especially in areas such as flavour profiles. Research in the IWSR's US Bartender Strategic<|fim_middle|> mix accordingly.
IWSR believes the gin boom is far from over. However, it is becoming increasingly nuanced as new markets tap into the trend as well. Fever-Tree has the opportunity to make its mark – and investment in product innovation, diversification and global expansion will help to ensure sustained, long-term success.
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The key figures, market by market | Study for example shows that, in terms of cocktails and long drinks, while savoury and spicy flavours do well in New York City, tropical flavours stand out in San Francisco, and in Austin, fruity, citrusy and floral flavours, amongst others, do well too. Diversification beyond gin and tonic should be targeted as well; for example, while gin is a category to watch in New York City, sherry and vermouth are on the rise in San Francisco – giving Fever-Tree an opportunity to adjust its product | 106 |
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Killing the One who Served Them
The seven men accused of killing Sister Valsa, a nun and activist in India, is set to begin Tuesday. Sister Valsa John Malamel was born in India and became a member of the Roman Catholic order of nuns, and made it her life's mission to help and educate the poor in the village of Pachwara, India. She encouraged villagers to send their children to school and to stop alcohol abuse which led to physical altercations. Most recently, Sister Valsa worked on opposing a government-sponsored coal mine which opened in Pachwara. Sister Valsa was instrumental in getting the villagers and the coal mine to agree to a compromise, in which the mine would be permitted to operate but would have to provide displaced villagers with shelter and income from lost profits, and required the mine to use profits to establish a hospital, schools and jobs for villagers. When the coal mine failed to meet its obligations, Sister Valsa and the villagers grew frustrated. Several villagers decided they no longer wanted Sister Valsa as their intermediary, and a rift developed. After one of her closest friends was raped, men came for Sister Valsa and murdered her. The seven villagers accused of killing Sister Valsa have denied any involvement in the murder, and the police continue to search for more men they believe were involved. Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an interesting investigation into the life and murder of Sister Valsa.
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Lindsay Farrenkopf says:
This kind of violence is an international problem and should not be tolerated in any circumstances. This implicate issues of gender and religion which are currently very hot topics in the United States. India has vowed to prosecute the men accused of committing this crime and hopefully they will. But what if this had happened in Iraq or Iran? Would it be investigated since she is a woman AND a Christian? When you look at this in terms of what is going in the United States it is clear to see that issues of gender inequality in the law are still very relevant. For example, take the current proposed abortion law in Virginia that would require a woman to have a transvaginal ultra sound performed against her will. Laws need to be made that protect all people equally and when laws are broken they need to be enforced equally, regardless of the gender of the victim. It is sometimes hard to see the United States take an opinion in cases like this about how wrong it is and how these countries should change to be more like use because we clearly still have a long road ahead of us in resolving our own problems.
Christina Langella says:
This is very sad. A nun who dedicated her life to helping people gets allegedly murdered by same people that she spent her helping. Why did they resort to killing her? If they were outraged with the coal mine, why kill their advocate?
On the night Sister Valsa was murdered, why did she call a friend who lived hours away when the men surrounded her house? After hanging up with that friend, why did she call another friend stating " I have been surrounded on all sides"? Her phone went dead during that call. Why didn't she call the police? When the mob surrounded her home, she called her close friends instead.
I am very interested to see what happens at the trial of the seven men who were accused of killing Sister Valsa.
Jeannine Cahill says<|fim_middle|> most accurate manner. It is really unfortunate that those people lost such a strong advocate. I share the concerns posted above about the inequality victims under the law. It seems that her murderers are going to be tried – but it is of course a sad reality that had circumstances been only slightly different that her murder may have gone unreported. I am glad that the wall street journal did such a thorough story.
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Is digital influence on in-store sales a global phenomenon? We decided to find out.
What we discovered is that digital devices do in fact impact in-store shopping behaviors around the world. Simply put, digital technology and easy access to digital information not only affects sales within digital channels, but also has a much broader impact on in-store sales and in-store consumer behavior – a concept we refer to as "digital influence." These key learnings not only provide guidance for current retailers operating around the world, but also for those looking to expand their presence overseas.
Mobile influence factor: The percentage of in-store retail sales influenced by the shopper's use of a web-enabled mobile device, including smartphones.
What we found is that digital is fundamentally influencing in-store customer behavior across the board, but at different rates of impact and through slightly different mechanisms, depending on the country.
In order to compete, retailers must not only understand the evolving digital needs of their customers, but anticipate and shape their needs, as well. With more shoppers – both in the developed and developing worlds – gaining access to technology that will allow them to be "connected" 100 percent of the time, retailers worldwide need to advance their own offerings to fit the behaviors of this new consumer.
Not surprisingly, we found that digital influences consumer behavior across all countries evaluated, but the detail behind this influence varies based on country and by micro-characteristics within the market. The trends we identified on the impact digital has on in-store shopping around the globe can be grouped into three key takeaways.
There is no single path toward digital adoption or optimization. While all countries studied are heading in the direction of increased digital adoption and usage, the progression is taking place at a considerably different pace depending on the starting point. The developing world will not necessarily follow in the footsteps of the most digitally developed countries today. In some cases, emerging markets appear to skip adoption stages experienced previously by developed markets, and therefore may quickly advance along the adoption curve. The "lift and shift" digital strategy playbook<|fim_middle|> LLP, and co-written by Deloitte LLP managers Caroline Hoyle and Gunangad Chowdhury. | is likely not appropriate for retailers looking to expand globally.
One digital "size" does not fit all customers within a given market. Even within a single market, digital behavior is as unique as a person's thumbprint. It depends on who the consumer is, what stage it is in the shopping process, and what he or she is looking to buy. Of course, demographic factors like age and income play a role in shaping shopping habits within each market, but the type of shopping category also affects these behaviors. We found that consumers use digital tools differently based on what they're shopping for.
Across the world, consumers are demanding digital tools and features to execute their own shopping journeys. Consumers utilize digital in order to plan their decision-making and spending in ways beyond retailers' full control. The use of third-party social media, for example, has a clear impact on shopping and buying decisions. Simply creating a unique digital interface or app is not going to reshape or contain consumer behavior. Retailers must look for opportunities to re-assert their influence along the shopping journey.
Regardless of culture, digital has a significant impact on in-store retail, and is dramatically more valuable than viewing digital through the lens of pure online sales. Ultimately, these tools and channels can extend the retailer's reach beyond the traditional shopping trip and generate incremental revenue and profit across all channels. While this may sound simple, customers are still left unsatisfied and underserved by current digital offerings, which means retailers are leaving money on the table.
In the end, digital and its growing influence in the retail industry represent revenue and profitability for these businesses around the globe. Given the presence and growth trend of digital influence across many markets, we believe that retailers must have a strong physical and digital presence to succeed in the long term. Retailers must continue to assess the broad and complex impact of each channel on the other. Retailers who do not get ahead of these trends with a full range of tools that consumers will embrace face real and powerful threats to their success and survival.
We encourage you to dig deeper and learn about trends in each market. Please follow the links below to learn more about our point-of-view in each market.
*For purposes of this analysis, we have defined developing markets as those with internet and digital device penetration significantly less than 100 percent – in the range of 20 to 50 percent.
Kasey Lobaugh is the chief retail innovation officer and omni-channel retail practice leader for Deloitte Consulting LLP. This post is excerpted from the Global Digital Divide Executive Summary, led by Lokesh Ohri, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting | 530 |
Daycos is in the technology business; providing thoughtful solutions to the complexities of this industry through the application of technology is a key value we deliver for our partners. The development of technology over the past 40 years of our history highlights the needs and preparation required for the next 40 years. Investment in the growth of a diverse local tech community is in line with our core values, and key to our future.
Daycos was honored to participate in an Hour of Code program with a local Norfolk elementary school<|fim_middle|>, from as many different backgrounds as possible, in STEM. The ability to leverage these resources as we invest in the youth of our community has proven invaluable.
Looking at the faces of these kids in these sessions- and seeing the results of their ingenuity and creativity firsthand- has me intrigued, eager and optimistic for the next forty years.
Steve joined Daycos in February 2017 and serves as Director of DevOps. Steve has been involved in technology since his original Commodore Vic-20, when 64kb of memory was still just a dream. Steve and his wife live in South Dakota and enjoy traveling. | last year. We hosted two classes 1 each of 4th and 5th graders and tutored them in actively programming changes in actual applications (to be fair, the coding was scripted a bit, but the final decision and programming actions were solely of the children). The changes programmed by the kids were to Daycos internal systems, such as changing a button to very red on an otherwise sedate background and remain in place to this day. Fun changes that often remind us of the experience.
Our most recent adventure involved volunteers from our DevOps department introducing a coding club this year at Aftershock. Aftershock is a local program that provides hands-on, activity-based learning in a creative way in afterschool and summer programs for 5th through 8th grade students in the Norfolk school district. Our volunteers saw an opportunity to introduce programming and technology in a fun and creative way to this community. This is our first experience at creating a curriculum that keeps a young person engaged on a weekly basis while exposing them to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) through software development- all while keeping it fun and engaging. A challenging aspiration as I am sure many educators will tell you- keeping learning fun is not always an easy task.
We organized our thoughts around our previous success with the Hour of Code and sought additional resources. Code.org, the group that nationally organizes the Hour of Code, provided good fodder for the period. The program participants, in just two weeks' time, devoured Star Wars game modules provided by Code.org! It was awesome to experience the level of creativity and adaptability the participants displayed.
At the end of the exercise, participants build their own game with their own rules. One student actually found a bug in Google's open source Blockly application (used as the interface in these exercises). Another pair of students demonstrated their wit and skill with a game that provided a message of "You Lose" right at the start of the game. Others had the objective to test the limits of the system by adding a veritable plethora of different player characters and activities. The demonstrated knowledge and intuitive work that the youthful participants brought to devops was a learning experience for our own volunteers.
We still have five lessons to go for the quarter, including a lesson that involves students considering what web application they want to design (touching topics like introduction to user experience, user interface (UX/UI), and basic principles of web application architecture). We look forward to future quarters to continue to iterate upon our lesson plans with new students. We will stand on the shoulders of some great work by lots of people who care to see as many people succeed as possible | 538 |
If my Postcards from Babington have tickled your pickle and you're quietly plotting your escape to Somerset,<|fim_middle|>, shopping counts as cardio, right? | I have another little gem for you to check out.
It's an easy stop off on the way, or the way back.
I'm pretty sure I've told you about Kilver Court before, but they've just stepped it up a notch with the brands they host… so I couldn't resist another trip.
If your memory needs a nudge, Kilver is a high-end discount emporium.
A rabbit warren of shops and stalls in a beautiful old factory, with world famous secret gardens and a couple of restaurants.
They serve up the best of local produce, and are particularly proud of all things Spelt based, which is grown on the owner's farm.
It's a cracking spot to forage out a little pre-shopping sustenance!
Although you might be tempted to pocket all of the crockery!
Queenie gave me that knowing look ^, and I resisted.
After stocking up on fuel, we headed right to the new French Sole shop.
If you're not familiar with the brand, they're a British co. who specialise in beautiful flats.
They can be expensive, because they're made to last… so this place is a bargain hunter's treasure trove!
Rather than being piled up in a jumble, 'sample sale' style, everything is displayed as it would be in their London stores.
Some of the discounts are quite frankly un-real!
Upstairs you'll find Mulberry, LK Bennet, Toast, Joseph, Jack Wills, Pringle, Bottletop, and enough cashmere to wrap an army!
We picked up a few pairs for ourselves, and a few as gifts… Mother's day is fast approaching after all!
Wrapped up warm and headed out into the glittering afternoon.
…ready for a spot of lunch at one of the restaurants!
C'mon | 368 |
Giving Life, Giving All: North Carolina Pastor's Legacy Pays it Forward
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Gary Young (far left) honored on October 6, 2019, by (left to right) Mike Claypool, Ben Shular, and Cornelius Atkinson.
Alvin Young was a Baptist, but she was a part of the Church of God. Fueled by close proximity as neighbors in the North Carolina countryside near the town of Hickory, Alvin's interest in her meant he would soon be attending the Church of God, too. The shift wasn't hard for Alvin, though, for besides his love interest eclipsing denominational differences, he found the teachings of the Church of God to be more<|fim_middle|> up in the foothills of Hickory. Then he says, 'God's called me and we're going to Houston!' I didn't understand what was going on. We packed our clothes, an ironing board, and a mixer, all in a '41 Ford, and headed to Texas. No job was lined up, and what money he had was what my grandmother could afford to let him borrow to find a place to live. Dad put himself through three years at Gulf Coast by working three part-time jobs, and my mom worked, too."
Before the decline of Alvin's mother's health necessitated a move back to North Carolina, he served as pastor in Alabama. It was during these early days that young Gary noted how compassionate of a minister his father had become. A couple that wasn't even attending their church needed some help and contacted Alvin. "They lived in a two-room house where you could literally see daylight coming through the cracks in the wall. They owned a hog, which was their food for the entire next year, as they had no money to buy food. They really had no money to buy anything. Dad had prayer with them, as the gentlemen told my dad that their hog was sick and would probably die. They said, 'Preacher, if he dies, we don't know what we're going to eat for the next year. But dad said, 'We're going to pray for the hog.' And he did. He prayed for them and prayed that God would heal the hog because these people needed the food. A couple days later, he got word that the hog had recovered! That animal's disease meant it should have been put down. But my dad was the type that nothing's too big and nothing's too little to go to God with. I've never forgotten that."
In 1966, Alvin Young and his family returned to North Carolina, where he became only the second minister to shepherd the flock at College View Church of God in Raleigh. In just six years, the congregation could no longer fit in the small block building, which would only hold about forty people. Pastor Alvin rallied the church to expand, and because of his own Spirit-given gift of craftsmanship, he served as the project's contractor himself!
"He could do carpentry, electrical, plumbing, and much more," Gary reflects. "Obviously he wasn't highly educated but, if it needed to be built, Dad could do it, and he was very good at it."
Alvin Young poured heart, soul, and body into the church, serving until 1982. Sadly, pouring his body into the church ultimately caught up with him. While carrying shingles up a ladder to the roof of the church building, he ruptured three discs—but didn't stop working on the expansion until it was complete. Numerous surgeries did little to ease the pain that ultimately forced Pastor Alvin to sit down toward the conclusion of his weekly sermons.
Gary Young receives an award and letter from Church of God Ministries and Carolina Ministries on October 6, 2019.
In 2001, Alvin Young passed away and, more recently, the church's life cycle came to an end. But Pastor Alvin Young's legacy lives, as does that of the congregation. The closing worship service was difficult, but several developments have encouraged the congregation. "Dad literally gave up his health, he gave his all, for the Lord and the church," Gary explains. "But the property was purchased by another church, and that pleases us."
The new church, though not affiliated directly with the Church of God movement, is Christ-centered, and God is already blessing. At one point earlier this year, the new congregation had already baptized sixty people.
Also, worth noting: Gary explains that the church property would have probably not even sold for a third of what it did without the expansion.
"So, what Dad built the building for is still being done," Gary reflects. "They may repaint it or remodel it, but God is still working there and that's what matters."
The sale of the church building has also provided for the revitalization of other struggling Church of God congregations. Mike Claypool, regional pastor for Carolina Ministries, says, "College View's legacy has enabled us to develop a system to help revitalize churches in North Carolina. We'll provide consultation, coaching, and funds for this purpose." Not only that, but Mike speaks of another benefit to the sale of the church, one which he describes as an "important way to honor Pastor Young's legacy."
That is, the opportunity for today's ministerial students. Investing in the developing leaders of the Church of God, the remaining College View congregation decided to establish a scholarship with Leadership Focus to make it possible for the legacy of Alvin Young to live on with ripple effects into eternity. In the words of Alvin's son Gary, "Let's establish a scholarship fund so the next young minister doesn't have to work three jobs to get through!"
Learn more about the Church of God at www.JesusIsTheSubject.org. Learn more about Leadership Focus at www.choglf.org. Learn more about Carolina Ministries at www.carolinaministries.org.
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From the Archives: The City is God's GiftAll Church of God | consistent with Scripture. Marriage soon secured their relationship with each other and the Church of God, but could do very little to secure their finances. While making a measly $1.15 an hour and doing his best to support a growing family, Alvin Young received a call to ministry.
Even as a child, Alvin Young barely scraped by. His father traveled by mule all over the state, working the lumber mills and doing his best to provide. When Alvin was only in eighth grade, he quit school to help his brothers and sisters around the house and on the farm. To some, Alvin's ministerial calling may have been met with skepticism, but there was no doubt in his mind. Alvin's lack of a diploma made his prospects grim, but God would make a way. Alvin started contacting ministerial colleges about possible enrollment, but doors of opportunity closed for the high school dropout. Then he contacted Gulf Coast Bible College in Houston, Texas.
The college, better known today as Mid-America Christian University, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, gave Alvin an intriguing proposal: take the necessary tests, score a passing grade to get your GED, and you'll be accepted. Alvin passed, and he went on to graduate near the top of his class. All this could not come to pass, however, without first uprooting his family, moving several states away, and working three part-time jobs (in addition to his wife's work) to pay for his ministerial training. Memories of the experience are a bit fuzzy today for Gary, Alvin's son, but he remembers several of the key details.
Edith and Alvin Young
"It was 1958 and I was eight years old at the time," Gary recalls. "We were very poor. We were living in a two-room house when Dad decided to become a minister. We had no indoor plumbing of any kind | 390 |
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Social and Personality Development in Babyhood
Childhood social and personality development emerges through the interaction of social influences, biological maturation, and the child's representations of the social globe and the self. This interaction is illustrated in a discussion of the influence of significant relationships, the development of social understanding, the growth of personality, and the evolution of social and emotional competence in childhood.
Provide specific examples of how the interaction of social experience, biological maturation, and the child's representations of experience and the self provide the ground for growth in social and personality development.
Describe the meaning contributions of parent–child and peer relationships to the development of social skills and personality in childhood.
Explain how achievements in social agreement occur in childhood. Moreover, do scientists believe that infants and young children are egocentric?
Describe the association of temperament with personality development.
Explain what is "social and emotional competence" and provide some examples of how information technology develops in babyhood.
"How have I become the kind of person I am today?" Every adult ponders this question from fourth dimension to time. The answers that readily come to mind include the influences of parents, peers, temperament, a moral compass, a strong sense of self, and sometimes disquisitional life experiences such as parental divorce. Social and personality development encompasses these and many other influences on the growth of the person. In improver, information technology addresses questions that are at the heart of agreement how nosotros develop equally unique people. How much are we products of nature or nurture? How enduring are the influences of early experiences? The study of social and personality development offers perspective on these and other issues, oft by showing how complex and multifaceted are the influences on developing children, and thus the intricate processes that take made you the person you are today (Thompson, 2006a).
Humans are inherently social creatures. More often than not, we work, play, and live together in groups. [Image: The Daring Librarian, https://goo.gl/LmA2pS, CC By-NC-SA 2.0, https://goo.gl/Toc0ZF]
Understanding social and personality development requires looking at children from three perspectives that interact to shape development. The kickoff is the social context in which each kid lives, especially the relationships that provide security, guidance, and knowledge. The second is biological maturation that supports developing social and emotional competencies and underlies temperamental individuality. The third is children's developing representations of themselves and the social globe. Social and personality evolution is best understood as the continuous interaction between these social, biological, and representational aspects of psychological development.
This interaction can be observed in the development of the primeval relationships between infants and their parents in the first yr. Virtually all infants living in normal circumstances develop strong emotional attachments to those who care for them. Psychologists believe that the development of these attachments is as biologically natural as learning to walk and non only a byproduct of the parents' provision of nutrient or warmth. Rather, attachments have evolved in humans because they promote children'due south motivation to stay close to those who care for them and, as a consequence, to do good from the learning, security, guidance, warmth, and affirmation that close relationships provide (Cassidy, 2008).
One of the first and near important relationships is between mothers and infants. The quality of this relationship has an consequence on after psychological and social development. [Image: Premnath Thirumalaisamy, https://goo.gl/66BROf, CC By-NC 2.0, https://goo.gl/FIlc2e]
Although virtually all infants develop emotional attachments to their caregivers–parents, relatives, nannies– their sense of security in those attachments varies. Infants become
attached when their parents respond sensitively to them, reinforcing the infants' confidence that their parents will provide support when needed. Infants become
insecurely
attached when care is inconsistent or neglectful; these infants tend to respond avoidantly, resistantly, or in a disorganized style (Belsky & Pasco Fearon, 2008). Such insecure attachments are not necessarily the consequence of deliberately bad parenting but are ofttimes a byproduct of circumstances. For instance, an overworked single female parent may discover herself overstressed and fatigued at the terminate of the day, making fully-involved childcare very difficult. In other cases, some parents are simply poorly emotionally equipped to accept on the responsibility of caring for a child.
The dissimilar behaviors of deeply- and insecurely-attached infants tin exist observed especially when the babe needs the caregiver's support. To assess the nature of attachment, researchers use a standard laboratory process chosen the "Strange Situation," which involves brief separations from the caregiver (due east.g., female parent) (Solomon & George, 2008). In the Strange Situation, the caregiver is instructed to leave the child to play lone in a room for a short time, and so render and greet the child while researchers observe the child's response. Depending on the child'southward level of attachment, he or she may refuse the parent, cling to the parent, or simply welcome the parent—or, in some instances, react with an agitated combination of responses.
Infants can be deeply or insecurely fastened with mothers, fathers, and other regular caregivers, and they can differ in their security with different people. The security of zipper is an important cornerstone of social and personality development, because infants and young children who are securely attached take been found to develop stronger friendships with peers, more advanced emotional understanding and early on censor development, and more positive self-concepts, compared with insecurely attached children (Thompson, 2008). This is consistent with attachment theory's premise that experiences of care, resulting in secure or insecure attachments, shape young children'south developing concepts of the self, also as what people are like, and how to interact with them.
As children mature, parent-child relationships<|fim_middle|>outhward everyday interactions with others and their careful interpretations of what they see and hear. At that place are also some scientists who believe that infants are biologically prepared to perceive people in a special way, as organisms with an internal mental life, and this facilitates their interpretation of people'southward behavior with reference to those mental states (Leslie, 1994).
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Although a kid's temperament is partly determined by genetics, environmental influences also contribute to shaping personality. Positive personality development is supported by a "good fit" between a child'due south natural temperament, environment and experiences. [Image: Thomas Hawk, https://goo.gl/2So40O, CC BY-NC 2.0, https://goo.gl/FIlc2e]
Parents look into the faces of their newborn infants and wonder, "What kind of person will this kid will become?" They scrutinize their baby'southward preferences, characteristics, and responses for clues of a developing personality. They are quite right to practise then, because temperament is a foundation for personality growth. But temperament (defined equally early-emerging differences in reactivity and cocky-regulation) is not the whole story. Although temperament is biologically based, it interacts with the influence of feel from the moment of birth (if non before) to shape personality (Rothbart, 2011). Temperamental dispositions are affected, for example, by the back up level of parental care. More than generally, personality is shaped past the goodness of fit between the kid's temperamental qualities and characteristics of the environs (Chess & Thomas, 1999). For example, an adventurous child whose parents regularly accept her on weekend hiking and fishing trips would be a good "fit" to her lifestyle, supporting personality growth. Personality is the result, therefore, of the continuous interplay between biological disposition and feel, as is truthful for many other aspects of social and personality development.
Personality develops from temperament in other ways (Thompson, Winer, & Goodvin, 2010). As children mature biologically, temperamental characteristics emerge and change over time. A newborn is not capable of much cocky-control, only every bit brain-based capacities for self-control advance, temperamental changes in self-regulation become more credible. For example, a newborn who cries often doesn't necessarily have a grumpy personality; over time, with sufficient parental support and increased sense of security, the kid might be less likely to cry.
In addition, personality is fabricated upwardly of many other features besides temperament. Children's developing self-concept, their motivations to achieve or to socialize, their values and goals, their coping styles, their sense of responsibility and conscientiousness, and many other qualities are encompassed into personality. These qualities are influenced past biological dispositions, only even more past the kid'southward experiences with others, particularly in shut relationships, that guide the growth of private characteristics.
Indeed, personality development begins with the biological foundations of temperament merely becomes increasingly elaborated, extended, and refined over time. The newborn that parents gazed upon thus becomes an adult with a personality of depth and dash.
Social and Emotional Competence
Social and personality development is congenital from the social, biological, and representational influences discussed above. These influences result in important developmental outcomes that matter to children, parents, and society: a young developed'due south capacity to appoint in socially effective actions (helping, caring, sharing with others), to curb hostile or aggressive impulses, to live according to meaningful moral values, to develop a healthy identity and sense of cocky, and to develop talents and achieve success in using them. These are some of the developmental outcomes that denote social and emotional competence.
These achievements of social and personality development derive from the interaction of many social, biological, and representational influences. Consider, for example, the development of conscience, which is an early foundation for moral development. Censor consists of the cognitive, emotional, and social influences that cause young children to create and human activity consistently with internal standards of comport (Kochanska, 2002). Censor emerges from young children's experiences with parents, particularly in the evolution of a mutually responsive human relationship that motivates young children to respond constructively to the parents' requests and expectations. Biologically based temperament is involved, every bit some children are temperamentally more capable of motivated self-regulation (a quality called effortful command) than are others, while some children are dispositionally more prone to the fear and feet that parental disapproval tin can evoke. Censor development grows through a skillful fit between the child'south temperamental qualities and how parents communicate and reinforce behavioral expectations. Moreover, equally an illustration of the interaction of genes and experience, 1 enquiry grouping found that immature children with a item factor allele (the v-HTTLPR) were low on measures of conscience evolution when they had previously experienced unresponsive maternal care, but children with the same allele growing upward with responsive care showed strong subsequently performance on conscience measures (Kochanska, Kim, Barry, & Philibert, 2011).
Conscience development also expands as young children begin to represent moral values and remember of themselves as moral beings. Past the cease of the preschool years, for example, young children develop a "moral self" past which they call up of themselves as people who want to do the right affair, who feel badly after misbehaving, and who feel uncomfortable when others misbehave. In the evolution of conscience, young children become more socially and emotionally competent in a fashion that provides a foundation for later moral conduct (Thompson, 2012).
Social influences such every bit cultural norms bear on children'south interests, apparel, style of voice communication and fifty-fifty life aspirations. [Image: Amanda Westmont, https://goo.gl/ntS5qx, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://goo.gl/Toc0ZF]
The evolution of gender and gender identity is likewise an interaction among social, biological, and representational influences (Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum, 2006). Young children learn about gender from parents, peers, and others in guild, and develop their own conceptions of the attributes associated with maleness or femaleness (called gender schemas). They also negotiate biological transitions (such as puberty) that crusade their sense of themselves and their sexual identity to mature.
Each of these examples of the growth of social and emotional competence illustrates not just the interaction of social, biological, and representational influences, only as well how their evolution unfolds over an extended flow. Early influences are important, but non determinative, because the capabilities required for mature moral conduct, gender identity, and other outcomes keep to develop throughout childhood, adolescence, and fifty-fifty the adult years.
As the preceding sentence suggests, social and personality evolution continues through adolescence and the adult years, and it is influenced by the aforementioned constellation of social, biological, and representational influences discussed for childhood. Changing social relationships and roles, biological maturation and (much subsequently) decline, and how the individual represents feel and the cocky continue to form the bases for evolution throughout life. In this respect, when an adult looks forwards rather than retrospectively to ask, "what kind of person am I becoming?"—a similarly fascinating, complex, multifaceted interaction of developmental processes lies ahead.
Exterior Resources
Web: Eye for the Developing Child, Harvard University
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Give-and-take Questions
If parent–child relationships naturally change as the child matures, would yous look that the security of attachment might also modify over fourth dimension? What reasons would account for your expectation?
In what means does a child's developing theory of heed resemble how scientists create, refine, and use theories in their work? In other words, would information technology exist appropriate to recollect of children as informal scientists in their development of social understanding?
If at that place is a poor goodness of fit between a child'due south temperament and characteristics of parental care, what can be washed to create a better match? Provide a specific instance of how this might occur.
What are the contributions that parents offer to the development of social and emotional competence in children? Answer this question again with respect to peer contributions.
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A parenting style characterized by high (merely reasonable) expectations for children's beliefs, skillful communication, warmth and nurturance, and the use of reasoning (rather than coercion) as preferred responses to children's misbehavior.
The cognitive, emotional, and social influences that cause immature children to create and act consistently with internal standards of bear.
Effortful control
A temperament quality that enables children to exist more than successful in motivated self-regulation.
Family Stress Model
A description of the negative furnishings of family financial difficulty on child adjustment through the effects of economic stress on parents' depressed mood, increased marital bug, and poor parenting.
Gender schemas
Organized beliefs and expectations virtually maleness and femaleness that guide children's thinking nigh gender.
Goodness of fit
The friction match or synchrony between a child's temperament and characteristics of parental intendance that contributes to positive or negative personality development. A good "fit" means that parents take accommodated to the child'southward temperamental attributes, and this contributes to positive personality growth and better adjustment.
Security of zipper
An baby's conviction in the sensitivity and responsiveness of a caregiver, particularly when he or she is needed. Infants can exist securely attached or insecurely attached.
The procedure by which one private consults another's emotional expressions to determine how to evaluate and respond to circumstances that are ambiguous or uncertain.
Early emerging differences in reactivity and cocky-regulation, which constitutes a foundation for personality evolution.
Theory of heed
Children'south growing understanding of the mental states that affect people's behavior.
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Next Test Anxiety is All in One's Imagination | naturally change. Preschool and class-school children are more than capable, have their ain preferences, and sometimes refuse or seek to compromise with parental expectations. This can lead to greater parent-child conflict, and how conflict is managed past parents further shapes the quality of parent-child relationships. In full general, children develop greater competence and self-confidence when parents accept high (but reasonable) expectations for children's behavior, communicate well with them, are warm and responsive, and employ reasoning (rather than coercion) as preferred responses to children'southward misbehavior. This kind of parenting manner has been described as authoritative (Baumrind, 2013). Administrative parents are supportive and bear witness involvement in their kids' activities simply are not overbearing and let them to make constructive mistakes. By contrast, some less-constructive parent-kid relationships result from authoritarian, uninvolved, or permissive parenting styles (run across Table ane).
Table 1: Comparing of Four Parenting Styles
Parental roles in relation to their children change in other ways, likewise. Parents increasingly get mediators (or gatekeepers) of their children'south involvement with peers and activities outside the family. Their communication and practice of values contributes to children'south academic achievement, moral evolution, and activeness preferences. Every bit children reach adolescence, the parent-child human relationship increasingly becomes 1 of "coregulation," in which both the parent(south) and the child recognizes the child's growing competence and autonomy, and together they rebalance authorization relations. We ofttimes encounter evidence of this every bit parents start accommodating their teenage kids' sense of independence by allowing them to get cars, jobs, attend parties, and stay out later.
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Family relationships are significantly affected by atmospheric condition outside the abode. For instance, the Family unit Stress Model describes how financial difficulties are associated with parents' depressed moods, which in turn pb to marital problems and poor parenting that contributes to poorer child aligning (Conger, Conger, & Martin, 2010). Within the home, parental marital difficulty or divorce affects more than than one-half the children growing up today in the United States. Divorce is typically associated with economical stresses for children and parents, the renegotiation of parent-child relationships (with i parent typically as primary custodian and the other assuming a visiting human relationship), and many other significant adjustments for children. Divorce is frequently regarded by children as a lamentable turning signal in their lives, although for well-nigh it is non associated with long-term problems of adjustment (Emery, 1999).
Peer Relationships
Peer relationships are peculiarly important for children. They can be supportive just likewise challenging. Peer rejection may pb to behavioral problems later in life. [Image: Twentyfour Students, https://goo.gl/3IS2gV, CC Past-SA 2.0, https://goo.gl/jSSrcO]
Parent-child relationships are not the merely significant relationships in a child's life. Peer relationships are also of import. Social interaction with some other kid who is similar in age, skills, and noesis provokes the development of many social skills that are valuable for the rest of life (Bukowski, Buhrmester, & Underwood, 2011). In peer relationships, children learn how to initiate and maintain social interactions with other children. They learn skills for managing disharmonize, such as turn-taking, compromise, and bargaining. Play as well involves the mutual, sometimes complex, coordination of goals, deportment, and understanding. For example, as infants, children go their first encounter with sharing (of each other'southward toys); during pretend play equally preschoolers they create narratives together, choose roles, and collaborate to act out their stories; and in principal schoolhouse, they may join a sports squad, learning to work together and support each other emotionally and strategically toward a common goal. Through these experiences, children develop friendships that provide additional sources of security and back up to those provided by their parents.
However, peer relationships tin can be challenging as well equally supportive (Rubin, Coplan, Chen, Bowker, & McDonald, 2011). Existence accustomed by other children is an important source of affidavit and cocky-esteem, but peer rejection tin foreshadow afterwards behavior problems (especially when children are rejected due to aggressive behavior). With increasing age, children confront the challenges of bullying, peer victimization, and managing conformity pressures. Social comparison with peers is an important means by which children evaluate their skills, knowledge, and personal qualities, just it may cause them to feel that they do not measure up well against others. For example, a boy who is not athletic may feel unworthy of his football-playing peers and revert to shy beliefs, isolating himself and avoiding chat. Conversely, an athlete who doesn't "get" Shakespeare may feel embarrassed and avoid reading altogether. Also, with the approach of adolescence, peer relationships become focused on psychological intimacy, involving personal disclosure, vulnerability, and loyalty (or its betrayal)—which significantly affects a child's outlook on the world. Each of these aspects of peer relationships requires developing very different social and emotional skills than those that emerge in parent-kid relationships. They also illustrate the many ways that peer relationships influence the growth of personality and cocky-concept.
Social Understanding
As we take seen, children's experience of relationships at domicile and the peer group contributes to an expanding repertoire of social and emotional skills and also to broadened social understanding. In these relationships, children develop expectations for specific people (leading, for example, to secure or insecure attachments to parents), understanding of how to interact with adults and peers, and developing cocky-concept based on how others reply to them. These relationships are too pregnant forums for emotional development.
Remarkably, young children begin developing social understanding very early on in life. Earlier the end of the get-go year, infants are aware that other people accept perceptions, feelings, and other mental states that affect their behavior, and which are different from the child's own mental states. This tin can exist readily observed in a process called social referencing, in which an infant looks to the mother's face when confronted with an unfamiliar person or state of affairs (Feinman, 1992). If the mother looks at-home and reassuring, the baby responds positively as if the situation is safe. If the female parent looks fearful or distressed, the infant is likely to respond with wariness or distress because the female parent'south expression signals danger. In a remarkably insightful fashion, therefore, infants show an awareness that even though they are uncertain almost the unfamiliar state of affairs, their mother is not, and that by "reading" the emotion in her face, infants tin can acquire most whether the circumstance is safe or dangerous, and how to reply.
Although developmental scientists used to believe that infants are egocentric—that is, focused on their own perceptions and experience—they at present realize that the contrary is true. Infants are aware at an early on stage that people have dissimilar mental states, and this motivates them to try to effigy out what others are feeling, intending, wanting, and thinking, and how these mental states touch on their beliefs. They are beginning, in other words, to develop a theory of mind, and although their understanding of mental states begins very simply, it rapidly expands (Wellman, 2011). For example, if an 18-month-old watches an adult try repeatedly to drop a necklace into a cup just inexplicably fail each fourth dimension, they volition immediately put the necklace into the cup themselves—thus completing what the developed intended, but failed, to practice. In doing then, they reveal their awareness of the intentions underlying the developed's behavior (Meltzoff, 1995). Carefully designed experimental studies show that by late in the preschool years, immature children understand that another's beliefs tin exist mistaken rather than correct, that memories can affect how you experience, and that one's emotions can be hidden from others (Wellman, 2011). Social understanding grows significantly as children's theory of mind develops.
How practice these achievements in social understanding occur? I reply is that young children are remarkably sensitive observers of other people, making connections betwixt their emotional expressions, words, and behavior to derive simple inferences nearly mental states (e.g., concluding, for example, that what Mommy is looking at is in her heed) (Gopnik, Meltzoff, & Kuhl, 2001). This is especially likely to occur in relationships with people whom the child knows well, consistent with the ideas of zipper theory discussed higher up. Growing language skills requite immature children words with which to represent these mental states (eastward.g., "mad," "wants") and talk about them with others. Thus in conversation with their parents about everyday experiences, children learn much about people's mental states from how adults talk well-nigh them ("Your sister was sad considering she idea Daddy was coming habitation.") (Thompson, 2006b). Developing social agreement is, in other words, based on children's | 1,893 |
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At the start of 2019, Dr. Falk Herrmann was appointed the new CEO of Rohde and Schwarz Cybersecurity GmbH. The mechanical engineer gained extensive international management experience during his 20-year career with the Bosch Group, especially in the area of security systems. In various managerial positions, Dr. Herrmann successfully implemented strategies for developing innovative product families in growth markets.
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Fugitives is an exciting edge of your seat thriller with a few fun twists and turns thrown in for good measure. Director Shane Dax Taylor spends an impressive about of time letting the set-up breathe before it offering some serious full-tilt boogie thrills for the cat and mouse last act.
Luke Mably and Tricia Helfer play a couple who travel to the Bahamas in a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. However, there's trouble in<|fim_middle|>. It's a fun little movie that has well-tuned performances and some intriguing twists to keep you hooked. One thing's for sure – you'll think twice before booking that all-inclusive holiday in the sun this summer! | paradise when they meet a pair of mysterious couples played by Stephen Lang, Claudia Church, Dominic Purcell and Marie Avgeropoulos.
Fugitives might not be wholly original, but there's much to enjoy in this thriller, with good performances from all involved and some pretty impressive character development for this type of film. Avatar favourite Stephen Lang and Prison Break star Dominic Purcell offer particularly good value, with Lang having plenty of fun as an on-the-run convict living the dream in a tropical paradise.
I really liked the simplicity of Fugitives – it keeps the story contained but we get plenty of time with our leads before their tropical holiday takes a nasty turn. Taylor plays these early scenes like a drama, slowly unveiling the thriller elements as the story progresses. It's nice to see this – often filmmakers are tempted to (literally) cut to the chase, but keeping tension up for that long is nearly impossible unless you're a cinematic master of thrills. Having characters you can empathise with goes a long way and Taylor seems to know this. Admittedly, it's far from flawless and the antagonist's motivations might not be plausible but this is a pretty fun ride if you leave your brain at the door.
Fugitives might not be packed with well-known names, but it packs an entertaining punch | 262 |
My friend (or as we refer to each other, BFF) Dana called me a couple weeks ago with a great idea. Their oldest daughter A. is being baptized a member of our church today, and she wanted to have A.'s picture taken. Dana was inspired by some portraits she saw in another family's home. Each child had been photographed with the father and child dressed in white near the ocean. We went to Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester to create some portraits in honor of this special day for their family. Diggity and I decided to make a day of it with G-Man and planned to stay and play and have lunch at the beach afterward. The Linders had the same plan. It was a beautiful day when we left our homes and we were getting excited to play at the beach.
The closer we got to the beach, the cloudier it got. When we finally reached the North Shore area, the clouds had turned to fog. When we got to the beach, the shore was completely fogged in. Foghorn-blowing-fogged-in. Dana was disappointed that the pictures wouldn't work and it was pretty chilly. I decided to give<|fim_middle|> and I are so sad we couldn't be there for the baptism, but we are in Texas for the wedding of Diggity's son. I hope you have a wonderful day, A. | it a try and if they didn't turn out, we'd come back another day and reshoot.
I love the pictures. Dana loves the pictures. In fact, I'm supposed to order foggy weather for the rest of the Linder children baptism portraits. :) I'm excited to hear what Rob and A. think. Diggity | 69 |
OAKLAND — Two shootings in different parts of Oakland Sunday night left a man dead and a woman wounded, police said Monday.
The fatal shooting happened about 7:52 p.m. Sunday in the 2700 block of 76th Avenue in East Oakland.
Police said a 30-year-old man, whose name they did not release, was shot. He died at the scene a short time later.
Police said the slain man was an Oakland resident but did not say if he lived in the area of the shooting.
No motive has been released and<|fim_middle|>-3821 or 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572. | no arrests have been made.
In the other Sunday shooting, a 62-year-old woman was wounded about 8:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of 30th Street in West Oakland.
Police said she was confronted by more than one man and shot. The suspects were seen fleeing in a car.
The woman was taken to a hospital where she was in stable condition.
No motive has been released in the shooting.
The fatal shooting was Oakland"s 79th homicide of the year. Last year at this time there were 68 homicides in the city.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $10,000 in reward money in the fatal shooting and up to $5,000 in the other shooting for information leading to the arrest of the suspects. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238 | 186 |
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This is getting ridiculous. It seems every few months, we have to fight the FCC for something we don't want. The last time was July 12th's "Day of Action" protest to protect net neutrality, which produced over 5 million e-mails, 124,000 phone calls to Congress, and 2 million comments to the FCC.
Yesterday, the FCC unveiled its new plan to repeal its net neutrality rules, and they essentially ignored the actions of the people. The updated plan allows telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon the ability to speed up, slow down, and block traffic, all while charging extra fees.
The net neutrality principal we currently have in place is that ISPs and governments should treat all Internet data equally. Net neutrality is democratic, and essential to the future and growth of the global Internet.
