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Unbeaten Volpe ready for SWCs
The senior will almost certainly be the top seed in the 112-pound division. He'll have an inside track to a conference title, which he hopes will launch him to a standout postseason.
But that only tells half the story.
His statistics couldn't be any more glamorous. Volpe has been perfect this season in 26 matches. He's beaten everyone thrown his way, and they haven't been creampuffs either. Included in his victories are wins over New Milford star Will Sherman, and Waterford standout Ken Fratus.
Volpe also won the Plainville tournament this season. He's also a three-time academic all-state selection. Volpe has clearly earned his spot at the top of the conference. He leads a team that is a threat to make some noise in the SWC tournament.
"It's very difficult for any wrestler to go through the regular season undefeated," Brookfield coach Josh Levine said. "There are so many things that can potentially go wrong. You can have an off day. It's tough to make the weight. It's just not easy to answer the bell every time out. That's why you don't see undefeated seasons that often. But Matt persevered. He did what he had to do."
Volpe has pretty much emerged from nowhere to be one of the top wrestlers in the area. He was never pegged to be a star. He never wrestled in middle school, and he was never hooked up with a feeder system. In fact, Volpe was an afterthought four years ago as a skinny freshman. He only started to wrestle because the Bobcats needed a 103-pounder to round out their lineup. Volpe was a mere 88 pounds at the time.
"I was really undersized at the time," Volpe said.
Understandably, Volpe really took his lumps. He became the wrestler everyone in the conference looked forward to facing. He was bruised. He was battered. He staggered to a 2-14 record as a freshman.
"That first year was the toughest for me," Volpe said. "I hate losing. I'm really competitive."
That drive prevented him from quitting the sport. Instead, he dove into it. He attended every summer camp he could. He never shied away from competition, and he began to think the sport from a technical standpoint.
Slowly but surely, the results began to show. He boosted his record to .500 in his sophomore season. That's not great, but the improvement afforded Volpe some much-needed confidence. He began to feel that he had the ability to be competitive. Last season, Volpe had somewhat of a breakout season. He registered more than 30 wins, he placed fourth in the SWC tournament and sixth in the Class M tournament.
"He has improved so much from when I first took over the program," Levine said. "He knew that it would take hard work for him to improve, and he put in the time."
Volpe has gotten his revenge this season. He's as well-rounded a wrestler as there is in the conference. He's pinned seven opponents during the season, which is a testament to how technically sound he is. He out-smarts his opponents. He's better conditioned than everyone he faces. His main challenge this weekend will come from Sherman, who Volpe defeated 9-7.
"He's really good," Volpe said. "I made some mistakes in my first match that I had to make up for. I have to prepare better this time. I'm confident."
New Milford in control
With New Milford's 47-24 victory over New Fairfield on Wednesday, the Green Wave have the inside track to their second consecutive conference title.
New Milford would have to finish in fourth place in order not to win the conference. They are peaking at the right time. The Green Wave are relatively healthy, and they are hungry.
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BkiUdGvxK02iP4WkANJJ | Posted on 2017/12/18 by Brittany Fleming and Mark Zeltner
How Slippery Rock University is Converging its Student Media
This post is by Brittany Fleming and Mark Zeltner from MediaShift
Newsroom convergence in higher education is an often-elusive task that's been studied for nearly 20 years. At Slippery Rock University, we are in the earliest stages of introducing convergence with our two student-run news organizations: The Rocket newspaper and WSRU-TV. After an immense amount of research and two conference circuits, we've learned one thing is certain: discourse surrounding convergence is alive and thriving, but the term itself often results in head shakes and shoulder shrugs. In academia, our equivocal understanding of how to successfully converge student media is because every case of convergence is unique, making it nearly impossible to find one blanket "convergence formula" every university can adopt. Whether or not you can relate to what we've experienced at Slippery Rock University, convergence efforts do have one thing in common: our organizations are nothing without people. If we fail to consider the people involved in implementing newsroom convergence:
the faculty, staff and audience, the same people that make our news media relevant, then there's no point. Furthermore, if we, the advisers, the mentors, the professors, cannot fully agree on one definition for convergence, how can we expect our students and staff to practice it? Our plan, therefore, was to have our staffs engage from the beginning by explaining and assessing our efforts through a specific convergence framework to guide the transition from operating as separate silos to a single news media organization.
A Case Study In Convergent Implications
At Slippery Rock University, The Rocket and WSRU-TV are both housed in the Communication Department and both are given a budget through the Student Government Association. However, the histories of the two organizations are wildly divergent.
Various print editions of The Rocket. Click the photo for digital editions. (Photo: SRU University Communication and Public Affairs Office)
The Rocket has been a campus institution since 1934, originally housed in the English department and moving to the communication department in the 1980s. The Rocket has established itself as one of the most successful small college newspapers in the country winning national Pacemaker and Pinnacle awards and being recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, The Society of Collegiate Journalists and The Pennsylvania Press Association. While receiving a small stipend from the Student Government Association, more than 90 percent of The Rocket's operating budget has come from advertising. This formula changed a few years ago when The Rocket, like many print outlets, found its advertising base drying up. At that time, The Rocket cut its print editions, relying on its website for breaking news. In contrast, WSRU-TV has had a checkered past over the last few decades, partly due to three different studio locations during that time, and, for a time, no studio at all. WSRU-TV has also suffered through a revolving door of advisers, and, for a time, no adviser at all. With the hiring of Dr. Brittany Fleming, WSRU-TV is once again active and has been recognized as a campus and community news outlet for a little more than a year. WSRU-TV operates less like a business and more like a student club, relying on money from the student government and fundraising for additional spending. Tools to reach the audience also differ: The Rocket uses Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to direct traffic flow to its website, while also publishing five print editions per semester. WSRU-TV, on the other hand, relies solely on Facebook and Twitter for audience engagement. In addition, The Rocket offers paid staff positions for all editors, while WSRU-TV is comprised of all volunteers. Obviously, the two organizations are not playing on a level field, and this creates conflict among students when discussions about "converging" are brought up.
Applying Types of Convergence to Student Media
More than a decade ago, Huang, et al. (2006) in the article "Bridging Newsrooms and Classrooms: Preparing the Next Generation of Journalists for Converged Media" conducted a study polling professors, newsroom professionals and editors in search of best practices for training journalism students to work in a converged environment. In their report, they compartmentalized definitions of media convergence into four categories: form, content, corporate and role. At Slippery Rock University, we are introducing these four categories to our staffs to help them understand the process. We believe once we can provide evidence of each area of convergence, we can officially consider ourselves a converged news operation. Corporate convergence is by far the most complicated type, and the FCC's recent relaxing of the media cross-ownership ban makes this the most appropriate one to begin with. It's because of newsroom consolidations like the ones bound to result from the abolishment of this decade-old law that the word convergence carries such a horrible connotation, in turn scaring our students into resistance. Convergence sounds like consolidation; it's a word no journalist wants to hear, something we find true even in higher education. By no means are we attempting to consolidate newsrooms; the more the merrier. However, it goes without saying that The Rocket is more financially stable than WSRU-TV, and it took an open conversation to understand that the potential consolidation of paid staff positions was at the top of the list of concerns, followed by ownership. Until the fall 2017 semester, each organization was advised by two faculty members. Now under the direction of one adviser, both WSRU-TV and The Rocket have taken their first steps toward corporate convergence. It was vital all faculty members were on the same page and not protecting their turf or reinforcing silos. Luckily, that has not been an issue at Slippery Rock University. We are in the process of developing Rock Media, an umbrella brand similar to a parent organization, which both organizations will operate under, allowing WSRU-TV and The Rocket to keep their identities. However, the staffs will work for ad contributions to both organizations. For now, paid staff positions will remain under The Rocket's budget, but slight changes in the roles and responsibilities of each position will be implemented for fall 2018. Staffers will be required to bring more multimedia journalism skills to the table, broadening our pool of applicants.
Students from The Rocket and WSRU-TV gather in the studio for an industry speaker presentation. (Photo: SRU University Communication and Public Affairs Office)
One obstacle in achieving corporate convergence for us is physical: the television studio is on the opposite side of the campus from the Communication Department and The Rocket office. Maltby, the building that the television studio is currently housed in, is underutilized, and the department has brought a proposal to the dean of our college to move the entire department to this building. He has been supportive but, best case scenario, this won't happen for many years. Content convergence is the sharing of leads, sources and information among reporters, and even some cross-platform reporting, without the actual merging of newsrooms. Thus far, The Rocket and WSRU-TV have used a segment called The Rocket Sports Report to demonstrate content convergence. Both organizations are credited for this segment and share it with their audiences via social media. As far as producing goes, The Rocket's editor-in-chief and sports editor both research, write and report the stories on-air, while WSRU-TV provides the technical crew. In fact, during production, the students refer to themselves as "the sports crew," rather than identifying themselves with one organization or the other. Because this type of convergence has been the most accepted by our students, we will continue to implement the "shared segment" method into more programming. Form convergence refers to the technology and platforms that deliver multimedia news: websites, applications, social media sites, etc. Until we are further along in the convergence process, The Rocket and WSRU-TV will continue to reach their audiences separately to avoid confusion between brands. As previously mentioned, our organizations will merge under the name Rock Media, but will remain separate but cooperating news outlets. The combining of the two organizations into a Rock Media website seems to be a valid step toward form convergence. Fortunately, the rise of streaming media makes the web a viable outlet for all of our content: print and video. For many years there was a discussion of getting WSRU-TV up on a local cable outlet but now that seem like an outdated model. Role convergence, as educators, should be our ultimate goal. Role convergence is described as a journalist's ability to report, design, produce, direct and edit across media platforms. It wasn't just 10 years ago when radio reporters, for example, were expected to merely write for radio. Now, reporters are expected to tell the same story via broadcast, long-form print online, Facebook, Twitter and more by incorporating photos, videos, sound bites, graphics, maps and interactive multimedia. Every news organization, local or national, has adapted to the online world, and by converging our student media organizations now, our students will be better prepared for tomorrow.
Where is Slippery Rock Headed Next?
After delivering a presentation on convergence recently, we were asked by a member of the audience if we were considering our convergence effort an experiment, or if we really thought it was going to work. The answer we provided was similar to a participant's from Huang's, et al. (2006) study:
At the end of the day, the practice of journalism is the telling of stories. For a variety of reasons, there has been an obsession of late with the delivery method, but in that obsession, we are missing a point: A good news story remains so whether it is told in print, video or through a variety of multimedia platforms. Breaking down the walls of traditional thinking is truly the first step toward a true converged media environment. The process of breaking down these walls is the challenge, and this is the first of many steps along that journey.
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Dr. Mark Zeltner has been involved in advising student media for almost 25 years. Zeltner took over the advising of The Rocket at Slippery Rock University and advised the newspaper for seven years, and then after a stint as department chair, another six years. During his time as adviser, The Rocket won a Pacemaker award, a Pinnacle award and was recognized with over 300 other awards from regional and national collegiate journalism organizations.
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BkiUdTs5qhLBP6tbpX7U | Martin Firrell Art Exploring Power and Gender to be Displayed on Clear Channel Screens
The project will run across digital Out of Home screens from January 21st to March 8th
Artist Martin Firrell has partnered with out of home media owner Clear Channel UK, to display a series of his new public artworks that explore the idea of power and gender. The project includes perspectives from women and men on the understanding and experience of men and women in power.
Do women understand, hold and use power differently from men?
What can be learned from the experiences of women in positions of power that might contribute to a happier and more benign use of power in society?
Martin Firrell explores these questions in 12 digital billboards with the participation of:
Inga Beale, former CEO of Lloyd's Insurance market
UGLY SWEATY MEN BECOME CEOs ALL THE TIME. UGLY SWEATY WOMEN DON'T
Liv Garfield, CEO Severn Trent and the youngest woman to head a FTSE 100 company
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Alex Mahon, CEO Channel 4
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Annie Rickard, former Global President Posterscope, now steering committee member and Director of the Women's Equality Party
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Clare Short, Former Secretary of State for International Development
DISTORTED POWER AND GREAT INEQUALITY ARE EVIL
Clear Channel will be displaying Martin Firrell's 'Power and Gender' artwork across their digital Out of Home network nationwide from 21st January through to 8th March. Running across Storm, Adshel Live, and Wrap sites, the project also aims to show how the power of Out of Home can be used to drive public discourse and positive social change.
Martin Firrell says of the project: "I believe men and woman regard power differently and I want to 'open up the layers of that difference' in front of the public. My residency with Clear Channel makes that possible. If you can create debate, eventually change will follow."
Clear Channel CEO, Justin Cochrane, says "Clear Channel's national digital network of screens is uniquely positioned as the perfect "art gallery" to broadcast Martin's thought provoking work. We're proud to be supporting this project that opens up public conversation on progressiveness and promotes Fairness – one of Clear Channel's core values."
Martin Firrell is a French public artist who stimulates debate in public space to promote positive social change. His work has been summarised as 'art as debate'. Working as Clear Channel's Artist in Residence, this first project entitled "Power And Gender" is the first part of socialart.work, a mass public art project looking at women's equality and masculinity, alternative forms of economic and social organisation, black power, and solidarity between people from different backgrounds and ethnicities.
For more information on the project, please go to: www.clearchannel.co.uk/socialartwork.
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C99 support added visual studio 2013, but I cant use complex.h in my "C" code.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <complex.h>
int main(void)
{
double complex dc1 = 3 + 2 * I;
double complex dc2 = 4 + 5 * I;
double complex result;
result = dc1 + dc2;
printf(" ??? \n", result);
return 0;
}
I get syntax errors.
Edit: Sorry for the missing part.
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'dc1'
error C2065: 'dc1' : undeclared identifier
error C2088: '*' : illegal for struct
error C2086: 'double complex' : redefinition
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'dc2'
error C2065: 'dc2' : undeclared identifier
error C2088: '*' : illegal for struct
error C2086: 'double complex' : redefinition
error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'result'
error C2065: 'result' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'result' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'dc1' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'dc2' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'result' : undeclared identifier
IntelliSense: expected a ';'
IntelliSense: expected a ';'
IntelliSense: expected a ';'
IntelliSense: identifier "result" is undefined
IntelliSense: identifier "dc1" is undefined
IntelliSense: identifier "dc2" is undefined
A: Another way is to define like:
/*_Fcomplex */ _C_float_complex a = _FCbuild(5.0F, 1.0F);
printf( "z = %.1f% + .1fi\n", crealf(a), cimagf(a));
/*_Dcomplex*/ _C_double_complex b = _Cbuild(3.0, 2.0);
printf("z = %.1f% + .1fi\n",creal(b), cimag(b));
A: In case anyone is searching a year later, try
_Dcomplex dc1 = {3.0, 2.0};
for the variable declaration.
