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The 9.8 million viewers of TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Eight recognize Kate Gosselin as the practical mom of eight who has come into their homes for over 100 episodes of her family's hit reality show. In I Just Want You to Know, Kate reveals a grateful and faith-filled mother who only wants the best for her children and is willing<|fim_middle|> the age of six) transitioning from the chaos of caring for infants to the structured days of a home filled with budding preschoolers, as well as her thoughts on communication, everyday miracles, and providing a safe home. During that time, Kate discusses her family's unique challenges from daily schedules to traveling, her need for control to learning how to be flexible, the individuality of all eight kids, how God provided every day, and her faith that held it all together.
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Twitter may be working on a new feature that's a lot like Snapchat.
Facebook may not be the only competitor Snap needs to worry about.
Twitter is reportedly working on a new Snapchat Discover-like feature that emphasizes photos and videos tied to specific events, according to CNBC.
The news follows an earlier report from Bloomberg that Twitter was working on a Snapchat-like camera feature.
Details are scarce, and CNBC notes that the feature may never end up seeing the<|fim_middle|> measurable impact on Snapchat is another matter. But it's a good way to ensure that Twitter retains its reputation as a go-to source for news. | light of day, but the "camera first feature" is apparently meant to encourage people to share more photos and videos associated with news that often breaks via Twitter.
Such a feature would directly compete with elements of Snapchat Discover, as well as Snap Maps — both of which curate Stories-based current events. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the report, but it's not surprising Twitter would want to build such a feature.
Increasingly, Snapchat has become a go-to source to get a first-person view of breaking news. Time and time again, the best place to get a raw, unfiltered look at what's happening during a major event like the Olympics — or, more tragically, during a news event like a natural disaster or a mass shooting — is not Twitter but Snapchat.
If you're Twitter, which prides itself on being the platform for "what's happening," this is a worrying trend. The company wants to ensure that their platform stays top of mind when news happens. Incorporating a way for users to more easily share photos and videos — which can then be pulled into Moments or other features that highlight breaking news — would make a lot of sense.
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@ A.E<|fim_middle|> | . Harris is the home of Stan's Cafe theatre company. In 2008 Stan's Cafe took up the offer of a recently vacated portion of the A E Harris & Co (Birmingham) Ltd. factory for a six week period to stage one of their productions. Audiences responded so enthusiastically to the venue and Stan's Cafe liked it so much that talks were initiated between them and the metal fabricators with a view to securing the space for performance on a long term basis. The ambition was for this space to provide a location for devising, rehearsing and presenting Stan's Cafe shows and to become a focus for the development of the independent theatre scene within Birmingham.
@ A.E. Harris is suitable for seated and promenade performances. It is a very unique performance venue which is popular with both performers and audiences alike and throughout the year it hosts a range of productions both from Stan's Cafe and other visiting companies, festivals, workshops & seminars.
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Words are our thoughts presented to others. They create emotions when read or when heard. These emotions range across the spectrum from joyous to rage, inspirational to demotivating, provocative to calming. Oftentimes, the same word draws out varied emotions and can be interpreted<|fim_middle|> Humility as a habit can be learned, pass the approach unto others and reinforce the practice each and every day. Share the benefit, pay it forward. | differently from one person to the next. A word that I have appreciated for a very long time, but have grown to embrace ever more often in my daily life as I have matured as a father, professional, and friend; is HUMILITY.
A professed prolific reader of self-improvement guides, paired with my having been associated with some of the greatest leaders in the hospitality industry throughout my career, I recognize and embrace the power and influence that a humble approach can have on creating very positive outcomes.
Humility is not synonymous with being timid or lacking confidence or having issues of inferiority. It is the belief that you and those you surround yourself with, are equal in all regards.
A humble leader has courage, promotes transparency; and openly displays their desire to serve others rather than expecting others to serve them.
Exuding this trait allows the views and actions of others to take center stage as appropriate; it shuns the need for notoriety and self-promotion at the expense of others.
As leaders, humility pairs with sincerity in defining our approach to working with others. If we sincerely hold their best interests in mind and use a humble approach to helping our team realize their desired results, our guidance will be embraced, appreciated, and remembered.
1. Those who speak less, win. Ask pertinent questions than shhhhh, allow others to speak their mind in depth; listen active to them and with empathy, than inquire some more. There is no such thing as a humble blowhard.
2. Offer yourself up to short but poignant pulse checks on your leadership. Create a questionnaire and a process of complete anonymity for responses. Inquire as to how you are doing as a leader, and what more can be done. Do this three to four times a year, at random times. Be sure to act upon the feedback and respond to the group.
3. Allow the views and opinions of others by the ones chosen to act upon. In most cases there are multiple options to approaching most tasks, hold off on implementing your own when others are viable as well.
4. Guide others when it benefits them and/or the operation, but do so back stage. Allow successes to be bestowed on team members, put them in the spotlight to receive recognition.
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By t<|fim_middle|>Gospel was originated in the late 1800s by African-American churches in the southern United States. The reason why gospel remains deeply rooted in the rich traditions of the African American church is because this genre is soulful. African-American spirituals and hymns are often times accompanied by hand-clapping and foot-stomping. The characteristics of this genre are set up in a call-and-response form by the use of a choir. Gospel plays a significant social role due to its connection to religion. Within gospel music there is ties to our beliefs, values, and behaviors. This results in a new shared culture that impacts people to trust in the power of religion. In the late 1930s Thomas A. Dorsey (in Chicago Illinois) changed the way gospel hit the ears. Also known as the "Father of Gospel" Dorsey created a new style of gospel music called gospel blues, eventually gospel blues was introduced as the new form of traditional gospel.
Important performers of gospel music include Thomas A. Dorsey, Kirk Franklin, and Hezekiah Walker. Each artist has their own style of gospel and eventually branched off into new created future genres of gospel. The future genres that gospel has inspired are christian hip-hop, which tailors to the younger generation of gospel listeners. Praise and worship music, which requires more instrumentation than regular gospel. Also, Urban contemporary gospel, a modern form of Christian music. Key instruments include a drum set, choir (usually distinguished by robes), an organ, and keyboard. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for a plethora of audiences. Gospel usually has dominant vocals in each soprano, alto, and tenor levels of voices in lyrics of gospel.
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The Canaves Oia properties in Santorini already dominate the terraced whitewashed landscape of the prime northwest corner of the island and have undergone steady improvements over the last few years, including the introduction of eight separate, spacious Sunday Suites last year. But in May, the group is opening its most luxurious outpost, Canaves Oia Epitome.
A suite terrace at Canaves Oia Epitome.
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As befits its name, it's the most private, tucked away on the northern part of the island, outside of the town of Oia, with space around each villa, not stacked next to other hotels as even the most expensive hotels in this part of the island are. The location just above Ammoudi Beach is positioned to take in the famous sunset views that crowds gather nearby to watch. All 24 villas have pools and there is a larger infinity pool for the resort complete with private cabanas.
Canaves Oia Epitome suite interior.
As soothing as it is outdoors with large private terraces for taking in the caldera views, so is it indoors. The gray, beige and white designed but not fussy interiors are punctuated by natural woods and stone. And for further de-stressing, there are daily yoga sessions available to guests.
The typical Cyclades architecture visible in a Katikies suite terrace.
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One of Canaves Oia's neighbors in Santorini, Katikies, is expanding to the other marquee island, Mykonos, opening on June 1. Located overlooking the beach on the Agios Ioannis peninsula with a view of the island of Delos across the calm waters, the resort will have 35 rooms and suites decorated in the classic Greek colors of blue and white all with private terraces containing Jacuzzis or pools. There will also be three restaurants including a champagne bar, butler service and 24 hour concierge service available anywhere on the island through a mobile phone provided by the hotel.
The unspoiled, beachfront setting of Calilo on the island of Ios.
Courtesy of Calilo.
Elsewhere in the Cyclades, the island of Ios had a long held reputation as a party island but that image has been transitioning due to the emergence of luxury hotels the last few years bringing in a more sophisticated clientele. The couple behind it, Angelos and Vassiliki Michalopoulos bought a quarter of the island ten years ago to preserve it from extensive construction and mass tourism and are now beginning to selectively build on part of the land. The most ambitious new hotel, scheduled to open in late summer, is Calilo, set on 1000 acres with a private beach of approximately the same size. There will be 30 suites, a spa and wellness center, water sports and three restaurants with vegetables sourced from the resort's organic garden. And if it's all too peaceful and guests want to | 797 |
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Check out this great article in the Fresno Bee about the band. Click HERE. | amazing! We play six concerts each year, four of which are at the outstanding Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall on the Clovis North High School Campus. We have over 70 instrumentalists in the band and we always have room for dedicated musicians. If you play an instrument or you just need a reason to get the horn out and return to the joy of making music, please contact the director, Dan Lindstrom at dlindstrom.12951@gmail.com or call 559-327-2876 to find out more about this exciting class! We meet on Tuesday evenings at Clark Intermediate School.
Even if you do not play an instrument you will not want to miss our next concert. Please see below for this year's performance dates. Concerts are free!
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World consumer<|fim_middle|> to the Commission in diffusing information about activities of the Commission promptly and in contexts that make meaning to the telecom consumers, the general public and other stakeholders.
According to him,the conference is conceived to highlight NCC's commitment to protecting the telecom consumers and to highlight the regulatory role of NCC with respect to protecting the Rights of the Telecom Consumers and to connect it with the global significance of today's celebration.
He recall the initiatives by the Commission, was meant to spotlight how the Commission's vision interconnects with the international consumer rights movement.
He listed steps taken by the Commission that have direct bearing to the theme of this year's World Consumer Rights Day.
He said the Commission has also implemented a strict type-approval process that ensures all equipment used in the telecommunications industry are of a suitable standard, both for the good of the consumers and for the preservation of our environment.
This coincidental connection between the 2021 theme for World Consumer Rights Day, "Tackling Plastic Pollution", and the proactive initiatives of the Commission towards protecting the environment as well as efforts on tackling electronic waste in Nigeria tells the story of a shared vision for a satisfied consumer.
On Consumer-centric Regulations,he said
The Nigerian Communications Act 2003 – enjoins the Commission to protect the interest of the consumers, which the Commission has done religiously, through subsidiary legislations, guidelines and directions that proactively address consumer concerns and stipulate responsibilities of all stakeholders.
"We had made declarations to curtail excesses of some operators and to expand the frontiers of freedom for the consumers. Warnings had been handed out and fines have been imposed on erring operators. Determinations have also been made by the Commission to ensure consumers are neither shortchanged nor denied their privileges and rights".
The NCC demonstrated the foregoing to reveal the extent it could go to defend and protect the interests of telecom consumers; and to successively restate its commitment to its ethos of fairness, firmness and forthrightness – the doctrinal tripod of its regulatory mandate.
The Commission has ensured full compliance with Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards registration guidelines by the service providers and telecom consumers. This is to ensure proper registration to stop the use of improperly-registered SIMs, which usage is difficult to track.
Having a credible subscriber database helps in tracing a SIM card to the real owner in case of any criminal investigation. This will help in curbing the painful rise in tempo of kidnapping, robberies, banditry and similar crimes committed with the aid of the use of SIM cards.
We have made arrests and prosecutions in the past in this regard and through this effort, we have been able to sanitise the telecoms ecosystem of improperly-registered SIM cards that pose threat to national security.
It is therefore pertinent to say that the linking of SIM and National Identity Number (NIN) database will further help us in this direction toward protecting the consumers and all citizens at large. In this regard, the Commission wishes to echo the voice of Mr. President by thanking all telecom subscribers for their understanding and co-operation in the ongoing SIM-NIN harmonisation exercise.
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"The Management of the Commission also takes consumer information and education very seriously. Just recently, it approved the re-structuring of our legacy consumer outreach and engagement programmes". End…
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By Sarauniya Usman,Abuja
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta,emphasised the need to build 'a robust digital world consumers can trust'.
He made the call at a Conference is organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to commemorate the WORLD CONSUMER RIGHTS DAY (WCRD) for the year 2021.
He said the Commission was worried by the recurrent cycle of fraudulent deployment of fake and substandard mobile devices – usually made of iron and plastic components, collaborated with the Office of the National Security Adviser and other relevant government agencies to inaugurate a committee to implement Mobile Devices Management Systems (DMS).
The Consumer Rights Day is observed every 15th day of March. in recognition of the central place the consumer occupies in the telecom ecosystem and in the emergent digital economy.
In the same year, the World Consumer Rights Day focused on "Better Digital World". The declaration by the Commission and the focus by WCRD 2017 emphasised the need to build 'a digital world consumers can trust'.
With the theme: For World Consumer Rights Day for 2021 is, "Tackling Plastic Pollution". Activities and actions slated for this commemoration are to raise awareness and engage state and non-state actors on the global plastic pollution crisis. This is coming THREE years after the NCC drafted the NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY E-WASTE REGULATIONS in 2018.
The objective of the Regulation is to manage E-Waste; promote reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery; improve environmental management system of operators in the telecom industry; and reduce greenhouse emissions as well as enhance sustainable development efforts.
"These goals speak to the imperative of adhering to practices that enhance Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production; as well as Climate Action respectively".
"This initiative is designed as a Public-Private Partnership aimed at combating the proliferation of fake, counterfeit, substandard and cloned communication devices in the telecom – munications industry".
He said, in reconnecting with the theme for this Year's celebration, bears restating, that, while the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is concluding processes to issue the regulation on Electronic Waste, it is mindful of the fact that many ICT and telecom devices have plastic components, whose waste materials could worsen plastic pollution.
"we reckon that improper disposal of such disused ICT-plastic embedded products have grave implication on public health, and especially in achieving Goals 11, 12 and 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030".
NCC Boss, reiterate that the Commission are designed to give assurance to the consumers that their interests are of paramount importance to the Commission. This is because without the telecom consumers, there will be no telecom operators and there would be no regulator.
Therefore, "we seize this opportunity to assure millions of telecom consumers across the country that the Commission will not rest on its oars until the challenges of telecoms consumers have been reduced to the barest minimum".
NCC seeks the occasion of this year's World Consumer Rights Day to restate its commitment to Protecting, Informing and Educating the telecoms consumer.
We call this our PIE Mandate to the consumers which embodies our philosophical commitment to strengthening all our consumer-centric initiatives and policies.
NCC is aligning with the philosophy of this day to reiterate its commitment towards providing accurate, adequate and timely information and education that enables the consumer to take informed decisions and feel protected.
On behalf of the Board, Management and staff of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),He thanked the media for honoring the invitation; and for being a consistent partner | 781 |
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After the break, the Swans doubled their lead in the 70th minute with a close-range header from Lowri Ridings.
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Welcome back to Batty About Books! Our latest tome is a young adult science fiction novel that came out this year. We'll be discussing this over the course of four weeks.
Acquired: Through my amazing local library!
We had a lot to talk about on this first section, so we've split the discussion. Part of it will be here (focused on my feminist viewpoint and the science), and part at The Brain Lair (on some of the "big ideas" we've seen in the story). As has become our grand tradition, my thoughts are in purple and Kathy's are in blue.
I also think that reading more YA has spoiled me a bit. The MG science fiction (and some fantasy) I've read lately hasn't held a candle to the complexity in the YA books.
Kathy: I always read those two (YA vs MG) with different lenses. Buying library books for students aged 10<|fim_middle|>'t really open to Tom exploring all the choices in front of him. I do understand that the "parentless" teen is a way of allowing the teen characters to be fully in charge, though. Tom doesn't have someone leaning over him, since he has really taken on the parenting role.
Kathy: As a mom, I gotta say I probably wouldn't be open to my child exploring all the choices in front of her either! (Point taken, and agreed!) I try to let go as much as possible, but I always want to know as much detail as possible. In the book though, we know his dad has his own agenda, part of which means Tom takes care of him, so he doesn't want to lose the only sure thing in his life. The part with the dad, Neil, taking a stance against the government reminded me of the book Alabama Moon by Watt Key. Each father figure has a similar outlook on the government's role in society and then they disappear and you see how things play out in the rest of the world. I look forward to seeing if Neil's stance proves to be correct or if he's just operating from a bias stemming from something in his past. I agree. I'm definitely curious about his dad's perspective. So far, it seems like Elliot is real, but that his father is partly correct.
Positive: So far, there doesn't seem to be much of a distinction in leadership at his school. No one talks about the women instructors as different from the men.
Kathy: Hmm, we haven't really seen any women instructors at the military school though. The only female adult was charged with being the "social worker" for the students. We don't really get to see Major Cromwell in action. She comes to lunch, says at ease, and then that's it. That's true. The hopeful thing is that those characters weren't seen as "Oh my goodness - look at the lady instructor!" Kathy: I hope she doesn't get the "mannish" treatment like Wyatt either. That will be something to keep an eye out for - Does the author think women can still retain their feminine side while operating in a historically male world?
Character Ratio: Yes, the protagonist is Tom. So you'll have more male characters, especially since it is a boarding situation and his roommates will also be young men. There are a handful of young women, though, who could make the story feel more balanced as long as their parts are brought to the front of the story line. (Heather and Wyatt, in particular). Several of the instructors are also women. So far, though, it's definitely heavier on the guys.
Unsure so far: Heather's profile includes her 2 stints as beauty queen and she is a "social innovator". The upside is that she seems to be treated as a full member of the teams, and her intelligence is valued. Attractiveness doesn't have to be discounted, as long as she continues to be respected for more than that. When you add in Wyatt, though, it puts me a little more on edge. Our "mathlete" with the mad hacking skills is antisocial and has "man hands"? I guess I need more data before I can decide how I feel the young women are being portrayed in this story.
Kathy: I was disappointed that they used Heather's attractiveness to get Tom to first, consider the offer, and then later, change his mind. So far, I'm not seeing much from her. Also, I think attractiveness is OVERcounted so far. Tom mentions that "back when he wasn't smart...when his skin was messed up...when he had nothing going for him...", (p. 86) Heather wouldn't have noticed him, but now that he's been changed, he can now participate in society, including getting the girl. Thanks for bringing this up. I meant to mention that. I also found that troubling - but it does remind me a lot of how I felt in high school. I was very concerned about my appearance, and how my appearance impacted my ability to get along with others. I pretended I wasn't... but it really did matter to me. Kathy: If we are being honest - I still have that. Especially operating in a 95% white world as I do. I'm the only person of color teaching at my school and among my friends. My background is very different from theirs as I hail from Chicago while most grew up here in this small township. I'm always wondering about my speech patterns, my dress, etc.
There is a lot of science woven in so far. I know the information dribbled in has made me curious to investigate more about the brain, virtual reality, etc. I liked the way the information was woven into the text. Definitions were tossed in for TOM - but helped us. As he processes the downloads, we get fed more science too. Sometimes this technique can be done to death. So far, though, I've found it nicely balanced.
I'm really enjoying this book. While there are always things I can nitpick, I like the pacing and the characters. I love the classic science fiction references. And I'm dying to know what happens next. I can see this being a book I would normally just devour if I hadn't been forced to slow down and take notes!
Kathy: We should take that into consideration for future books. If we get into it and feel like we should just read and then react - let's do it! I'm always telling students that different types of books require different types of reading. There are times I must slow myself down because my need to know what's going to happen drives me. And there are times I just want to savor every word. They discuss this a bit on the SLJ Heavy Medal blog - emotion vs intellect. True, but if I hadn't taken notes I wouldn't be able to have gone back just now to add more specific references to back up my thinking in our discussion. I have found that I "take notes" differently in each book we've read. Some books I start an Evernote and jot down ideas as I read. This one I tended to put in a small sticky note when I had something I wanted to remember, or jotted a page number and small quote on an index card. I wonder if that change in my own "jotting" style is reflective of my interaction style with each text?
Kathy: Would be great to plot. I write notes in a little Moleskin notebook and they vary depending on how I feel about the book. I find the more I'm into a book - the better notes I take because I am just thinking and thinking. Also, whatever lit element jumps out at me - I tend to take MORE notes on that because I'm looking for that support. I have a feeling that part 2 of Insignia will have me paying more attention to the science and the connections to Tom's family.
- "Good morning, Dave" (47) So early in the book, and a massive classic reference to 2001. Awesome.
- "I know Kung - Fu" (84-85) - I laughed, as I rewatch the Matrix on a regular basis.
- Selecting kids based on their responses to video games? Totally "Last Starfighter". Yeah, I just dated myself again.
Read it? Our thoughts spark an idea in your mind? Chime in, please!
While you are waiting for next week's post (with bated breath, I'm sure), check out our pal Brian's review of the book at WYZ Reads. | -14 opens your eyes to the variety. There are some complex MG books out there, maybe not in scifi that I've seen, but they do exist. So far though, I don't think this book is that complex. Sure, there's some lingo but once you get past that, the book seems very simplistic to me. My budget is low so my book expectations are very high, and so far, this is not reaching them. I feel like I'm directly comparing this book to my last MG science fiction read - The Supernaturalist. The characters in that one felt really flat compared to Insignia. I guess it's also a matter of length. There is more time to have more people in the book, and to "stop and look around" in the setting, when the book is longer.
Kathy: Could it have been the author? I've read and enjoyed Artemis Fowl but I didn't move beyond the first book. There are some YA science fiction books that don't make the grade - Obsidian Blade for one. There were some issues with that one and it's YA. Also, I AM Number Four - which is huge at our school - because it's action packed not because the characters are well written. On the other hand, Boy at the End of The World had a well-written protagonist. I also enjoyed Eleventh Plague.
Feminism Watch: My definition is "equal opportunities for all", just as an FYI. This includes allowing guys to have a full range of choices: to express emotions and take on some feminine characteristics without being seen as a ridiculous character and forced into changes.
I've taken to putting on my lady goggles more and more when I read science fiction and fantasy. There are always positives and negatives in every book. Let's take a look.
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The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston selected Tennessee's Kimberly Winkle as the winner of its John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, a $25,000 grant awarded annually to a young furniture artist. Winkle emerged from a pool of 44 applicants from 16 states.
"She wanted to carry out a new body of work that studied Seminole Native American patterns and we felt that it was a good balanced proposal that she had which included purchasing some tools, taking some workshops, and purchasing materials to carry out the work," Society of Arts and Crafts exhibitions director Fabio J. Fernandez says.
The fellowship is named for the former president of the society's board of trustees and a respected member of Boston's cultural community. Mineck was well-known as an advocate of young furniture makers.
The foundation was formed in 2007 and has awarded an annual grant since 2009.
"For us, this is a significant prize amount in the<|fim_middle|>25,000 prize is pretty significant," Fernandez adds.
Previous recipients have used the grant to pursue apprenticeships and begin startup ventures.
Contact: The Society of Arts and Crafts. Tel: 617-266-1810. www.societyofcrafts.org
This article originally appeared in the September 2014 issue.
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At the end of the first year of the project, "Support to the Reform of Community Policing and Community and Crowd Management", the team had a welcome visit by Chief Constable Colette Paul (Bedfordshire) the ACPO lead for international affairs worldwide who paid a visit to Myanmar during the week of 3rd to 7th November 2014. The purpose of her visit was to meet with UK serving and retired officers currently working on the EU Project, "Support to Reform of the Myanmar Police Force in the areas of Community Policing and Crowd Management". The ACPO lead also had the opportunity to meet with the MPF trainers in Community Policing and discuss how the Community Policing Component was developing. The trainers were very forthright in their answers explaining how they had changed as individuals and how MPF in time would change with new style of systematic training.
The Chief Constable also visited the first pilot area of Mingalar Taung Nyunt where she met with the Township Commander, Township officer and various officer and NCO ranks. Here she got a real sense for how the police were changing in a very positive and progressive way. This was followed by a visit to three Wards within the Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township. Again, the community were very positive that the police were changing in a good way. One, who attended the training on problem solving and partnership, even recited the SARA problem solving model. This again was very encouraging and demonstrated the communities understanding and commitment to working together with the police.
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Chief Constable Paul also had the opportunity to meet with the Yangon Regional Police Chief, Police Colonel Win Naing and the EU project team at a dinner hosted by the British Ambassador Mr Andrew Patrick to discuss progress and to meet police officers already working on the project.
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Softball win first game and tie second in weekend double header
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Junior infielder Sonia Sharma with the ball in the team's doubleheader at home against New Paltz. Saturday, March 7, 2020. - Staff Photographer / Benjamin Stephens
The Rowan University softball team hit the diamond for the first time here in Glassboro on Saturday as they took on New Paltz in a doubleheader. The Profs would end up winning the first game in six innings 8-0 but tie 2-2 in the second game, which ended early after five innings due to darkness.
Right-handed pitcher Lauren Shannon was pounding the zone in the first game as she pitched all six innings, striking out eight batters and giving up only three hits. Her teammates put up eight runs and had a total of 12 hits in the game.
"I felt really good today," Shannon said. "My team had my back on the field and with the bats. It's really easy when you have bat support with you."
The Profs jumped out to a 5-0 lead within the first two innings and never looked back. The bats slowed down after the first three innings but they finished the job to get the win.
The Profs made hitting look easy in the first game. Right fielder Jesse DeDomenico had a day at the plate with three hits and scoring two runs. Second<|fim_middle|> Rowan would go back to Shannon in the fifth to get two outs to keep the game tied. DeDomenico was pitching well at the time, so the move could have been questioned, but it ended up working out for the Profs.
"We felt like we wanted to put Jesse back in the outfield and the batters that were coming up hadn't seen Lauren and we thought she would have success," Head Coach Kim Wilson said.
Shortly after that, the umpires would call the game because of darkness, ending it in a tie. Rowan would move to 3-2-1 on the season and New Paltz started their season without a win.
"I thought we had a pretty decent day," Wilson said. "I thought we made mistakes in the season game where balls we should've fielded we didn't and that led to a couple of runs. I think overall for the kids to hang in there in this weather was good."
While it was most certainly cold on Saturday, the Profs leave for Florida this Thursday and it won't be cold in the sunshine state. They will play 12 games in seven days before coming home to start conference play.
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In the second game, the Profs got caught sleeping early in the game, making five total errors in the field. They would go down 1-0 in the top of the first but would answer in the bottom of the inning with two runs to take the lead.
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Best by Test
Jesse<|fim_middle|> real world is more complicated than putting a rook back in a box. One type of death is the point at which you stop being what you are in the present moment and become the sum of all the moments that preceded it – when you become history. For most people, this death coincides with their biological one. For some, it happens earlier, when they slip into the anonymous crowd of senescence and stop being relevant. But for Fischer, the opposite: eight years after his death, he has not become history. What I would call the true meaning of his existence – the greatest grandmaster of all time – has not yet won out over the beast he became in the last part of his life.
Perhaps Fischer refused to become history because he did not believe in historical meaning. I am like that too. I would not deny the facts of history; only someone like Fischer would do that. But for me – and, presumably, for him – there is one kind of meaning that matters: the beauty of numbers, the art of maths, the personality that emerges from pure logic. You has to wonder, then, what it means that Fischer died on 17 January 2008, at the age of 64. The fact is remarkable that the world's greatest chess player – a person who, from the age of six, spent his life poring over the black and white chequers, discovering all they meant – who knew more about them than anyone – died at an age equal to the number of squares on his board.
A man who loved this game a lot more than me stopped playing it forever. Goodbye, Fischer. You were insane, but you were just like me. Insanity begins with a thin in. | Paris-Jourdan
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I never saw the waterfall that the path through the trees at the end of the street where I grew up led to. From the day I was born, I knew nature was worthless. I did not enjoy poetry, either. It seemed to me that my twin deficiencies – the inability to derive pleasure from nature and the same incapacity with language – were related; to a boy who could not fathom beauty in the formation of atoms, what were words worth? My father noticed my barbarous tendencies, and, as I had a talent for mathematics, tricked me into appreciating art by teaching me chess.
I was hooked immediately. I played and read books about the game continuously from the age of 12 to 16. In 2008, on summer break before year nine, Bobby Fischer died. He had been my idol. When I learned about his death, I was sitting at my father's desk, scrolling through the news. The first thing I thought was: Checkmate. The word is a translation of the Persian "shah mat", which means, "the king is dead".
Fischer was the king of chess. Past tense. The man who started life vibrant as a kingfisher died useless as the Fisher King. In 1975, while world champion, he dropped out of the chess world, refusing to defend his title. Anatoly Karpov won the championship by default. Fischer had once said that the king's pawn opening was 'best by test' – but after 1975 he went on declaring that he was the best player alive while declining to be tested himself. He grew a beard, moved to Iceland, and lived the rest of his years in isolation. He popped up sometimes to say something insane on Icelandic radio. He became a Holocaust denier. He did not play any type of chess except for a variant of his own invention called Fischerandom. The variant has since been renamed Chess960 to avoid association with his name.
When Fischer died, I put down my Staunton set and did not touch it until last year, when I joined the chess club at university and rediscovered the game. It is nothing like I remembered. Perhaps I have acceded to my father's artistic hopes. Not only are the pieces smaller than they seemed seven years ago, but they also have personalities, which they never revealed to me before. I will explain with reference to three of my friends.