FCC chairman Ajit Pai has shown that undoing net neutrality is one of his top priorities. Pai has been fighting against net neutrality since 2015 when he said, "Make no mistake about it: this is a fight that we intend to wage and it is a fight that we are going to win." Tuesday's move was a win for Internet providers choosing the sites we see and use.
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The Spritz App: Now You Can Waste Time, Even Faster
By Hannah Sternberg 8:30 AM on March 11, 2014
Like all passionate readers, I sometimes feel anxious about the number of books I'll never be able to read. A single lifetime is just a blip when you consider all the delicious literature out there, waiting to be consumed.
That was the first thing I thought of, after<|fim_middle|> both, and try to experience whatever you can manage as you hurtle into the future, because there's no doing it all.
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Read more by Hannah Sternberg | my mild horror subsided, when I heard about the new hyper-speed-reading app Spritz. Spritz promises reading speeds of over 500 words per minute; at its fastest, it can allow users to read the Bible cover to cover in 13 hours.
Why the mild horror? Well, it's another byproduct of being a passionate reader: I'm torn between the desire to read as many books as possible, and the pleasure of lingering in each one. There's no lingering in the magic of a scene at 500 words per minute.
This Atlantic article makes a great point that the app's greatest utility may be sifting through the pages and pages of online articles many people feel socially and professionally obligated to read. If your goal is to be able to say you read it, that's fine. Maybe eventually we'll evolve to be able to comprehend at that speed, as well.
Like the eReader, Spritz is bound to be looked on with some distrust by some book fans. Unlike Hank Green, I don't think bound books are the pinnacle of reading forms — I just think they're different, with their own advantages and disadvantages like any other format. (I do, however, agree with the rest of this hilarious video.) As my mom, Libby Sternberg, points out in The Wall Street Journal, reading methods have evolved over millennia — one day paperbacks were the racy new thing. Maybe Spritz is the new paperback. Perhaps the technology we look on with curiosity and mild horror today will be how the next generation consumes most of its written material.
There's one thing Spritz can't promise, though — the ability to read everything. No matter how fast you read, you'll never be able to read it all. Could Spritz get you closer to a dent (or maybe just a scratch, if we're being modest) in the literature of the world? Perhaps. But at the end of the day, reading is like life — you make the best choices you can, based on wisdom or pleasure or | 417 |
How to read an alteration agreement for your NYC co-op or condo renovation
An alteration agreement is there to make the renovation go smoothly for everyone in the building.
If you plan on renovating your New York City condo or co-op, you will typically need to sign an alteration agreement in order to do the work. This document is a contract spelling out the board's requirements—and an acknowledgment that your renovation will affect not just you, but also your neighbors.
The paperwork may feel onerous. Toby M. Cohen, a real estate attorney at the law firm Inglesino, Webster, Wyciskala & Taylor, says co-op or condo owners often feel like there's "an asymmetric power situation" going on with the board having all the control, but he points out the paperwork is designed to prevent problems rather than create them. "It's in everyone's interests that everything is done properly," he says.
When do you actually sign an alteration agreement? While you might come across the alteration agreement when looking at a co-op's proprietary lease or a condo's bylaws, you usually put your signature on it when you're about to renovate.
You'll likely have an attorney look over the agreement for you if you're considering a renovation, and you'll need to know the requirements of the building, which will include: timelines for providing documents and completing work; insurance to cover liabilities; service fees and payments to the board; and lien waivers.
Timelines for documents and completed work
It's in everyone's interests to have timelines on a construction project—neither you nor your neighbors want the work dragging on. Timelines for documents, however, provide what Cohen calls a "signal" to a board's attorney about how the project is being managed. If paperwork is consistently being submitted in a timely manner, "there might be more wiggle room" when it comes to the board's flexibility, he says.
If an owner or shareholder is repeatedly unable to meet basic deadlines for providing documents, it could affect the board's confidence in the team and it may be harder to get approvals.
Take a look at what is and isn't allowed. If through-wall air-conditioning or Jacuzzi-style tubs are not permitted, think very carefully about whether they should be in your plans. Most agreements have rules on 'wet-over-dry' or the 'relocation of stack' which refers to water and waste lines. The board may ask you to change your renovation plans or accept them with modifications but keep in mind "you will still have to pay review fees and you won't get extra time," says Cohen.
The agreement will outline restrictions for when renovation can happen, including hours of the day and even months of the year. There may also be a limit to the number of renovations that can take place at one time, which might push out your plans.
If you've ever renovated, you know there's a high probability the job will take longer than expected. You may face a penalty if this happens.
"There are usually periods for extension," says Cohen and if there aren't, it's worth negotiating for some leeway.
Insurance guidelines and policies
Insurance covers your liability so if you see a term like "umbrella insurance," that means you are being asked to make sure you are fully insured.
"You want everyone to be inured all the way up and down the line because the last thing you want is for someone to get hurt or damage to the building and not to be able to pay," says Cohen.
To that point, if the alteration agreement doesn't require comprehensive insurance that's not something to celebrate. It might be a sign the board is not exercising the oversight it should.
"If someone gets hurt they are going to sue everybody: the sub-contractor, the contractor, the building, the resident," says Cohen. Make sure you are insured and take notice of any exclusions. Keep in mind the agreement may also include a list of contractors you cannot work with.
Liens and lien waivers
Contractors need paying. If workers provide materials or services and are not paid, they can file a mechanic's lien that attaches to the property and they could theoretically foreclose on the building.
Your building's alteration agreement should build in several protections against liens with language preventing the contractor from putting one on the building by making clear the work does not benefit the whole building, but just the condo owner or tenant-shareholder.
On this issue, Steve Wagner, a real estate attorney at the law firm Wagner, Berkow & Brandt (and Brick Underground sponsor) has told us previously "approvals by the board should be limited solely to an assessment of whether the plans comply with building's<|fim_middle|> gets paid. "All of this is to prevent a problem—an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," says Cohen.
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Even so, the alteration agreement is between you and the board and Cohen says a subcontractor is not going to read the agreement or be interested in what he can and cannot file. "If someone has not been paid, he's going to file a mechanics lien," says Cohen. "That's how it works in the real world."
The alteration agreement should require that you "bond" the lien within 30 days which removes the lien from the building and gives the building protection from creditors.
The preferred scenario is that payments are made without any problems and if this is the case, all the contractors who have done work in the building need to give you a lien waiver at the end of the project. "It's the equivalent of you giving indemnity", says Cohen.
Fees and board payments
When it comes to the fees and payments to the board, look out for the term "escrow." This is going to mean you'll be required to put a certain amount of money in an account overseen by a lawyer for payments made to the board.
This is a measure that protects the board but in doing so, it can also protect your relationship with the board. Cohen says it may not feel like there is an "upside for the tenant," but if you follow the terms of the escrow he says "things will go smoother."
After all, you have to live with thee people, you're going to see them in the elevator. Play nicely and if you have competent professionals, it's likely the work gets done well and everyone | 322 |
Heartland International Film Festival hosted a private lunch at Toronto International Film Festival for film production companies, distributors and filmmakers who are submitting their country's film to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for nomination consideration of Best Foreign Language Film.
Several guests in attendance will be presenting their films at this year's Heartland International Film Festival. Heartland is the among the first U.S. film festivals to showcase films being submitted for consideration at this year's 2019 Academy Awards®.
A total 25 guests were in attendance representing Screen Australia, Festival Formula LTD, Goethe Institute, Head of Eye International (Netherlands), IMCINE<|fim_middle|> and Andy Friedenberg of the San Diego Cinema Society, Ms. Monserrat Sanchez Sholer (Mexico), Greg Sorvig (Director of Film Programming, Heartland Film); Arlene Grande (Board Member, Heartland Film), Therese Hayes (International Film Programmer); Hannah Fisher (International Film Programmer) and Craig Prater (President, Heartland Film).
A series of films will showcase in a special section at the 27th annual Heartland International Film Festival which opens October 11-21, 2018. One film from the Foreign Language Contenders series will be awarded the juried Best Foreign Language Contender Award and $5,000 cash prize. The selected films were nominated by representatives from the various guilds, film organizations and memberships that make up the national industry of any specific country. | , Czech Film Center, Sydney's Buzz, Slovejski Films Center and Greek Film Center. Also in attendance were Beth | 25 |
Forget Snowflake -- This Is the Software IPO That Caught My Eye
By Brian Stoffel – Oct 12, 202<|fim_middle|> other hand, point toward a toxic culture that could make it very hard for JFrog to continue growing and winning customers as the competition heats up. The market for this type of technology is expected to grow to over $20 billion in a few years -- a size that will no doubt attract big players.
Speaking of competition: I talked with a few people who know more about this space than I do, and some believe that GitHub could reasonably create a platform with functionality at least equal to what JFrog has built. And GitHub happens to be owned by Microsoft (MSFT 2.10%). With a war chest of over $130 billion on its balance sheet, that's a threat that anyone investing in JFrog should at least stop to consider.
For now, JFrog simply lands in the "too hard" pile for me. I think the company is very interesting, and clearly has a lot going for it. But the great thing about investing is that there are no called strikes. You only need to make a few solid investments to reach your financial goals.
That being the case, I see no reason to put my money somewhere where there are "yellow flags" like JFrog's. That doesn't mean it will be a bad investment -- or that I won't change my mind later. But that's where I'm at right now.
Teresa Kersten, an employee of LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Brian Stoffel has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Microsoft. The Motley Fool recommends Snowflake Inc and recommends the following options: short January 2021 $115 calls on Microsoft and long January 2021 $85 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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But there are still two things that give me pause
Last month, investors went absolutely bananas for software initial public offerings, or IPOs. No company highlighted the craze more than Snowflake (SNOW 2.30%) -- shares of which have more than doubled from their initial price.
But in the Snowflake-induced haze of IPO stocks, another company caught my attention: JFrog Ltd. (FROG -0.93%). This company checks off a lot of boxes that I look for in an investment: founder-led, strong balance sheet, and a barbell approach that seems to be working very well.
That said, two issues give me pause. Read below to get the whole story.
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First, the company from 30,000 feet
I'm a big fan of solid mission statements. When those mission statements can easily convey what a technology company does to a non-techie like myself, I like it even more. JFrog's mission is "to power a world of continuously updated, version-less software." The company calls this "Liquid Software."
If that still sounds confusing, think of it this way. Back in 2000, when I used TurboTax to do my taxes, I had to go to the store, buy the CD-ROM with the most up-to-date version (there are always tax changes), and install it on my computer. Only then could I actually start putting my information in.
Today, TurboTax has moved to the web. There's no physical CD to buy; the software is all updated by the time tax season starts. Huge parts of the process have been eliminated.
But JFrog wants to take it one step further: eliminate even periodic updates, allow software to be continuously and instantaneously updated. The company has six different modules that customers can use to do this, ranging from its core Artifactory (where coding packages can be stored) to Xray (scanning and securing software updates) to the actual distribution of those updates.
Customers often start with Artifactory, but as they see how easy it is to use, they expand to include other modules. The results speak for themselves.
Subscription Revenue $56 million $95 million $117 million 63%
Free Cash Flow $6.5 million $8.2 million $13.3 million 61%
Customers with $100,000+ ARR 131 234 286 68%
Revenue Retention Rate 139% 142% 139% N/A
Data source: SEC filings. ARR = Annual recurring revenue Figures rounded to nearest million. Growth Rate = Compounded annual growth rate, or CAGR.
Everything about those numbers is impressive. The company is free-cash-flow positive -- meaning investors right now don't need to hope and pray for the day to come when the company proves it is sustainable.
Just as important, its revenue retention rate above 100% shows that customers not only stick with JFrog, they spend about 40% more with JFrog every year! That's impressive, and it points to a potentially powerful moat in the form of high switching costs.
A few issues of note
The fact that the company is run by its founder Shlomi Ben Haim, and that insiders are heavily invested, really impressed me. Then I decided to see what employees thought of the company via Glassdoor ratings. The results weren't pretty. While the company officially gets a middling 3.6 out of 5.0 stars from employees, a deeper dive shows this is largely because of "positive review stuffing." That's where employees give high marks, but leave very few details -- leading me to believe they are simply there to raise ratings.
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Stenson: I felt like it was my time
Henrik Stenson came into The Open on the hunt for a maiden major title, and on Sunday he finally ended his major drought.
Stenson, who became the first male Swedish golfer to win a major, was in a tough battle with veteran Phil Mickelson for much of the tournament, trailing the American for the first two rounds before eking out a one-shot lead heading into Sunday's final round. It was on last nine holes of the tournament that he pulled away to secure the win and nearly write his name in the record books.
The Swede fired an eight-under-par 63 on Sunday and narrowly missed out on becoming the first golfer to card a 62. Despite just missing out on etching his name in the record books, Stenson was over the moon at having final won his first major.
"I felt like it was my time," he told reporters. "I think the win in Germany I had a couple weeks ago was huge to get one over the finish line.
"You feel the pressure coming in and with not having won for a while, that always kind of builds up. It was great to get that win there. That definitely helped this week, and I felt that extra confidence was going to be huge for me coming into this week. I just played some great golf. For some reason, I felt like this is my time, and it was.
"It's a dream come true. The Ryder Cup and the Open Championship were the big early memories I had so to sit here with this trophy is pretty amazing."
The 40-year-old admitted that his four-foot birdie putt at the par-five 16th was the pivotal point in the tournament as Mickelson had squandered an opportunity to register an eagle.
"The putt on 16 was huge. I mean, Phil missed his eagle putt, so it looked like it was going to go in, and I expect him to make every putt; you have to. And it just snuck by and I'm standing over a five-footer down the hill to keep it to a head. That was a very important putt to make," he said.
Stenson admitted that he was disappointed to have missed out on recording a 62 in the final round, but that he was more than pleased with his overall performance.
"It hasn't quite sunk in yet but I'm very happy," he said. "I'm very proud of the way I played. It was a great match with Phil. I knew he wasn't going to back down at any point, and in a way that makes it easier for myself.
"I knew I had to keep on pushing, keep on giving myself birdie chances and he wasn't going to give it to me, so I had to pull away. I'm just delighted I managed to do that with a couple of birdies at the right time on the final stretch."
Meanwhile, Stenson dedicated his victory at The Open to close friend Mike Gerbich, who passed away on Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
<|fim_middle|> as a big supporter of mine. In good days and bad days he always sent me messages and been out at some events. This one is dedicated to him, for sure." | "I lost a dear friend on Wednesday and I feel like he has been with me all week," Stenson said. "He had been battling cancer for many years. Mike, this one's for you.
"He was one of the real good guys back in Dubai. I'd known him for many, many years, and he was a very keen golfer and a great man.
"I had news on Tuesday that the end was near and unfortunately he passed away on Wednesday morning over in the US. So he's always been there | 105 |
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Join our mailing list to receive our latest news and offers | we're proud to call home is officially one of the best places to live in the UK.
While this might not come as a surprise to those of us who are lucky enough to live here, it's a tremendous accolade for us all to celebrate.
The announcement was officially made in The Times, which declared Kirkby Lonsdale as the regional winner for the North West.
Its winning strapline pleasantly declared the town "an unbeatable Lake District location, bags of community spirit and one of the cleanest high streets in the country."
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Here at the Sun Inn, we're incredibly proud to live and work in Kirkby Lonsdale, and these are just a few reasons why…
The location – we're perfectly placed between the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and Lancashire, meaning there's always a lovely location to go out and explore right from our doorstep. We're also just 10 minutes from the M6, which is handy!
Town landmarks – of course, the showstopper is Ruskin's View, which is truly stunning in any season. But we are spoilt for other great landmarks throughout the town, including Devil's Bridge, The Radical Steps, St Mary's Church and Churchyard, Market Square – and not forgetting the viewpoints that welcome you as you wander down Mitchelgate and Mill Brow.
Food and drink – for a fairly small town, we're certainly spoilt when it comes to food and drink offerings. Whether you're planning a romantic meal for two, a big family get-together or a catch-up with old friends, the variety of restaurants, bars and pubs mean there's something for everyone.
Shop local – supporting independent businesses is something that's supported by the whole community. We're incredibly lucky to be able to choose from a plethora of superb independents in the town, including the charter market every Thursday.
Community spirit – as The Times article quotes, "the scenery is as stunning as the local spirit" – and it's true! The community spirit in Kirkby Lonsdale really is something special, and we're extremely proud to be part of it.
Come and see for yourself why Kirkby Lonsdale is officially one of the best places to live in the UK – take a look at our room tariffs here and keep an eye on our special packages page for seasonal promotions. You can also keep up-to-date with all the latest news from the Sun Inn by following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Bestseller signs contract for Netherlands distribution centre
By Rachel Douglass<|fim_middle|>iously and building this high-tech, sustainable distribution centre." |
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Denmark clothing company Bestseller has announced it has signed a contract to build a logistics centre in Lelystad, the Netherlands.
The company will be investing DKK two billion (230.6 million pounds) to build the centre, for which plans were first revealed back in October 2021.
Created to aid in the expansion of the group's supply chain and to support its growth, the location will employ around 500 people and will bring its distribution closer to its wholesale customers.
"This high-tech logistic centre is the biggest single investment in Bestseller's history. It will be a significant milestone for our future ambitions and growth," said Allan Kyhe Kjærgaard, logistics director at Bestseller, in a release.
Kjærgaard continued: "Logistics is an increasingly important focus area for Bestseller and the whole retail industry. Increasing capacity and creating a flexible supply chain is crucial to getting our products to customers on time. That's why we are investing ambit | 212 |
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A common metaphor used to describe organic chemistry is "the psychology of electrons." This statement embodies one of the fundamental ideas of organic chemistry: most chemical reactions are driven by the exchange of electrons, rather than protons. Electrons are not in a fixed position like the protons in the nucleus; they follow random orbits around the nucleus, which may cause them to interact with other molecules.
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These interactions are most often represented in electron pushing diagrams, such as Figure 1.1. Each line between two atoms represents a shared pair of electrons; likewise, a double line represents two shared pairs of electrons. Electrons normally interact in pairs because electrons have a "quantum spin," which simplistically means that their movement produces a magnetic pole (much like an electron magnet). However, a lone magnetic pole is highly unbalanced, so two electrons with opposite spins very often pairs to balance each other, much like the magnetic poles of the earth.
A key interest of organic chemists is hydrogenation, or adding hydrogen to a molecule. Adding hydrogen can have the effect of increasing a molecule's stability, making it a better fuel, or building nanostructures. Dr. Robert Knowles and his lab, however, are studying a type of reaction that will help protons and electrons move in unison, which has the possibility to radically extend the possibilities of reaction chemistry.
Dr. Knowles studies a type of reaction called Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET), which is essentially the coupling of a free radical reaction with an acid-base reaction. When a free-radical reaction occurs at the same time as an acid base reaction, the loss of the electron "balances" the loss of a proton. The reasons why this works are still not understood, but scientists have observed that the PCET reaction requires less energy than either electron transfer or proton transfer. In Figure 2 it is easy to see a clear illustration of this idea: to get from the initial (yellow) to final (brown) state, you need to either use a combination of electron transfer and proton transfer, or you can use CEP (another abbreviation for PCET), the most preferred path.
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Pavithran Ravindran | of this? As Dr. Knowles says, "[PCET has] a much, much more expansive energetic range [than other reactions] … You can design catalysts based on these principles that allow you to break the strongest bonds imaginable." "[Strong bonds]" means that the molecule is highly stable, but also implies that it is lower in energy; higher energy molecules, such as glucose, have less stable bonds than common molecules like CO2. A good analogy might be a spring: strong bonds are like uncompressed springs, while unstable bonds are like compressed springs: the latter are less stable, but can release higher energy if the spring is released/the bond is broken.
Nature and industry have a strong mutual interest in generating higher energy molecules. Scientists have known for a while that reactions like PCET occur in photosynthesis as well as the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen, two high energy processes with high value to the alternative energy business. In Figure 3, a beam of sunlight hits rubisco, a molecule used in photosynthesis, which causes an energy-generating movement of electrons. This is theorized to be a PCET reaction; in the step labeled 3, you can see a proton and electron moving at the same time.
Right now, PCET is not very well understood and somewhat controversial, because there are competing theories for how these reactions work. However, with the work the Knowles lab is doing right now, there is a possibility that organic chemistry could be | 296 |
Kaspersky Lab appoints Naina Parhar as Asia-Pacific channel boss
By Nico<|fim_middle|>har will work on Kaspersky's distribution framework and its new telesales business, and is also tasked with rolling out the company's new global partner program for Asia-Pacific.
"Kaspersky is an agile and innovative company and I am excited to join this dynamic team," Parhar said.
"Partners have been the core of our business and will continue to be important to our ability to scale. I am looking forward to leading a part of the business that has so much opportunity."
Parhar most recently served as director of Singapore-based Unibim Services. Prior to that, she held various sales roles in both Australia and Singapore, including stints with Autodesk and Microsoft.
"A great part of Kaspersky Lab's market success is attributable to its strong channel and delivering more value to our partners is one of the company's highest priorities," Kaspersky Lab Asia-Pacific managing director Stephan Neumeier said.
"With Naina's impressive track record in building alliances and insight of the APAC channel dynamics, having her onboard supports our steadfast commitment to step up our channel program in the region."
"The ANZ region is delighted to kick start 2018 with our new an energetic addition, Naina," Kaspersky Lab ANZ general manager Anastasia Rae said.
"She has a focus on Australian and New Zealand partner growth which is pivotal to our success."
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HomeAviation<|fim_middle|> combat the heat these days. I mean if the rumors about Mach 12 planes are true they must have some seriously magic materials or aerodynamic tricks to go Mach 5 plus.
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1.259 miles per second… holly he'll that's inconceivably fast! ..and a human was in that thing and survived.
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Wow, at those speeds I'm surprised it didn't disintegrate into a millions pieces; the fuselage is heavenly damage. Good Find | Safety / Air CrashesThese Images Document The Heat Damage To The X-15A Hypersonic Aircraft After Its Record Breaking Mach 6.7 Flight
These Images Document The Heat Damage To The X-15A Hypersonic Aircraft After Its Record Breaking Mach 6.7 Flight
November 21, 2017 Aviation Safety / Air Crashes, Space
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Aerodynamic heating at Mach 6.72 (4,534 mph) almost melted the airframe.
On Oct. 3 1967 the North American X-15A-2 serial number 56-6671 hypersonic rocket-powered research aircraft achieved a maximum Mach 6.72 piloted by Major Pete Knight.
Operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft in the 1960s, the X-15 was a missile-shaped vehicle built in 3 examples and powered by the XLR-99 rocket engine capable of 57,000 lb of thrust.
The aircraft featured an unusual wedge-shaped vertical tail, thin stubby wings, and unique side fairings that extended along the side of the fuselage.
The X-15 was brought to the launch altitude of 45,000 feet by a NASA NB-52B "mothership" then air dropped so that the rocket plane would have enough fuel to reach its high speed and altitude test points. Depending on the mission, the rocket engine provided thrust for the first 80 to 120 sec of flight. The remainder of the normal 10 to 11 min. flight was powerless and ended with a 200-mph glide landing.
An interesting account of Oct. 3, 1967 record flight was written by Flight Engineer Johnny G. Armstrong on his interesting website. Here's an excerpt:
As the X-15 was falling from the B-52 he lit the engine and locked on to 12 degrees angle of attack. He was pushed back into his seat with 1.5 g's longitudinal acceleration. The X-15 rounded the corner and started its climb.
During the rotation as normal acceleration built up to 2 g's Pete had to hold in considerable right deflection of the side arm controller to keep the X-15 from rolling to the left due to the heavier LOX in the left external tank. When the aircraft reached the planned pitch angle of 35 degrees his scan pattern switched from the angle of attack gauge to the attitude direction indicator and a vernier index that was set to the precise climb angle.
The climb continued as the fuel was consumed from the external tanks, then at about 60 seconds he reached the tank jettison conditions of about Mach 2 and 70,000 feet. He pushed over to low angle of attack and ejected the tanks. He was now on his way and would not be making an emergency landing at Mud Lake.
"We shut down at 6500 (fps), and I took careful note to see what the final got to. It went to 6600 maximum on the indicator. As I told Johnny before, the longest time period is going to be from zero h dot getting down to 100 to 200 feet per second starting down hill after shutdown."
Final post flight data recorded an official max Mach number of 6.72 equivalent to a speed of 4534 miles per hour.
From there down Pete was very busy with the planned data maneuvers and managing the energy of the gliding X-15. He approached Edwards higher on energy than planned and had to keep the speed brakes out to decelerate.
On final approach he pushed the dummy ramjet eject button and landed on Rogers lakebed runway 18. He indicated he did not feel anything when he activated the ramjet eject and the ground crew reported they did not see it. Pete said that he knew something was not right when the recovery crew did not come to the cockpit area to help him out of the cockpit, but went directly to the back of the airplane.
Finally when he did get out and saw the damage to the tail of the X-15 he understood. There were large holes in the skin of the sides of the fin with evidence of melting and skin rollback. Now we are talking Inconel-X steel that melts at 2200 degrees F. Later analysis would show that the shock wave from the leading edge of the ramjet's spike nose had intersected the fin and caused the aerodynamic heating to increase seven times higher than normal. So now maybe we knew why the ramjet was not there.
X-15-2 after the record flight (#189) on Oct. 3, 1967. The aircraft achieved the record without any NASA marking. The aircraft was painted in white that covered an ablative material that protected the fuselage. The Martin Marietta's MA-25S ablative would erode slowly shedding the heat of aerodynamic friction. Pink in color, the ablative the MA-25S ablative reacted when exposed to liquid oxygen burned by its XLR-99 rocket engine. For this reason it was sealed under white paint. More details here.
The following 48-sec footage shows the extent of the damages to the X-15-2 aircraft. Noteworthy, the ramjet detached from the aircraft at over 90,000 feet and crashed into the desert over 100 miles from Edwards Air Force Base.
Here are some details.
Wing leading edge burns.
Reaction Control System thrusters.
Two holes appeared on the fuselage along with burns.
The nose of the aircraft shows ablative damages as well as a result of frictional heating.
The X-15A-2 never flew again after the record flight. It is currently preserved and displayed at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
The top image shows the damage to one of the two ventral UHF antennas of the X-15.
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The identifying sign is gone. The place is empty. All that remains is a handwritten explanatory note on a chalkboard and the memories.
In its brief time – some 20 years, Cool Beans became something of a local institution – in the same breath as Hagler's, Schreiber's, and the bagel shop across the street that has been known by various names (now Sunrise). It was a local business that provided a good produc,t but also was know as a place where<|fim_middle|> shop.
It's so funky, with a mishmash of shabby-chic furniture — stools, chairs, benches, low tables, high tables, bookcases, there's even an old piano — and, as of a few years ago, a bar. Yup, you can get your cup of java with a shot or two of hard alcohol. Perhaps the popular "Happy Husband" — double espresso with vodka, Kahlua and Bicerin chocolate liqueur. Or maybe the equally popular "Hellraiser," — spiced rum, ancho chili and ginger beer.
But it is a headline from that that 2016 Daily Voice piece that probably put it best: "Cool Beans In Oradell 'Percolates' With Community Vibe"
Now the place is quiet.
Upon a recent visit to check what was up and say good bye we were met by someone doing some work inside who told us that the establishment would be open again soon but as something different.
Time moves on – progress I suppose. There are those who noticed that the place may have grown a bit old and tired. But I regret its passing. A good cup of coffee could always be found just around the corner. So was a place that felt like a pub and community and town square as much as a coffee shop.
We honor its years of useful service, as well as the coffee and a priceless sense of community it served up. | community was made. It was a place that mattered to those who came – and not just for the coffee.
Yes, there was coffee – and good coffee too – a nice alternative to Dunkin' and Starbucks. At its height there were four different coffee roasters and 40 different kinds of coffee, not to mention 80 different kinds of tea and 30 different kinds of beer and craft whiskey.
But there was more – as was the intention of its founder - Chris Marino, a Teaneck resident. Chris had lived in lived in Italy for a year and tried to model Cool Beans after Italian coffee shops that were more like cultural centers of the community. "We offer the best quality coffee we can in a relaxing environment," he said in a 2016 interview.
And that relaxed atmosphere was recognized throughout the area and beyond. For instance, A Gannett piece that ran in the Record but also in the Asbury Park Press and the Courier News of Cherry Hill described Cool Beans as follows:
You'd be forgiven if you think you've wandered into some hipster cafe in Brooklyn when you first step into this yellow and maroon coffee | 235 |
Who is gonna be at Hula?
Yesterday I had a very exciting meeting with Susan of Hula Juice Bar on Victoria Street. Ooh la la. We both left the meeting feeling utterly ecstatic about our plan for August.
I hope that you will be able to find time in your busy August schedules to see them both. As I mentioned, the work is going off in one direction for UO and in quite another direction for Hula. I think that I shall be busy the next few months experimenting and developing my current style. I am so thrilled at the prospect.
It's better to grow than stagnate.
I couldn't leave this blog without a post about the brilliant patterns I saw on my tour around the city of Istanbul. The Harem at Topkapi Palace was resplendent with colours and patterns. Every room seemed to be more detailed, more grand than the last.
The Hagia Sophia also had beautiful colours – that amazing blue found everywhere in Istanbul, married with a warm deep yellow-gold. As there wasn't much light in the Hagia Sophia (not enough to take good quality photos with my crap quality camera), I was not able to bring back very many good photos of the details.
I may have gotten a little excited about the patterns and colours when I purchased far too many scarves at the Bazaar. I've only the one neck so why did I need to buy five coverings for it? I must now go and learn new ways to tie these things or I shall never bring them out from my closet. You know what it's like when you're on holiday. Everything looks amazing when you're there, but when you bring it back you suddenly realise you have no use for shoddily made flawed pottery in garish colours.
I have returned from my great trip abroad. With me I have brought my new travel companions Cold and Earache. They are not welcome and I'm hoping they take the hint and take a hike.
Did Istanbul meet my expectations? you ask. Good question. It was very much… itself. The first day my friend and I saw the Hagia Sophia and I tell you, that inner space is breathtaking.
It was always such a relief to see Hagia Sophia's warm terracotta pink and orange form whenever we were making our way back to the hotel after a tiring day of seeing the sites. As our hotel was situated in a small street tucked away behind her, it was a wonderful landmark to show us that rest was just around the corner.
We of course saw the Blue Mosque, situated just across a couple green lawns and a street from the Hagia Sophia. The person that commissioned the Blue Mosque wanted to have a building made that would rival the Hagia Sophia. Yes, the minerets are big and the tiles inside cast a beautiful blue hue over everything. With that said, in the Hagia Sophia you feel embraced with the warm golds and glistening mosiacs. In the Blue Mosque I felt cold, but impressed by the details.
Possibly a little irreverent. I should stop doing this pointing gesture.
Not only were the sites wonderful to behold, the food was amazing. I am sure my teeth our now riddled with cavities as I ate obscene amounts of baklava. Anna and I opted for Turkish cuisine at ever turn. We ate pancakes with spinache, mezze, Malti (ravioli with minced lamb, spiced sauce and a dollop of yoghurt), corn baked at a stand, and breads and tea from one of the many food stands dotted around the city.
Navigating our way through the narrow streets was sometimes hectic, claustrophobic and after awhile, the calling out of Turkish men shop owners and workers at restaurants did get a bit grating. 'Where are you from?' was the phrase of choice to hook you into conversation. Or they would guess. 'You sisters?' and then to me 'Are you French?' which I took to be a ginormous compliment. To be mistaken for looking French? Heck yeah, I'll have that. Sometimes rather inventive things would be said to us. Anna received a 'Are you real or are you dream?' and I the 'You dropped something; you dropped my heart.' Puh-lease. To be honest, I kept my sunglasses on most of the time and put on my I'm-not-listening-to-you harsh<|fim_middle|>. It's easy to spend an entire morning sewing with my hands, whilst my mind is buzzing around with failed plans, new plans, with a little bit of worry thrown in to keep it interesting.
The last 18 months has seen major change in my life. I finally decided to take hold of this artistic ambition of mine and make something of it. The Connecting Thread – a personal psychogeography was certainly a step in the direction of taking my career seriously. It was life changing, actually. I was worried about what to do after the tour ended in December 2011, but it seems that I hit the ground running at full speed ahead. More plans. Big ideas. Let's move this forward at break neck speed because now I feel that to rest, to stop, to sit and keep doing what feels comfortable just is NOT the answer for now.
When I was a teenager living in the middle of all those fields that stretched out into forever in all directions, when I was thinking of the life I wanted to live and dreaming, I told myself I never wanted to live a mediocre existence. Somehow, without even thinking or planning, my life has been anything but mediocre. I never want to feel that I have half- lived, or that I allowed fear of failure and lack of self belief keep me from living a life that resonates. And so. I can almost guarantee that on my death bed, I will not have to worry about the Number 1. regret of the dying.
It hasn't been easy. There have been stretches of months and months when to live a life that's true to myself has been excruciating. I just had to believe that it would make sense on the other side.
Right. Now to work. I've got some pieces for a sweet little cafe in the Grassmarket to plan. | expression and pushed my way through the crowds. I must say, though, that on the day I ventured into the town alone, not one person bothered me. So, I suppose there is a certain level of respect for the lone woman traveller. Maybe they realise it isn't nice to be hollered at when you are on your own. Or perhaps it was Anna that was getting all the compliments :).
What we didn't expect was to inadvertently wander onto the set of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall. Apparently, they had been filming around the Grand Bazaar and the New Mosque. We arrived on the scene either before or after, as we did not see the dishy Daniel Craig in the flesh. There were 'Polis' cordons, crew vans, and fake stalls complete with painted sponge items that I think were supposed to resemble some kind of edible item, like a fruit or something.
On our final day, we took the Tramway across the Galata Bridge to visit the other side. We took a tour through the Modern Art Gallery where I saw a very beautiful video of dancers, precise, strong, moving to a soundtrack that I wish I could get ahold of. We then took the Fernicular up to Taksim Square. One of the streets linking Taksim Square to the Galata Tower is supposed to be amazing for shopping. As we weren't really there to shop, we instead people-watched from a couple coffee tables, enjoying the variety of faces and clothes, teas and coffees.
Inside the Blue Mosque, your eyes are drawn to the beautiful blue tiles that cover every surface except for the floor. You can feel the soft carpet through your socks and for some reason, that feels very comforting. There are crowds of people to navigate through and around and on more than one occasion, I lost my little friend Anna.
We spent a good amount of time in that mosque, heads covered in scarves out of respect for some one else's religion. In a way I did feel like I was trespassing or that I was looking in on someone else's faith as a form of entertainment. I am thankful for the opportunity to have been able to experience such wonderful architecture and beauty.
And so, the rest of the day was spent walking, seeing Turkish and Islamic artworks, painting and sketching on location at a coffee shop them back to the Spice Bazaar.
When we returned to the hotel we were asked 'Have you decided?' This was in reference to asking about booking a treatment the previous day.
'Have you decided?', when out of its original context, is such a powerful question. I mean, while going through the motions of living your day, aren't you always pondering something? I'm always trying to decide something and mentally rifling through the options, pros and cons. Do I take this course of action and if so, here is the list of things to consider.
'Have you decided?' stopped me in my tracks and I immediately knew the answer.
My friend, Anna, and I have been on sensory overload since stepping outside Ataturk International Airport yesterday.
The architecture, the food, the offerings of 'something nice for you lady, maybe you want silver' and so on and around the corner, up hills, down streets, colour colour colour wherever you look.
Roll your eyes now. We did.
Istanbul. Oh yes. It's happening.
For the past four years, my good friend Anna and I have been dreaming of taking that big ole jet airliner to Istanbul and finally, oh yes finally, it is going to happen. Isn't it a wonderful thing when you can turn a 'wouldn't it be nice to' into 'wasn't that fantastic when …?' I am certain that Anna will be the most delightful of travel companions as every time I've visited her in Sweden I find the experience easy, fun, restful, exciting, you know, all the things that travelling and seeing friends should be.
Recently I acquired The Art of Urban Sketching, recommended by a couple very talented and lovely artist friends of mine. Several months ago, Pete had given me the wonderful gift of a self-contained watercolour paint set, compact and fit into a tin not much bigger than a post card. And so, we set out into the world of Edinburgh buildings and people and cars and streets and he very kindly helped me to discover the fun of drawing and painting on location. I have since ventured out on my own, cramming myself into a corner table with a good aspect.
There are so many things I like about this book. Of course it is chalk full of glorious illustration after glorious illustration. So many styles represented. So many hours of work and love and care gone into this. I like it that for each illustration, the author has listed materials used and time spent on each sketch. I like it that the contributors to this book are found all over the world. There were some sketches of Kansas City which I particularly enjoyed as that city was my home for two years.
I am excited about this little adventure. Life is a beautiful thing when it conspires to make great things happen. And to follow along from my previous post, this is certainly the way to live it for me. For now. Whilst my siblings are churning out nephew after nephew after nephew, I am doing my own thing and feeling grateful for the opportunity. They are growing families. I am growing adventures.
Here I am, just a handful of days away from Istanbul; my travel book, sketch pads, paint set and anticipation at the ready.
Yesterday I picked up on an article in the Guardian that really made me stop in my tracks, make a cup of tea and consider my life. I actually spend way too many hours doing this; working from home does afford me a lot of time for introspection. This can be both a good thing and a very unhelpful thing | 1,196 |
package com.ibm.g11n.pipeline.client;
/**
* Industry domain constants used by translation request data.
*
* @author yoshito_umaoka
*/
public enum IndustryDomain {
/**
* Aerospace and the military-industrial complex
*/
AEROMIL("Aerospace and the military-industrial complex"),
/**
* Construction
*/
CNSTRCT("Construction"),
/**
* Goods and service
*/
GD<|fim_middle|> EDUCATN("Education"),
/**
* Financial Services
*/
FINSVCS("Financial Services"),
/**
* Government and public sector
*/
GOVPUBL("Government and public sector"),
/**
* Healthcare and social services
*/
HEALTHC("Healthcare and social services"),
/**
* Industrial manufacturing
*/
INDSTMF("Industrial manufacturing"),
/**
* Telecommunication
*/
TELECOM("Telecommunication"),
/**
* Digital media and entertainment
*/
DMEDENT("Digital media and entertainment"),
/**
* Information technology
*/
INFTECH("Information technology"),
/**
* Travel and transportation
*/
TRVLTRS("Travel and transportation"),
/**
* Insurance
*/
INSURNC("Insurance"),
/**
* Energy and utilities
*/
ENGYUTL("Energy and utilities"),
/**
* Agriculture
*/
AGRICLT("Agriculture");
private String description;
private IndustryDomain(String description) {
this.description = description;
}
/**
* Returns the description in English.
* @return The description in English.
*/
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
}
| SSVCS("Goods and service"),
/**
* Education
*/
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Sir Arthur Grimble - The spirits of the ancestors
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He went on to say he had chosen tobacco as his offering of love because, as far as he knew, there was no supply of that particular luxury in the ancestral paradise. For his homely affection, at least, the skull was no grim reminder of death, but a cheerful token of man's and love's immortality.
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Disembodied soul | Arthur Grimble - A Pattern of Islands
Most Europeans who believe in an after-life draw a clear horizon-line between the worlds of the living and the dead. The people of the Gilbert Islands, as I knew them, imagined no such comfortable partition. The seen and the unseen made but one world for them.
Their dead were helped overseas to a western paradise, it is true, but no known ritual could bind them there; only the lapse of generations could do that.
The belief was that the more recently departed could and did return.
They were jealous. They wanted to see what their descendants were doing. Their skeletons or skulls were preserved in village shrines mainly for them to re-enter as they liked. If skulls at least were not kept, their ghosts would come and scream reproach by night with the voices of crickets from the palm-leaves that overhung the dwellings. And so, whether a man was pious or impious to his fathers, his house was a house forever brooded over by unseen watchers.
Not that the older folk thought of their dead only as threatening ghosts. There was love as well as fear in the ancient cult of the ancestor, and mostly the love predominated. I was looking round the waterfront of a Tarawa village one day when I came upon an old, old man alone in a canoe shed nursing a skull in the crook of his elbow. He was blowing tobacco smoke between its jaws. As he puffed, he chuckled and talked aloud: 'The smoke is sweet, grandfather - ke-e-e?' he was saying. 'We like it - ke-e-e?' He told me he was loving the skull because his grand-father - who was inside it at that moment - had been very good to him in years gone by. 'Is it not suitable,' he asked, 'for me to be good to him in return?' and answered himself at once, 'Aong | 387 |
UPDATE: What to tell the children?
Last week, we published a post titled "What to tell the children?" It covered a study that confirmed what many people who use donor eggs to become parents struggle with: Whether they should tell their children how they were conceived.
The research, presented at a meeting of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), investigated 438 patients who received donated eggs between 2008 and 2012 about their plans to reveal or withhold this information to any children they had through the process. It found that about 60 percent of donor-egg recipients weren't sure if they would tell their child, fearing disapproval by others in their community and causing confusion in their child.
Several readers have asked for more information on this study, so we are posting a link to the National Institutes of Health article about it here.
Clearly, this topic strikes a nerve with many. Please keep the conversation going and post your comments below.
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2 Responses to UPDATE: What to tell the children?