From looking inside VS2013's "complex.h" header, it seems that Microsoft decided on their own implementation for C complex numbers. You'll have to implement your own arithmetical operators using the real() and imag() functions, i.e.:
double real_part = real(dc1) + real(dc2);
double imag_part = imag(dc1) + imag(dc2);
_Dcomplex result = {real_part, imag_part};
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Q Are there any regulations which specify that fire extinguishers must be carried on vehicles?
6th August 1971, Page 70
Page 70, 6th August 1971 — Q Are there any regulations which specify that fire extinguishers must be carried on vehicles?
AThere are regulations requiring certain vehicles to carry fire extinguishers as follows:—
Passenger vehicles as required by the PSV (Equipment and Use) Regulations 1958; Passenger vehicles carrying inflammable liquids as required by the Inflammable Liquids (Conveyance by Road) Regulations 1968: Vehicles carrying corrosive substances as required by the Corrosive Substances (Carriage by Road) Regulations 1971.
These regulations generally state that an efficient fire extinguisher must be carried in an easily accessible position.
Under a directive issued on May 4 1948 a petrol-engined vehicle carrying explosive sub
stances must carry a fire extinguisher capable of dealing with a petroleum spirit fire; a diesel carrying such material must carry a fire extinguisher, states the directive.
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BkiUfdzxK19JmejM_jOj | Russia's Heightened Interest in Africa
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 111
By: Stephen Blank
June 12, 2013 09:20 PM Age: 10 years
Presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Vladimir Putin or Russia (Source: RIA Novosti)
The Soviet Union conducted a robust policy toward Africa, but that ended with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. As Russian analysts today admit, Africa, relatively speaking, fell off the map of Russian foreign policy after 1991. It is only in the last few years that Russian interest and presence (at least at the official and formally legal level of relations) has returned to this continent. Enhanced capability certainly contributes to this revival of interest, but strategic reasons also exist.
African resources attract Russian elites because they are relatively unexplored and can contribute to Russia's wealth, political influence and ability to affect European natural gas policy, (e.g.: in countries like Algeria and previously Libya, which are sources of gas for Western Europe). Likewise, Russian arms sales to Africa—especially with the Libyan and Iranian markets no longer accessible—become more interesting to Russia's defense industry, since there are clearly many conflicts in both Sub-Saharan and North Africa. Third, Russian leaders view insurgencies and terrorist operations in Mali as being linked to Libya and Western support for the Libyan rebels and wants to take a strong stand against them, certainly with Syria in mind (RT, January 25). Therefore Moscow is very concerned that a proper and successful UN peacekeeping operation takes root there (Rossiya 24 TV, April 29).
Fourth, Russia must show its presence in Africa if it is to conduct a truly global foreign policy as it invariably says it does (www.mid.ru. February 13, 2012). On this basis, Moscow now fears being marginalized in Africa and attends key summits in order to ensure that its presence and interests are represented. Thus it maintains a regular dialogue with the African Union (Interfax, April 29).
But beyond these "principled" and tangible material reasons for growing Russian interest in Russia, other motivations are also discernible. For some time, Russia has been concerned with China's quickly growing presence in Africa. In 2011, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that Russian trade turnover with Africa was $4 billion, while China's was $120 Billion (Valdai club, November 7, 2011). And that situation has not changed, convincing Moscow that it must step up its activities in African countries.
South Africa's entry into the BRICS organization of emerging powers—also comprising Russia, Brazil, India and China—offers Moscow an opportunity for such actions. In advance of the recent BRICS summit in Durban, Russia and South Africa agreed to create an OPEC-like cartel for platinum (Bloomberg, March 26). At this summit, Russia also signed major energy, trade and military deals with South Africa, including offering it credits to buy Russian nuclear reactors (RT, March 27). President Vladimir Putin and his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, also agreed that South Africa will help Russia maintain the Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)—Russia's domestically produced alternative to the United States' satellite-based Global Position System (GPS). "A quantum-optical system will be established in South Africa to increase the accuracy of GLONASS signal reception in the Southern Hemisphere," Putin told journalists at the press conference. Putin added that the Space Center in South Africa will be used to retrieve data from Russian satellites according to the "Radioastron" Project. Finally, the Russian president also talked about substantially increasing bilateral trade (RT, March 27). Since then, Putin has reiterated that Russia is prepared to assist South Africa in developing a "comprehensive nuclear power industry" (presstv.ir, May 17). The two countries' heads of state held further face-to-face talks in May 2013, which extended these agreements (indrus.in, May 20).
Meanwhile Moscow is also continuing its offensive against Western influence and desires to intervene in troubled North African and Middle Eastern states, denouncing such operations as leading to the prospect of Islamist takeovers. At the recent Russian conference on European security, held in Moscow on May 23–24 (see EDM, May 28, 31), the Russian General Staff inveighed against attempts to "impose" Western standards of government on these countries (Voice of Russia, May 23). Russian diplomats also periodically call for the creation of a diplomatic mechanism to bring peace to the conflict known as the Great Lakes War in Sub-Saharan Africa (Voice of Russia, February 21). Such initiatives are part of the larger effort by Russia to assert a lasting political and diplomatic presence in Africa.
However, all these manifestations of rising interests, investments, arms sales, diplomatic and trade initiatives, as well as efforts to warn the West off of intervention represent only the formal or what might be called the "official" side of Russian policy in Africa. Hidden from view and much more difficult to discern, but no less real, is the large-scale effort to run guns and resources to and from Africa. Such Russian efforts serve to destabilize pro-Western states there, make money, gain influence and access to resources, and so on. Yet, this aspect of Russian policy in Africa still awaits its analysts.
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BkiUbcc5qU2Aps3F59WI | This study examines the City of Atlanta mayoral election of October 8, 1985. The election pitted the incumbent, Andrew Young, against J. K" Ramey, Marvin Yigar, and Terry Farber. Andrew Young had 81 percent of the total vote cast. J. K. Ramey and Marvin Yizar had 12 percent and 7 percent of the total vote respectively. Andrew Young also had strong support from Black and white voters. The significance of the study lies in the fact that it demonstrates that Atlantans still voted along racial lines. Furthermore, the study shows that whites would vote for a moderate Black candidate if they thought he was performing well as mayor. Finally, the study points to the fact that despite Atlanta's majority Black population, political coalitions are necessary to elect public officials. This study was made possible by utilizing information from the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections, the Voter Education Project, academic journals, local newspapers and magazines.
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BkiUeAHxK0wg0_74_Z38 | Probably the greatest reason a small to medium sized business would certainly decide to outsource their IT solutions is to ensure that they can manage less migraines. While this may be a simplistic explanation, it encapsulates a complicated concern. That cannot be the only reason for you to choose outsourcing, though, you may have an interest in sustaining proof.
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The smooth running of your business is dependent on these services operating both efficiently and accurately. For example, it is essential for organisations to communicate with workers, vendors, companions, as well as clients via email, to satisfy product and services orders, as well as maintain open lines of interaction. Can you picture exactly how an organisation would operate without such important services? Not to mention that you should have access to critical financial data, in addition to consumer information. To safeguard these processes, there are back-end feature performances, such as information recovery as well as back-up, security, server tracking, in addition to anti-virus defense.
This is a rather daunting job, especially for small and also medium-sized businesses. Why take on such a substantial task, when you can outsource your IT solutions?
• Control IT Costs— By outsourcing your IT prices, you could successfully budget your costs, spending for exactly what you need. This is because you could establish a month-to-month charge, and your IT provider will function to the budget plan you have actually set. You need not fret about fluctuating costs.
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Towergate said the sale of its advice business, Towergate Financial, could have been completed in the fourth quarter of 2014, but explained it was put on hold due to the consensual restructuring of the group.
Towergate now expects the sale to be completed on or around 20 March.
Scott Egan, interim CEO at Towergate said: "The sale of TFG is further evidence of a commitment to our core strategic focus, which is to build on our market-leading positions and distribution capabilities in SME insurance and specialist personal lines. The provision of independent financial and mortgage advice sits outside these markets and has now found a more fitting home with Palatine Private Equity.
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BkiUfnjxK0-nUh8iLK3X | Some comments drive me nuts.
Comment: He's such a great footballer, and such a family man….
How surprised are we that an over-paid footballer wants to have his cake an eat it? Personally, I would take some real convincing that there are any premiership footballers that are faithful. And are we really still interested? He's not my partner, or the father of my children, or the partner of a sibling or best friend. Plus – why does it make any difference if it's a 'great' footballer or Robbie Savage having the affair? I hate this 'well, they are a liar and a cheat, but he was a great footballer in his time…' Relevance? Apart from the account manager for his sponsorship package, who the hell cares. The fans don't. The away fans might, as it means they have got more songs to make up at the pub.
Comment: Well, if he's got the money he can cover it up. She was only trying to make money out of him.
How surprised are we that he has the arrogance to pay for people not to 'gossip' about his philandering? Um. The adage that 'the truth will out' is usually correct. If he is worried about his children being teased – don't cheat. If he's worried about being blackmailed and having a story sold on his sordid sidelines – um… don't do it? For whatever cheap thrill he got from the adulation, lies and subterfuge, that's the risk you take. A story as old as the hills.
Comment: His wife will be standing by him.
How surprised are we that the cheated spouses in the majority of these cases seem to 'soldier on' and be able to forgive? A cynical mind may point to the lifestyle being worth the philandering and hurt? Again, I know of many similar stories within the business world. Money, fame, power. All powerful things when put into the equation of a broken vow or two. It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last.
I don't feel sorry for the sad 'scarlet woman' either. Once again – it's not as though any of these 'wannabe WAGS' are not aware of the marital situation. As she's now finding, it's not the nicest thing to be known for – even if she does earn a few quid from being the 'other woman' for a month or so until the next story breaks.
All in all, we learn from this that a) I don't care b) I am not shocked and c) couldn't care less who the other hundred or so injunctions are for either. So there. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUc93xK0wg0_74-Yq7 | Domício Proença Filho (Rio de Janeiro, ) é um professor e pesquisador em língua portuguesa e literatura brasileira.
É doutor em letras e livre-docente em literatura brasileira pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e bacharel e licenciado em letras neolatinas pela antiga Faculdade Nacional de Filosofia da Universidade do Brasil. Com curso de especialização em Língua e Literatura Espanhola. Fez curso ginasial e curso clássico no Colégio Pedro II - Internato. Curso primário na Escola Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, na Ilha de Paquetá, onde viveu sua infância e adolescência.
É titular de Literatura Brasileira e professor emérito da Universidade Federal Fluminense, aposentado após 38 anos de trabalho docente nos cursos de graduação e de pós-graduação. Atuou em inúmeros outros estabelecimentos de ensino médio e superior no Brasil e no exterior.
Publicações
Obras didático-pedagógicas
Estilos de Época na Literatura. 20.ª ed. rev. São Paulo: Prumo, 2012.
A Linguagem Literária. 8.ª ed. rev. São Paulo: Ática, 2007.
Pós-Modernismo e Literatura. 3.ª ed. São Paulo: Ática, 1999. (Esgotado)
Língua Portuguesa, Literatura Nacional e a Reforma do Ensino. Rio de Janeiro: Liceu, 1974. Esgotado.
Um Romance de Adonias Filho (Uma leitura de Corpo vivo). Tese de Livre-Docência. Rio de Janeiro, 1974 (mimeo).
Manual de estilo da Enciclopédia Século XX (circulação interna), 1969.
Português e Literatura. Rio de Janeiro: Liceu, 1974. (Esgotado)
Comunicação em Português. São Paulo: Ática, 1979. 4 vols. (Esgotado)
Português. Rio de Janeiro: Liceu, 1969-70. 4 vols. (Esgotado)
Comunicação em Português. Livro do Professor. São Paulo: Ática, 1979. 4 vols. (Esgotado)
Noções de Gramática da Língua Portuguesa em tom de conversa. São Paulo: Editora do Brasil, 2003.
Por Dentro das Palavras da Nossa Língua Portuguesa. 1.ª e 2.ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2003.
Língua Portuguesa, Comunicação, Cultura. 4 vols. São Paulo: Ed. do Brasil, 2004.
Roteiro de Dom Casmurro. Em fase de pré-publicação.
Nova Ortografia da Língua Portuguesa - Guia prático. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Record, 2009.
Nova ortografia-Manual de consulta. Rio de Janeiro: Ed.Record, 2013.
Muitas línguas, uma língua − A trajetória do português brasileiro. Editora José Olympio, 2017.
Poesia
O Cerco Agreste. Belo Horizonte: Comunicação, 1979. (Esgotado)
Dionísio Esfacelado (Quilombo dos Palmares). Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé, 1984. (Esgotado)
Oratório dos Inconfidentes. 1.ª e 2.ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: Leo Christiano Ed. 1989. Ilustrado com inéditos de Portinari. (Esgotado)
O risco do jogo. São Paulo: Prumo, no prelo.
Vários poemas integrantes dessas obras, traduzidos para o italiano, figuram em antologia organizada por Sílvio de Castro.
Ficção
Breves estórias de Vera Cruz das Almas. Rio de Janeiro: Fractal, 1991. 1.º lugar no Concurso Literário da Secretaria de Cultura e da Fundação do Distrito Federal, 1990. Esgotado.
Estórias da Mitologia – O cotidiano dos deuses. Rio de Janeiro: Leviatã, 1995.Uma extravagância ficcional. Esgotado.
Capitu – Memórias Póstumas. Romance. Rio de Janeiro: Artium, 1998. 2.ª ed., outubro de 1999. 3.ª ed., 2005.
Eu, Zeus. Narrativa ficcional. São Paulo: Global, 2000. 2.ª ed. 2005.
Nós, as deusas do Olimpo. São Paulo: Global, 2000. 2.ª ed. 2005.
Os Deuses, menos o Pai. São Paulo: Global, 2000. 2.ª ed. 2005.