Let us start with the knight. He moves two squares in any direction, does a caracole, and moves one square to the left or right. This pattern is all that makes up his existence, but a character arises. He ducks and dodges, weaves and dives; he is a mole in enemy ranks, looking for a hole, dodging the bishops' searchlights. Defences need to be tight, because if he gets in, he will take control; a knight that sneaks past the wall of pawns often decides a game. No piece is more enigmatic. He follows secret paths, unpredictable by human logic. Without him, chess would be no more than maths: a contest of trafficking in straight lines. The equine piece makes the game divine.
Bishops move diagonally. Teamwork is the motto of their kind. They were not meant for the army; God made them colour-blind. But with teamwork, two of them can create the Deluge – they flood the board when they are aligned. In an endgame, you can easily dodge one alone, like crossing Swanston Street at night to avoid the man preaching fire and brimstone. But if you are up against the pair, working together, the board is their zone; no square is spared.
The queen, the single lady, outclasses all the boys. A wise player will not put her in defence. She wants to kill. Broadly speaking, checkmate is on until she dies, at which point the other king sighs, deeply. On an open board, a centralised queen controls twenty-seven squares, her potential limited only by the player's skill. Philidor claimed that pawns are the soul of chess. If so, then the king is the mind, and she the body. She makes things happen. She is the attack, with the strength of a rook and more finesse. An advertisement for monarchy, the squares under her control fan out like the Union Jack.
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Let's be honest with Shenandoah Valley history for the Spring of '62… not all locals were happy with Stonewall's presence
Posted on May 5, 2012 by Robert Moore
I've seen a good deal of "Stonewall Jackson praising" going on lately, and while I can appreciate his part in the history of the Valley for that time, that's not quite all of the story.
In short, not everyone was cheering the arrival (and in some cases, the return) of Confederate troops in the Valley, and… the 1862 Valley Campaign wasn't just about Jackson and his victories here… with the entire citizenry all in favor.
Indeed, some embraced the arrival of Union troops… some with open arms, and others… while Southern Unionists… with a bit of uncertainty.
As for one who was among the most enthusiastic… I present… again… Dr. James Lee Gillespie.
I've mentioned him before, and the 150 year Sesqui moment slipped through my fingers a few weeks ago, and I wasn't able to post about it in time, but… there was one local Unionist… from my home county, no less… who also accompanied my third great grandfather in the months before Virginia's secession, speaking out against<|fim_middle|> to the war. It may have been at the main Shenandoah County Library. There may be valuable church records that would shed light on these events. The College may have collections relating to this also.
The hunt for an ordnance sergeant named Burt | it.
So, backtracking a bit in my personal Sesqui moments… let's go back to mid-April…
Major Harry Gilmore
In his book, Four Years in the Saddle (pages 32-33), Confederate cavalryman Harry Gilmor mentioned that Gen. John Robert Jones, acting provost guard at Harrisonburg, directed Gilmor (between March and April 1862) to deal with Gillespie and efforts in which he was believed to be engaging. Since the name Gillespie is quite unique to the area, it seems certain that this reference was to James Lee Gillespie. Gilmor stated,
Jones sent me to break up a band, estimated at from two to five hundred, that had collected in the large gorges of the Blue Ridge, in the neighborhood of Swift Run Gap. They were headed by a man named Gillespie, and they had determined to resist the draft, and were armed principally with shot-guns and squirrel rifles. We had with us a company of militia infantry, but they were afraid to go into the mountains at all.
We had skirmishing for two or three days without doing any damage; for, when we attempted to charge, they took to the sides of the mountains, and the ground was too rugged to pursue them, and they could fire on us without being able to return to it.
I reported all of this to General [Thomas J. "Stonewall"] Jackson, who sent Colonel Jones in command of all, and advised him to bring up four companies of sharpshooters, and one or two pieces of artillery. This he did; and after driving them into Green [Greene] County across the mountains, I took prisoners, forty-eight in number, to Harrisonburg…
Observing Gillespie, after the capture, Jackson's topographer, Jedediah Hotchkiss, referred to him as "a tigrous looking fellow."
Yet, there is good reason to doubt that the man Gilmor sought out, and Hotchkiss observed, was actually Dr. Gillespie.
As I pointed out in my biographical sketch of Dr. Gillespie…
Minute books of the Court of Page County show that Gillespie was in the Page County jail as of June 26, 1861 under the charge of "treason against the government of the Confederate States." Gillespie applied to the court for his release from jail but was denied this request as the county as a legal body could not sufficiently establish jurisdiction in the case. Following this denial, Gillespie applied once again to the court, asking for an examination of the charges against him in legal forum, but again the court denied the appeal based once again on "want of jurisdiction." Minute books reveal no further information in this case, but Gillespie's obituary shows that at some point he was taken to Orange Court House, from whence he escaped. Crossing the lines, Gillespie was able to secure an audience with Union Gen. Henry W. Slocum, who, in turn, gave Gillespie a letter of introduction to President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln "recommended General Nathaniel Banks take him [Gillespie] and protect his home in the Valley of Virginia.
Indeed, for the point on the timeline (April 1862), Gillespie himself seems to show that he was working as a guide for Union General Nathaniel Banks, and therefore, could not have been present at the incident in Swift Run Gap.
So… did some sort of "Gillespie legend" grow from his story from the summer of 1861, and infuse itself into what became known as the Rockingham Rebellion? It's quite possible, and it's too bad in some ways, as we may never know the name(s) of the man/men who led that short-lived rebellion of locals against… the rebellion.
A few years ago, I continued MY search for Dr. Gillespie… and found his grave in Sistersville, West Virginia.
Of course, there were other locals of the Valley who had issues with the Confederacy as well, such as Elder John Kline, who I covered in this briographical sketch from 2008.
In an upcoming post, I'll be writing about Dr. Gillespie's son… who, as a former student of Jackson's at VMI, and at about this same time (Spring of '62), was making every effort to become part of Stonewall's staff, which opens the door wide to how many a father and son in the Valley didn't necessarily see eye to eye when it came to embracing the Confederacy.
Tagged: Elder John Kline, Harry Gilmor, James Lee Gillespie, Jedediah Hotchkiss, John Robert Jones, Nathaniel Banks, Page County Virginia, Rockingham County Virginia, Rockingham Rebellion, Shenandoah Valley, Sistersville West Virginia, Southern Unionists, Stonewall Jackson, Swift Run Gap, Virginia Military Institute
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I am glad you posted this interesting information. I had seen the various materials, but didn't know exactly how they all fit together, plus everything can't possibly be included in a project.
The Richmond Daily Dispatch of Mar. 21, Apr. 19 describe events relating to the Dunkards or Tunkers, as I had found in searching for "Rockingham." These articles state that the men involved were taken to the prison in Richmond, not Harrisonburg. Some were later released to Col. Baldwin's regiment – that being the 52nd VA Infantry of Augusta and Rockingham. His bio in the Encyclopedia Va show that he held out in favor of the Union longer than most.
Waddell's diary of March 19, gives more details. He states that the arrests were made in Pendleton or Hardy county. This would be consistent with reports that the group was headed toward Ohio.
http://150yearsagotoday.blogspot.com/2012/03/1862-march-19-staunton-va.html
The Valley Brethren- Mennonite Heritage Center had an event last week relating to these stories. They state in the information I received that prisoners were housed in the Rockingham County courthouse. I recently saw other information relating to Valley religious groups and resistance | 1,400 |
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Voyager Golden Record<|fim_middle|>ets our appetite! What will Ceres look like as it comes into sharper focus? Will we see evidence of a subsurface ocean? What unexpected shapes and structures will we find? What strange new features will show up? Just what is that bright spot? Quite simply: we don't know. It would be a pretty good idea to send a spacecraft there to find out!
Scientists scrutinize all the photos for moons of Ceres, and OpNavs 3-7 will include many extra images with exposures chosen to help reveal moons. In addition, hundreds more pictures will be taken of the space around Ceres in the hours before and after OpNav 3 to allow an even more thorough search.
On two occasions during the approach, Dawn will take images and spectra throughout a complete Ceres rotation of slightly over nine hours, or one Cerean day. During that time, Dawn's position will not change significantly, so it will be almost as if the spacecraft hovers in place as the dwarf planet pirouettes beneath its watchful eye, exhibiting most of the surface. These "rotation characterizations" (known by the stirring names RC1 and RC2) will provide the first global perspectives.
As Dawn flies into orbit, it arcs around Ceres. In November, we described the route into orbit in detail, and one of the figures there is reproduced here. Dawn will slip into Ceres' gravitational embrace on the night of March 5 (PST). But as the figure shows, its initial elliptical orbit will carry it to higher altitudes before it swoops back down. As a result, pictures of Ceres will grow for a while, then shrink and then grow again.
Dawn's approach trajectory. We are looking down on the north pole of Ceres. The sun is off the figure far to the left. The spacecraft flies in from the left and then is captured on the way to the apex of its orbit. It gets closer to Ceres during the first part of its approach but then recedes for a while before coming in still closer at the end. Lighting by the sun is not depicted here, but when Dawn is on the right side of the figure, it only sees a crescent of Ceres, which is illuminated from the left. (The white circles are at one-day intervals.) Image credit: NASA/JPL
Because of the changing direction to Ceres, Dawn does not always see a fully illuminated disk, just as the moon goes through its familiar phases as its position relative to the sun changes. The hemisphere of the moon facing the sun is bright and the other is dark. The half facing Earth may include part of the lit side and part of the dark side. Sometimes we see a full moon, sometimes gibbous, and sometimes a thin crescent.
The table shows what fraction of Ceres is illuminated from Dawn's perspective. Seeing a full moon would correspond to 100 percent illumination. A half moon would be 50 percent, and a new moon would be zero percent. In OpNav 6, when Ceres is 18 percent illuminated, it will be a delicate crescent, like the moon about four days after it's new.
Four views of Ceres as it rotates, as seen with Hubble Space Telescope, were the best we had before OpNav 2. All of Dawn's pictures from now on will show finer detail. Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park)
OpNav images of a narrow crescent won't contain enough information to warrant the expenditure of hydrazine in all that turning. Moreover, the camera's precision optics and sensitive detector, designed for revealing the landscapes of Vesta and Ceres, cannot tolerate looking too close to the sun, even as far from the brilliant star as it is now. Therefore, no pictures will be taken in March and early April when Dawn is far on the opposite side of Ceres from the sun. By the end of April, the probe will have descended to its first observational orbit (RC3), where it will begin its intensive observations.
The closer Dawn is to Ceres, the larger the orb appears to its camera, and the table includes the (approximate) diameter the full disk would be, measured in the number of camera pixels. To display greater detail, each pixel must occupy a smaller portion of the surface. So the "resolution" of the picture indicates how sharp Dawn's view is.
We also describe the pictures in comparison to the best that have been obtained with Hubble Space Telescope. In Hubble's pictures, each pixel covered about 19 miles (30 kilometers). Now, after a journey of more than seven years through the solar system, Dawn is finally close enough to Ceres that its view surpasses that of the powerful telescope. By the time Dawn is in its lowest altitude orbit at the end of this year, its pictures will be well over 800 times better than Hubble's and more than 600 times better than the OpNav 2 pictures from Jan. 25. This is going to be a fantastic year of discovery!
Beginning of activity in Pacific Time zone
Distance from Dawn to Ceres in miles (kilometers)
Ceres diameter in pixels
Resolution in miles (kilometers) per pixel
Resolution compared to Hubble
Illuminated portion of disk
Dec 1, 2014 740,000
(1.2 million) 9 70
(112) 0.25 94% Camera calibration
Jan 13, 2015 238,000
(383,000) 27 22
(36) 0.83 95% OpNav 1
Jan 25 147,000
1.3 96% OpNav 2
Feb 3 91,000
(146,000) 70 8.5
Feb 12 52,000
(83,000) 121 4.9
3.8 98% RC1
(4.3) 7.0 87% RC2
(3.7) 8.0 44% OpNav 4
Mar 1 30,000
Apr 10 21,000
14 50% OpNav 7
Some of the numbers may change slightly as Dawn's trajectory is refined and even as estimates of the strength of Ceres' gravitational tug improve. (Dawn is already feeling that pull, even though it is not yet in orbit.) Still, this should help you fill out your social calendar for the next few months.
To get views like those Dawn has, you can build your own spaceship and fly it deep into the heart of the main asteroid belt to this intriguing world of rock and ice. Or you can visit our Ceres image gallery to see pictures as soon as they are released. If you chose the first option, use your hydrazine wisely!
As we discussed above, to explore Ceres without the use of the reaction wheels that were essential to the original design, mission controllers have worked very hard to conserve hydrazine. Let's see how productive that effort has been. (You should be able to follow the story here without careful focus on the numbers. They are here for the more technically oriented readers, accountants and our old friends the Numerivores.)
Dawn launched in Sept. 2007 with 101 pounds (45.6 kilograms) of hydrazine. The ship escaped from Vesta in Sept. 2012, four weeks after the second reaction wheel failed during the climb out of Vesta's gravitational hole. (By the way, Dawn is now more than one thousand times farther from Vesta than it is from Ceres. It is even farther from Vesta than Earth is from the sun!) At the beginning of the long interplanetary flight to Ceres, it still had 71.2 pounds (32.3 kilograms) left. As it had expended less than one-third of the original supply through the end of the Vesta expedition, that might seem like plenty. But it was not. Without the reaction wheels, subsequent operations would consume much more hydrazine. Indeed, engineers determined that even if they still had the entire amount that had been onboard at launch, it would not be enough. The Ceres objectives were at serious risk!
The flight team undertook an aggressive campaign to conserve hydrazine. They conceived more than 50 new candidate techniques for reducing hydrazine consumption in the 30-month journey to Ceres and the 18 months of Ceres operations and systematically but quickly assessed every one of them.
The team initially calculated that the long interplanetary flight between the departure from Vesta and the beginning of the Ceres approach phase would consume 27.6 pounds (12.5 kilograms) of hydrazine even if there were no errors, no glitches, no problems and no changes in the plans. Following the intensive conservation work, they determined that the spacecraft might instead be able to complete all of its assignments for only 9.7 pounds (4.4 kilograms), an astonishing 65 percent reduction. (Keep track of that mass through the end of the next paragraph.) That would translate directly into more hydrazine being available for the exploration of Ceres. They devised many new methods of conducting the mission at Ceres as well, estimating today that it will cost less than 42.5 pounds (19.3 kilograms) with the zero reaction wheel plan. (If the two remaining wheels operate when called upon in the lowest orbit, they will provide a bonus reduction in hydrazine use.)
Dawn's two years and four months of interplanetary cruise concluded on Dec. 26, 2014, when the approach phase began. Although the team had computed that they might squeeze the consumption down to as low as 9.7 pounds (4.4 kilograms), it's one thing to predict it and it's another to achieve it. Changes to plans become necessary, and not every detail can be foreseen. As recounted in October, the trip was not entirely free of problems, as a burst of cosmic radiation interrupted the smooth operations. Now that the cruise phase is complete, we can measure how well it really went. Dawn used 9.7 pounds (4.4 kilograms), exactly as predicted in 2012. Isn't flying spacecraft through the forbidding depths of the interplanetary void amazing?
This success provides high confidence in our ability to accomplish all of the plans at Ceres (even if the remaining reaction wheels are not operable). Now that the explorer is so close, it is starting to reap the rewards of the daring 3.0-billion-mile (4.9-billion-kilometer) journey to an ancient world that has long awaited a terrestrial emissary. As Dawn continues its approach phase, our growing anticipation will be fueled by thrilling new pictures, each offering a new perspective on this relict from the dawn of the solar system. Very soon, patience, diligence and unwavering determination will be rewarded with new knowledge and new insight into the nature of the cosmos.
Dawn is 121,000 miles (195,000 kilometers) from Ceres, or half the average distance between Earth and the moon. It is also 3.63 AU (338 million miles, or 544 million kilometers) from Earth, or 1,390 times as far as the moon and 3.69 times as far as the sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take one hour to make the round trip.
Dr. Marc D. Rayman
7:00 p.m. PST January 29, 2014
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TAGS: DAWN, CERES, VESTA, DWARF PLANETS, MISSIONS, SPACECRAFT
Marc Rayman, Dawn Mission Director and Chief Engineer
Marc Rayman is the director and chief engineer for NASA's Dawn mission, which was launched in 2007 on a mission to orbit the two most massive bodies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to characterize the conditions and processes that shaped our solar system.
Dawn Journal | August 31, 2014
How Dawn Will Get the Low-Down on the First Dwarf Planet Ever Discovered
Dear Omnipodawnt Readers,
Dawn draws ever closer to the mysterious Ceres, the largest body between the sun and Pluto not yet visited by a probe from Earth. The spacecraft is continuing to climb outward from the sun atop a blue-green beam of xenon ions from its uniquely efficient ion propulsion system. The constant, gentle thrust is reshaping its solar orbit so that by March 2015, it will arrive at the first dwarf planet ever discovered. Once in orbit, it will undertake an ambitious exploration of the exotic world of ice and rock that has been glimpsed only from afar for more than two centuries.
An important characteristic of this interplanetary expedition is that Dawn can linger at its destinations, conducting extensive observations. Since December, we have presented overviews of all the phases of the mission at Ceres save one. (In addition, questions posted by readers each month, occasionally combined with an answer, have helped elucidate some of the interesting features of the mission.) We have described how Dawn will approach its gargantuan new home (with an equatorial diameter of more than 600 miles, or 975 kilometers) and slip into orbit with the elegance of a celestial dancer. The spacecraft will unveil the previously unseen sights with its suite of sophisticated sensors from progressively lower altitude orbits, starting at 8,400 miles (13,500 kilometers), then from survey orbit at 2,730 miles (4,400 kilometers), and then from the misleadingly named high altitude mapping orbit (HAMO) only 910 miles (1,470 kilometers) away. To travel from one orbit to another, it will use its extraordinary ion propulsion system to spiral lower and lower and lower. This month, we look at the final phase of the long mission, as Dawn dives down to the low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) at 230 miles (375 kilometers). We will also consider what future awaits our intrepid adventurer after it has accomplished the daring plans at Ceres.
It will take the patient and tireless robot two months to descend from HAMO to LAMO, winding in tighter and tighter loops as it goes. By the time it has completed the 160 revolutions needed to reach LAMO, Dawn will be circling Ceres every 5.5 hours. (Ceres rotates on its own axis in 9.1 hours.) The spacecraft will be so close that Ceres will appear as large as a soccer ball seen from less than seven inches (17 centimeters) away. In contrast, Earth will be so remote that the dwarf planet would look to terrestrial observers no larger than a soccer ball from as far as 170 miles (270 kilometers). Dawn will have a uniquely fabulous view.
As in the higher orbits, Dawn will scrutinize Ceres with all of its scientific instruments, returning pictures and other information to eager Earthlings. The camera and visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) will reveal greater detail than ever on the appearance and the mineralogical composition of the strange landscape. Indeed, the photos will be four times sharper than those from HAMO (and well over 800 times better than the best we have now from Hubble Space Telescope). But just as in LAMO at Vesta, the priority will be on three other sets of measurements which probe even beneath the surface.
All of the mass within Ceres combines to hold Dawn in orbit, exerting a powerful gravitational grip on the ship. But as the spacecraft moves through its orbit, any variations in the internal structure of Ceres from one place to another will lead to slight perturbations of the orbit. If, for example, there is a large region of unusually dense material, even if deep underground, the craft will speed up slightly as it travels toward it. After Dawn passes overhead, the same massive feature will slightly retard its progress, slowing it down just a little.
Dawn will be in almost constant radio contact with Earth during LAMO. When it is pointing its payload of sensors at the surface, it will broadcast a faint radio signal through one of its small auxiliary antennas so exquisitely sensitive receivers on a planet far, far away can detect it. At other times, in order to transmit its findings from LAMO, it will aim its main antenna directly at Earth. In both cases, the slightest changes in speed toward or away from Earth will be revealed in the Doppler shift, in which the frequency of the radio waves changes, much as the pitch of a siren goes up and then down as an ambulance approaches and then recedes. Using this and other remarkably powerful techniques mastered for traveling throughout the solar system, navigators will carefully plot the tiny variations in Dawn's orbit and from that determine the distribution of mass throughout the interior of the dwarf planet.
The spacecraft will use its sophisticated gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND) to determine the atomic constituents of the material on the surface and to a depth of up to about a yard (a meter). Gamma rays are a very, very high frequency form of electromagnetic radiation, beyond visible light, beyond ultraviolet, beyond even X-rays. Neutrons are very different from gamma rays. They are the electrically neutral particles in the nuclei of atoms, slightly more massive than protons, and in most elements, neutrons outnumber them too. It would be impressive enough if GRaND only detected these two kinds of nuclear radiation, but it also measures the energy of each kind. (Unfortunately, that description doesn't lend itself to such a delightful acronym).
Most of the gamma rays and neutrons are byproducts of the collisions between cosmic rays (radiation from elsewhere in space) and the nuclei of atoms in the ground. (Cosmic rays don't do this very much at Earth; rather, most are diverted by the magnetic field or stopped by atoms in the upper atmosphere.) In addition, some gamma rays are emitted by radioactive elements near the surface. Regardless of the source, the neutrons and the gamma rays that escape from Ceres and travel out into space carry a signature of the type of nucleus they came from. When GRaND intercepts the radiation, it records the energy, and scientists can translate those signatures into the identities of the atoms.
The radiation reaching GRaND, high in space above the surface, is extremely faint. Just as a camera needs a long exposure in very low light, GRaND needs a long exposure to turn Ceres' dim nuclear glow into a bright picture. Fortunately, GRaND's pictures do not depend on sunlight; regions in the dark of night are no fainter than those illuminated by the sun.
For most of its time in LAMO, Dawn will point GRaND at the surface beneath it. The typical pattern will be to make 15 orbital revolutions, lasting about 3.5 days, staring down, measuring each neutron and each gamma ray that encounters the instrument. Simultaneously, the craft will transmit its broad radio signal to reveal the gentle buffeting by the variations in the gravitational field. On portions of its flights over the lit terrain, it will take photos and will collect spectra with VIR. Then the spacecraft will rotate to point its main antenna to distant Earth, and while it makes five more circuits in a little more than a day, it will beam its precious discoveries to the 230-foot (70-meter) antennas at NASA's Deep Space Network.
Dawn will spend more time in each successive observational phase at Ceres than the ones before. After two months in HAMO, during which it will complete about 80 orbits, the probe will devote about three months to LAMO, looping around more than 400 times. That is more than enough time to collect the desired data. Taxpayers have allocated sufficient funds to operate Dawn until June 2016, allowing some extra time for the flight team to grapple with the inevitable glitches that arise in such a challenging undertaking. As in all phases, mission planners recognize that complex operations in that remote and hostile environment probably will not go exactly according to plan, but even if some of the measurements are not completed, enough should be to satisfy all the scientific objectives.
The indefatigable explorer will work hard in LAMO. Aiming its sensors at the surface beneath it throughout its 5.5-hour orbits does not happen naturally. Dawn needs to keep turning to point them down. When it is transmitting its scientific bounty, it needs to hold steady enough to maintain Earth in the sights of its radio antenna. An essential element of the design of the spacecraft to achieve these and related capabilities was the use of three reaction wheels. By electrically changing the speed at which these gyroscope-like devices rotate, the probe can turn or stabilize itself. Because they are so important, four were included, ensuring that if any one encountered difficulty, the ambitious mission could continue with the other three.
As long-time readers know, one did falter in June 2010. Another stopped operating in August 2012. The failure of two such vital devices could have proven fatal for a mission, but thanks to the expertise, creativity, swiftness, and persistence of the members of the Dawn flight team, the prospects for completing the exploration of Ceres are bright.
As long-time readers know, one did falter in June 2010. Another stopped operating in August 2012. The failure of two such vital devices could have proven fatal for a mission, but thanks to the expertise, creativity, swiftness, and persistence of the members of the Dawn flight team, the prospects for completing the exploration of Ceres are bright. The two remaining reaction wheels are powered off now and will not be used for the higher altitude orbits. Rather, the conventional rocket propellant hydrazine, squirted out through the tiny thrusters of the reaction control system, controls the ship's orientation. It is quite remarkable that the team was able to stretch the small supply to cover all the activities needed from departure from Vesta in 2012 to the end of the mission in LAMO nearly four years later.
When Dawn arrives in LAMO, operators will power the two operable wheels on and use them for as long as the pair lasts. Given the unexpectedly early loss of the other two (as well as the failures of similar units on other spacecraft), engineers do not have high confidence that will be very long. But LAMO is the most hydrazine-expensive part of the mission, so any useable lifetime will lower (but not stop) the hydrazine expenditure. Regardless, with or without functioning reaction wheels, the reliable Dawn spacecraft should be able to conduct a fully rewarding, exciting campaign at the enigmatic world.
What fate awaits our stalwart adventurer following the completion of its primary assignment? There are several possibilities, but they all conclude the same way. If hydrazine remains at the end, and if the spacecraft is still healthy, NASA will decide whether to invest further in Dawn. NASA has many exciting and important activities to choose among — after all, there's a vast universe to explore! If it provides further funds, Dawn will perform further investigations in LAMO, making GRaND's gamma ray and neutron pictures even sharper, refining the gravitational measurements, collecting still more photos of the expansive surface, and acquiring even more spectra with VIR.
There is no intention to fly to a lower orbit. Even if the two remaining reaction wheels operate, hydrazine will be running very low, so time will be short. Following another spiral to a different altitude would not be wise. There will be no below-LAMO (BLAMO) or super low altitude mapping orbit (SLAMO) phase of the mission.
Artist's concept of Dawn in LAMO, pointing its scientific instruments at Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL
There is another issue as well. As we will describe in December, there is good reason to believe Ceres has a substantial inventory of water, mostly as ice but perhaps some as liquid. The distant sun and the gradual decay of radioactive elements provide a little warmth. Telescopic studies suggest the probable presence of organic chemicals. As a result of these and other considerations, scientists recognize that Ceres might display "prebiotic chemistry," or the ingredients and conditions that, on your planet, led to the origin of life. This could present important clues to help advance our understanding of how life can arise.
We want to protect that special environment from contamination by the great variety of terrestrial materials in the spacecraft. As responsible citizens of the solar system, NASA conforms to "planetary protection" protocols which specify that Dawn may not reach the surface for at least 50 years after arrival. (The reasoning behind the limited duration is that if our data indicate that Ceres really does need special protection, half a century would be long enough to mount another mission if need be.) Extensive analyses by engineers and scientists show that for any credible detail of the dwarf planet's gravitational field, the orbit will remain relatively stable for much longer than that, perhaps even millennia. The ship will not make landfall.
Despite some romantic notions of a controlled landing, it would not be physically possible, even if there were no planetary protection prohibitions. Ceres is entirely unlike the little chunks of rock most people think of as asteroids. The behemoth's surface gravity is nearly three percent of Earth's. At 800 kilograms, Dawn would weigh the equivalent of about 50 pounds there. The famously efficient but gentle thrust of the ion propulsion system, providing a force equivalent to the weight of a sheet of paper on Earth, would be quite insufficient for slowing the spaceship down as it approached the hard ground.
The best place for Dawn, should it be asked to continue its work, will be in LAMO. And when the last puffs of hydrazine are expelled, it will no longer be able to aim its instruments at the surface, any of its ion engines in the direction required to maneuver, its antenna at Earth, or its solar arrays at the sun. The battery will be depleted in a matter of hours. The spacecraft will remain in orbit as surely as the moon remains in orbit around Earth, but it will cease operating.
Long after its final controlled actions, indeed long after you, faithful reader, and your correspondent and everyone else involved in the mission (whether directly or by virtue of sharing in the excitement and the wonder of such a grand undertaking) are gone, Dawn's successes will still be important. Its place in the annals of space exploration will be secure: the first spacecraft to orbit an object in the asteroid belt, the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet (indeed, the first spacecraft to visit the first dwarf planet that was discovered), the first spacecraft to orbit a dwarf planet, the first spacecraft to orbit any two extraterrestrial destinations, and more. And with Ceres and Vesta being, by far, the two most massive of the millions of objects between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn will have single-handedly examined about 40 percent of the mass of the main asteroid belt. Its scientific legacy will be secure, having revealed myriad fascinating and exciting insights into two such different and exotic alien bodies, introducing Earth to some of the last uncharted worlds in the inner solar system. Leaving the remarkable craft in orbit around the distant colossus will be a fitting and honorable conclusion to its historic journey of discovery. This interplanetary ambassador from Earth will be an inert celestial monument to the power of human ingenuity, creativity, and curiosity, a lasting reminder that our passion for bold adventures and our noble aspirations to know the cosmos can take us very, very far beyond the confines of our humble home.
Dawn is 3.0 million miles (4.8 million kilometers) from Ceres. It is also 3.07 AU (285 million miles, or 459 million kilometers) from Earth, or 1,185 times as far as the moon and 3.04 times as far as the sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take 51 minutes to make the round trip.