My concern would be a male factor. Telling your child that they were conceived via donor sperm. Do you tell them or not? It's not like adoption, but could be more of an issue.
The biggest concern among those pursuing donor conception is that of disclosure with their offspring. When a child is conceived using donor sperm or egg, there is always the question of to tell or not to tell<|fim_middle|> professionals who support them. | and there is never a clear cut, easy, go-to answer.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is the internationally recognized leader for education, information, advocacy and standards in the field of reproductive medicine. The ethics committee of ASRM put together an ethics paper discussing disclosure to offspring of conception to through the use of donor. The committee states that the choice to disclose to one's child is an individual and highly personal choice, but one that is ultimately encouraged by the Society. The Society believes benefits to disclosure include the encouragement of open and honest communication with the child(ren) and helps to avoid secrets that could ultimately strain relationships and create resentment. The determination of when it is appropriate to disclose to the child(ren) is debated, as it could be beneficial to tell the child when younger so they can absorb the information over time but it is generally based on the psychological readiness of the child. It is also deemed that unplanned disclosure would be more damaging than planned, intentional disclosure. If those outside of the parents and doctor (family and friends) are aware of the use of donor sperm (or egg), it can create a very difficult situation because what others talk about can not be controlled. Also, those who support disclosure reflect upon the trend of disclosure in adoption. Studies of adopted children demonstrate the need to know one's origins as integral in the development of identity and that hiding the information could cause confusion and low self-esteem. Disclosing in a loving and supportive environment is always best. On the side of nondisclosure, it can prevent social and psychological turmoil and can protect the outside world from knowing about the fertility issues the parents experienced.
Resolve: The National Infertility Network, is an organization with the only established, nationwide network mandated to promote reproductive health and to ensure equal access to family building options for men and women. Resolve also believes it is in the best interest of both children and families to be open about the use of a donor in conception. The reasons that support disclosure as identified by Resolve include: secrets are damaging, secrets do not always stay secrets, children often sense secrets, those who do assume something is wrong and assume it is about them. In regard to not disclosing, issues identified include your child questioning their attachment to you, your parenting abilities or your fertility issues could be disclosed on a broader level.
In regard to disclosure, research suggests that those who disclose to their offspring early experience less stress, were more at ease with the process, able to introduce the topic gradually and children are able to receive and process the information in a factual and non-emotional way. Those who learned later in life experienced resentment, mistrust, confusion about identity and more negative feelings about their conception.
In making the decision whether to disclose, it is important to discuss your values, morals and any religious beliefs you and your partner have. It is in the best interest of both you and your child(ren) to read as much as you can about disclosure, utilizing resources both for your benefit as well as your child(ren). There are many books written for adults and children that can help guide and advise you in the best way to speak to your individual child(ren).
Attached are the websites for ASRM, Resolve and the American Fertility Association, organizations that conduct research and are the forefront of reproductive issues.
Also are several books for parents and children addressing conception by donation.
Building a Family with the Assistance of Donor Insemination. Daniels, Ken. Dunmore Press, 2004. For those considering or who have built their families through donor conception. Includes the experiences of families who formed this way, their journey and their issues associated with talking to children about the family's donor origins.
Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World. Mundy, Liza. Knopf Publishing 2007. An insightful and fascinating account of the world of assisted reproduction, including interviews with mothers, fathers, infertility doctors, surrogate mothers, egg donors, sperm donors, and adult children conceived through surrogacy and IVF.
A set of unique resources for current or prospective parents of donor conceived children, their families & friends, as well as for the | 851 |
These Bands Are All Older Than You Think
Posted Mar 7th 2022, 23:55 by Penguin Pete
Generation X here! Just a minute while I finish yelling at these kids to get off my lawn.
Now then: Having raised four Generation Z kids in the US of A, it has occurred to me that modern generations seem to be unusually attached to old fuddy-duddy culture. Like mine. Something about the advent of the Internet made cultural change slow *way* down. Consequentially, the past is perfectly preserved to be taken up by generation after generation. Star Wars (begun in 1977) is still popular. And that's fine, but it's weird. Imagine if your humble author, by the time of my teen years in the 80s, was a huge stan fan of pop culture from the 1930s and '40s. Forget the 80s, it's all about Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, and Casablanca now! With a radio in my room still running serial dramas of The Shadow and The Lone Ranger. That's how you all look to me being major Star Wars fans now.
The same thing has happened with music, which is almost concerning to me. The youth of today should be listening to music that aggravates me. Instead, you all raid my playlist. Meanwhile I have ever vowed to look forward and stay current with the times, only to find out that I have to sit through the 80s and 90s over and over again for the rest of my life. It's just all so ironic.
We're going to subject you readers to the same temporal whiplash, by pointing out several bands that still enjoy huge popularity today, all of which are from a couple generations back.
Devo - Started in 1973!
We're starting with Devo for no other reason than because we just did a fun piece on them exploring their career. Devo formed circa 1973 - Richard Nixon was still president! - when several art school students rubbed elbows and found that they shared similar sentiments about the degrade of modern capitalist-industrial culture. Both Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale had even played in bands previously. But truly, most of you are only aware of Devo going back to "Whip It!" (1980).
Since we just got through giving Devo its time in our spotlight, we'll commend you to that other piece for more Devo trivie.
Iron Maiden - Started in 1975!
Iron Maiden just recently made the news for canceling their scheduled tour dates in Russia and Ukraine. Now, Iron Maiden has been a long-standing cross-generation crowd pleaser. We're not so surprised that they're still touring, but didn't expect them to have a solid fan base in Russia. Anyway, the British hard rock group got its start on Christmas Day, 1975, as bassist Steve Harris decided he was ready for a new band. Iron Maiden's debut was May 1st, 1976, at St. Nicks Hall in Poplar before filling in as a house band for the Cart and Horses Pub in<|fim_middle|> singles. Their name comes from a B-movie horror flick, The Offspring: They Were Born to Kill. Despite my encyclopedic bookmarks collection and cinematic expertise, I can find no listing of this movie.
King Crimson - Started in 1968!
King Crimson is like the progressive band you turn to when you need a break from Pink Floyd. Even their most diehard fan base is aware that the band goes way back, but dig this - they're older than your humble blogger! The band was started in January of 1963 by guitarist Robert Fripp assembling the original line-up to record the legendary album In the Court of the Crimson King, whose album artwork is still plastered all over the Internet over half a century later. The band has taken long breaks and reformed on and off ever since, so it's mostly "Robert Fripp and whoever he can drag into a studio."
U2 - Started in 1976!
While I never "got" U2 beyond their being radio-friendly background noise, no one can deny that the Irish rockers led by Sonny Bono's crooning and Edge's repetitive guitar have undimmed popularity through the ages. They got their start in 1976 - Gerald Ford was president, soon to be replaced by Jimmy Carter - when Larry Mullen Jr., a 14-year-old pupil of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, Ireland, posted a note on a message board asking to join a band. Bono and Edge just materialized out of nowhere and they jammed in Mullen's kitchen. Yes, it was JUST THAT EASY!
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The Offspring - Started in 1983!
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Roland Announces Software JUNO-60
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Roland has announced the JUNO-60 Software Synthesizer, the latest addition to the Legendary series of software-based Roland instruments available through Roland Cloud. A spokesperson told us, "The original Roland JUNO-60 hardware synth helped define the sound of '80s music and is still highly prized for its vintage vibe and unmistakable character. With the JUNO-60 Software Synthesizer, the authentic experience of this influential keyboard is now available as a modern software instrument for Mac and Windows DAWs."
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Released in 1982, the JUNO-60 was among the earliest models in Roland's iconic JUNO series, and is an all-time favorite for many synth aficionados. With a winning formula of a single DCO, fat sub-oscillator, and characterful VCF--plus a massive<|fim_middle|>8, TR-909, D-50, and more. Legendary titles are available with the Ultimate membership level of Roland Cloud. All paid levels – including Core and Pro – start with a free 30-day trial of Ultimate, allowing users to try out the JUNO-60 and all Ultimate features. In addition, any Roland Account holder can purchase Lifetime Keys for individual Legendary series titles. This provides unlimited access for as long as their account is active, even if they don't have a Roland Cloud membership.
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With Chris from Battery Operated Orchestra | swirling chorus effect--the instrument has found its way onto innumerable tracks through the years. Powered by Roland's proprietary Analog Circuit Behavior (ACB) technology, the software version recreates the sonic experience and approachable architecture of the JUNO-60 in startling detail, allowing users to craft rich, inspiring sounds with little effort.
The JUNO-60 Software Synthesizer fully captures the original's balanced magic--including the odd quirks and charming limitations--and enhances it with useful modern additions. The filter has been modeled to perfection, and users have the ability to switch to the HPF circuit of the next-generation JUNO-106 and its characteristic bass bump. The oscillator range has also been extended, and there's a second envelope for extra flexibility. Polyphony has been expanded to eight notes, with the option to limit it to the original's six (or less) for an old-school vibe.
A huge part of the JUNO-60 sound is its lush chorus circuit. Like the original, the software version has two push-button chorus modes, plus a third "secret" mode accessed by pressing both buttons at once. Taking things further, there's an additional chorus option with the sound of the vintage BOSS CE-1 pedal, along with a selection of reverb, delay, flanger, and overdrive effects.
The JUNO-60 Software Synthesizer is VST3, AU, and AAX compatible and also supports Roland's PLUG-OUT format for computer-free operation with the SYSTEM-8 hardware synth. And for DAW-focused workflows, it's possible to use the SYSTEM-8 or a Roland Boutique JU-06/JU-06A for one-to-one, hands-on control of the JUNO-60 plug-in.
The JUNO-60 Software Synthesizer is just the latest member of Roland Cloud's Legendary series, which includes plug-in versions of other Roland classics like the JUNO-106, JUPITER-8, TR-80 | 424 |
Just shy of 100 delegates attended the magazine's ground damage event in Rome in May and the two days of papers, live demonstrations and discussions gave those present a fresh focus on the perennial problem of safety on the ramp.
Day One began with an absorbing (and to be honest, a milestone) presentation from easyJet's David Cross and Adam Simmonson from gategoup. The nub of the paper was a simple one: collaboration pays off. In admitting the complexity of the airline operation, Cross wasn't covering new ground but the acknowledgement that multiple organisations are involved in a turn led to the establishment of the I Am Safety concept that was launched in 2015. This was a runaway success – and the escalation to We Are Safety the following year saw easyJet's operation improve accordingly.
The idea involved teams working together and not remaining in silos; and the realisation that the big stick approach to tackling damage and incidents was leading nowhere opened up the doors to a better relationship with the caterer. Cross emphasised that the whole matter was never intended to be an easyJet initiative – and still isn't; rather, he wants this kind of approach to be industry led. For gategroup's Simmonson, the change in philosophy has been a welcome one, with the two companies now sitting amicably round the table. Incidents have dwindled and further progress, such as working with other low cost carriers to form a sort of birdstrike database, is helping the sector further.
On to Airbus: Diego Alonso Tabares was able to explain to the audience what measures had been developed to date to help guard against damage to aircraft doors, and presented a vision of the near future, one that involved an autonomous ramp. Target markers for affixing to an aircraft near the door edges were first mooted back in 2015 at the IGHC; they were favourably received and so work continued on the project. Trials were successfully conducted in 2016 and with the advent of automated docking courtesy of Mallaghan's steps, the reality and wisdom of the device was no longer put in any doubt. Ahead, more testing, before the retrofitting stage is finally reached. His future vision, presented in animated cartoon format, revolved around the concept of a single operator running the turnaround thanks to wireless technology. On the screen, it all looked perfectly straightforward, from cargo loading (with ULDs) to refuelling and eventual pushback via Mototok-type autonomous tractors. Catering, cargo, water and toilet… all could be performed via a handheld tablet. Apparently the concept was developed some five years ago: so how long will the sector wait to see it achieve reality?
In a follow-up paper, Tabares took the lead as he invited the audience, in groups, to spend some time looking at the ideal aircraft design and coming up with ideas and modifications that could see an end to ground damage. The key suggestions were then collected and briefly discussed. An avalanche of ideas was received, ranging from pitot tube placement to luminous paint (to make aircraft stand out in the dark) and the uniform opening of hatches. On board palletisation systems were favoured by some whilst others felt the need to dispense with beltloaders. Could cargo be accessed under the aircraft? And what about doing away with bulk loading? This magazine will feature some of the collected wisdom in the next issue, so readers may want to watch out for this feedback.
Kpass is an innovative tool that was brought to Rome by Hocine Amara and Bruno Vandenbroucke. The pair believe that virtual reality, although by no means a new technology, is the way ahead for the sector in terms of training. Whilst the proponents are not in the business of marketing training<|fim_middle|> the day. Heemskerk commented on the quantities of old GSE that were doing the rounds, mentioning that moving it from station to station wasn't a good idea; he also flagged up the fact that JBT is now moving towards the autonomous concept, and making GSE easier to operate, since user skill sets were apparently on a lower level today.
One of the most important observations came from Cross, who faced with the slow-moving machinery of IATA, took the bull by the horns at Luton airport and began to rationalise the current IGOM. Stressing that the manual had not been thrown out of the window, with the airport's agreement he had set about making procedures more uniform, typically seven at a time. Thus now all carriers utilising the handlers there follow the station rules regarding the number of chocks placed and so on – and because the airport sees a lot of B73 series aircraft and A32 types, the formats can be adhered to. Carmichael was quick to endorse the progress that had been made, stating that incidents had dropped in the wake of these changes.
Did the industry require some sort of BTec qualification? Yes, it did – the problem lay in who would confer the award. On that subject, the panel all agreed that the aviation sector needed to make plain the possible career paths for aspiring staff. Financial incentives for good work were not the whole answer by any means; and until the lot of the baggage handler improved, it was felt that not much progress would be likely to be made. If less responsible jobs at better wages were on offer elsewhere, it was hardly surprising that employee turnover was high. Staff were not getting the recognition they deserved: that much was known; and as Cross observed, at one station when the management were encouraged to get out and visit the ramp on a weekly basis, 30% better performance figures were noted. Talking to staff during their downtime and even arranging for fruit in their rest rooms, as well as physiotherapist visits, had all been explored. In short, the problems of the sector were well understood: the challenge was, and remains, that of overcoming them.
Day Two was something of a roller coaster ride with, assorted subjects and topics and the chance for those present to sample the VR training facility that was set up near the conference room. Human factors were explored (and explained) by Dr Sarah Flaherty and Sarah Tapley in an engaging presentation that sought to demystify the subject. In a nutshell, it was all down to having the right people, in the right place with the right equipment performing the right task and getting it right first time: easy to say but rather less easy to actually implement. Ergonomics, first studied in the 1940s, has undergone a transformation to become allied to human factors and the pair went on to explain about the role of the psychologist in today's workplace. The subject is certainly a useful asset when it comes to the recruitment process, and is helpful in terms of compiling rosters and routines. Questioning everything, admitted Tapley, was helpful in analysis; and the audience learned that it was always good to know why things happened. Sadly, the aviation sector seems more wrapped up in asking why things go wrong rather than celebrating the good.
ISAGO and the changes to the SGHA for 2018 formed the backbone of Herve Guesquin's paper. The most telling part of his presentation was the short Air France film spanning 75 years of aviation: remarkably, aside from technology, little had changed over the decades. He stressed the importance of being ready for any sort of aircraft disaster, a topic that would be taken up by a panel later on.
Simon Walker's tour de force of safety and training competency frameworks gave plenty of food for thought, the underlying premise of which was that being trained did not necessarily equate to being competent: education played a vital role in this area. Some case studies reinforced his points. His talk led into the panel discussion of that other bete noir in the sector: the technology interface. Automation, the near perfect Japanese handling model and managing the transformation to a more automated workplace were all dissected. But, as one audience member pointed out, automated technology was already in the marketplace and had been for some time: the question was, when would the aviation sector adopt this solution.
As for Ivar Busk, the focus of his presentation was one of culpability. The audience received a diluted incident report and were asked to list causal factors to assist with the apportioning of blame. Management transpired to be the guilty party, showing that sometimes what appears obvious is actually less so. Neale Millett rounded off the proceedings with a panel debating the twin topics of a safer pushback and how the handle an emergency on the ramp.
Finally, an optional tour to view event sponsor TCR's maintenance facility at Rome Fiumicino was held on Day Three.
In conclusion, it was an absorbing conference, with much networking in evidence. The event moves to Amsterdam for 2019, and is scheduled for May 21/22. | courses nor yet again selling software, they can supply the tools to enable any institution to carry out simulation in a confined space. The whole package can be transported in a flight bag: that's how compact it all is. By getting the operative to don 3-D goggles and following the on screen directions, training is speedy, efficient and totally safe. It's amazingly cost-effective, too. FOD checks, marshalling, walkarounds, towbar connection and pushback are all covered. Citing cost savings of up to 60%, and the possibility of learning by doing rather than watching, this was an answer to potential problem for many in the room.
The first day concluded with the popular panel/audience debate: What keeps you awake at night? For easyJet, David Cross took the stage, and he was aided by Menzies' Stuart Carmichael, JBT's Nick Heemskerk and Simone Bovi from Neos. Much was discussed: unreported damage was high on the agenda for the panellists, whilst Bovi reported challenges with staff not always adhering to the correct manual procedures. There was, it was universally felt, a need to move towards a more understanding Just Culture; and where damage was being reported, retraining was the order of | 260 |
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New freesheet London Weekly has gone live with its website and named around 50 editorial contributors.
The Global Publishing Group consortium claims to have £5.5m of funding and says it wants to distribute 250,000 copies a week of the title outside tube and railway stations. Reports have suggested a launch could happen in February.
The London Weekly describes itself online as a newspaper which "bridges the gap between traditional newspapers, Sunday tabloids and dailies".
It has signalled that it plans to launch a largely media industry focused awards this summer, with categories for: media agency of the year, PR Agency of the year, best ad campaign, best entrepreneur, young entrepreneur of the year, interactive agency of the year<|fim_middle|> says it plans to expand with three new titles by 2012: Manchester Weekly, Liverpool Weekly and Birmingham Weekly.
The site does not yet have any contact details, beyond one cover-all email address; there are no telephone numbers and no office address. | , advertising agency of the year, best new media agency and the one to watch award.
It has also announced plans for a more consumer facing awards event with prizes such as best mobile phone, best mobile network and best London attraction.
Among the 50-odd editorial contributors named on the staff are: editor, lifestyle and entertainment, Gary Smith; managing editor, Roising Robertson and managing editor of thelondonweekly.co.uk Dominic Gardener.
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London Weekly 'on course for 5 Feb launch'
Global Publishing Group's editor in chief is named as Agnes A. Theresa and its joint partners are apparently: David Donnovan, Howard Adams, Tony Woodcock, Geoffery Wright and Graham Vines.
In its "about us section" The London Weekly says: "The least interrupted and most receptive time of the week is FRIDAY & SATURDAY. The London Weekly readers will have to focus on everyday work schedules and a weekly newspaper that covers the best of the week, a guide to the best places and things to do in the weekend and more is just what is needed to get you phased [sic] through the start of an exciting weekend before you go into town for a spot of shopping. The London Weekly will be an entertainment, politics, music, sports and lifestyle newspaper."
And it | 279 |
Home Miami Law News Articles 2020 September Foreign Lawyers Learn Introduction to U.S. Law from Renowned Alumnus and International Attorney
Foreign Lawyers Learn Introduction to U.S. Law from Renowned Alumnus and International Attorney
Miami Law Staff Report
Pedro Freyre, J.D. '74
Miami Law continues to have renowned experts teach the Introduction to U<|fim_middle|> (foreign-trained) students from Miami Law's various LL.M. programs take the course to learn the fundamentals of U.S. law during their first semester.
"We are grateful to Professor Freyre for his generosity and support," said Carmen Perez-Llorca, assistant dean for international and graduate programs. "The fact that a busy, successful lawyer who is running the international practice at a top firm like Akerman in the middle of a pandemic would take the time to come to campus and teach our international students this essential class says a lot about the caliber of person he is. He is a top practitioner, an outstanding professor, and a great alumnus of Miami Law."
The two-credit course, specifically designed for international students who completed their legal education outside of the U.S., meets throughout the fall and provides an overview of the U.S. legal system.
The internationally recognized authority on the United States embargo on Cuba, is an expert in the evolving regulations enacted since the restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.
He has recently been instrumental in guiding clients in defense of claims arising from the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. He also advises U.S.-based companies on the types of business transactions that are legal in Cuba under the embargo and helps U.S. entities engaged in authorized activities in connection with entering the Cuban market.
"The caliber of these international LL.M. students is very high," Freyre said. "They are sharp, involved, and brave when I questioned them using the Socratic method (which can be very intimidating for some students). They were responsive and engaged at all times, which made the class very enjoyable."
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HEALTH RIGHTS CLINIC | .S. Law to new foreign-trained lawyers pursuing their LL.M. degrees. This year Akerman international practice chair Pedro Freyre, J.D. '74, brought his global expertise to Miami Law's Introduction to U.S. Law course. In 2019, the course was taught by Judge Rosemary Barkett.
Freyre, Chair of Akerman's international practice in Miami, leads the full-service team at Akerman LLP advising multinational and global corporations on a wide range of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, syndicated and secured lending, project finance, debt restructuring, trade, compliance, as well as complex construction and other international disputes.
"I love teaching and interacting with the students," said the Miami Law adjunct professor. "They keep me on my toes, and it gives me a sense of purpose to be able to make a difference in the lives of these international students."
With the pandemic going on, "it's a very challenging environment. However, once you are able to establish a rapport with the students and get comfortable with the protocol, I think it works well," he said. "I was gratified and impressed with how organized everything has been."
The course is for international LL.M. students only. All international | 257 |
After months of preparation, the Exhibit Train made its media debut on May 2nd, directly after a press conference announcing the commencement of the Fortieth Anniversary celebration.
At the Monday press conference, Amtrak President & CEO Joseph Boardman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and National Association of Railroad Passengers Chairman Bob Stewart participated. The dignitaries honored both the occasion and our 40-year employees while standing in front of the Exhibit Train out on the apron at platform 20, just outside Gate G. As we listened to their remarks and clapped for our employees, the business of the station continued on the platforms and the apron beside us. When the speeches were done, the Exhibit Train's horn sounded and we all cheered and clapped even harder.
A few days later, a number of us were helping the Anniversary team to put the finishing touches on the exhibits. (You'd be amazed at what indoor-outdoor mounting tape can do!) The amount of sheer inventiveness, elbow grease and love put into these display cars is staggering, especially when you consider that they all started as baggage cars first made in the 1950s and have been transformed into a fascinating interpretation of Amtrak history.
On Friday, May 6th, we held the Employee-only preview for the Exhibit Train so that those who worked out of Washington Union Station could swing by and get a sneak peak without having to stand in the long lines we knew we'd have on National Train Day. We had to marvel at how many memories and smiles the exhibits brought. And sometimes, it's great to know that you did it right: Two dining car attendants stood by a modern place setting carefully arranged--by us who were definitely not "in the craft"--and they approved. "This is perfect," the ladies nodded, and moved on, pleased.
And on National Train Day...well, you've seen the Facebook site! There's not a lot to add to that, except that it was exceptionally well-attended. No, that not right, that makes it sound like a sedate symphony concert. Truth is, the vast floors of Union Station were completely jammed with bouncing crowds of people—young, old, and in between—who were having a blast at all the shows and booths, as well as those hurrying to catch their trains or just standing and marveling at the grandeur of this monumental station.
The 40-Year timeline The Exhibit Train got moved to Track 10, up where the commuter trains normally go in and out on weekdays. It had plenty of company on those tracks, with many historic private cars available for the almost endless line of<|fim_middle|> and heard so many very knowledgeable buffs reciting our history with great relish—it was both humbling and inspiring. This wasn't just some bunch of old stuff to look at. For so many, this was part of their own lives they were recognizing. There were some unexpected laughs, too, for us. We had no idea that so many people would want to have their pictures taken with the 1970s couple at their breakfast table! We just can't wait to see what will happen at the next stops. Hope to see you soon! | people to enjoy. We stood at our stations throughout the train to welcome a constant stream of visitors and interpret—museum jargon, there—the displays.
The cars are arranged by decade. You start in the 70s and move on up to the 80s in the middle car and then the 90s-2000s in the last car. People really liked the time line and the system maps which greeted them in the beginning of the 1970s car. They're both a great way to get your arms around forty years of history all at once.
Revisiting the 1970s at breakfast We saw so many smiles at recognizing the contents of the displays | 147 |
Aga and Mariusz Polish Long Term EVS volunteers. "Meeting new people, with whom you have many things in common. Attending a dozen of lectures, sessions and activities where you gain new knowledge which helps you in many aspects of your life. Going out of place where you live for couple of days. Conversation with people you want to meet again in remote places in Caucasus. Georgian supra and folk dance…<|fim_middle|> gave us new perspectives for our work in GYE and also brought us closer to quite new reality for some of us. | All that stuff in 5 days and only during On Arrival Training in Misaktsieli. Two brave and hungry of knowledge volunteers (Aga and Mariusz) from GYE in Rustavi had a pleasure to experience that all.
Fourteen newly come volunteers from different European countries and their trainers have come to meet each other for and intense training for EVS volunteers in Caucasus Region. International community was represented by young people come from countries: Poland, Latvia, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, United Kingdom, Luxembourg. This variety made the atmosphere kind of special because of different attitudes, experiences and also duties performer by volunteers on EVS program. Activities and training lessons were useful and full of new knowledge which helps to improve personal skills and also volunteer's work. Talking to other participants and also integration with them | 164 |
As early as the 17th century, certain Bible scholars began to apply the scientific model of knowledge that evolved during the Scientific Revolution to the study of Scripture. This new "scientific" approach is broadly referred to as "the historical-critical method," one that proponents claimed to be "objective." It is rooted in the assumption that the Bible must be interpreted the same way we would interpret any other ancient book.
This method stands in contrast to the way Christian interpreters previously had read the Bible, which was shaped by the conviction that the Bible is a divinely inspired book and that it is appropriate to interpret it through the lens of the church's rule of faith. As scholars began to view biblical interpretation as a scientific enterprise, historical-critical exegesis came to be deemed intellectually respectable precisely because it was conducted outside the authority of the Church and (allegedly) without faith presuppositions. Let's consider some of the differences between this new historical-critical method and the more traditional method that was shaped by the Church's rule of faith.
First, while previous interpreters had assumed that one's ability to understand Scripture was significantly conditioned by the spiritual condition of the interpreter, this new way of studying Scripture was viewed as a strictly intellectual affair. The challenge of gaining insight into Scripture through historical-critical research was thus divorced from the challenge of becoming more Christ-like. Intellectually ascertaining historical-critical issues surrounding the original meaning of a passage was viewed as an end in-and-of itself.
The second difference pertains to the unity of the Bible. Previous interpreters had always been aware of the human quality of Scripture and of the diversity of perspectives reflected in the various books of the Bible, but their conviction regarding its single divine authorship motivated them to look for, and find, an inspired unity that integrated this diversity. As academic biblical scholarship revolted against Church authority, the motivation of looking for the divine unity of Scripture was methodologically ruled out. For instance, this new paradigm methodologically mandated that the two Testaments had to be understood in isolation from each other. But it also meant that each book, each chapter within each book, each text within each chapter, and, ultimately, each alleged source embedded within each text, had to be studied in isolation from all others.
The third difference is about the number of possible meanings of a particular passage. Pre-critical interpreters had always assumed that, because God was the ultimate author of the Bible, and because God possesses an unlimited "manifold wisdom," any particular inspired text could have any number of different God-intended meanings. Beyond the plain sense (sensus literalis) of Scripture, it was generally agreed that Scripture embodies a fuller meaning (sensus plenoir) that could be discerned by using different interpretative strategies. We typically find interpreters throughout Church history deriving allegorical, tropological and anagogical meanings from various passages. Not only this, but Church leaders prior to the dominance of the historical-critical approach were also generally open to the Spirit speaking in new ways through Scripture to interpret and apply Scripture in ways that addressed the concerns of contemporary Christians.
With the advent of the historical-critical method, however, the only<|fim_middle|> of preserving—or better, recovering—the traditional view and use of Scripture. | intellectually respectable meaning that could be affirmed of any given passage was its sensus literalis. The meaning of a passage became wrapped up with strategies for determining the singular meaning that it would have had to its original audience.
This is just a brief introduction to some of the differences, but it gives us enough information to see how the historical-critical method has had a rather devastating effect on the Church. To the extent that the historical-critical exegesis was deemed the only intellectually respectable way to interpret Scripture, the traditional way of reading Scripture as a single, God inspired book that contained multiple God-intended meanings, that supported the Church's rule of faith, that bore witness to Christ, and that was intended for the spiritual transformation of God's people was delegitimized. In addition, the fact that the historical-critical method undermined the historicity of certain biblical narratives, the consistency of its message and the unity and traditional authorship of some of its books undermined the credibility of the Gospel in the minds of many.
Over the last half century, and largely under the influence of Karl Barth, an increasing number of scholars have explored alternative ways | 227 |
Cowboys Celebrate Christmas on the High Seas
In the early days of Heifer International, when seagoing cowboys would spend weeks or months away at sea to deliver animals to war-torn regions, sailors celebrated Christmas in unusual and memorable ways.
By Austin Bailey
Seagoing cowboys sing carols aboard the Attleboro Victory after delivering mules to Crete in 1946. Photo courtesy of Harold Cullar
Some of Heifer's earliest supporters are known as Seagoing Cowboys because they crossed oceans to deliver animals to war-torn countries.
Seagoing Cowboys who found themselves on the open seas during the holidays still feasted, caroled and exchanged gifts.
Christmas feasts and seasickness is a terrible combination.
Thirty-two cowboys back at sea,
Getting homesick as they could be,
Spent Christmas Day out on the deep<|fim_middle|> gifts of school supplies and personal items for the children. "It was a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas time," Shultz wrote. "Christmas Eve, presenting gifts with St. Mikolaj (St. Nicholas). Christmas services on Dec. 25 in the morning, and the singing of Polish and English carols and songs in the evening until late at night. ... 'Hope' is really a lifeline for these children," he concluded. "To all American Christians who have remembered them with food (even some chicken), clothing, and now 'Hope' they say 'Dziekuje' (Thank you)."
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So wrote 23-year-old Willard Bontrager in "An Ode to 32 Cowboys," a poem he presented to his crew at their Christmas program on the SS Morgantown Victory on Dec. 25, 1946. How did these men come to be at sea on Christmas?
Heifer International's predecessor, the Heifer Project, was a program of the Brethren Service Committee of the Church of the Brethren. At the end of World War II, the Brethren Service Committee entered into an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to recruit all of the cattle attendants needed for 360 livestock shipments to help devastated countries rebuild. In return, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration agreed to ship Heifer Project animals free of charge.
About 7,000 men of all ages, religions, colors and walks of life responded to the call for "seagoing cowboys" in 1945 and 1946. A number of these cowboys found themselves away from home over the holidays, many for the first time. As Bontrager's ode suggests, this affected some more than others.
Cowboy Al Guyer of the SS Mexican had already been to Poland in 1945. There he
had seen and smelled the rubble of war and experienced the hospitality of grateful Heifer Project recipients in the village of Suchy Dab.
That Christmas Eve found him on his way home off the coast of Norway, where the SS Mexican was sitting out a storm. "I hunkered down on the side of the ship where the wind was not blowing, and I was so homesick," Guyer said. "I could look out and see that shore of rocks and waves, imagining being thrown on the rocks."
But the storm didn't stop the festivities Christmas Day. Guyer's shipmate Calvert Petre noted in his journal, "[J]ust when they had the tables set for the feast they sent word down to watch the tables. No one took them serious enough and when the storm hit us broadside, what a roll!!! It slid oranges, apples, candy, plates, and boys all on a pile. ..." They reset the tables and soon were digging into a duck dinner with all the trimmings.
Two heifers arrive at the Villa Skaut orphanage in Konstancin, Poland.
Some cowboys were not able to enjoy their special Christmas meals, though. SS Santiago Iglesias cowboy Milt Lohr said in his diary "Nearly everyone off feed (seasick)." His ship got caught in the same storm as the SS Mexican.
Festivities in the cowboys' quarters didn't stop with food. On the return trip of the SS Rockland Victory in 1945, cowboy Carly Geisler noted, "We had brought a tree along from Poland and celebrated a very blessed Christmas in mid- Atlantic," complete with a Christmas Eve program and a Christmas Day party with a gift exchange they had planned before leaving Poland.
Some crews got creative in their gift giving. Glenn Stauffer, of the 1946 crew of the William S. Halsted, recorded in his diary that "John took Bohn's pajamas this p.m. & wrapped them up for him. Jake's & Ray's hats were wrapped up for them. Ted got a package with old razor blades, a spike, etc, etc."
Most of the cowboy crews had special Christmas services or programs of some sort. On the SS Carroll Victory, in early December 1946, Charlie Lord organized a glee club. "We figured nine carols tonight that we can do," he wrote his wife. "We have no pitch pipe, let alone piano. I used a harmonica for a pitch pipe tonight. The rehearsal was quite successful, I thought." And the Christmas Eve program was, too, complete with sheep bell accompaniment on "Jingle Bells." Having just crossed the equator on their way back to Greece from South Africa, sweat rolled off the choir in their uniforms of white T-shirts and white shorts as they sang their finale, "White Christmas." Cowboy Paul Beard, one of several photographers in this crew, showed slides on the wall of snowy roads, woods and glistening treetops as the choir sang to their enthusiastic audience of cowboys and a half-dozen of the ship's crew. Caroling outside the captain's stateroom followed, making a memorable Christmas for all.
For the crews who weren't at sea on Christmas, the holiday could be a day of contrasts. The SS Morgantown Victory pulled into Nowy Port, Poland, Christmas Eve afternoon 1945 to find a town in ruins. Christmas morning, four cowboys attended a Catholic Christmas Mass, entering a crowded church, its doors and walls decorated with bullet holes. They later happened upon the home of a photographer and had their picture taken. The family invited them in to see their tree, served them orange cake, sold them some of their china, and told them, "It is just like God coming into our home."
Ray Keim, one of these four cowboys, recalled that two others in their crew gave up their Christmas dinner of turkey and veal and all the trimmings so two Polish children could come on board and eat. "They were so overwhelmed by the sight and smells of the food that they hardly ate anything," Keim said.
In the afternoon, the foursome went into Gdansk (formerly Danzig). "Lots of people covered up because of being in cellar when home blown up," Hugh Ehrman jotted in his diary that night, a sobering thought after returning to the ship for supper and singing songs in one of their rooms to end their holiday.
The following December, the SS William Halsted delivered its livestock shipment to that same port. The heifers were distributed to orphanages and individuals near Warsaw and in the former East Prussian district of Mazury. The Brethren Service Committee had sent along food, clothing, medicine and books to be distributed, as well. The committee had made arrangements for cowboy supervisor L.W. Shultz and three of his crew to stay in Poland for several weeks to do some follow-up work. The Halsted's captain insisted they return with the ship Dec. 11, but a determined Shultz and his men went AWOL, staying the night before the ship was to leave with an old cobbler they had met. They returned to the pier the next morning to wave to the departing cowboys, who knew they were staying behind.
Shultz and his men spent a memorable Christmas at the orphanage of Villa Skaut in Konstancin outside of Warsaw. A heifer named "Hope," donated by the Coventry Church of the Brethren in Pennsylvania, her calf, and another heifer went to this orphanage. "What a welcome the children gave these cows!" Shultz reported.
The cowboys took along | 1,443 |
ASIAN VOICES
Asian Americans Stan Lucy Liu Receiving Walk Of Fame Star Next To Anna May Wong's
The "Elementary" actress got her star on the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
By Kimberly Yam, HuffPost US
May's Asian Pacific Heritage Month started off perfectly as Lucy Liu received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
And many Asians on the internet had no chill. Whatsoever.
Today Lucy Liu becomes the second Asian-American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! Also just so happens to be Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 😛 pic.twitter.com/qvypBFakPU
— Gabby (@thisisgubs) May 1, 2019
The actress received her star on Wednesday, when it was placed next to the star<|fim_middle|> Lisa Lu and many more--we deserve more than just two Asian female stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/5AliCdqiqh
Kimberly Yam Asian-American Affairs Reporter, HuffPost
MORE: Celebrities hollywood walk of fame Lucy Liu Anna May Wong | for Asian American trailblazer Anna May Wong, who's known as the first Chinese American movie star in Hollywood and will reportedly be featured in Liu's upcoming series "Unsung Heroes."
In her speech, Liu paid homage to Wong. She explained that Asians "have been making movies for a long time."
"We just weren't making them here because we weren't invited to the table," she said. "If my body of work somehow helped bridged the gap between the stereotypical roles first given to Anna May and mainstream success today, I'm thrilled to have been part of that process."
Liu and Wong are now the only two Asian women who have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. So it's no wonder people were insanely excited for the actress' big day.
@LucyLiu gets her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - thanks for kicking off #APAHM with a bang https://t.co/Wm1AAKFnDY
— Dana LeGrand (@DYLG) May 2, 2019
Literally name another more iconic Asian actress who has dominated Hollywood for sooo many years. Lucy Liu so deserving of this recognition 👏👏 only the second Asian American woman to be on the walk of fame https://t.co/d7njCr1guJ
— ronald (@TheReal_RCheung) May 2, 2019
Congratulations @LucyLiu on your Star ⭐️ on the #Hollywood Walk of Fame!
Lucy is only the second #AAPI woman to get on the walk of fame 👀 Here's to many more Asian-American stars getting their due 🥂 #APAHMhttps://t.co/xVIPslxY87
— David E. Ryu (@davideryu) May 2, 2019
1) This is so cute, and they did Charlie's Angel posing. 😍
2) How the heck is Lucy Liu JUST NOW getting her star on the Walk of Fame? She's an icon!
3) Honoring one of the most recognizable & influential Asian American entertainers at the start of #AAPIHeritageMonth IS awesome! https://t.co/bQbW9nvOt3
— 𝓙𝓪𝔃𝔃 🦋 (@bleuangel88) May 1, 2019
While Liu's accolade received love across the internet, sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen also pointed out how there are "plenty of Asian women long overdue for stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame" ― especially considering that not even 1% of approximately 2,600 stars belong to women of Asian descent.
There are plenty of Asian women long overdue for stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Let's start with international superstar Michelle Yeoh. pic.twitter.com/dqBHEQyQaS
— Nancy Wang Yuen (@nancywyuen) April 28, 2019
Sandra Oh, award-winning star of television and film, deserves her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/WJ8Wcga2J6
Executive producer, writer, and actress Mindy Kaling should be recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/WfYYnQ7nfZ
Ming Na Wen, from Joy Luck Club to Mulan, from ER to Agents of Shield, has been gracing Hollywood screens for decades. She is a legend that deserves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! pic.twitter.com/MG80GUfkc0
Lea Salonga has starred in the biggest Broadway productions (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon just to name a few) and was the singing voice of Jasmine in Aladdin and Mulan. She is a stage legend that deserves a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. pic.twitter.com/2bAwv10buY
Miyoshi Umeki (only Asian woman to win an acting Oscar), Nancy Kwan, France Nuyen, Tsai Chin, | 839 |
How do know which one to choose?
How do you know where to shop?
How do you know if the putter you choose is right for you?
As with all golf clubs, putters come in a myriad of shapes and sizes, blades, mallets, short ones long ones, I've even seen one shaped like the Starship Enterprise.
Buying a putter is a very personal purchase, my advice is try before you buy.
Going to a "golf superstore" where they have many different types of golf putters for sale and a good size putting area is an absolute must. The only thing that's better is a pro-shop which will let you try out putters on a real grass putting green.
I am not saying that you'll end up buying any of the golf putters for sale in either of these places. But at least try as many models as you can. Then you can always come back to our search page and key in the name of the model you're after to find the best used and new prices in the US and UK.
Is it better to buy online?
Finding golf putters for sale online can certainly save you a few dollars, but you do not have the luxury of "try before you buy". Make sure the web store is reputable, and has a good returns policy, eBay has a buyer guarantee, so if you find your club or transaction is less than 100% satisfactory eBay / Paypal will refund your money, it is nice to have peace of mind.
Some people prefer a blade putter, I used to be a mallet man, the greens where I live can be very nappy and I couldn't bring myself to hit the blade style hard enough against the grain, and I found the mallet had more mass behind the head so I could stroke softer but the putt would travel further. You wouldn't know that without trying a few putters on the type of greens you play on first.
Also, even though I loved the feel and the roll, I always had trouble aligning a blade, and also found the longer mallet head made alignment simple.
Interested in a belly, long or standard putter?
Again this is a personal preference. Finding belly and long putters amongst the racks of golf putters for sale is harder than standard models, though, because pro shops and golf supermarkets still sell more short putters than extended ones.
Belly and long putters are popular because they take a lot of the hand action out of the stroke, so you are not as "yippy".
On the down side, though, I've found it hard to take the head back far enough to get distance on longer putts, as the grip is anchored to you. That makes the long pendulum swing needed to generate enough roll seem very strange. But on putts of 10 feet and in, long and belly<|fim_middle|> a quick tweak and then off you go again.
You will know if the putter is right for you if the putts roll where you want them to. Unfortunately this does not always mean they will go in though, that takes positive practice, and practice is another question altogether!