Capitù – Memorie postume. Cagliari: Fabula, 2006.Trad e Pref. de Guia Boni.
Capitu - Memórias Póstumas. Texto para Leitura dramatizada. 2008.
Cinema
Conceito e definição de conteúdo do filme "Português, a língua do Brasil", dirigido por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, produzido pela Moviarte.
Televisão
Conceito, texto e a apresentação da Série de programas LER e RELER ,produzida pelo CIEE para a UTV. (20 programas) 2009.
Textos publicados em obras coletivas
Enciclopédia Século XX. Rio de Janeiro: Expressão e Cultura / J. Olympio, 1971. Verbetes e monografias das áreas de Teoria Literária e de Literatura Brasileira.
CASTRO Sílvio, dir. História da Literatura Brasileira. Lisboa: Alfa, 1999, vol. 2. 5 capítulos: sobre Manuel Antônio de Almeida; Bernardo Guimarães; Visconde de Taunay; Aluísio Azevedo; Graça Aranha e a continuidade da prosa impressionista.
MOTA, Lourenço Dantas & ABDALLA JR., Benjamin, org. Personae – Grandes Personagens da Literatura Brasileira. São Paulo: Editora SENAC São Paulo, 2001: Capitu, a moça dos olhos de água.
SANT'ANNA, Afonso Romano de et al. Brasilianische Literatur: Einzgartig und umfassend – Brazilian Literature: Singular and Plural – Literatura Brasileira: Singular e Plural. São Paulo: Câmara Brasileira do Livro, 1994. Panorama da Literatura Brasileira do Século XVI ao Século XX. 1994.
Alguns Ensaios
A participação da literatura no processo abolicionista. Revista Tempo Brasileiro. Rio de Janeiro, 92/93, pp. 9-32, jan/jun. 1998.
Permanência e atualidade de Machado de Assis. Letras e Artes. Ano III, n.º 4, pp. 3-4. Rio de Janeiro, ago. 1989.
Poesia brasileira contemporânea: percursos contemporâneos. Letras e Artes. Ano III, n.º 5, pp. 1-2. Rio de Janeiro, set. 1989.
Jorge Amado, do Brasil. Exu, n.º 16-17, jul.-ago.-set.-out., pp. 34-37. Casa de Jorge Amado, 1990.
Atualidade da ficção do brasileiro Machado de Assis. Rassegna Iberística, n.º 37, pp. 23-29, Milano: Cisalpino, 1990.
O estudo sócio-histórico do texto literário e a Literatura Brasileira. In: REIS, Roberto. Sociology and Criticism: Selected Procedures of the conference "Luso-Brazilian Literatures. A Social-Critical Approach". Arizona State University. Center for Latin American Studies, 1991, pp. 1-20.
Uma leitura de "Graciliano Ramos", o poema de João Cabral de Melo Neto. In: Range Rede. Revista de Literatura. Rio de Janeiro, Ano I, n.º 0, 1994.
La república de las letras de Nélida Piñon. In: El Urogallo. Revista literária y cultural. Madrid, n.º 110/111, jul.-ago. 1995, pp. 73-77.
Incursões para além da pele. Prefácio do livro de poemas Incursões sobre a Pele, de Nei Lopes. Rio de Janeiro: Artium, 1996.
Pioneirismo e sertão em D. Guidinha do poço. Estudo introdutório do romance do mesmo nome, de Manoel de Oliveira Paiva, edição Artium, 1997.
O Filho do Pescador – o primeiro romance brasileiro, estudo introdutório do romance de Teixeira e Sousa, edição Artium, 1997.
"Rubem Braga, Mestre da Crônica". In: Um cartão de Paris. De Rubem Braga. 1999.
"Prefácio". In: Aventuras, coletânea de crônicas de Rubem Braga. 2000.
Eduardo Portella, o humanizador das palavras. Revista Tempo Brasileiro, 151: 45/55, out/dez.2002.
Eduardo Portella – perfil biobibliográfico. In: Homenagem a Eduardo Portella. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Letras, 2003. Coleção Austregésilo de Athayde, vol. 15, pp. 89-135.
A trajetória do negro na literatura brasileira. In: Estudos Avançados – Revista do Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo. Vol. 18, n.º 50, jan.-abr. 2004.
Uma biografia romanceada. Prefácio. In: AMADO, Jorge. ABC de Castro Alves.São Paulo: Cia. Das Letras, [2010]
Ganga-Zumba: a saga dos quilombolas de Palmares. Prefácio. In: SANTOS, João Felício dos. Ganga- Zumba. Rio de Janeiro: J. Olympio [2009]
Pureza: estação de passagem. Prefácio. In: REGO, José Lins do. Pureza. Rio de Janeiro: J. Olympio [2010]
Um olhar agudo sobre arte e literatura. Resenha crítica do livro de Alberto da Costa e Silva, O quadrado amarelo.São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo. In: Revista de Estudos Avançados da USP.
Obras organizadas
Os Melhores Contos de Machado de Assis. 13ª. ed. São Paulo: Global, 2001.
Ofícios Perigosos. Antologia de contos de Edilberto Coutinho. Porto Alegre: Mercado Aberto, 1998. Esgotado.
A poesia dos Inconfidentes. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar, 1996. 2ªª. ed. 2002. (Reúne, pela primeira vez num único volume, a obra completa de *Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, Cláudio Manuel da Costa e Alvarenga Peixoto.)
Pequena Antologia Didática de Rubem Braga. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2.ª ed. 1997. 6.ª ed. 2001.
Um cartão de Paris. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1997. (Último livro de crônicas de Rubem Braga.)
Aventuras, de Rubem Braga. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2000.
O Livro do Seminário da 1.ª Bienal Nestlé de Literatura Brasileira. São Paulo, L/R Ed. 1982. Esgotado.
Literatura Brasileira: Ensaios I: crônica, teatro, crítica. São Paulo: Norte, 1986. Esgotado.
Literatura Brasileira: Ensaios II: romance, conto, poesia. São Paulo: Norte, 1986. Esgotado.
Novas Seletas. João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 2004.
Concerto a Quatro vozes. Poemas de Adriano Espínola, Antonio Cícero, Marco Luchesi e Salgado Maranhão. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2006.
Roteiros da poesia brasileira (org. Edla van Steen). O Arcadismo. São Paulo: Global, 2008.
Consultor editorial, organizou, para a Editora Artium, edições de romances, entre os quais: O Filho do Pescador, de Teixeira e Sousa; D. Guidinha do Poço, de Manoel de Oliveira Paiva; Bom-Crioulo e A normalista, de Adolfo Caminha; A Menina Morta e Repouso, de Cornélio Pena; Macário, de Álvares de Azevedo; Os Bruzundangas de Lima Barreto, obras lançadas em 1997/1998/1999, todos com estudo introdutório.
Pesquisas e projetos
"Gramática da língua portuguesa revisitada". Concluído. Base do livro Noções de Gramática da Língua Portuguesa em Tom de Conversa, lançado em 2003.
"Língua portuguesa: usos e origens". Base de livro em redação final.
"Pós-modernismo e Literatura". Base do livro publicado com o mesmo título, pela Editora Ática, 1991, 3.ª ed. 1999.
"Manifestações da poesia brasileira contemporânea". Iniciado em 1998. Resultados parciais: base do texto da exposição da Biblioteca Nacional na Feira Internacional do Livro de Frankfurt, 1995. Publicado; base do texto do livro Concerto a quatro vozes. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2006.
"Os acordos ortográficos e a Academia Brasileira de Letras". 2008
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BERND, Zilá, org. Poesia Negra Brasileira. Porto Alegre: AGE: IRL:IGEL, 1992, pp. 72-79.
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SENNA, Marta Rocha e Silva de. A Literatura no Segundo Grau hoje. Littera 8, maio/ago. 1973, p. 119.
UCHOA, Carlos Eduardo Cavalcanti. Língua Portuguesa, Literatura Nacional e a Reforma do Ensino. Recensão crítica. Littera 8, maio/ago. 1973, pp. 124-26.
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Academia Brasileira de Letras
É o quinto ocupante da cadeira 28 da Academia Brasileira de Letras, eleito em 23 de março de 2006 na sucessão do acadêmico Oscar Dias Correia, e recebido em 28 de julho de 2006 pelo acadêmico Evanildo Bechara, Presidente da ABL 2016-2017.
Ver também
Domício Proença Júnior
Ligações externas
Membros da Academia Brasileira de Letras
Professores da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Escritores contemporâneos do Brasil
Professores do estado do Rio de Janeiro
Filólogos do Brasil
Membros da Academia Brasileira de Filologia
Autores de livros didáticos do Brasil
Estudiosos de Machado de Assis
Poetas do estado do Rio de Janeiro
Naturais da cidade do Rio de Janeiro
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BkiUdMU5qWTBC2ZBhVRo | Are you smarter than …? French Competition
katie Wed 13 March
Every year the Year 9 International Leaders play host to a rather competitive French competition in a Year 7 assembly involving students and staff. Not only is it a battle to win the coveted trophy, but teams are also competing for points Towards the House competition. Bonnie and Tyler, Year 7 tell us all about the competition:
'Are you smarter than…?' was a French competition in which the four Houses took part; Rowling, Hawking, Holmes and Attenborough. Hawking team had Mr Russell as their teacher, Rowling had Mr Brett, Holmes had Mr Darlow and Attenborough had Dr Gollop. Students competed to win the amazing French trophy made by Mr Everett.
All throughout the year so far Year 7 pupils have been learning all the French words used in the competition. For example they were on topics such as food and drinks, animals, objects, colours and adjectives. In the end, Rowling came out victorious with Hawking only one point behind! It was fun taking part, and we are sure that everybody will remember their French words now!
The final results were as follows:
1st: Rowling
2nd: Hawking
3rd: Holmes
4th: Attenborough
A big thank you to the International Leaders, the Year 7s involved in the competition and of course the Languages teachers for organising it. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfPg25V5jZT5RA0KY | As the longest hour circles around the night, two monkeys watch the stars melt, the sun rise. It's going to be a long day, they can tell already, what with the way Allison the angel they've come to know, begins her complaining about how her work on earth is unappreciated. Later that afternoon while they're relaxing by a park fountain, she informs them, no one even sees me. It makes me feel alienated. Since she's right, what could they possibly say that would make her feel better? Even the water glistening in the sunlight offers no comfort.
Then when the day is late and another hour seems to be pointless and lost, when lying there in the grass and watching the fish swim through the air as wave after wave of lawn rolls past, a screen door slams, snapping them from their reverie and a little boy bounds toward them, rushing for the swings. There are other children and balls and jump ropes and splashing water and baseball bats and bicycles and tennis racquets and more children running in ever widening circles and laughter and screams and fish. The moment they have been waiting for is about to happen. As the boy buzzes through them unseeing, they feel the whisper of centuries and the small breeze of years flutter past their faces. Allison is the first to say: I don't know why it doesn't bother you guys. This is driving me crazy.
She gives us one of her looks and flies off after the little boy who has changed his mind about going on the swings and heads for the largest slide in the park, the one that's a silver arm of light reaching for the sky. The two monkeys take their places: one at the bottom of the slide, and the other at the top. In the space of an airless second,the street noise, the laughter, the wind and the rushing sunlight, all of it is rearranged in the stillness that surround this boy's life. And for the first time today, Allison smiles. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd0g5qhLBXcibHSdw | Mayor Victorino announced today that the federally funded Maui County Emergency Rental Assistance Program will start accepting online applications today from Maui County households.
"We want to help both tenants and landlords who are struggling financially from the economic effects of COVID-19," Mayor Victorino said. "The Emergency Rental Assistance Program is a powerful way to get assistance to those who need it most by helping to pay overdue rent or household utility bills."
Those interested in more information or want to apply should go to the following website for more information: https://mauicounty.gov/MauiRentHelp
The Maui County Emergency Rental Assistance Program Help Line is (808) 873-4673.
The program requires a qualifying household to:
Show financial harm from the pandemic, such as qualifying for unemployment, job loss, reduction in wages, or increase in household expenses
Show at least one household member is at risk of losing their housing
Have a household income at or below 80% of the area median income for Maui County
Priority will be given to applicants who meet the following criteria:
Have a household income less than 50% of the area median income for Maui County; OR
Have at least one household member who has been unemployed for at least 90 days at the time of application AND is still unemployed at the time of application
Only one person per household should apply. In addition, landlords may apply on behalf of their tenants, with the tenants' permission. To apply for assistance, households must first complete an online pre-screening form. Once the pre-screening form has been received and reviewed, applicants will be contacted with further guidance on next steps.
For households that qualify, the program will pay:
Up to $2,500 a month in rent and utility arrears
Up to $2,000 for future rent payments
Up to $500 a month for future electric, water and sewer, and gas bills
Eligible households may receive up to 12 months of assistance
Payments will be made directly to a landlord or utility
The Maui County Emergency Rental Assistance Program can provide assistance towards bills going back to March 13, 2020, current bills, or future bills, depending on a household's needs. Households who have received previous rent or utility assistance from other COVID-19 relief programs and are in need of further assistance are also encouraged to apply. Program staff will verify previous assistance received to prevent duplication of services.
Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi has been selected to administer the program in partnership with the County of Maui.
"We know that our community is still experiencing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that many residents are still in need of assistance," said Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi President and CEO Rob Van Tassell. "This emergency rental assistance program is meant to keep tenants in their homes and safely sheltered, while ensuring landlords are properly compensated. We thank Mayor Victorino and the Maui County Council for allowing Catholic Charities Hawai'i to be a part of this important program."
Charts: Income Qualifications for the Maui County Emergency Rental Assistance Program
At or below 50% of the Area Median Income for Maui County. Currently the 50% income limits are:
Size of Household
Annual Income Limit to Qualify
Less than $35,900 a year
Less than $101,700 a year
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BkiUfl7xK3YB9i3RNu_o | Bryan Isaías Vega Chaves (La Uruca, San José, 27 de mayo de 1991) es un futbolista costarricense que juega como delantero y actualmente milita en el Sporting Football Club de la Primera División de Costa Rica.
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BkiUdko4uzqh_OyQcmCS | I have been using web bookmarks using various applications like del.icio.us, Yahoo Bookmarks and Google Bookmarks, as well as the built‐in functionality within the browsers. Although all of them have good features, one important thing that is missing from them is the ability to tie actions to them. Here is what I would like to ideally do with different kind of bookmarks. Some applications have partial functionality available and I have enclosed them in parentheses.