6:00 p.m. PDT August 31, 2014
TAGS: DAWN, CERES, VESTA, SOLAR SYSTEM, SPACECRAFT, MISSIONS
Dawn Journal | July 31, 2014
Using the Force: Dawn Engineers Put to the Test
Dear Studawnts and Teachers,
Patient and persistent, silent and alone, Dawn is continuing its extraordinary extraterrestrial expedition. Flying through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the spacecraft is using its advanced ion propulsion system to travel from Vesta, the giant protoplanet it unveiled in 2011 and 2012, to Ceres, the dwarf planet it will reach in about eight months.
Most of these logs since December have presented previews of the ambitious plan for entering orbit and operating at Ceres to discover the secrets this alien world has held since the dawn of the solar system. We will continue with the previews next month. But now with Dawn three quarters of the way from Vesta to Ceres, let's check in on the progress of the mission, both on the spacecraft and in mission control at JPL.
The mission is going extremely well. Thank you for asking.
For readers who want more details, read on ...
The spacecraft, in what is sometimes misleadingly called quiet cruise, has spent more than 97 percent of the time this year following the carefully designed ion thrust flight plan needed to reshape its solar orbit, gradually making it more and more like Ceres' orbit around the sun. This is the key to how the ship can so elegantly enter into orbit around the massive body even with the delicate thrust, never greater than the weight of a single sheet of paper.
The probe is equipped with three ion engines, although it only uses one at a time. (The locations of the engines were revealed shortly after launch when the spacecraft was too far from Earth for the information to be exploited for tawdry sensationalism.) Despite the disciplined and rigorous nature of operating a spaceship in the main asteroid belt, the team enjoys adding a lighthearted touch to their work, so they refer to the engines by the zany names #1, #2, and #3.
Darth Vader and his Empire cohorts in "Star Wars" flew TIE (Twin Ion Engine) Fighters in their battles against Luke Skywalker and others in the Rebel Alliance. Outfitted with three ion engines, Dawn does the TIE Fighters one better. We should acknowledge, however, that the design of the TIE Fighters did appear to provide greater agility, perhaps at the expense of fuel efficiency. Your correspondent would concur that when you are trying to destroy your enemy while dodging blasts from his laser cannons, economy of propellant consumption probably shouldn't be your highest priority.
All three engines on Dawn are healthy, and mission controllers consider many criteria in formulating the plan for which one to use. This called for switching from thruster #2 to thruster #1 on May 27. Thruster #1 had last been used to propel the ship on Jan. 4, 2010. After well over four years of inaction in space, it came to life and emitted the famous blue-green beam of high velocity xenon ions right on schedule (at 4:19:19 pm PDT, should you wish to take yourself back to that moment), gently and reliably pushing the spacecraft closer to its appointment with Ceres.
Without the tremendous capability of ion propulsion, a mission to orbit either Vesta or Ceres alone would have been unaffordable within NASA's Discovery program. A mission to orbit both destinations would be altogether impossible. The reason ion propulsion is so much more efficient than conventional chemical propulsion is that it can turn electrical energy into thrust. Chemical propulsion systems are limited to the energy stored in the propellants.
Thanks to Dawn's huge solar arrays, electrical energy is available in abundance, even far from the brilliant sun. To make accurate predictions of the efficiency of the solar cells as Dawn continues to recede from the sun, engineers occasionally conduct a special calibration. As we described in more detail a year ago, they command the robot to rotate its panels to receive less sunlight, simulating being at greater solar distances, as the ion propulsion system is throttled to lower power levels. Following the first such calibration on June 24, 2013, we assured readers (including you) that we would repeat the calibration as Dawn continued its solar system travels. So you will be relieved to know that it was performed again on Oct. 14, Feb. 3, and May 27, and another is scheduled for Sept. 15. Having high confidence in how much power will be available for ion thrusting for the rest of the journey allows navigators to plot the best possible course. Dawn is on a real power trip!
The reason for going to Ceres, besides it being an incredibly cool thing to do, is to use the suite of sophisticated sensors to learn about this mysterious dwarf planet. (In December, we will describe what is known about Ceres, just in time for it to change with Dawn's observations.) Controllers activated and tested the cameras and all the spectrometers this summer, verifying that they remain in excellent condition and as ready to investigate the uncharted lands ahead as they were for the fascinating lands astern. The engineers also installed updated software in the primary camera in June and are ready to install it in the backup camera next month to enhance some of the devices' functions. All of the scientific instruments are normally turned off when Dawn is not orbiting one of its targets. They will be powered on again in October for a final health check before the approach phase, during which they will provide our first exciting new views of Ceres.
To achieve a successful mission at Ceres, in addition to putting the finishing touches on the incredibly intricate plans, the operations team works hard to take good care of the spacecraft, ensuring it stays healthy and on course. In the remote depths of space, the robot has to be able to function on its own most of the time, but it does so with periodic guidance and oversight by its human handlers on a faraway planet. That means they need to stay diligent, keep their skills sharp, and remain watchful for any indications of undesirable conditions. On July 22, the team received information showing that Dawn was in safe mode, a special configuration invoked by onboard software to protect the spacecraft and the mission, preventing unexpected situations from getting out of control.
As engineers inspected the trickle of telemetry, they began to discover that this was a more dire situation than they had ever seen for the distant craft. Among the surprises was an open circuit in one of the pressurized cells of the nickel-hydrogen battery, a portion of the reaction control system that was so cold that its hydrazine propellant was in danger of freezing, temperatures elsewhere on the spacecraft so low that the delicate cameras were at risk of being damaged, and a sun sensor with degraded vision. To make it still more complicated, waveguide transfer switch #5, used to direct the radio signal from the transmitter inside the spacecraft to one of its antennas for beaming to Earth, was stuck and so would not move when software instructed it to. Other data showed that part of the computer memory was compromised by space radiation. As if all that were not bad enough, one of the two star trackers, devices that recognize patterns of stars just as you might recognize constellations to determine your orientation at night without a compass or other aids, was no longer functional. Further complicating the effort to get the mission back on track was an antenna at the Deep Space Network that needed to be taken out of service for emergency repairs. And the entire situation was exacerbated by Dawn already being in its lowest altitude orbit around Ceres (the subject of next month's log), so for part of every 5.5-hour orbital revolution, it was out of contact as the world beneath it blocked the radio signal.
Confronted with an almost bewildering array of complex problems, the team of experts spent three days working through them with their usual cool professionalism, ultimately finding ways to overcome each obstacle to continue the mission. It would be extraordinarily, even unbelievably, unlikely for so many separate problems to stack up so quickly, even for a ship in the severe conditions of deep space, more than 232 million miles (374 million kilometers) from Dawn mission control on the top floor of JPL's building 264. However, it easily can happen in an operational readiness test (ORT, pronounced letter by letter and not as a word, for those readers who want to conduct their own ORTs). The telemetry came from the spacecraft simulator, just down the hall from the mission control room, and the problems were the fiendishly clever creations of the ORT mastermind. (So now you may calm down, reassured that the scenario just described did not actually happen.)
The team conducted ORTs (and even an ORTathon) before launch in 2007, before Vesta in 2011, and as recently as May 2013. They will hold another in August.
While mission controllers exercised their skills in the ORT, the real spacecraft continued streaking through the asteroid belt, its interplanetary travels bringing it 45 thousand miles (73 thousand kilometers) closer to Ceres each day. But it is not only the Dawn team members who are part of this adventure. The stalwart explorer is transporting everyone who ever gazes in wonder at the night sky, everyone who yearns to know what lies beyond the confines of our humble home, and everyone awed by the mystery, the grandeur, and the immensity of the cosmos. Fueled by their passionate longing, the journey holds the promise of exciting new knowledge and thrilling new insights as a strange world, glimpsed only from afar for more than two centuries, is soon to be unveiled.
Dawn is 4.2 million miles (6.7 million kilometers) from Ceres. It is also 2.67 AU (248 million miles, or 399 million kilometers) from Earth, or 995 times as far as the moon and 2.63 times as far as the sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take 44 minutes to make the round trip
6:00 p.m. PDT July 31, 2014
TAGS: DAWN, CERES, VESTA, SOLAR SYSTEM, SPACECRAFT, MISSIONS, DWARF PLANETS
Slice of History | July 29, 2014
Ranger 7 Spacecraft Model
Several different full-size and scale models were made of the Ranger spacecraft (Block I, II, and III configurations). Scale models were used by the projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at a time when there was no computer animation. Engineers and scientists used them to visualize the spacecraft and its orientation as it reached the moon or a planet.
Three members of the Ranger 7 television experiment team stand near a scale model and lunar globe. From left: Ewen Whitaker, Dr. Gerard Kuiper, and Ray Heacock. Kuiper was the director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) at the University of Arizona. Whitaker was a research associate at LPL. Heacock was the Lunar and Planetary Instruments section chief at JPL.
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This post was written for "Historical Photo of the Month," a blog by Julie Cooper of JPL's Library and Archives Group.
TAGS: RANGER, SPACECRAFT, MISSIONS, HISTORY, VISUALIZATION, EARTH'S MOON, SOLAR SYSTEM
Slice of History | July 1, 2014
Temperature Structure Radiometer
In 1979 there was a Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) Flight Test Program at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that used a microwave radiometer to measure the temperature at various altitudes in order to map the inversion layers that can cause turbulence for aircraft.
In 1980 a new 55 GHz radiometer was developed by the Microwave Observational Systems Section (383) to passively measure the temperature of oxygen molecules in the air. The Temperature Structure Radiometer (TSR) was flown over the western United States on a NASA CV-990 aircraft based at Ames Research Center. It was mounted inside the cabin, with a view through a special microwave-transparent window. An HP 9825 desktop computer controlled the scan sequence, recorded raw data and converted the readings to an "altitude temperature profile" display. With the information provided by a CAT avoidance sensor, pilots would be able to navigate to a smoother altitude for greater safety and comfort. In this 1981 photo, Bruce Gary (senior scientist, Observational Systems Division, at right) and Jim Johnston (383 section manager) look at the new TSR.
TAGS: HISTORY, MISSIONS, SPACECRAFT, INSTRUMENTS
Dawn Journal | May 31, 2014
Survey Orbit: A Truly Extaordinary View
Dear Dawnosaurs,
Silently streaking through the main asteroid belt, emitting a blue-green beam of xenon ions, Dawn continues its ambitious interplanetary expedition. On behalf of creatures on distant Earth who seek not only knowledge and insight but also bold adventure, the spacecraft is heading toward its appointment with Ceres. In about 10 months, it will enter orbit around the ancient survivor from the dawn of the solar system, providing humankind with its first detailed view of a dwarf planet.
This month we continue with the preview of how Dawn will explore Ceres. In December we focused on the "approach phase," and in January we described how the craft spirals gracefully into orbit with its extraordinary ion propulsion system. The plans for the first observational orbit (with a marvelously evocative name for a first examination of an uncharted world: RC3 — is that cool, or what?), at an altitude of 8,400 miles (13,500 kilometers), were presented in February. Last month, we followed Dawn on its spiral descent from each orbital altitude to the next, with progressively lower orbits providing better views than the ones before. Now we can look ahead to the second orbital phase, survey orbit.
In survey orbit, Dawn will make seven revolutions at an altitude of about 2,730 miles (4,400 kilometers). At that distance, each orbit will take three days and three hours. Mission planners chose an orbit period close to what they used for survey orbit at Vesta, allowing them to take advantage of many of the patterns in the complex choreography they had already developed. Dawn performed it so beautifully that it provides an excellent basis for the Ceres encore. Of course, there are some adjustments, mostly in the interest of husbanding precious hydrazine propellant in the wake of the loss of two of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels. (Although such a loss could have dire consequences for some missions, the resourceful Dawn team has devised a plan that can achieve all of the original objectives regardless of the condition of the reaction wheels.)
We had a preview of survey orbit at Vesta four years ago, and we reviewed the wonderfully successful outcome in September 2011. When we develop the capability to travel backwards in time, we will insert a summary of what occurred in survey orbit at Ceres here: _______…… Well, nothing yet. So, let's continue with the preview.
As in all phases at Ceres (and Vesta), Dawn follows what space trajectory experts (and geeks) call a polar orbit. The ship's course will take it above the north pole, and then it will sail south over the side bathed in the light of the sun. After flying over the south pole, Dawn will head north. Although the surface beneath it will be dark, the spacecraft will be high enough that it will not enter the dwarf planet's shadow. The distant sun will constantly illuminate the large solar arrays.
The leisurely pace in survey orbit allows the explorer to gather a wealth of data during the more than 37 hours on the day side. It will train its science camera and visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) on the surface lit by the sun. The camera will collect hundreds of images using all seven of its color filters. It will reveal details three times finer than it observed in RC3 orbit and 70 times sharper than the best we have from the Hubble Space Telescope. VIR will acquire millions of spectra to help scientists determine the minerals present as well as the temperature and other properties of the surface. While the sensors are pointed at the surface, the main antenna cannot simultaneously be aimed at Earth, so the robot will store its pictures and spectra.
One Cerean day, the time it takes Ceres to rotate once on its axis, is a little over nine hours. (For comparison, Earth, as some of its residents and visitors know, takes 24 hours. Jupiter turns in just under 10 hours, Vesta in five hours and 21 minutes, and your correspondent's cat Regulus in about 0.5 seconds when chasing a laser spot.) So as Dawn travels from the north pole to the south pole, Ceres will spin underneath it four times. Dawn will be close enough that even the wide field of view of its camera won't capture the entire disc below, from horizon to horizon, but over the course of the seven orbits, the probe will see most of the surface. As in developing the plan for Vesta, engineers (like certain murine rodents and male humans) are keenly aware that as careful, as thorough, and as diligent as they are, their schemes don't always execute perfectly. In the unknown, forbidding depths of space with a complex campaign to carry out, glitches can occur and events can go awry. The plan is designed with the recognition that some observations will not be achieved, but those that are promise great rewards.
Most of the time, the spacecraft will gaze straight down at the alien terrain immediately beneath it. But on the first, second, and fourth passages over the day side of Ceres, it will spend some of the time looking at the limb against the blackness of space. Pictures with this perspective will not only be helpful for establishing the exact shape of the dwarf planet but they also will provide some very appealing views for eager sightseers on Earth.
In addition to using the camera and VIR, Dawn will measure space radiation with its gamma ray and neutron detector (GRaND). GRaND will still be too far from Ceres to sense the nuclear particles emanating from it, but recording the radiation environment will provide a valuable context for the sensitive measurements it will make at lower altitudes.
When Dawn's orbit takes it over the dark side, it will turn away from the dwarf planet it is studying and toward the planet it left in 2007 where its human colleagues still reside. With its 5-foot (1.52-meter) main antenna, it will spend most of the day and a half radioing its precious findings across uncounted millions of miles (kilometers) of interplanetary space. (Well, you won't have to count them, but we will.)
In addition to the instrument data it encodes, Dawn's radio signal will allow scientists and engineers to measure how massive Ceres is. By observing the Doppler shift (the change in frequency caused by the spacecraft's motion), they can determine how fast the ship moves in orbit. Timing how long the signals (traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light) take to make the round trip, navigators can calculate how far the probe is and hence where it is in its orbit. Combining these (and including other information as well) allows them to compute how strongly Ceres pulls on its orbital companion. The strength of its gravitational force reveals its heft.
By the end of survey orbit, Dawn will have given humankind a truly extraordinary view of a dwarf planet that has been cloaked in mystery despite more than 200 years of telescopic studies. As the exotic world of rock and ice begins to yield its secrets to the robotic ambassador from Earth, we will be transported there. We will behold new landscapes that will simultaneously quench our thirst for exploration and ignite our desire for even more. It is as humankind reaches ever farther into the universe that we demonstrate a part of what it means to be human, combining our burning need for greater understanding with our passion for adventure and our exceptional creativity, resourcefulness and tenacity. As we venture deeper into space, we discover much of what lies deep within ourselves.
Dawn is 7.2 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Ceres. It is also 1.87 AU (174 million miles, or 280 million kilometers) from Earth, or 695 times as far as the moon and 1.84 times as far as the sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take 31 minutes to make the round trip.
11:00 p.m. PDT May 31, 2014
P.S. This is the 101st Dawn Journal. Only 99 more to go before cake and balloons again!
Slice of History | May 1, 2014
Advanced Lunar Studies Field Test
The last of the Surveyor lunar landers, Surveyor 7, was launched on January 7, 1968, and operated on the surface of the moon for about six weeks. Later that year, additional geoscience studies were carried out in the Mojave Desert using a spare surface sampler arm. A four-wheel-drive camper truck simulated an automated rover and was used to study the procedures and equipment necessary for remote geoscience. The truck was equipped with various sampler instruments, four TV cameras mounted on the top of the vehicle and one portable TV camera. Inside the camper was a simulated Space Flight Operations Center, with TV monitors, controllers for the cameras and instruments, and recording equipment. The field test observer (sitting in the camper) would survey the geology of the test area and carry out sampling operations remotely. Ritchie Coryell (System Design and Integration Section), Roy Brereton (Advanced Studies Office) and Earle Howard (Lunar and Planetary Instruments Section) all worked on this field test program.
TAGS: HISTORY, SURVEYOR, TESTING, MISSIONS, SPACECRAFT, EARTH'S MOON, SOLAR SYSTEM
Dawn Journal | April 30, 2014
Riding the Spiral: Navigating a New World
Dear Compedawnt Readers,
Less than a year from its rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn is continuing to make excellent progress on its ambitious interplanetary adventure. The only vessel from Earth ever to take up residence in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the spacecraft grows more distant from Earth and from the sun as it gradually closes in on Ceres. Dawn devotes the majority of its time to thrusting with its remarkable ion propulsion system, reshaping its heliocentric path so that by the time it nears Ceres, the explorer and the alien world will be in essentially the same orbit around the sun.
In December, we saw what Dawn will do during the "approach phase"; to Ceres early in 2015, and in January, we reviewed the unique and graceful method of spiraling into orbit. We described in February the first orbit (with the incredibly cool name RC3) from which intensive scientific observations will be conducted, at an altitude of 8,400 miles (13,500 kilometers). But Dawn will take advantage of the extraordinary capability of ion propulsion to fly to three other orbital locations from which it will further scrutinize the mysterious world.
Let's recall how the spacecraft will travel from one orbit to another. While some of these plans may sound like just neat ideas, they are much more than that; they have been proven with outstanding success. Dawn maneuvered extensively during its 14 months in orbit around Vesta. (One of the many discussions of that was in November 2011.) The seasoned space traveler and its veteran crew on distant Earth are looking forward to applying their expertise at Ceres.
As long-time readers of these logs know so well, the ion thrust is uniquely efficient but also extremely low. Ion propulsion provides acceleration with patience. Ultimately the patience pays off, enabling Dawn to accomplish feats far beyond what any other spacecraft has ever had the capability to do, including orbiting two extraterrestrial destinations. The gentle thrust, comparable to the weight of a single sheet of paper, means it takes many weeks to maneuver from one observational orbit to another. Of course, it is worthwhile to spend that much time, because each of the orbital phases is designed to provide an exciting trove of scientific data.
Those of you who have navigated around the solar system, as well as others who have contemplated the nature of orbits without having practical experience, recognize that the lower the orbital altitude, the faster the orbital motion. This important principle is a consequence of gravity's strength increasing as the distance between the massive body and the orbiting object decreases. The speed has to be higher to balance the stronger gravitational pull. (For a reminder of some of the details, be sure to go here before you go out for your next orbital expedition.)
While Dawn slowly reduces its altitude under the faint pressure of its ion engine, it continues circling Ceres, orbiting in the behemoth's gravitational grip. The effect of combining these motions is that the path from one altitude to another is a spiral. And as Dawn descends and zips around Ceres faster and faster, the spirals get tighter and tighter.
The first coils around Ceres will be long and slow. After completing its investigations in RC3, the probe will spiral down to"survey orbit,"; about 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above the surface. During that month-long descent, it will make only about five revolutions. After three weeks surveying Ceres from that new vantage point, Dawn will follow a tighter spiral down to the (misleadingly named) high altitude mapping orbit (HAMO) at 910 miles (1,470 kilometers). In the six-week trip to HAMO, the craft will wind around almost 30 times. It will devote two months to performing extensive observations in HAMO. And finally as 2015 draws to a close, it will fly an even more tightly wound course to reach its low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) at 230 miles (375 kilometers), where it will collect data until the end of the mission. The ship will loop around 160 times during the two months to go from HAMO to LAMO. (We will preview the plans for survey orbit, HAMO and LAMO in May, July and August of this year, and if all goes well, we will describe the results in 2015 and 2016.)
Designing the spiral trajectories is a complex and sophisticated process. It is not sufficient simply to activate the thrust and expect to arrive at the desired destination, any more than it is sufficient to press the accelerator in your car and expect to reach your goal. You have to steer carefully (and if you don't, please don't drive near me), and so does Dawn. As the ship revolves around Ceres, it must constantly change the pointing of the blue-green beam of high velocity xenon ions to stay on precisely the desired winding route to the targeted orbit. The mission control team at JPL will program the ship to orient its thruster in just the right direction at the right time to propel itself on the intended spiraling course.
Aiming a thruster in the direction needed to spiral around Ceres requires turning the entire spacecraft. Each thruster is mounted on its own gimbal with a limited range of motion. In normal operation, the gimbal is positioned so that the line of thrust goes through the center of the ship. When the gimbal is swiveled to another direction, the gentle force from the ion engine causes the ship to rotate slowly. This is similar to the use of an outboard motor on a boat. When it is aligned with the centerline of the boat, the craft travels straight ahead. When the motor is turned, it continues to propel the boat but also turns it. In essence, Dawn's steering of its thrust is accomplished by pivoting the ion engine.
A crucial difference between the boat and our interplanetary ship is that with the former, the farther the motor is turned, the tighter the curving course. (Another difference is that the spacecraft wouldn't float.) Dawn doesn't have that liberty. For our craft, the gimballing of the thruster needs to be carefully coordinated with the orbital motion, as if the motorboat operator needed to compensate for a curving current. This has important implications at Ceres. Sophisticated as it is, Dawn knows its own location in orbit only by virtue of information mission controllers install onboard to predict where it will be at any time. That is based on their best computations of Ceres' gravity, the planned operation of the ion propulsion system, and many other considerations, but it will never be perfectly accurate. Let's take a look at two of the reasons.
Ceres, like Vesta, Earth, the moon, Mars, and other planets or planetary-type bodies, has a complex gravity field. The distribution of materials of different densities within the interior creates variations in the strength of the gravitational force, so Dawn will feel a slightly changing tug from Ceres as it travels in orbit. But there is a noteworthy difference between Ceres' gravity field and the fields of those other worlds: Ceres' field is unknown. We will have to measure it as we go. The subtle irregularities in gravity as Dawn descends will cause small deflections from the planned trajectory. Our ship will be traversing unknown, choppy waters.
Other phenomena will lead to slight discrepancies as well. The ion propulsion system will be responsible for changing the orbit, so even tiny deviations from the intended thrust eventually may build up to have a significant effect. This is no different from any realistic electrical or mechanical system, which is sure to have imperfections. If you planned a trip in which you would drive 60.0 miles (96.6 kilometers) at 60.0 mph (96.6 kilometers per hour), you could expect to arrive in exactly 60.0 minutes. (No surprises there, as it isn't exactly rocket science.) But even if you maintained the speedometer as close to 60 as you could, it would not be accurate enough to indicate the true speed. If your actual speed averaged 60.4 mph (97.2 kilometers per hour), you would arrive 24 seconds early. Perhaps that difference wouldn't matter to you (and if it did, you might consider replacing your car with a spaceship), but such minuscule errors, when compounded by Dawn's repeated spirals around Ceres, would make a difference in achieving its carefully chosen orbit.
As a result of these and other effects, mission controllers will need to adjust the complex flight plan as Dawn travels from one observational orbit to another. So it will thrust for a few days and then stop to allow navigators to get a new fix on its position. When it points its main antenna to Earth, the Doppler shift of its radio signal will reveal its speed, and the time for radio signals (traveling, as all readers know so well, at the universal limit of the speed of light) to make the round trip will yield its distance. Combining those measurements with other data, mission controllers will update the plan for where to point the thruster at each instant during the next phase of the spiral, check it, double check it, and transmit it to the faraway robot, which will then put it into action. This intensive process will be repeated every few days as Dawn maneuvers to lower orbits.
The flight team succeeded brilliantly in performing this kind of work at Vesta, but they will encounter some differences at Ceres. Sunlight is even weaker in that remote part of the asteroid belt. The giant solar arrays will generate less electrical power for the ion propulsion system, so the whisper-like thrust will be even fainter. In addition, Ceres is more massive than Vesta, so its gravitational hold is stronger. Of course, the team has developed plans to account for these and other differences as they guide Dawn from one orbit to another.
The reward for these particularly challenging parts of the mission will be new perspectives on Ceres. The distant landscapes, barely even hinted at by observations for more than two centuries, will come into sharper and sharper focus as Dawn spirals closer. At each new orbital perch, the explorer will reveal exciting new details, allowing new discoveries and new insights. Everyone who is curious about the cosmos is welcome to join the journey as human ingenuity and curiosity take us far, far from home to an uncharted world.
4:00 p.m. PDT April 30, 2014
P.S. This is the 100th Dawn Journal, so this seems like a good time to end. This will be the last one.
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Most people know about the scenes, greetings, music and sounds from Earth found on the Voyager Golden Record. They may not know that there is also a handwritten message etched into the surface of the record. Timothy Ferris, who worked with Carl Sagan and the rest of the team that produced the record, wanted something done directly by a human hand to appear on the record. "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" appears on the finished record, in between the photoengraved label and the record grooves.
The inscription can also be seen on some of the 14-inch recording masters that are found in the JPL Archives. There are several sets of the records, with a metal core and lacquer surface. From these masters, the copper records ("mothers") were cut, then they were gold plated, etched, enclosed in aluminum containers and mounted on the sides of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.
This post was written for "Historical Photo of the Month," a blog by Julie Cooper of JPL's Library and Archives Group.
TAGS: VOYAGER, GOLDEN RECORD, MISSIONS, SPACECRAFT
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Dawn Journal | January 29, 2015
More Than Just a Pretty Picture: Getting the View on Ceres
By Marc Rayman
Dear Abundawnt Readers
The dwarf planet Ceres is a giant mystery. Drawn on by the irresistible lure of exploring this exotic, alien world, Dawn is closing in on it. The probe is much closer to Ceres than the moon is to Earth.
And now it is even closer …
And now it is closer still!
What has been glimpsed as little more than a faint smudge of light amid the stars for more than two centuries is finally coming into focus. The first dwarf planet discovered (129 years before Pluto), the largest body between the sun and Pluto that a spacecraft has not yet visited, is starting to reveal its secrets. Dawn is seeing sights never before beheld, and all of humankind is along for the extraordinary experience.
We have had a preview of Dawn's approach phase, and in November we looked at the acrobatics the spacecraft performs as it glides gracefully into orbit. Now the adventurer is executing those intricate plans, and it is flying beautifully, just the way a seasoned space traveler should.
Dawn's unique method of patiently, gradually reshaping its orbit around the sun with its ion propulsion system is nearly at its end. Just as two cars may drive together at high speed and thus travel at low speed relative to each other, Dawn is now close to matching Ceres' heliocentric orbital motion. Together, they are traveling around the sun at nearly 39,000 mph (almost 64,000 kilometers per hour), or 10.8 miles per second (17.4 kilometers per second). But the spaceship is closing in on the world ahead at the quite modest relative speed of about 250 mph (400 kilometers per hour), much less than is typical for interplanetary spaceflight.
Dawn has begun its approach imaging campaign, and the pictures are wonderfully exciting. This month, we will take a more careful look at the plans for photographing Ceres. Eager readers may jump directly to the summary table, but others may want to emulate the spacecraft by taking a more leisurely approach to it, which may aid in understanding some details.
While our faithful Dawn is the star of this bold deep-space adventure (along with protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres), the real talent is behind the scenes, as is often the case with celebrities. The success of the mission depends on the dedication and expertise of the members of the Dawn flight team, no farther from Earth than the eighth floor of JPL's building 264 (although occasionally your correspondent goes on the roof to enjoy the sights of the evening sky). They are carefully guiding the distant spacecraft on its approach trajectory and ensuring it accomplishes all of its tasks.
To keep Dawn on course to Ceres, navigators need a good fix on where the probe and its target are. Both are far, far from Earth, so the job is not easy. In addition to the extraordinarily sophisticated but standard methods of navigating a remote interplanetary spacecraft, using the radio signal to measure its distance and speed, Dawn's controllers use another technique now that it is in the vicinity of its destination.