Still not sure which of the many golf putters for sale is for you? Click here for Best-Putter.com's guide to choosing the right putter for your stroke! | putters are great.
Putter fittings - yes or no?
Another option is to get fitted for the putter, once you reach a certain level of ability, all your equipment should be fitted, including your putter.
Shaft length, head weight and grip size all matter, and most times buying a putter with a professional fitting will cost no more than an off the shelf purchase. Even if there is an extra charge, it's worth taking the fitted option.
Most good fitters will give you a warranty, so if you find the putter does not work as well on the course as in the shop, they will make adjustments for free until you are satisfied.
The most common adjustment that needs to be made is in the putter's lie angle. Some people's posture is a little different on course with varying length of putter than on an astro-turf mat with nothing more than a 10 footer to practise on, but even this only needs | 195 |
This month, my inbox has been a dreamcatcher, loaded with "holy wow!" emails from clients about dreams coming true before their eyes. New opportunities, renewed energy, amazing serendipity. So exciting!
But in addition to the dreams-coming-true emails, I've received plenty of why-isn't-it-working notes, too. Not surprisingly, it's come up in Project Light Year, where participants are looking back at past vision boards or written intentions and wondering why everything they envisioned hasn't happened.
In all the years I've played with the power of intention, I've found three main stumbling blocks that can easily throw the best of intentions off course. Do any of these ring a bell?
1. Forgetting (or refusing) to let it go.
An intention is like a contract with the Universe; it's not a prayer request or a daunting goal, but an agreement to co-create a personal vision fueled by desire and divinity. I love helping clients get clear on what they really want, recognize how they want to feel as a result, describe it in a sentence (or two) that's precise, passionate and set in the present-tense (I am vs. I will), and then let it go.
That's right. Let. It. Go.
Those dreams-coming-true emails<|fim_middle|> with no solid client leads. Drumming up business in six short weeks sounded impossible. We dug into her true desires, she allowed herself to dream bigger, and she set her sights – and intentions – on manifesting work she loves and that is good for the world. The hardest part was after we hung up.
Can you guess what happened after that restful break and brave choice to let go of the details? New clients started calling "out of the blue," and she had the clarity and peace of mind to say YES to the ones that matched her vision, even asking for more compensation and getting it. She let go of the details, took inspired action when the situation called for it, and – in a matter of weeks – she went from an empty calendar to one that's filled with planning star-studded events and charity fundraisers – better than she could have imagined.
2. Your timing is off.
In addition to letting go of how goodness will transpire for you, it's important not to dictate when. Your desired timing may not line up with divine timing. Immediate gratification is great fun, but so is having the planets align to deliver bliss at the perfect time, in the perfect place, and with the perfect people – even if it takes longer than you'd originally hoped. It's true: good things do come to those who wait.
Though many of us create vision boards at the start of each year, it may take longer for the intentions behind the images and words to actualize in our lives. I'm blown away by some of my boards from eight or nine years ago, featuring things that are now part of my daily life that I'd all but forgotten about (the ultimate in letting go, I suppose!). Somehow, it feels more magical when something we've committed to co-creating appears within a desired timeline. But when it doesn't, we have a tendency to unravel, assuming that our intention setting didn't work. And that leads us into our third stumbling block.
3. Shifting your energy from creating to reacting.
Notice the subtle difference in those two words – creating and reacting? Rearrange one letter and you move from the driver's seat to the back seat. Like words are made of letters, we are all made of energy – and a little rearranging can create a seismic shift in our vibration and the messages we're sending to the Universe. When you dare to trust in your ability to co-create something good, you raise your vibration to be in tune with all that possible. Doubt puts you out of sync with the Universe, while faith allows room for synchronicity to appear (so-called coincidences and surprise opportunities divinely choreographed to inspire your next step).
If you want to co-create an inspired and abundant life, you must stay focused on the positive vibrations of your visions. Along the way, things you don't like might happen. You can view them as synchronistic diversions moving you closer to your intended path or lament over the stumbling blocks you assume are keeping you from bliss. In that choice, can you feel the energy shift from creation to reaction?
To jump back and forth – in a state of trust one day and tortured the next – is exhausting for you and creates strains in your collaboration with the Universe. Can you imagine working on a project with a partner who curses you for messing things up and loudly complains to his friends, only to have him show up the next day acting like everything's fine and assuming you've kept everything in motion? It's a sure-fire way to turn cooperative momentum into all-out mayhem.
So, if the dream job or the true love or the financial abundance you've envisioned hasn't shown up, pay attention to the consistent vibration of your thoughts, continually working to recalibrate from desperation to inspiration. If your head space doesn't match your heart space, expect turbulence more than miracles.
Armed with these reminders, how will you clarify and create what you desire in 2015? May it be filled with magic and meaning – and plenty of positive momentum. | I've received lately are all from women who envisioned some kind of wonderful but managed to let go of how it would come to them. For detail-oriented planners, this feels like absolute torture – until it magically works. Rather than doing everything possible to make that vision come to fruition, from obsessing over details to networking like crazy, you leap in when synchronicities appear or when you feel motivated by faith vs. fear, inspiration over desperation.
One email I received last week came from a freelance marketer who'd had an intuitive reading with me a few weeks prior; she had been super worried about moving into the new year | 124 |
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A method and system for creating and/or using a universal location referencing object (ULRO) with electronic files including electronic maps. ULROs establish traversable links between a file-of-reference and third-party-files. In accordance with an embodiment, the ULRO comprises a universal location referencing code uniquely corresponding to the location, together with several optional components, including: a set of name information; a super-set of coordinates; a file-of-reference pointer field comprising a file-of-reference pointer; a third-party-file pointer field comprising one or more third-party-file pointers; a file-of-reference back-pointer field comprising a file-of-reference back-pointer; a third-party-file back-pointer field comprising one or more third-party-file back-pointers; and a metadata field. ULROs allow recognition of equivalence of features in different maps, and facilitate dynamic combination or linking of multiple maps into one virtual map, with traversable connectivity for a wide variety of map formats.
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This application is a continuation of pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/271,436 entitled "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING UNIVERSAL LOCATION REFERENCING OBJECTS" by Gil Fuchs, filed Nov. 10, 2005.
This application is related to provisional U.S. Patent Application No. 60/797,130 entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT AND GENERATING DIGITAL MAP INFORMATION," Inventors: Gil Fuchs, Ettie Ettinger, Allen Brown, and Eric Crowe, filed May 2, 2006, now abandoned; and
Pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/742,937 entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT AND GENERATING DIGITAL MAP INFORMATION," inventors Gil Fuchs, et al., filed May 1, 2007, and incorporated herein by reference.
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.
The invention is related to electronic maps, electronic documents, and electronic databases, and, specifically, to a method and system for creating universal location referencing objects for use in such electronic maps, documents, and databases
Historically, documents were printed on paper or other non-modifiable, non-interactive media, and did not allow any user modification of the information, or, for example, of relationships between data points. Moreover, documents could not be updated when new information appeared, and the concept of "databases" in the modern sense of this word did not even exist, rendering the concept of updating them moot.
Prior to the computer age, there were essentially two forms of recourse whenever a map needed modification: 1) to enter a correction by hand on the paper copy or copies of the map; or 2) to reprint the map with the correction made on the original. Manual corrections are time-intensive; particularly for multiple modifications, and by definition do not update any of the other remaining copies of the map. The second option of reprinting the map is expensive, and is also an impractical way to respond to frequent modifications.
In the current age, paper maps have been largely superceded by databases, documents, and maps in digital, electronic formats, capable of being updated as desired and able to respond to a selected range and type of operator input and to produce operator-requested output. Many electronic documents and electronic databases in common usage today comprise information related to geographic location(s). Indeed, it is not easy to think of a class of electronic documents or a class of electronic databases that does not at least occasionally incorporate some form of geographically related information.
Examples of electronic databases that is relevant to certain embodiments of the present invention are "geospatial databases", commonly referred to as "electronic maps" or "digital maps". Today, maps have evolved well beyond their centuries-old status as static paper depictions of a non-adjustable data set as recorded at one particular time. For simplicity, much of the discussion below refers to electronic maps, although the points made also apply to electronic documents and electronic databases, other than maps, that contain geographic information.
One of the benefits of a digital map over a traditional paper-based map is its inherent flexibility and its ability to portray large amounts of data. Paper maps are necessarily limited in the amount and type of information they can portray, within the constraints of their physical formats. Paper maps are also difficult to update.
Digital maps do not suffer from these problems. While earlier digital maps may have seemed merely like a scanned version of the paper product, today's modern digital maps are much more powerful. Information can be included in the map and either displayed, or not displayed, depending on the wishes of the operator.
Today's digital maps, also known as electronic maps, can allow for regular modification of data points included in the map, in addition to active operator selection of desired geographic features of interest. As new information arises, of a type specifically relevant to a map of interest, the whole map can be quickly updated to reflect changes or corrections to all or just a small subset of locations.
Digital maps may be capable of responding to certain types of operator input and may be capable of offering a range of operator-adjustable output. Current electronic maps may offer the operator the option to select the scale at which the map is viewed. Often this is done using a "zoom-in" and/or "zoom-out" capability. This feature, while important and useful, does not actually change the content contained in a particular map, but rather re-presents the map at a different level of detail and with a different geographic focus.
A typical application of electronic maps is in the travel industry, whereby digital maps are used to quickly and automatically chart travel routes and to locate destinations. Digital maps have found a particularly common everyday use in automobiles, wherein Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and other position determination devices are used in association with a digital map to automatically track the position of a car and display the position on a map, for example, to guide the driver to a particular destination.
Digital maps are often also used in commercial environments, for example, in calculating optimized routes for delivery drivers to take when performing deliveries, or for providing accurate directions for emergency and medical crews to follow when responding to emergency calls. For many years, the electronic map industry has also supplied maps to the military for use in military applications. Digital maps find a use in all aspects of industry, including for ground-based, maritime, and aviation purposes. As people have become more familiar with portable, handheld electronic devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) and smart phones, which are increasingly distributed together with electronic maps stored therein, the electronic or digital map industry has grown to infiltrate virtually every aspect of society.
Some currently available digital maps allow for linking between a text address and its location on the map. If, for example, an operator inputs a street address into the Yahoo! Maps software application, MapQuest, or a similar Internet mapping website, the output indicates the location of that particular address on a map that is drawn of the surrounding area. Essentially a map of the region encompassing the address of interest is constructed around the selected point. The map may contain overlays of useful information. For example, a street map of San Francisco may be overlaid with a map of the railroad system in San Francisco and that map in turn overlaid by icons representing San Francisco restaurants and parking facilities.
However, these various overlays are "map-level overlays", meaning that they are registered one to another on the basis of their coordinates. No interactivity is typically available between different points in the overlay or between a point in one overlay and a point in another overlay. While such a coordinate overlay may result in something that appears to an end-user like a single map, it cannot dynamically function like one fully integrated, intelligent digital map. In a sense, the entities in one layer know nothing about the entities in any other layer and hence cannot support further data processing related to useful linkages between those entities. Moreover, such an overlay map is only possible if it is permitted by the scales, formats and coordinate systems of the different maps and different spatial data files. Such an overlay map is not feasible if the information in one or more documents is not presented in the form of a map.
For example, the restaurant information may take the form of a text list of restaurant names and addresses. In this case, using traditional methods there is no easy way to seamlessly integrate the restaurant data with the railroad and street data of our example. Solutions in the past simply found the coordinates of the restaurant by finding its address located within the street map and generating a set of icons to display as an overlay. While this allowed for a simple address linkage it was incapable of any more sophisticated linkages.
Alternatively, a richer set of linkages could be made possible, but only if all information has been comprised within the same single integrated map file. This puts the increasingly untenable burden on a single map vendor to integrate the entire body of spatial knowledge into a single electronic map. However, in most situations, the map vendor doesn't even have access to all the necessary information, so despite their best intentions, it is increasingly difficult to create a completely integrated map.
Finally, in accordance with traditional methods, any changes in the placement of an entity on one layer cannot automatically be coordinated with entities in other layers, thereby requiring much extra work in keeping all of the layers integrated.
With the progression of the Internet and generally, the information age, increasingly more data with spatial components is becoming available, that could be linked together in an integrated intelligent electronic map. It is a shortcoming of the traditional methods that the layered approach will not handle such intelligent linkages, and hence will limit the ability to query the full richness of the spatial content becoming available. Also, because of the intensive labor in keeping the coordinate-related data synchronized, the traditional techniques limit the overall amount of data that can be maintained and updated. Moreover, given the explosion of spatially related information that is digitally available and of interest to map users it is neither economically nor logistically feasible for map-related enterprises to create and maintain the entire universe of such information. It is these, and other limitations of the prior art that the present invention is designed to address.
Generally described, the invention presents a method and system for creating universal location referencing objects (ULROs) for use in conjunction with electronic documents, electronic databases, and electronic maps, which are collectively referred to herein as "electronic spatial data files". Virtually everything stated herein regarding one type of electronic spatial data file can also be applied to another type of electronic spatial data file with no loss of applicability. A single logical spatial data file may be partitioned. One logical electronic spatial data file may thus comprise one or more physical files, which may or may not have geographic definitions.
To address the limitations described above with respect to traditional methods, it is desirable to devise a system for creating "virtual maps". A virtual map is defined herein as a digital map capable of dynamically connecting information contained in one or more databases, and presenting it to an operator seamlessly and in real time. Typically, modern electronic maps are not able to link points of interest in one electronic map or database with points of interest in a second electronic map or another database to create a virtual map with relationships between the objects in one map and the objects in the second map or database.
It is an objective of the present invention to create a ULRO object that captures the salient information of a location; comprising geographic location, a name associated with that location and a permanent identifier for that location.
It is a further objective of the present invention to create ULROs to enable linking the items of a database that can be spatially defined, or data related to such items, to a map database and thereby enabling a Virtual Database (VDB) to offer a user access to a seamless electronic database with a greater richness of dynamically linked content.
It is a further objective of the present invention to create ULROs to enable the linking of items of a database that can be spatially defined, or data related to such items, to a map database and thereby enabling a user to select all desired content to be compiled and packaged or stored on media, such as a CD or DVD, for use in off-line products such as a embedded navigation system.
It is a further objective of the present invention to build a ULRO structure that facilitates the initial registration or linking of a vast amount of distributed data, even those with different formats, and, once linked with both forward and reverse pointers, facilitating the fast and efficient generation of intelligent maps, customized with the appropriate information to meet the user's request.
It is a further objective of the present invention to minimize the storage space needed to store the many relationships, grouping geographic items of the same location, reducing such space requirements from typically a size proportional to N! (N factorial, where N is the number of distributed links containing pertinent information), to a factor proportional to N, and to similarly improve upon the speed of searching, reducing it from something proportional to N2 (N-squared) to something proportional to a constant value, C.
It is a further objective of the present invention to enable independent maintenance of the map and of the third party databases, thereby reducing the effort needed in keeping current the content of these large databases.
It is a further objective of the present invention to increases the speed and efficiency by which information can be retrieved from otherwise independent or third-party sources, and compiled in a dynamic fashion so that it can be easily updated and searched, as new information becomes available.
It is a further objective of the present invention to enable a hierarchical construction of ULROs, and to provide a means by which they can relate to one another in a uniform way.
As described herein, an embodiment of a ULRO comprises a permanent identification code designed to identify a selected location. A location in turn may be associated with one or more geographic items. ULROs can be employed to establish traversable links or connections between a file-of-reference and third-party-files for a broad range of database formats. A file-of-reference is a geospatial file used for permanent storage of a file owner's geographic data. A third-party-file is a geospatial file used for permanent storage of a third party's geographic data. Whatever its format may happen to be, a file-of-reference or a third-party-file can typically be transformed into other formats that may be more appropriate for certain applications. In accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, this technique can be used to establish traversable links between a map-of-reference and one or more of third-party maps and third-party-spatial data files.
As further described herein, in accordance with an embodiment a ULRO points to geographic items associated with a common location and located in two or more different files. Often but not always, one of the files is the database-of-reference. Effectively, a traversable link is thereby created between the two files. ULROs substantially reduce the number of connections required to create traversable links between each of a set N of documents. Using a traditional approach, each document would be required to point to each other document, and each document would then in turn be pointed-at by each other document, for a total number of pointers on the order of N! (N factorial). The present invention makes possible a star configuration, which reduces the total number of pointers required, to a number in the order of 2 times N. For a large number of documents, i.e. for a large value of N, this lowers the number of connections by several orders of magnitude. Furthermore, since (a) the total number of connections is much smaller; and (b) the ULRO technique eliminates the need to perform multi-discovery over many files in favor of a direct, pointered access to those files; the resultant ability to retrieve related map data is much faster using a ULRO than with traditional approaches.
As further described herein, in accordance with an embodiment a ULRO corresponds to a selected geographic item associated with a location. In accordance with one embodiment, a ULRO comprises eight principal components, some or all of which may be utilized depending on the particular implementation: 1) a set of name information; 2) a super-set of coordinates; 3) a universal location referencing code (ULRC) uniquely corresponding to the location; 4) a file-of-reference pointer field comprising a file-of-reference pointer; 5) a third-party-file pointer field comprising one or more third-party-file pointers; 6) a file-of-reference back-pointer field comprising a file-of-reference back-pointer; 7) a third-party-file back-pointer field comprising one or more third-party-file back-pointers; and 8) a metadata field.
In accordance with an embodiment, the file-of-reference pointer field and the third-party-file pointer field are each contained within the ULRO. Both of the back-pointer fields are contained within their respective files. The file-of-reference, third-party-file and ULROs can be located remotely from each other. The eighth component is a metadata field comprising metadata related to the ULRO. In accordance with an embodiment, the only mandatory field in the ULRO is the ULRC. It is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates not both be blank, although either one or the other can be blank for a particular ULRO.
Using the above example of map containing restaurant information, and text entries, using the ULRO approach additional attributes can be integrated and presented to a user regardless of whether the information is contained in the form of a map or in another form. For example, if the restaurant information is a text listing of restaurant names, it can be combined with the railroad and street maps to create a virtual map as easily and effectively as if the restaurant information was in map format. Through the use of ULROs, it is easier for operators of end-user applications to obtain spatially relevant data from virtual maps. Virtual maps are capable of using the present invention to usefully and accessibly combine the information in a file-of-reference with information comprised in one or more of a variety of third party sources. For example, the ULRO techniques may also be used together with a virtual map database technique, described in further detail in co-pending application Ser. No. 11/742,937 entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT AND GENERATING DIGITAL MAP INFORMATION," inventors Gil Fuchs, et al., filed May 1, 2007, and incorporated herein by reference, to create virtual maps in a dynamic, run-time fashion. In such a system, the user can, for example, obtain answers to such questions as: "Show me Italian restaurants near the Geary Theater, and for each restaurant, show me the parking garages that will validate parking".
These and other objectives, advantages, and benefits of the present invention will be evident from the accompanying detailed description and drawings.
FIG. 1 is an illustration that depicts the assignment of ULROs comprising permanent ID codes, to locations in an electronic file-of-reference, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 is an illustration that depicts a ULRO corresponding to a selected geographic item associated with a location in a file-of-reference, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates the typical flow of a process in accordance with an embodiment of the invention that receives information about a geographic item associated with a location, and creates a ULRO.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart that illustrates in more detail the typical flow of a process in accordance with an embodiment of the invention that receives information about a geographic item associated with a location, and creates a ULRO.
FIG. 5 is an illustration that depicts the use of ULRO relationships and hierarchies, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 6 is an illustration that depicts the use of ULRO groups, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a diagram that schematically illustrates an example of a system that can be used with an embodiment of the invention.
The following terms are used throughout this document:
Feature—A geographic feature (referred to herein simply as a "feature") is an idealized map representation of an actual object from the real world, which is useful to that map representation. Features have a dimension, and most often but not always have geometric representations. Features might not be actually visible in the real world: such as borders or intersections, yet they can be represented in a map model. Features have a type and a class, which together allow the system to distinguish one feature from another, while also preserving similarities between features that are alike.
Dimension of Feature—Features are often represented in the map model in a more simple way than in their full "real world" complexity. Often the real world complexity is more of a distraction than an asset to a model, which is just trying to capture a few salient aspects of the real world in order to perform some particular function. Thus, the dimension of a feature does not reflect the real world truth, but rather what the representation has rendered.
The five dimensions that features are divided into include: point features, line features, area feature, volume features, and complex features. Real world features which are represented as points are known as point features. For example, a restaurant (even though it is, in the real world, a volume object with complex shape), when represented in the map model is conveniently represented as a point feature. So is, for example, a junction where two or more roads elements cross each other. Line features are represented as linear or simple curved segments (and as such have an extent which runs between point features or intermediate shape points). Roads, borders, rivers are some examples of line features. Of course, these real world objects are not razor-edge thin, but in the map model they are represented as idealized center lines, ignoring their actual width. Lakes, parks, and administrative areas are examples of area features. Volume features, such as buildings, (absent from most map models) are represented as a construction of connected area features in a way that resembles the real world, although quite often with much less detail. Lastly, complex features are features which are not "atomically" defined (this term is described in further detail below).
Type of Feature and Class of Feature—Types and classes are subcategories of features that enable them to be distinguished. Roads, rivers, train tracks, cities, counties, mountain peaks, bus stops, intersections, bridges, restaurants, hotels, rest areas are but a few examples of types of features. In most commercial map models there may be thousands of different feature types. The ISO-GDF (Geographic Data File) map format is one standard format, which, among other things, attempts to list a corpus of well-known feature types. Complete details of the GDF format are described in the ISO specification "ISO 14825: Intelligent Transport Systems—Geographic Data Files (GDF) Overall Data Specification", incorporated herein by reference.
Within a particular type of a feature there may also be a variation. For example, there are different classes of roads in the world: highways, major roads, minor roads, rural roads, residential roads, slip roads, dirt roads, and goat trails. While these are all of the feature type "road", they differ in their various classifications—hence a feature class is subordinate to the feature type.
Geometry of Feature—In the computer map model, features often have a geometrical representation of the feature's shape. Point features are representation by a single node. Line features are often represented by linear segments—edges—which may run through a sequence of shape points. Area features may be represented by a collection of faces, each of which consists of edges delineating its boundary. Area features may be disconnected or may even have holes in them. Volume features may be represented by volume geometry, which might contain cavities.
Topology—Topology is a set of mathematical properties that are used as a means of capturing connectivity relationships between features which remain true even when the geometry (shape) of the feature might undergo some change. Geometries of some dimension are bounded by geometries of lesser dimension. Volumes are bounded by areas. Areas are bounded by linear segments, linear geometries are bounded by points. Inversely, points are co-bounded by linear geometries. Linear boundaries are co-bounded by areas. Finally, areas are co-bounded by volumes. Topology may be an aspect of the features themselves, or of the geometry which captures their shape.
Simple Feature—Point features, line feature, area features, and volume features are simple features, since they are directly modeled by assigning geometrical shapes to them.
Complex Feature—Conversely, complex features may be indirectly defined by other features (simple or complex), as well as by direct geometrical rendering. For example, the state of California may be represented not by running its boundary with shape points (which would make it a simple area feature), but rather as the sum of its counties (which themselves may be simple or complex features). California State, rendered as a complex feature, is a single feature, which is defined in a complex way by referring to other features. Roads which consist of two road elements—one in each direction of traffic—are another common example of a complex feature. When two complex roads meet, a complex feature is declared, namely, the complex intersection. Often an intersection can be thought of as four junctions, where the simple road elements cross each other.
Plurality of Features—Both the simple and complex features described above are examples of single features. It is, however, sometimes useful to think about several features at once, hence creating a plurality of features. For example, the collection of all of the restaurants in San Francisco, or all of the counties in California serve as examples of a plurality of features. Note that the plurality of features (for example, all the counties in California) is a different concept from the single complex feature of the State of California (although in this example they do have the same geometric footprint).
Sub-Set of Feature—It is sometimes convenient to identify a portion, sub-set, or a part of a single feature. Sometimes such parts may be features in their own right, but at other times, such parts are mere fragments, which on their own would not be actual features. Examples of a sub-set of a feature include a single county of the State of California feature, a segment of road element spanning just a fraction of a block between two intersections, or floors 4 through 17 of a 30-story building.
Attribute—Features, plurality of features, and sub-sets of features may have attributes. Attributes are provided in large catalogs, and there may be thousands of different attributes applying to features in a commercial computer map model of the real world. The attribute type is what captures the different attributes from the catalogue. Speed limit, length, direction of traffic flow and restaurant opening hours are but a few examples of such attributes.
Relationship—Relationships are comprised of two or more features "participating" in some meaningful connection to each other. For example, a road element might split into several road elements at some junction, and hence all of those features are in a "fork" relationship to each other (each feature playing a different role). Relationships are also provided in large catalogs, and, as with attributes, hundreds of such relationships are possible in actual commercial digital map models. Not all relationships are geometric, since many are developed by modeling real-world activities. For example, the restaurant that validates parking for a particular parking garage represents one type of business relationship between two features.
Geographic item—For the purpose of this description, a non-ISO standard term is employed here. A geographic item is defined here to be either a feature, a plurality of features, a sub-set of a feature, or an attribute.
Location—The location where a feature is in the real world is distinct from the feature itself. For example, while the feature may be the restaurant, its location can be specified as some latitude, longitude (lat/long) coordinate pair, or coordinates from some similar geodetic referencing system, or as a human readable address, (for example "322 Battery Street" in San Francisco). Locations should not be confused with features or with the other geographic items associated with the locations.
Hierarchy of features—Features often form a hierarchy of construction. For example, a country may be comprised, or made up, of States or Provinces, while States may be comprised of counties etc. In a similar manner, roadways are made up of many block face road elements. The roads and parks and buildings of the complex area which comprise "the Stanford University campus area" are parts of the larger feature. The hierarchy of features is a special case of a relationship between features, and it can be explicitly captured and represented, or not.
Point of interest—A point of interest (POI) is a special type of point feature, in particular it is a type that may comprise other more specific types, such as a restaurant, hotel, museum etc.
As described herein, in accordance with an embodiment, a ULRO comprises a permanent identification code and sufficient information designed to uniquely identify a selected location. A location, in turn, may be associated with one or more geographic items. ULROs can be employed to establish traversable links between a file-of-reference and one or a plurality of third-party-files for a broad range of database formats. ULROs can be similarly employed to establish traversable links between two or more third-party files.
As also described herein, in accordance with an embodiment, a file-of-reference is a geospatial database used for permanent storage of a document owner's geographic data. A file-of-reference can typically be transformed into other formats that may be more appropriate for certain applications. In accordance with an embodiment there is only one file-of-reference database identified to support ULROs. A third-party file is any file that contains some element of spatial data, which may consist of geographic features, attributes of features or relationships of two or more features. A third party file is distinct from the file-of-reference.
ULROs uniquely correspond to a particular location. A document need not be a map in order to comprise a geographic item that is associated with a location. ULROs can be easily updated as information changes and as more precise information is obtained. ULROs point to geographic items in two or more different files that are associated with the same location, so that a traversable link or connection is effectively created between the two files. ULROs are not required in order to create traversable links between different documents comprising geographic information. ULROs do, however, substantially reduce the number of connections required to create traversable links between each of a set, N, of geographic items. Generally the N geographic items can be found in M separate files, where M is a value less than or equal to N. Using a traditional approach, each document would be required to point to each other document, and each document would then in turn be pointed-at by each other document, for a total number of pointers on the order of N! (N factorial). The present invention makes possible a star configuration, which reduces the total number of pointers required, to a number in the order of 2 times N. For a large number of documents, i.e. for a large value of N, this lowers the number of connections by several orders of magnitude. Furthermore, since (a) the total number of connections is much smaller; and (b) the ULRO technique eliminates the need to perform multi-discovery over many files in favor of a direct, pointered access to those files; the resultant ability to retrieve related map data is much faster using a ULRO than with traditional approaches.
Example Implementation and Usage
In accordance with an embodiment and an example implementation, a ULRO corresponds to a location associated with a geographic item in an electronic file comprising spatial data. The ULRO comprises eight principal components:
1) a set of name information (for example, the address "32 El Camino Real");
2) a super-set of coordinates comprising k sets of coordinates, where k is the number of geographic points in the location (for example, a point location for the address "4 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco" is an example of a set of coordinates that could be comprised in the super-set: −122.39730 degrees longitude, 37.79519 degrees latitude, elevation of 3 meters above sea level);
3) a universal location referencing code (ULRC) uniquely corresponding to the location (for example, 63573);
4) a file-of-reference pointer field comprising a file-of-reference pointer, either contained in a "side file" located externally to the ULRO, or located internally to the ULRO;
5) for each geographic item associated with this location, a pointer field comprising a third-party file pointer;
6) a file-of-reference back-pointer field comprising a file-of-reference back-pointer;
7) a third-party file back-pointer field comprising one or more third-party file back-pointers; and
8) a metadata field. A metadata field comprises metadata relating to the ULRO.
Of the above-described fields in the ULRO, the only mandatory field is the ULRC. In accordance with an embodiment, it is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates not both be blank, although either one or the other can be blank for a particular ULRO. The actual requirements for each field may vary depending on the actual implementation.
In accordance with an embodiment, the first two of these components, i.e. the set of name information, and the super-set of coordinates (such as longitude, latitude, elevation or a linear referencing system such as those used in conjunction with major motorways or cell phone towers), may be thought of as coordinates in two different reference spaces. The geographical coordinate reference space is mathematically based, precise, and exhaustive in the sense that it uniquely and unmistakably names every point on earth. The name reference space, by contrast, is linguistically and historically based, imprecise, and incomplete. Names are often duplicated multiple times between different objects in ways that can be trivial or can be confusing. For example, Paris is the capital of France, in addition to being a city in Texas, and a town in Maine. Even a name such as "the Eiffel Tower" can refer both to one of France's most beloved landmarks as well as to its imitation in front of a popular hotel in Las Vegas. By contrast, no confusion occurs when one is provided with coordinates such as −122.39730 degrees longitude, 37.79519 degrees latitude, and 3 meters above sea level.
In accordance with an embodiment, the set of name information further comprises one or more of the following: 1) an address, such as 1a) a postal code, 1b) a street number, 1c) a street name; 1d) a hierarchical area address system with a sequence of names; and 1e) other address information; 2) a named place; 3) geographic name information; 4) other types of name information such as telephone numbers and 5) any other name meta-information. Geographic name information in turn comprises one or more of the following: 5a) name information for a point feature; 5b) name information for a line feature; 5c) name information for an area feature; 5d) name information for a volume feature; 5e) name information for a segment of a line feature; 5f) name information for a sector of an area feature; 5g) name information for a section of a volume feature; and 5h) name information for a plurality of related geographic items.
In accordance with an embodiment, the hierarchical area address system includes information on the relationship among at least two of the types of geographic information. For example, name information in the case of the University of California, which is an area feature, could include the fact that the University is located in Berkeley, which is in turn located in Alameda County, which is in turn in California, which is in turn in the United States. By comparison, "El Camino Real" is a name for an entire street, which forms a line feature. A line feature is described by a series of points. The address "32 El Camino Real" is a point address at a specific location along the line feature. Clearly, the address "32 El Camino Real" can occur in various different cities (and or counties). Each of those occurrences is a point address located at a specific location along the line feature or at a point feature. To uniquely designate it, it is often necessary to add an appropriate city, county and state context.
In accordance with an embodiment, the super-set of coordinates comprises a number k of coordinate sets, wherein k is the number of geographic points comprised in the location. Each coordinate super-set comprises one or more of a geographic coordinate set. Each coordinate super-set may in addition comprise one or more of a coordinate classification such as a defined coordinate reference system. One such geographic coordinate set comprises the coordinate reference system of a latitude and a longitude, and may in addition comprise an elevation. Other coordinate sets may include other geographic coordinate reference systems such as Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), or a linear referencing system such as those used in conjunction with major motorways or cell phone towers.
In accordance with an embodiment, a third component of a ULRO is a ULRC. A ULRC is assigned so as to uniquely correspond to the location. Once a ULRC is retired, it cannot be reused. In one embodiment, the ULRO comprises a counter capable of ensuring that the assigned ULRC was not previously assigned to another location. According to another embodiment, once created, a ULRO may be stored in a central repository of ULROs, each of which is indexed according to its ULRC. This provides an alternative way to the counter of ensuring that ULRC's are not reused. When an already created ULRC is needed, the repository recognizes this and provides the appropriate ULRC, so that a new one is not created, which would be duplicative, needless, and confusing.
It may not be immediately apparent to the reader why both the set of name information, and the super-set of coordinates (components 1 and 2 respectively) of the ULRO are necessary when the ULRC is also incorporated as part of the ULRO. However, such apparent redundancy is desirable to ensure smooth, error-free integration of information from different sources. By way of example, a determination may be needed as to whether new item 3823 from data source B can be associated with an existing ULRO, or alternatively needs a new ULRO created. Name information and coordinate information serve as a means of discovering the correct ULRO, if it exists. Once so discovered, the geographic item then points to that ULRC, and future retrievals no longer require name and coordinate comparisons. If no such ULRO is found, then a new ULRO is created and the geographic item is associated with that. Otherwise, it might, for example, be possible to confuse the Canadian province of Ontario with the town of Ontario in Southern California, or to confuse "32 El Camino Real, Menlo Park" with "32 El Camino Real, Palo Alto".
It is common for a location to have the same name as the street on which it is located, and it is extremely common for streets of the same name to comprise multiple sections located at a number of different places in a particular city. Some American states even have more than one municipality of the same name, making confusion likely in the absence of such additional information as name information and coordinate information. Thus, all three are necessary to adequately describe a particular location—the first two being needed to describe the location and the third needed to effectively facilitate traversibility and compactness.
As a practical matter, most files will contain some form of data belonging to at least two of these three categories of information. Under most circumstances, the two categories will suffice to form the correct item-to-item link, but certainly with all three categories present, such a linkage can be formed without problem. Once a ULRO is created all associated geographic items can be linked in third party data. It is at this time that all the fields of the ULRO can be used to make an accurate decision as to which geographic items should go with which ULROs (i.e. which objects are different manifestations of the same location).
For example, in the case of "El Camino Real", an object in the file-of-reference representing that street might be preliminarily equated with an apparently corresponding object in a map created by a third party. The two maps might disagree about some details relating to the street, but once the equivalence of the two objects is established, then name information and coordinates become less critical to the linkage of the two objects and the two maps.
Furthermore, the ULRC uniquely corresponds to the location and is not duplicated with any other location. Once assigned, a ULRC can only be used with reference to the location to which it is assigned. The ULRC will normally remain the same for the same location. The fact that a particular location is always described by the same ULRC facilitates reconciliation of different maps that may have been created pursuant to different mapping algorithms and/or pursuant to different mapping technologies. The ULRC enables the matching and/or joining of different electronic files, such as electronic maps or an electronic map with a series of third party spatial data content files.
In accordance with an embodiment, a fourth component of the ULRO is the file-of-reference pointer field. The file-of-reference pointer field comprises a file-of-reference pointer, which uniquely designates a geographic item associated with a location in the file-of-reference. Each file-of-reference pointer may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the file-of-reference point, a type and class of the file-of-reference pointer, and other file-of-reference information.
In accordance with an embodiment, a fifth component of the ULRO is the third-party file pointer field. The third-party file pointer field comprises one or more third-party file pointers, each of which uniquely designates one or more geographic item that refer to said location in one of said one or more third-party files. The number, n, of third-party-pointers pertaining to a particular location equals the number of separate geographic items summed over the number of third-party files comprising the location. There can be many third-party databases, but only one file-of-reference.
The third-party file pointer field may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the third-party file pointer, a type and class of the third-party file pointer, and other third-party file pointer information. The third-party file pointer field may either be comprised in the ULRO or may be comprised in a side file external to the ULRO.
In accordance with an embodiment, a sixth component of the ULRO is the file-of-reference back-pointer field. The file-of-reference back-pointer field comprises a file-of-reference back-pointer pointing from said file-of-reference back to the ULRC. Each file-of-reference back-pointer may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the file-of-reference back-pointer; a type and class of the file-of-reference back-pointer; and other file-of-reference back-pointer information.
In accordance with an embodiment, a seventh component of the ULRO is the third-party file back-pointer field. The third-party file back-pointer field comprises one or more third-party file back-pointers, wherein each said third-party file back-pointer uniquely points from one of said third-party files back to said ULRO, namely the ULRC. The number, n, of third-party-pointers pertaining to a particular location equals the number of separate geographic items summed over the number of third-party files comprising the location. Each third-party file back-pointer may comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the third-party file back-pointer, a type and class of the third-party file back-pointer, and other third-party file back-pointer information.
In accordance with an embodiment, an eighth component of the ULRO is the metadata field. The metadata field comprises one or more of the following: a ULRO classification, a time of creation of the ULRO, a type and class of the ULRO, and other metadata information.
The file-of-reference pointer field and the third-party file pointer field may each either be contained within the ULRO or may be contained in a side file external to the ULRO. For any embodiment in which the ULRO does not internally contain a file-of-reference pointer field, a side file containing the file-of-reference pointer field is defined. Similarly, for any embodiment in which the ULRO does not internally contain a third-party file pointer field, a side file containing the third-party file pointer field is defined. Those embodiments in which the ULRO internally contains both a file-of-reference pointer field and a third-party file pointer field will typically not require use of side files. On the other hand, if the ULRO does not internally contain both a file-of-reference pointer field and a third-party file pointer field, side files containing the needed pointer field(s) will be necessary. When a new third-party is added a small modification to the URLO is needed (but only if the third party pointer isn't stored in a side file), namely, a third-party pointer field is added to the ULRO (when in a side file, that is done in the side file and no modification to the ULRO proper is required).
Application of ULROs to Virtual Databases and Virtual Maps
As described above, ULROs are designed to be used with reference to locations. A ULRO is comprised of a ULRC, which comprises a permanent identification code specifically designed to refer to a geographic item that is associated with a location. The ULRO encodes information about its corresponding location, thereby facilitating the grouping of related geographic items associated with that location that are spread over possibly many files As such, ULROs (and more particularly ULRC's) allow for the recognition of the equivalence or identity of features in one or more different maps. ULROs facilitate the dynamic combination of one or more maps into one virtual map with traversable connectivity between different geographic items regardless of the map(s) that are the ultimate origins of each geographic item. For example, if one considers a San Francisco map, embodiments of the present invention enable the creation of a virtual map with traversable connectivity between elements derived from a San Francisco street map, a San Francisco railroad map, and a San Francisco restaurant and parking facilities data file. The interaction of streets, restaurants, parking facilities and railroads with each other can then be captured and offered to the operator. With the aid of the virtual database technology, described in co-pending application Ser. No. 11/742,937 entitled "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT AND GENERATING DIGITAL MAP INFORMATION," inventors Gil Fuchs, et al., filed May 1, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference, relationships between streets, restaurants, parking facilities and railroads can be specified by the operator, and displayed as an output from the virtual map. For example, the operator may wish to know the street on which a particular restaurant is located, and what parking facilities will take a parking validation from that restaurant or what the train schedule is for trains arriving at the nearby railroad station. This is more powerful than the traditional layered view. Using traditional techniques, coordinates of a location (which might be sufficiently accurate or not), together with the process of reverse geo-coding, could be used to discover which other streets are "near", but that process is both time-consuming and inaccurate. Also, with traditional techniques no mechanisms exist to enable relationships between disparate geographic items to be maintained, short of integrating all data into a single electronic map file. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, direct pointing and explicit relationships allow for both quick and indisputably accurate results.
Furthermore, additional attributes can also be folded-in regardless of whether the information is contained in the form of a map or in another form. For example, if the restaurant information is a text listing of restaurant names, it can be combined with the railroad and street maps to create a virtual map as easily and effectively as if the restaurant information was in map format. Of course, the name of a restaurant must be augmented with spatial data, address or coordinates, so it can be linked to the appropriate ULRO. Further information that may be integrated from data in map format, text format, or another format could include, for example, the age of each house on a particular street or in a particular area, a list of owners of restaurants, a list of types of food served by each restaurant, train schedules, data on the age of each train track, or the position of entrances to the area's rapid transit system. Once created, a virtual map is operationally indistinguishable from a single map with traversable links between items. Through the use of ULROs, it is easier for operators of end-user applications to obtain spatially relevant data from virtual maps. Virtual maps are capable of using embodiments of the invention to usefully and accessibly combine the information in a file-of-reference with information comprised in one or more of a variety of third-party sources.
ULRO Example Implementation
As described above, in accordance with an embodiment, some fields in the ULRO can be left blank, while the only mandatory field is the ULRC. It is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates cannot both be blank at the same time, although either one or the other can be blank for a particular ULRO.
FIG. 1 is an illustration that depicts the assignment of ULROs comprising permanent ID codes, to geographic items associated with locations in an electronic file-of-reference, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. As shown in FIG. 1, ULROs are assigned to geographic items associated with a location 120, 122, 124, 126 in an electronic file-of-reference 130. In keeping with the definition provided above, the geographic items can be any of a feature, a plurality of features, a sub-set of features, or an attribute associated with a physical location, so that in FIG. 1 the geographic items 120, 122, 124, 126 may in actuality be associated with a single physical location. ULROs 110, 112, 114, 116 comprise respectively ULRC's 134, 136, 138, 140. In accordance with an embodiment each ULRC may in turn comprise a permanent identifier or permanent ID. The ULRO can be easily and accurately maintained and updated, and can be used to link the geographic items associated with locations in the file-of-reference with corresponding location information 155, 156, 157, 158, 159 in one or more third-party files 150, 152, 154. As shown in FIG. 1, a single geographic item associated with a location, for example location 120, may be linked to a single ULRO 110 that links to a single third-party file 150. Alternatively, a single geographic item associated with a location, for example location 122 may be linked to a single ULRO 112 that links to a plurality of third-party files 150,152.