Mark a bookmark as something I will use on a daily basis, such as login pages for various accounts. I should have an option to open all such bookmarks in different tabs in the browser (Firefox/IE does this).
Mark as something that I may need infrequently. I might have different levels of frequency of use. So I would want to classify them as such.
Mark a bookmark to visit on a particular date, or on a recurring basis. Example: a bill payer or bank site. I should get a reminder in email to visit the site.
Mark as read and archive with an option to share. This might be an article that I want to read, but I have no use after reading it. I might want to email or share the bookmark with others in my network (del.icio.us and Google Reader does this).
Mark a bookmark as the definitive answer to a problem I faced. The application should keep track of why I bookmarked the answer, so that it can help me answer the question in the future (Google Web History remembers the search and the associated search result I clicked on).
I would like to know if someone visited the bookmark I shared with them.
Most bookmarking sites are concerned with categorizing bookmarks based on content, or sharing the bookmarks with others in the social network. That is helpful, but the bigger benefit for an end user is answering the questions: What does the end user want to do with the bookmark? When do they want to perform an action based on the bookmark?
In some sense "Morning Coffee" & iMacro (firefox addins) would help you do it.
Morning Coffee is to setup bookmarks that can be run like schedule job.
Thanks Kalpesh. Looks very interesting. I will try this out. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUams25V5hcJY56pj0 | Since 2011, Folens have been involved in supplying and supporting parents, students and teachers in adopting technology in classrooms nationwide. Customers are advised to consider the following points before making the decision to adopt student eBooks.
Device ownership - school or student? | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUaOPxK1Thg9qFaqCV | For the city of Philadelphia, the word rivalry isn't as simple as playing your most hated team each year. In Philly you play four of those games. Each team's fans attend games and live, work, and interact with each other not just at the gym, but in every day life.
Winning your conference gets you into the NCAA Tournament, but winning the Big 5 gets you the banner and bragging rights throughout the city for a whole year. The five schools – the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Saint Joseph's University, La Salle University, and Temple University – are all located a stones throw away from each other. One man was telling me that La Salle was the furthest away from his home, "Yeah it is like 20 minutes away," he said.
Established in 1955, the Big 5 is a sports tradition like no other in the United States. A regular season tournament that exists within a 20 mile radius with some of the most passionate fans throughout the country. Four of the five schools don't even have a division one football program, Temple is the exception. That raises the importance and intensity of college basketball in Philadelphia.
The Big 5 has been won outright 35 times and tied for 24 times. To this point it is Temple University that leads the charge with 27 Big 5 championships. They have won outright just six times and tied with at least one school 21 times. For the most part of the history of the Big 5, each team has played the other four. But from 1991-1999, each team only played two games against Big 5 opponents creating two five-way ties with each team going 1-1 in 1991-92 and 1997-98 seasons. The only other time that there has been a five-way tie was the 1980-81 season when all five teams finished 2-2.
Each year these teams compete for the pride of Philadelphia, but no trophy. That's right, this rivalry is about more than a trophy, although the Big 5 player of the year receives the Robert V. Geasey Trophy.
With ten combined Final Fours and 118 combined NCAA Tournament appearances, the teams in the Big 5 have made a lot of noise throughout college basketball. Over the last 37 seasons at least one of the Big 5 teams has made the NCAA Tournament. That streak will continue this season with St. Joe's and Villanova both being locks for the the big dance. Here is a brief look at the school's Big 5 histories and the current home gyms they play in.
The Hawk Will Never Die, the first ever winner of the inaugural Big 5 championship belonged to the St. Joe's Hawks. Since then they have won 20 championships and have made the NCAA Tournament 19 times. Of their 20 Big 5 championships, nine have been won outright. In 2004, under current Coach Phil Martelli and with the backcourt of Jameer Nelson and Delonte West, St. Joe's completed an undefeated regular-season. They finished 27-0 and the number one team in the country before losing in the Elite 8 to Oklahoma State. Nelson won National Player of the Year and Martelli Coach of the Year. The Hawks have one final four appearance in 1961, when they were led by Jack Egan and Vince Kempton.
The Hawks play at Hagan Arena, a newly renovated version of the old Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse. The arena originally opened in 1949. It has the feel of an old barn and when it is full and loud, it is one of the toughest places to play in the country. The student seats are right on top of the baseline and often draw attention and complaints from officials. Seating just 4,200, Hagan Arena is the second smallest venues in the Big 5, only Tom Gola Arena at La Salle is smaller.
Tom Gola Arena is the smallest of the Big 5.
The La Salle Explorers may have the fewest Big 5 championships at 11, but that doesn't mean that they have the smallest history. They have the most important figure in Philadelphia college basketball history, the late Tom Gola. His playing record at La Salle was an incredible 102-19 and he remains the NCAA's leader in career rebounds with 2,201. He leads that category by 171 rebounds and he stood only 6'6″.
St. Joe's coach, Phil Martelli, praised Tom Gola saying that he is Philadelphia basketball. With Tom Gola, the Explorers won the National Championship in 1954 and then lost in championship the very next year. Those are the only two final four appearances for La Salle. After a 20 year drought of making the NCAA Tournament, last year's Explorers made a remarkable Sweet 16 run in the last full season of Tom Gola's life. The Explorers have two other National Player of the Years, Michael Brooks (1980) and Lionel Simmons (1990).
There was no question when their new arena was built in 1998 of what it's name would be. Though Tom Gola Arena is the smallest in the Big 5, it still can be incredibly loud and a tough place for opponents to play. It has a really small and intimate feel, but most importantly about the arena, is it brought basketball back to campus for the first time since 1955. The Explorers played their home games at the Palestra for the majority of the second half of the 20th century.
The leaders of the pack, Temple have won 27 Big 5 championships. They shared their first title in the Big 5's second season with La Salle and St. Joe's but have since won at least a share of 26 titles and 5 outright. The Owls have played in two Final Four's, but never made it any further. Under the guidance of legendary coach, John Chaney, Temple made 17 NCAA Tournament appearances. Including 11 straight from 1990-2001, in which they made the Elite 8 four times. Those teams were led by Aaron Mckie and Eddie Jones, who were both first round draft picks in the 1994 NBA Draft. Chaney went on to have an incredible 516-253 record with Owls, helping them become just the sixth school in NCAA history to win 1,800 games.
The Liacouras Center is the largest arena in the Big 5, seating over 10,000 people. It also has the largest scoreboard and the flashiest light show during introductions. It has an NBA type feel with the two distinct levels of seats, unlike the cavernous buidings and gyms that the other four teams play in. Built in 1997, it has plenty of big games still to be played in.
They may not have as many Big 5 championships as Temple, but the Villanova Wildcats won their 22nd this season. They have had at least a share of seven of the last 10 Big 5 championships and have won more outright (10) championships then any other school has. The Wildcats have also won the most recent NCAA Tournament of any team in the Big 5 (1985) and have more Final Four appearances (5). The 1985 championship came against a highly favored Georgetown with Patrick Ewing.
The Wildcats have had just five coaches since 1936, Al Severance (36-61), Jack Kraft (61-73), Rollie Massimino (73-92), Steve Lappas (92-01), and Jay Wright (01-present). Their most recent Final Four appearance was in 2009 led by All-American guard Scottie Reynolds. Reynolds is up there with Kerry Kittles, Randy Foye, Howard Porter, Ed Pinckney, and other Nova greats, as some of the best players Philadelphia has ever seen.
The Wildcats at one of the most unique arenas in college basketball. The Pavilion seats 6,500 people and feels like an auxiliary gym with seats and basketball floor because that's what it is. It can be used for several different types of events including indoor track, tennis, and conventions and trade shows, but this place can get extremely loud. The students take up a full third of the arena and are as loud as anywhere in the country.
The Ivy League School in the bunch was established in 1740. The school is located just a few blocks from 30th Street Station and has the easiest access to downtown Philadelphia. The Quakers won their first big 5 championship in the 1962-63 season making them the last team to win the tournament, a title they share with Villanova. Their first outright win came in the 1969-70. They went on to win it the following four seasons as well making them the first team to win five straight years. During that run, Penn had some of the best teams any Big 5 school has put up with a 26-0 regular season run in 1970-71, a team that would lose in the Elite 8 to Villanova. They had some incredible players in this run: Dave Wohl, Steve Bilsky, Corky Calhoun, and Bob Morse.
Penn plays their home games at one of the most important college basketball venues in the country. It has hosted hundreds of Big 5 games and over 60 NCAA Tournament games. Known as "The Cathedral of College Basketball," the Palestra is an absolute must see for any college basketball fan. The arena is clearly at its fullest potential when it hosts a game between Big 5 opponents. Saving the best for last, the Palestra has hosted more NCAA basketball games then any other building in the country since its opening in 1927. With seats extremely close to the floor and a lack of an advanced air conditioning unit, the Palestra gets really hot and sweaty when its packed, but thats when its at its finest.
Over the past month and a half, I personally went to at least one game at each of the Big 5 home arenas. I have been to over 25 venues in college basketball and there really aren't many better than the traditions and experiences of the Big 5. The Palestra stands alone as the top dog. The history, the sweat, the rafters, and the sight-lines create an experience like none other. Surprisingly, despite being built in 1927, it has zero obstructions of sight. The flags of all five of the Big 5 banners hang right in the middle of the arena, the trophy cases that wrap around the concourse and the darkness of a night game, compared to the light of a day game, make the Palestra one of a kind. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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Bluetooth is a standardized wireless communication platform that permits devices to communicate with each other through radio waves. A wide range of products incorporates Bluetooth technology, including smartphones, music players, tablets, computers, and TVs.
Have you ever seen someone talking on their phone using a hands-free headset? Or somebody taking a call from their cell phone using their car audio system? That's Bluetooth technology in action.
Yes and no. Bluetooth technology demands a greater power supply than can be delivered by hearing aid batteries. But there is a workaround, and in fact, there are two.
Here's how it works: your Bluetooth equipped cell phone communicates wirelessly to the streamer which then directs the signal to the hearing aid without depleting the battery.
Hearing aids paired with an assistive listening device – as described above, the assistive listening device, or streamer, which is a small hand-held device, acts as an intermediary between the Bluetooth device and the hearing aid.
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Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wm size 1080x1920");
nothing happens. The logcat shows:
? D/AndroidRuntime: Calling main entry com.android.commands.wm.Wm
? I/art: System.exit called, status: 1
? I/AndroidRuntime: VM exiting with result code 1.
A: Most adb shell commands require above-average privileges. When running those commands through adb shell, you get those privileges. When running those commands directly from an app, you do not... unless the device is rooted and you arrange to run those commands as a superuser.
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BkiUbiDxK6mkyCKCzPVm | Home / Columnists/ Too much law and order leads to insecurity when the police are communal gangsters
Too much law and order leads to insecurity when the police are communal gangsters
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As a Tamil I take the position that I am better off without the police because I get more harassment than protection from them. The video of an IGP assaulting an employee in a lift bears testimony to how committed the police are to law and order.
I have dealt in my writings with how hazardous driving on the A9 is. I have been driven by my Sinhalese drivers at 110 km/hr. When stopped they make friendly small talk and move on. My Tamil drivers give their licence with Rs. 300 and all is well. One of my more careful Sinhalese drivers Amarasiri says he has never got a ticket except twice driving my van with NP plates.
I have detailed before my pleading not guilty after being falsely charged by the Mankulam Police of speeding. It was a satisfying exercise to be cleared by the judge; but a costly one that cost me several trips to the courthouse and a lot more than the Rs. 1,000 fine. I would not have it differently because I hold my head high as a proud citizen never ever having given or taken a bribe.
However, my problem is when as a public servant I use my own vehicle to come to Colombo for Commission meetings or drive on personal trips. Those in Colombo will lack my perspective. In Colombo, if we make a mistake we get a ticket. Simple. We pay the fine as we should. The police rarely ask for a bribe fearing that the person might be quite powerful. Outstations, however, particularly north of Anuradhapura, we are stopped whether we make a mistake or not, in the expectation of a bribe so much so I am scared to drive to work.
Having broken a shoulder and with doctor's orders not to drive, it is very difficult for me. Standing in a moving bus is very difficult because I cannot raise my hand to hold the rails to steady myself or load my bags on shelves. So drive I must, or stay in Colombo. I will describe three recent traffic incidents from being trapped into driving to work.
Money for cormorant-like overeating
Last year I had to take a missionary lady in my van. North of Trincomalee just south of Nilavely on the Nilavely Road, in passing a trishaw I accidentally crossed an unbroken line. Given a ticket, I would have happily paid and left it behind me. This policeman, dark skinned and hugely well-fed on food from bribes I presume, instead took my licence and said, "This is a forged licence. Your job will go. Would you like that?" I told him I got licensed three days after my 18th birthday, and if he thinks my licence is a forgery, let's go to a police station.
He said I would need to wait for the judge till Monday. The fine would be Rs. 50,000 he said asking me, "Would you like that?" He was illiterate and did not know that only Parliament can remove a member of an election commission and it is unlikely they would act for my crossing a line. He, Bandara by name I recall, after seeing the European lady in the car across the street realised that he would get no bribe from me. He let me go without any ticket. His intention clearly was not to keep the road free of offending drivers but to get money for his cormorant-like overeating.
The second incident was a week ago. On Saturday 4 January we had to attend a church conclave at Church of the Living Christ in Talawa. I was driving carefully, overtook a vehicle and returned to my lane just before a pedestrian crossing. A pair of crooks in uniform stopped us. One first claimed I overtook at the crossing. When I denied it, he said I should have stopped at the crossing. He strangely asked me if I wanted to pay a fine or go to court, and whether I wanted him to write a traffic ticket. It was code for a bribe, since either way a ticket had to be given and the fine is paid at the post office.
I was wondering whether to go to court and be forced to make several trips to Galgamuwa where I would not be able to invoke Tamil as the official language as I had in Mullaitivu. My only witnesses were my wife, daughter and dog. Would I stand a chance when even in Jaffna after foolishly making a complaint against a Tamil politician for threatening to assault me, I have been regularly going to court for two years without a single hearing?