From the vantage point of Earth, astronomers can determine distant Ceres' location remarkably well, and Dawn's navigators achieve impressive accuracy in establishing the craft's position. But to enter orbit, still greater accuracy is required. Therefore, Dawn photographs Ceres against the background of known stars, and the pictures are analyzed to pin down the location of the ship relative to the celestial harbor it is approaching. To distinguish this method from the one by which Dawn is usually navigated, this supplementary technique is generally known as "optical navigation." Unable to suppress their geekiness (or, at least, unmotivated to do so), Dawn team members refer to this as OpNav. There are seven dedicated OpNav imaging sessions during the four-month approach phase, along with two other imaging sessions. (There will also be two more OpNavs in the spiral descent from RC3 to survey orbit.)
The positions of the spacecraft and dwarf planet are already determined well enough with the conventional navigation methods that controllers know which particular stars are near Ceres from Dawn's perspective. It is the analysis of precisely where Ceres appears relative to those stars that will yield the necessary navigational refinement. Later, when Dawn is so close that the colossus occupies most of the camera's view, stars will no longer be visible in the pictures. Then the optical navigation will be based on determining the location of the spacecraft with respect to specific surface features that have been charted in previous images.
To execute an OpNav, Dawn suspends ion thrusting and turns to point its camera at Ceres. It usually spends one or two hours taking photos (and bonus measurements with its visible and infrared mapping spectrometer). Then it turns to point its main antenna to Earth and transmits its findings across the solar system to the Deep Space Network.
This animation of Ceres rotating was made by combining images taken by the Dawn spacecraft on Jan. 25 over the course of one hour in OpNav 2. Dawn was 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
While it is turning once again to resume ion thrusting, navigators are already starting to extract information from the images to calculate where the probe is relative to its destination. Experts update the design of the trajectory the spacecraft must follow to reach its intended orbital position and fine-tune the corresponding ion thrust flight plan. At the next communications session, the revised instructions are radioed back across the solar system, and then the reliable robot carries them out. This process is repeated throughout the approach phase.
Dawn turned to observe Vesta during that approach phase more often than it does on approach to Ceres, and the reason is simple. It has lost two of its four reaction wheels, devices used to help turn or stabilize the craft in the zero-gravity, frictionless conditions of spaceflight. (In full disclosure, the units aren't actually lost. We know precisely where they are. But given that they stopped functioning, they might as well be elsewhere in the universe; they don't do Dawn any good.)
Dawn's sentient colleagues at JPL, along with excellent support from Orbital Sciences Corporation, have applied their remarkable creativity, tenacity and technical acumen to devise a strategy that allows all the original objectives of exploring Ceres to be met regardless of the condition of the wheels, even the (currently) healthy ones. Your correspondent refers to this as the "zero reaction wheel plan" One of the many methods that contributed to this surprising resilience was a substantial reduction in the number of turns during all remaining phases of the mission, thus conserving the precious hydrazine propellant used by the small jets of the reaction control system. Guided by their successful experience at Vesta, experts determined that they could accommodate fewer OpNavs during the approach to Ceres, thus saving turns. (We will return to the topic of hydrazine conservation below.)
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Spectroscopic and kinetic characterization of the recombinant wild-type and C242S mutant of the cytochrome b reductase fragment of nitrate reductase.
Structural studies on corn nitrate reductase: refined structure of the cytochrome b reductase fragment at 2.5 A, its ADP complex and an active-site mutant and modeling of the cytochrome b domain.
Functional analysis by site-directed mutagenesis of individual amino acid residues in the flavin domain of Neurospora crassa nitrate reductase.
Electrostatic properties deduced from refined structures of NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase and the other flavin-dependent reductases: pyridine nucleotide-binding and interaction with an electron-transfer partner.
1H and 13C NMR studies of a truncated heme domain from Chlorella vulgaris nitrate reductase: signal assignment of the heme moiety.
Assimilatory nitrate reductase: lysine 741 participates in pyridine nucleotide binding via charge complementarity.
Pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of recombinant Arabidopsis NADH:nitrate reductase: rate-limiting processes in catalysis.
This enzyme was transferred from E.C. 1.6.6.1 to E.C. 1.7.1.1.
This enzyme belongs to "assimilatory nitrate reductase" family.
This enzyme is composed of N-terminal Acidic domain, Molybdopterin-binding domain, Heme-binding domain, FAD-binding domain and C-terminal NADH-binding domain (see ).
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Calvin Harris just kind of broke the way Sony reports album sales
By Tim Ingham
This is a nice little illustration of the music business's ongoing quest to bridge the new world and the old world.
Calvin Harris hasn't released an album for nearly three years – since 2014's Motion, which went top 5 on the Billboard 200 and to No.2 in the UK.
He's released a lot of tracks, though.
Last year, there was This Is What You Came For featuring Rihanna (US No.3; UK No.2), Hype featuring Dizzee Rascal and My Way, on which Harris took lead vocals (UK No.4).
Already this year there's been Slide featuring Frank Ocean<|fim_middle|> leading global podcasting expansion | and Migos (UK No.10; US No.34) and latest single Heatstroke featuring Young Thug, Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande (UK No.25).
Five singles in two years… and no sign of an album.
Last year, UK tabloid The Sun reported that Harris was giving up on the idea of recording LPs and instead focusing on perfecting a regular string of single releases.
"Calvin has always been a forward-thinker and believes just releasing singles is the way forward," said a source. "Albums are time-consuming and limit artists to cycles rather than having a persistent presence in the charts."
This presents a mini-corporate headache for Sony Corp. – a microcosm of a wider industry discussion point.
Album purists, look away now.
Every quarter (and every year), Sony presents a list of best-selling albums to its shareholders, based on revenue generation in the period.
At least, this used to be a list of best-selling albums. The goal posts are shifting.
Last year, Sony categorised the list as being comprised of 'recorded music releases'.
It was still a Top 10 of biggest-selling albums, essentially, led by Adele's 25 – but the Japanese company explained that it was made up of 'albums and digital tracks included in albums'.
This year (for FY2016 – the 12 months to end of March 2017), Sony has instead labelled the list as a group of 'recorded music projects'.
Its explanation: "Projects are the aggregation of revenue from albums and digital track exploitation. Revenue within the quarter may also include revenue from individual tracks not associated with an album, or associated with a future album.'
Why was this subtle change necessary? Calvin Harris.
Harris put out Sony's fifth best-selling global 'project' of FY2016 – but the thing is, it wasn't really a single 'project' at all. It was a sporadic series of tracks.
Indeed, the title of Harris's 'project' in Sony's latest fiscal filings is simply – brilliantly – annotated as 'Collection of tracks' (see below).
Respect to the individual who plumped for this say-what-you-see approach.
What's more, The Chainsmokers released Sony's second biggest-selling 'project' worldwide last year – but it too wasn't an album.
According to Sony, this 'project' was a combination of the duo's EP Collage plus a track from another EP (New York City).
(Sony's list is led by Beyonce's Lemonade, which according to the IFPI sold 2.5m copies in calendar year 2016 outside of streaming.)
So… what's an album, what's a 'project' and how the heck do you categorise what Calvin Harris is doing when he seems to just release singles whenever he likes?
Welcome to the difficult-to-define record business of 2017: when you never know if you're dealing with an album, a mixtape, a 'playlist' or a 'collection of tracks'.
Sony Corp, of course, won't care too much either way – so long as whatever it is keeps bringing in the big bucks…
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The starting pens were set around the Etape Village at the foot of Briancon, with 1000 riders in each pen. Riders were standing waiting, chattering away in many languages. Riders were fairly relaxed, and the early morning temperatures were moderate, around 20 degrees Centigrade. What would the day bring?
As their start time approached, riders became more resolute. At the allocated times, riders rolled forward, pen by pen.
Although I had expected the first section to be mainly downhill, I was still surprised to be riding at 30mph with little effort, pulled along by the immense peloton! After the first 20km or so of downhill, the route became more undulating, though the climbs were fairly easy at this stage. Pelotons of 20 or 30 cyclists were forming, starting to work as teams, while other riders took advantage of the downhill sections to do a spot of overtaking.
One of the highlights of the whole ride was the amazing descent towards Lake Serre Ponson, near Embrun, as we hurtled downwards through a magnificent series of bends towards its blue waters.
Our first mountain, Cotes des Demoiselles Coiffees, named after two tall rocks resembling two ladies with extravagant hair styles, did not present much difficulty.
Then the 800 metre climb up to Col de Vars began!!
Initially it did not seem too much to worry about, with gradients of 2%. At one point, the local fire brigade were kindly sprinkling us with their hoses to cool us down!
When gradient gradually increased to 10% it became a bit tougher. Near the summit the gradients hit 12% then 14%! And there was a headwind! Near the Col, some riders were pushing their bikes. The temperature reached 34 degrees, then 37 degrees!
We were pleased to see the water station at the top! The descent of Vars was magnificent, fast with wide winding roads. The beautiful views were highlighted by a small lake about half way down. As we approached Guillestre we were encouraged by villagers along the roadside who were enthusiastically cheering us on. The short climb up to the feed station at Guillestre was not really appreciated by some riders though! Then the famous Izoard!
Starting at the dry rocky Casse Deserte, with its huge rocky pillars, the 1100metres climb of Izoard is over 12km long, starting at 1200 metres and reaching 2300 meters at the summit.
The gradients at the start of the climb were not too bad, but nearer the top it became more difficult.
The long train of riders rode steadily upwards.
With the high temperatures, and gradients peaking at 12% or more, some competitors were walking as they approached the summit.
Then, at last – the finish - Col d'Izoard!
In first place was the Norwegian cyclist Jonas Abrahamsen, who finished in 5 hours, 15 minutes and 26 seconds. Last year's Etape winner, the Frenchman Tao Quemere finished second. In third place was the Norwegian Jonas Ellingsen.
The first woman was Edwige Pitel, who repeated her success of finishing first last year, this year finishing in 5 hours, 42minutes and 14 seconds.
Hearty congratulations to all Etappers who completed this ardu | 724 |
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Filing end of year statements and accounts can be a busy and stressful time for a business' finance team, but especially for accounting firms and practitioners, which could be dealing with dozens or hundreds of clients' accounts.
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Dealing with multiple clients' accounts submissions can be a test for any accountant but especially if submissions are paper-based or when details are being pulled from different locations and filings completed bit by bit.
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Being able to track and monitor multiple submissions from a single place would remove much of this burden and make it far easier for accountants to keep track of client submissions and ensure they file everything when they need to.
As with everything in business, the success of a new system or platform is ultimately judged on whether it can produce a more cost-effective way of carrying out tasks.
Compiling and filing end of year accounts can be one of the most inefficient processes in businesses and accounting firms - both in terms of time and money - so having a platform which streamlines the day-to-day management and storage of accounting data and the enables this information to be submitted almost instantly certainly meets the efficiency criteria.
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Accounting software and technology is making the day-to-day management of accounts much easier by promoting collaboration, real-time monitoring and electronic filing, and these systems are also making it much easier for companies and accountants to meet end of year deadlines.
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Companies House has made it easier to file end of year accounts by enabling electronic submissions, but this still leaves inefficiencies in that entries must still be entered manually and relies on businesses to have reliable filing to easily find documents.
The administration involved in finding and entering data therefore can remain significant.
New accounting software however removes this administrative burden by providing a platform where files can be stored and managed in a central location, ensuring documents are readily available when needed.
Systems like CaseWare Cloud for example can integrate accounting platforms directly with Companies House e-filing module, meaning company accounts can not | 181 |
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Billions of pounds of fresh produce are wasted in the United States every year, and wind up going to landfills – producing harmful greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are food insecure, without access to healthy, affordable meals.
Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, Evan Lutz, is committing his life's work to ending food waste and hunger in America.
Evan is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur from Baltimore, Maryland who is passionate about food justice. He's a frequent<|fim_middle|> a subsidy.
Evan attended the University of Maryland, where both his parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandma attended as well. He studied business and helped start several clubs, including Net Impact. For a senior year class project, he partnered with a local farmer to sell his off-grade product to college students. He set up a farm stand in the basement of a dorm, selling 5 pounds for 5 dollars. Shortly after he started, the stand had over 500 customers per week, with often a line stretching out the door.
This project was the foundation for Hungry Harvest, which he started in May 2014.
Evan envisions a world where food waste and hunger are eradicated and do not affect a significant portion of the population. He believes we should not use land the size of California and Texas combined to grow food that nobody eats. He also believes consumers have been brainwashed on what produce is supposed to look like, causing an increase in consumer standards and subsequently an increase in waste. Evan thinks that business is the most powerful tool on Earth to create social change, and he's committed to proving a business model that sustains profit, growth, and impact at scale.
Evan is prepared to combat the massive food distribution problem that is plaguing this country, one ugly apple at a time. | guest on NPR and The Washington Post. He was featured on ABC's Shark Tank, where he made a deal with Robert Herjavec, and launched his present enterprise, Hungry Harvest.
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La Grotte Verdoyante | Williamson Williamson Inc.
This proposal for the 2013 Jardins de Metis/Redford Gardens Festival elevates and objectifies the artifice of the grotto respective of Mannerist gardens of the 16th century. Whereas the lush plantings of Italian gardens were complemented by the hard, rock-like representations of caves, La Grotte Verdoyante inverts the relationship between hard-scape and soft-scape.
The garden's ground-plane consists of crushed gravel, while the undulating vertical services within the grotto are home to a variety of moss species. The moss acts a natural insulator of the space within resulting in a notable contrast between interior and exterior conditions. As one crosses the threshold into the grotto, the sound<|fim_middle|> within resulting in a notable contrast between interior and exterior conditions. As one crosses the threshold into the grotto, the sound of crushed gravel underfoot is absorbed by the surrounding moss medium while the chamber provides a cool and humidified place to retreat from the sun. | of crushed gravel underfoot is absorbed by the surrounding moss medium while the chamber provides a cool and humidified place to retreat from the sun.
Clad with charred wood, the angular geometry of the exterior form contrasts stongly with the soft green interior. The process of burning the face of cedar boards to achieve a charred skin is known to protect the boards from weathering, rot and infestation. The narritive of death and imperviousness contrasts with the growth and porosity of supple and varied moss interior interior.
La Grotte Verdoyante is positioned as an object within an undifferentiated field. It's experience is central rather than peripheral to the garden-at-large, while privileging the sensorial engagement of visitors to Les Jardins de Metis/Reford Gardens.
This proposal for the Jardins de Metis/Redford Gardens Festival puts forward a ground-plane of crushed gravel, while the undulating vertical services within grotto are home to a variety of moss species. The moss acts a natural insulator of the space | 217 |
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Behind the Iron Screen
It all started quite innocently enough. Shaun Duke posted a list of something or other on his blog, The World in the Satin Bag. I pointed out he was wrongheaded. He challenged me to produce a rival list, which I did. I challenged him to produce a list… and by this point I've forgotten whether we were originally discussing books or films. I've a feeling we started off with books but somehow drifted onto films. Anyway, he responded to my challenge and issued one of his one own, which I met. And then I challenged him to produce – and I think this is the point we're at now – a list of five Cold War-related genre films that most people would not have heard of. Which he did. And now he has demanded that I do the same, but from the other side of the Iron Curtain. So, five Warsaw Pact Cold War-related genre films, of which at least three must be from the USSR/Russia…
Happily, I immediately thought of several possible movies. The only question was whether they qualified as Cold War-related. Or as genre. And having to choose three of the five from the Soviet Union did somewhat limit my choices. So it was more a matter of picking which five to put on my list than it was actually finding five. And here they are, in no particular order…
Offret (The Sacrifice), Andrei Tarkovsky (1986, Sweden). The absolutely obvious choice. It's about a nuclear war, so you can't get more Cold War than that. Okay, it was filmed in Sweden with a Swedish cast, but Tarkovsky is arguably the most famous film director to have come out of Russia, so in my mind it counts as a Russian film. So there. An ex-actor, played by Bergman regular Erland Josephson, lives in a nice house on a remote Swedish island with his wife. After admitting he no longer believes in God, news reaches Josephson of all-out nuclear war. He vows to sacrifice all he owns and loves if God will undo the nuclear holocaust. Unsurprisingly, this is quite a harrowing film, but it is also Tarkovsky… and you cannot call yourself a cineaste if you do not love Tarkovsky's movies.
Через тернии к звёздам (To the Stars by Hard Ways), Richard Viktorov (1981, USSR). The Cold War link is less obvious in this famous Russian sf film, but given that it concerns an ecological war between two groups on an alien world – and in which humans become involved after rescuing the bizarre-looking Yelena Metyolkina – there's clearly a parallel. Admittedly, the rescue mission is multi-national, but then socialist films liked to show the world's nations working together, even if the West has always been resistant to the idea (US films, for example, always show the US doing everything) . Ruscico currently sell a copy of this on DVD. It's completely bonkers but worth getting. I've heard the director's son has released a director's cut of the film, but to my knowledge it's only available in Russian and my knowledge of that language is limited to a handful of pleasantries and swear words.
Дознание пилота Пиркса (Inquest of Pilot Pirx), Marek Piestrak (1978, USSR/Poland). Pirx was created by Polish sf writer Stanisław Lem, so there's no doubting this film's genre credentials; and while it's a joint production between studios in Poland, Ukraine and Estonia, the latter two were in the USSR when the movie was made, so it counts. It's another socialist film which presents an international crew, but there are still two sides engaged in a form of Cold War: humans and androids. Pirx must captain a ship on a space flight Saturn. One of his crew is an android, but he doesn't know which one – and once at their destination, it tries to seize control. A weird mix of Cold War thriller, with an amazing seventies aesthetic, and hard sf, this is another DVD worth getting. Again, it's available from Ruscico.
Bez końca (No End), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1985, Poland). This is in no way science fiction, and it's only Cold War-related inasmuch as its story takes place during the years of martial law in Poland after Solidarność was banned. A translator, whose lawyer husband died recently, struggles to make ends meet and bring up her son, while the ghost of her dead husband watches over her. But it's Kieślowski, that's all you need to know. You cannot call yourself a cineaste if you do not love Kieślowski's movies.
Im Staub der Sterne (In the Dust of the Stars), Gottfried Kolditz (1976, East Germany). During the 1960s and 1970s, East Germany's Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, DEFA, made four big budget science fiction films: Signale – ein Weltraumabenteuer (1970), Der Schweigende Stern (1960), Im Staub der Sterne and Eolomea (1972). The last three are available in an English-language DVD box set, but I've yet to find the first in an English edition (and my German is a bit rusty – I struggled when watching Raumpatrouille Orion). In Im Staub der Sterne, a spaceship lands on a rescue mission on the world of TEM 4, only for the inhabitants to deny sending a distress call. Except there are two groups on TEM 4 in a sort of Eloi / Morlock relationship, as the crew discover, and it's not hard to read it as an Eastern Bloc versus decadent West sort of thing. The film is also astonishingly kitsch, with some of the most bonkers seventies production design ever consigned to celluloid. Hunt down that DEFA collection box set, it's totally worth it.
O-Bi, O-Ba. Koniec cywilizacji (O-Bi, O-Ba. The End of Civilisation), Piotr Szulkin (1985, Poland). Just because I can, I'm going to make my list six films. Mostly because this movie is so on point, it didn't deserve to be an also ran – and yet I also wanted to include the ones I'd already chosen. O-Bi, O-Ba. Koniec cywilizacji is set entirely in an underground fallout shelter after some sort of nuclear holocaust – except there's more going on than there initially seems. The shelter is not the shiny clean antiseptic complex you'd expect of a US Cold War movie, but a dirty ill-lit dungeon, a sort of confined post-apocalyptic wasteland in its own right. There's a very black joke about the currency used in the shelter (Szulkin's films all possess an amazingly dark humour). Telewizja Kinopolska have released a DVD box set containing O-Bi, O-Ba. Koniec cywilizacji, Wojna światów – następne stulecie (War of the Worlds – The Next Century, 1981), and Ga, Ga. Chwała bohaterom (Ga, Ga. Glory to Heroes, 1984), as well one of my favourite films, a 1993 short titled Mięso (Ironica), about the political history of Poland during the twentieth century and, er, meat products.
The also-rans? There's Béla Tarr's 2000 movie Werckmeister Harmonies from Hungary, which is about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, but the film might have been a little hard to justify on genre grounds. Andrzej's Ż<|fim_middle|> vorlíček | Permalink. | uławski's Na srebrnym globie (On the Silver Globe, 1988) is definitely science fiction, but given that it's adapted from a 1903 novel its Cold War credentials are a little harder to see – but Żuławski adapted the story so it read as a criticism of the Polish authorities… which they managed to spot and so shut down the production (the film was eventually completed ten years later, using stock footage and voice-over narration). Кин-дза-дза! (Kin-dza-dza!, 1986) by Georgiy Daneliya is a 1986 sf film in which a pair of Soviet innocents are dumped on a desert world in which two societies, the Chatlanians and the Patsaks, exist in near-conflict (which seems to be a common trope in Soviet sf cinema). And finally, there's Pane, vy jste vdova! (You are a Widow, Sir!, 1971) by Czech director Václav Vorlíček, which is a sort of madcap and very silly sf comedy, involving assassins and brain transplants in an invented country, but it might be stretching the point to call it a Cold War film.
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Celebrity chef and TV personality Manu Feildel has revealed how he achieved his drastic weight loss to Australian magazine New Idea.
The chef managed to drop 12kgs in just four months, and has been able to mantain that current weight thanks to a few easy lifestyle changes he made.
"Last year I was getting really overweight, then one day I turned to my wife [Clarissa Weerasena] and said, 'I have to lose this,'" he told New Idea.
Together, Manu and his wife embarked on an intensive gym routine, working out around five days a week. He also shared that he cut carbs, sugar and alcohol from his diet.
"I'm very proud I've finally got to where I wanted to go," he told the Australian magazine.
"After four months, I was 12 kilos down and I am still the same weight today, so I am really happy."
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Dodger right fielder and 2014 National League All-Star candidate Yasiel Puig will make a special appearance at Viva Los Dodgers, held at the historic 76 station at Dodger Stadium, Sunday, June 1, from approximately 3:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. prior to the 5:05 p.m. game against Pittsburgh. Puig will take photos with fans for monetary donations that will go toward purchasing baseball and softball equipment for up to 180 youngsters at Department of Recreation and Parks, Lou Costello Recreation Center in Boyle Heights that serves the East LA community. One photo with Puig per fan will be taken by Blue Prints who will also provide a complimentary printout. The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and the Wasserman Foundation will match the donation total this Sunday in support of Puig.
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Emmy Award-winning speaker Bill Nye the Science Guy and Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly were announced as the first round of keynote speakers for Idea Week 2019, an annual event that celebrates innovation, entrepreneurs and the incubation of new ideas.
Event organizers also announced plans to incorporate technology experiences into the week, including rides in driverless vehicles for registrants.
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Nye will speak on the importance of science and innovation and Kelly will speak on the intersection of faith and technology. The dates and times of their keynotes will be announced at a later date. Details on the driverless vehicle experiences will also be announced in the coming months.
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Status Ain't Hood September 14, 2016 4:30 PM By Tom Breihan
I shoved Donald Glover once. This was about five years ago, at a big G.O.O.D. Music showcase in a converted power plant in Austin, during SXSW. Getting into that thing was, as I'm sure you could imagine, a tremendous hassle. And once I staked out a spot I liked — close to the stage, but not too close — I wasn't going to leave it. When the show was getting closer and closer to starting, I felt a pressure in my back, and, without turning around, I pushed back, hard. That kept going for a few seconds, the way those little jostling-for-position battles sometimes happen at packed-in shows. And then, in the kids standing near me, I heard a weird little buzz. One kid yelled, "Hey, man, you should be Spider-Man!"<|fim_middle|> whole lot more promise than any actual Zayn Malik songs, at least since the solo career popped off.
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more from Status Ain't Hood | I finally turned around, and it was Glover, shirtless with a backpack on, smiling, slinking off into a different area of the crowd, evidently not yet famous enough to get into one of the VIP spaces at the show. I felt really bad for shoving him.
In that moment, Glover was one of my favorite people on TV. Community, then in its second season, was my favorite comedy, and Glover's sweetly dumb Troy character was the best thing on it. He'd also wrapped up a gig as a writer on 30 Rock, my second-favorite comedy, and he was just starting to launch a rap career. I liked the idea of him as a rapper. I wouldn't like it for long. Over the next few years, Glover, as Childish Gambino, would become a bona fide internet-driven rap star, and I would lose all esteem I had for the guy, even if he did have the good sense to leave Community around the time that show started to flag. As a rapper, I've always found Glover to be unctuous, overly clever, eager-to-please, like a kid who sits in front in class and keeps asking for extra-credit assignments. He's grown more confident as an artist in the past few years, developing a sticky and sometimes sinister funk side that I've come to like. But when I'd think of him, I'd get a weird immature "fuck it, I'm glad I shoved him" feeling. And when the news came out that he was working on a sitcom set around Atlanta's rap scene, I was not exactly optimistic about it. I was wrong. Glover is once again one of my favorite people on TV, and I am once again sorry that I shoved him that one time.
Before Glover's new show Atlanta debuted on FX last Tuesday, there was a fair amount of pre-release buzz, critics I trusted saying it was the best new show of the year. If anything, they understated things. Atlanta is a quiet revelation. Its pace is the polar opposite of what Glover was doing on 30 Rock. Its jokes are modest and organic, and they unfold with a slow, naturalistic rhythm. Its characters, absurd as they sometimes are, are among the most relatable on TV, partly because they're broke all the time. (Glover's internal panic during a too-expensive date on last night's episode made me internally wince so many times.) Hiro Murai, the director of the first three episodes and most of the others, comes from the world of low-budget music videos, and his whole aesthetic — murky black skies, lingering reaction shots, shaggy surreality — translates beautifully to narrative television. And Glover, who created the show and who serves as its head writer, has a real affection for his characters, no matter how stupid they're being.
But the thing I love most about the show is how it gets rap, in its current messy internet-driven moment, so completely right. Plenty of other TV shows have built themselves around rap music, but they've always had idealized notions of the genre and its practitioners. There's a longstanding fixation on larger-than-life flash, whether the show in question is dealing with the music's mythic beginnings (The Get Down) or its corporate intrigue (Empire). By contrast, Paper Boi, the bubbling-under rapper at the heart of Atlanta, is one broke bum among many others. He doesn't trust his own career prospects, and he doesn't even like his own biggest hit. He has no ambition. And while he never really discusses his own artistry, it's clear that he creates music just because it's what he has to do. He deals drugs to support his music habit, and he doesn't seem to expect any return on his investment in himself. Rapping is just a thing that he does, and he's absolutely uncomfortable with any indication that this could turn him into a celebrity, even on a local level.
I can't possibly explain how happy I am that Glover didn't cast himself as a rapper. Instead, he's Paper Boi's cousin, a college dropout and permanent failure who sees Paper Boi as a possible route to economic solvency, something that Paper Boi recognizes. And the sad thing about the show is that Paper Boi is probably right to expect nothing from his rapping. He says early on that rap is dead, and for a guy like him — a heavy and menacing unreformed street-rapper working a well-trod lane and not relying on gimmicks — it probably really is dead. It's unclear how old Paper Boi is supposed to be, but he's not young; Brian Tyree Henry, the laconic and charismatic actor who plays him, is 34. He doesn't talk in terms of songwriting or collaborations. He's not a networker. He's just a guy who raps. (I thought hard about what Paper Boi's closest real-life equivalent might be, and the best I can come up with is the gifted Memphis journeyman Don Trip.) Paper Boi is a fully fleshed-out character, and his bleak future and bleaker outlook makes him maybe the most realistic fictional rapper I've ever seen depicted.
Atlanta isn't really a show about music, but music thrums through it. Glover has built the show's aesthetic around grimy, low-budget Southern street-rap, not the attention-grabbingly clever stuff that he himself makes. Earn, Glover's character, listens to OJ Da Juiceman and Kodak Black, and he admits that he hasn't been keeping up with new rappers very well. And while last night's episode, which mostly revolved around that disastrous date, didn't even explicitly involve music, it still gave some of the leading lights of Atlanta rap a chance to shine. All three member of Migos played terrifying backwoods drug dealers, and Quavo, the group's most famous member, got a real acting showcase, even though he'd never acted before. As the leader of that drug gang, he got to be alternately silky and fearsome, and he does it without ever breaking the deadpan blankness that fits the show's rhythms so well. When asked, in this Complex interview, whether he studied the work of any particular actors, Quavo simply responded that he had to "find my Quavo," which is perfect. In its first two weeks, Atlanta has been an instant success, drawing more viewers than any cable comedy in years. That's great. It deserves to be huge. Donald Glover has really found his voice with this thing. I hope he never goes back to rapping.
1. Zack De La Rocha – "Digging For Windows"
I'm torn as to whether this even really constitutes a rap song, whether it belongs in this column or not. But whatever De La Rocha is doing, whether it's rapping or barking or whatever else, he is breathing fire. And El-P noise-bombs like this should be treasured.