The use of ULRO hierarchies, and ULRO groups, both of which are described in further detail below, allows other types of linking, so that almost any combination of file-of-reference and third-party-file is possible. Furthermore, links 160, 162, 164, 166, 170, 172, 174, 176, 180 can be either unidirectional pointers, bidirectional pointers, or a mix of both uni- and bi-directional pointers. This feature provides that, while in FIG. 1, the file-of-reference 130 appears as a base map, it is also possible to treat any of the third-party files equally as the file-of-reference, and for the locations therein to be similarly linked to information in the other files. The bidirectional nature of the ULRO mapping allows any third-party file to act as the file-of-reference, and allows the file-of-reference to act as a third-party file, depending on the particular application.
FIG. 2 is an illustration that depicts an environment including a ULRO corresponding to a selected geographic item associated with a location in a file-of-reference, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. As shown in FIG. 2 the ULRO 210 allows for mapping of location-related information between an electronic file-of-reference 230, and one or a plurality of third party files 274, each of which files comprising one or more geographic items associated with a location 220, together with associated pointers and information linking the files. As described above, the only mandatory field in the ULRO is the ULRC 208. It is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates not both be blank, although either one of these fields can be blank for a particular ULRO.
As shown in FIG. 2, in accordance with an embodiment, the ULRO logically resides in three places within the ULRO environment. The bulk of the ULRO can reside almost anywhere, such as within a file on a server connected to the Internet. The complete ULRO also includes other components, (i.e. back-pointers), that are physically associated with the file-of-reference 230, and with the third-party files 274 respectively. In accordance with an embodiment, the ULRO 210 comprises a set of name information 206, a coordinate super-set 207, a ULRC 208, a file-of-reference pointer field 209, a third-party file pointer field 211, a file-of-reference back-pointer field 212; a third-party file back-pointer field 205; and a metadata field 216.
In accordance with an embodiment, the set of name information 206 comprises one or more of the following: 1) an address 217, which in turn comprises one or more of the following: 1a) a postal code 218, 1b) a street number 219, 1c) a street name 221; 1d) a hierarchical area address system with a sequence of names 222; and 1e) other address information 223; 2) a named place 224; 3) a telephone number 228; 4) geographic name information 231; and 5) other name information 234. In accordance with an embodiment, the geographic name information 231 comprises one or more of the following: 4a) name information for a point feature 236; 4b) name information for a line feature 2<|fim_middle|>. At a later time, direct or non-offset pointers may or may not be subsequently created for that location. In accordance with an embodiment, the offset pointer can be included in the forward pointer to file of reference, box 213, shown in FIG. 2 and described above.
In accordance with an embodiment, the system can utilize a technique of offset pointer addressing described in copending European patent application entitled "______"; Inventor Hans Ulrich Otto; filed ______, and incorporated herein by reference.
Missing Pointers—In accordance with an embodiment, the ULRO technique allows the system to include support for "missing pointers". When a desired geographic item associated with a location is not present in the file-of-reference, but one or more of the third-party files do have associated information for that geographic item associated with a location, then only those pointers between the third-party file and the ULRO may be created. The pointers that would normally link the ULRO to the file-of-reference are missing. Since, as described above, the steps used to form a ULRO can be executed in any sequence, or even at different chronological moments in time; similarly the pointers between the various file-of-reference and third-party-files can also be created at different chronological moments in time. When the information becomes available, the missing pointer" is properly formed, linking the new information to the ULRO.
FIG. 7 is a diagram that schematically illustrates an example of a system that can be used with an embodiment of the invention. As shown in FIG. 7, the system 520 allows for a ULRO to be created based on geographic item that is associated with a location 540 contained in an electronic file-of-reference 550, and that also has one or more location-associated geographic items contained in one or a plurality third-party files 594, 595. Although this figure depicts components as logically separate, such depiction is merely for illustrative purposes. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the components portrayed in this figure can be combined into a single component, or can be divided into further separate software, firmware and/or hardware components. Furthermore, it will also be apparent to those skilled in the art that such components, regardless of how they are combined or divided, can execute on the same computing device or can be distributed among different computing devices connected by one or more networks or other suitable communication means.
As shown in FIG. 7, the system 520 typically includes a computing device 524 which may comprise one or more memories 528, one or more processors 530, and one or more storages or repositories 532 of some sort. The system 520 may further include a display device 534, including a graphical user interface or GUI 536 operating thereon by which the system can display digital maps and other information. The device may under some other circumstances be text-based.
The system shown herein can be used to display the contents of the electronic document to an operator 538, or automatically to a computer process running on processor 530. Because the software for assigning ULROs will typically be proprietary, hard coding 544 can be used or embedded within the logic of the system to generate ULROs. When all or part of an electronic file-of-reference 550 is retrieved from external storage 553, (which in some instances may be the same storage as storage 532), ULROs and/or ULRCs will be created if they were not previously created (or alternatively will be fetched from a central repository 547 if they had been previously created) to correspond to a geographic item that is associated with a location 540 comprised in the electronic file-of-reference 550. The newly created, or retrieved ULRO is used to link the geographic item in the file-of-reference with location-associated information in the third-party files. In some cases side files comprising third-party pointers may also be used. As described above, a feature of the system 520 is its ability to facilitate links with locations and location associated geographic items in a wide variety of present and future document formats. Those ULROs can be created by various schemas. One such schema is to generate a ULRO whenever a need arises (such as request by a third-party based on its data needs). Another schema of generating ULROs is to preemptively create ULROs based on all addresses and location objects in the file-of-reference. Hybrid and other schema regimes are possible and conceivable.
Although shown as a single system in FIG. 7, several of the components can be distributed over a variety of different computer systems and processors. For example, in accordance with one embodiment, the user's computer can communicate 572, 574 with a remote server 570 on which all of the database, file-of-reference, third-party-files, and other components are located. However, in other embodiments, for example, the file-of-reference may be located on a different machine from the third-party files, while the ULRO repository exists on yet another machine. Indeed, it is a feature of the present system that the ULRO allows for information to be dynamically linked from a variety of different sources, including different vendors, even if those sources are widely distributed over a large area, or a large area network, such as the Internet.
Embodiments of the present invention may be conveniently implemented using a conventional general purpose or a specialized digital computer or microprocessor programmed according to the teachings of the present disclosure, as will be apparent to those skilled in the computer art. Appropriate software coding can readily be prepared by skilled programmers based on the teachings of the present disclosure, as will be apparent to those skilled in the software art. Embodiments of the invention may also be implemented by the preparation of application specific integrated circuits or by interconnecting an appropriate network of conventional component circuits, as will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art.
Embodiments of the present invention include a computer program product which is a storage medium (media) having instructions stored thereon/in which can be used to program a computer to perform any of the processes of embodiments of the present invention. The storage medium can include, but is not limited to, any type of disk including floppy disks, optical discs, DVD, CD-ROMs, microdrive, and magneto-optical disks, ROMs, RAMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, DRAMs, VRAMs, flash memory devices, magnetic or optical cards, nanosystems (including molecular memory ICs), or any type of media or device suitable for storing instructions and/or data.
Stored on any one of the computer readable medium (media), embodiments of the present invention include software for controlling both the hardware of the general purpose/specialized computer or microprocessor, and for enabling the computer or microprocessor to interact with a human user or other mechanism utilizing the results of embodiments of the present invention. Such software may include, but is not limited to, device drivers, operating systems, and user applications. Ultimately, such computer readable media further includes software for performing embodiments of the present invention, as described above.
Included in the programming (software) of the general/specialized computer or microprocessor are software modules for implementing the teachings of the present invention, including, but not limited to, creating a universal location referencing object (ULRO) corresponding to a selected location in an electronic file-of-reference, one or more location-associated geographic items also being comprised in one or more third-party files; determining a set of name information corresponding to a selected location; determining a super-set of coordinates corresponding to the location; assigning a universal location referencing code (ULRC) uniquely corresponding to the location; creating a file-of-reference pointer field comprising a file-of-reference pointer that designates the location in the file-of-reference; creating a third-party file pointer field comprising one or more third-party file pointers, wherein each third-party file pointer uniquely designates the one or more location-associated geographic item(s) in one of the one of more third-party files; creating a file-of-reference back-pointer field comprising a file-of-reference back-pointer pointing from said file-of-reference back to said ULRO resident in the file-of-reference or an associated side file; creating a third-party file back-pointer field comprising third-party file back-pointers resident in said third party file or an associated side file, wherein each said third-party file back pointer uniquely points from one location-associated geographic item of said third-party files back to said ULRO; creating a metadata field configured to comprise metadata relating to the ULRO; and combining the set of name information, the super-set of coordinates, the ULRC, the file-of-reference pointer field, the third-party file pointer field, the file-of-reference back-pointer field, the third-party file back-pointer field, and the metadata field so as to create the ULRO.
The foregoing description of the present invention has been provided for the purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit embodiments of the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to the practitioner skilled in the art. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical application, thereby enabling others skilled in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments and with various modifications that are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the following claims and their equivalents.
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21. A system that uses universal location referencing objects to provide geographic item information for a location, comprising:
an interface to a file-of-reference, wherein the file-of-reference comprises geographic item information, including a geographic item associated with a location;
an interface to a third-party file, wherein the third-party file comprises additional geographic item information that may be associated with the location;
a universal location reference object, wherein the universal location reference object comprises a universal location reference code that uniquely identifies the location, and further comprises identifying information for the location;
an interface that provides links to the additional geographic item information in the third-party file; and
a logic that, in response to a request for information for a particular location, retrieves a universal location reference object for the particular location, traverses links for that particular location, associates the geographic item information in the file-of-reference with the additional geographic item information in the third-party file, to create a resultant information, and provides the resultant information as a response to the request.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the request is received from an operator.
23. The system of claim 21, wherein the request is received automatically from another system without the input of an operator.
24. The system of claim 21, wherein the universal location reference object is created only at the time of receiving the request.
25. The system of claim 21, wherein the logic further determines which of a plurality of universal location reference objects in the system are associated with the same particular location.
26. The system of claim 21, wherein the system further comprises an application programming interface that allows software developers to create relationships between the file-of-reference and one or more third-party file.
27. The system of claim 21, wherein the system is incorporated into a cell phone or PDA-based navigation system.
28. The system of claim 21, wherein the system is used to provide a driving/traffic conditions update to an end user, operator, or system.
29. The system of claim 21, wherein the associating is performed by establishing a traversable link between the file-of-reference and a third-party file for the particular location.
30. The system of claim 21, wherein the file-of-reference and the third-party-file are one or more of a map, document, or database that contains geographic information for multiple locations.
31. A method for providing geographic item information for a location, using universal location referencing objects, comprising the steps of:
accessing a file-of-reference that comprises geographic item information, wherein the file-of-reference comprises geographic item information, including a geographic item associated with a location;
accessing a third-party file, wherein the third-party file comprises additional geographic item information that may be associated with the location; and
in response to a request for information for a particular location,
retrieving a universal location reference object for the particular location, wherein the universal location reference object comprises a universal location reference code that uniquely identifies the particular location, and further comprises identifying information for the particular location,
traversing links to the additional geographic item information in the third-party file,
associating the geographic item information in the file-of-reference with the additional geographic item information in the third-party file, to create a resultant information, and
providing the resultant information as a response to the request.
32. The method of claim 31, wherein the request is received from an operator.
33. The method of claim 31, wherein the request is received automatically from another system without the input of an operator.
34. The method of claim 31, wherein the universal location reference object is created only at the time of receiving the request.
35. The method of claim 31, wherein the logic further determines which of a plurality of universal location reference objects in the system are associated with the same particular location.
36. The method of claim 31, wherein the system further comprises an application programming interface that allows software developers to create relationships between the file-of-reference and one or more third-party file.
37. The method of claim 31, wherein the system is incorporated into a cell phone or PDA-based navigation system.
38. The method of claim 31, wherein the system is used to provide a driving/traffic conditions update to an end user, operator, or system.
39. The method of claim 31, wherein the associating is performed by establishing a traversable link between the file-of-reference and a third-party file for the particular location.
40. The method of claim 31, wherein the file-of-reference and the third-party-file are one or more of a map, document, or database that contains geographic information for multiple locations.
41. A data structure that uses universal location referencing objects to enable the providing of geographic item information for a location, comprising:
a pointer to a file-of-reference, wherein the file-of-reference comprises geographic item information, including a geographic item associated with a location;
a pointer to a third-party file, wherein the third-party file comprises additional geographic item information that may be associated with the location;
a universal location reference object that includes
a universal location reference code that uniquely identifies the location, identifying information for the location, and
links to the additional geographic item information in the third-party file; and
wherein the combination of pointer to a file-of-reference, pointer to a third-party file, and universal location reference object, allows a universal location reference object to be retrieved for a particular location, and the links traversed in that universal location reference object to associate the additional geographic item information in the third-party file with the geographic item information in the file-of-reference for that particular location.
42. A method of creating a data structure that uses universal location referencing objects to enable the providing of geographic item information for a location, comprising:
storing in a data structure a pointer to a file-of-reference, wherein the file-of-reference comprises geographic item information, including a geographic item associated with a location;
storing in the data structure a pointer to a third-party file, wherein the third-party file comprises additional geographic item information that may be associated with the location;
storing in the data structure a universal location reference object, wherein the universal location reference object includes
a universal location reference code that uniquely identifies the location,
identifying information for the location, and
using the combination of pointer to a file-of-reference, pointer to a third-party file, and universal location reference object, to allow a universal location reference object to be retrieved for a particular location, and the links traversed in that universal location reference object to associate the additional geographic item information in the third-party file with the geographic item information in the file-of-reference for that particular location.
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In accordance with an embodiment, the ULRO comprises one, or a plurality, k, of coordinate super-sets 207, wherein k is the number of coordinate super-sets comprised in the physical location that is in turn associated with the geographic item 220. For clarity, in the example shown in FIG. 2, a single coordinate super-set 203 is illustrated, but a ULRO could comprise one, two, or more coordinate super-sets. Each coordinate super-set 203 comprises k geographic coordinate sets 251. The geographic coordinate set 251 in turn comprises geographic coordinates, such as a latitude 252 and a longitude 254, and may also comprise an elevation 256. In accordance with an embodiment, the coordinate super-set 203 also comprises a coordinate classification 258 and other coordinate information 260. Optionally, information relating to a linear referencing system 259, such as those used in conjunction with major motorways or cell phone towers, can be included. This may, for example, include information relating to a cellular phone network associated with the location 220. This allows the system to use cell phone towers or linear referencing schemes or a combination of any of these instead of geographic coordinates, or alternatively the system can use a combination of both geographic and cell phone coordinates. In other embodiments, the coordinate super-set can be assigned with reference to a transportation network such as a railway system or a highway linear referencing system.
As described above, the ULRC 208 uniquely corresponds to the location. In accordance with an embodiment, the ULRC 208 comprises an identification code 262. The ULRC 208 may also comprise other ULRC information 264.
In accordance with an embodiment, the file-of-reference pointer field 209 comprises, when appropriate, a file-of-reference pointer 213 that designates said location 220 in said file-of-reference 230. Each file-of-reference pointer 213 may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation 266 of the file-of-reference pointer; information 268 identifying a type and class 269 of the file-of-reference pointer field, and other file-of-reference pointer field information 270.
In accordance with an embodiment, the third-party file pointer field 211 comprises one or more third-party file pointers 272, each of which uniquely designates one or more said location-associated item(s) 220 in one of said one or more third-party files 274. The number of third-party file pointers 272 pertaining to a particular one geographic item associated with a location 220 equals the total number of associations within those third-party files 274 that comprises the geographic item associated with the location 220. For any particular third-party file, there may be either one, or more than one association within each file. Assuming that each third-party file will usually provide at least some information for the geographic item associated with the location, then the total number of third-party pointers will typically be at least equal to the number of third-party files, but will often be greater by the number of additional associations. Each third-party file pointer 272 may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation 276 of the third-party file pointer, a type 278, and class 279 of the third-party file pointer, and other third-party file pointer field information 280.
In accordance with an embodiment, the file-of-reference back-pointer field 212 comprises a file-of-reference back-pointer 214 pointing from the file-of-reference 230 back to said central component of said ULRO 210, and more specifically back to the ULRC code, 262. The file-of-reference back-pointer, while a part of the logical ULRO, is resident in the file-of-reference and is there to facilitate the two way traversal between data items. Each file-of-reference back-pointer 214 may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation 291 of the file-of-reference back-pointer; a type 292 and class 293 of the file-of-reference back-pointer; and other file-of-reference back-pointer information 294.
In accordance with an embodiment, the third-party file back-pointer field 205 comprises one or more third-party file back-pointers 218, wherein each third-party file back-pointer 218 uniquely points from one of the third-party files 274 back to the ULRO 210, and more specifically back to the ULRC code 262. The third-party file back pointer, while a part of the logical ULRO, is resident in the third-party file, and is there to facilitate the two-way traversal between data items. As with the number of third-party file pointers above, the total number of third-party file back-pointers 218 associated with a particular location 220 will typically be at least equal to the number of third-party files 274 comprising the location, but since some third-party files may provide two or more associations, the total number will often be greater by that number of additional associations. Each third-party file back-pointer 218 may further comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation 295 of the third-party file back-pointer, information identifying a type 296, and class 297 of the third-party file back-pointer, and other third-party file back-pointer information 298.
The embodiment shown in FIG. 2 also includes a metadata field 216 comprising one or more of the following: a ULRO classification 282, a time of creation 284 of the ULRO, a type 285 and class 286 of the ULRO, and other metadata information 287. In accordance with an embodiment, the metadata information can be used to create hierarchical links between the ULROs, as described in further detail below. In accordance with other embodiments, the hierarchical information can be maintained in other logical components. With the star configuration shown in FIG. 2, it is easier to add another third party or user file (i.e. the total number N then growing to N+1) without affecting all of the previous users or third parties. For example, to establish a link or "connection" between an object in a first map and an object in a second map (assuming they are different versions of the same object), the system must maintain a pointer from the first map to the second map (and also from the second map to the first map). If a third map is subsequently introduced, together with its objects, then the first and second maps must both point to the new object in this third map, and similarly the third map must point back to both the first and second maps. So over the original two links are now introduced four new ones. Using a traditional method the number of such links would be N! (N factorial). However, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the ULRO provides that each of the first, second, and third maps only need to point to the ULRO of the object under consideration; while the URLO points to the objects of the first, second, and third maps. Thus, using this approach only 2 times N pointers are needed. It will be evident that, for a value of N equal to 3, then the total number of links will be identical using either approach, but for a value of N larger than 3, then the star configuration is "cheaper" (i.e. it requires fewer links). The larger the value of N, the greater the efficiencies.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates the flow of a ULRO process in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. As shown therein, the system or process receives a request for a ULRO, together with some of the information defining the location within it; and subsequently creates a ULRO. As described above, in accordance with an embodiment the ULRO comprises any of eight components: a set of name information; a super-set of coordinates; a ULRC; a file-of-reference pointer; a third-party file pointer field; a file-of-reference back pointer; a third party back pointer; and a metadata field.
As described above, the only mandatory field in the ULRO is the ULRC. It is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates not both be blank, although either one or the other of these fields can be blank for a particular ULRO. In step 300, a set of name information corresponding to a selected location s determined, wherein the location is also contained in one or more third-party files. In step 310, a super-set of coordinates corresponding to the location is determined. Subsequently, in step 320 the system provides the assignment of a ULRC to the location, if a ULRO does not already exist for the selected location. This ULRC is permanent and unique in its reference to this location. If a ULRO does already exist, then in step 320, the full ULRO is retrieved from a central repository. In step 330 a file-of-reference pointer field is created, comprising a file-of-reference pointer that designates a geographic item associated with a location in the file-of-reference. In step 340, a third-party file pointer field is created comprising one or more third-party file pointers, each of which uniquely designates the one or more location-associated geographic items in one of the one or more third-party files. In step 350, a file-of-reference back-pointer field is created comprising a file-of-reference back-pointer pointing from the file-of-reference back to the ULRC for that ULRO. This back-pointer physically resides in the file-of-reference or in a side file connected with the file-of-reference. In step 360, a third-party file back-pointer field is created comprising one or more third-party file back-pointers, wherein each third-party file back-pointer uniquely points from one of the location-associated items of one of the third-party files back to the ULRC for that ULRO. This back-pointer physically resides in the third-party file or a side file connected with the third-party file. In step 370, a metadata field is created. Finally, in step 380, the name information, super-set of coordinates, ULRC, file-of-reference pointer field, third-party file pointer field, file-of-reference back-pointer field, third-party file back-pointer field, and the metadata field are logically combined so as to create the ULRO. In the embodiment described in FIG. 3, multiple instances of ULROs can have their central parts stored in files easily accessible to both third-party file suppliers and to virtual database (VDB) applications providers, in addition to their customers.
As described above, the only mandatory field in the ULRO is the ULRC component. Similarly, not all of the above-described steps need be executed in forming the ULRO; nor do the executed steps need be performed in a particular sequence, or even at the same chronological moment in time. For example, some information, such as a name information, may be available at a first point in time, and may be included in the ULRO then. Other information, such as a coordinate information, may only become available at a later point in time, perhaps days or months later, and may be included in the ULRO only if and when that information becomes available.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart that illustrates in more detail the flow of a process in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Each of the steps shown in FIG. 4 corresponds largely to one or more of the logical entities shown in FIG. 2. As shown therein, the system (or process) receives information about a geographic item associated with a location, and creates a ULRO comprising any of the following components: a set of name information; a super-set of coordinates; a ULRC; a file-of-reference pointer field; a third-party file pointer field; and a metadata field; together with any applicable file-of-reference back-pointer field and third-party file back-pointer field.
The process shown in FIG. 4 comprises a number of steps or actions, which can generally be performed in any order. In particular, several of the steps are properly considered optional actions by the system, which may or may not be actually performed, such as for example, the decision to include a street number in an address, or not. As described above, the executed steps may also be performed at different chronological moments in time. The various options are shown in FIG. 4 for purposes of completeness. Depending on the actual implementation some of these steps may be entirely omitted, except that, in accordance with one embodiment the only mandatory field is the ULRC. It is also mandatory that the set of name information and the set of coordinates not both be blank, although either one of these variables can be blank for a particular ULRO.
In step 400, the system determines a set of name information corresponding to a geographic item that is associated with a location, wherein the location also has location-associated geographic items contained in a file-of-reference, or in one or more third-party files. In step 404, the system determines a set of name information that comprises one or more of the following: an address 406; a named place 408; a telephone number 412; geographic name information 414; and other name information 416. As part of the address information, in step 418, the system determines an address that comprises one or more of the following: a postal code 420; a street number 422; a street name 423; a hierarchical area address system with a sequence of names 424 and other address information 425. As part of the geographic name information, in step 426, the system determines a geographic name information that comprises one or more of the following: name information for a point feature 428; name information for a line feature 430; name information for an area feature 432; name information for a volume feature 434; name information for a segment of a line feature 436; name information for a sector of an area feature 438; name information for a section of a volume feature 440; and name information for one or more related locations 442. The set of name information for these one or more related locations is in addition to the name information for the primary location, and may include: information on the relationship among the types of geographic name information; and other name information. For example, if the ULRO defines geographic item associated with the city of name "San Francisco", then the name information for a related location might be "California", and the relationship may be of the type "city within a state".
In step 450, the system determines a super-set of coordinates corresponding to the geographic item associated with the location.
In step 452, the coordinate super-set comprises a number, k, of coordinate sets needed to describe the geometry of the location. Each coordinate set may comprise one or more of: a coordinate classification 455, geographic coordinate set 456, information 457 relating to a linear referencing system, such as those used in conjunction with major motorways or cell phone towers, and other coordinate information 458. As part of the geographic coordinate set, in step 459, each geographic coordinate set may comprise: a latitude 460, and a longitude 461, or the equivalent information from a different coordinate reference system. Each geographic coordinate set may in addition comprise an elevation 462.
In step 464, the system assigns a ULRC to the geographic item associated with the location if a ULRO does not already exist for the selected item. If a ULRO does already exist, then the ULRO is retrieved from a central repository. In step 466, the ULRC that is created or retrieved comprises an identification code. In step 468, the ULRC may comprise other ULRC information.
In step 469, when appropriate, a file-of-reference pointer field is created; comprising a file-of-reference pointer that designates said geographic item associated with the location in the file-of-reference. In step 470, the file-of-reference pointer field may comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the file-of-reference pointer field 471, a type and class of the file-of-reference pointer field 473 and other file-of-reference pointer field information 474. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can utilize a technique of offset pointer addressing described in copending European patent application entitled "______"; Inventor Hans Ulrich Otto; filed ______, and incorporated herein by reference.
In step 475, a third-party file pointer field is created. The third-party file pointer field comprises one or more third-party file pointers, each of which uniquely designates the one or more geographic items in the one of the one or more third-party files that comprised the location associated geographic item. In step 476, the third-party file pointer field may comprise one or more of: a time of creation of the third-party file pointer field 477, a type 478 and class 479 of the third-party file pointer field, and other third-party file pointer field information 480.
In step 481, when appropriate, a file-of-reference back-pointer field is created. The file-of-reference back-pointer field comprises a file-of-reference back-pointer pointing from the file-of-reference back to the ULRO, and specifically to the ULRC. In step 482, the file-of-reference back-pointer field may comprise one or more of: a time of creation of the file-of-reference back-pointer field 483; a type 484 and class 485 of the file-of-reference back-pointer field; and other file-of-reference back-pointer field information 486. The ULRO can be continuously updated and fields can be filled in at any time.
In step 487, a third-party file back-pointer field is created. The third-party file back-pointer field comprises one or more third-party file back-pointers, wherein each third-party file back-pointer uniquely points from one of said location-associated geographic items of one of said third-party files back to the ULRO. The third-party file back-pointer field may comprise one or more of the following: a time of creation of the third-party file back-pointer field 489, a type 490 and class 491 of the third-party file back-pointer field, and other third-party file back-pointer field information 492. The third-party file back-pointer is not necessarily created at the same time as the ULRO; it is often created when a ULRO receives a request from a third-party file that includes a geographic item to be associated with the ULRO.
In step 493, a metadata field may be created. In step 494, the metadata field comprises one or more of the following: a ULRO classification 495, a time of creation of the ULRO 496, a type and/or class of the ULRO 497, and other metadata information 498.
Finally, in step 499, the set of name information, the super-set of coordinates, the ULRC, the file-of-reference pointer field, the third-party file pointer field, the file-of-reference back-pointer field, the third-party file back-pointer field, and the metadata field, are combined to create the ULRO.
ULRO Advanced Features
As mentioned briefly above, several advanced features such as the use of ULRO hierarchies, and ULRO groups add extra functionality to the ULRO system described herein, and allow for great flexibility in linking geographic location information across increasing numbers of third-party files and resources:
ULRO Relationships and Hierarchies—FIG. 5 is an illustration that depicts the use of ULRO relationships and hierarchies, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 5 shows a system similar to FIG. 1, in which ULROs comprising permanent identification codes are assigned to geographic items associated with a location 122, 124, 126 in an electronic file-of-reference 130. The ULROs link the geographic items associated with locations in the file-of-reference with corresponding geographic information associated with a location in one or more third-party files 150, 152, 154. As shown in FIG. 5, a single geographic item associated with a location 120, may be linked to a single ULRO 112. Using ULRO relationships, this ULRO 112, may in turn be linked to other ULROs 114, 116 via ULRO relationships 502, 504. (Other ULRO relationships 506 may exist to link ULROs 114, 116 to one another). Since, for example, ULRO 114 and ULRO 116 do not themselves have a direct pointer link to the geographic item 122, without such a hierarchical link the system would only link the geographic information associated with location 122 via ULRO 112 to location-related information 156, 158. However, using ULRO relationships, the system is able to also link ULROs 114, 116, together with their location-related information 157, 159 to geographic information associated with location 122.
A special form of ULRO relationship is a ULRO hierarchy. In accordance with an embodiment, a ULRO hierarchy specifies that a first ULRO is a parent of a second ULRO; while the second ULRO is a child of the first ULRO. A parent ULRO may have many children, and grandchildren ULROs. Using ULRO hierarchies, the system can provide relationships that equate to familiar and easily understood concepts. For example, if ULRO 116 represents the city of San Francisco, then its parent ULRO 114 may be the state of California, and its parent the entire United States 112. When the ULRO relationship is a hierarchy, then to both avoid circular relationships, and to reduce the number of links that must be changed to reflect updated information, usually only parent/child links are maintained. So, as shown in FIG. 5, only the parent/child links 504, 506 would be used. The "grandparent" link 502 would not be used, nor would it be desirable to have it present in the system.
In accordance with an embodiment, the metadata information component can be used to record and maintain the relationships and hierarchical links between the ULROs. In accordance with other embodiments, the ULRO relationship and hierarchical information can be maintained in other logical components.
ULRO Groups—FIG. 6 is an illustration that depicts the use of ULRO groups, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 6 also shows a system similar to FIG. 1, in which ULROs comprising permanent identification codes are assigned to geographic items associated with locations 122, 124, 126 in an electronic file-of-reference 130, wherein ULROs link the geographic items associated with locations in the file-of-reference with corresponding location information in one or more third-party files 150, 152, 154. As shown in FIG. 6, in addition to the normal case in which a single geographic item associated with a location 122, 124, 126 is linked to a single ULRO 112, here another geographic item 512 can be linked using a group link 514 to a group of the ULROs 112, 114, 116, the group itself being indicated by the box 510. Linking a single location to a group in this manner allows for more optimal configuration, and also equates to familiar and easily understood concepts. For example, if items 122, 124, and 126 are local information pertaining to different counties in the state of California, then group 510 may be the entire group of ULROs for the counties in the state. Selecting item 510 is equivalent to selecting each of items 122, 124 and 126, but may be more convenient in certain applications
Offset Pointer Addressing—In accordance with an embodiment, offset pointer addressing allows the system to provide information for locations for which no current object exists. In this instance, instead of specifying a pointer to the geographic item in the file-of-reference or third party file, the system can specify a pointer to another geographic item in the file, together with an appropriate offset | 5,434 |
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Naissance à Philadelphie | Pennsylvanie, est un ancien joueur, entraîneur et consultant américain de basket-ball. Il évolue durant sa carrière aux postes d'arrière et d'ailier. Il est le fils du basketteur Matt Guokas, Sr..
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À l'issue de sa carrière de joueur et d'entraîneur, Matt Guokas est devenu consultant pour Fox Sports Florida, NBC, Sun Sports et Fox Sports Ohio dans les années 1990 et 2000. Matt Guokas et son père sont devenus les premiers père et fils à remporter un titre de champion NBA en tant que joueur, son père figurant dans l'effectif des Warriors de Philadelphie, champion lors de la première saison de la BAA, ancêtre de la NBA, en 1947. Par la suite, Rick Barry en 1975 et son fils Brent (2005 et 2007) et Bill Walton en 1977 et 1986 et son fils Luke (2009 et 2010) ont également réussi cette performance.
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To pay or not to pay a price premium for corporate social responsibility: A social dilemma and reference group theory perspective
Shruti Gupta
Division of Social Sciences (Abington)
Research in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has suggested that some consumers are willing to reward a company by indicating a willingness to pay a higher price for its products ("Yes" group) while other consumers are not ("No" group). This article explains the difference between the two groups by framing the decision to cooperate (for the social good) or defect, as a social dilemma. Using literature from the areas of social dilemma and reference group theory the framework suggests that the difference between the "Yes" and "No" groups will depend on certain individual factors: social value orientation, trust in others, reference group influence (i.e. in-group identity and expectation of others' cooperation), perceived efficacy, and factors that influence the costs of cooperation to the individual such as product substitutability and product preference. Using an internet sample of 468 U.S. coffee consumers, test results show that with the exception of an individual's social value orientation, all other above factors significantly differentiate between the "Yes" and "No" groups.
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Gupta, S. (2015). To pay or not to pay a price premium for corporate social responsibility: A social dilemma and reference group theory perspective. Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, 19(1), 24-45.
Gupta, Shruti. / To pay or not to pay a price premium for corporate social responsibility : A social dilemma and reference group theory perspective. In: Academy of Marketing Studies Journal. 2015 ; Vol. 19, No. 1. pp. 24-45.
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Creative Assembly has been making Total War games since 2000. Until now, they've all focused on historical eras. From 14th century Japan to the early modern period of the 18th century.
The developer is now tackling the fantasy genre with Total War: WARHAMMER. In their latest trailer, we see Dwarfen High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer with his hands full as the Greenskins bring the battle to the Dwarfen capital Karaz-A-Karak.
We get a good look at Dwarfen artillery<|fim_middle|> the dwarfs as "although short, they are powerfully built, strong and accomplished fighters." One of the challenges for the animators at Creative Assembly is "evoking that feeling of bundled strength, like a coiled spring unleashed." Here's a more in-depth look at the design of the dwarfen units.
We see a lot of this in the gaming industry. Gaming trailers can be anything from in-game footage to cinematic trailers and in-engine cinematics.
It's not quite in-game graphics, but it's the direction Creative Assembly is trying to go towards. The Battle of Black Fire Pass Developer Walkthrough is what the gameplay looks like right now.
Remember, this footage is pre-alpha. There's still a lot of work to be done. Creative Assembly hasn't mentioned a specific release date for Total War: WARHAMMER outside of 2016.
Creative Assembly is going to have a busy year in front of them. WARHAMMER and Halo Wars 2 in 2016? It's going to be a great year for RTS fans. | and ground forces in the brief battle shown. The battle is capped off with a squadron of gyrocopters joining the fray.
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Sean Connery's Bond Lifestyle
Sean Connery was the first actor to portray James Bond in the EON produced 007 films, and the Scot has been living the Bond Lifestyle ever since, from taking residence in the Bahamas and playing golf wearing his Slazenger sweater to driving a fast BMW. Connery also lend his image to promote Louis Vuitton, several whisky brands, and Citroën cars.
Although he proudly is a Scotsman and a strong supporter of (an independent) Scotland, Sir Sean Connery has taken up residence in sunnier (and more tax-friendly) places, most notably in the Bahamas. Connery lives in the plush Lyford Cay neighbourhood on New Providence Island, surrounded on three sides by Clifton Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Bahamas is a classic Bond location: many Bond scenes have been filmed here, including for Thunderball (1964) and Never Say Never Again (1983) both starring Connery, Licence To Kill (1989) and Casino Royale (2006) and subaquatic scenes were filmed for You Only Live Twice (1965), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).
Combining two Bond elements, celebrity photographer Annie Leibowitz shot a Louis Vuitton campaign on the Bahamas with Sir Sean himself posing on a dock with a Louis Vuitton bag.
The caption of the ad reads:
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Sir Sean Connery and Louis Vuitton are proud to support The Climate Project.
Other celebrities that participated in the campaign include Madonna (who also performed the title song for Die Another Day), Keith Richards, Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola and Bono.
See some footage of Connery and Leibowitz in this "Making of" video below:
James Bond has been using Louis Vuitton bags in several movies, for example some suitcases in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and the bags and suitcases in A View To A Kill (1985).
Sean Connery lived in Marbella, a town in the south of Spain, for many years from the early 1980s until 1999. He enjoyed playing golf on one of many courses in the sunny area and relaxing in the luxury villa near the ocean.
See more images of Connery in his Marbella home in 1983 on Corbis.
Connery sold his villa in Marbella in 1999, after which 72 luxury apartments were built on the spot, getting him involved in a real estate fraud scandal. In 2014 the Spanish court said there was no evidence Connery had been involved in any illegal real estate dealings and dismissed all charges against him, but 50 others were convicted. Many other celebrities own properties in Marbella, George Clooney recently acquired a house in the seaside town.
James Bond may have only discovered BMW in GoldenEye (1995), but original Bond Sir Sean Connery is said to have owned a BMW 635 CSi when he lived in Marbella in the 1980s and 1990s.
Through an eBay auction in 2008 it became known that Sean Connery's vehicle of choice was an Alpine white BMW 635 CSi with blue leather interior.
According to the eBay seller, Connery was the first and only owner and drove it around in the Costa del Sol from 1986 to 1997. At the time Connery owned a house in Marbella. The seller acquired the car at an auction in London in 1998. The Spanish Registration Document apparently proves the BMW was Connery's (although this brings to mind the Seinfeld scene about Jon Voight's LeBaron). The BMW sold on eBay for only £7,212. If anyone knows the whereabouts of this car today and can show the original paperwork, please send a message. UPDATE 2021: the car has appeared at auction at The Market, read more.
Even though Connery grew up in Scotland (a country famous for the many old golf courses), Sean Connery's love for the golf didn't start until he played the game for the movie Goldfinger (1964).
"I never had a hankering to play golf, despite growing up in Scotland just down the road from Bruntsfield Links, which is one of the oldest golf courses in the world. It wasn't until I was taught enough golf to look as though I could outwit the accomplished golfer Gert Fröbe in Goldfinger that I got the bug. I began to take lessons on a course near Pinewood film studios and was immediately hooked on the game. Soon it would nearly take over my life." says Connery in his autobiography Being a Scot.
The golf opportunities in the sunny South of Spain was one of the reasons he lived in Marbella for many years. Connery played several celebrity games, for example Bing Crosby's showbusiness amateur teams against professional golfers in America and the Michael Jordan celebrity tournament in 2005 on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
In the movie Goldfinger, Sean Connery famously wears a burg<|fim_middle|>ery promoted the Japanese whisky Suntory (a whisky actually consumed by Bond in You Only Live Twice). Read more about Suntory whisky (and about Bill Murray's James Bond impression) in this article.
In 2004, Connery finally lends his image to Scotch whisky, in the Dewar's 12 Special Reserve campaign called "Some age, others mature". The commercial features the younger Sean Connery as James Bond meeting an older Sean Connery recommending him a Dewar's.
Another commercial where a young and old Connery are combined is for French carmaker Citroën. Shots of a young and an old Sean Connery are mixed with either a Citroen C5 and a C6.
Although not particularly a Bond car, a famous Citroën was seen in a James Bond film: a yellow 2CV owned by Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
Sources: CarPictures, The Telegraph, SeanConneryOnline, Anthony Sinclair, BBC, TheLocal.es
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Rob McLauchlin on 15 April, 2015 - Permalink
Excellent article and very interesting! I was looking up for more info yday whilst watching DR NO, again. This should be included in the JB Achives book. More please!!!
Paul on 17 April, 2015 - Permalink
Too bad, we don't see the Citroën advertising in France (for German eyes only?)
Ron Head on 29 April, 2015 - Permalink
Yes, an excellent article. And I finally got to see the two commercials with two Connerys in them.
Kathy Isaac on 10 October, 2016 - Permalink
Love learning about my favorite actor, Sir Sean Connery. Please keep in touch with your devoted fans. You, Sir, are The Man - a man's man that makes women feel safe yet wary in a good way !
Rod Ragazzo on 21 August, 2019 - Permalink
One of my favorite restaurants on Parsdise Island, Bahamas was Cafe Martinique, as filmed in Thunderball. Though I preferred the original restaurant to the one now in the Marina, I would like to see pictures , inside and out, of the original Cafe Martinique.
harry stern on 07 November, 2019 - Permalink
Totally agree...since the change in chefs the menu has not lived up to it's past... no longer will you find the pork chops and great seafood dishes that once graced its offerings. We skipped this venue on our last visit to the Island.
Aipple on 10 November, 2020 - Permalink
RIP Sean Scotland is never going to be the same, the best Bond has passed , he will live on. | undy Slazenger v-neck sweater, but it is not well known that he also wore Slazenger sweaters later in his life while playing golf.
The burgundy Slazenger sweater was recently reissued by Slazenger heritage - get it exclusively at the official Slazenger Heritage website (use code JBLSH10 to get 10% off).
Recently more colors of the sweater were released, including one in Marl Grey, a color worn by Sean Connery, also available on Slazenger Heritage (use code JBLSH10 to get 10% off). Several other famous golf players including Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller wore Slazenger golf sweaters.
With so many great Scottish whisky brands and Connery being so proud of his Scottish heritage, it is curious that Connery has mostly promoted whisky from other countries. At the time of You Only Live Twice, Connery appeared in ads for the American bourbon brand Jim Beam.
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Tom Wolfe: Writing Nonfiction 'Became A Great Game And A Great Experiment' Wolfe began experimenting with nonfiction writing techniques in the 1960s. The "new journalism" pioneer and best-selling author died Monday. He spoke with Fresh Air in 1987 and 2012.
Tom Wolfe: Writing Nonfiction 'Became A Great Game And A Great Experiment'
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Best-selling author and journalist Tom Wolfe found that if he tried to fit in with the people he was covering, it deprived him the opportunity to ask obvious questions. He's shown above in New York in 2004. Jim Cooper/AP Photo hide caption
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Best-selling author and journalist Tom Wolfe found that if he tried to fit in with the people he was covering, it deprived him the opportunity to ask obvious questions. He's shown above in New York in 2004.