The judges ordered arbitration (which they cannot force on me especially when my complaint is not a personal dispute) and threw out the evidence because the police (well-bribed I think) had sat on it for a year without submitting it to court. Worse, the attorney general the chief legal officer who should appear for me is sitting on the file in Colombo for months as if to delay the case further by tiring me out. Why bother!
The policeman may be identified from my traffic ticket pictured above. As to whether I committed a traffic offence or not, is my word against the crooked policeman's. But there is a solid witness to say he treats Tamil drivers differently from Sinhalese drivers
As these thoughts raced through my mind, a car overtook another at the pedestrian crossing. A medical doctor's sign was on the windscreen. After a conversation there, that lady doctor moved on. Then the policeman came back to my side of the road. He told me that was a government servant and he hates to fine government servants. He claimed that my offence merited a Rs. 2,000 fine but because I am a government servant he could make it Rs. 1,000. I told him to give me the ticket and moved on with a Rs. 1,000 ticket.
When I got to church, lo and behold! The doctor was there smiling: "I am glad he did not give you a ticket. A nice man. He let me go though I overtook at a pedestrian crossing and told me he is not going to give you a ticket either." She had come for the same conclave as I.
If the police are interested in instilling a little more discipline than for IGP Pujith Jayasundara, they should really investigate the Galgamuwa policemen and ask Dr. Ilangasinghe. Her parish is St. Paul's Church Kandy. She may feel reluctant to give testimony against a man who was nice to her albeit unlawfully, but I am confident she will not lie. The policeman may be identified from my traffic ticket pictured above. As to whether I committed a traffic offence or not, is my word against the crooked policeman's. But there is a solid witness to say he treats Tamil drivers differently from Sinhalese drivers. With little confidence in the justice system for Tamils, I have sent a friend to pay my fine and retrieve my licence.
The third incident was last night, 12 January. I had driven from Colombo against doctor's advice and my shoulder was aching so much so I had to lift my left hand and put it on the steering wheel which I could turn clockwise but not the other way. I had turned into the Eastern Campus Road at the sixth mile post towards Konesapuri. A vehicle began following me. It was behind me for 4 km or so. At the end was my destination Baldaeus Theological College. The vehicle was a police jeep with policemen accompanied by green uniformed men whom I take to be from the army. If so, I think there are laws disallowing the army from travelling in a police vehicle. New dispensation?
"I was wondering whether to go to court and be forced to make several trips to Galgamuwa where I would not be able to invoke Tamil as the official language as I had in Mullaitivu. My only witnesses were my wife, daughter and dog. Would I stand a chance when even in Jaffna after foolishly making a complaint against a Tamil politician for threatening to assault me, I have been regularly going to court for two years without a single hearing?"
The army-like leader asked for my documents and I asked why. My number plate says NP, he said. Is there a law against driving a Northern Province vehicle in the Eastern Province? I asked him. The soldier questioned me in Sinhalese and I told him I know only Tamil. He called a Tamil policeman who seemed friendly and free of the sour look of the army-like man. After all, it was the Eastern Province where the language of administration is Tamil. The army officer was obviously poorly trained to be so foolish as to admit that he had stopped me because of my NP number plate.
When I gave him my licence, it was my temporary licence from Galgamuwa (the crooked cop had taken away my licence). At the end of my tether, it just came out that that is my licence because I refused to bribe your crooked police at Galgamuwa. That offended the officer. Having put my foot in I had to go all the way. I told him I have no respect for the police because they are always after money. He denied it. So I l told him, "Why you have that Bandara in your Nilavely police station who …" I told him the whole story. The translator seemed sympathetic and translated my story even though the officer seemed not interested.
They looked into my van after my dog was taken out. They went away after photographing my temporary licence insisting they had a right to inspect an NP van while I insisted that as a law abiding citizen I can drive my NP number-plated van anywhere in Sri Lanka.
I am not very popular at the college today. The people here remember the massacres of civilians by the army in the wattai next door. They remember Nanthikadal. Our college administrator's wife immediately went into her house and I heard her praying loudly for safety.
My relatives in Mutwal/Modera have been told they cannot let their dog out. Others have been told every flat must be painted white and not in different colours. As one lady in our conversation praised these changes, an older experienced aunt said, "Rules are good but when there are too many …"
What is law and order? Security for some while making others feel threatened? Different laws for Tamils and Sinhalese? No prosecution of soldiers accused of ethnic carnage?
The President would do well to ponder on these matters. Simply asking people who I am promotes insecurity for me but not law and order for anyone. Refusing to try soldiers accused of war crimes also makes Tamils feel insecure while denying equal treatment in the justice system. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
BkiUfezxK4tBViZLHswa | Q: Can't upgrade application on OS X even though permissions are granted I want to upgrade an application (Firefox), which was installed by another user (with admin rights). My account has admin rights too, the application info shows the groups 'admin' and 'everyone' both have read and write permissions, but I'm not permitted to perform the upgrade, or even copy the new application to the applications folder.
I've checked in terminal, and even set the ownership to myself, but this didn't help. The file info currently looks like this:
bash-3.2# ls -las | grep Firefox
0 drwxrwxrwx@ 3 root admin 102 12 jun 00:26 Firefox.app
Now the @-sign indicates a certain flag is set, which I thought was the quarantine flag which gives a dialog when you open the file the first time after downloading it. I've already opened it though (with the account that installed the application), so this is not it. Details of this flag are as follows:
bash-3.2# xattr -l Firefox.app/
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF 00 00 |................|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020
I know the password for the other account, so I could update there, but I want to be able to do this with my own account. What am I missing here?
A: what about a quick fix: Delete the App completely. If dragging to trash doesn't work try:
sudo rm -r /Applications/Firefox.app
Change the path accordingly. Reinstall Firefox after that. If the problem persists, come back here and post your findings, please.
edit:
On my machine i have the same xattrs and i'm able to upgrade. But i installed FF myself. have you had a look inside the Firefox directory?
ls -l /Applications/Firefox.app/
Do the contents belong to you, too? Did you execute a recursive chown?
chown yourusername:admin /Applications/Firefox.app/
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BkiUer_xK7IAB1deVkEF | The Theatre of Small Convenience
Worcestershire, England
The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.
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With only 12 seats, the Theatre of Small Convenience is a cramped little space that sees puppetry and theatre pieces performed in a space that was once a urinal for Victorian men.
Work on the theatre began in 1997, leading to the inaugural performance in 1999 in the tiny transformed space. Sitting right in the city center, the interior of the lavatory has been converted from its roots in Victorian excrement into a lush, one-room wonderland with ornate carved wood accents and rich red curtains. The walls are also painted with bucolic fantasy landscapes featuring a fairytale castle and grinning air spirits.
The little space has been home to performances both amateur and professional, but never for more than a dozen people at a time. In 2002, the theatre was named the smallest commercial theatre building in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Not a bad legacy for a historic space that was formerly best known for being a place where dandies and street urchins peed.
Unfortunately, the theatre is now shut.
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Worcester, England
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This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.
Tewkesbury, England
An English cenotaph honoring an American feminist icon.
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Hereford Cathedral Chained Library
Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.
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Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater
The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.
Théâtre Royal de Toone
Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.
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Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.
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The Loovre
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Art and Alchemy Exhibition: The Mystery of Transformation
For the first time in Germany, an exhibition spanning all epochs and genres will be introducing the exciting link between art and alchemy in past and present times. 250 works from antiquity to the present, encompassing Baroque art, Surrealism, through to contemporary art from collections and museums in the USA, Great Britain, France, Mexico and Israel reveal the fascination which alchemy exerted for many visual artists. Artists featured in the exhibition, such as Joseph Beuys, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Max Ernst, Hendrick Goltzius, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Yves Klein, Sigmar Polke, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens and David Teniers the Younger invite visitors to explore the mystery of transformation.
Alchemy was invariably practised in secret, but was by no means a rare occurrence until well into the 18th century: Eminent personalities, including Paracelsus, Isaac Newton and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, were alchemists, too. It was not until the Age of the Enlightenment that alchemy was ousted and became intermingled with occultism, sorcery and superstition. In connection with 19th and early 20th-century psychoanalysis alchemy was brought to new life.
The exhibition was conceived by Museum Kunstpalast in cooperation with the research group "Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, as well as a group of experts at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, which also provided many pieces on loan. A Wunderkammer of curious and exotic treasures from flora and fauna is offered for visitors to explore. In an extensive accompanying programme the subject of art and alchemy will be expanded upon by means of lectures, talks and guided tours. For the exhibition, a studio for children was set up, where the theme of "The Alchemy of Colour" is explored by taking a close look at colours, along with their archetypical elements and production.
Click HERE for the Programme Quadrennalle Düsseldorf 2014.
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BkiUdPc5qoTBDdoZ6VrG | The St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club is a historic site in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is located at 536 4th Avenue, North. On July 9, 1980, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest formally organized lawn bowling club in Florida and tenth in the nation. It includes members from USA, Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland, Australia, German heritage.
Club season runs November to April. Free lessons Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 am followed by a game until 12:00.
Open houses on the first Saturday of the months December, January, February, March
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Judicial restraint and judicial activism - Essay Example
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Judicial Restraint and Judicial Activism The doctrine of judicial activism is based on the belief that the federal judiciary is supposed to take an active function by utilizing its powers to examine the activities of the state legislatures, administrative agencies, and the Congress (this is in the case where the aforementioned government bodies go beyond their authority). The Supreme Court acted in an activist manner in the period between 1953 and 1969, and this is in an era when Chief Justice Earl Warren headed the Court. The Warren Court instigated the civil rights onward by suggesting that the laws allowing racial segregation were in violation of the equal protection clause (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 459).
On the other hand, the doctrine of judicial restraint holds the assumption that the courts are supposed to submit to the decisions made by the executive and legislative branches. This is because the people elect the president and the members of the Congress and the federal judiciary members are not. The courts are also supposed to submit to the agency decisions and rules. In other words, under this doctrine, the courts are not supposed to hinder the implementation of agency rules and legislative acts unless they are precisely unconstitutional. For instance, many states before the case of Roe v. Wade held that abortion was illegal, regulated sodomy, made homosexual sodomy and adultery a crime (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 459).
Judicial activism approach is appropriate because the courts are able to act in an independent manner. In other words, the courts can make their decisions without the influence of the executive and the legislature. These two branches of the government (executive and legislature) at times make decisions that only serve their interests and not that of the people (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 459). For instance, the in Griswold v. CT case of 1965, the court suggested that the rights to privacy existed and thus, the case overturned the Connecticut law that regulated birth control.
Bardes, B. A., Schmidt, S. W., & Shelley, M. C. American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2008. Print. Read More
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BkiUdrQ5qrqCyq8KqYQq | Dieter Maute (* 21. Juni 1967 in Tailfingen) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Kunstradsportler und heutiger Trainer.
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1995 trat Maute vom aktiven Radsport zurück, studierte Sportwissenschaften und schloss das Studium 1996 als Diplom-Sportpädagoge ab. Bis 2002 leitete er im Reutlinger Therapie- und Analysezentrum die medizinische Trainingstherapie. Ab 1997 erstellte er gemeinsam mit seinem Vater Manfred Maute, damals als Landestrainer tätig, Lehrfilme für das Kunstradfahren, die vom Weltradsportverband Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) als offizielles Lehrmaterial eingeführt wurden. 2003 wurde er als Nachfolger seines Vaters Manfred Maute württembergischer Landestrainer und kurz darauf, bis 2011 gemeinsam mit seinem Vater, BDR-Lehrwart für den Kunstradsport sowie Bundestrainer.
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BkiUdRE25V5il8hB9X1Z | "I'm the customer, you're the supplier – get it right!" – the challenge of supplier relationships.
As leaders of change, we know this old fashioned attitude isn't an effective approach when dealing with suppliers. It can lead to a series of unhelpful behaviours, such as tampering, and a degree of tension can develop between customer and supplier. It is a position that can be hard to come back from. It hampers your ability to work together on improvements and in some cases can make the future relationship potentially unsustainable.
The relationship you have with your supplier base is critical to the sustained success of your business – and theirs. Getting it right is imperative. The challenge is, how to get results when the processes you are working on extend beyond your sphere of internal influence and into their supply chain?
In addition, if your suppliers are not using the same tools and methods to make their work, work then the chances are that you won't be speaking the same language. That can mean miscommunication, misunderstanding and lost opportunities.
I've been having some interesting coaching conversations recently about this subject.
Some clients require their suppliers to demonstrate continuous improvement as part of a Service Level Agreement. They run a Dashboard, with a traditional traffic light approach, and are continually frustrated by the fact that their suppliers remain in the red for continuous improvement.
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What do you do when you don't have the buying power to demand the supplier improves?
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Supply today. You have an urgent problem with a key supplier which is impacting your ability to supply your customer.
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BkiUbhY4uzqh_E1zmcUy | package com.hubspot.singularity.oomkiller;
import com.codahale.metrics.JmxReporter;
import com.codahale.metrics.Meter;
import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
public class SingularityOOMKillerMetrics {
private final MetricRegistry registry;
private final Meter oomHardKillsMeter;
private final Meter eligibleForKillMeter;
private final Meter oomSoftKillsMeter;
private final Meter singularityFailuresMeter;
private final Meter unknownExecutorsMeter;
private final Meter singularityAlreadyKillingMeter;
@Inject
public SingularityOOMKillerMetrics(MetricRegistry registry) {
this.registry = registry;
this.eligibleForKillMeter = registry.meter(name("oomKiller", "eligibleForKill"));
this.oomHardKillsMeter = registry.meter(name("oomKiller", "hardKills"));
this.oomSoftKillsMeter = registry.meter(name("oomKiller", "softKills"));
this.singularityFailuresMeter = registry.meter(name("oomKiller", "singularityFailures"));
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startJmxReporter();
}
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return singularityAlreadyKillingMeter;
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#432: 240L Biotope Aquascape Tributaries of the Parana River in Pre Delta National Park. Entre Rios. Argentina.
Walter Vazquez Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards and Comments
I like to see biotopes that contain a lot of plants and this is well represented here because two species that often grow together are used. Lighting contributes to the overall atmosphere.
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Dimensions 120 × 50 × 40 cm
Title Tributaries of the Parana River in Pre Delta National Park. Entre Rios. Argentina.
Volume 240L
Background Black vinyl.