2. D.R.A.M. – "Cash Machine"
Another case where I'm not exactly sure if this guy is rapping, but whoooo! It's been a long moment since I've heard pure, distilled joy expressed so loudly and clearly.
3. TM-88 – "Been Thru A Lot" (Feat. Lil Yachty & Young Thug)
Yachty's bright, psychedelic cartoon-warble turns bluesy, while Thug continues to exist on a planet that most of us can only glimpse with a high-powered telescope.
4. 21 Savage – "No Target"
French dance producer Brodinski does his best impression of an Atlanta trap producer, while 21 Savage does his best impression of someone who will bite all the face meat off of your skull. I want John Carpenter to start directing movies again so that this can soundtrack the ominous moment before all hell breaks loose.
5. Swet Shop Boys – "Zayn Malik"
Not that this is saying a whole lot, but "Zayn Malik" shows a | 1,653 |
Software Package Enables Deeper Understanding of Cancer Immune Responses
Expands understanding of immune responses in cancer and other diseases
T-cells attacking a cancer cell. Credit: iStock
Researchers at the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed DeepTCR, a software package that employs deep-learning algorithms to analyze T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing data. T-cell receptors are found on the surface of immune T cells<|fim_middle|> certain infection," Sidhom explains. "I may have T-cell responses to a thousand different viruses, but when the flu impacts me, I only need to utilize a small subset of those T cells to fight the flu. The main thing that the algorithm can do is isolate and match the right T cells to specific responses."
The software package, which employs a type of deep-learning architecture called a convolutional neural network, provides users the ability to find T-cell sequencing patterns that are relevant to a specific exposure, like a flu infection, a cancer or an autoimmune disease.
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"When presented with a lot of data, our algorithms can learn rules of these TCR sequence patterns. For example, we may not know the rules for how the body responds to flu, but with enough data, our software can learn those rules and then teach us what they are," says Sidhom. "It is very well-suited to identify complex patterns in a very, very large immune repertoire to identify the interacting partners between a T-cell receptor and its antigen."
In addition to Sidhom, others participating in the research were H. Benjamin Larman, Drew M. Pardoll and Alexander S. Baras.
The research was supported by the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, philanthropy of Susan Wojcicki and Dennis Troper in support of Computational Pathology at Johns Hopkins, the Johns Hopkins–Bristol-Myers Squibb Immuno-Oncology Consortium, and the National Institutes of Health Cancer Center Support Grant. | . These receptors bind to certain antigens, or proteins, found on abnormal cells, such as cancer cells and cells infected with a virus or bacteria, to guide the T cells to attack and destroy the affected cells.
"DeepTCR is an open-source software that can be used to answer questions in research into infectious disease, cancer immunology and autoimmune disease; any place where the immune system has a role through its T-cell receptors," said lead study author John-William Sidhom, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering working in the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
The research was published March 11 in Nature Communications.
Sidhom was inspired to develop the software after attending a presentation on the use of deep learning for the medical sciences at the 2017 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. "I was doing research on T-cell receptor sequencing, and it struck me that this was the right technology to better analyze T-cell sequencing data," he says.
Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence that roughly mimics the workings of the human brain in terms of pattern recognition. "Deep learning is a very flexible and powerful way to do pattern recognition on any kind of data. In this paper, we use deep learning to identify patterns in sequencing data of the T-cell receptor," says Sidhom, adding that the way the software explores T-cell receptors is analogous to an internet search. "When someone performs an internet search for an image of cats or dogs, the query doesn't involve looking for images that have a caption that labels the image as a cat or dog, but rather applies an algorithm that explores the features of the images and recognizes patterns that identify the images as a cat or dog. This is deep learning."
DeepTCR is a comprehensive deep-learning framework that includes both unsupervised and supervised deep learning models that can be applied at the sequence and sample level. Sidhom says the unsupervised approaches allow investigators to analyze their data in an exploratory fashion, where there may not be known immune exposures, and the supervised approaches will allow investigators to leverage known exposures to improve the learning of the models. As a result, he says, DeepTCR will enable investigators to study the function of the T-cell immune response in basic and clinical sciences by identifying the patterns in the receptors that confer the function of the T cell to recognize and kill pathological cells.
One of the main challenges of analyzing TCR sequencing data is distinguishing meaningful sequencing data from inconsequential data, and DeepTCR helps perform this analysis. "There are a lot of sequences in someone's immune repertoire. There are a lot of pathogens that someone can be infected by, so the immune response is very broad. As a result, there is a sea of noise in the immune response, and only parts of it are important at a certain time for a | 587 |
The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap - August 28, 1862
After skirmishing near Chapman's Mill in Thoroughfare Gap, Brigadier General<|fim_middle|> Campfire Chronicles, The Words and Deeds of the 88th Pennsylvania, by Major Michael N. Ayoub) | James Ricketts's Union division was flanked by a Confederate column passing through Hopewell Gap several miles to the north and by troops securing the high ground at Thoroughfare Gap. Ricketts retired, and Longstreet's wing of the army marched through the gap to join Jackson. This seemingly inconsequential action virtually ensured Pope's defeat during the battles of August 29-30 because it allowed the two wings of Lee's army to unite on the Manassas battlefield. Ricketts withdrew via Gainesville to Manassas Junction.
Much of the benefit of Ricketts successfully delaying Longstreet at Thoroughfare Gap is negated when McDowell neglected to promptly inform Major General Pope that Longstreet's Corps had passed through the gap and was moving to support Jackson. As a result, Pope remained woefully unaware of Longstreet's arrival on the field of battle.
The untested 88th was held held in reserve.
Thoroughfare Gap, A Pass in the Mountains on Manassas Gap near Strasburg, Virginia Source: Mottlelay, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds. The Soldier in Our Civil War. New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1885
Thursday, August 28th 1862
Hot and dusty. resumed the line of march at daylight. Marched daylight to Haymarket, a
small country town, and leaving our knapsacks there, marched out to Thorofare
Gap. Longstreet was trying to get through here to join Jackson, who is now at
Manassas Junction, and kicking up the devil generally among the Union Army's
stores.
We had a brisk fight of 1/2 an hour's duration here, a succeeded in keeping the enemy in check. This is my 3d battle. At dark we marched back to Haymarket and taking our knapsacks, still went marching on. Halted at Gainesville at Midnight. Made about 22 miles. I got separated from the Company, but laid down along the fence while the troops
bivouacked in an adjoining field
Private John
Vautier, Co. I, 88th PVI
"View of the town of Centreville, Va., with the battlefield of Bull Run, Bull Run Mountains, Thoroughfare Gap, and the Blue Ridge in the distance. An undying interest centres around the field of Bull Run, so often the scene of battle, skirmish and military operations. The ground dyed with the blood of so many thousand American soldiers, where some of the mightiest armies have met in deadly strife, will long show, in its broken outlines, in its ruined dwellings, in its grass-grown earthworks, and in its sadder graves and unburied remains of
mortality, the traces of war. We give a view of Centreville, with a battery of the Third Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the foreground, their caissons and shelter tents beside the grassy mound that marks the intrenchments thrown up by the Confederates in the fall and winter of 1861. The village of Centreville lies to the right, the battle ground of Bull Run lies beyond the last two houses on the right, and still further in the background are the Bull Run Mountains, divided opposite the last house by Thoroughfare Gap, and in the remote distance looms up the Blue Ridge."— Frank Leslie, 1896
Forces Engaged: Union - 5000 Confederate - 28,000
Total Casualties: 100
The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap was a Confederate Victory
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So they're keeping things interesting.
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In conclusion, there's no overarching theme permeating the market right now. Bears can hope that BKX is a bear nest, while bulls can hope that NDX fulfils its bullish fourth wave potential. Whether either of those things happen, and whether either of those things will mean much to the broad market, remains to be seen. Accordingly, this is a mixed signal market at the moment, with nothing pointing a clear way to a high-probability outcome. That can always change in a single session, though, so we'll keep watching for additional clues. Trade safe. | far) not formed a complete-looking wave structure. That suggests that either the recent drop was just a fourth wave in NDX, or the ATH is a b-wave.
On the other hand, we have BKX, which rallied from its inflection point, but has since broken back below it. And which looks increasingly like a bear nest.
And in the middle we have SPX, which didn't quite rally high enough to meet the guidelines for a 3-3-5 flat (came very close) -- although that | 106 |
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Eli Lilly and Company Invests $2.5 Million to Launch The Mind Trust's Grow What Works Campaign
May 5, 2011 1:20am
Funds targeted to grow the highest-impact education organizations in Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that supports bold, new education reform, today announced the launch of The Mind Trust's Grow What Works campaign. Grow What Works seeks to raise and invest $18 million in the highest-impact education organizations working in Indianapolis, enabling them to serve more students and accelerate education reform. Lilly is investing $2.5 million in the Grow What Works campaign, the company's largest ever education-focused grant.
Since its founding in 2006, The Mind Trust has been strategically building a network of the nation's best education reform organizations in Indianapolis. Together, these organizations, led by visionary education entrepreneurs, are already working to transform public education in the city. Lilly believes that aggressively growing these organizations, as well as investing in new, innovative ideas and models through The Mind Trust's Grow What Works campaign represents the most promising strategy for the private sector to invest in change.
"We believe that providing access to an excellent education for all of our children is the key to our city's future," said John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., Lilly chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Lilly has been impressed with the work of The Mind Trust. It has amassed an impressive<|fim_middle|> scientific organizations. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., Lilly provides answers – through medicines and information – for some of the world's most urgent medical needs. Additional information about Lilly is available at www.lilly.com. CR-LLY
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SOURCE Eli Lilly and Company | record of making strategic investments and has become a recognized model for leading education reform. We're honored to invest in the Grow What Works campaign, and we encourage other organizations to do the same. The Mind Trust is uniquely positioned to be an effective catalyst for education reform in Indianapolis."
The Grow What Works campaign will elevate Indianapolis in the national education reform conversation. "The islands of excellence that now exist in school districts have to become the norm," United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted when asked about the campaign. "We need new solutions that improve outcomes—and that can, and will, be used to serve hundreds of thousands of teachers and millions of students. Said simply, we need to invest in growing what works as schools, as districts, as states, and as a country. That's why I applaud private efforts to encourage and focus philanthropic investments like The Mind Trust's Grow What Works campaign."
To kick off the Grow What Works campaign, The Mind Trust is hosting a luncheon on May 5 at the JW Marriott Indianapolis featuring a keynote address by noted New York Times columnist David Brooks. Additional speakers will include Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, The Mind Trust board member and television journalist Jane Pauley, former Indianapolis Mayor and The Mind Trust's board chair Bart Peterson, and The Mind Trust's Founder and CEO David Harris.
The campaign has a fundraising goal of $18 million, of which $9 million already has been raised.
"To transform our schools, we need many pieces to come together to form a new dynamic in public education," said David Harris. "The Mind Trust is purposefully building an integrated network of entrepreneurial education ventures—a network whose collective impact will far exceed the sum of its parts. With Lilly's help, and through future investments from other community leaders, the Grow What Works campaign will lay the groundwork for lasting, positive change in public education."
The luncheon event is made possible through donations from sponsors, which include: Lilly Endowment Inc.; The Central Indiana Community Foundation; Indiana University Health; LDI Ltd., LLC; Indianapolis Power & Light Company; the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation; Ivy Tech Community College; Baker & Daniels LLP; Ice Miller LLP; the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at the University of Indianapolis; The National Bank of Indianapolis; Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP; Marian University; and Bingham McHale LLP.
For more information about The Mind Trust, please visit www.themindtrust.org. More information on the Grow What Works campaign is online at www.growwhatworks.org.
About The Mind Trust – Bold, new education reform
The Mind Trust is an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to dramatically improve public education for underserved children by empowering education entrepreneurs to develop or expand transformative education initiatives. Through its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship and Mezzanine Fund, The Mind Trust finds the most promising and successful education reform initiatives in America, and supports their launch or replication in Indianapolis. The Mind Trust has made investments totaling over $5,000,000 to bring Teach For America, The New Teacher Project, College Summit, Diploma Plus and Stand for Children to Indianapolis. The Mind Trust has invested $2.7 million to incubate six new ventures, including Summer Advantage USA, Teach Plus, Seton Education Partners, Foster Ed, Global Citizen Year, and Youth Music Exchange. For more information about The Mind Trust, please visit www.themindtrust.org.
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Lilly, a leading innovation-driven corporation is developing a growing portfolio of pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent | 729 |
5 Wicked Star Review & Giveaway for 'Wicked Sexy' (Wicked Games #2) by J.T. Geissinger!
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All I can say is WOW – I keep falling deeper and deeper in love with J.T. Geissinger's Wicked Games Series! 'Wicked Sexy' is the second book of the series, and it is action packed – full of super sexy romance, witty dialogue, intrigue, and suspense at its best!
Super genius and notorious hacker, Tabitha West, is recruited by Connor Hughes<|fim_middle|> could not put the book down!
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Next > Fun Friday Favorite Quote… | , ex Special Op and CEO of Matrix Security, to team up on a joint voyage to California to save Miranda Lawson and her movie studio empire. If you have read 'Wicked Beautiful' (which I highly recommend), you have already been introduced to Tabby and Connor and let's just say their 'love/hate' relationship.
Although, they both have amazing skills in what they do, their MOO both professionally and personally are completely different. Tabby is a team of one. Connor, being ex-military, is used to working with a team and putting trust in others. He is built to perfection, stunningly handsome, strong, and she is beautiful, tattooed, talented, and independent. She is also frustratingly feisty as hell, closed off, and hot tempered. She dresses how she wants, does what she wants, and doesn't trust and will never let anyone close to her again.
Connor is inexplicably drawn to Tabby from the beginning – it is hard to tell whether it is intrigue or infatuation, but he is determined to be patient and protect her and get her to open up and trust him. As Tabby continues to try and resist Connor's advances, she also sees a different side to him and begins to let her walls down. Behind both of their kick ass facades they both admire each others special talents greatly and are completely attracted to each other, but can the 'Jarhead' and the 'Princess' possibly be a team of two?
Together, these two are totally hot and their passion was sizzling and off the charts! I loved how there was so much more to Connor and that behind his tough guy demeanor was such a patient (INCREDIBLY patient I must say), sweet, and compassionate man. Their banter so fun to follow as they volleyed back and forth with such quick wit and sass. Behind all of their toughness, they totally got each other and respected what made each other tick. I found myself being so hopeful that they could work out together!
There are two things (probably more) that I love about Geissinger and her writing style. The first is her character depth and multiple layers in which she gives her characters where she really makes you feel compassion for them and allows you to know and understand them. The second is her ability to create and write totally unique storylines with very intriguing and complex plots that keep you engrossed in the story from beginning to end.
One more note about 'Wicked Sexy' that I would like to mention… Much of this story had a lot of in-depth information on computers, hacking, national defense agencies, etc.… You could really tell that Geissinger did her homework and research in these areas. I am somewhat of an 'over thinker', and there were absolutely no gaps left uncovered in my mind to make this story complete in every way!
'Wicked Sexy' hit every nail on the head for me with action, suspense, intrigue, and romance to boot. Let me tell you, this was an incredible story, and I simply | 621 |
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Scott Base
You may not have slept that well during your first night at Scott Base. The constant daylight can trick you into going to bed really late! It may take a while to adjust to life in Antarctica, but I feel very lucky to be here. Not many people get the chance to journey this far south. Scott Base has been set up to support scientists. It isn't a place that tourists can come and stay. You are lucky enough to be able to spend the next week experiencing this incredible place and finding out more about how science is done here. Before doing this, you will have to complete your Antarctic Field Training.
Connecting with students back in Aotearoa
You will also need to take time to connect with people back home and take part in our first web conference. Because Antarctica is such a long way from anywhere the internet in frustratingly slow. This means that the only way we can connect to New Zealand is<|fim_middle|>, so it will be interesting to find out more about them. I can't wait to leave the comfort of Scott Base behind and head out into the field.
See you then,
Shelley and the ambassadors celebrate being 77 degrees South in Antarctica. What is the latitude where you live? Image: LEARNZ.
Shelley and Matilda talk to Masterton Intermediate and Waitetuna School during the first web conference. Image: LEARNZ.
John, a field trainer for Antarctica New Zealand, takes a group out on to the sea ice for Antarctic Field Training. What do you think you would need to learn to stay safe while in Antarctica? Image: LEARNZ.
A patient receives first aid after a simulated skidoo accident during Antarctic Field Training. Image: LEARNZ.
Cookie helps melt snow as part of his field training. Why do you think it is important to know how to use camping stoves in Antarctica? Image: LEARNZ.
Shelley and the ambassadors pitch a tent during field training. These tents are part of the emergency survival bags that everyone must carry when travelling away from Scott Base. What else do you think is in these survival bags? Image: LEARNZ.
Antarctic Field Trainees head through the pressure ridges in the sea ice on their way back to Scott Base. What do you think creates these ridges? Image: LEARNZ.
This is a Pisten Bully used to drive on ice. You will learn to drive these so you can travel out to Cape Evans. Image: LEARNZ.
Shelley and the ambassadors learn how to drive a Pisten Bully. Image: LEARNZ.
Vehicles such as these Hagglunds have to be plugged into generators to stop the engines from freezing. Image: LEARNZ. | via the telephone. It was a shame that we could not see students from Masterton Intermediate and Waitetuna School, but their fantastic questions sparked some great discussions. Matilda Ballinger is working as a domestic here at Scott Base which means she helps keep the base clean and tidy. Matilda volunteered to be an expert for the web conference. Matilda also has a Masters in Antarctic Marine Science, so she was able to answer all the curious questions that students came up with. You can listen to the web conference to find out more.
Antarctic Field Training
Everyone who comes to Scott Base must learn how to survive the intense cold of Antarctica, so you spent the afternoon with John, an Antarctic Field Trainer. John helped you gain all the skills that you will need to stay safe during your field trip. After learning about things like wind chill, frost bite and dehydration you went out to test the theory. The wind chill made the actual temperature of -9 degrees Celsius feel more like -18. You quickly learned the value of wearing so many layers of clothing. Everything seemed to freeze, even the tent that you were trying to pitch became brittle in the cold. You also discovered that everything takes longer in Antarctica. Even simple tasks like lighting a stove can be challenging.
Working as a team
John talked about Antarctic weather conditions. The weather can kill you so there are times when you are not allowed to leave base. Thankfully today conditions are far less extreme, and you were free to head out on to the sea ice where John set up scenarios to test you. You had to respond to an accident where a team member had crashed and fallen from their skidoo. A team leader was chosen, and everyone worked together to help the patient and radio for help. A leg and back injury were identified, and first aid given. Because no help was close by everyone decided to pitch a tent to shelter the patient. You used the survival bag that everyone must carry when travelling away from Scott Base. These bags contain everything from tents to emergency food, shovels and sleeping equipment. Before long the patient was snug inside a tent and a hot drink was prepared. You can see this in the video. This scenario was a great way to test your skills and remind you of all the things you need to think about to keep safe in Antarctica.
Antarctic transport
Each winter sea ice grows and reaches a maximum in October before shrinking. To travel from Scott Base on Ross Island you often travel across this sea ice. There are vehicles that are purpose-built for travelling on sea ice. These vehicles include skidoos, hagglunds and Pisten Bullies. All the skidoos have been booked out, so you learnt how to drive a Pisten Bully. Scott, a mechanic taught you everything you need to know about looking after a Pisten Bully. These vehicles run on tracks and don't go very fast. They are very manoeuvrable though, so you had to be careful not to over steer. You learned to follow the red and green flags which mark safe routes and to keep your foot gentle on the accelerator. You will use this vehicle to travel out to Cape Evans tomorrow to meet the K043 science team. This team is trying to find out more about the microbes that grow on the underside of sea ice. These microbes are an important food source for marine creatures | 684 |
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Useful resources to support physical and mental wellbeing
BMA directory of wellbeing support services offers signposting to a range of organisations, services and websites which can offer help on a wide variety of issues.
NHS Improvement: Engaging, supporting and valuing doctors in training: improving wellbeing and support features case studies which explore initiatives to improve wellbeing and better support doctors in training, for example how Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust developed its 'Steps 4 Wellness' programme for improving physical health, mental health, making healthy choices and socialising at work.
NHS Health Education England: NHS Staff and Learners' Mental Wellbeing Commission. The Commission's aim is to see an NHS where staff and learners are happy and feel fulfilled in their work, where they look forward to going to work and are proud of the care they provide to their patients. There is good evidence that happy staff are more compassionate and provide safer care.
NHS Employers How are you feeling NHS? Toolkit this easy-to-use resource can be used to check your own wellbeing or speak to and support colleagues with their emotional wellbeing.
The NHS Employers' Health and Wellbeing Framework is an interactive document that makes the case for staff health and wellbeing, sets out clear actionable steps for each of the 14 areas and includes guidance on how organisations can plan and deliver a staff health and wellbeing strategy.
Society Occupational Medicine: The Society's report What could make a difference to the mental health of UK doctors? A review of the research evidence includes a list of occupational support services for doctors
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El traquibasalt és una roca volcànica que presenta una composició intermèdia entre traquita i basalt. Els minerals continguts en el traquibasalt inclouen feldespat alcalí, plagiòclasi càlcica, olivina, clinopiroxè i probablement quantitats reduïdes de leucita o analcima.
Un traquibasalt és un basalt amb alt índex de minerals àlcalis. El grau de SiO₂ varia generalment entre el 45% i el 52%, el MgO és del voltant del 10% mentre que el Na₂O + K₂O presenta rangs entre el 5% i el 7,5% (vegeu classificació TAS).
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En funció de les diferents quantitats de minerals àlcalis que presentin, es distingeixen dos tipus de traquibasalt:
Hawaiita, roca que es defineix químicament com aquells traquibasalts amb un percentatge de massa de Na₂O igual o major a més 2%.
Traquibasalt potàssic, roca que es defineix químicament com aquells traquibasalts amb un percentatge de massa de Na₂O igual o menor a K₂O més 2%.
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New York Jets vs. New England Patriots Week 2 Predictions
September 11th, 2013 Perry Ball
The New York Jets are feeling confident in their win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as they should be. Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith was able to drive his team down the field with a little help for a game-winning field goal as the Jets fought back to defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 18-17 on Sunday. That help came from a penalty on Buccaneers Lavonte David. Trailing 17-15, Smith scrambled for 10 yards and was shoved while he was out of bounds by David. The 15-yard penalty put the ball at the Buccaneers 30, and Jets Kicker Nick Folk won it by<|fim_middle|> have some key injuries, it's not going to be the blowout that people are expecting. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and his staff will find a way to rattle the young Geno Smith. I say the Patriots win by a touchdown and the final score will be 20-13.
Perry Ball
I'm a contributor to SportsUnbiased. I'm an NFL nut and all around sports junkie. I love to write about the NFL, college basketball and football. Originally from Kentucky; now residing in the great city of Houston. | kicking a 48 yard field goal with 2 seconds remaining.
After their exciting come from behind win over the Buccaneers on Sunday, the Jets now face a huge task as to how to beat the New England Patriots in Foxboro Thursday night on a short week. Don't expect the Jets to get much help from the Patriots as they rarely lose or make that many mistakes playing at home.
While the Jets are feeling resilient from their win, the Patriots are hurting. The Patriots too came from behind to beat the Buffalo Bills on Sunday and won the game 23-21, but not without a cost.
Patriots RB Shane Vereen rushed for 101 yards on 14 carries, but he is expected to miss at least eight weeks after he broke a small bone in his left wrist. WR Danny Amendola caught 10 passes for 104 yards, but now has a nagging groin injury and is uncertain to suit up Thursday night.
"If we want to win our division, we have to beat the Patriots," Jets head coach Rex Ryan said. "It's going to be a huge challenge without question."
Brady no longer has Wes Welker or Aaron Hernandez as key targets and TE Rob Gronkowski is still out with injuries, but the Jets know the man they must stop is still on the field.
"The Patriots are a different team now," Ryan said. "But again, it's New England and it starts with Tom Brady."
Brady has completed 67.6 percent of his passes and thrown 13 touchdowns with one interception during the five-game regular-season winning streak against the Jets.
"It's Boston vs. New York," Brady said. "It's going to be exciting. Hopefully, we can go out on a short week and win the game."
Let's not forget that the Jets still have a pretty decent defense. They are not as good in the secondary after losing Darrelle Revis, but they still have a solid defensive line and they should be able to put pressure on Brady.
New York Jets vs. New England Patriots Week 2 Prediction
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Social and economic changes of recent decades have had an unforeseen effect on the patterns of family life. Whereas previously most people would leave the parental home in early adulthood and set up on their own, nowadays more and more people remain with their parents well into their adult years. Some never leave at all.
There are numerous reasons for this and of course in some cases such arrangements suit all concerned. However, for a significant number, the barriers to leaving home are psychological.
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You can also purchase Leaving Home as an MP3 download. | Script Collection was developed to help people who have come to feel that it may be time for them to take the plunge, but who may be hesitating for one reason or another.
The pre-talk aims to reassure the client about the prospect of leaving home and their ability to deal with the challenges which arise. Practical suggestions are combined with presuppositions for success.
The induction uses suggestions for physical and mental relaxation and is extended to ensure the client has time to develop a deep trance state.
Simple but powerful metaphors and analogies are offered to help the client develop a new view of their personal capacities. Future pacing allows them to rehearse the process of leaving home comfortably and confidently, and experience the joys of truly independent life.
Post hypnotic suggestion is used to keep the client on track to reach their goal of leaving home | 163 |
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Recently, the name of Gilmour 502 Tree Pruner Blade has been very well favored by the DIY professionals due to its durability and fast pruning operation. Therefore, we love to bring you this Gilmour 502 Tree Pruner Blade review.
If you want to have this pruner<|fim_middle|> Pruner Blade is quite fast for being non-sticky. Also, this feature lessens the pressure required for pruning any tree.
If you are a gardener, it is necessary for you more. Also, you can compare its features of easily changeable, fast cutting, time-saving, money-saving and easily affordable with the available alternatives before buying the product.
you may need to change this blade many times in a month. So, you need to buy some blades or bear the sharpener for it. | blade, please be sure about its performances in time of pruning tree. The Gilmour 502 Tree Pruner Blade can prune any tree easily, and it is quite fast while you are cutting a tree with it. Also, this pruner blade is replaceable. So, you can easily change it if it gets damaged. Besides, you need to know the details before buying or selecting it as your choice.
The Gilmour 502 Tree Pruner Blade is durable and long lasting because it is made from stainless steel. This is why it doesn't get damaged easily. Also, it can serve you for a long time because of being durable.
This pruning blade is very easier to replace. This is why the pruner can change it at any time in any place if the trimmer has its availability with him. Also, this easier system of replacement saves the time of the trimmer.
The Gilmour 502 Tree Pruner Blade is very fast in cutting because of having sharp teeth. This fast cutting system mainly depends on its sharpness and its freeness from the stickiness which is found at the time of cutting the tree.
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El municipio de Butler (en inglés: Butler Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Miami en el estado estadounidense de Indiana. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 866 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 11,2 personas por km².
Geografía
El municipio de Butler se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 77.29 km², de la cual 74,88 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (3,12 %) 2,41 km² es agua.
Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 866 personas residiendo en el municipio de Butler. La densidad de población era de 11,2 hab./km². De los 866 habitantes, el municipio de Butler estaba compuesto por el 97,81 % blancos, el 0,23 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,46 %<|fim_middle|> externos
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Municipios de Indiana | eran asiáticos, el 0,12 % eran de otras razas y el 1,39 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 1,73 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.
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Brisbane's Eagle Street Pier $1.4bn Dexus Redevelopment
Adding to the growing list of huge infrastructure and tourism developments in Brisbane, the Queensland Government has given a green light to Dexus to progress to the next stage with their $1.4bn proposal to transform Eagle Street Pier into a premium business, hotel and leisure destination.
This decision means the government has approved Dexus to move to<|fim_middle|> through development and creating engaging workplaces and spaces for our customers and the community."
He said the vision for the Waterfront Precinct aligned with Brisbane City Council's New World City Action Plan and supported the Queensland Government's economic development agenda.
Mr Dick said the Palaszczuk Government was working with Dexus to explore the feasibility of the proposal.
"This will include early stakeholder consultation with the wider Brisbane community and other stakeholders."
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Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning Cameron Dick said the proposal – which will now proceed to Stage 2 of Market-Led Proposal assessment – includes a visionary precinct featuring two new towers on the Eagle Street Pier site with the potential for commercial use, residential apartments, a hotel and retail spaces.
Market-Led Proposals are proposals from the private sector seeking an exclusive commercial arrangement with government to deliver a service or infrastructure to meet a community need.
There are four stages of the MLP framework – preliminary assessment, initial proposal, detailed proposal and final binding offer. The Dexus Waterfront Precinct proposal has completed stage one, and is today moving to stage two.
"Should this project reach final approval, this will be a city-shaping development – a world-class mixed-use riverside precinct with public space at its heart," Mr Dick said.