Tom Wolfe wasn't interested in fitting in. In his signature white suit, the best-selling author and journalist described himself as "the village information gatherer."
"For me, it is much more effective to arrive in any situation as a man from Mars," he told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1987.
Wolfe died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.
Wolfe was at the vanguard of "new journalism" in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, he said, journalists were expected to assume a "neutral" or "objective" voice. "I frankly found it absolutely boring," he said — and made "a great game and a great experiment" of using "techniques that short story writers and novelists use."
Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88
His works included The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,<|fim_middle|> have to take the position that ... the process of discovery that you are going through is as important — if not more important — than any issue that is involved in the story that you're writing. Looking back ... I think it was important to see exactly how the phenomenon that I called "Radical Chic" worked and what it was all about. ...
You can't afford to be constantly wringing your hands over the impact of what you're doing, whether you're talking about the impact on the individuals that you're writing about, or the impact on the issues that are involved — in this case, support for radical groups in the late 1960s. I was heavily criticized after that for ... drying up fundraising for these radical groups among wealthy people, among socialites and in New York. Well, whether I did or I didn't, I don't think you can worry about that. I think if you start worrying about that you're no longer writing, you're involved in public relations.
If I had my choice I would be writing by typewriter. ... The computer kept winking at me, you know, like: 'OK, big boy. I'm ready. Let's have some action here.' ... It drove me nuts.
On writing his 2012 book 'Back to Blood' by hand
If I had my choice I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked ... It's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer. And the computer kept winking at me, you know, like: "OK, big boy. I'm ready. Let's have some action here." ... It drove me nuts. The fact is, I was born too early. That's all that means.
On describing the 'status' of his characters
This attention to status ... started when I was in graduate school. ... I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said: Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms. ... This, obviously, is the way to analyze people in all their manifestations.
I mean, my theory is that every moment, even when you're by yourself in the bathroom, you are trying to live up to certain status requirements as if somebody were watching. ... It's only when your life is in danger that you drop all that.
On being an octogenarian
I always say: Look, that's a hobby of mine. It's not an occupation. It's something, you know, I like to do at night. But I think it doesn't really matter how old you are if your health is all right and your mind hasn't gone yet.
Beth Novey, Bridget Bentz and Nicole Cohen adapted these interviews for the Web. | The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Wolfe spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1987 and with Dave Davies in 2012. We remember Wolfe with excerpts from those two interviews below. The audio link above contains only experts from the 1987 interview.
On getting writers' block while working on a story about customized cars in Los Angeles in the early 1960s — and how that lead to an epiphany about his journalistic style
I went to the managing editor of Esquire, Byron Dobell ... and I told him ... "Byron I'm sorry, I just simply cannot write the story, I just have to drop the assignment." He says: "You can't do that. ... Why don't you just give us your notes and we'll get some competent writer to put them together?"
So with a very heavy heart one night ... I started typing up these notes in the form of a memo ... as fast as I could do it, to get this humiliating task over with. And I ended up typing at top speed for about eight or nine hours. And in that time I produced 50 typewritten pages.
I took this over to Esquire, turned it in about 9:00 o'clock in the morning, went home to sleep. I got a call about 4:00 that afternoon from Byron Dobell saying, "Well Tom, we're going to knock the 'Dear Byron' off the top of your memo and run the memo as the article."
In writing what I thought was a memorandum to a single individual who was about my own age ... I had somehow liberated myself from all of the fears and all of the constraints that you feel when you are going to write something as formal as a magazine article for a national audience.
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That article became ... "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby," which was the title of my first book. What had happened was, in writing what I thought was a memorandum to a single individual who was about my own age ... I had somehow liberated myself from all of the fears and all of the constraints that you feel when you are going to write something as formal as a magazine article for a national audience. I had reached that kind of tone that a lot of people are able to reach in writing a letter to a friend.
On how his writing style can also yield bad writing
It can lead to excesses, particularly in the form of purple prose. It's a very demanding form and I think a lot of people who try it don't realize how much reporting you have to do first. Without the information behind it, all of these techniques — which are things like scene-by-scene construction and use of extended passages of dialogue and point of view in the Henry James sense — without the facts, which can only be obtained through reporting, it can really fall flat. ... It can become just a verbose technique.
On wearing white suits and his conscious effort to not try to 'fit in'
I used to try to fit in. I remember doing a thing on stock car racing. I went down to North Wilkesboro, N.C., ... and I wore a green tweed suit and a blue button down shirt and a black neck tie and some brown suede shoes and a brown Borsalino hat. I figured that was really casual.
After about five days, Junior Johnson, whom I was writing about, came to me and he says, "I don't mean to be rude or anything ... but people I've known all my life down here ... they keep asking me, 'Junior, who is that little green man following you around?'"
It was then that it dawned on me that ... nobody for 50 miles in any direction was wearing a suit of any color, or a tie for that matter, or a hat, and the less said about brown suede shoes the better. ...
I was also depriving myself of the ability to ask some very obvious questions ... if you're pretending to fit in, you can't ask these obvious questions.
On the 'bargain' between the press and the people they cover
I don't think it's an inalienable right of the American press to be cooperated with. You know, most people if they let the press observe them, are striking an implicit bargain. They know that there's something in it for the press and they feel that there's something in it for themselves, and I think we might as well be frank about it — it is some kind of bargain.
On whether the people he writes about ever regret allowing him access — for example, those portrayed in his 1970 essay "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's" which mocked white liberals eating fancy hors d'oeuvres at a fundraising party for the Black Panthers at Leonard Bernstein's house
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This week we talk about the power of videos. Hector Garcia walks us through how he's created 1<|fim_middle|>. Currently he is a practicing CPA in Miami, FL focusing on small businesses that want to improve their operations with QuickBooks. Currently, Hector teaches QuickBooks in his Classroom in his Miami, FL training center; and runs his accounting/consulting practice.
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POOL PARTY!!!! 69 Bar, Baby Boom,<|fim_middle|> selected charities (TBA). | La Bamba, and Sensations are delighted to announce that they will be hosting a Pool Party at the Cocco Resort on Saturday, July 18. The party starts at 2 p.m., and goes on 'til 10/11 p.m. The party will consist of afternoon pool-based games, DJs and drinks promos. Some games may involve LBs and customers, so bring your mankinis… In the evening, there will be a barbecue, a raffle with a minimum of 20 prizes to be won, more DJs, and special entertainment. Raffle prizes include Free Bar Fines at each of the bars, a night's stay at La Bamba, a case of Hong Thong, specially-made bar T-shirts, & etc… Tickets cost 1200 baht, and there are currently 100 available. The ticket price includes entry for the afternoon and evening, transport to and from the Cocco Resort (via baht bus shuttle service from Action St. pick-up point), 4 free raffle tickets (more will be available on the day), and as much as you can eat at the barbecue. So come along and join the fun! Tickets available at 69 Bar, Baby Boom, La Bamba, and Sensations. NOTE: This event is NOT a charity fund-raiser. However, if the event is a success, then all profits will be reserved to cover the cost of staging a second event, which WOULD be a charity fund-raising event, later in the year. That way the ticket price for the charity event could be kept down, and ALL money raised on that day and through ticket sales for that event would go to | 349 |
Discover the Loiret Region: castles, religious buildings, museums, and the most beautiful villages in France.
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Chambord, Chenonceau, Amboise, Blois, Cheverny, Clos Lucé, Chaumont, Azay-le-Rideau, Villandry…
At less than one hour from the campsite you can discover the Castles of the Loire. Many castles date from the fifteenth
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If you would like to go around the world in a day: the Beauval Zoo is a must see! It is ranked among the 15 best zoos in the world, and is very committed to the protection of endangered species. It houses more than 4,600 animals (pandas, koalas, okapi, white tigers, manatees, even white lions!) in exceptional facilities: tropical greenhouses, plains, nurseries, and aquariums. By car, it's just one hour by car from the campsite, and is a truly magical experience for children of all ages.
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I have been using a default them for blogging, Twenty Ten I think it is called. Experimented with similar themes, but always came back to the basic. As a result of the assignment, I experimented not only with similar themes, but with very different ones. I tried the new WP theme, Blask, then tried ECTO, Sandbox (which I liked because it reminded me of Wikipedia once I changed the background color), and was somewhat attracted to Syntax. Then, for something entirely different, I tried Lovecraft and let it sit overnight.
In the morning, Lovecraft just didn't do anything for me. So I searched free<|fim_middle|> be restored.
On the job search side, I ran into a fellow retiree in the lobby of our building last night who had just returned from an overseas WAE (While Actually Employed, government-speak for the program whereby federal retirees can return to work on a part-time basis). I mentioned thinking about WAE work, but only domestically, not overseas. Then she mentioned that she had received information about volunteer opportunities at the Smithsonian and at the Library of Congress. Inside my head, bells started ringing and light started blinking! Yeah, I could apply my recently acquired librarianship skills in a meaningful way at either. So when I got to my apartment, I went immediately to the websites of both to look up potential opportunities. And, Bingo!
So I am checking it out further. Wish me luck. | themes (for now, I might decide to try a premium theme in the future when my revenue stream recommences) and came across Libretto. I tried it. I customized it just a bit. And I activated it. I think I really like it! May stick with it for a few days. May switch back to Lovecraft. My pages are hidden, but perhaps they need to be, and perhaps that function can | 86 |
Philip A. 'Phil' Dieffenbach
Philip A. 'Phil' Dieffenbach, 93, affectionately known as Pere to family and friends, died March 29.
Active and engaged until the very end of his life, he ran a marathon, survived leukemia in his mid-50s and played tennis and fished into his 80s.
He was a lover of bridge and opera and was happiest living near the beach, dividing his time each year between Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Anna Maria Island.
He was born in 1926 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and was one of seven children. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and earned a master's degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in natural gas technology.
During his time in Chicago, he met and married Margaret Hawkins. In the 1950s and '60s, he helped design and oversee the construction and management of the natural gas distribution pipeline system in the western United States. In 1968, he earned a master's in business administration from the University of Colorado and became an executive in corporate planning for the Southern Railway Company, where in the 1970s and '80s, he helped shape the current structure of the freight rail system in the eastern United States.
He loved family events, from vacations in warm and wonderful places to Christmas and birthday celebrations, where a running joke was his gag<|fim_middle|>' Peduzzi
Jacqueline "Jackie" Peduzzi, 79, of Bradenton, died March 28.
She was born Oct. 21, 1939, in Yonkers, New York, and came to live on Anna Maria Island in 1962.
She followed her parents, Peter and Lucille Pirrone, to the area, where they owned and operated the Harbor Lights Motel. The motel had 35 efficiency rooms on Gulf to Bay property in Bradenton Beach. The property was sold in 1984 and is now the Silver Surf.
She and husband Anthony "Tony" were married 37 years.
She was a devoted mother and raised four lovely children. She loved all her family and aspired to always bring them together for family celebrations.
They were past members of St. Bernard Catholic Church in Holmes Beach and St Peter & Paul the Apostles Catholic Church in Bradenton. They volunteered spiritual time with Cursillo Movement.
The couple operated a window tinting company, SolarGuardian, for almost 20 years.
Mrs. Peduzzi was active with her social sorority, Beta Sigma Phi, and served as past president. She also volunteered with Solve House.
Her hobbies included dancing, home decor, sewing, art collecting and clay sculpting and pottery making.
She was a past member of the Longboat Key Art Center and won many contests with her ceramic work.
And she loved pets, especially dogs.
A visitation will be held at 2 p.m., with a service following at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at Brown & Sons Funeral Homes & Crematory 43rd Street Chapel in Bradenton. Donations may be made to Tidewell Hospice or the Bishop Animal Shelter. Condolences may be made online to www.brownandsonsfuneral.com.
Mrs. Peduzzi is survived by her daughters, Laura and Lisa, of Bradenton; sons Peter and Paul, of Bradenton; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
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April 9, 2019 Island real estate transactions – 04-10-2019 | gifts of tennis balls or a dreaded ornamental rooster sculpture. His strong intellect, dry wit and zest for life will be missed by all who knew him.
A celebration of life will be held 4-6 p.m. Monday, April 15, at the Shell Point Clubhouse, 6800 Fotilla Drive, Holmes Beach.
He is survived by his special companion, Lynn Carter; brothers Arthur and William and wife Barbara; children Carl and wife Ann, David and wife Cynthia, Louise and husband Randy and Ann and husband Ben; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Vivian G. Nystrom
Vivian G. Nystrom, 95, died April 3. She was born to John and Eva Arbanas in Chicago.
She attended elementary and high school in Chicago and was later employed at the City Service Company in the city.
In 1944, she met Roy Nystrom while he was in the U.S. Navy. They were married in 1947 and moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and later to Crystal Lake, Illinois, where he was a teacher.
As their children got older, Mrs. Nystrom went on to work at Harvey Hamper Co., where she appreciated the flexibility they offered her with summers off. When her husband retired, the couple moved to Holmes Beach but spent their summers in Hayward, Wisconsin.
She was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed attending her children's and grandchildren's athletic and school events. She was creative and enjoyed going to art shows and crafting holiday decorations. She was a talented seamstress, and her creations included holiday dresses, prom gowns and two daughters' wedding gowns.
Mrs. Nystrom loved tennis — as a spectator and a player. And she loved the water, whether she was in it swimming or sitting on the deck and watching the activities of others on the Lac Court Oreilles in Wisconsin.
She was an active member of the Home Arts Guild and the PEO. She loved to play cards and never turned down a card game. She taught many games to her children and grandchildren, but bridge was her real passion.
She was an icon on Anna Maria Island, where she grew the bridge club at Roser Memorial Community Church from just a couple of tables to full capacity.
She enjoyed regularly attending and worshiping with her friends and pastor Jerry Jeter at RiverLife Church in Bradenton.
The family would like to thank the staff at Windsor Oaks (Discovery Commons) of Bradenton for their care, along with Tidewell Hospice.
A celebration of Life will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at Riverlife Church, 1012 57th St. E., Bradenton. Brown & Sons Funeral Homes is in charge of arrangements.
Condolences may be made online to www.brownandsonsfuneral.com.
She is survived by her children Ronniece and husband Jim Brady, Linnea and husband Scott Minter, Roy Jr. and wife Gwen, Noreen and husband Daryl Williams; seven grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; and brother Ronald Arbanas.
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My guys from Arsenal almost stunk the joint out against Leicester City. The guys needed two late goals to escape with a 4-3 win over the Foxes at our house Emirates<|fim_middle|> compelled to amble forward and frighten Arsenal's rearguard from open play.
The makeshift defence that Wenger pieced together, without the senior influences of Laurent Koscielny, Per Mertesacker or Shkodran Mustafi, was jittery and easily stretched. A bizarre half ended with a reprieve for the home team. After Lacazette's shot was blocked Leicester's defenders raised choreographed "offside" arms while Sead Kolasinac ambled on to poke the ball for Danny Welbeck to prod in an equaliser. The half-time whistle was greeted by bubbling chitter-chatter about the reintroduction to the inexplicable emotional strain of Premier League chaos.
It did not ease off too much after the break. Emergency action from Petr Cech, twice, to deny the onrushing Vardy and then a clever shot from Riyad Mahrez, merely delayed the seemingly inevitable. Mahrez's well-whipped corner was gobbled up by Vardy with a textbook glancing header. Set piece, simple stuff for Leicester. It was the umpteenth time one of their players had moved untracked on to an aerial ball. Wenger later tried a touch of positive spin by saying his team were good at corners last season and insisted they could work on this and iron out the kinks. Time will tell on that one.
The introduction of Giroud and Ramsey was influential, and a missed handball from Mesut Özil in the build-up to the equaliser was also helpful. Following a corner, Ramsey neatly controlled Xhaka's dinked cross with one touch and buried his shot into the far corner with the next.
Oops !!! Signs of complacency or just simple boredom ? | .
EPL Match Report:" Late goals from Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud earned Arsenal a comeback 4-3 win over Leicester City in a thrilling 2017/18 Premier League season opener.
The scoring started inside two minutes when Alexandre Lacazette found the net with a header on his PL debut.
But Shinji Okazaki nodded in from close-range three minutes later before Jamie Vardy converted a superb Marc Albrighton cross to put the Foxes 2-1 up.
Danny Welbeck scored in first-half stoppage-time before Vardy restored Leicester's advantage with a header from Riyad Mahrez's corner on 56 minutes.
But Ramsey struck from a Granit Xhaka cross on 83 minutes and Giroud's header went in off the crossbar from another Xhaka delivery two minutes later to settle a gripping contest.
The Guardians Amy Lawrence wrote this:" Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to a new season reminiscent of the old at the Emirates, where the good news is Arsenal broke their transfer record for a striker but the bad news is they ended their first game of the season with a classically dysfunctional defence. It was an extraordinary combination – a midfield player at right-back, two left-backs at centre-back and a right-back at left-back. Confused? Who wouldn't be. Leicester had all the clarity as they took advantage and a 3-2 lead into the final stages of an intoxicating tussle.
Oh Arsenal. Typical Arsenal. Absurd Arsenal. But where in seasons past this kind of situation tended to end with opening day navel-gazing, this time they found the resources to twist the tale with a theatrical flourish. Wenger threw on Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud to attempt a rescue mission and both of them delivered with goals to transform the atmosphere from fretful and pressurised to the liberating joy of a thumping comeback. The match-winner from Giroud sent shudders through north London. In finding the composure to power a header while wrestling his marker he made his point that the purchase of Alexandre Lacazette would not easily make him expendable.
Arsenal's penchant for starting seasons by getting a wobble in early has become something of an epidemic and they made a good stab at a repeat here. Arsène Wenger leaned on the game's statistics to suggest this win was somehow logical – bags of possession and 27 shots for his team compared to three on target for the visitors – but few in the crowd would have argued had Leicester been able to hold on to the lead they seized with moments of ferocious determination.
A frenetic opening five minutes set the tone and presented a microcosm of all of Arsenal's weird, paradoxical sense of possibility. Their ability to exude verve and be vulnerable in the same few flashes of a game was there for all to see. Day-one optimism cascaded down from the stands as the record signing Lacazette opened the scoring with his first meaningful Premier League touch. A mere two minutes into his official Arsenal career he was unmarked in the box to steer a powerful header past Kasper Schmeichel.
The Emirates crowd cherished the moment. But not for long. Leicester's response was resolute and instant, exposing the old familiar defensive off-switch in Arsenal's mechanics. Leicester loaded players into forward positions and when Marc Albrighton floated a cross over to the far post, the impressive Harry Maguire was more alert to the situation than any Arsenal defender. He sprinted to nod the ball back to Shinji Okazaki, whose movement was sparkier than any opponent and he finished instinctively.
Having equalised, it would have been rude of Leicester to turn down the opportunity to take the lead in the 28th minute. Mohamed Elneny and Granit Xhaka were punished for some casual passing in midfield as Albrighton pounced to carve the kind of opening that inspired Jamie Vardy to become synonymous with so many Leicester parties. The strike was smart and true.
The goal sucked the confidence out of Arsenal. Rob Holding was robbed of the ball. Leicester zoomed into another break and Okazaki was a fraction away from heading in a third. It spoke volumes of how Leicester interpreted the temperature of the game that both their centre-backs, Maguire and Wes Morgan, felt | 880 |
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Home » An Equivalent Circuit and Modeling Method for Defected Ground Structure and Its Application to the Design of Microwave Circuits
An Equivalent Circuit and Modeling Method for Defected Ground Structure and Its Application to the Design of Microwave Circuits
In this article, the equivalent circuit and modeling method for a defected ground structure (DGS) is proposed, to be used in the design of a microwave circuit. Using the proposed equivalent circuit permits the optimization of the DGS circuits. Simulati...
Jun-Seok Park, Kookmin University
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in studying microstrip lines with various periodic structures that prohibit wave propagation in certain frequency bands, including photonic bandgap (PBG) and DGS.1-10 Each periodic structure has its own properties and advantages. DGS, which is realized by etching only a few areas on the ground plane under the microstrip line, is also a kind of periodic structure.4
In the microwave region, PBG structures have been used in the design of antennas, cavities, frequency-selective surfaces and many other structures. However, most of these PBG applications are limited to providing deep and wide stopband performance of the circuits.1-2 Meanwhile, DGS provides a significant advantage by extending its applicability to other microwave circuits, such as filters, dividers, couplers, amplifiers and oscillators.3,7,8,9 PBG has also been used in filter designs to improve their stopband performance by rejecting the higher order passbands, due to its inherent stopband behavior. Both PBGs and DGS have been very effectively used to improve the power-added efficiency (PAE), which is the most crucial factor in power amplifier design, by terminating the harmonics adequately. However, the previous DGS design methods for various microwave circuits have employed not its equivalent circuit but EM-simulated S-parameters for a specific DGS circuit. Since the previous design methods are not based on its equivalent circuit, time-consuming iterative design procedures are required to accomplish the design goals. In this article, a new accurate equivalent circuit model is proposed, which can be applied to the design of a microwave circuit with circuit.7,11,12 Thus, a microwave circuit including the proposed DSG equivalent circuit can be optimized to meet the specifications.
In order to show the efficiency of this method for the design of various microwave circuits, using the proposed equivalent circuit of the DGS, a harmonic rejection low pass filter with a 4 GHz cutoff frequency is designed with a circuit optimization procedure. Simulation and measurements for the optimized low pass filter are compared. As another example of the application of a DGS equivalent circuit, a very efficient design method is presented for the purpose of improving the performance of a class-AB power amplifier by using the optimizing procedure for a DGS power amplifier output circuit. The presented design method employs the equivalent circuit of the DGS as a matching circuit at the output of a power amplifier. The output matching circuit, including the DGS circuit, provides the optimum load condition to obtain the maximum output power and the desirable harmonic rejection for improving the efficiency of the power amplifier. In order to show the validity of this method, a 20 W power amplifier was designed to operate at 2.11 to 2.17 GHz. Three kinds of power amplifiers have been fabricated to compare their results. The effectiveness of the proposed design method compared with the previous design method is shown by comparing performances in terms of output power, harmonic power and power-added efficiency. In addition, a comparison between the results of the conventional method of using DGS and the results of the newly proposed method was made, to disclose the efficiency of the proposed method. In addition, a novel DGS microwave oscillator is demonstrated to show a design example fully based on the proposed equivalent circuit.
Modeling Method
Along a microstrip line, DGS can be achieved by etching a dumbbell shape area in the metallic ground plane. Figure 1 shows a DGS microstrip with a unit defect, which is etched in the ground plane, and its newly proposed equivalent circuit.
A DGS unit has a cutoff frequency at a certain frequency due to the increase of the effective series inductance of the transmission line. It also has an attenuation pole above the cutoff frequency. Thus, in the equivalent circuit, the etched defect on the metallic ground plane can be modeled as a parallel LC resonant circuit with a parallel conductance. But this parallel LC resonant circuit is not sufficient to explain the effect of discontinuities on the performance of the DGS. The proposed equivalent circuit includes the parallel capacitance that is due to the relatively large fringing field at the step discontinuity plane on the metallic ground surface. Since the parallel capacitance causes a change in the characteristic impedance level and electrical length of<|fim_middle|>, was designed by iterative EM-simulations for a DGS. However, this method uses the circuit optimizing procedure for the design of a power amplifier including the DGS circuit, which is represented by its equivalent circuits.
The substrate used for the design and implementation of the output matching circuits is Taconic's TLX-9, which has a dielectric constant of 2.5 and a thickness of 30 mil. At 2.14 GHz and Vds = 27 V, an optimum load impedance of ZL = 11.65-j42.05 Ω was obtained for maximum output power. The implementation of the actual optimized DGS cell used in the amplifier output circuit could be achieved by a simple conformal mapping formula between the dimensions of the original unit cell and the frequency response of its equivalent circuit. To obtain more accurate dimensions of the DGS circuit, iterative 3-D EM simulation is required. Figure 4 shows the comparison of circuit- and EM-simulations for the output matching circuit of the power amplifier. Despite differences in the comparison of the overall simulated performances, the S-parameters are well matched at the fundamental frequency of 2.14 GHz. It is noticeable that by employing the designed output DGS matching circuit for a power amplifier, an excellent rejection for the second harmonic power by 40 dB can be expected.
By using the optimized output DGS matching circuit, a simulation for the output power spectrum with two-tone excitation was performed. Figure 5 shows the predicted fundamental output power and IM product spectral outputs from the amplifier with an input of two tones of equal amplitude at 2.1400 and 2.1405 GHz. The amplitude of the fundamentals for the two-tone simulation was 27 dBm. The predicted results for the designed power amplifier with the DGS matching circuit show fundamental signals of 40.1 dBm and IM3 distortion products of 7.8 dBm.
Design of a Microwave DGS Oscillator
Figure 6 shows a DGS oscillator configuration, which provides an effective parallel feedback path and a frequency-selective circuit by using a DGS. In order to show the validity of the proposed DGS and the oscillator configuration, a 9 GHz DGS oscillator was designed and simulated by using its equivalent circuit.
An external lumped element or device mounted on DGS is represented as the parallel-connected element or device with the equivalent circuit of the unit DGS section. Thus, the DGS circuit provides a parallel feedback path to the mounted device on DGS. The equivalent circuit model and the modeling method for a DGS circuit are detailed in a previous paper.12 The effect of an external lumped element on a DGS circuit can be explained by the parallel connection with the equivalent circuit of a DGS.16 The oscillator uses a defected ground structure section as a feedback loop for simultaneously inducing the negative resistance and a passive frequency-selective circuit. The DGS oscillator was designed with a NE32584C GaAs hetero-junction FET in common source configuration for achieving the gate-to-drain feedback. The final design of the DGS oscillator circuit involves the DC chokes by using quarter-wavelength transformers and radial stubs. The harmonic balanced simulation on the designed DGS oscillator shows an estimated fundamental output level of 15 dBm with excellent second harmonic rejection performance.
Implementations and Measurements
Performance of the Fabricated DGS Low Pass Filter
The designed three-section DGS low pass filter was implemented using the DGS cells. The overall length including the 50 Ω microstrip feeding lines is 52 mm. The filter is composed of the two kinds of DGS sections and four interconnecting microstrip lines. Figure 7 shows the comparison between simulations on the designed DGS low pass filter and measurements on the fabricated one. A complete full-wave analysis result on the designed DGS low pass filter is shown together with the S-parameters of the corresponding equivalent-lumped low pass filter model. EM-simulated S-parameters in the passband of the optimized DGS low pass filter are in good agreement with the circuit simulated ones for the optimized equivalent circuit.
The small deviation of the cutoff frequency performance in the EM-simulation can be attributed to accumulated discontinuity effects at the junction of microstrip lines and DGS cells. However, both simulations demonstrate the optimum performance in the passband and stopband. The return losses are less than -20 dB up to 4 GHz and the second harmonic rejections are greater than 40 dBc in both simulations. The fabricated DGS low pass filter exhibits a minimal insertion loss (better than -0.2 dB) from DC to 4 GHz.
A possible wide stopband exists above this passband, which can be enhanced by cascading several DGS cells in series. The measurement shows good agreement with the simulations on the optimized three-section DGS low pass filter. Finally, since implementation of the proposed DGS low pass filter is based on the optimization on its equivalent circuit, the filter design procedure is greatly simplified.
Fabricated DGS High Power Amplifier's Performance
The performance of the designed output DGS matching circuit, described previously, shows good agreement with that of the optimum load condition. The power amplifier designed with the output DGS matching circuit was expected to show improved efficiency by rejection of the second harmonic. In order to investigate the performance improvement of the power amplifier designed by the proposed method, three kinds of power amplifiers have been fabricated with different types of output matching circuits and their performances compared. Recently, in order to improve the efficiency of a power amplifier, Lim, et al.3 have used an output circuit with DGS in which the cell is designed without consideration of its equivalent circuit. In contrast, the output DGS matching circuit described in this article has been optimized to obtain the load conditions providing the maximum output power and the desirable harmonic rejection to improve the efficiency. The dimensions of the DGS cells used in the previous method were identical, while those of the DGS cells included in the optimized output circuit are different since each cell is optimized, using its equivalent circuit.
When the fabricated power amplifiers were tested, the two-tone input was excited with a tone spacing of 500 kHz. The measured fundamental output of the power amplifier with output DGS matching circuit was 40.5 dBm with a peak power-added efficiency of 46 percent. A measured IM3 of -33.5 dBc was obtained by using this technique. Figure 8 shows the measured two-tone output spectrum for the power amplifier with the output DGS matching circuit. The power gains of the fabricated power amplifiers were all 13 dB. A 1 W class-A pre-amplifier was used to drive the power amplifiers. The designed output DGS matching circuit provides excellent rejection for the second harmonic power. The second harmonic performance of the power amplifier with the output DGS matching circuit was measured. The measured harmonic spectrum at maximum output power shows that the second harmonic power is -18.17 dBm by using the designed output DGS matching circuit. The improvement in rejection of the second harmonic spectrum was achieved with a 40 dB difference compared with that of a conventional power amplifier. The improvement of 40 dB rejection for the second harmonic power corresponds to that of the designed output DGS matching circuit at 2fo. Also, a comparison of the PAE for the three cases is shown in Figure 9 . It is noticeable that the power amplifier having DGS matching circuit shows more reduction of the second harmonic spectrum than that of a conventional power amplifier without any degradation of fundamental output power performance. Furthermore, an improvement of 30 dB reduction in second harmonic power, compared with the power amplifier having the DGS output circuit only for rejection of second harmonic power, has been achieved by using the presented design method.
Because of the remarkable reduction of the second harmonic output, the resultant PAE of the optimized DGS matching circuit was improved by 2.5 to 6 percent compared with that of other power amplifiers. The fabricated power amplifiers are shown in Figure 10 .
Fabricated Microwave DGS Oscillator's Performance
Figure 11 shows the measured output spectrum of the fabricated DGS oscillator. The oscillation frequency ω or of the DGS oscillator is 8.94 GHz, while the resonant frequency ω o of the DGS circuit is near 10.2 GHz. The role of the DGS section in the oscillator presented in this article is to simultaneously achieve a feedback loop and a passive frequency-selective circuit. When the DGS serves as a resonant circuit, the parallel resonant circuit in the equivalent circuit of the DGS is combined with the parallel capacitance, Cp1. This is the reason why the oscillation frequency of the self-resonant oscillator is lower than the resonant frequency of the DGS circuit. The output power of the oscillator is 9 dBm at Vds = 1.8 V and Vgs = -0.7 V. This circuit dissipates 20 mW from a 1.8 V supply. The PAE of the presented oscillator is close to 40 percent. The relatively high output power is due to the choice of the gate-to-drain feedback circuitry. The designed DGS oscillator produces very low harmonic contents. The second harmonic is only -31 dBc below the fundamental frequency. The phase noise at 100 kHz offset from the carrier (fo = 8.94 GHz) is measured to be -87.61 dBc/Hz. The phase noise performance is degraded due to the poor quality factor of the implemented DGS feedback loop. Figure 12 shows photographs of the fabricated DGS oscillator.
In this article, a more accurate equivalent circuit model than the previously reported equivalent circuit of the DGS has been presented. By using parametric relations, the equivalent circuit parameter extraction method for the unit DGS cell has also been derived. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of this method, a harmonic rejection DGS low pass filter was designed with an optimization procedure on the proposed equivalent circuit of the DGS. Both simulations and measurement on the optimized DGS low pass filter have demonstrated the optimum performances in the passband and stopband. Very efficient design methods have been described for a power amplifier and a microwave oscillator that employ the DGS as a part of the circuit. The design technique using an equivalent circuit of a DGS is well applicable to implement an active circuit, suppressing the harmonic generation, with no limits in MIC or MMIC applications.
This work was supported by the Korea Foundation under Grant KRF-2001-042-E00041.
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Jun-Seok Park received his BS and MS degrees in electronic engineering and his PhD degree in radio frequency and monolithic microwave and integrated circuits from Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1991, 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 1997, he joined the department of electrical engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a post-doctoral researcher. From 1998 to 2003, he was an assistant professor in the division of information technology engineering at Soonchunhyang University, Asan, South Korea. He is currently an assistant professor at Kookmin University's school of electrical engineering. His current research involves RF and microwave hybrid module design using low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) techniques and surface acoustic wave devices.
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Circuit Modeling of Spurline and Its Applications to Microstrip Bandstop Filters | the DGS unit section, it should be considered as part of the equivalent circuit for a more accurate modeling procedure. In order to derive the equivalent circuit parameters, the S-parameters of a unit DGS cell at the reference plane between the conventional microstrip and the DGS are calculated by EM-simulation.5-8 The S-parameters for the unit cell are simulated using Ansoft HFSS. Once the S-parameters are calculated at the cutoff frequency, the equivalent circuit parameter can be extracted by using the relation between the S-parameters and the ABCD-parameters
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Ya = series susceptance of the π -type symmetrical two-power circuit
Yb = parallel susceptance of the π -type symmetrical two-port circuit
Then, the ABCD parameters of the π -type symmetrical two-port circuit are represented by these equivalent circuit parameters. The resulting relations between the equivalent circuit parameters of the π -type symmetrical two-port circuit and the equivalent circuit parameters of the proposed DGS circuit are given by
Since the calculated S-parameters for the unit DGS circuit are complex numbers, the resulting equivalent circuit parameters of the π -type symmetrical two-port circuit are also complex. From these relations, the equivalent circuit parameters of the proposed DGS circuit are given by
ω 1 = cutoff frequency of the EM-simulated results for the unit DGS circuit
ω 2 = attenuation pole location of the EM-simulated results for the unit DGS circuit
Re[Ya] = real parts of Ya
Re[Yb] = real parts of Yb
Applications to Microwave Circuits
Design of a Low Pass Filter
In order to demonstrate the effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed DGS model, an immediate and straightforward application of the proposed DGS equivalent circuit is a harmonic rejection low pass filter. By employing the proposed equivalent circuit, a three-section DGS low pass filter has been optimized to have an optimum performance in the passband and the stopband simultaneously. The cutoff frequency of the designed three-section DGS low pass filter was chosen to be 4 GHz. Figure 2 shows the optimized DGS low pass filter schematic and the element component values. The design variables for optimization are the proposed equivalent circuit parameters of the unit DGS cell and the transmission line parameters for cascading the unit DGS cells. The conductance value in the equivalent circuit does not need to be considered as a design variable during the optimization.
Because the designed DGS low pass filter is symmetric, with the input and output DGS circuits identical, it can be separated into two parts. In order to implement the optimized DGS low pass filter from its equivalent circuit, each individual section should be fabricated according to the corresponding optimized unit DGS cell. The input and output sections of the designed DGS low pass filter schematic are implemented with a physical DGS cell with conventional 50 Ω microstrip lines at both ends leading to a parallel capacitor Cp = 0.28774 pF. The intermediate section was designed with 32 Ω microstrip lines at both ends. When these unit DGS cells are used in the optimization of the entire filter, these microstrip lines are eliminated by deembedding the DGS equivalent circuit. As a result, for the final filter design, the input and output sections have transmission lines of 29 and 16 Ω at either end, while the middle section has transmission lines of 16 Ω at both ends. The substrate used in the EM-simulation of the unit cells was an RT/Duroid 5880, 31 mil thick with a dielectric constant ε Ρ = 2.2. The results of the EM-simulation agree relatively well with those of the analysis of the equivalent circuit.
Design of a High Power Amplifier with DGS Circuit
The examples of a high power amplifier design will show the usefulness of the proposed equivalent circuit of a unit DGS cell for applications to various RF and microwave circuits. The main design objectives of a power amplifier are high output power saturation and efficiency with excellent linearity. However, it is hard to implement a power amplifier to satisfy these requirements simultaneously. There is some trade-off between these design objectives in the design of a power amplifier by adjusting the bias of the active device. High efficiency is an important characteristic of a power amplifier that allows for smaller and lighter power sources and reduces the cooling requirements. High efficiency power amplifiers have been investigated and implemented by controlling or terminating the output harmonics from the nonlinear active devices biased in class-B or class-AB.13-15
One technique, widely used previously for controlling the harmonics of a power amplifier, is harmonic shorting by the appropriate choice of a quarter-wavelength open-circuited stub with an RF shorting chip capacitor. A DGS cell has been used for this purpose in the output section of the power amplifier configured only as a filter for harmonic rejection.3 The design example of a high power amplifier, presented in this article, has also employed DGS circuits to achieve improvement in efficiency performance. But it differs in the design method compared with that of the previous techniques with DGS circuit. The present design method utilizes the equivalent circuit of the DGS section to optimize the output circuit. By using the DGS equivalent circuit, the optimized output matching circuit, which provides the optimum reflection condition at the fundamental frequency and an excellent rejection of the second harmonic, can be realized. A 20 W LDMOS device was used to implement a class-AB power amplifier operating at 2.11 to 2.17 GHz. The LDMOS device for the implemented power amplifier is an MRF21030 from Motorola. Two choke air-coil inductors that are self-resonant at the fundamental frequency can be used in the bias supply. In order to tune the harmonics, especially the second one, these choke inductors should be considered as a low impedance element to provide a harmonic short via shorted capacitors. However, this is not sufficient in power amplifier applications. Figure 3 shows the schematic of the output circuit including the DGS circuits for a class-AB power amplifier.
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That's a wrong approach to the Word of God by Susan. The message came for both of them, but Susan missed the blessing, because she didn't personalise the Word. She kept thinking it wasn't her but Maggie who needed to hear what the pastor had to say. Whenever you're in church, and God's Word is coming to you, always personalise it and receive it for yourself. Don't sit there wishing someone who offended you is listening to what the pastor is preaching; receive the Word for yourself.
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Chiefs Wednesday training camp notebook: No starting nod for Juan Thornhill just yet
About 6,500 Chiefs fans showed up to Missouri Western State University in the rain on Wednesday morning—primarily to see the NFL's reigning MVP: quarterback Patrick Mahomes. The opportunity to watch Mahomes practice is worth the trip in itself, but as a bonus, Wednesday was also quarterback autograph-signing day in St. Joseph.
As it turned out, fans were also treated to the stellar play of one of their promising young stars on the other side of the football—rookie safety Juan Thornhill.
Thornhill began to garner some buzz the week of the draft, when some felt he could go in the first round. But fortunately for the Chiefs—who didn't have a first-round pick—that didn't happen, and they snagged him with the 63rd overall pick in the second round.
The buzz has continued into the summer, as Thornhill leads the Chiefs in training camp with at least five interceptions—including one against Mahomes on Wednesday.
Lined up to Mahomes' right, Tyreek Hill ran a corner route and Thornhill stayed with the play the whole way. Mahomes overthrew the ball a little, opening the door for Thornhill. With Hill having no chance, Thornhill made the diving catch.
"If he can do well against this guy out here—number 15—then we'll be in good shape," Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said in his press conference after practice. "No expectations in that regard. I just want him to go out and do his job and do it really well. That's really the expectation for me."
Spagnuolo faced a few more inquiries regarding Thornhill, who seemed to be on the minds of many reporters Wednesday morning. Watching him for the first two weeks camp, it has seemed almost obvious that he would earn a starting position by the time Week 1 rolls around.
Juan Thornhill looked good while I was there last weekend, and it sounds like he's having a day today.
He's picked up right where he left off from his time at Virginia: a ballhawk with range to play deep. He's a stud, and I still can't believe the Chiefs got him where they did.
But the Chiefs defensive coordinator said not so fast.
"I'm not privy to starting rookies right away," Spagnuolo said. "I think they need to earn it—I'm still old fashioned that way—but we'll see what happens. Sometimes, that's dictated by injuries.
"I think he's right on track," Spagnuolo continued. "There were a couple things there [Wednesday]—the game might be still a little fast right now, but that's to be expected. That's why you go to get in some game competition, to get up to speed, but I think he'll be fine. I like what Dave Merritt is doing with him. We'll just keep track of him. We're expecting big things from him, but we won't know<|fim_middle|> on one-on-one.
Tyrann Mathieu comes free up the middle on the delayed blitz and Patrick Mahomes has to get rid of it early for the INC pass. Perfect timing in this blitz period.
They're getting creative with Mathieu with what we've seen all camp.
Daniel Sorensen finds himself in good position during red zone 7-on-7 work and the pass falls incomplete. Pass was a little behind the WR, and I think Sorensen got a hand on it.
Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo on whether the team has an identity yet: "I don't know that I would slap an identity on it. This is what I always preach to them—that we're going to chase perfection but rely on relentless."
The Chiefs resume practice in St. Joseph at 8:15 a.m. Arrowhead Time on Thursday. After practice, head coach Andy Reid will speak to the media and linebackers will sign autographs. It will be the final public practice before Saturday's preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
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The Chiefs play the Cincinnati Bengals in their first preseason game at 7 p.m. Arrowhead Time on Saturday night, which will be the first opportunity for Thornhill to showcase what he can do against opponents not wearing the red and gold.
In a game setting, defensive coaches won't be able to help Thornhill like they can readily do in St. Joseph. But if there is one positive for the rookie, he should have any on-field instruction he needs.