Lighting Some led lamps located in a way that helps simulate the entry of sunlight between plants
Filtration Aquaclear waterfall filter 70 x 2, with biological and mechanical media.
Plants Ceratophyllum demersum. Egeria densa.
Animals 15 x Corydoras aeneus; 10 x Corydoras hastatus 20 x Hyphessobrycon eques; 1 x Bujurquina vittata; 5 x Hisonotus maculipinnis
Materials Substrate of fine river sand, with details of small-sized boulders. River stone. Natural trunks and branches. Some sunken leaves of Quercus rubra and dry fruits of Liquidambar styraciflua. Trees found near these water systems
Additional Information The aquarium has been assembled for 8 months. The objective of the aquarium is to generate the sensation of a cave generated on the shore of a stream, by surface plants, and which received the fall of trunks and branches of the trees in the surroundings of the system.
That the viewer has the feeling of seeing what is happening with aquatic diversity under a mattress of plants visible on the surface from the shores.
The Pre-Delta National Park is located in the flood valley of the Paraná River. It was created in 1992, to protect the representative environments of the Paraná River.
This national park is located in the southwest of the province of Entre Ríos, on the left bank of the Paraná River, south of the city of Diamante. It extends from 32°03'S and 60°38'W, with an area of about 2,600 ha. It is bordered to the northwest by the Vapor Viejo stream, to the northeast by the La Azotea stream and a sector of ravine lands up to the La Jaula and Campo Nacional area. To the west and southwest, the limit is made up of the Saca Calzones stream and finally the Las Palometas stream. It is located on an alluvial plain produced by the accumulation of loose materials such as sand, silt and others carried by the Middle Paraná. The water courses that cross the Pre-Delta National Park, have a NW-SE direction and converge with each other, delimiting lands and forming islands of various sizes. Within the islands there are flood lagoons whose flow is related to the hydrological cycles of the Paraná River. The main watercourses are arms of the Paraná River and include the La Azotea, Las Mangas, Las Tortugas, Los Dorados, Saca Calzones, Las Palometas streams and the Vapor Viejo stream.
The fish fauna of this subregion, with around 6,000 species, is one of the richest and most varied in the world. In the Pre-Delta National Park, 11 orders, 39 families, 118 genera and 185 species of fish were recorded.
- PNPD Fish Guide
- Biodiversity of the Pre-Delta National Park (Entre Ríos, Argentina)
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As we look ahead to a new year, individuals and businesses alike are taking stock of the recent past and looking to the future with hope and resolve. If you're in the retail industry, what trends will be shaping the year ahead? Here at Shelving Design Systems, we've identified a few surprising trends that could shape your retail shelving, your business, and your sales for 2019.
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BkiUdHPxK0iCl4YJnfJe | Daniel Perez holds a 14.5-inch cast of a footprint from Bluff Creek in Northern California, where a film purporting to show a large primate was made.
The Center for Bigfoot Studies, like the creature itself, is not easy to find.
It hides amid the forest of homes and thickets of Christmas lights on a quiet Riverside street.
No signs or monster-size tracks point the way, but those in the know can pin it down to an upper floor of one unassuming house. There, jammed inside a few small rooms, sits one of the nation's largest repositories of Bigfoot lore.
Rows of books, stuffed filing cabinets, sculptures and plaster casts of overgrown feet compete for space in a cluttered world dedicated to the legendary hulking primate.
Daniel Perez, 44, is curator and director of the center, which doubles as his home. It's not typical Bigfoot habitat, but he couldn't beat the price. And for Perez it's the work, not the location, that matters.
Perez is no flake. He's a serious-minded, soft-spoken electrician who let his hobby become his passion and now much of his life. He publishes the monthly Bigfoot Times, circulation 760, and has traveled the country investigating sightings and interviewing witnesses.
A recent newsletter reported a sighting from 1936 in Davistown, Pa. The 81-year-old witness told Perez she had seen an upright animal lurking around her rural home on numerous occasions when she was a girl.
"But our conclusion was that it was nothing more than wind," a local Bigfoot researcher wrote.
Perez is a believer but also a skeptic.
Hoaxers have tried to con him, and promising leads have unraveled. Critical evidence, such as a hefty ape-like skull allegedly found near Bishop, has had a habit of disappearing. Yet there are the stories that keep him going, the strikingly similar accounts of hairy, stinking, bipedal animals stomping through forests from Canada to California to Ohio.
Tales of ape men leading clandestine lives in the North American backwoods go back centuries. Native Americans called them Sasquatches. But the modern Bigfoot phenomenon really got its start in 1958, Perez said, when workers began finding large footprints while building a road in Oregon.
"Some guy took the story to the local newspaper, and the word 'Bigfoot' was born," he said.
In 1986, Perez interviewed members of a six-man crew building a bridge 26 miles south of California's Mt. Whitney who reported seeing a large upright creature that left 13-inch footprints in its wake.
Actually, he was hooked before that.
Perez's pursuit of Bigfoot began at age 10 after he watched "The Legend of Boggy Creek" at a Norwalk theater. The documentary-style film dealt with a Bigfoot-like beast frightening rural Fouke, Ark.
He immediately went to the library and withdrew books about Bigfoot and other creatures, including the Loch Ness monster. He wrote letters to Bigfoot experts, who impressed him with their earnestness.
The elder Perez questions the whole thing.
In 1979, Perez rushed with a friend to Hemet's Diamond Valley, chasing reports that huge footprints had been found there. He and his friend saw and measured the proof, he said. The prints were 17 inches long.
He started interviewing people who claimed to have seen Bigfoot. He dug up newspaper clippings from as far back as 1889 reporting encounters with the creature and other "wild men" of the woods. He researched Native American stories of Sasquatch, Himalayan tales of the Yeti and sightings of the Yowie in Australia.
Perez is writing a book about the Patterson-Gimlin film, a grainy 60-second movie purporting to show a large primate walking through Bluff Creek in Northern California. It was shot by Robert Gimlin and the late Roger Patterson.
The film, shot in 1967, still generates controversy. Believers say it's the best evidence that Bigfoot exists. Others say it's the best proof the whole thing is bogus. The doubters' case was bolstered when Bob Hieronimus of Yakima, Wash., announced in 2004 that he was the film's Bigfoot. He said Patterson offered him $1,000 to don a gorilla suit.
"Why they keep focusing on this film is beyond me," said Robert Kiviat, producer of "World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed," a Fox Network show that investigated the film.
Perez doesn't buy the fraud story. He says Hieronimus could never fill an 8-foot gorilla suit, and he says the suit has never been found.
He has analyzed the footage hundreds of times. He has enlarged it and slowed it down. He points out what he sees as telling details of authenticity.
Perez's views are largely supported by Jeffrey Meldrum, professor of anthropology and anatomy at Idaho State University, who has studied Bigfoot for more than a decade.
Meldrum, an expert on primate morphology, says the hoax stories don't hold up under scrutiny.
Meldrum said the lack of Bigfoot corpses is not a mystery given the remote spots where they are believed to live as well as the dampness of the forest and the acidic quality of forest soil, which encourages decomposition.
Upstairs in his office, Perez plays the Patterson-Gimlin film on his computer again and again.
He thinks as many as 100,000 Bigfoots could be roaming North America, but he knows he may never find even one of them.
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I always enjoy reading about Daniel Perez! He truly is one of the best at what he is doing! I also want to make a very big deal about David Kelly! What a great article. So nice to see coverage of this subject without the "smart alec" mindset so common today. I hope to see more pieces by Mr. Kelly in the future about others in the Cryptozoology field! | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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BkiUbi85qU2Aps3F6Ef- | aeinews.org » Blog Archive » Ancient whale song: louder than modern human-caused ocean noise?
Ancient whale song: louder than modern human-caused ocean noise?
A paper presented at this fall's Acoustical Society of America meeting has triggered a wave of provocative headlines about how whale-filled oceans of the past may have been "as loud as a rock concert" or how "Noisy whales made FAR MORE oceanic racket than humans do." The paper does indeed ask an innovative question: what was the ocean soundscape like in the pre-whaling days? And its answer, while couched in a high degree of uncertainty, is also eye and ear-opening: ten times as many whales made a lot more noise than today's diminished populations, perhaps adding up to overall noise levels that match those caused by today's shipping, oil and gas exploration, and other human activities in the seas.
The bio-acoustic environment of the pre-industrial whaling ocean could be correlated to the animal sounds in any biologically diverse and well populated habitat wherein the riot of birdcalls, the stridulation of insects, and the mammal vocalizations are the dominant noise contributors to the soundscape.
The question of ancient ocean sound levels is relevant because much of today's thinking about the impact of human noise is predicated on research that shows global shipping increasing the ambient noise levels in the oceans by 10dB or more since the 1950's. This just happens to be the era in which whale populations were at their nadir, with several species having already become rare enough that it was no longer worth the effort to find and hunt them. But as the authors stress in their conclusion, an ancient ocean full of whale song — along with the more widespread sounds of the onomatopoeia-ic large fish, Grunts and Drums, or the "great schools of tuna miles across (that) would churn up the sea surface for days as they migrated past California's Channel Islands" noted by early 20th century fishermen, which the authors note "would likely be as loud as or louder than even the most tempestuous sea state" — is a very different place than an ocean full of the noise of ship engines and airgun reverberations. | c4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUd8o5qWTBLkQDJUe_ | The Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexico will have ample money for upcoming budget, lawmakers say
Scott Wyland, The Santa Fe New Mexican
Dec. 4—The rebounding oil and gas industry continues to be a big driver in the state's swelling revenues, which could reach record highs next year if the economy doesn't falter.
Analysts told lawmakers Friday the state could have a record $9 billion in its operating budget during the upcoming fiscal year.
That's a $1.6 billion increase over this year's spending levels — which they said would be more "new money" than was projected in August.
But they tempered the glowing forecasts with a cautious note, saying much of the windfall is tied to the oil and gas industry, whose fluctuating market can take back as quickly as it gives.
Oil prices dropped 16 percent in the week prior to Wednesday, and they could fall further if the U.S. economy slips into a recession in the coming months and demand for oil decreases, state Taxation and Revenue Secretary Stephanie Schardin Clarke told the Legislative Finance Committee.
She also warned the coronavirus's new omicron variant could have adverse economic impacts if it proves to be more infectious and causes worse illness than current strains. It's already affecting the stock market and oil prices, she said.
"If it is a more concerning or dangerous variant, then that could push the global economy back toward a recession, and that's why it's having such an impact on the markets," Schardin Clarke said.
She noted these more sobering factors arose after the team prepared the report.
Still, state Rep. Patty Lundstrom, a Gallup Democrat and committee chairwoman, refused to let the gloomier prospects dampen her jubilance about the predicted revenue growth.
"This presents an unparalleled opportunity to continue making responsible and deep investments in our communities while keeping robust reserves over 30 percent," Lundstrom said in written statement issued during the hearing.
If the projections hold, the $9 billion in recurring revenues would well surpass the $8.2 billion in the current fiscal year.
There would be substantially more money to fund health care, education, transportation, public safety, business assistance and other public services.
A fatter budget is certain to generate spirited discussions on spending in the 30-day legislative session that will begin Jan. 18.
Although the projections don't count the billions of dollars in federal stimulus and infrastructure money the state is receiving, a couple of lawmakers questioned how much federal money as a whole is pumping up New Mexico's finances.
State Rep. Jack Chatfield, R-Mosquero, said he was curious about the ripple effect stimulus money has had from residents spending it on goods and services and generating gross receipts tax revenue.
Ismael Torres, the committee's chief economist, said he could put together an analysis on how stimulus spending boosts state revenues.
"I think that would be a more accurate reflection of what the economy is really cranking out on its own," Chatfield said.
Lawmakers will meet Monday for the start of a special session to discuss redistricting and how to dole out roughly $1.6 billion in federal pandemic aid.
Higher consumer spending — which hasn't been discouraged by inflation — and higher wages spurred by a labor shortage have contributed to heftier state revenues.
Records on gross receipt taxes show a robust surge in spending this year, putting more money in state coffers, Torres said.
But the oil and gas industry is driving most of the revenue increase, Torres said.
This forecast comes the same week the New Mexico Tax Research Institute released a report stating the industry pumped a record $5.3 billion into state and local coffers this year and almost $3 billion into the state's general fund.
Torres said while Texas' and North Dakota's oil production is down 8.5 percent and 21.5 percent, respectively, since January 2020, New Mexico's is almost 28 percent higher than its pre-pandemic levels.
The upward trend could change, though it's too early to tell, Torres said. The recent drop in oil prices could be an overreaction to the new coronavirus variant combined with constraints on oil supply, he said.
The team uses various scenarios from Moody's to determine how the revenue forecast might change, and the fossil fuel industry has the most potential impact, Torres said. "A low oil price scenario ... that continues to be the most significant risk to the general fund."
Those statements echo detractors' concerns about the state relying so heavily on tax revenue from a volatile industry.
Citing Pew Charitable Trust's research, state Finance and Administration Secretary Debbie Romero said revenue fluctuations tend to be greater in economies dependent on natural resources — "which we are," Romero said. "The volatility analysis highlights the need for both healthy reserves and careful budget planning."
State Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, agreed the larger sum must be treated with care, especially with the increasing chance of an economic downturn.
"The more you spend, the more you'd better book in reserves," Muñoz said. "Recessionary pressures could change this whole scenario. Then we're coming back to make cuts."
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Comedian Louie Anderson died on Friday from blood cancer complications | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUdas4uzqh_Okldd_0 | Even though weddings are usually done on a much larger scale than at-home parties, the level of creativity that goes into the receptions makes them a wonderful resource for drawing inspiration & ideas from for everyday celebrations & holiday parties as well, even if you just emulate a few of them or modify the ideas to fit your budget.
For example, this gorgeous wedding reception, which was designed by event planner Beth Helmstetter (who you might remember from the fun & unique "Eclectic Baby Shower" we featured earlier) – has some great inspiration for fall or winter celebrations – from Thanksgiving to Christmas to bridal showers or engagement parties held this time of year.
Louisa and John are this amazingly down-to-earth pair with a love for nature and the desire to ensure the guests were comfortable at all times. For this reason, we decided to go with a residential yet organic feel when designing the day.
To bring in the natural feel, we used many elements including an old tree stump in lieu of a cake plate, pine cones as place card holders and bark to hold the centerpieces. Also, fresh herbs adorned everything from the ceremony arch to each guest napkin.