"Our government is supporting this proposal because we support jobs, and this project would represent a $1.4 billion investment in Brisbane with the potential to support around 740 jobs per annum over the life of construction.
"This proposal isn't without complexities, but we know we need this sort of investment to grow jobs for Queenslanders, which is a key priority for our government and for me in my role as part of a key Ministerial team driving our state's economy.
"Construction is the third largest employment industry in Queensland, and we know projects like this one will help support tradies and their families across the South East."
Mr Dick said the proposal would see up to 1.5 hectares of public and riverfront open space, including shaded public terraces stepping down to the river and a new, wider Riverwalk section that would continue the alignment along the river with the recently announced botanic gardens Riverwalk project.
"Eagle Street Pier is an important, much utilised and much loved location in our city, and our government supports this proposal moving forward because we want to see it continue to thrive, as well as improve access to the Brisbane River from the Brisbane CBD," he said.
The Dexus proposal includes a section of Eagle Street to be closed to vehicle traffic to create a shaded, pedestrian and cyclist-friendly environment, providing an opportunity to reconfigure the way vehicle and pedestrian traffic currently moves through the precinct.
Mr Dick said as part of moving through Stage 2: Detailed proposal, Dexus would work with the Brisbane City Council and Translink to consider the feasibility of the proposal.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said Council was supportive of the proposal for the City Reach precinct which was a key commercial and employment hub for the city's financial sector.
"While ultimate approval of the proposal rests with the Queensland Government, Council has expressed its initial support of this Market-Led Proposal, recognising the many economic, lifestyle and leisure opportunities such a project would bring to our New World City," he said.
"The proposal is a vote of confidence in Brisbane as a place to do business and reinforces our attraction as a tourist destination."
Cr Quirk said the draft MLP included a proposal to permanently close Eagle Street to all traffic from the corner of Market Street to the corner of Charlotte Street, which would be assessed by a joint working group of key stakeholders including Council and TransLink.
"Dexus will now conduct detailed planning, including traffic impact modelling on the proposed permanent road closure at Eagle Street," he said.
"Council will carefully consider and weigh up any potential impacts of the project against the proposed benefits to ensure the best possible outcome for Brisbane residents and businesses and our city's road, pedestrian, cycle and public transport network."
As the owner and manager of the largest consolidated private sector landholding in the Brisbane CBD, which includes the Eagle Street Pier and surrounds, Dexus is in a unique position to deliver the proposed project.
Dexus Chief Executive Officer Darren Steinberg said plans were still being developed but the opportunity was for a revitalised business and leisure destination which prioritises access to the river and the precinct from the city.
"The ambition of the proposal is to revitalise Brisbane's premier dining hub and give back the waterfront to the Brisbane community, creating a place that celebrates Brisbane's sub-tropical climate and delivers a global-standard business address and tourist destination in the heart of the CBD," he said.
"The proposal is consistent with our strategy of enhancing the CBD assets owned by Dexus and our funds management clients | 896 |
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MAINARDI Bach: Suite No. 4 in E flat for Cello, BVW 1010 (1950) - PACM004
Regular price €0<|fim_middle|> he succeeded Becker at the Hochschule in Berlin. He was well known as a performer in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia, and as a teacher in France and England.
As a performer Maindardi went on to make a number of recordings, both as a soloist and in small chamber ensembles, most famously as a member of a Piano Trio alongside Edwin Fischer and Wolfgang Schneiderhann. (NB. Edwin Fischer's interpretation of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier features elsewhere on this site.)
It is interesting to note that latterly there seems to have grown something of a cult following around Mainardi, most especially with regard to some of the more rare records he made with DGG in the 1950's, copies of which have been recently selling for several hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites.
This excellent recording was another winner of a star award in The Record Guide reviews of the 1950's, and is well worth a place in anyone's collection. Another superb restoration by Peter Harrison of disk2disc.
Recorded 23 January 1950, Decca West Hampstead Studios, London
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BACH Suite No. 4 in E flat for Cello, BVW 1010
Recorded 23 January 1950
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Enrico Mainardi's 1950 Bach masterpiece
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Enrico Mainardi (1897-1976) was born in Milan and began playing cello at just three years old. At the age of eight he made his public debut, playing a sonata by Beethoven, and subsequently toured Italy as a child prodigy. At just thirteen he played the Saint-Saëns concerto with Sir Henry Wood and his orchestra. The First World War forced him to give the instrument up for 4 years, and when he picked it up again he found he had forgotten how to play.
In disgust, he studied composition and piano in Rome and only resumed cello studies at the age of 24, going to Berlin to study under Hugo Becker. Between 1929-31 he played under Erich Kleiber at the Berlin state opera, and, in 1933, was appointed professor of cello at the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1941 | 338 |
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Flying Lotus confronts the unknown with 'You're Dead!'
It doesn't take a long listen to Flying Lotus' music to know that he plays by his own rules. The Los Angeles-based musician/producer/composer has always maintained a balance of mind-bending progressive soundscapes and playful eccentricities. His fifth album, You're Dead! is no exception, immediately solidifying itself as perhaps his most concept-driven and sonically expansive record to date. In what was originally planned as a full on jazz album, You're Dead! evolved<|fim_middle|>adoorian, Niki Randa, and even Flying Lotus' rapping alter ego Captain Murphy, provide splashes of variance under the umbrella of the album's artistic vision.
From the opening cosmic drone of "Theme" to the hopeful, resilient vocal chants in "The Protest," Flying Lotus offers stimulating music whether someone is listening with the concept in mind or just taking in the masterful grooves and musicianship. Lamar's feature "Never Catch Me" showcases the rapper's slippery delivery and thoughtful writing over a driving beat defined by a haunting piano riff and drums that seem ready to explode at any moment. The second half of the song takes a spacey turn with Thundercat's prominent bass in a sequence that was apparently originally called "Ramen Wars." Snoop Dogg's slinky delivery feels right at home on the bubbly beat of "Dead Man's Tetris." With its aggressively slow groove, "Siren Song" is one of the more ethereal tracks on the album. The song opens itself up for Deradoorian's airy vocals, which come off as just another ingredient in Flying Lotus' futuristic sound cauldron. Thundercat's peculiar personality and playing style is perhaps featured the most on the aptly titled "Descent into Madness," with its angular and tonally ambiguous melody and eerie production.
As if it wasn't clear from his previous four albums, You're Dead! reconfirms the fact that nobody but Flying Lotus can do what he does. He is a musician who is constantly pushing music forward, all while avoiding simple genre associations. Without an overabundance of lyrics on the album, one can't help but notice a definitive story being told. The music seems to laugh in the face of death and the unknown, reminding us that maybe it's silly to speculate so fearfully about metaphysical mysteries that will never be answered. What is clear from You're Dead! is Flying Lotus' belief that we will always follow our own path and we will never die. In his own words, "Our influence lives on forever. Our love lives on Forever."
Flying Lotus performs Monday, October 20 with Thundercat at the Société des arts technologiques [SAT]. Doors open at 8 p.m., $30.
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Lapalux coming to Le Belmont Friday, September 13
For all of Montreal's fans of beat-making, hip-hop, R&B, house, and electronic music, it would be unwise to be anywhere but Le Belmont this Friday. The 25-year-old English producer Lapalux will be performing as part of a month-long North American tour, bringing his boundary-pushing yet accessible brand of music to Montreal for a rare appearance that is surely not to be missed.
Born Stuart Howard, the Essex native is riding momentum from his debut album Nostalchic, released earlier this year on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder record label. Lapalux's music defies simple categorization, being all at once somber, soulful, abstract, unsettling, and beautiful.
There is an undeniable sense of care and thought that goes into every note in Lapalux's repertoire, and listening to his music can incite deep self-reflection. Without complex lyrical content, he urges the listeners to look inward and speculate about life, love, and dance.
Lapalux's atmospheric soundscapes capture the solemnity and heart of every day life and their constant intersections. These themes are put on display in the recent short film Chrysalis by Nick Rutter which is scored by Lapalux.
Compared with other artists of similar styles, Lapalux stands alone as one whose music carries a distinct weight. It is not simply party music, though it will make you move. Each song voices a statement, even if it is heard through our subconscious. Simply put, this is music that must be heard.
Lapalux will be playing at Le Belmont Friday, September 13, and will be supported by Construct, Bus, and Sibian & Faun.
By Evan Crandell Sep 12, 2013 Sep 12, 2013 | into an expression of the feelings and instincts surrounding mortality. It is a recurrent topic of artistic exploration but this album provides a perspective on death that could only come from Flying Lotus.
Along with being musically dense and at times intense, especially given the subject matter, Flying Lotus a.k.a. Steven Ellison maintains his signature playfulness throughout You're Dead! Even though there is an undeniable sense of gravitas to the program, we are presented with a refreshingly honest portrayal of the different aspects of mortality, not all of which are morbid. It's as if he is not considering death so much in the literal physical sense, but as a means for personal (and perhaps metaphysical) transition and evolution.
Much like Flying Lotus' previous works, You're Dead! has a seemingly cinematic scope and flowing narrative. Each track says something unique and while the music is often sprawling and eclectic, every note on the album is unified. One of Flying Lotus' areas of mastery is his blending of electronic programming and samples with live instruments, which gives the music an unending human heartbeat and soul through every note. The live band of drummer Deantoni Parks, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, and frequent collaborator and bass master Thundercat embody the Flying Lotus sound and drive the album's momentum. Thundercat's fingerprints in particular are felt all over the record with his quirky and fiery delivery. The guests on You're Dead! which include keyboard legend Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Angel Der | 302 |
The video<|fim_middle|> Versace proved herself in supreme control of a powerful new classiness.
Color and sexiness are to be expected—even demanded—at Versace. But the surprise was how Donatella delivered on that while showcasing outstanding, couture-standard clothes with a five-star wearability rating. "I wanted to do quality and tradition—but with fun," said the designer. Versace coats are some of the most gorgeous of the season, impeccably cut and with embroidery, quilting or edgings and inserts of leather expertly deployed to emphasize shape. There was casually luxurious fur, sheared inside and out to look like corduroy. Some of the best looks were the collection's most spare: a neon yellow cashmere tank with black flares and a huge black bag, a candy pink double-face coat paired with a tank and lilac pants, even a restrained, oversized black coat, its buttonholes edged in satin, thrown over a plain black pantsuit. There were great bright micro-flower print dresses and the obligatory slit-up-to-there red-carpet evening gowns. But Donatella's knockout punch was putting glamour, color, excitement—and, believe it or not, simplicity—into an adult woman's day. | walls exploded in a kaleidoscope of color, and Amber Valletta, grown-up and gorgeous, strode onto the runway in a swinging psychedelic print cashmere coat shrugged over a white turtleneck and pants. It was the opening shot in a collection in which Donatella | 57 |
This report, the<|fim_middle|> Understanding (MOU) in response to expressed concerns about the potential for the RGGI CO2 Budget Trading Program to result in "emissions leakage".
In the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, CO2 emissions from the regional electric power sector are a function of highly dynamic wholesale electricity markets. The cost of compliance with the RGGI CO2 Budget Trading Program is only one of several factors that influence the dispatch of electric generation, and resulting CO2 emissions, through the operation of these markets. As a result, this report presents data without assigning causality to any one of the factors influencing observed trends.
The observed trends in electricity demand, net electricity imports, and electricity generation from multiple categories of generation sources (including electricity imports), show there has been no increase in CO2 emissions or the CO2 emission rate (pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour or lb CO2/MWh) from non- RGGI electric generation serving load in the ten-state RGGI region in the first three year control period of the RGGI program, 2009 – 2011. | third report in a series of annual monitoring reports, summarizes data for electricity generation, electricity imports, and related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for the ten states that participated in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) first control period for the period from 2005 through 2011. These monitoring reports were called for in the 2005 RGGI Memorandum of | 84 |
Home Beer Thirsty Thursday: 2SP Brewing Company's Up, Up, & Away
Thirsty Thursday: 2SP Brewing Company's Up, Up, & Away
Photo by Ed Miller.
Welcome to Thirsty Thursday, a weekly column where we pick a beer from our fridge and review it, because in a world where two new breweries launch every single week, sometimes we need some help sifting through all of the hops.
Earlier this week, I decided to trek to the beer shop a couple towns over, the one I went to when I lived at home that sells the widest variety – and singles of everything – in the area. With a few seasonal releases on my mind, including one of my very favorite beers, I grabbed what I came in for and then noticed something from 2SP Brewing Company that piqued my interest. I have never had anything from this specific brewery but I'm quite familiar with them, given that they continue to team up with the local convenience store, Wawa, for coffee-inspired stouts. And if you're from the Philadelphia area, you know Wawa isn't just a shop, it's a way of life. I only just started seeing their beer closer to me so I grabbed Up, Up, & Away to see how it ranked.
2SP was the brainchild of Michael Stiglitz, who called on homebrewer Bob Barrar and several others in 2015 to create beer true to their area, Delaware County. Located about 20 miles south of Philadelphia, the brewery's mission is to bring world-class beer from world-class brewers to the region – and it's clear they'll try anything once. In a handful of years, 2SP has gained serious notoriety on a local and national level, the most recent of which came at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival when it won gold in the Imperial Stout category for The Russian. And with three new Wawa collaborations just launched, 2SP continues to keep drinkers clamoring.
Photo Courtesy of 2SP Brewing Company.
Armed with six year-round efforts, including Delco Lager which is quickly becoming an area staple, 2SP has dozens of other beers in its arsenal – some are one-offs, others are seasonals. Up, Up, & Away's availability falls under random, per the<|fim_middle|> might've had the look but when it came right down to it, the flavor profile just screamed American IPA. It kind of reminded me of a more juiced up version of Dogfish Head Brewery's 90 Minute IPA – that's a compliment.
As per usual, once I had my decision I jumped over to BeerAdvocate to get the pulse of the people. Up, Up, & Away got an outstanding 92 rating from the site itself while the average score was 4.18 based on 42 ratings. My score was lower than that, as I gave it 7.9. Get rid of that lingering little bit of booziness and I really liked this beer. I still thought it was tasty but that was my only qualm. Either way, 2SP proved it knows how to brew beer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to find their lager and one of their Wawa efforts.
Stay tuned next week, because I might try something from your favorite brewery.
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Delco Lager
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Thirsty Thursday: Carton Brewing Company's Cosmonaut
Welcome to Thirsty Thursday, a weekly column where we pick a beer from our fridge and review it, because in a world... | brewery's website. It's an 8.0% ABV New England-style DIPA brewed with double the Mosaic, Cascade and Simcoe hops, double the malts, and oats to give off what 2SP describes as "big notes of peach, plum and citrus."
The look of the label feels a little plain but I think it suits it well and helped set it apart a little on the shelf, given all of the complex-looking offerings surrounding it. The label is white with a bunch of arrows, looking somewhat like a rainbow, strewn across it, and 2SP's logo smack-dab at the top, in the center. It has the ABV listed, plus the fact that it has twice the hops and twice the malts, along with oats, but doesn't list the specific hops, which is a slight bummer. But it does have a fun little logo off to the side that says Everything We Can't Drink, We Can.
Now, let's jump right into it here. I wanted to get something from 2SP that was a little more in my wheelhouse and a little more complex. Listen, I know it's still special if a brewery can nail a lager or pilsner, and I thought about holding out for one of theirs, but I tend to stack breweries up based on hop-forward efforts and I was excited to see what Up, Up, & Away was made of. When I cracked open the 16-ounce can, which cost me just over $5, I sniffed it before I poured – I just couldn't wait on it. What I noticed was a real vibrant and pleasing citrus smell that had hints of tropical fruits and orange rinds but there was also an underlying pine, and just a dash of sweetness, to the nose. It reminded me a ton of the aroma of a beer I love before but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
Photo Courtesy of @2spbrewing on Instagram.
The pour wasn't quite as good as the smell, but it was close. Up, Up, & Away glugged out a hazy copper color with three fingers worth of straw-looking, fluffy head. It was picture-worthy and since it checked off the first two boxes quite well, I hoped the taste and mouthfeel would follow.
The mimicked much of the aroma, with a somewhat fruity hop flavor, a touch of sweetness and a little pine on the back-end, which gave way to a smidge of bitterness and dryness. As a whole I liked the flavor but I got some booziness in there that I didn't think it needed. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied and quite smooth and the carbonation was good for a DIPA. I felt like this one was a little more of a sipper than other similar styled beers but I thought it was fairly drinkable, though I'm not sure if I could have more than two before wanting to switch things up.
I really felt like this beer was an American DIPA rather than a New England. It | 620 |
Jabra Solemate Bluetooth and NFC Wireless Speaker System – Yellow, Super cool she says.
Great little speaker i use at work,plenty of kick to it&easy to set up. Battery could do with lasting a little longer but otherwise really good.
One of the best bluetooth speakers i have ever come across. Amazing durability and spectacular sound.
This truly is an amazing speaker, i had an azatom droid previous and it was good. However, i just received the jabra solemate mini and it certainly brings a kick to music. This small speaker is versitile, portable and pretty loud. The quality of sound and loudness on this speaker is remarkable. Defiantly worth a look into, best speaker i've discovered so far.
Nice portable device with sound quality as you would expect, and better if you have optimized<|fim_middle|> rugged piece of kit, this is it. I also like the color options, and it travels really well as it is light and small, as in i bring it on holidays so i have music in my hotel room. Yes, i would buy it again if i lost it.
Great little speaker, well worth the price, so good had to get one for the daughter.
I have given 2 star only for the build quality, for sound i would give no stars, very weak sound with no bass at all, the subwoofer is just for namesake. And the app is so bad its sounds so bad, as advertise i do not see any dolby effect. | the sound settings on your player device. Easy to get up and running, and with leads and charger.
Great little speaker for the money. I paid sub £30 and the sound is very nice and can fill the room quite nicely. Didnt find it tinny in the slightest and easy enough to connect to my phone and echo dot. Rubber sole keeps it from dancing around at high volume which is a nice touch. Not exactly bose quality but excellent for the price. A lot of punch for its size as well which was surprising. I would highly recommend this wee speaker.
This is the second speaker i bought, chose this after getting excellent quality from my first jabra and is still great after 4 years of travelling to the 4 corners of the earth.
Really good and very pleased with my purchase. It does exactly what i wanted from it.
This is the perfect combination of small size and meaty audio. It turns a wimpy phone into a decent music player or internet radio. The well balanced sound will fill a room and the battery lasts well – certainly longer than i've ever used it for, which has been all day if i'm decorating. I generally charge it up overnight at fairly sporadic intervals but have yet to run out of charge during the day. The construction feels so sturdy that i can't imagine it ever getting broken.
Had one myself and this was a present for family member. Volume is good – quality is reasonable (bear in mind the size and battery etc). Easy to use and good connectivity.
With looks like a retro trainer and a solid weight and sturdiness to give the feel of quality, you could do worse in the bluetooth speaker stakes. It's loud and clear enough to be satisfying, but at the end of the day, it's a single speaker in a casing, so despite what the experts say, it's hard to see how any of these kind of speakers are going to give you audiophile bowers & wilkins quality sound. So whilst it was a bit pricey when it first came out, even though the new bluetooth speakers around the £60-80 mark have caught up, if you can get one of these for under £50 quid, it's a good buy.
Sturdy, small box with truly a great sound. Great value for money (ukp 20). I didn't like nousy 'sound prompts' when switching the solemate mini on/off, but these can be de-activated. After 2 weeks, i am a happy user.
I bought them over three years ago and they are still performing just like they did when i opened the box. I bought white color, the only drawback is it get's dirty over time. However, the sound quality is still the same. Will highly recommend these over any other portable bluetooth speakers.
What a great little device – nice design, very simple to set up and operate. My technophobe partner had it up and running in no timethe sound quality is impressive too for such a small speaker. You're not going to use it at your party, but it's perfect for streaming music from a phone or tablet at a reasonable volume and much improved quality over both. Great package and good value.
Bought for the wife and she loves it.
Very portable and cool enough for my teenager.
The speaker is small enough to fit in your palm (unless you have very small hands), which makes it very handy. The battery life is quite good too. It comes with an aux cable cleverly hidden/tucked away in a groove underneath the speaker. It can be used with the aux cable or bluetooth – i have used both and have not noticed any difference in sound quality. Now sound quality – the sound has a heavy bass bias to it. It is quite surprising that a speaker that small is able to produce that much bass and while it may be good for certain types of music and occasions, other occasions demand more of a subtle sound. This speaker seems to do just one style – all out bass. Turn it on or off and your action is confirmed with a deep reverberating 'boom'. Nice sound effect which gets tired after a while. All in all, i am pleased with my purchase and have given it 4 stars – purely because of the at times overbearing bass sound.
For all the plaudits this speaker is getting, this is over rated. Like the size and aesthetic aspect of it. But would like better sound and higher volume.
Sound volume is loud and crisp. My only gripe is that there seem to be no way to disable the audio notification such as when bluetooth is on/off, or when it isn't connected into any input device. It would be nice if there are led indicators for these things.
This is a fantastic product, i have b&o in the car and bose at home and when i travel i'm always impressed with the sound that comes out of this little speaker.
Firstly you turn on your speaker to be greeted by a very american voice which despite having read the manual i still don't know if it can be turned off. Sound wise the speaker is decent for its size and price. It goes pretty loud considering how small it is, you're not going to entertain a full party of course but it is perfect for some music with a few friends round a fire or even at a higher volume getting ready to go out. I have encountered better mini speakers but they always come at a higher cost 4x the price and are not necissarily 4x better sound quality so i would recommend this speaker for a cheaper mini speaker for sure.
Cracking build quality and sound. Would be good at rrp of £79. 99 but superb at £36 (now only £34). I did a quick survey and listen to comparable units and nothing in this price bracket gets close. Very easy to connect and off you go. The loud voice commands on the unit can easily be silenced by holding the – volume button as you turn it on (others have complained about these). 5mm cable in its base plate so you can connect your older ipods etc without bluetooth. It is simple to charge with the supplied usb cable to a computer or wall usb charger.
I have three of these now in various rooms in the house. They are powerful and above all easy moved around other areas of the house or outside.
The packaging was great, i bought this as a present but i tested it out first. It was really simple to use and connected to my devices quite easily. The sound is great for what's needed, if i wanted a supreme surround sound a would get a proper speaker. The product is a lot smaller than what i thought it was going to be which is good as it it meant to be portable.
Great sound, but a little bassy. Easy to set up and the only problem is the instructions it give when turned on. They really need to lower the sound on them. Overall f you want a great little bluetooth with a rugged case look no further then this.
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Worked well for a while but stopped working and the blue light just flashes continuously now, not been able to connect to it or anything else since.
Portable, easy to connect, disconnect and reconnect. I accidentally leave it on all the time and when i go to use it, it still has battery.
I've only received it today, so can update sound and durability reviews later, but my first impressions are great. The sound is clear and it has a decent bass and the size of the mini is perfect for me. I love it, it was a great purchase (and cheaper than argos' £70).
Excellent sound and uncompareable value. Easy set up to my samsung via bluetooth.
The first one arrived and didn't work. The second came and i was very disappointed. Poor quality and not as loud as expected for the size and the weight of the speaker. The charger block is also quite large. I think the more expensive jbl or bose alternatives are better value as they are so much better.
I have a solemate mini and a solemate max that both have good sound for their size. I would recommend the solemate mini above this speaker. This speaker lacks bass and sounds tinny compared to similar products of competitors. Unfortunately i understand the jabra sound app to control the sound settings has been discontinued. I received the following message from jabra customer services. When it was introduced nearly half a decade ago, jabra sound was revolutionary in that was one of the first mobile audio experiences that delivered high quality dolby sound. When used with a pair of jabra headphones or music speakers you could finally take your dolby sound experience out of your home and with you wherever you went. Unfortunately as consumer behavior changes, the shift from offline or purchased music towards streaming only services means the jabra sound application no longer provides a consumer experience that matches today's consumption habits. We are therefore discontinuing support for the app and have removed it from both the ios and android stores. Therefore it will no longer be available for download.
It's neat, compact,looks smart and does what it says on the box. The battery also holds its charge well and the bluetooth range is impressive. Great value for the discounted price i paid. Using it with the amazon prime playlists (fred when you already have prime) i can listen now listen to listen with ease to seemingly endless music of any genre i choose.
I have one of these, it is a great little speaker that does what it says on the tin. I bought it 12 months ago and use it for many purposes; 1) a speaker phone from conference calls i dial in to from my mobile phone and it does great, 2) a music player via bluetooth or the cable. It does really good even if the volume is limited, but for the size, it is more than adequate and the sound is good. One of the things i like about it is it is very rugged, it takes a lot of abuse, as an example at a bbq last week it was dropped on to a hard floor from 7 foot/ 210cm and it did not phase it. The some one thought it would be funny to stand on it and again, it did not phase it. So if you looking for a | 2,123 |
We, who work in formal education systems – teachers, faculty, administrators, and so on – tend to have an overly serious view of learning. Sometimes we seem to think that formal learning experiences are the only real learning experiences, and that learning only happens when there is a teacher to document it.
Formal learning – the learning that happens in educational systems – is learning that is measured with standards and learning objectives to be met. For formal learning it is really important what students learn, and that students in some form reproduce the material provided for them. For informal learning to happen it is more important that students know how to learn – so that they can learn from any kind<|fim_middle|> access to the internet. But, there is also lots of misinformation out there, and figuring out what information is real and useful is often the biggest problem for students, who don't have the same knowledge structure we educators do.
What has changed since the early days of public education is the way we view knowledge. What used to be objective, unchanging, and transferable is now subjective, context dependent and individually constructed. The way we perceive knowledge changes everything in formal education. What we really need to improve education worldwide is more open source information. Wikipedia is a great first step in searching information, and students shouldn't be discouraged to use it. Nor should we discredit the sources our students use, but ask them to show the merit of the author or proof of the claim.
Combining informal learning with the formal learning that happens in the classrooms improves the quality of education because blind obedience stifles imagination. Learning as a process can be seen as interactions between the student, content and environment. In formal settings teachers and faculty should provide guidance and introduce the main concepts and principles of the content, but leave opportunities for students to fill in some of the details.
Designing the instruction in the way that allows informal learning to blend with formal learning helps students to learn how to learn, which increases meaningfulness and sparks curiosity – and these two important parts of engagement well met will also help students to take a deep leaning approach, which leads to life-long learning. This is what our students need to thrive in their future!
The true blended learning approach is not about technology and getting educators all excited about software and hardware, it is about blending formal and informal learning and upgrading the mindware. | of interactions, where ever they happen to be.
We all have had natural born learners in our classrooms. These are students who seem to be learning easily, who have a good knowledge base for their age, and who may have opposite views and often they are not shy to express their opinions, either. I think these are students who find it easy to combine information gained from different sources. They find common themes and happily put together things they learn from school, movies, comics, games, virtually anywhere, and then use it in different contexts. This is what informal learning is about: producing knowledge, understanding and meaning!
Informal learning is an ongoing process, and in the contemporary world we must reform the educational thinking to meet the requirements of this century, and to prepare our students for living in the knowledge society, where they will have to choose between different sources and types of information. This is also a change from teacher-centered to student-centered education.
The biggest difference is that in the past the teacher or the professor was the source of information – the true expert who had the official truth about the topic – while today the information is freely available for everyone who has | 231 |
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'Social Network' writer Aaron Sorkin talks Steve Jobs biopic<|fim_middle|> and even at this early stage, the Social Network screenwriter has been linked to penning the screenplay.
Sorkin has now confirmed to E! Online that discussion are indeed taking place. He said: "Sony has asked me to write the movie and it's something I'm strongly considering. Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages. It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it."
Sorkin added that he is currently reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, on which the proposed film is to be based. Sony acquired the rights in a seven-figure deal recently.
He continued: "[Jobs] was a great entrepreneur, he was a great artist, a great thinker. He's probably inspired my [11-year-old daughter] Roxy more than he's inspired me. She plays with all his toys."
It was claimed this week that George Clooney is in the frame to play Jobs, but faces competition from his former ER co-star Noah Wylie, who has portrayed him before, in 1999 TV movie Pirates Of Silicon Valley. |
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Sorkin is indeed in the frame to write script about Apple founder's life
Aaron Sorkin has confirmed that he is in talks to write the proposed biopic of the late Apple boss Steve Jobs.
Talk of a film about Jobs' life has been rife since he died last month from pancreatic cancer, | 88 |
A couple of weeks ago, I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum, and since then I've been struggling to come up with some anecdotal means of describing my experience with the game. I continued to put off the task as I played through the game a second time, but now that I've done that, the time is at hand for me to have an opinion. I'll do my best.
Of course, you might read that as me saying that it was terrible, but Arkham Asylum is far from terrible. Looking back, it seems to me that Rocksteady Studios took a lot of care in crafting an excellent Batman game. Let's face it... there were a lot of ways that it could have gone wrong. Many have tried, and a small few have managed to make games that make good use of the license.