"The most instinctive guy on that back end is Tyrann Mathieu," Spagnuolo said. "So if you watch him, he does things instinctively. I think Juan has that on the deep end. Right now, he's doing a little bit more thinking than he is just playing—that's because he's learning the system—but I'm hoping natural instincts come out when he's got the scheme down."
Tyrann Mathieu on Juan Thornhill: "I think anybody who's been out here really watching our (OTA) practices each and every day, he's getting his hands on the ball. That's hard to do as a young guy coming in. The game is a lot faster playing against an MVP-type quarterback." pic.twitter.com/YOz3CZQySJ
— Arrowhead Pride (@ArrowheadPride) July 3, 2019
Thornhill has four opportunities to prove to the guy who doesn't start rookies that he should start a rookie. Of course, it wouldn't be the first time.
"When I was in St. Louis, I do remember James Laurinaitis—we drafted [him] in the second round, and he was a MIKE linebacker," Spagnuolo explained. "I said, 'Look. He's got to earn his stripes up there,' but it got toward the end of preseason, and it was quite evident that he was a guy that could run the show. So he started right away."
My bet is that history repeats itself.
Weather in St. Joseph Wednesday morning was rainy and the temperature was in the mid-to-high 60s. It was impressive so many fans showed under bad conditions.
It definitely feels like we're into the dog days of camp. While the energy is still there, so too is a feeling that everybody involved—players, coaches, media and fans—is ready for an actual game to talk about.
Wide receiver Tyreek Hill returned after being given a few more days to work through his quad contusion. Like in his initial return to the team in camp, his chemistry with Patrick Mahomes didn't skip a beat. As Mahomes looks improved this camp, so too does Hill.
During one play, Hill caught what appeared to be a jump-ball over Kendall Fuller for a touchdown, and Hill sort of stepped over him—a la Allen Iverson.
Speaking of Fuller, he may not be exactly 100%. Asked for an evaluation of Fuller after practice, Steve Spagnuolo said this: "Kendall's been fine, he's been battling a little bit of tweak here and there… We've gotten Tyrann Mathieu some reps there too in anticipation if something should happen." It gave me the impression that Fuller is dealing with some minor pain, and that could be a reason why he's looked a little off this summer.
Wide receiver Marcus Kemp continues to impress on offense. If you haven't had the opportunity to make it to camp or live out of town, keep an eye on No. 19 on Saturday night.
Watching Damien Williams in his first practice back from his injury was refreshing. He shows better ability to shake defenders off in the open field than Carlos Hyde and Darrel Williams.
I discussed Thornhill's interception above, but another nugget: During one play Wednesday, he showcased enough speed to keep up with Hill. Hill still made the catch (not surprising at this point), but it was nice to see Thornhill being able to keep up with him.
Tanoh Kpassagnon and Breeland Speaks are getting opportunities at defensive end with the top three players out. Spagnuolo on what they get out of it: "The next guy that's in always benefits. One of the things that people don't realize is that when all of a sudden, they're working with the first group, which generally operates a little better—Hitch (Anthony Hitchens) is in there and getting people lined up—I think that makes them more comfortable. They're hearing a different voice. We need that because quite honestly in a game, it's going to be hard playing with just four guys there. They need to hear the other MIKE linebacker talking to them. It'll all be a benefit. I'd like to get those other guys back, but I think that the guys replacing them will benefit from it."
The Chiefs had four players—including wide receiver Tyreek Hill and running back Damien Williams—return to practice on Wednesday. Check out our full injury report here.
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With Frank Clark, Alex Okafor and Emmanuel Ogbah sitting today, Breeland Speaks and Robert McCray opened at DE for the ones.
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Patrick Mahomes hits Tyreek Hill across the middle and Hill brings in the contested catch.
According to @PFF_Chiefs, Hill had the best contested catch rate among all NFL WRs last year.
Damien Williams getting some time with the #1 offense. First play was an inside zone. Then a flare route with a toe-tap catch along the sideline before Hyde came back in. Looked good. #Chiefs
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The most crucial factor when choosing an asphalt maintenance contractor is trust. There is a wealth of information available online. I've never had a customer tell me that they regretted doing research before hiring a sealcoating contractor. Following these tips will help you choose a reliable, honest contractor.
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is a good place to start. Your local BBB gathers information on both accredited and non-accredited businesses, in your area. An accredited BBB member has agreed to abide by certain standards of; trust, transparency, truthfulness, responsiveness and integrity. The BBB assigns each company a grade based on adherence to their code of integrity. Jet-Seal has earned and maintained an A+ ever since the grading system was implemented. Accredited members have agreed to a process of mediation should a problem arise. BBB ratings are not a guarantee of a business's reliability or performance. BBB recommends that consumers consider a business's BBB rating in addition to all other available information about the business. The central Ohio the BBB website is, https://www.bbb.org/en/us/local-bbb/bbb-of-central-ohio. So, let's move on to another online resource, Angie's List.
This is how Angie's List works: Companies set up free online profiles or get one when a consumer rates their services. The business is notified when an Angie's List member leaves a review and the business has an opportunity to respond to the review. The business owner has an opportunity to present their side of the story in the event of a negative review. After a minimum number of reviews are met, companies with the highest rated reviews over the course of each calendar year can receive the coveted Super Service Award (SSA). The SSA is awarded to less than 5% of businesses in a respective industry making the award a pretty big deal. Use this service as you would the BBB, in combination with other resources to choose a sealcoating company. Jet-Seal has won the SSA the past three years and did so in 2017 without paying for advertising. The website for Angie's List in Central Ohio is https://www.angieslist.com/companylist/columbus/.
Other sources for reviews are; Google My Business, Facebook, Yelp and more. These sources all provide a piece to the puzzle and I wouldn't recommend using any sole source without further research. If you examine an asphalt contractor using three or more of the above services, you will begin to get a better idea of who you are considering for the service. You are on your way to becoming a diligent consumer, but your work isn't finished quite yet<|fim_middle|> consideration is what type of sealcoating product the company uses. There are many brands but only two types of driveway sealers used in central Ohio; asphalt emulsion and refined tar sealers. Most contractors in the Columbus area use refined tar products. When mixed according to the manufacturers recommendations, refined tar products will outperform asphalt emulsion. Refined tar is a by-product of the steel coking process whereas asphalt emulsions are derived from petroleum. The latter will not provide protection against gasoline, oil or other petroleum-based fluid spills. Refined tar sealers will also last longer. A driveway sealed with an asphalt emulsion product will typically need to be serviced annually while a refined tar product, when properly mixed will only require service every other year. Jet-Seal proudly uses Brewer Cote products. For more information on Brewer Cote products visit https://asphaltstore.com/.
We are going to circle back to the trust component once again. If the contractor doesn't use a proper mix design, the product will not perform as it should. Most sealcoating contractors purchase asphalt sealer in a concentrate. The manufacturer will recommend adding water, varying amounts based on the type of pavement, amount of traffic on the asphalt pavement and weather conditions such as temperatures and humidity. In addition to water, latex additives will promote faster, harder and blacker drying. Silica sand is added for extended wear and slip resistance. The latex (polymers) also help suspend the sand throughout the sealcoat film as opposed to the sand settling at the bottom and therefore not providing the intended benefits. Adding more water than recommended will save the contractor money and the customer will not know the difference until the product wears prematurely. Excluding latex polymers from the mix design will also save the contractor money. A five-gallon bucket of latex costs about $80 and should be added at a ratio of 2% of the concentrate. Again, a homeowner can't possibly know if the mix design is as the manufacturer recommends. Trust!
Have I mentioned trust? An unskilled applicator can allow the sealcoat to splatter on surrounding structures. After the product has dried, (about five minutes on a hot sunny day) it will be difficult if not impossible to remove. The garage door, siding, brick, block, stone, concrete, etc., that was not supposed to be covered with asphalt sealer may become a permanent part of your homes landscape. This can happen to even the most talented applicator. An experienced, self-conscious applicator will always be prepared with a solution to remove the sealcoating from surrounding structures before it has time to dry.
Don't hire a company with an out of town phone number or a magnetic sign on the truck. Don't hire a contractor who uses a square tank. Asphalt sealer needs to be agitated to avoid separation and a square tank cannot be properly agitated. Don't hire a company who claims to have "left over material" or a company who pressures you with a "today only" price.
In closing, do your homework and choose an asphalt sealing company that you have properly vetted. Ask about their warranty and read the contract thoroughly. These practices will help you sort through a process that can otherwise be a guessing game. If you have any additional questions or wish to receive a free quote, please don't hesitate to contact Jet-Seal at (614) 882-6000 or visit our website at http://jet-seal.com/contact-us/free-quote/. | .
In Westerville, Ohio asphalt sealcoating service companies aren't required to possess a license to operate. As the owner of Jet-Seal, I would support licensing. It would help consumers better sort through this process. After narrowing down your choice of asphalt companies perhaps the most important requirement to consider is insurance. Ask to see a certificate of insurance for general liability with the limits for coverage as well as a worker's compensation certificate. These two items will protect you in the event of an accident while the contractor is working on your property. Without this insurance you are responsible for any accident that occurs on your property. An uninsured contractor with the best intentions can cause you just as much grief as the fly-by-night outfits the BBB warns about. Just because the neighbor said they do excellent work is not assurance you can depend on. Saving a couple of bucks on the cost of your driveway repairs is not worth the risk of being held liable for property damage or physical injury.
At this point you are ready to get to the nuts and bolts of the sealcoating service. A primary | 215 |
Most people understand that the chances of winning the lottery are less than the chances of being struck by lightning – in other words, astronomically unlikely – but when lottery jackpots soar, lottery focused stories are often light and fun.
As finance reporting award winner Jill Schesinger pointed out in a recent panel at Excellence in Journalism 2018<|fim_middle|> of the money go and what does it buy? Is it going where the governor and legislature promised it would when the lottery first came into being? | , personal finance decisions tend to have a strong emotional component. Eventually, despite the odds, someone does hit the jackpot, a hopeful thought motivating many to buy in despite the odds. It can be fun to daydream about what you'd do if you won, and that's where many lottery stories focus.
But there are other angles to explore.
To stick with a hopeful tone, dig into the meat of what it means to win. Are you better off with the lump sum or annuity? What are the tax implications?
What are some more likely scenarios in which a person might come into money, such as receiving an inheritance? Talk about how the situations are similar and different.
According to one study, "each American spends an average of $206.69 on lottery tickets a year." Research also shows that lower income people spend a higher percentage of their income on lottery tickets than higher income people, and that a relatively small percentage of lottery players make up a large share of ticket sales.
To take another angle on a lottery story, research how much people in your state or viewing are spending on lottery tickets, and show how else could that money grow? Instead of lottery tickets, what could someone buy for that amount? If invested in various ways, how could the money grow? Show a comparison over time.
Lottery story questions to ask from Lottery stories: Journalism or commercials?
How is your state lottery agency staffed and paid? What is its budget?
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I spent the past weekend holed away in a beach resort with some of my favorite people celebrating a birthday. As we lounged in the pool, one of my friends<|fim_middle|> seeing thongs. On men or women. Eew.
I saw number 7 from the diving one earlier this summer and forgot to take a pic. Apparently some people need explicit instructions for proper behavior. These are probably the same people that go to work sick.
Okay those made me giggle and our local water park has that as a rule (the #7). It also says do not open your mouth in the water either right before or after the diarrhea rule. It makes me laugh every time I see it. | pointed out the resort's 'pool rules' sign, and we proceeded to spend the rest of the weekend cracking up every time we looked at it.
I see funny signs all the time! I am always snapping away while I am traveling, because there's always some sign that cracks me up. So, I've decided to brighten your Monday morning with my favorite signs!
Is it just me, or is NO ONE DRIVING THE BUGGY?
I took this next picture back in 2007 when I took a trip with some friends to San Francisco, CA. I took a picture of #1 – you have to admit, that sign is funny. But I just noticed #2 when I was about to add it to this post!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwww on the pool one!
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Esports agency DotX Talent launches player transfer service
Victor Frascarelli 01 June 2022
Esports and gaming agency DotX Talent has announced the launch of a dedicated service specifically focused on negotiating player transfers.
Aiming to make the service accessible, DotX will work with a fixed cost of £60<|fim_middle|> specific needs of this market will keep appearing. DotX's player transfer service will provide greater opportunities for competitors. By having Morgan Sports Law's expertise by its side, it is expected that the agency will set a pattern that will be followed.
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One of the objectives highlighted by DotX for the service is to fight conflicts of interest in the esports market, according to Nick Williams, Managing Director of DotX Talent, this is often caused due to agencies representing both teams and players for commercial deals.
He said: "This service is intended to avoid those conflicts by providing short-term targeted support solely around a transfer or contract renewal."
The player transfer service was announced four months after London-based law firm Morgan Sports Law launched the agency. Currently, the agency's list of clientele includes Complexity Gaming Heathstone player Matthijs 'Theo' Lieftink, South African caster Sam 'Tech Girl' Wright, as well as a variety of content creators.
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Mitsouko Anderson, Head of Partnerships at DotX, commented: "We think it is critical that professional players have all the information they need when they are thinking about entering into a contract to make sure their rights are protected.
"We aim to accomplish this by offering accessible advice that they can feel confident in, through our unique combination of the legal expertise of Morgan Sports Law and the esports-specific knowledge of DotX."
Esports Insider says: As esports expands and becomes more professional, services that suit the | 287 |
UCR is a winner in student voter registration
Author: University Communications
UC Riverside is a winner in the 2020 Ballot Bowl, registering the highest percentage of students to vote among University of California campuses.
The campus registered 1,294 students to vote, or about 5% of the student body, during the competition period from Aug. 17 to Nov. 3.
The competition is part of the California Students Vote project sponsored by the California Secretary of State, which has worked with colleges and universities to encourage more students to vote.
Ger<|fim_middle|> CALPIRG, and the Civic Engagement Coalition. Their collaboration was crucial to their success, he and other members said.
Student Emily Thomas
"It was really inspirational to know that our students showed up to vote," said Emily Thomas, 20, a third-year public policy major who leads the Civic Engagement Coalition and serves as civic engagement director for ASUCR.
The coalition and work group put together a number of efforts to educate students about the 2020 election, reaching them through social media, by phone, and through online activities. The work group also hosted a weekly civics hour on Zoom.
At the local level, the group held a mayoral forum inviting city of Riverside candidates. They developed a strategic social media campaign involving organizations such as UCR Athletics and Greek Life groups, which reposted and shared information.
The coronavirus pandemic forced them to change their plans as most students were no longer on campus, Medina said. Instead, they shifted to engaging students wherever they were.
A crucial element of the effort was helping students verify they were properly registered at their current location, Medina said. In past years, they had encouraged students who lived on campus to register to vote in Riverside.
"This was a historic election, students were already aware of the importance of working together," Thomas said.
Thomas Royston was part of the student coalition to encourage voting.
Students from the California Public Interest Research Group, or CALPIRG at UCR, also made local, state, and national elections a priority. CALPIRG is a statewide organization run by students and with student representation at most California colleges and universities, including UCR.
CALPIRG at UCR registered 400 new voters. The group had 54 student volunteers who personally contacted more than 200 UCR students, and provided educational content and resources to 1,800 students, said Kathryn Gonzalez-Valle, campus organizer with CALPIRG at UCR. The volunteers logged 450 phone-banking hours.
CALPIRG at UCR developed a Get Out to Vote campaign, focusing on one strong message for their fellow classmates: Students have a lot of power.
"We are calling students to see they have power," said Ori Liwanag, CALPIRG at UCR vice chair. "We have the power to make a difference. Our generation can drive change and make a future that works for us."
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Nalo Hopkinson named 37th 'Grand Master' by SFWA | ardo Medina, leadership and service programs coordinator with Student Life, said the campus has made a concerted effort since 2016 to increase registration and voting among students.
"We want to make voting and civic engagement a pillar of the Highlander experience," Medina said.
The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, which tracks college voting numbers and is separate from the Ballot Bowl, reported UCR has seen a steady increase since 2012. From that year to 2016, the registration and voting percentage in presidential elections both increased 2.2%. For the mid-term election in 2018, the registration rate went up 13.4% and the voting rate went up 25.5% compared to 2014. The group has not yet released 2020 numbers.
Medina is a member of the Civic Engagement Workgroup made up of representatives from Student Life, Governmental and Community Relations, Center for Social Innovation, Residential Life, ASUCR, ASPB, | 213 |
Help to brighten and improve<|fim_middle|>. Sometimes after treatment, the area may be red and tender, but this usually improves within a few days. Rarely, allergic reactions to hyaluronic acid have been reported. | skin by increasing the hydration within the skin to provide lasting moisture and triggering the skin's natural collagen production process.
Each treatment involves a series of microinjections of stabilised hyaluronic acid, a water-attracting substance which helps to maintain hydration in the skin by absorbing water and giving skin firmness and elasticity.
Direct delivery of nutrients into skin. Firmer, glowy skin from the inside out.
The procedure typically requires about an hour, depending on the surface areas of your underarms.
Before the treatment, our therapist will gently cleanse the areas to be treated. A topical anaesthetic will be used to numb the area, particularly if you are sensitive to injections.
Before starting, a cold compress will be used to further numb the treated area. Our doctor will start the injector's process on your skin and move in a grid-like format over the face for maximum coverage. This will take about 20 minutes.
As there will be some bleeding created by the tiny punctures, our therapist will cleanse your face gently and apply an antiseptic cream and sunblock to help protect your skin.
Not really. There is a sensation of ants biting but most patients have described the treatment as tolerable as the topical anesthetic cream helps to minimise pain.
After the first treatment, you should notice a tightening and firming effect on your skin. After your second and third treatments (as part of the programme), you will experience deep hydration and brightening of your skin.
Very often, the results look better after 2 – 3 days.
Q: Any side effects from this treatment?
Hyaluronic acid is generally very well tolerated and most patients report minor discomfort | 336 |
Hindsight Release 'Where We Found Hope' Video
Hindsight have released a music video for brand new single "Where We Found Hope." The song comes from their forthcoming EP "Catalyst", which will be released this<|fim_middle|> the general public consumes media and/or art.
"With regards to the video, this first release will represent the first segment of a connected five-part story with each song representing a new chapter in the central characters lives while also tying in the message of each song.
"In general, this EP will very much represent a sonic evolution compared to our previous releases. In particular, the upcoming EP will feature our love of electronic and industrial music while we also simultaneously reveal our live rock and metal roots.
"In particular for this track, the drum and bass take a significant tone-setting role. We are very much excited to finally be sharing it with everyone.
"While many of our spring concert dates have been greatly affected by COVID-19, we felt it was important to move forward with the release of this track. We figured that a song about hope through struggle was something positive we could put out right now." Watch the video below:
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The band had this to say, "With our first release in over three years, we are excited to premier the first of a series of music videos we will be releasing in the near future to support our upcoming EP 'Catalyst.'
"This song titled 'Where We Found Hope' is dedicated to the healing power of music for those who sometimes receive the right message at the right time that helps them overcome some form of struggle in their lives.
"It also represents a call to all musicians that no matter how discouraged the world around us may make us feel about our desire to make music, the internal drive to do so can often be something positive for others listening (including ourselves).
Lastly, with this video we also suggest that musical expression is something musicians should continuously pursue no matter what entities regulate how | 160 |
Money Date Night | Inspiring couples to talk about money.
FINANCES ARE OFTEN THE TOUGHEST SUBJECT TO TALK ABOUT. THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE.
Money Date Night is a podcast to inspire couples to talk about money with the support of married couple, Colin Ryan and Lindsey Lathrop.
They realized their ability to have these conversations impacted their ability to build a bigger vision for their lives together. Colin and Lindsey want to help you have them, too! Money conversations make your relationship stronger, they teach you about yourself, and they help you both build the kind of life you really want together.
E-mail us to come onto the show.
"How do you actually manage your money?" is a question<|fim_middle|> money in past relationships, old stories we had to stop telling ourselves, and the number one emotion we're both trying to avoid in ours.
We also give you hard-earned tips for undertaking a new money system, recommendations to couples who share expenses and, of course, our favorite personal finance apps and tools.
Do you share expenses with a significant other or roommate? Looking for a simple way to keep track of expenses and split them at the end of the month? We created a spreadsheet that you have instant access to!
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You can listen to us on your favorite podcast player. | we get asked a lot, so this consider this episode us getting down to brass tacks! In it we reveal how we account for our money individually and what our system looks like as a couple. And maybe even more importantly, we talk about the impact this system has had on our relationship. We also share what we've learned from navigating | 68 |
One of 12 cardiac programs in Illinois identified by BlueCross / BlueShield as a "Center of Distinction for Cardiac Care"
One of 18 structures recognized among the 2006 Project Innovations by Buildings.
Contributing to this award-winning hospital center, Wausau Window and Wall Systems worked closely with architects at Loebl Schlossman and Hackl, Chicago, and general contractor Power Construction, Schaumburg, Ill. Meeting their desired design criteria, Wausau provided a high-performance window system for the 58,000-square-foot, $30.3 million facility.
Wausau's sales, engineering and fabrication staff collaborated with the design-build team to accommodate the accelerated construction schedule. Through these combined efforts, the building was able to open early -- within 16 months from the start of the construction phase.
This newly constructed, three-level addition to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital links the existing surgery suite and the new open-heart suite. Wausau's SuperWall envelops the center's dedicated entrance, greeting staff, patients and their families with a large waiting area full of natural light. Wausau also manufactured the expansive ribbon windows that span two stories and wrap the building. These glass bands enhance the horizontal feel of the campus' composition and the original buildings' brick exteriors.
"It's an impressive use of glass and curtainwall," says Ron Durak, AIA, senior project manager with Prime Architectural Metal and Glass Inc. He notes that the new window system on the Cardiac Surgery Center's addition connects with Wausau's previously installed curtainwall on the Ambulatory Care Center's western facade.
The new cardiac facility's modern performance features Wausau's 3250 Series windows with Insulbar® thermal barriers, low-e glass by Viracon, and champagne colored paint finished by Linetec. Integral Venetian blinds offer convenience and cleanliness, while allowing patients to control the sunlight in their rooms. Beyond thermal performance, the Center for Health Design has reported that patients in brightly lighted rooms have a shorter length of stay and those exposed to increased intensity of sunlight experience less perceived stress and had 20%<|fim_middle|> care to their beside. The Center also has an open-heart surgery operation room and cardiac-catheterization lab with complete diagnostic and interventional capabilities.
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital's Cardiac Surgery Center employs more than 60 surgeons and cardiologists supported by a staff of more than 160 cardiac nurses and technicians. Since it opened in July 2004, is has served 4,850 patients, and more than 3,000 cardiac catheterization procedures and 600 open-heart surgeries have been performed within its walls.
Nationally recognized for its innovative expertise, Wausau Window and Wall Systems is an industry leader in engineering window and curtainwall systems for commercial and institutional construction applications. For 50 years, Wausau has worked closely with architects, building owners and contractors to realize their vision for aesthetic beauty and lasting value, while striving to maintain the highest level of customer service, communication and overall satisfaction.
Wausau is a part of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., a publicly held, U.S. corporation. For more information on Wausau Window and Wall Systems, please call 877-678-2983, or visit www.WausauWindow.com. | less pain medication costs.
Inside, the Cardiac Surgery Center houses an 18-bed cardiac-care unity and 25 private rooms for patients requiring less acute care. Its "universal room" patient-care delivery system allows patients to remain in the same room throughout their stay, while the staff adapts to bring the appropriate | 64 |
Fossils are remains or imprints providing evidence of the previous existence of ancient fauna and flora. From a comparatively recent<|fim_middle|> | geologic era of just a few thousand years ago stretching in time to a period of many hundreds of thousands of years or more in the past is when fossil formations can be found. They have been discovered throughout the four corners of the world as infinitesimally small one-celled organisms to medium-sized mammals to massive dinosaurs demonstrating the vastly different dimensions fossils can embody.
A fossil holds a very similar form, except that its weight usually differs immensely from that of the original organism. Plant fossils can be found in rocks or as petrified wood. Besides fossils in rock, animal fossils can be teeth, hair, feathers, skeletons, claws and tusks and even preserved tissue. Insects can be encased in a resin, like amber. Sea life fossils can be teeth, bones, shells and coral, along of course, with rock fossils. In addition, the impressions left from the natural actions of the creature when it was living, such as, paw prints, tracks and trails can compose fossils. Even bodily functions, like eggs and stool, are considered part of the fossil record.
Most often the remains of prehistoric organisms are lost due to predators, scavengers or decomposition. Even so, under proper environmental circumstances, formation of fossils occurred. Sedimentary rocks consisting of types like sandstone, shale, coal and limestone are largely the sort of rocks which fossils can be found preserved inside.
There are several ways that fossils can form. One manner in which fossils develop is when water penetrates a shell or skeleton building up minerals inside which over time strengthens the structure. Another process permitting a fossil to form is when a creature is sealed inside a material that eventually hardens, like being froze in ice or encased in a resin. Similarly an animal can be trapped and covered by tar or volcanic ash. Another type of fossil is the complete drying of the creature inside and out causing a sort of mummy. Still another method of fossil formation is under heavy compaction. For instance, an animal dies and is promptly enshrouded and pressed down by sediment eventually solidifying to produce a rock fossil. One more fossil type is when the dead body of an animal has entirely vanished and all that remains is a hole in the rock just like the shape of the organism. Sometimes this hole loads up with different materials afterwards.
Besides being interesting and fun to look at, so much can be learned from the study of fossils. They teach us about the Earth's past and the ecosystems that prehistoric animals and plants lived in. Without fossils, we may never have known that certain species had ever existed at all. Sadly though, they make us aware that there are probably many fantastic creatures we will never know anything about since they were not preserved by fossils. | 548 |
Be the best-dressed kids<|fim_middle|> < /br> Whether you're taking charge to update your weekend look or you're looking for a gift for the teenager in your life, THE ICONIC has an accessible edit of everyday staples and practical accessories for the next generation. | on the block with the season's latest arrivals.
With the promise of exciting years ahead, 21st century tweens and teenagers need wardrobes to reflect their fast-paced lifestyles whilst fostering a culture of creativity and individuality. THE ICONIC delivers big with an expansive range of apparel, footwear and accessories for ages 9-14, offering an assembly of fun and accessible alternatives to school uniforms for the restless generation.
Teenage girls have a style all of their own, and THE ICONIC acknowledges this by delivering trend-focused collections alongside a core collection of staples that make for quality long-wearing investments. Catering to the young fashionista, the low-key casual girl, the social media trend-setter and the tomboy alike, THE ICONIC nurtures the development of a unique personal style.
Whether she's hanging out with the friends at the mall or going to the movies, THE ICONIC showcases a range of comfortable basics with t-shirts emblazoned with empowering slogans, easy sweats and hoodies, floral blouses, playful jumpsuits, summer-ready crop tops, cosy chunky knits and breezy mini dresses a plenty. For special occasions and events where she'll want to feel extra special, classic dress silhouettes come embellished with kaleidoscopic sequins, glitter and beads for a touch of glamour.
For the boys, THE ICONIC has downtime covered for aspiring musos, sports champions and streetwear fiends alike. For chilling out, comfortable sweats and tees come stamped with playful slogans and graphics that capture a rebellious spirit. Weekend garms boast heritage Americana-inspired plaid shirts to knitted tipped stripe polos and tracksuits for a retro sports appeal. Beat the freeze in puffer jackets, smart winter coats and distressed denim jackets that boast a vintage feel. Chinos, cargo pants and jeans echo a surf and skate influences for instant street cred.
The teen denim edit showcases of-the-moment skinny and relaxed cuts built in generous stretch fabrications for growing bodies to stay comfortable and active. Swimwear covers all poolside points with one-pieces, bikinis, printed boardshorts and rashies to keep bare skin protected while having fun in the sun. Fresh sneakers, summer sandals, slides, school-friendly backpacks and hats can be seen throughout the selection of footwear and accessories for teens.
THE ICONIC offers an assortment of international best-selling sportswear brands such as Adidas, Nike and Puma alongside favourites Tommy Hilfiger, OUTFIT Kids, J Crew, The Academy Brand and Free by Cotton On. | 520 |
QlikView is designed to be<|fim_middle|> the tables presented.
The system of QlikView is logging all user actions. | used at the corporate level and therefore contains all the necessary elements of information security, which satisfies even the banking industry, using the server component of the system.
The system of QlikView supports security standards specifically designed to protect billions of records and thousands of users, that it is able to maintain. Feature-rich and easy-to-manage security console allows you to control user access to data and metrics to the media and the results of the analysis. You can apply group, role, and individual user access control policies at the level of individual documents down to specific lines and values. BI-platform of QlikView supports standard directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory. Configurable directory service allows you to integrate QlikView with other directories and user databases in your enterprise.
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"I was terrified!" said Enya. "I've never told anyone about Jesus, so it was my first time." The freshman from San Diego was at the Destino Winter Conference in Dallas in January. Saturday afternoon she and several other students messaged a video to their friends on Facebook with a gospel message, leading to 76 spiritual conversations. "Even though I hadn't talked to my friend for years, it went really well. She was really thankful I shared the video with her."
Students attending DWC receive instructions for an outreach in Arlington, TX.
That same afternoon, the rest of the students at DWC partnered with a local church to do Sunday school type programs in different neighborhoods around the city. They played games and taught them a Bible story and memory verse. This "Day of Faith" during the conference gave students a direct opportunity to learn how to share with others about Jesus Christ. Students started 136 conversations and eight people prayed to receive Christ that afternoon!
The three day conference was themed Uno—One God, One Body and One Mission—together in Christ. Students were also challenged by speakers, and participated in workshops, bilingual worship, prayer and familia times.
Conferences allow students to step away from the chaos of life and consider their lives in light of eternity. "I'm so glad I went," said Hannah, another student from San Antonio. "The Lord worked in so many ways this weekend. I<|fim_middle|> I've learned from this conference and continuing to share the gospel and His love with others."
Students post their burdens and blessings on a board during the final session of DWC.
On the last night of the conference, students were led to bring their struggles to God through a guided prayer time. They wrote down a burden and a blessing on a post-it note and brought it to the front of the room. They then put these notes on a board with a map of the world to show how God uses it all to reach the world for Christ.
We also experimented with a satellite conference in LA for students who couldn't make it to the national conference. Over 30 participated!
If you'd like to experience or revisit this years' DWC you can watch talks and others segments at youtube.com/destinomovement.
Lizeth Rios shared how Destino has impacted her life during one of the sessions at DWC.
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Abrasive materials can wreak havoc on the interior of an airlock feeder over time. The more abrasive the material, the higher potential for causing damage through gradual wear. One way<|fim_middle|> lime, into processes. | to mitigate damage is to apply a protective coating to the interior bore. These coatings come in a variety of materials.
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Feeders and their Types . Feeders are devices mounted at the outlet of storage units such as bins, bunkers, silos or hoppers which are used to control and meter the flow of bulk materials from the storage unit to meet the specified discharge flow rate.
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ALEX DONNER is as Manhattan as it gets, and that's why his bands are such a hit in the suburbs.
Mr. Donner, 52, the singer and bandleader, first started booking engagements full time 20 years ago, and since then he has become a staple of the upscale wedding and society circuit and other events, including benefits, galas and debutante balls.
His company, Alex Donner Productions, books combos ranging from classical duos and trios to funk and R&B bands, but it specializes in the old-style, elegant society dance bands in the mold of the legendary bandleader Lester Lanin, for whom Mr. Donner used to work.
In his promotional glossy photograph, Mr. Donner sits elegantly in a tuxedo, backed by a fuzzy Manhattan nighttime cityscape. A product of the Upper East Side, Mr. Donner lives and works in the tony Sutton Place neighborhood in the East 50's and has played the city's finest cabaret rooms, including the Algonquin's and the Carlyle's.
But, Mr. Donner says, half his work in the New York area is in the suburbs. In a way, it is outside Manhattan that his musical groups may shine brightest, their glamour glowing greater away from the glare of the city lights.
Mr. Donner says that many of his clients in the suburbs come to him looking for a Manhattan band with a sophisticated repertory and a reputation they cannot find outside the city. Whether<|fim_middle|> house, the great American songbook," he said. "My dad always playing Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Al Jolson. He always played the big bands, too: Harry James, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey.
"Then I had a friend who turned us on to Ray Charles and Buddy Rich and Ella Fitzgerald and other great musicians," he said.
Mr. Fischer, 54, studied with Ed Shaughnessy, drummer from the "Tonight" show band with Doc Severinsen, and earned a degree in music from Queens College while playing in the evenings in clubs and bars, he said. He embarked on a music career that is still going.
"I never worked a day job in my life, except about 10 weeks at Alexander's department store when I was 16," he said.
He began playing in steady house bands in the New York area and often in the Catskills, backing musicians like Chubby Checker and the Platters, as well as entertainers like Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, he said. He went on to play in many Broadway productions.
Besides his house in Ossining, Mr. Fischer said, he owns a country house in Massachusetts.
"I was lucky to make a good living and raise a family and buy a home," he said, "but I know one day the phone's going to stop ringing.
"Making a living is getting harder," he said. "There is a shrinking demand for live music. People are happy with D.J.'s. It's no longer enough work to just make a living in club date bands.
"It's a shrinking business and there are not as many training grounds for young people as I had," he continued. "When we were kids, there were so many more playing opportunities than there are now. | or not that assumption holds, Mr. Donner seems happy to perpetuate it, leveraging the city's glamour and exporting its elegance.
The Alex Donner Orchestra is well known at the prominent suburban wedding meccas and catering temples, including Leonard's of Great Neck, the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, the Hilton Short Hills and the Westchester Country Club.
With his trademark white music stands bearing his logo -- an eighth note wearing a black bow tie -- Mr. Donner evokes an age of supper clubs and band boxes, an era of fur stoles, fox trots and Fred Astaire.
It is the New York that Mr. Lanin presided over.
Besides being a staple at presidential inaugurations and royal weddings, Mr. Lanin, who died in October at the age of 97, was a fixture at the Plaza Hotel and at many Vanderbilt and Rockefeller functions.
"A lot of people call me the heir to Lester Lanin," Mr. Donner said in a recent moment of humility. "And we try to update Lester's thing."
Mr. Donner sang with Mr. Lanin's bands in the 1970's and worked in his offices after college, learning the society-band business, he said.
Mr. Lanin taught him the successful formula: show up reeking of class and furnish the function with casual élan. One must dispense a steady stream of smooth sound and segue smartly from Richard Rodgers to rock 'n' roll, from Dixieland to disco.
Like Mr. Lanin's bands, Mr. Donner's perform a range of songs from standards to smoothed-over rock.
He may have several Alex Donner Orchestras out simultaneously on a given night. His company handles about 220 bookings a year, which range from a trio for $3,000 to a 25-piece orchestra for $20,000.
In his offices in an East 52nd Street high rise, he sat recently on a zebra-skin chair near a poster of himself singing in front of a glittering cityscape with the words, "New York: My Hometown."
He said that he recently merged his company with another that handled more-contemporary bands. Not that he has dropped the New York angle.
The names of his six contemporary outfits are New York Minute, New York Soul, New York Masterpiece, New York Avenue, New York Rhapsody and New York Grooves.
Mr. Donner grew up on Fifth Avenue in a world of debutante balls and society functions.
He graduated from Princeton and worked as a divorce lawyer, for Roy Cohn's firm, but kept making appearances as a singer and bandleader on the weekends. "Divorces during the week and weddings on the weekend," he said. He himself has never been married. "I'm married to my band," he said.
He handled the divorce of a Houston oil heiress in India in 1986 and then played at her wedding. Soon he was doing so well as a bandleader that he quit practicing law.
One recent Friday found him bestriding the city and suburban worlds with ease.
He headed first to the Plaza Hotel, where the orchestra was playing a dinner dance for the St. Andrew's Society. Then he headed to Macaluso's, an ornate catering hall in Hawthorne, N.J., for the 60th annual dinner of the Cheese Importers Association of America.
At the Plaza, it was the last party before the hotel closed the following day for a two-year renovation. Men wearing kilts and furry sporrans swung their bustled ladies to music played by the Alex Donner Orchestra, a sextet with trumpet, trombone and tenor sax backed by a rhythm section.
The music stands, despite being laminated white cardboard, looked quite elegant, and there was nothing flimsy about the music. The band moved smoothly from "De-Lovely" to "S'Wonderful" and then to "Something's Gotta Give."
Mr. Donner took the stage to sing "The Lady Is a Tramp" with a wise-guy Sinatra phrasing. Then he did "Mack the Knife" in full Bobby Darin mode, hamming it up and waving his arms and ad-libbing.
As waiters whisked by with plates of pâté, Mr. Donner belted out "Loch Lomond" in a swing groove. A guest named Robert F. Colquhoun, 80, a lawyer from Morristown, N.J., sang "I Belong to Glasgow" with the band. Mr. Donner ran into Harlan and Melanie Whatley of the Upper East Side, whose wedding he played almost 10 years ago at the '21' Club.
Mr. Donner left the Alex Donner Orchestra at the Plaza and drove to New Jersey to check out the Alex Donner Orchestra playing Macaluso's for 220 cheese importers gathered in a room done up in browns with a shiny black dance floor.
The band had the same white music stands with the elegant eighth note, but the band looked a bit different than the Plaza combo. The guitar and bass players had hair styles dangerously close to mullets, and the singer, Gloria Carpenter, wore a daring black dress and did one heck of a Cher impression.
Mr. Donner said he maintains a regular stable of about 30 musicians, many of them accomplished jazz performers and session musicians who work on recordings. Each makes at least $400 to play a typical party, he said, well over the union scale.
"That way, they stay with me so I can develop a coterie of loyal musicians," he said. His bands tend not to play from the sheet-music charts that many wedding bands rely on. He said the trick is to hire seasoned musicians with vast repertories in many genres, versed and versatile enough to handle requests.
The bands keep the numbers short, and breeze quickly from one song to the next to keep people dancing and the party flowing. One thing Mr. Donner learned from Lester Lanin was how to keep the band playing continuously for hours, rotating musicians in and out, like athletes, for rests.
Mr. Donner scrutinized the dance floor and flinched with the band's rhythmic punctuations. "I learned from Lester that if people's feet are moving faster than the music, they want something faster, and if they're moving slower, you need something slower," he said.
"We know thousands of tunes," Mr. Donner said, "and if people have requests, we can just play them, whereas other bands are turning pages all the time."
The trick is to be able to cater to several different generations at one party by "giving everybody a piece of what they want," he said, whether it is Latin or country or "just a little bit" of rap.
"Most crowds are in favor of the music they grew up with," he said. "Over the course of the evening you have to give everyone something they like. I can just look at the crowd and see what kind of music they want.
"We've got to be able to do everything," he said. "If someone comes up and asks to hear 'All My Ex's Live in Texas,' we've got to play it."
He may as well have been born in a dinner jacket. He has 12 black ones and four white ones, custom-tailored or straight off the rack at Brioni. "I wear a tux so often, everyone in my building thinks I'm a maître d'," he said. Even at the top of his profession, he continues to put in a full workweek at the office and spend his weekends performing, watching strangers eat, drink and be merry.
"You've got to love it," he said. "It's a whole lifestyle."
MARTY FISCHER, from Ossining, a longtime drummer with Alex Donner Productions, says he got his first drum when he was 5, "because my mother got sick of me playing on her furniture with knives and forks."
He grew up in Brooklyn and took his first lesson at age 8 and began listening to all types of music.
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It is a true delight to converse sacredly with the authentic and illuminated heart-mind of an uncommonly deep and intelligent mystic, and Cynthia Bourgeault is certainly such a being . So I'm honored and quietly excited that I will be joined on Sunday, June 15th at 10am Pacific by the great contemporary Christian mystic and teacher, Cynthia Bourgeault for a conversation entitled "The Eye of the Needle and the Cave of the Heart: Cultivating a Pure and Single Heart in a World Stuffed Full of Way-Too-Muchness".
When Cynthia and I spoke in preparation for our dialogue, exploring what recently has held our deepest attention, we quickly discovered that for both of us, our energy and passion was coming most alive in the consideration of practice itself.
Contemporary conversations about spiritual practice sometimes seem to oversimplify things — as if "quieting the mind" were a mechanical procedure to perform in ten minutes.
Cynthia is right now interested in deeper, subtler work, in which she and her students repeatedly plunge into depth, via mediation, contemplation, chanting, reading, silence, oral teaching…and more meditation. It is the cumulative force of this, when people have the great blessing to really "hunker down" in retreat together, that gets the mind and the heart quieted, attentive, and more profoundly receptive.
Cynthia and I talked about this deep process of mystical "emptying" when I spoke to her before. She uses the ancient Christian term "kenosis" to indicate the radical stillness at the depth of authentic mystical experience.
This is about a discovery not just of "sincerity" as if it were something that is either there or not there, but of more and more profound sincerity, the process and discipline of the patient, consistent deepening receptivity and thus transformation of the "small self".
This level of devotion to practice generally requires a profound intuition of a higher possibility, a deep honoring of what the heart can do when it rests, deeply, finding its way to the silence that is always here, waiting beneath all the noises and distractions of our busy life. In that silence the heart can know its truth, its deepest truth, and cease to be distracted, becoming truly single.
When our heart is purified enough that it can relax in its own deep sincerity, it naturally knows and respects and loves its deepest and highest potentials, which are not about anything glorious, but more about our most humble and open-hearted trusting simplicity. This kind of depth and tenderness and softness is one of the main things in life that are truly worth talking about!