For me, linens are one of the most important details when designing an event. Not only are they the canvas for the table design, but napkins are the one decorative element that guests actually touch and feel. In Louisa and John's case, we went for a Russian linen in the shade of wheat (pictured at top), which was luxurious to the touch and served as the perfect canvas for the dinner tables, all while being completely organic materials.
As guests arrived, they were offered Reed's Ginger Ale (the bride's favorite) and were greeted to the sounds of Cale, a hot Spanish Guitar group from Los Angeles. After vows were exchanged, Louisa and John ensured every guest felt a part of their day by including them in group pictures and greeting everyone individually.
For dinner, Louisa choice buffet service which included all fresh and organic ingredients from the local community including scallops on the half shell, herbed salmon and fresh peaches drizzled in local white honey.
Guests spent the evening conversing and dancing to the sounds of a DJ who spun Louisa and John's favorite lounge music throughout the event.
Accent napkins with fresh herbs or (or a less-expensive greenery option, like the bouquets of mixed greenery available at grocery stores – usually for around $5 – or event leaves from your backyard. White blossoms also look gorgeous as napkin accents.
Large mason jars or candy jars simply labeled and embellished with twine make great serving containers for drinks like lemonade, sangria, punch or cucumber-infused water. Float fruit, lemon, or cucumber slices in the drink for a pretty display.
When it comes to food, it's all about presentation! How great does the wheat grass-covered serving tray used to serve the scallops look?! And the use of all-white serveware really makes the colors in the food pop.
Oh I loooove all the birch details!!!
Wow – this is truly gorgeous! The centerpieces are so beautiful, and I love the "tree stump cakeplate"idea!
The tablescape is just beautiful! I might add some red elements and do something like this for our Christmas Eve dinner. Thanks for the inspiration!
So beautiful! I love all the natural elements especially the birch!
I agree with everyone about how fabulous the birch accents are – and I also really love the cylinder candles that look like eyelet lace!
Wow that's a lot of great detail photos. A lovely organic esthetic.
This wedding is stunning! This is almost exactly how I am envisioning my wedding. I really hope I can capture a similar feel. Thank you so much for posting this!
LOVE the cake "plate"! Everything is just gorgeous.
I must admit that wedding cake plate really caught my eye. Talk about an attention grabber with the contrast of that all white cake and wood cake stand. Impressive!
I adore this wedding reception. The textures and colors are so fantastic! I love the food options and the way they were presented! Wonderful post!
This wedding is seriously breath-taking! I just adore that grass covered serving tray and the birch vases!
What a beautiful wedding! I love the paper that is wrapped around the votives. I would love to do this for my wedding but cannot find that type of paper anywhere. Can you tell me what you used and where I can find it?
Love her dress! Any details on who the designer was?
Oh my goodness. After searching the web . This is my wedding!!! I was going for the Black/White Damask print fushia/Lime scheme. This Organic Inspired theme has taken my breath. I have thrown out all previous ideas and have lovingly committed to this theme. I think I will still try to incorporate some yellow and black, colors I love, to this thema and it will still work magically. I come across this page because I am doing hanging mason jars as vases hanging from my tent and shepards hooks and now I am in love. When you know, you know. This is US!!!!
I really think that these ideas will help to make the perfect nature inspired wedding reception. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfJY25V5jQ-dgBJcK | Data show that the fraction of women in charge of a single managed U.S. equity fund has been around a very low level of about 10% over a 20 year period. The literature studied a number of possible reasons behind this statistics (e.g., hiring discrimination against women, self-selection of women into other professions or into less competitive environments, career interruptions). The authors propose the investigation of a potential customer-based discrimination (based on Becker, 1971). This would lead to hiring women as fund managers being less attractive for fund companies.
Do investor care about the fund manager gender?
(Rational explanation) Do they manifest statistical discrimination (based on performance evidence)?
(Irrational explanation) Do they manifest prejudice against female fund managers due to gender bias?
YES- Linking the results from the IAT back to subjects' investment behavior, the authors find that subjects with high IAT prejudice scores do indeed invest significantly less in female-managed funds in the experimental investment task, while subjects for which the IAT does not indicate any gender bias do not invest less in these funds.
This study shows that gender bias of investors can have a strong impact on financial markets. This helps to clarify why female-managed funds receive much lower inflows than male-managed funds. The authors speculate that, as managers generating low inflows are not attractive for fund companies to hire, customer-based discrimination is a possible new explanation for the low fraction of female managers in the mutual fund industry. | c4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUcHfxK1fBGsWmuYKl | Q: Random variable is not $\mathcal{A}$-measurable I'm trying to understand what's going on here, this is notes from a lecture and my additions in italic:
Given a probability space $(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})$ and an integrable random $X$ (i.e, $\mathbb{E}[|X|]< \infty $).
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a sub-$\sigma$-algebra of $\mathcal{F}$. This simply implies that $\mathcal{A}$ is a $\sigma$-algebra on $\Omega$ and $\mathcal{A} \subseteq \mathcal{F}$?
We typically assume that $X$ is not $\mathcal{A}$-measurable.
What does it mean that a random variable is/is not $\mathcal{A}$-measurable?
Thanks!
A: Part of what's given is an (integrable) random variable $X$ on $(\Omega,\mathcal F,\mathbb P)$. This means two things, one that $X$ is a measurable function with respect to the $\sigma$-algebra $\mathcal F$, and two that $\int |X|\,d\mathbb P < \infty$. The second condition expresses that $X$ is integrable. It's the first thing that your question is really about.
Saying that $X$ is measurable with respect to $\mathcal F$ means that for any Borel set $B\subset \mathbb R$, the event $\{X\in B\}:=\{\omega\in\Omega:X(\omega)\in B\}$ is a member of $\mathcal F$. If we also have a sub-sigma-algebra $\mathcal A\subset\mathcal F$, it may not be the case that $X$ is measurable with respect to $\mathcal A$. This is because the events of the form $\{X\in B\}$ are only assumed to be members of $\mathcal F$, and $\mathcal A$ as a subset of $\mathcal F$, may not contain all (or some) of the events $\{X\in B\}$. (Notice that the probability measure $\mathbb P$ does not factor into this discussion.)
As a simple example of this, say our sample space is $\Omega=\{1,\dots,6\}^2$, all the outcomes of two dice rolls, and $\mathcal F$ is the power set of $\Omega$. Let $X$ be the random variable which is $1$ if we roll $(1,1)$, and $0$ otherwise. Then $X$ is measurable with respect to the sub-sigma-algebra $\mathcal A_1 = \{\emptyset,\Omega,\{(1,1)\},\Omega\setminus\{(1,1)\}\}$, but it is not measurable with respect to the trivial sub-sigma-algebra $\mathcal A_2 = \{\emptyset,\Omega\}$, because for instance the event $\{X = 1\} = \{(1,1)\}$ is not a member of $\mathcal A_2$.
A: A random variable $X$ is a measurable function $X:(E,F,P) \rightarrow Y$ where $E$ is a measure space and $Y$ is a topological space if for every open set $U$ in $Y$ the inverse image $V=X^{-1}(U)\implies V\in F$.
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BkiUbDU5qsNCPe9kHDuA | 'It was pretty chaotic': Fire at West Des Moines' Valley West Inn displaces more than 100
Philip Joens
A large fire at the Valley West Inn in West Des Moines displaced more than 100 people, hospitalized two people and injured six others late Monday night.
At about 11:15 p.m., West Des Moines firefighters were called to the large blaze at the Valley West Inn extended stay hotel at 3535 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines. West Des Moines Fire Marshal Mike Whitsell said the fire started in a first-floor room in one of the three buildings that make up the hotel. The exact location in the room where the fire started was still being determined Tuesday, Whitsell said.
When firefighters arrived, residents were scrambling, Witsell said. While some of the residents had already made it out of the building, "a lot" needed assistance getting out, Whitsell said.
Some residents also chose to jump out of windows on the first and second floors, hand firefighters kids out windows, with one person crawling down the outside of the building, Whitsell said. Firefighters also carried people down ladders, he said.
"We were grabbing whatever we could with the personnel we had to get ladders up to the building," Whitsell said. "You did not have the time to get exactly what you needed."
The building caught fire as many of its residents were asleep, Whitsell said. When people woke up, they found their hallways filled with smoke.
"It was pretty chaotic," Whitsell said. "Between our firefighters and residents, they told us that there was zero visibility in a lot of those hallways. Even if they got down on the ground and were crawling, it didn't improve much at all."
Six people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Two were hospitalized, but at least one has already been released, Whitsell said. He did not know the condition of the other person.
"We were extremely lucky that we got everybody outside," Whitsell said.
It took about 45 minutes to get the fire under control. On Tuesday, investigators were at the hotel, and crews were watching for hot spots.
There are 142 rooms in the hotel. Of those, 127 were occupied, Whitsell said. The building where the fire broke out suffered extensive water, smoke and fire damage. Part of the roof has also collapsed.
A second building in the hotel's complex also suffered extensive smoke damage. The third suffered some minor smoke damage to its third floor, Whitsell said.
The hotel was built in 1972, according to records from the Polk County Auditor. A fire sprinkler system was not required when the building was built and it has not met the criteria to have one be added since then, Whitsell said.
There was a fire alarm system — albeit an old one — that did not have alarms in rooms, Whitsell said.
"Codes were much different back then," Whitsell said.
All five West Des Moines fire stations responded, as did most of the city's ambulances, Whitsell said. Departments from Urbandale, Waukee, Clive, Windsor Heights and Johnston also sent firefighters or ambulances to the scene, he said.
Monday night, firefighters weren't able to spray water on the fire in the attic immediately because the heat, water and smoke would have been pushed down on residents who were trying to escape and the firefighters helping them, Whitsell said.
"We were shooting water in from hoses into the windows, containing the fire," Whitsell said. "We just had to be very careful as to when we could fully open up things to put the fire out so it wasn't a detriment."
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Philip Joens covers breaking news for The Des Moines Register. He can be reached at 515-443-3347 at pjoens@registermedia.com or on Twitter @Philip_Joens. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbMw5qsMAIw1ak5EN | Residents of Bield care home, Donaldson's Court, located in Edinburgh, enjoyed a 'Superjam Tea Party' courtesy of Fraser Doherty, the creator of Superjam.
Doherty's success with his range of preserves is owed to his grandmother with whom he enjoyed making jam with when he was young. Recognising a promising business opportunity, Fraser turned his hobby into a reality and became the founder of Superjam.
The incredible success of Doherty's business enables him to come to Bield homes and host tea parties free of charge, allowing residents to indulge in an afternoon of socialising, scones with jam and live entertainment – All hosted by Doherty himself.
The news of Superjam's tea party success in the Donaldson's court care home has spread across publications such as The Edinburgh Reporter and Care and Nursing Magazine.
More information on Bield's Superjam tea party can be found here. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdSY4dbgg8g9yU2Vx | from new_file import another_function
from helper import greeting
from third_function import cool
if __name__ == "__main__":
greeting('hello')
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BkiUeIHxK1fBGsWmwYKY | Live Your Message is an industry-leading Online Branding Agency and Business Training Organization seeking an experienced Live Event Coordinator / Office Manager to play a key role in developing, planning and executing our many live events per year, along with keeping our office in Marina del Rey functioning smoothly.
… that most of the world's problems can be solved through entrepreneurship.
… that when people are educated and empowered to step up and solve the important problems that call to them, great things can happen in the world.
That's why it's our mission over the next 10-20 years to equip 1 million people with the tools to step forward and build a business that expresses who they are so they can make a positive impact on the world.
We have a pretty solid team of 5 right now, but we're looking for another to support our expanding student community and our larger tribe. We want to make sure that everyone who joins us receives a super-high standard of support on their entreprenuerial journey.
The truth is that it can be lonely and hard to be an entrepreneur and we want to provide the strategy, support and inspiration for all those who choose this journey alongside us.
Since a key company-wide objective for 2018 is creating a self-managing collaborative company, the Live Event Coordinator / Office Manager will be responsible for managing themselves while staying in close, regular communication with the key department heads and team members.
The Live Event Coordinator / Office Manager is a cross-departmental team member who plays a key role in multiple departments.
You will have at least 3 years of live event coordination office and office management experience.
You will be highly detail-oriented and able to implement tasks on-time, on-schedule and with a high-degree of accuracy.
Takes a high-level of initative in proposing systems and ways to improve organizational efficiency.
This is a part-to-full-time role (40 hours/week) requiring a long-term commitment with availability Monday to Friday. Work on evenings and weekends will be required from time to time in order to meet deadlines, particularly around online product launches and/or live events.
Location of this role will be our office located in Marina del Rey, CA, two blocks from the beach.
Live Your Message offers a competitive compensation package commensurate with anticipated duties and experience.
We also pay up to 50% of your health insurance. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdtnxK7IABDHEY3EK | The Association of Resident Doctors has issued a 21-day strike notice to Kaduna State Government to implement agreements it reached with the association two years ago.
The President of the association, Dr. Emmanuel Joseph, said at a Press briefing on Thursday in Kaduna that the strike notice was issued on November 6.
He said the medical doctors would resume their suspended strike if, after the ultimatum, the government fails to implement the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the association.
"The MOU set out mutually agreed road map with timeline towards resolving the issues and provided the basis for suspension of the strike action two years ago," he said.
Joseph noted that since the agreement, the ARD has patiently and painstakingly continued to engage the government for the implementation of the agreed terms.
He, however, said the association was "rudely shocked by the content of the establishment circular of the 27th September, 2019, which is in breach to our MOU and indeed shortchanges doctors in salaries and allowances to the tune 26-49 per cent across grades and steps."
According to the ARD president, the Kaduna state government has only "partially" attended to only two out of eight issues contained in the MOU after two years of the agreement.
"It is our earnest hope that the 21 days given will provide ample time for the government to rectify the anomalies in the new circular, to keep with the terms of our MOU and to meet up with other mutually terms of the MOU," Joseph said.
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BkiUbUvxK0-nUKDhpA8b | CROWN POINT, Ind. -- Kristen Gober, 33, pleaded not guilty Monday to neglect charges filed against her after the fire that killed her two young children.
Gober cried, her body trembling as she faced the judge.