Rocksteady made nearly every smart decision that they could in the development process of Batman: Arkham Asylum from the choice to base the game on Batman's rich comic history (as<|fim_middle|> I've ever played... it's one of the best video games that I've ever played.
Your review actually makes me want to try it out. I'm a big Batman fan, but I never considered trying the game out even despite a few recommendations from friends - but the idea of a Detective Mode and how it works tingles my Bat senses. I don't normally take advice on people about games because the kind of games I like are typically more cerebral than just good games for violence - although I like Violence. Reminds me a bit of what I liked about Condemned: Criminal Origins and Condemned 2: Bloodshot - lots of brutal violence and sneaking around, then an abrupt switch to CSI. Although both games could use polish, it was enjoyable. Thanks for the recommendation. | opposed to any of the movies) to approaching Paul Dini (writer of the beloved Batman: The Animated Series and Detective Comics) for the construction of the story to bringing in the iconic voice actors from Batman: The Animated Series (specifically Kevin Conroy as Batman, Mark Hamill as the Joker, and Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn) to voice the game's dialogue.
Did you notice that the paragraph above is just once long sentence with far too many parenthetical statements? Can you tell that I don't do this for a living?
Yet, any smart decisions pertaining to the atmospheric design of the game would be completely forgotten if the game wasn't any fun to play. Luckily, this is not the case. I found the act of playing Batman: Arkham Asylum to be really enjoyable from beginning to end.
One of my favorite parts of the game is the melee combat. At first it came across as a highly simplistic volley of attacks and counter-attacks, but as I progressed through the game I became accustomed the rhythmic nature of the combat system. Before long I found that I was able to take on larger and larger groups of henchmen by chaining together some pretty insane combos, which had me flying all over the screen and performing some visceral takedowns. At one point, I nailed a 46-hit combo, which yielded me a trophy!
However, I occasionally came across rooms that were being patrolled by armed henchmen, who would take you down pretty quickly if they spotted you. These segments specifically force you to slow down and consider the movements of your enemies so that you can take them down without being noticed. And while this might not have been as exhilarating as beating the crap out of them, finding different ways to silently subdue enemies is highly satisfying.
And this is where my experience with the game becomes rather difficult to characterize.
In my opinion, the real unsung hero of this game is Arkham Island itself. It serves as setting, plot engine, and environmental puzzle all rolled into one cleverly designed entity, but it only works because every other part of the game interacts with it so well.
For example, Batman: Arkham Asylum uses the island to offer an open-world setting, while Detective Mode functions to keep you on track. When you switch to Detective Mode, Batman uses the sensors in his cowl to highlight points of interest (enemies, forensic trails, walls that are weak enough to be destroyed, ventilation shafts you can crawl into, etc.), so you always know where the action is.
If you explore the island in the early parts of the game, you can discover quite a few places that you can't get to. And as you progress through the story, Batman's gadgets are made available in such a way that you don't even consider the fact that you've been handed a tool to get to some hard to reach place. This, of course, speaks to how brilliantly the game is paced. Nearly every time that I had to backtrack through any given area of the island, I just happened to have a new gadget that I could use to get to a previously unreachable part of that area.
And on top of all of that, there is a sort of meta-game going on between Batman and the Riddler, who has scattered little Riddler Trophies across the island as well as riddles that you have to solve by snapping pictures of things that are hidden all over the place. Even after finishing the story, you can return to the island to continue finding all of these little treasures. Finishing this task, although somewhat tedious, yields a nice little treasure for fans.
My time with Arkham Asylum felt like a highly directed open-world experience, which is a bizarre feat. During my first play through, I was having too much fun for it to have occurred to me how well the game was designed. But as I played again, I began to notice how subtly every part of the game fits together into an exceedingly cohesive unit. I can't recommend this game any better than by saying that Batman: Arkham Asylum is not just one of the best comic hero games that | 841 |
The Laws of Murder
by Charles Finch
James Langton
With all the humanity, glamor, and mystery that readers have come to love, the next Charles Lenox Mystery, The Laws of Murder, is a shining confirmation of the enduring popularity of Charles Finch's Victorian series.
It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London<|fim_middle|> Historical Fiction | 's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play the game as he once did.
Then comes a chance to redeem himself, though at a terrible price: a friend, a member of Scotland Yard, is shot near Regent's Park. As Lenox begins to parse the peculiar details of the death – an unlaced boot, a days-old wound, an untraceable luggage ticket – he realizes that the incident may lead him into grave personal danger, beyond which lies a terrible truth.
Charles Finch - Author
James Langton - Narrator
Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged
Number of parts: 7
Fiction Mystery | 196 |
The Stamp Gallery Presents Onejoon Che, Nara Park, and DZT Collective Monument
Wed, 25 January 2017 -<|fim_middle|> thestamp.umd.edu/stamp_gallery. | Sat, 11 March 2017
Nara Park, Never Forget, 2014, plastic packaging boxes and vinyl, courtesy of Hamiltonian Gallery and Artists.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 25 from 6pm to 8pm
Collective Monument presents works by three contemporary artists spanning three continents, all of whom investigate the concept of monumentality as a complex and suggestive cultural form. The exhibition elaborates the nuanced, transnational networks of power, memory, and participation that emerge from monuments as objects and as collaborative projects. It invites audiences to consider monuments as artworks that propose new forms of collective action and paradigms of belonging. The exhibition calls on viewers to question how monuments reflect conditions of global interconnectedness and speak in dialogue with diverse audiences today. Collective Monument is on view at the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, January 25 through March 11, 2017.
South Korean artist Onejoon Che's three-channel video installation Mansudae Master Class (2015) draws attention to one of the most curious aspects of the legacy of Cold War cultural diplomacy: overseas projects created across Africa by the North Korean state's Mansudae Art Studio as part of the nation's attempts to sustain and rekindle political alliances established in the 1960s and '70s. The resulting monuments, made in the Socialist Realist style, have been subject to critical scrutiny in the various nations in which they are realized. However, they also testify to the power of monumental commissions to transcend isolationist politics as states and their leaders continue to promote monuments as a vital art form.
Washington, DC-based sculptor Nara Park's Never Forget (2014) grew out of the artist's fascination with the monumental paradigm of packaged goods displayed in bulk, a phenomenon she has observed across the globe. Her work places this consumer aesthetic in dialogue with words borrowed from inscriptions on monuments around the United States' capital city. Park's artwork takes on new significance in the current American political situation as the content of values often considered 'shared' are both contested and deconstructed. Never Forget connects the tropes of monumental form with disposable commodities and the perpetual fluctuations of language, challenging perceptions of the monument as a stable and enduring object.
While the works by Onejoon Che and Nara Park critically examine the monument at the nexus of national political ideology and transnational modes of consumption, the DZT Collective—an artistic, curatorial, and architectural collective operating between Italy and Albania—stages an opportunity for visitors themselves to create a monument. Their interactive installation Study for a Monument (2014–ongoing) prompts individuals and groups to use their own bodies to speak to and about the power structures that frame social reality today. The work asks the viewer: to whom might you construct a monument, and how might you embody the ideals you wish to see reflected therein?
Collective Monument culminates with a symposium on the topic of monumentality in art across time and geographies. A keynote lecture by New York-based artist Lisi Raskin opens the event on March 10, 2017 at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, and is free and open to the public.
Onejoon Che uses photography and video to investigate the sociopolitical transformations taking place in contemporary Korea. His work is informed both by his study as a commercial photographer and by his time in the South Korean military, and many of his artworks reflect on the effects of the military regime through film and archival interventions. Che has participated in a number of exhibitions throughout the world, such as the Taipei Biennale, Palais de Tokyo Module, the New Museum Triennial, and the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Nara Park considers simulations of nature as expressions of the human desire for immortality. Her interest in these themes derives from her observation of confluences in Eastern and Western affluent contemporary culture in the cycle of industrialization and technological development. She grew up in the industrial city of Seoul, South Korea, where technology and manufacturing compensate for a shortage of natural resources, and synthetic materials are more accessible and useful than natural materials. Park's work aims to generate life from artificial materials, exploring our desire to imitate nature. Her art also considers the paradox of a consumer culture that simultaneously desires permanent ideals and ephemeral objects. https://naraparkstudio.com.
DZT (DyZeroTre) Collective is an artistic and architectural collective operating between Italy and Albania. The core of the group comprises artist and curator Stefano Romano, architect and planner Eri Çobo, and artist Martina Dierico. A fourth member, artist and musician Guido Affini, contributes to the group through ARIA, an electro-acoustic music project that combines different languages. DZT works processually through aesthetic acts that do not attempt to transcend conflicting viewpoints, new antagonisms, or the urgency of social reality. Through performances, video, installations, photography, and drawings, DZT aims to create non-aligned images of our contemporary reality. https://www.dyzerotre.info.
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The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland is located at 1220B Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. For more information visit | 1,133 |
<|fim_middle|>," says Dave Dourson, vice president of US distribution. "And Mike has more than 28 years of industry experience as a distribution sales manager and regional manager for a leading chemical manufacturer."
Dourson adds that Mike is also a member of the Manufacturers' Representatives of America (MRA), is CIMS-GB certified, and a former board member of NESSA (the New England Sanitary Supply Association). He is also one of the newest graduates of "Kaivac Boot Camp."
"This is one of the most respected manufacturing rep groups in the country," says Dourson. "We are happy to have them onboard and look forward to a strong and lucrative association." | News & Views 1/28/2015
New Manufacturers' Rep Group for Kaivac
Kaivac, developers of the No-Touch Cleaning and OmniFlex Cleaning systems, announces that WMC Associates, a manufacturers' representative firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, will represent the company in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
WMC Associates is comprised of Bob Hodsdon, Steve Browne, and is headed by Mike Ciesinski.
"All of these gentlemen have considerable experience in sales | 120 |
Ryan, Shirlee and I ran a half marathon in Santa Cruz this morning. It was Ryan's first half, my fourth, and Shirlee's seventh. This is perhaps my favorite course; it runs along West Cliff, around Natural Bridges State Park, and circles the bluffs out at Wilder State Park. Shirlee and I ran it last year and I convinced Ryan to train with me this winter.
A few weeks before we started dating, Ryan told me about a 10k in Golden Gate Park. He sent me link and mentioned that he'd be running it with his family. My dad and I ran it together, though I kept my eye<|fim_middle|> waiting on that final corner to shout encouragement. Last spring, he trained for a 10k and placed well. This winter, while juggling five classes and coaching badminton, he ran with me every Saturday morning. Within a few weeks he had me beat.
I've come to realize that the activities I love most require the fiercest form of persistence. Writing, running, camping, traveling--in some cases, even reading demands a sustained attention that these days is kind of rare. These are all activities that I enjoy doing alone--and love doing with my favorite people. I've noticed, too, that it is much easier to be persistent when can feel support the whole way through---on the sidelines or even a mile or two down the road. | out for Ryan and Richie. I kept pace with my dad until the final mile, at which point I broke free and tried furiously to catch Ryan, thinking what a badass I'd be if I beat him in that final push. Needless to say, I did not beat him, though I very nearly caught up. We said hi to each other and then walked our separate ways to stretch. Two months later he donned his now-famous Christmas moose sweater and surprised me with a kiss on his back porch.
The two years I was in grad school, I ran three half marathons with Shirlee, and at each of them, our families were there to cheer us on, Ryan always | 141 |
This article assumes you've already activated Cloud Notify (or started the 30 day free trial) and have<|fim_middle|> the Cloud Notify app and turn off the "Assign automatically" option .
You can set the priority level at which a user will be notified . This can be set for each user group and individual users that have access to this IXrouter.
Set the timezone in [My profile] to make sure all messages show the correct time. This is a profile setting, meaning each user needs to do this themselves for their own profile.
Lastly, take a look at the "Message center"-article to see how you receive a message and what else you can configure.
Select the data source under [Alarms] . You can view all defined alarms in a list view or table view .
Multiple alarms can be selected by pressing the icon on the left. These can then be removed , duplicated , or exported to a CSV file . | set up a data source (including variables). View our corresponding guides if you haven't yet.
The second step in Cloud Notify is to set up alarms. Alarms describe what trigger event should be notified and to whom, based on priority. Alarms include an on-delay option and you can personalize the event message.
If the IXrouter isn't connected, you can't be alerted about machine events. You can add alarms that notify you when the IXrouter itself has been offline for at least 1 hour or comes back online. For example, when the IXrouter has been offline for the past couple of days because the data on your SIM card ran out. Generally you'll only notice these kind of problems yourself long after they have happened. Using these alarms you'll be notified instead.
If the IXrouter has a poor connection, have a look at our failover feature.
The following steps explain how you can add these connection alarms.
Go to [Devices] in the main menu , select the concerning device , open its [Apps] tab , and [Open] the Cloud Notify app .
In the Cloud Notify app, select "Localhost" under [Alarms] , press the Add alarm-icon , and select "Add new variable" .
Select the connection type "MQTT logger" as variable, enter the alarm details, and press [Add]. The image below contains explanatory text for each setting.
You can configure these alarms to trigger on the IXrouter's VPN or MQTT connection. Have a look at the "VPN and MQTT connection - What are they?"-article for more information.
After this next step, the config push, the device will temporarily disconnect to reconfigure its Cloud Notify settings and will automatically reconnect. This may take a minute.
Finally, press [Push changes] in the config tab to complete the setup.
You can add your machine alarms by following the steps below or immediately set who will be the alarm receivers, assignable by priority. By default, all users with access to the device will always be notified of all alarms.
You can add as many alarms as you like, there's no limit. It is possible to use the same variable for different alarms. You are free to configure countless alarms.
In the Cloud Notify app, select the data source under [Alarms] and press the Add alarm-icon .
When you press [Add new alarm] you'll see the window that is depicted below.
Select the concerning variable, enter the alarm details, and press [Add]. The image below contains explanatory text for each setting. Some variable types may have less settings.
You can easily duplicate this alarm if you're adding alarms that are only slightly different. This way you'll only have to make small adjustments.
Now that you've created your alarms, you can set who will be the alarm receivers, assignable by priority. By default, all users with access to the device will always be notified of all alarms.
You can easily and effortlessly copy alarms from one device to another by exporting the concerning alarms (view the "Manage alarms" part of this article) and then importing them in your new device. Alternatively, you can manually prepare your alarms in the required CSV format to load them all at once into your cloud logger. The CSV file structure is explained in our "Import alarms: CSV file structure"-article.
When you press [Import from CSV-file], you'll see a browse window.
Select a CSV file to import.
If you created the CSV file yourself and are unsure about the layout, it is best you create a template CSV file by creating several temporary alarms and exporting those as a CSV file (view the "Manage alarms" part of this article).
By default, all users with access to the device will always be notified of all alarms. This can be changed per user group, user, and alarm priority level at the [Alarm receivers] page.
Go to [Alarm receivers] in | 783 |
Shopping for a wedding band to spell out your eternal love for your other half can be quite frustrating if a) the available rings are substandard representations of your undying love, b) the pricing is unreasonably exorbitant, and c) neither of you can agree on a pair.
So, to save yourself from the headaches (and arguments), why not design your own?
Local jewellery designer Wendy Lor is a person you can turn to.
All you have to do is tell her your beautiful love story and she will convey it into exquisite bands.
Lor, with 20 years of experience, captures the emotions through her innate craftsmanship. Thus far, she has achieved a 100% success rate in terms of nailing the design according to her client's requirement.
"I bring the essence of the couple into the ring and by doing that, I believe it's no longer about Wendy Lor or the brand, but the couple," she expresses.
The 42-year old designer says that the majority of the couples that go to her, have tried shopping for rings before consulting her.
"They will say that they couldn't find anything they like but I believe it's more than not being able to find the right ring.
"I am just an instrument that helps tell their story," explains Lor, the founder of WendyLorArtisans and Unique Wedding Bands.
To begin, Lor will aks the couple to relate their courtship and romance. Every little detail helps, from favourite colour to personal likes and dislikes.
"We have to be truthful about ourselves especially when doing something sacred. The<|fim_middle|> in either 9K, 12K or 18K and if gems are used, couples can expect either diamonds or genuine precious stones.
For Muslim men who don't wear gold for religious reasons, Lor makes Suasa rings with a touch of modern white, instead of the conventional reddish colour metal.
Lor, who does everything from designing to the making of the rings, always take functionality into account since the couple will be wearing the rings everyday. "I will not compromise on comfort," she says. | more honest they are, the better I can come up with the designs," she advises.
Whether or not it's necessary for the couple to have a preconceived idea of how they'd want their rings to look, Lor says it's not but it can be helpful.
Having said that, Lor did turn away a couple because the bride continuously rejected Lor's designs because Lor did not live up to the Tiffany & Co. design the bride wanted.
Lor is adamant that she does not do copies of designer rings as it is her duty to translate the couple's story and "materialize that desire" into the most extraordinary wedding band.
There are two categories within Unique Wedding Bands, which are Unique Message Band or The Inspired Band.
The former is crafted to articulate the secret message between the couple, which Lor describes as "a meaningful whisper of love" whilst the latter designs are constructed "to suit the couple's beautiful union".
The materials and gems are decided by Lor based on the couple's budget and from her deduction of the story.
The rings will usually be in white or yellow gold | 218 |
This cultural tour takes us to one of the most beautiful lagoons in Ecuador and South America, the amazing Laguna Quilotoa, and surrounding villages. On day trips that occur on Thursday's, we start our day with a visit to the famous local market of Saquisilí. On other days when the market is closed, we visit the first missionary church in Ecuador, located in Pujili, instead. Continuing our trip, we pass through the indigenous villages of the area which provide a fantastic chance to see the TRUE ECUADOR. When we arrive at the spectacular Laguna Quilotoa, we hike down to the Laguna and back<|fim_middle|> at an Indian hut. After we will visit the Tigua community to observe the leather crafts that people make in these place.
The tour will take us about 4 hours, after which we'll arrive at the viewpoint where you can observe the magnitude of the crater and its lagoon.
We will descend along road of varying terrains, which will take us an hour until we arrive at the bottom of the lagoon. Once there, we will take photos and rest. After lunch we will return to Quito in about 3 hours of driving. | up again in a stunning two-hour hike tour. It is possible to hire mules for part of the trek. Paying special attention to the culture and rural life of indigenous andean people, this trip is a wonderful opportunity to see the beauty of Ecuador in all of its forms.
We'll leave from Quito (9,186ft/2.800m) in the morning and will drive the Quilotoa Lagoon; during the tour we will stop | 98 |
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Amazon Invests in Home Building Company
Amazon has leveraged its Alexa fund, which makes capital available to companies in the hope that they will fuel voice technology innovation, to invest in a California start-up building prefabricated homes, Plant Prefab. This latest investment comes as the online retailer attempts to bake its Alexa voice assistant into every aspect of a<|fim_middle|> stretch to believe it would also want it baked into the home.
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Plant Prefab is able to build custom-built homes in a factory-controlled environment, with its method said to be far more sustainable than other prefab manufacturers. This is because of a secret technology used by the company, which it says provides a 50% reduction in construction time and between 15-25% reduction in overall cost. It's not just in construction that the firm is utilising technology, however, as it also includes a connected home right from day one, thanks to the integration of devices such as the Nest Learning Thermostat.
It's the integration of smart technology that has piqued Amazon's interest in the firm. Plant Prefab's CEO, Steve Glenn, has noted that the firm is committed to 'making sure our homes meet our clients' lifestyle needs, and having greater and more effective smart home technology and integration is part of that'.
It's not yet known exactly what Amazon hopes to achieve from its investment in Plant Prefab, but it's not hard to imagine Alexa-enabled new build homes being rolled out across the United States. After all, the firm has already signalled its desire to make the Alexa assistant ubiquitous, with an event last month showcasing a range of new devices that would put the smart assistant inside the car and new appliances; so, it's not too big of a | 277 |
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The ninth installment of the "Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies" will be seen in theaters around the world after Trafalgar Releasing signed on as the distribution partner for the annual event.
Rhino Entertainment, part of Warner Music Group, oversees Grateful Dead properties. Trafalgar replaces Fathom as its partner on the Grateful Dead event, which sees a concert from the iconic band and related footage shown in theaters for one night only each year. It has become a major draw for the group's fans, known as Dead Heads.
The Meet-Up has traditionally run in the U.S. and there has been an attempt to launch it in the U.K., but on a different date from the U.S. The 2019 plans mark the first time it will play internationally and on the same day. Trafalgar is doing deals now and the film will play in Europe, North America, and Australasia.
The concert featured in the 2019 edition will be unveiled June 13 when tickets go on sale. The screenings take place on Aug. 1, which<|fim_middle|>Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies
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Trafalgar Releasing | was Grateful Dead founding member Jerry Garcia's birthday. Rhino Entertainment and Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux select the shows chosen from archival performances to capture the spirit of the Grateful Dead. Last year's event featured a 1989 concert at Washington's RFK Stadium.
Trafalgar said this year's "Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies" will play in a mix of independent and art-house theaters as well as in multiplexes.
"It's been incredibly exciting to watch the 'Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies' evolve over the last eight years, with the audiences growing larger and more eclectic with each installment," said Mark Pinkus, president of Rhino Entertainment. "Partnering with Trafalgar Releasing will now take us to the next step in this evolution, with even more diverse cinema offerings and worldwide distribution. I fully expect the ninth annual 'Meet-Up' being the biggest yet."
Kymberli Frueh joined event cinema specialist Trafalgar last year from Fathom. "Trafalgar Releasing couldn't be more excited to unite Grateful Dead fans across the globe for this exciting expansion of the annual 'Meet-Up' leading into its ninth year," she said. "Our focus is on creating global cinema events that connect communities of fans across the world, and we are excited to bring the annual 'Meet-Up' to Dead Heads outside the U.S. as well."
Trafalgar has credentials in the music space, having released K-pop band BTS's record-breaking concert film "Burn the Stage" in movie theaters, as well as films such as "Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams." Its upcoming releases include Roger Waters film "Us + Them" and "The Cure – Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park London," celebrating 40 years of the band.
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So the other day, on my almost daily stroll through Target, i stumbled across an interesting line of products called Pacifica. I was immediately drawn to their Coconut Water Wipes not just because of their super cute packaging, but the fact that they're infused with... well, coconut water! I always<|fim_middle|>yet!
I saw them yesterday. How did they do at removing makeup? | keep a stash of makeup remover wipes on my nightstand as a sure fire way to never miss going to bed without a relatively clean face! These wipes not only smell uhhh-mazing, but they're biodegradable which is great news for the environment! They gently remove toxins, oils, pollutants and makeup from your skin. At a whopping 5.99 for a pack of 30, you can't afford not to pick these up! All this goodness makes these skin-loving wipes an indispensable part of your daily cleansing routine!
In addition to these wipes, i also picked up one of their Color Quench Lip Tint which I'll chat with you about at a later date! But for now, I'm super excited about this line and now want to try every single product to see how they stand against these super awesome wipes!
So lets chat! Have you spotted Pacifica products at your local Target? If you've had a chance to try them, let me know your thoughts? What other products do you think I'd love?
Thanks for the tip. Can't wait to pick these up and try them out!
I will remember to pick one too at our nearest Target. Thanks for sharing Carla.
Oh these sound great! No Target where I live... | 256 |
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25 years since Toy Story
Madeleine Parker
Last month marked 25 years since the premiere of Toy Story, the very first feature film released by Pixar Animation Studios. This epic film about a group of plucky toys embarking on adventures around the neighbourhood of their owner, led by Tom Hanks' high-spirited character Woody, won the hearts of people all over the world with its captivating concept – that your toys come to life when you aren't looking.
Toy Story – a cinema staple 🏆
Toy Story was nominated for three Academy Awards! The first animated film to be nominated for Best Screenplay did have a hard time in its early stages. The company Mattel was so sure that it would be a failure that they refused to let Toy Story feature a Barbie character that had been written in as Woody's love interest (which was later adapted into Bo Peep).
As you might have noticed, when it turned out to be the highest-grossing film of 1995 by in-year release, they allowed Barbie to feature in Toy Story 2. Although it didn't win any of the Academy Awards it was nominated for, it has still achieved so much – especially considering it was the world's first entirely computer animated feature film.
The film is a marvel!✨
Toy Story is a masterpiece full of Easter Eggs! If you plan on rewatching the films soon, how about trying to spot these Easter eggs?
How many Easter Eggs can you spot?
Early drawing of Woody (from when the film was being developed)
Carpet modelled after the hotel in The Shining (favourite film of Lee Unkrich, one of the editors)
John Lasseter (the film's director)
The street that Pixar Studios was on at the time
The number of a classroom that many of the animators studied in (room A113 at the California Institute of Arts) – hidden in more than <|fim_middle|>
If they were trying to set themselves apart from the traditional Disney film model, it worked. They left princess stories and talking animals behind and set it in almost-real life, telling the story of an ordinary family, exploring themes that are relatable to everyone and setting the film in the most relatable location of all – a childhood bedroom. Just 110 employees worked on the film, a number that is dwarfed by the 800 or so people who worked on Disney's The Lion King the year before, and together those employees set the precedent for the 21 feature films that have come from Pixar since, and the many awards and accolades that followed. (I would make a joke here about how it's taken them 'to infinity and beyond', but that's too easy.) 🚀
Despite the fact that the main character of the film isn't a child, but instead a kindly toy cowboy, Toy Story represents childhood for a lot of people, and the imagination that it took to make it, as well as the imagination that it inspires in young first-time viewers, is unfathomable. The impact of this film on the movie industry will be felt for a very long time, and as parents are still introducing their children to these lovable characters 25 years after its premiere, I think it's safe to say that even as the years go by, the love for this film will never die
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It could have ended up being a totally different film…
The initial plan for the storyline didn't have Woody as the protagonist – instead, it was going to be based around 'Tin Toy', the main character of a five-minute short film of the same name, made by John Lasseter for Pixar in 1988. The film follows a small toy of a one-man-band being chased around a room by a troublesome baby that terrorises its toys, and won Pixar its first Oscar – Best Animated Short Film. This toy was eventually considered too old-fashioned to be the main character, so Woody and Buzz Lightyear were created, for a more modern audience, combining two very popular genres – westerns and sci-fi. In the early stages of Woody's character, he was very sarcastic and mean to the other toys, and they ended up having to pause production to rewrite the script and make him more likeable.
And so we ended up with the Woody and Buzz we know and love today, whose names satisfyingly combine into the portmanteau Buddy, reflecting the buddy movie genre of the film. The theme of friendship, which is relatable to any age, is intrinsically linked with this film, not only by way of the plot, but also because of the film's signature song, 'You've Got A Friend In Me' by Randy Newman, which was written in just one day, and has come to define Newman, now 76, to a younger generation of listeners.
The success is unmatched, even within Disney | 321 |
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We were last in the presence of the great Carlos Lopez in Nicaragua in March when we awarded him a certificate of excellence for producing consistently outstanding specialty-grade coffee. Carlos is one of Campos Coffee's Top 10 producers for 2017 and our Number 1 producer in Nicaragua.
The La Esperanza farm is located in the hills of northern Nicaragua in the Neuva Segovia region and from the farm you can see over into<|fim_middle|> hills of Nicaragua is a real testament to the dedication our team has in sourcing the best quality, ethically and sustainably-produced coffee on the planet.
Dave Withers, Master Distiller at Archie Rose, joined us for a tasting of the Nicaragua Carlos Lopez, our coffee of the month for August. Dave is the leader of the production team and the driving force behind Archie Rose's spirits vision. We love everything about Archie Rose, who have received multiple awards for their spirits from around the globe! Dave explained how being sustainably minded plays an important role within the ethos of Archie Rose; something that Campos Coffee echoes. Similary, Carlos Lopez who produces our Nicaragua coffee of the month, is constantly exploring new technologies and methods to ensure his farm is run as sustainably as possible. | Honduras. La Esperanza is the highest altitude farm in Nicaragua and is very remote. A visit involves a three hour drive on treacherous terrain, followed by a 45 minute walk into the farm. As you arrive, you are warmly greeted by the Lopez family, their dog and a rustic, well-organised processing facility producing amazing quality Speciality coffee. The family has farmed coffee for over 60 years, and successive generations have developed a proactive approach to farming and are heavily involved with Zamora University of Honduras who analyse farm soil and foliage ensuring optimal conditions for specialty coffee cultivation.
Nicaragua's coffee production has been low in recent years, so nding a gem like Carlos Lopez in the remote | 145 |
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Network Marketing IS a numbers game any way you cut it.
It's both a people business and a numbers game. You need to understand that interesting combination if you're going to survive in this business.
It's not really any different than pretty much every other selling situation out there. Some people see it and want it, some don't. Some go big, others do nothing. Some people stay for a season, some for a reason, and others for a lifetime. Some wanna try, others wanna do it.
It's life. Pretty straight up. But…you getting a grip on the numbers, and what they mean to you is critical in you becoming a long-term success story in the network marketing profession.