Our conversation promises to be an exploration and celebration of the essence of practice, the deep sincerity of the heart, and a deep sense of the what the heart can do when it's single.
The Sufi practice of sohbet means speaking to and from "the heart of the heart". I invite you to bring your heart and listen in on Sunday, as Cynthia Bourgeault and I speak to and from the heart of our hearts.
Cynthia is the author of eight books: The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, The Wisdom Jesus, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Mystical Hope<|fim_middle|> Enjoy!
I have a previous commitment for Sunday morning. Will your dialogue with Cynthia B. be repeated?
Hi there, you can access the recording of the interview here: http://www.beyondawakeningseries.com/archive/ Enjoy! | , The Wisdom Way of Knowing, Chanting the Psalms, and Love is Stronger Than Death. She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles and courses on the Christian spiritual life. She is a past Fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and an oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery in Big Sur, California.
Hey I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the interview and Cynthia's wisdom. That was a great moment when the Silence really did make itself known!
Hi Jessie, I'm sorry you had trouble accessing the live dialogue. And thanks for letting us know about it.
If you'd like to, you can access the recording here: http://www.beyondawakeningseries.com/archive/ | 162 |
Home World Places to Explore 14 Best Things To Do In Como Italy Next Year
14 Best Things To Do In Como Italy Next Year
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A high-quality list of things to do in Como Italy.
Como is a province and city in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, just 50-60 kilometers from Milan.
Como lies in proximity to the Lake Como and the Alps and is, therefore, a popular tourist getaway, usually in the months of summer.
The city's heritage can be seen in the Roman style Villas and Cathedrals, which are an essential part of the town.
Things To Do In Como Italy:
Lake Como:
Basilica di Sant'Abbondio:
Villa Carlotta:
Bellagio:
Como Cathedral:
Brunate:
Villa del Balbianello:
Como Archaeological Museum:
Cernobbio:
Menaggio:
Il Farcito, Como:
Teatro Sociale:
Villa Olmo:
Shop Away in Como:
A lake of glacial origin and is the third-largest lake in Italy and the fifth deepest in Europe; the lake has been a popular tourist destination for people since Roman times.
Many artistic and cultural themes are located along the lake, being the Villa Olmo, Villa Serbelloni, and Villa Carlotta. The creek flows in a characteristic 'Y' shape, that forms the 'Larian Triangle.'
Lake Como is a popular destination for sailing, windsurfing, and kitesurfing. The small towns lying around the lake are connected by ferry and boat services. It is one of the most popular places to be when in Como Italy.
Como Italy
This Roman Catholic Basilica was built in the 11th Century. It was made by the Benedictines, who gave it the Romanesque style features.
Built on the commands of St. Amantius of Como, it is located a little out of the city center but one of the worth visit places in Como Italy.
Two notable Bell Towers feature in the Church, rising at the ends of the outer aisles. A blue and gold decorative ceiling lines the altar of the Church, which has a series of beautiful colored frescoes of religious figures.
Built initially as a Roman upper-class country-house, the Villa Carlotta today houses a museum and a botanical garden in the commune of Tremezzo in Como Italy.
Since the death of the original owners till the commencement of WWI, the Villa has changed ownership<|fim_middle|>, where you will find high-quality Italian clothing and silk products. Also, be sure to visit Bellagioseta, where you will see for yourself classy genuine leather products that you can take home as a souvenir.
If you are fond of carrying brilliant rare scented perfumes with yourself, do give Profumeria Bellagio a visit. Also, it will make excellent gifts. Bellagio is also known for rarely curated wines that are available in tiny wine shops, shipped directly from the wineries.
Visit Alimentari Da Caio, browse through the collection of wines, taste a few, and buy the ones you like.
Como is a tiny little heaven placed as a retreat in Northern Italy.
The Lake Como, the magnificent Roman-style Villas, and Gothic style Basilicas, have given Como a cultural identity of its own.
Do visit Como if you ever intend to go to Milan or Italy!
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The Villa features a 20 acres Italian garden that houses cedars, palms, redwoods, camellia trees, and a bamboo garden. The museum consists of artworks and sculptures from renowned artists.
A commune in the Province of Como Lombardy, it is located on the base of the inverted 'Y' that is the Larian Triangle. It looks north to the lake and behind it is the Alps.
The land of Bellagio is home to churches like Basilica of St. James, Church of Giorgio and San Martino, etc. There are also many villas on the banks of the lakes, Villa Serbelloni and Villa Melzi d'Este, which are surrounded by parks and gardens.
The Bellagio municipality in Como Italy is also a prominent destination for rowing, trekking, and cycling, with many facilities there to assist you. The traditional Bellagino cuisine includes the Toch, taken with red wine and a dessert, miasma.
It is the principal Roman Catholic Cathedral of the city of Como and the seat of the Bishop of Como Italy. The Cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and its construction started in 1396. It is described as the last Gothic cathedral built in Italy.
Como Cathedral features the statues of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, two prominent figures of the ancient Roman Empire.
The interior of the Chruch features beautiful and lavish decorations, one of the main attractions being the central dome, which boasts of a shiny gold artwork.
Brunate is a town in the province of Como Italy, located at an elevated level, on the hills, overlooking the city of Como lying on the shores of the lake.
Brunate is linked to Como by a steep, narrow winding road, served by the Como to Brunate funicular railway. Open to both tourists and locals, it has been operated since 1894, the line is 1,084 meters long.
The top of the hill town serves a magnificent view of Lake Como & the village of Cernobbio.
A Villa, located in the commune of Lenno in Como, this exotic Villa has existed for a long time in Como, Italy. Like the other Villas in Como, the Villa Balbianello has also changed hands from various owners.
American business Butler Ames purchased the Villa and renovated it with a beautiful sprawling garden. Count Guido Monzino installed several artifacts, oriental carpets, and 18th Century French boiserie and furniture into the Villa.
The Villa is also a sought out location for weddings by wealthy individuals, the Bollywood couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Kapoor got wed here in 2018. The Villa has also been featured in Casino Royale, the brilliant James Bond film.
Located on the Piazza Medaglie, Como, if you an enthusiast of history, art, and sculpture, then this museum is a must-visit place for you.
The first floor of the museum is dedicated to artifacts of the Egyptian and Greek dynasties. On the other level, you will find objects, sculptures, artworks, and paintings, etc., which are lined with information boards that help you to learn about the history of the local Kings and Roman Empire.
The Museum is open from Tuesdays to Sundays and is connected to the Museum of Giuseppi Garibaldi.
A commune in the province of Como, Cernobbio lies 2 kilometers northwest of Como and shares a border with Switzerland on the Lake Como.
The commune holds the Villa D'Este, which contains the Ambrosetti Forum, an international economic conference, every year in September. Cernobbio also keeps the Villa Erba, which is a popular destination for movie shoots, live music performances, and gathering for wealthy people.
There are some prominent restaurants and cafe located at the shore of the Lake where you can have a break, while you enjoy watching boats sailing and fishers fishing in the waters of Como Italy.
Located at the Western shore of the Lake Como, Menaggio is yet another commune in Como Italy. Known as a resort town and retreat in summer, the collective features some good restaurants and luxury resorts in the Lake.
Menaggio is also lined with mountains that have a limestone origin and offer prolific views of the neighboring communes, pastures, and the lake. If you are a Golf enthusiast, then you can spend some time at the Menaggio Golf Club.
Many events take place in this particular town, a prominent one being the Menaggio Guitar Festival, where talented guitarists show off their skills.
If you are looking ahead at a long and hectic day of traveling, exploring and walking, then you need a good meal or breakfast in you, before you proceed with your day.
Il Farcito is one such joint located in Como, Italy. It opens up at 7:00 am, and they will happily serve you, a delicious cup of coffee to get you ready for the day.
There are several choices for an excellent filling breakfast, you can try the traditionally made pasta, with a side of healthy salad and croissants. The price of the dishes is also known to be on the affordable side.
Teatro Sociale is a theatre that was constructed in 1813 on the site of the ruined medieval castle, Torre Rotonda.
The structure features a neo-classic facade, with the prominent features of the theatre being the 900 seat house divided into five tiers. The outside of the Teatro features six Corinthian column pronaos (portico/porch) that hold the neo-classical facade of the structure.
Also, events and operas are conducted here from time to time, so if you are lucky, you can get to attend one.
Another one of the classic majestic Villas in Como Italy, the Villa Olmo, was constructed at the end of the 18th Century and has been occupied by a few Italian aristocratic families.
As of now, the Villa, like the other Villas in Como, is managed by authorized charities and groups. The Villa features a large estate, the majority of which is covered by a beautiful garden accessible to the general public.
The main building is reserved for exhibitions and is also available for booking of wedding receptions. The Villa Olmo provides a glorious view of the Lake Como and is a must-visit for every tourist.
Bellagio, the commune in Como Italy, is not just known for trekking and sailing; it is also a prominent shopping center.
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Marc Muniesa Martínez (Lloret de Mar, 27 maart 1992) is een Spaans voetballer die bij voorkeur als verdediger speelt. Hij maakte in de zomer van 2018 de overstap van Stoke City naar Girona FC.
Clubcarrière
FC Barcelona
Muniesa kwam in 2002 van CF Lloret bij de cantera (jeugdopleiding) van FC Barcelona, waar hij begon in het Alevín B-team. Hij werd eind 2007 op vijftienjarige leeftijd overgeheveld naar de Juvenil A, het hoogste jeugdelftal van de club. Muniesa werd een vaste waarde in dat team en op 23 februari 2008 maakte hij tegen CD Puzol zijn eerste doelpunt. In een wedstrijd tegen Murcia Deportivo op 13 april 2008 raakte hij geblesseerd aan zijn kruisband, waardoor hij meerdere maanden niet kon voetballen. Aan het einde van het seizoen 2008/2009 maakte Muniesa zijn rentree. Met de Juvenil A werd hij dat seizoen kampioen van de regionale groep van de División de Honor en won hij de Copa de Campeones. Muniesa maakte op 23 mei 2009 zijn debuut in de Primera División, in een wedstrijd tegen CA Osasuna, toen hij als vervanger van Sylvinho in het veld kwam. Hij moest deze wedstrijd voortijdig naar de kant toen een overtreding werd bestraft met een rode kaart. In 2012 kwam Muniesa officieel bij het eerste elftal van FC Barcelona. In een oefenwedstrijd tegen Hamburger SV in juli 2012 liep hij een knieblessure op, waardoor hij meerdere maanden niet kon spelen. Na zijn herstel maakte hij het seizoen af bij het tweede elftal. Nad<|fim_middle|>iesa verlengde in augustus 2015 zijn contract tot medio 2019, maar slaagde er toch nooit echt in om een vaste waarde te worden in de basiself van Stoke. In het seizoen 2017/18 werd hij dan ook uitgeleend aan Girona FC.
Girona FC
Muniesa trok in de zomer van 2017 op huurbasis naar Girona FC, dat pas voor het eerst in de clubgeschiedenis naar de Primera División was gepromoveerd. Op het einde van het seizoen nam de Catalaanse club Muniesa definitief over van Stoke City.
Clubstatistieken
Nationaal elftal
Muniesa speelde met Spanje op het EK Onder-17 van 2009. Op het WK Onder-17 in oktober 2009 haalde de verdediger met zijn land de derde plaats.
Erelijst
Muniesa, Marc | at zijn aflopende contract niet werd verlengd, vertrok Muniesa in 2013 transfervrij naar Stoke City.
Stoke City
Muniesa tekende bij Stoke City een contract voor vier seizoenen. Muniesa, die op 31 augustus 2013 zijn officiële debuut voor de club maakte in de League Cup-wedstrijd tegen Walsall FC, was in zijn eerste seizoen vooral een back-up voor de Nederlander Erik Pieters. Mun | 117 |
Creekside Gospel Music<|fim_middle|> Return Of The Hoskins Family | Convention Update
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By Lorraine Walker / October 22, 2014
It's a lmost Creekside time!!! In less than a month, over 45 different artists and groups will congregate again in Pigeon Forge for four days and nights of wonderful Gospel music, fellowship and fun. Over the last few months we've shared many things for you to look forward to during November 3rd to 6th at the Smoky Mountain Convention Center.
First of all, before we go any further…you need to reserve your tickets today! Tickets are free but you have to reserve your seat. Head over to http://www.creeksidegospelmusicconvention.com/ and reserve them now. The rooms are almost all reserved but if you call today, you might find one. Call toll free at: 1-800-223-6707 or local call 865-908-3015. For online reservations, click onto http://www.smokymountainconventioncenter.com
If this is the first time you've read the Creekside Update, let me tell you what is happening at Pigeon Forge! The Creekside Gospel Music Convention includes morning chapel services, afternoon concert matinees, evening concerts and midnight prayer times. There is an auditorium that seats over 600 and a large exhibit hall for attendees to visit with all their favorite artists. Remember, all tickets are free, so please reserve your spot for all the events!
Special events are happening every day. Patterson Promotions and Morris Music Group have special matinees. You will hear artists like The Freemans, The Steeles, The Drummonds, Hope's Journey, The Stephens and many more. There will be guest speakers for the chapel services and a choir during one of the evenings. And you won't want to miss the EXTRA Special events….
Monday night, Lou Hildreth Honors Willie Wynn, our cover artist for the month of October. Known as "Little" Willie Wynn, this gentleman has a long history in Gospel music. This will be the 4th Annual Willie Wynn and Friends Bash, with Woody Wright producing the program featuring former members of Tennesseans and Sweetwater, with music, comedy and stories. Willie's new CD produced by Woody Wright in 2013 will be featured, as well. Willie tells us, " We have 14 states and Haiti represented that evening. We are thank
ful for all of our family, friends and fans who travel the distance at their own expense to honor Willie and Friends, for four years now." This will be quite a 'Bash,' so be sure to attend.
Tuesday night we will present the 2014 Diamond Awards, hosted by Tim Lovelace, with special appearances by Award nominees. The Diamond Award nominations have concluded and you can view the Top Five nominees as we present them daily on the SGN Scoops website. You never know who will make an appearance as SGN Scoops honors the best in Gospel music!
Also, on both Monday and Tuesday nights, WATC Channel 57 out of Atlanta, Georgia will be present to do a live taping of the evening concerts. The programs will then be aired at a later date. Every day will also be covered extensively on Social Media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to look for us if you cannot attend. We welcome Meagan Pledger who will manage our Social Media during Creekside. "I can't wait to get started working with Rob and the SGN Scoops team," says Pledger. "They're real people who know the real reason behind what they do and I can't wait to be a part of that."
Wednesday night we are thrilled to announce the return of Willie Wynn! Little Willie will be celebrating the release of his new DVD/CD, which was recorded live in Anderson, Indiana last November 2013 with Scott Kramer and Woody Wright from Good News Music Radio. This Wednesday night event will feature The Kramers (Scott, Rachel, and Maria), Woody and Vonnie Wright, and of course, Willie and Sandi Wynn.
Thursday night will be a special surprise event that is so secret; we can't share it with you yet! But be sure to attend!
Word has spread about the Great Doughnut Caper, featuring Vonda Easley of Strictly Southern on WPIL FM. On Tuesday night after the Diamond Awards, listeners who have tuned into the Strictly Southern Show on Fridays at 10am EST will be treated to free doughnuts from Rob Patz. You must listen to the Show to find out how to obtain your free doughnut and you must be present to receive it. To find out how to win and for the latest Creekside updates, be sure to listen to Vonda Easley of Strictly Southern With Vonda Easley chat with Rob Patz of Coastal Media, every week, streaming live on http://www.wpilfm.com/.
Don't forget that there are many attractions to enjoy in the Great Smoky Mountains while you are at Creekside, so bring the whole family for a real spiritual retreat. Walking trails through colorful fall foliage, streams with fishing areas and forests filled with wild animals await your discovery. For those with more of an urban taste, theme parks, shopping malls, flea markets and restaurants are within walking distance.
For more information, latest news and artists scheduled to appear, visit the Creekside page on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Creeksidegospelmusicconvention .
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THE CREEKSIDE DIARIES, Volume Four.
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Sweet Water: Do you know Him or just know about Him?
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Delaware Top 30 Attractions
Don't let its size fool you. Delaware is a state that has a lot to offer. You'll soon realize what makes the second-smallest state in the US one of the top destinations to visit in New England. There are attractions and things to do in Delaware for everybody.
Delaware is a hidden gem that's worth checking out. You'll instantly be amazed by how scenic the state is with picturesque coastal drives, forest hikes, and scenic boat rides along the shore.
There's tons of history to discover during a trip to Delaware. It was one of the first colonies established when the Europeans arrive at the "new land." You'll find several Delaware attractions that preserve the state's history and are excellent resources to learn more about it.
You won't have a hard time immersing yourself in the wonders of Delaware when you arrive. There's a lot to love about Delaware, from the interesting landmarks to the fun activities to the friendly folks you meet.
Plan your adventures with our list of the top tourist attractions in Delaware.
Best Things To Do in Delaware
Hagley Museum and Library
Air Mobility Command Museum
Nemours Mansion and Gardens
Cape May-Lewes Ferry
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Jungle Jim's - River Safari Water Park
John Dickinson Plantation
Brandywine Creek State Park
The Nanticoke Indian Museum
Delaware's Old State House
Delaware Art Museum
Cape Henlopen State Park
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Fort Delaware State Park
Delaware Children's Museum
Lums Pond State Park
Biggs Museum of American Art
DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village
Marshall Steam Museum & Friends of Auburn Heights
The Grand Opera House
Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park
Zwaanendael Museum
Johnson Victrola Museum
1: Dover International Speedway
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Race towards the Speedway for a truly unique sporting event. The Dover International Speedway is the proud home to some of the best in NASCAR races, as well as having previously hosted USAC and the Indy Racing League. And those are just a small few of the events located at this site.
While you can visit the speedway for any number of reasons, it's highly recommended you go to their website and find an event that suits your interests. For example, there are several races to attend, playoffs to root for anxiously, and even a few cup series you won't want to miss.
Tickets here range based on the event. Events with higher turnouts typically have higher costs, but that all depends on the seller and time. Before planning your vacation to Delaware, take a look at the full schedule and see if anything lines up with your trip. You might just find your new favorite attraction.
People come from far and wide to watch these races, and they can get heated and exciting! It is one of those events that are not regularly seen across the country, so be sure to check out this unique experience at a park as great as the Dover International Speedway.
Address: 1131 N Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901
Website: www.doverspeedway.com
Also Read: Top 10 Tourist Attractions In Dover, Delaware
2: Hagley Museum and Library
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Nestled on the shore of the Brandywine Creek comes one of the top Delaware attractions. The Hagley Museum and Library is a historical museum with numerous interactive educational experiences.
It is 235 acres of prime Delaware land that follows the trail of Brandywine Creek. Not only is it an interesting stop on any tour of Delaware, but it is also incredibly beautiful.
The architecture of the building is intricate and often lined with blooming flowers. The gardens originate from the first du Pont family and have been kept impeccably well maintained since 1803.
The Hagley Museum is open every day from mid-March to early November from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. From November to mid-March, the grounds are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day, save for holidays.
Admission is $15 for adults, seniors (62 and up) and students are $11, children (6-14) are $6, and under 5 is free. This is truly an attraction for the whole family!
Address: 298 Buck Rd, Wilmington, DE 19807
Website: www.hagley.org
3: Air Mobility Command Museum
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Airplane lovers and history buffs will have the best time at the Air Mobility Command Museum. It houses an impressive vintage aircraft collection, and the staff is more than excited to tell you all about them.
The Air Mobility Command Museum's collection of more than 35 antique aircraft is one of the rare things to see in Delaware. Its collection includes Military aircraft from WWII, large cargo transport airplanes, and more.
Visitors are welcome to climb into them to explore the interior and cockpits. Many of the aircraft are preserved and renovated from the 1950 to1970s.
As fun as it is to walk around the planes, taking a guided tour will make you appreciate them more as you learn about their flight adventures. Learn about the ocean-crossing trips, first flights, etc., from pilots who have flown the planes.
The museum gives plenty of ways for visitors to engage. It has a flight stimulator to put you in the pilot's seat. It also hosts events.
Address: 1301 Heritage Rd, Dover AFB, DE 19902
Website: www.amcmuseum.org
Also Read: Top 10 Space and Aviation Museums in the USA
4: Rehoboth Beach
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In Rehoboth, every day is a beach day! Rehoboth Beach is both the city name and the actual stretch of coastal land nestled on the Atlantic. It is one of the most popular destinations in the state, and with good reason.
Not only do you get the typical luxuries of any public access beach, but there is even a bustling boardwalk. On the North Boardwalk, you can find some of the best scenery in Delaware, as well as primetime shopping, found right on the banks of the ocean.
Rehoboth Beach has also been known to host its fair share of events and concerts. The Rehoboth Beach Bandstand actually hosts free concerts on the sunny shores of the Atlantic.
As a public beach, it is open to the general public (residents and visitors alike) free of charge and is accessible year-round. Come early if you want to find the best parking spots, and stay lay to watch the sun dip below the horizon.
Address: 1 Rehoboth Ave, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
5: Brandywine Zoo
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Brandywine Zoo has been welcoming visitors to its gates as early as 1905. It is one of the smaller zoos in the state, yet still one of the area's biggest attractions.
All within 4.7 acres, Brandywine creates a fun, enriching experience to marvel at exhibits and animal enclosures that spark wonder. From mammals to birds to reptiles and invertebrates, Brandywine zoo has a little bit of everything.
Depending on weather conditions, some exhibits may not be available for viewing, but generally, this zoo is lively and open for business daily.
The Brandywine Zoo is open every day (excluding holidays and special events) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fees and rates here are dependent on the season.
From May 1st till September 30th: seniors are $5, adults are $7, children from 3-17 are $5, and anyone under 3 is free. From October 1st to April 30th, seniors are $4, adults are $5, and children are $3.
Check with the website during the winter months for availability as some excessive weather conditions may shut down the operations.
Address: 1001 N Park Dr, Wilmington, DE 19802
Also Read: 30 Best Zoos in the US
6: Nemours Mansion and Gardens
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Spanning an impressive three hundred acres, Nemours Mansion and Gardens is a beautiful country estate located in Wilmington.
The mansion boasts classic French architecture and a chateau-style with more than one hundred rooms over five floors. You will find beautiful furniture and antiques within the mansion, as well as incredible artwork and artifacts.
The gardens are equally as stunning and you can enjoy taking in the gorgeous landscaped surroundings as you tour the exterior of the mansion. You will find fountains, sculptures and even a maze garden to explore here.
Address: 850 Alapocas Dr, Wilmington, DE 19803
7: Cape May-Lewes Ferry
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Regardless of if you're a regular commuter on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry or if you're riding as a tourist, you can't deny that it will be your favorite part of the day. The historic ferry is more than a method of transportation but is a way to get scenic viewpoints of Lewes.
Cape May-Lewes Ferry started in 1964 with service between Lewes, Delaware, and North Cape May, New Jersey. The journey is 17-mile across Delaware Bay which takes about an hour and a half to finish one way.
Watch as the historic boat pulls away from the historic harbor with Lewes as the backdrop. It's a ferry meant to have a pleasurable passage. If you're lucky, you'll spot dolphins swimming alongside the boat.
Stay in New Jersey for as long as you'd like. It's not uncommon to see tourists purchase roundtrip tickets on the ferry. Of course, that means you'll climb aboard again as soon as you dock in the harbor.
Address: 43 Cape Henlopen Dr, Lewes, DE 19958
8: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
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Get a glimpse into the lavish lifestyle of the du Pont family, one of Delaware's historic wealthy families, at the Winterthur Museum. The estate was built by Henry Francis du Pont, who grew a reputation for his antique collection.
When Winterthur Museum was first opened to the public, du Pont's original antique objects were first among the museum collection.
Visitors can take a guided tour of the home to see a lavish lifestyle from the colonial era. You'll tour several rooms to see original period furniture, art, and decoration.
The site of the Winterthur has several other facilities. When du Pont lived at the estate, he took up an interest in horticulture that remains a centerpiece for the museum today.
The museum has an award-winning 60-acre museum featuring decorative objects, mixed flowers, and more. Also, don't forget to take a peek inside the stone cottage.
Winterthur Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Address: 5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE 19735
Website: www.winterthur.org
9: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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Situated in Milton, the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery opened its doors in the mid-1990s and now produces hundreds of thousands of barrels of beer each year. The company now brews a range of different beers with an eclectic range designed to suit a wide variety of tastes and preferences.
If you consider yourself a beer lover, it is well worth booking in for one of the excellent tours that the brewery offers, where you can learn more about the brewing process, sample some of the great beers, try beer-infused food, and more.
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Address: 2591 Whitehall Neck Rd, Smyrna, DE 19977
20: Fort Delaware State Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Fort Delaware State Park is a landmark site designated to preserve its history. See how the site was used during the civil war and preserved artifacts.
Fort Delaware State Park is a defensive fort in the Delaware River. It's strategically positioned in the middle of the river on Pea Patch Island. The fort is only accessible via a 10-minute ferry ride from the mainland.
The historic fort is well-preserved for its age. It was built in the mid-19th century and kept many of the original features. Touring around the fort will take you around to see abandoned canyons, barracks, and structures still standing.
Visiting Fort Delaware State Park is an engaging experience. There are hands-on activities, and also the staff is dressed in period costumes. It gives a glimpse into life at the fort during the Civil War. Be sure to check the schedule to catch a live reenactment.
Address: 45 Clinton St, Delaware City, DE 19706
21: Delaware Children's Museum
Ever since its opening in 2010, Delaware Children's Museum has been sparking ideas in the minds of kids. It's the only kids' science museum in Delaware and one of the most fun places to go in Delaware with kids.
Delaware Children's Museum (DCM) strives to boost interest in STEM subjects for kids. It achieves it by developing fun yet educational exhibitions.
The hands-on activities make you forget that you're learning something because you're having so much fun interacting with them.
Most of the topics at DCM center around science and technology. It has immersive worlds like a kitchen, construction site, and sports. Kids get to explore the inner workings of each of these themed exhibits and more.
DCM is catered towards toddlers to pre-teens. It's an easy way to keep kids occupied and entertained for hours while visiting Delaware.
Address: 550 Justison St, Wilmington, DE 19801
Website: www.delawarechildrensmuseum.org
22: Lums Pond State Park
The outdoors awaits you at Lums Pond State Park. The park surrounding the pond is the perfect place to enjoy a day outside with friends or family.
Lums Pond is Delaware's largest freshwater pond. The entire park is established around it, where much of the land is designated for recreation. It features hiking trails around the pond. Or check out the Go Ape Tree Top Adventure.
You can't visit Lums Pond without spending time in the pond. Although it's not ideal for swimming, it's the perfect place for boating. Pedal boats, kayaks, and rowboats are a few of the favorite boating sports in the pond. There are rentals available to use in the park.
In case you can't get enough of Lums Pond State Park on your first visit, consider camping at the park. It has designated campgrounds for tent camping and RV hookups.
Address: 1068 Howell School Rd, Bear, DE 19701
23: Biggs Museum of American Art
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It's not long before more people start to visit the Biggs Museum of American Art. It's one of the hidden gems of Delaware, but the exhibitions are on par with the best museums in the country.
Biggs Museum of American Art has 16 galleries sprawled across three floors. Each gallery is unique as it displays locally made art, decorative art, antique pieces, and historical artifacts.
The museum is considered to have one of the best collections of American fine art and decorative art.
There's always plenty to see at the Biggs Museums of American Art. It has a large collection that takes up some time to check out each object. The rotating museum exhibits also give you something new to experience every time you visit.
Check out the public events sponsored by the museum for adults and kids. And if you're visiting on the first Saturday of the month, entrance is free.
Address: 406 Federal St, Dover, DE 19901
Website: www.biggsmuseum.org
24: DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum
Immerse yourself into the maritime heritage of Delaware at the DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum. It's one of the best Delaware attractions to learn about the state from an underwater perspective.
DiscoverSea Shipwreck Museum is located on Fenwick Island. It's one of the largest museums of its kind, with more than 10,000 artifacts.
It's constantly cycling through its exhibits to display everything in the collection. That means that there's always something new to check out at the museum.
There are several must-see items within the museum. You'll get to see real treasure with a chance to hold the gold bars. There are also recovered objects from shipwrecks.
One of the special moments is being able to meet the owner during your visit. The owner is a friendly guy who's always ready to share stories about his travels and diving excursions. In fact, many of the objects in the museum were collected by the owner while diving.
Address: 708 Coastal Hwy, Fenwick Island, DE 19944
Website: www.discoversea.com
25: Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village
Learn about the rich architectural history of the state at the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village. It's located in Dover, which is a fitting site given Kent County's historical impact on the industry.
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village has two venues to check out, a museum and an adjacent village. The museum is where you'll learn about the history of agriculture in Delaware. It has exhibitions showcasing old farm equipment, used tractors, and other machinery.
Spend some time exploring the exhibitions before going next door. Adjacent to the museum is a recreated village from the 1890s. The village is complete with a barn, farmhouse, schoolhouse, windmill, and other buildings.
Costumed staff work in these buildings to give viewers a look at how life used to be during the era.
The best time to visit is during the holidays when the museum and village feature decorations.
Address: 866 N Dupont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901
Website: www.agriculturalmuseum.org
26: Marshall Steam Museum & Friends of Auburn Heights
Witness the early technology for transportation at the Marshall Steam Museum & Friends of Auburn Heights. This magnificent museum showcases what was considered to be at the forefront of technology during its day.
Marshall Steam Museum has its attraction on steam-powered mobility. The museum has a designated car exhibition, which includes cars that entirely operate on Stanley Steam.
The collection consists of an original Ford Model T, two Packards, and other hard-to-find vehicles. Be sure to read the information plaques to learn how the cars turn steam into power.
Have you ever heard about Steamin' Days? It's a monthly event at the museum where visitors are invited to ride on vintage vehicles. You'll ride cars and trains that both operate with steam and original electric-powered concepts.
The museum site includes a Du Pont Mansion. The mansion is open to the public to tour inside to see original furniture and styling.
Address: 3000 Creek Rd, Yorklyn, DE 19736
27: The Grand Opera House
Everyone loves a great show, and Grand Opera House never lets you down. Any show you catch during the performance season is worth all of the accolades that they attract.
The Grand Opera House was built in 1871 originally as a Masonic Temple. The building designed proven valuable as it delivered quite the sound experience to attendees. It has acoustics that heightens the play or concert experience.
The main auditorium of the Grand Opera House fits 1,208 people. Don't be surprised if you find a show sold out because that happens often. The opera house hosts various arts events, including live performances, theater, and concerts.
Check the calendar when you're visiting Delaware to see what event is playing at the opera house while you're in Wilmington. Checking out the venue during the day lets you admire the architecture, but attending a show is a must-do if you can.
Address: 818 N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801
Website: www.thegrandwilmington.org
28: Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park
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The Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park bring out your inner animal. Put yourself to the test as you attempt to conquer all of the different obstacle courses.
Go Ape is an outdoor adventure course set up in the middle of the forest. You'll feel immersed in nature as your trek across adrenaline activities like crossing the high ropes or channel your inner ape while tree climbing.
You'll soar high above the canopies on the zip line course as you go from one platform to the next to navigate to the end.
The adventure park is a fun, active activity for adults. You can spend a few hours at the park getting competitive on the courses to see who is the best at them. Plan for a day at the adventure center, and you're sure to get your heart pumping.
Website: www.goape.com
29: Zwaanendael Museum
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Lewes, Delaware is officially the first place settled in the state. The Zwaanendael Museum was built to dedicate the first European colony in Delaware.
Europeans established the colony of Swanendael on the site of the museum. The museum is one of the oldest remaining buildings in town, built in 1631 by the Dutch.
It was modeled after City Hall from Hoom, Netherlands. It's one of the unique things to see in Delaware. The museum is full of history, from the exhibitions to its exterior.
The town established the museum on the 300th anniversary of when the European colony was founded. The museum is meant to tell the story of the first European settlers.
The exhibitions walk you through the arrival, settlement, and hardships encountered along the way.
The Zwaanendael Museum expands two floors. Both floors are worthwhile to explore if you have time, and you're sure to discover some interesting tidbits about Delaware.
Address: 102 Kings Hwy, Lewes, DE 19958
30: Johnson Victrola Museum
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Sound recording and music recording were born right in Delaware. Thanks to E.R. Johnson and his invention of the Victor Talking Machine in 1901, the sound was finally able to be recorded to playback later.
Johnson Victrola Museum exhibits a collection of vintage sound players and recorders. The vintage gramophones and photographs on display are in working condition from the 1890s to the 19030s.
You can ask the staff to give you a demonstration, and they will play a record from the device.
The sound played back then still has a warm sound that we can appreciate today. One of the highlight machines in the museum is the Victrola player. The museum features several different models to see how the machine developed over the year.
It's hard to believe that the John Victrola Museum is free to the public. Tours through the museum's two floors are self-guided.
Address: 375 S New St, Dover, DE 19901
Plan your trip to these Delaware attractions soon!
Delaware is a year-round travel destination. You'll never wonder what to do in Delaware because you can find fun activities in any season.
These are only a glimpse of the exciting things to do in Delaware, regardless of how many times you've already visited. You'll never run out of unique things to explore, especially when venues like the museums change every time you visit.
We've touched on a few of the must-visit attractions in Delaware that you don't want to miss. It's a small state, but you'll have a good chance to be able to check out the entire list!
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10: Jungle Jim's - River Safari Water Park
A water adventure awaits at Jungle Jim's. It's one of the top family attractions in Delaware, with water rides and attractions for everyone.
Get ready to be soaked as you spend a day at Delaware's largest waterpark. The park has everything you need for a good time.
Go for a cruise down the lazy river, or try keeping your head above water at the wave pool. And the six water slides are more than enough to provide hours of fun. If you're traveling with children, they can take advantage of the designated kid's pool area.
Need a break from the water? Jungle Jim's has plenty of out-of-water fun. Check out some of the activities like mini-golf, batting cages, rock climbing, and bumper boats. There are also places to grab a bite to eat in between the fun.
Jungle Jim's – River Safari Water Park is open seasonally between Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Address: 36944 Country Club Rd, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
11: John Dickinson Plantation
If you aren't familiar with John Dickinson, he's one of the most famous names from Delaware. He's an early settler who grew his wealth with tobacco and grew his fame by signing the US Constitution. Visitors can explore the origins of his life at the John Dickinson Plantation.
The plantation was established in 1739. It has been home to numerous families over the centuries, and it now features exhibitions to learn about its residents.
You'll hear stories from the former families, farmers, and people enslaved at the plantation. Each story is a vast difference in how they experienced the plantation.
John Dickinson Plantation is just a small part of the larger historical park. The plantation covers 13 acres, which includes Dickinson's childhood home.
Visitors can take guided tours of the plantation. Tours are conducted by staff in period costumes full of knowledge about John Dickinson and the colonial times.
Address: 340 Kitts Hummock Rd, Dover, DE 19901
12: Brandywine Creek State Park
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The natural landscapes within the Brandywine Creek State Park are like you've never seen. The park was a former Du Pont farm but established in 1965 consisting of four nature reserves: Tulip Tree Woods, Flint Woods, FreshWater Marsh, Carney Tract.
Brandywine Creek State Park is a year-round Delaware attraction in which you enjoy the outdoors. It's a place full of outdoor recreation and exercise.
Go for a hike along the Greenways Trails or Rocky Run Trail. There are also nature walks through the poplar forest, or check out the nature center. You're sure to see tons of wildlife living in the preserved natural environment.
Other popular activities in the park include fishing and biking.
Brandywine Creek State Park is a pet-friendly park. It's bigger than 933-acres, so it has plenty of things to see and do. And keep an eye out for the historical stone walls from the 19th century decorating the park.
Address: 41 Adams Dam Rd, Wilmington, DE 19807
13: The Nanticoke Indian Museum
Delaware's first inhabitants, the Nanticoke Indians, get the recognition they deserve at the Nanticoke Indian Museum. The museum is owned and operated by the tribe, whose goal is to tell the public about their tribe's history.
Nanticoke Indian Museum is Delaware's only Native American museum that opened in 1984. The former schoolhouse building is now full of exciting artifacts collected throughout the tribe's history. You'll see lots of handicrafts, including toys, clothing, pottery, weapons, baskets, and more.
Take a guided tour to learn more context about the tribe. Tours are conducted by tribe members who are always happy to share history and details about their tribes. The tours point out notable facts in each exhibition.
Visitors interested in exploring the culture and heritage of the first people in Delaware, the museum is an excellent resource. It's an authentic look into the tribe's heritage. The museum is now designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Address: 26673 John J Williams Hwy, Millsboro, DE 19966
Website: www.nanticokeindians.org
14: Delaware's Old State House
Delaware's Old State House is the original Delaware State Capitol Building. It was built in 1791 to house all government activity during the early years of becoming an independent country.
The Old State House is located in Dover. It's a modest building of just two floors and is designed in a distinct Georgian architecture style. It's been restored to its original appearance, so much of what you see is a good representation of how it used to look.
Tours are available for visitors who want to take a walk through history. It's one of the best things to do in Delaware to learn about state history and how it helped shaped the nation. Tours include legislative chambers, the courtroom, study halls, offices, and the elaborate staircase.
The Old State House was actively used as a government building until 1933. It's now used as a museum. It's included on the National List of Historic Places.
Address: 25 The Green, Dover, DE 19901
15: Delaware Art Museum
The world-class artwork kept inside the Delaware Art Museum makes it one of the best places to visit in Delaware. Its fine art collection exhibited in the permanent and temporary galleries always has something exciting on display.
Delaware Art Museum has an impressive collection of over 12,000 pieces. It rotates these objects to refresh its galleries. Its most recognized artist is Howard Pyle, a native Wilmington artist.
It's also known for the British Pre-Raphaelite art and American art. Temporary exhibitions can feature invited artists, contemporary themes, and more.
You can easily spend hours walking one floor, so keep track of time so that you make it to the other floors. And don't forget to check out the outdoor sculpture garden. The garden covers nine acres, with numerous large-scale sculptures places throughout it.
The best day to visit is on Sunday when it's free for everyone! Of course, museum members have free entrance any day.
Address: 2301 Kentmere Pkwy, Wilmington, DE 19806
Website: www.delart.org
16: Funland
For nearly six decades, Funland has been one of the exciting alternative tourist spots in Delaware if you're thinking about visiting Rehoboth Beach. The iconic amusement park is a staple of the beach boardwalk.
Some people visit Funland as their main destination. Others stop by during their visit to the beach. Regardless of how you end up at the park, you'll always be pleasantly surprised by how much fun it is.
Funland is an amusement park for all ages. It has a total of 18 rides, including thrill attractions and rides designed for kids. See if you can hold your stomach on the SeaDragon or see if you can survive the free-fall drop.
Kids have several ride options, including bumper boats, cars, train rides, and airplanes.
The good thing about Funland is that its free entrance to the public! So, you only need tickets to ride the attractions and play games.
Address: 6 Delaware Ave, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Website: www.funlandrehoboth.com
17: Cape Henlopen State Park
Flickr/Michele Dorsey Walfred
See where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean at 'the Point" in the Cape Henlopen State Park. It's part of a cape jutting off the coast that gives locals and visitors a place for recreation and beautiful scenery.
Cape Henlopen State Park has a scenic landscape with rolling dunes, forests, and reaching out to the coast. It's designated as a state park to preserve its natural and historical significance.
The region of Delaware, now recognized as the Cape Henlopen State Park, was very active during WWII. It was a former military base, and a WWII fort is one of the popular points of interest.
Also, if you find the WWII Observation Tower, you can climb to the top of it for one of the best sights to see in Delaware.
Visitors can enjoy hiking the nature trails, riding the bike paths, kayaking, and fishing. An inside tip is to go to the nature center for free daily bike rentals that you can use in the park.
Address: 15099 Cape Henlopen Dr, Lewes, DE 19958
18: Bethany Beach
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It's quite easy to find new Delaware destinations for visiting the beach. Towns like Bethany Beach are frequent vacation spots in Delaware that attract visitors from all over.
Bethany Beach is a place for relaxation. It's a secluded beach ideal for families who want to spend time playing in the sand or swimming in the ocean. Bring a chair and lounge in the sun, or bring gear for snorkeling to see what fish you encounter by the shore.
Of all the beaches in Delaware, why visit Bethany Beach? Not only does it have clean beaches and clear water, but the surrounding area always gives you a fun beach day.
When you need a break from the water, go for a stroll on the boardwalk. There are tons of local shops and seafood restaurants to check out. Exploring the town is just as fun as hanging out at the beach.
Address: Bethany Beach, DE
Also Read: 30 Best Beaches in the USA
19: Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
The landscape of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is like none other. Established in 1937, visitors now have a chance to explore this unique landscape.
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge runs along the coast of the Delaware Bay. It's one of the largest tidal salt marshes remaining in the world. The park does an excellent job at conservation while allowing visitors a chance to see it up close.
Visitors can enjoy the refuge in a way suitable for them. It has hiking trails that are excellent for birdwatching. The trails take you through the area for a chance to spot lots of bird species, including hawks, swans, and herons.
Another way to enjoy the park is by taking a scenic drive. Visitors can follow the loop path that winds for 12 miles through the park | 2,211 |
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