What you Need to Know About the Network Marketing Numbers Game
#1: Prospecting Involves a lot of Sorting. You already know some people do and others don't. Some show, others never do. If you know that network marketing required a lot of sorting, then embrace it! There's no sense in complaining about it or worrying over it once you realize that it's the way it is. Look.
I'm good at recruiting. I've been doing it my entire life. I have been prospecting in business for nearly 30 years, both in and out of network marketing. As many years as I've been in, with all the skills and experience I have…there are LOTS of people who don't do business with me.
In other words, EVERYONE has to embrace the concept of sorting and emotionally detach themselves from the equation.
Once you take emotion out of it, you're good. It's the way it is. Accept it. And…instead of fighting it, make it work to your advantage.
#2: You Need to Get Real with Yourself. Nobody is going to come to your rescue but you. Take responsibility for yourself. You'll never succeed until you do it, so it might be a good idea to start now. I'll be 50 in a couple weeks. And, I cannot tell you how much "getting real with yourself" takes place at that milestone.
The ultimate example of maturity is taking full responsibility with where you are in life. You're where you are for a reason. If you don't like it, then do something about it.
Hard to swallow sometimes…this whole idea of being accountable for ourselves, but necessary. I don't like some stuff in my life, but it's my fault, and the only way to change is to FIRST get real with ME, and then take action in a different direction.
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Copyright 2019 by Todd Falcone. | : Tracking your Numbers will Improve your Results. There's something pretty cool when you actually get focused on tracking the activity, getting to know the numbers…the points you're putting up on the board. Another "getting real with you" moment is taking the time to track what you do…or don't do. Pretty eye opening when you actually TRACK the REVENUE PRODUCING ACTIVITY you put into your business. It will boggle your brain to oblivion! I STILL track my numbers. Always.
I know how many calls I make and what they're about…I track it, and have for years.
Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky puts it pretty good in this quote,
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Since I'm always in the mood of being brutally honest with people, I'll say this:
Thousands of people in this business 'kid' themselves into believing they're actually doing this business, when in all reality…they are doing almost nothing. Then…they roam around complaining about how "network marketing doesn't work or didn't work for them". The truth is…they didn't work for network marketing. Pure and simple.
DO THIS NOW….Track it. Track yourself. And…never stop!
If I could force you to track your business building activity, I would. I would MAKE YOU do it if I could, but I can't. The experience is so liberating for your business, and you'll never know until you do it on a regular basis.
My Personal Challenge to You
Spend every single day by "drawing a box" on a piece of paper and writing in the number of new people you talked to that day about your business. I speak about and teach this exercise I stage I'm on all over the world.
Here's how the Draw a Box Exercise works:
At the end of your day, pull out a piece of paper or do this in your journal.
Draw a box. In that box, write in the number of NEW exposures you had that day about your business.
Be real. Be honest. This is for you and you alone. It's an opportunity to get direct feedback on your business building activity.
What's your box say??
Zero. Not a good number. You're not even in the game.
One. One person? Really? Don't work so hard! You might tire yourself out.
Five? You're getting there…and that's a good sign!
I have a saying I made up about this many years ago.
"Double digits a day keep the commission checks on their way!"
Get in the habit of tracking yourself and logging your contacts. It's not any extra work. It's simply a measure of the work you are putting in. If you take the time to measure, you can see how you're doing.
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Todd Falcone speaks and trains on the subject of network marketing success and helps people move to a position of achieving Network Marketing Mastery®. He also consults network marketing company owners as well as coaches and trains top-level distributors throughout the profession. Todd is a husband to his wife Carla, and a father to his two boys Gianni and Joey. He's a surfer, a skier, a golfer, and loves to fish and play in the outdoors. Start accelerating your network marketing business today, download Todd's latest CHEAT SHEET on this page.
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Being big fans of soup, soup Nazis and various soup-styled book covers, I couldn't help but post about HoboSoup (for the record, I'm also a fan of hobos). In any case, the find comes from TheSneeze and apparently the stuff is truly delicious. Of course, I'd want to take a far closer look at the ingredients before downing spoonfuls. What's even more curious than the ingredient list to me<|fim_middle|>, Lem went into the "Jungles" of Ortonville in search of a feature story on Mr. Hobo, long an American legend. At conclusion of his visit, Lem was treated with some old-fashioned original, homemade Hobo Soup. A Hobo himself as a young man, Lem felt the world should share in this fine cuisine. For years, a proper Canner was sought, and finally in 1960, Lem and son, Jim, finally saw a dream come true... Hobo Soup on the Grocer's shelf - "A Jungle Recipe, Fit For A King!"
Amazingly, while the hobosoup site has links to national hobo association, and the hobo railroad, there's no link to the upcoming Britt Iowa Hobo Convention this August (it's the 9th-12th if you want to take the kids). Does anyone else smell a product tie-up? Especially with the Hobo King and Queen competition. After all, with previous hobo royalty going by names like Beef Steak Charlie, Frypan Jack and Songbird McCue, it seems to be a fertile recruiting ground for a real-life spokesman. Click here to inspect the soup site. Link via TheSneeze. | , though, is how the product came to be. Here's the scoop straight from the can:
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What is the mechanism used for laser hair removal?
Laser light emitted by the laser machines are used to target the hair pigments. A particular laser has the affinity to a few colors which it targets and thereby changes to heat energy to destroy the hair follicle. This is called the process of selective photothermolysis which is the typical feature of any laser light. Thus the laser light for laser hair reduction will target the black or the brown color of the hair and burn the roots so that the hair growth is hampered. The best phase to target the hair is the growth phase also called as the 'anagen phase'. When hair roots are targeted during this phase then a long-term reduction in the growth of the hair follicle results.
The best candidates for permanent hair reduction are the people with lighter skin and darker hair because the laser light doesn't affect the skin and it affects the hair follicles, thus preventing damage to the surrounding skin. The darker skin types can also be effectively treated but the settings have to be different for both the skin types because the darker skin type has more chances of absorbing laser light and thus it must be protected from superficial damage. Thus the laser procedure must be performed by a trained personnel under the supervision of a professional doctor.
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After the laser procedure, the skin is red and swollen for a few hours which settles down eventually. Sun protection with sunscreen is mandatory after the laser because the skin remains sensitive and may darken with sun exposure. Sometimes a scab may be formed after the laser treatment which falls off in about a week's time.
One may find new hair growth about 7-10days following the treatment for laser hair reduction. These hairs undergo the process of exfoliation and eventually fall off in a few days. However, some growth may be seen that doesn't fall off, these are the hair follicles which were in the resting phase and now have entered the active phase of growth. These need to be targeted in the following sessions.
The number of treatments varies for different people depending on hair type, skin type, causes of hair growth, the spacing between the cycles, however one may assume that to effectively treat an area one would need about 6-8 sessions for long-term hair reduction. This is particularly important in patients with PCOD or PCOS where the hormones are in the | 307 |
Five riders were in contention for victory right up to the finish of the men's endurance road race in the European U23 Road Championships today. After a photo finish, the winner was declared to be Giovanni Visconti in a time of 4:10:31. Runner-up in the 158.4 km race was Frenchman Jeremie Roy, with Slovenia's Kristijan Fajt third, Only 57 of the 143 starters finished the race.
For the 20 year old Visconti, a native of Palermo in Sicily, this was his first appearance in a big meeting abroad, but he still managed to take the title of European champion. He also made his father, who had travelled to Athens to watch him, proud.
"I'm especially happy with my win", said Visconti. "After<|fim_middle|> excellent but there were a lot of birds and it made life difficult for the riders."
After launching an attack on the last of the eight laps in the U-23 Women's Road Race, Spaniard Maria Isabel Morreno Allue crossed the line first. Morreno Allue, who finished third in the individual time trials on Friday in Vouliagmeni, today rode a time of 3:03.28 to beat German Theresa Senff by 39 seconds, with Dutchwoman Vera Koedooder third in the same time.
"The course went just as we had planned it with the team," said Morreno Allue in the post-race press conference. "We raced round the first laps slowly to save our strength and then launched an attack on the last lap. The course was difficult. It was quite fast and with many bends but safe".
Silver medallist Theresa Senff added, "The course was very difficult but we have a very strong team. At the end though, Isabel was just too strong for us".
Koedooder agreed. "The course was very difficult and the weather was very hot. I had an accident two weeks before the event so training was very difficult. I came fourth in the individual time trials because of these problems and I was quite upset about that. So I was very pleased when I came third today. I'm very happy with the result".
The coach of the Spanish team, Juan Carlos Martinez, expressed great satisfaction with the course and its technical features. "The heat posed no problems for my team, as we are used to such temperatures. The organisation was great on security matters". | 40 kms I had a problem with my rear tyre and had to stop and change it. That only made me more determined. I'd like to thank my team members for their help, especially my mate Giannetti, who was leading until two laps before the end. He helped me a lot when I was getting tired and got me ready for the final sprint".
Silver medalist Roy from France said, "The start was a difficult one for the French team, as a group of riders stuck together and went out in front. After the fifth lap I managed to get in front. After that, the team protected me. All the team members worked together excellently and that's how we managed to have seven cross the finish line".
Fajt from Slovenia was not expecting to finish so high up. "From the fifth km I was one of the leaders", he said. "This was not part of our tactics, but since I was there I kept going even though I wasn't expecting to finish third. The race was difficult - a lot of ups and downs, a lot of hairpin bends. The organisation was | 227 |
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Robin is a mom, animal lover and fundraising executive. She's been a Kansas City Royals fan since 1980. Robin refers to herself as an "overall optimist (note Royals comment)," and believes in giving back.
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She's been a long-time volunteer for The Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri, YouthFriends and the Girl Scouts.
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Planned giving creates opportunities for engagement. When you find out someone has included your organization in their future plans—or replies positively to a request to do so—have a plan for reaching out to these donors and nurturing that relationship.
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Surround yourself with people you want to be like. Then learn from them. Find nonprofit professionals you admire and read their books, follow their blogs, etc. You become like the people around you, so choose wisely.
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Quality Innovations: GPS Success
The iGPS is a non<|fim_middle|> | contact, large-scale metrology solution that can be easily expanded to larger volume with no limit to the size of the system. Operators can target a part or fixture, a complete work area or factory, and constantly monitor results or track the location within a network of transmitters.
Aerospace assembly is one of the applications well suited for iGPS. Receivers incorporated into a probe stay within reach of the transmitters surrounding the aircraft. Source: Metris
Once automobile drivers become accustomed to using a GPS system, they may find it hard to drive without one. The same may eventually be said for the iGPS product from Metris (Leuven, Belgium).
It is a noncontact, large-scale metrology solution that can be easily expanded to larger volume with no limit to the size of the system. Operators can target a part or fixture, a complete work area or factory, and constantly monitor results or track the location within a network of transmitters. It also is possible to monitor multiple devices.
The metrology devices now can be monitored in the same network-a feature that was added based on customer request. Customers asked to be able to monitor instruments such as articulated arms, laser radars and laser trackers.
"The accuracy in a large volume can be better than ever expected from multiple metrology devices," says James Gardner, the director of business development for large scale metrology at Metris.
Any time portable devices such as these are moved in a setup, the uncertainty of a measurement increases-causing more chance for error, he says. A tracker is very accurate in the first instrument station of a setup, and in order to move the instrument a series of common points are set up to tie the points from the first station to the second station.
The laser-based iGPS transmitters create a measurement field that is extendable by adding more iGPS devices. Source: Metris
"This leap-frog of the instrument is where much is left to the skill of the operator," says Gardner. "With the iGPS, there is no 'leap-frogging.' Once the device is targeted, it can be repositioned and the iGPS will keep the coordinates live in the work envelope."
Gardner explains that this same concept can be used to track handheld devices such as hole gages, paint thickness devices, gap-guns and torque wrenches, along with many applications using nondestructive testing devices. The location on the part must be logged. From the iGPS monitor and trigger readings, an electronic map can be made easily.
At the AeroTest America Conference in late November 2008 in Fort Worth, TX, Metris announced that it would incorporate SpecMetrix coating measurement technologies from Sensory Analytics (Greensboro, NC) into its iGPS tracking and positioning system.
The system does have some limitations, however. Because it is a line-of-sight-based system, it needs transmitters set up with proper angles to give readings back from each sensor, which limits some of the ability to go inside of areas with just pure sensors in sight of the transmitters. It also offers lower accuracy in small volume with limited transmitters.
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It is a completely scalable system that can be easily expanded to larger volume, with no limit to the size of the system.
Operators can target a part or fixture, a complete work area or factory and constantly monitor results or track the location within a network of transmitters.
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There can be a big difference between going into a race blind and knowing what's coming.
Know the course to plan your strategy There can be a big difference between going into a race blind and knowing what's coming. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1mhQDrP
Ben Jacobs, Planning Editor Published 11:41 p.m. ET July 9, 2014 | Updated 11:23 a.m. ET July 11, 2014
For every race I've run, I've gone into it without knowing exactly how the course sets up. I may have known from friends whether it was a pretty flat course or a really hilly course. And I may have looked at a course map to get a general idea of where the race would go. But I've never known exactly where and how big the hills would be before the race started.
Until the Fourth of July, that is.
On Independence Day, I ran the Fleet Feet Firecracker 4-mile race in Fairport. And for the first time, I knew exactly what the course would be like.
First, I ran the same race last year, and it's my first "repeat" race. They shortened it from five miles to four this year, but that just cut out an out-and-back segment along the Erie Canal and moved the finish line a bit.
Second, and perhaps more important, this is a true hometown race for me. The course passes within a mile of my house. I drive on the roads we were racing on every day.
So I knew that the course would have two big hills in the first mile and a half, then a downhill into a flat stretch before a couple smaller hills leading up to the finish.
That knowledge allowed me to come up with a specific plan to try to finish in somewhere around 30 minutes. I planned to try to go a bit faster than an 8-minute-per-mile pace through the early hills, then use the downhill to speed up a bit through the flat stretch before giving everything I had leading up to the finish.
The other nice thing about running a race so close to home is the ability to sleep in a bit later. I woke up Friday at 6:45 a.m., ate a small breakfast and got my racing outfit on, including the patriotic socks I try to wear anytime I run on Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Patriots Day or Sept. 11.
Patriotic socks for the Fourth of July. (Photo: Ben Jacobs)
Then I helped my wife get our daughters ready, we left the house at 7:40 a.m. and my wife dropped me off at the start line five minutes later. That left me enough time to do a quick warm-up before the 8 a.m. start.
With the weather still nice and cool, the race started and I did a good job of not getting caught up in the rush of the crowd. I focused on running hard but keeping my breathing comfortable, and I did the first mile up Whitney Road in 7:53.
Then we turned up Turk Hill Road and I continued to keep a measured pace up the second big hill. Just past the intersection with Macedon Center Road, we hit the downhill and I took off.
After the race, colleague and running buddy Traci Bauer told me that I was less than a stone's throw ahead of her for about the first two miles before I kicked things up a gear.
We turned right onto Church Street and I finished off a 7:42 second mile. The race was going right according to plan, and I was confident that I could do the second, flatter half much faster than the first half.
I kept the faster pace that I had built up coming down the hill as I ran through the village of Fairport, clocking a 7:25 third mile. At this point I was starting to feel the effort of the run and was worried I might not have much of a finishing kick left. Fortunately, I was able to rely on one of my favorite race tactics: motivation from my fellow runners.
As we continued on Fairport Road coming out of the village, I could hear another runner right behind me trying to pass me. I held him off as long as I could, but he eventually did get by me with maybe half a mile to go. I told myself to try to keep him close enough to make a run at him near the finish.
As we turned onto the new O'Connor Road to head into the finish line in Perinton Park, I got another boost from a fellow runner's coach. The runner right ahead of me as we rounded the bend was with the Genesee Valley Harriers, and one of their coaches was standing on the corner exhorting him to pass two runners before the finish line.
I just pretended he was talking to me and steeled myself for the temporary discomfort that a strong push to the finish would entail. With about a tenth of a mile to go, I made my move and passed five runners before crossing the line, including the runner who had passed me earlier.
I did the fourth mile in 7:03 and finished the race in 30:21 (my mile splits don't quite add up because I ran a bit over four miles).
I was thrilled with how well my plan worked out, how strong I was able to finish and that I got faster each mile of the race.
A couple minutes after I finished I heard Fleet Feet's Ellen Brenner yell out Traci's name, so I stuck around to cheer her in and congratulate her. Then we ran into two more running buddies who had come to spectate: colleague Gary Craig and Andy White.
And what else is there to do when you have a group of runners together but make plans to run. We quickly agreed to do seven miles together Sunday morning, then I went off to find my family and enjoy what was turning into a beautiful day to celebrate a holiday.
Ben Jacobs is director of content targeting and editor of the NYState section for the Democrat and Chronicle Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/bjacobsroch.
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Failing Vice Media Gets $250 Million Cash Injection from Soros & Others
Vice Media has gotten a much-needed $250 million cash injection from George Soros and others to help its flagging business.
The company's new debt financing was led by 23 Capital, a financing firm focussed on sports, music and entertainment, with participation by Soros Fund Management, Fortress Investment Group and Monroe Capital, according to a WSJ report.
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The once high-flying Vice has suffered a shortfall in revenue goals, and laid off about 250 employees, or 10% of its staff, earlier this year.
Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc, hired last year to lead the company's turnaround efforts, has set a target of achieving profitability within the next fiscal year. The ex-CEO of A+E Networks restructured the company around five lines of business: digital, news, Vice Studios (film and TV production), the Viceland cable channel (a partnership with A+E), and in-house ad agency Virtue. "Having finalized the 2019 budget, our focus shifts to executing our goals and hitting our marks," Dubuc wrote in a Feb. 1 memo to employees about the reorg.
The Brooklyn-based youth-culture company, launched 25 years ago as a punk-culture magazine in Montreal, was valued at $5.7 billion less than two years ago. Since then, its valuation has dropped: Disney disclosed a $157 million write-down on its Vice equity stake last year. Vice previously raised about $1.4 billion from investors including TPG Capital, which plowed $450 million into the company in the summer of 2017.
This week, Vice Media announced a strategy shift on the digital front designed to boost audience engagement and advertising: It eliminated separate web "channels" for topic verticals like Vice News, Noisey and Munchies, folding all of its content into vice.com. It outlined the plans at its Digital Content NewFronts marketing event Wednesday in New York.
Dubuc took the reins at Vice after the company was accused of fostering a bro culture hostile to women. Several execs were ousted over sexual harassment allegations, and last month Vice agreed to pay nearly $1.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming the company routinely paid women employees less than men.
At the NewFronts presentation this week, Dubuc said she joined Vice about 11 months ago not to provide "adult supervision" but because she was inspired by the vision of Shane Smith, exec chairman and former CEO. "Change and evolution are in our DNA, thanks to Papa Shane," she said gesturing to Smith, who was seated in the audience.
Also at the event, Dom Delport, Vice's president of international and chief revenue officer who joined the company a year ago, said the company would exclude traffic from third-party affiliated sites from Vice Media's overall comScore metrics, effective May 15. He said the digital media business was suffering from inconsistent metrics and a lack of transparency in measurement.
According to Delport, based on the company's own calculations, Vice has a global digital audience of 300 million monthly users across its owned-and-operated properties as well as platforms like YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat. That includes 110 million monthly users in the U.S., he said. Those numbers represent unduplicated audience reach, according to Delport.
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The spa industry is in a state of unstoppable growth
In 2017, there were over 149,000 spas, earning $93.6 billion in revenues and employing nearly 2.5 million workers. The spa sector has been growing by 9.9% annually from 2015–2017, and it is projected to reach $128 billion in revenues in 2022. The top five markets are United States ($20.8 billion), China ($8.2 billion), Germany ($6.7 billion), Japan ($5.7 billion) and France ($3.6 billion). Global Wellness Index projects that, in order to staff the growing global spa business, the industry will need an additional 300,000 trained spa therapists and 54,000 experienced spa managers/directors (above the current level) by 2022. The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) is recognized as the leading source for authoritative wellness industry research.
Resort spas are generally located in resorts and offer recreational services via rooms with services, meals, body treatments and fitness a la carte. Let us see what are the different spas in the world.
Everyone likes a relaxing life but you are the one who could provide the calming lifestyle to others. Below are some spas that would make you want to work in this industry even more.
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The hotel has a staff of 70 doctors and specialists onsite. Its 12 spa suites offer floor-to-ceiling windows, personal saunas, color-therapy baths and bathwater from nearby thermal springs. The spa is also home to the world's first Swarovski glass-covered steam room. It literally stands out with its name - GRAND RESORT!
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Bali is a wonderful destination for vacationing and relaxation. Located in Begawan Village on the outskirts of Ubud, the Wellness Spa at COMO Shambhala Estate where the tranquil river valley setting is as healing as the treatments themselves. Treatments are rooted deeply in Ayurvedic practices and holistic well-being. Before treatment, guests consult with a doctor to determine individual needs and develop customized therapies.
Offerings include traditional Balinese healing, hydrotherapy and an extensive range of massage therapies. Celebrities and elite athletes favor long-term wellness programs that are given here. Post-treatment, guests can choose from more than 20 kinds of antioxidant-packed juices, made on site at Glow restaurant, to further aid detoxification.
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7. Schloss Elmau, (Krün, Germany)
Schloss Elmau is rated as one of the world's best 5 Star Superior Wellness Hotels & Spas featuring six separate spas for adults & families. Enjoy soothing treatments & perfect calm in three spas and pools exclusively reserved for adults. Relax with your kids in three spas and pools for families. Unwind with the healing methods of ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine or recharge your batteries in one of the two gyms and perfect your training with the latest spiroergometry | 816 |
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Cape Town - The Sharks, after delivering their best performance of the season against the Hurricanes<|fim_middle|>. I thought the Du Preez brothers (Jean-Luc and Daniel) were outstanding tonight ... they were next level.
"I thought Garth (April) was exceptional. Andre (Esterhuizen) must have made comfortably 20 tackles tonight ... it was a good team effort."
Read More On: sharks super rugby keegan daniel gary gold durban rugby | on Saturday, are a side rejuvenated.
It was a fantastic weekend for Gary Gold's men, especially after the Bulls went down to the Brumbies on Friday.
It means that Sharks have got themselves back into playoff contention, if not through winning their conference, then through claiming the wildcard position in the South African group.
But perhaps most pleasing for the Sharks was their all-round performance in their 32-15 win over a Hurricanes side that, just a week earlier, had put 50 points past the Lions in Johannesburg.
The Sharks relied almost solely on a massive defensive effort to keep them in the game in the first half, and when JP Pietersen scored a try out of nothing just before the break the Sharks had somehow leveled matters at 8-8.
The performance that followed in the second period was the best we have seen from the Durbanites all season.
The defence remained as solid as ever, while the set piece began functioning like clockwork as forwards and backs linked up to provide the attacking brand rugby that King's Park had been waiting for.
Gold agreed that it was probably the best his side had performed in 2016.
"I think it was a very good performance, mostly because of the quality of the opposition who I thought were equally good today," he said.
"They asked a lot of questions with ball in hand. They'll feel like they didn't convert a couple of opportunities but we're really happy with our game management and what our plan was this week against them."
Gold praised his side's defensive efforts in the first half, and acknowledged that the Sharks were second best in that period.
"I think the Hurricanes were definitely the best team in that first half, certainly for 35 minutes of that first half," he said.
"For us to get that try (before half time) gave us a bit of confidence that all our defence wasn't in vein at that stage."
Keegan Daniel was immense for the Sharks - making more metres with ball in hand (106) than any other player on the pitch.
"He was very good tonight. Obviously he's a stalwart and he brings a huge amount of experience in these big games," Gold said.
"He's a calm head. He brings a lot of support to the likes of Beast (Mtawarira) and Patrick (Lambie) and the leaders in the team. I thought he was outstanding tonight.
"But I'm glad I didn't have to choose the man of the match award | 505 |
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The exterior gets bold styling cues, which include chrome-accented grilles, GMC's signature C-shaped light-emitting diode lighting motif, front and rear. There is also new inlaid doors, laminated windshield, light aluminum hood, lifgate panels, new worm screw-style liftgate arms. Projector-beam headlamps are standard on Yukon and Yukon XL. It has 18-, 20- and 22-inch wheels.
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As always<|fim_middle|> top of the lift and the gusty view toward Mt. Porte Crayon and beyond is so beautiful it will make you weep, though perhaps that is the steady gale force wind.
Happy New Year Skiers and Snowboarders, may the winter games begin. | , with flurries of forecasts and hints of heavy snow totals I started planning, my gaze going as far up as New Hampshire where a real blizzard was brewing; but in the end the notion of 30 hours of driving for two days skiing seemed not just daunting but dim-witted. Besides while not exactly in my backyard (5-6 hour drive) a three day weekend is plenty of time for me to justify making it to one of my favorite destinations in the Southeast, the Canaan Valley region of West Virginia. Weather prospects looked good to open the new year on some fresh snow; in the end it fell short of the deep projections but the Valley still delivered a fresh white start to 2017.
Classic fast long run at Timberline, White Lightening, with some nature on the side. Click to Enlarge!
After leaving a little late on Friday I missed the day session but I was happy to start with night skiing at Timberline. Arriving after dark and a long drive makes it an adventure to suddenly be slopeside, putting on your boots trying to find your gloves and heading out for top to bottom night runs.
Saturday I mixed half-days between Timberline and Canaan Valley Resort, I think their proximity makes the whole Valley experience better. Each have a different flavor that compliments the other. They are both willing to open terrain around their man-made base when any natural snow arrives and I appreciate that attitude so much.
Finally at both Canaan and Timberline crowds are ridiculously low, great for us skiers of course, but mystifying given the terrain and experience they serve up. Two good ski resorts, world class cross-country and snowshoe trails and still under the radar? It's a conundrum for sure.
Holiday Crowds on Saturday at Canaan Valley Resort. Click to Enlarge!
Storm totals did not hit the twelve inch mark which is the magical number for me and skiing in the trees that the Valley is justifiably renowned for. So I did not make it to Whitegrass Touring Center with my clunky alpine touring setup, although the cross country folks were out in force and loving the trails after too long a wait. Climbing up their slopes and skiing down through the trees is what I usually do my first or last day in the valley, but given the still shallow snow depth I opted for something completely different, the sledding run at Black Water Falls State Park.
This is a wide open slope with basic rules, like don't be stupid (although skier's responsibility code is posted). They have snow guns and groom the slope and I was told it can become very fast; of that I have no doubt, I do love West Virginia.
Finally here is something new for the strong of heart; Canaan Valley Resort has added Paragliding. The launching pad is off the | 577 |
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News & Politics / The Travel Diary: South London captured on film
The Travel Diary: South London captured on film
What you see along the way
Posted Wednesday 22nd March 2017 /
Text<|fim_middle|> most enduring images of the past century. | By Theo McInnes
As England's capital gets swallowed by property developers and soulless restaurant chains, photographer Theo McInnes has been documenting South London's quiet resistance.
Throughout my childhood there was always an allure that floated over London, a city not too far from where I grew up in rural Essex. To me it seemed like an intangible maze of people, of places, and of ideas. As a child's does, my imagination ran wild creating an idealised reality of a city where anything was possible; a utopian vision where abundance and achievement were commonplace.
I moved to London at 23 with my childhood fantasies firmly behind me, having been spat out into an adulthood where everything seems to be harder, more expensive and further from reach than ever before.
I arrived in my new home by proxy – Kennington in South London – as I started a Masters Degree in Elephant and Castle. These spaces were alien. Sure, I'd visited Brixton and Camberwell over the years, headed to Clapham too, but this area was now my home, my place of work and of education.
I arrived in Elephant shortly after the demolition and redevelopment of the Heygate, an old brutalist estate that housed over 1,200 local residents. It was knocked down to make way for new housing developments, aimed at a very different social group. South London seemed to be following a trajectory similar to many other modern cities, with its communities and character replaced by ivory towers and artisan cafes.
It's looking likely that the few remaining bastions of South London as it once was will soon disappear. As the desire for development rumbles on, more and more places will see themselves forced to transform. But even with the wolves at the door, there are communities that have survived and are thriving.
The people that live amongst, between, and alongside the luxury high-rises and gated communities resist the new surface image of the city. It's these pockets of traditional South London that unintentionally prevent the full transformation of its spaces into areas of banality. It's simply their presence, the going about of daily life.
I've always had a fondness for shooting on 35mm film, my 40-year-old Nikkormat FT2 usually accompanies me everywhere. My role as a street photographer has always been as an outsider looking in, reacting to the people and scenes of the street.
Usually it's something simple: combinations of an interesting person, good light or a stark contrast. My imagery intends to catalogue the basic everyday and illuminate it with an artistic quality, the sights that generally blur into the background and go unseen.
It's these everyday scenes in the cracks of the constantly evolving South London that truly define it and dictate its charm. It's these very cracks I intend to preserve; pieces of South London's true character, before they're filled in and no longer exist.
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Theo McInnes
Posted Wednesday 22nd March, 2017
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