Over the objections of prosecutors, the judge agreed to lower Gober's bond from $200,000 to $125,000. That also angered relatives who were in the courtroom.
Prosecutors argued the Gary woman is a flight risk and a danger to others, pointing out that 113 people are homeless due to the fire.
The fire broke out on March 25 at the Lakeshore Dunes apartment complex on Forest Court in Gary.
Police said Gober's 6-year-old son, who survived, told them she left the children alone the previous evening and did not return. He and his siblings were playing with the stove, and a blanket they put on the stove caught fire.
Kailani Gober, 2, and Khristopher Gober, 4, suffered burns and smoke inhalation. They died at Methodist Northlake Hospital.
According to court documents, Kristen Gober stated that she tried to reach her children. She was in shock and then walked away. Those documents also state Gober never told firefighters or the maintenance man at the scene that her children were upstairs. Police arrested her at a nearby McDonald's.
Christopher Hardin, Khristopher Gober's father, called the bond reduction -- Gober's second one -- pitiful.
"My child didn't even get to see his 5th birthday," he said. "It hurts everyday. It's not about me, but it's hard to cope. I can't sleep, I cant eat. I can't do anything."
Hardin was fighting Kristen Gober for custody of their son.
Kristen Gober's next court date is May 21. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUa-45qg5A5-klB_zH | spicy is an acceptable dictionary word for games like scrabble, words with friends, crossword, etc.
The word 'spicy' is made up of 5 letters.
Using the word 'spicy' in Scrabble will fetch you 12 points while using it in Words with Friends will fetch you 13 points (without taking into consideration the effect of any multipliers).
See all the words ending with spicy.
See all the words which start with spicy.
See all the words which contain spicy. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcOvxK3YB9i3RJ57Z | The worst part of shaving is no doubt, the razor burn. Nothing kills the look of smooth skin like redness and bumps, but it seems that no matter how hard we try, razor burn continues to persist.
You may have tried a number of products to no avail, but luckily there are some natural items, some of which you may already have around your home, that can help banish those unwanted bumps.
As expected, to avoid razor burn, you'll want a fresh and sharp razor blade. Important steps to take before shaving included washing the skin and exfoliating. But if you still experience razor burn, you're going to want to know the best post-shaving care.
Next time you've got some pesky razor burn, try these seven natural remedies that can help smooth your skin and reduce redness.
In addition to going into your salads, apple cider vinegar can treat razor burn as well. Because it is an anti-inflammatory, it helps to soothe your skin while reducing inflammation and itching. Just dip a cotton ball into the vinegar and apply directly to skin.
A popular at-home remedy, witch hazel is an anti-inflammatory that comes from the witch hazel shrub. It can help reduce swelling, repair broken skin, and help fight bacteria. Apply it directly to your razor burn to improve healing.
Aloe vera is useful for soothing more than just sunburns. You can use a leaf or a packaged gel and apply directly to your skin, which will help reduce itchiness as well as inflammation.
Whip out those tea bags! Black tea contains chemicals called tannins that naturally work to reduce inflammation in the skin. Livestrong recommends buying cheap tea bags, moistening them in warm water before applying them to the skin.
Tea tree oil can be used for more than just curing infections. Mix some tea tree oil with water and use a cotton ball to apply to the skin. The essential oil is both antibacterial and antimicrobial.
Honey is best known for its antibacterial properties, making it a good choice for razor burn. Apply a thin layer of honey over the skin, and let it sit for five minutes. Wash off with cool water to help reduce irritation.
Coconut oil can help keep the skin moisturized and soothed. It has antifungal and antibacterial properties, making it a good choice for sensitive skin. You can even shave directly using coconut oil instead of shaving cream. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdqo5qWTBBvMd7ddb | -St. Bernard Cemetery
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Why burial in a Catholic Cemetery?
Ever since the sacred body of Jesus Christ was reverently laid in a tomb, the Catholic Church has respected the profound goodness and loving mercy derived from the internment of the deceased. The Catholic Church has always taught that the burial of the deceased is a Corporal Work of Mercy, seeing it necessary to dedicate solemnly, consecrated ground for this holy purpose. Catholic Cemeteries serve this purpose of burying the faithful departed to bear witness to Christ and to await the resurrection of the body into life everlasting.
The area of land that a Catholic Cemetery rests on is considered "Holy Ground." This land has been blessed by the bishop, and the deceased is interred or entombed in a holy and spiritual environment. Loved ones and family members are encouraged to come and pray for the souls of the deceased, knowing that they too will be together with them, one day, in the presence of Almighty God. Once the deceased is laid to rest, one can have the reassurance and knowledge that their loved one is truly blessed from this sanctifying gift. Being buried in a Catholic Cemetery is truly a Holy Privilege.
The Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church defines only two places as being sacred: the Church Building where Jesus resides in the tabernacle and the Catholic Cemetery which is an expression of faith and extension of the parish community.
In an effort to adhere to these fundamental beliefs of the Catholic Church, St. Bernard Church has worked diligently to maintain the dignity and beauty of its cemetery, which also serves the area Catholic Churches.
Why own a "pre-need" plot at St. Bernard Cemetery?
Many Catholics purchase their plot in advance for estate planning purposes and their family's piece-of-mind. Today, over half the purchases of burial space made in Catholic Cemeteries are made in advance of death (pre-need). This shows both a sense of thoughtful planning and a sense of economic prudence. The decisions made now will be your own which gives you peace of mind now, and your loved one's peace of mind later. A pre-need burial selection may be made today calmly, responsibly, economically, and prudently with a low down payment and interest-free monthly payments.
We have just completed a major project digitizing and updating St. Bernard Cemetery maps and files to assist families in locating plots, easily view available plots, and conduct genealogy research. Our staff is here to assist you to locate a suitable plot at a convenient time. Please call the office for an appointment at 860-875-0753 X 105, cemetery@saintbernardchurch.org.
Please note the following for purchasing a plot at St. Bernard Cemetery:
For the new sections (P-V), if you decide to not use your St. Bernard Cemetery plot in the future, we will repurchase your plot at the original price.
The funds from part of each plot purchase are set aside in a Perpetual Care Fund for future maintenance of the grounds so you can be assured your resting place will always be cared for.
At least one member of the family to be interred must be Catholic.
Location - Rules - Fees
Saint Bernard Cemetery is located on Tolland and Kingsbury Avenues and has served the parish for over 100 years. The cemetery is open from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm and closed from dusk to dawn.
The cemetery staff works with families who are in need of a burial plot immediately and helps families to plan for the future. The staff also assists with burials and maintains the grounds year-round.
Rules for St. Bernard Cemetery
Fees for St. Bernard Cemetery
Respect for the Cremated Remains of a Body
Cemetery Plots FOR SALE as of 10-26-22
Monument Companies
Application for Memorial Work
Contact the Rectory at:
860-875-0753 X 100 for more information
Office hours 9:00 am-3:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Driving Directions from I 84 East or West
1. Take Exit 67 Mile Hill Road
2a. Coming from the West (Hartford), make a left at the end of the ramp onto Route 31
2b. Coming from the East (Boston), make a right at the end of the ramp onto Route 31.
3. Follow Route 31 through two lights to Route 74. Turn right on Route 74.
4. Continue on Route 74 until you see the entrance to St. Bernard Cemetery on your right.
The Cemetery has just completed a major map upgrade project to make plot location, expansion planning, and family research easier.
The map file below has 17 digital maps of St. Bernard Cemetery. After you open the file, you will see tools you can use to zoom in or out of each map and navigate within each map. The first 3 maps are "overviews" of the entire cemetery followed by 12 maps of each of the Cemetery Sections (A-V) which show the Plot Number and Row within each Section. Cemetery Sections A-N are known as the "Old Section" with access from Tolland Avenue. Sections O-V are known as the "New Section" with access from Kingsbury Avenue. The last 2 maps show the work of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) in the older Sections A and K where we are working to find burials in areas with missing headstones and/or records.
St. Bernard Cemetery Map
The St. Bernard Cemetery files below by LAST NAME and PLOT are updated through 2008. We are now working on making our files current from our card files and Town of Vernon records, so visit this page often. To research a family name:
Click here to find your family's LAST NAME and locate the PLOT. The PLOT is the SECTION, PLOT NUMBER, and ROW within the Cemetery. A Plot may have one grave, two graves, three graves, etc. REVISED 8-3-18.
Once you have identified your PLOT, click here to find all persons buried within that PLOT. Note that a PLOT may have more than one LAST NAME. REVISED 8-3-18.
Then, click here to find the PLOT location with the Cemetery from our digital maps. You must have Adobe Reader to open the maps. Note that you can move up and down in the 17 maps by using the up or down arrows at the bottom of your screen and you can also zoom in and out by using the + and - symbols.
If you want to view a headstone photo, click here to go to the St. Bernard Cemetery page on findagrave.com, a volunteer website that has just completed photos of headstones at St. Bernard Cemetery and provides the capability to contact other family members also doing genealogy research.
NEW Veterans Interred at St. Bernard Cemetery, REVISED 7-20-18. Click here for the list by Section, click here for the list by Last Name. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUadLxK4sA-9F9h8yo | Well it's nice to see the sun again and be able to step out without wellies. So nice that the dog took it into his head to run off during our morning walk. I found him with the love of his life, a working collie from the farm, whose owners were not impressed.
Mince pies are in the oven as we speak so hope to see some of you at the weekend.
I don't know why but I'm really drawn to this Jamie Oliver ramekin which is that lovely dark grey which is oh so trendy at the moment. I've been busy sprucing up the studio for the weekend and also filling in my stock sheets for the new pop-up shop in Northampton to open next week in St. Giles street. It will be full of lovely things made by local artisans. More on that later.
More swag from a friend's garden. These were lovely to paint with all their earthy colours. If you are in the area, I'm having an open studio on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. It would be lovely to see you and show off my new workplace.
More water……….can't believe it! It has seriously impeded my attempts today to ready myself for my "open studio" this weekend. Speaking of which, if you are in the area, please drop in to see my new abode and partake of a coffee and a mince pie. Friday/Sat/Sun 11-2pm – umbrellas supplied! Yesterday I took a trip to Ikea with Flora to buy Christmas presents for her friends (she is on a budget!). Four weeks before Christmas, it was the type of trip that leaves you in despair for humanity. However, on the bright side, I saw a fantastic storage system for the new studio which got me quite excited………..little things.
It must be getting on for Christmas, I keep buying Satsumas and/or Clementines. I've just bought the dog a new bed for the studio so that he can keep me company…………he quite approves but thought he might test drive it in the warm kitchen first.
Water, water everywhere. I delivered some paintings late yesterday afternoon and between the villages there were lakes of water on the road at intervals………not fun in a VW Golf. I managed to get back ok, locked the doors and lit the fire……….bliss.
This little pot is an old favourite, unearthed from my parents-in-laws field in Cumbria. I love the colours of shallots……..very autumnal. I have a strong recommendation for you. I went to see the film Rust and Bone last night and I have to say it was quite the most excellent film I've seen in a long time. Even Jobbers enjoyed it and he doesn't like subtitles. Speaking of which, so happy that Sophie Groebel is back on our screens…………great stuff, The Killing 3.
and was a great artist in his own right.
I haven't posted much lately because I've got a "frozen shoulder" that's giving me jip at the moment. I'm rationing my easel hours so as not to exacerbate the situation. In the meantime, I'm really working those tiles which are actually from a photo I took in a hotel bathroom in Italy in September. Nothing escapes me and I loved the colour and the chips in the tiles. My camera always makes my straight lines look wonky but they're not, honest. I'm painting in my studio for the first time today. It's not quite ready but I am working on a brace of pheasant which need to be kept chilled so as not to encourage nasty beasties. The trouble is, that means I have to be kept chilled too which is not my natural state. I've come in for some soup.
More figs………….this one was sold at Windsor. These didn't have the lovely green necks but I think I like them dark. I still have some figs in the fridge so there may be more. I went to see The Sapphires last night at the cinema. A bit cheesy but some belting music – worth a trip for that alone. Don't forget that I'm giving away a painting before Christmas but you need to be subscribed. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdPU5qoYA1LW_XS4l | The show is about one very flawed woman's struggle to become a better and healthier person. She's clearly lost, but dedicated and passionate in a way which makes you admire her and be annoyed by her at the same time. The show does a neat trick of manipulating the viewer into alternatively mocking her because of her naivete and flakiness, and cheering for her out of empathy, both back and forth within single episodes. You come to expect her to crash and burn in a tragic and comedic fashion. Yet in the end, she claims small victories of enlightenment that put all of us in touch with our humanity and teach us a little bit about growth. The show is not preachy, yet makes its points poignantly and powerfully.
I'm excited with anticipation as to where the show may go and hope it is renewed despite the poor ratings so far. Definitely my favorite new show of the season.
Originally, season two had ten episodes, but when HBO cut the order by two, Mike White had to re-write some things, like a storyline where Amy's sister stayed on the house for the whole season. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbWbxK7Tt52mM7XQw | The City's goal with this tender was to procure a qualified company capable of providing reliable, year-round management of their annual biosolids program, including receipt of the material, storage, marketing and distribution of the City's LysteGro® biofertilizer product.
The solution also needed to allow the City to increase its annual production of LysteGro with the primary drivers being environmental sustainability, reliability and economic viability.
Through the tender process, the City sought to align with an organization with proven experience, resources and equipment as well as reliable, year-round, off-site storage capacity and the ability to maximize its production of the Class A quality, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) registered, LysteGro product.
"Lystek's response to the tender demonstrated that it is positioned to fulfill all of the City's requirements, including keeping our biosolids out of landfills," says Tim Robertson, Division Manager of Wastewater Services for the City of Guelph. "The City is looking forward to working with Lystek on this project, due to their understanding of the City's operational cost requirements, its technology, ownership of a licensed Organic Material Recovery Center and its experience with Class A quality, CFIA registered biofertilizer products."
"We are committed to the development and nurturing of mutually beneficial, long term business partnerships that provide real value to our customers," says Kurt Meyer, President of Lystek.
Nov 1, Lystek announced the commercialization of its first, low temperature, low pressure mobile Thermal Hydrolysis Processing unit (Lystek Mobile THP) - a first in the biosolids and organics management sector in North America. This new innovation was conceived in response to growing market demand from smaller scale treatment plant operators for sustainable biosolids management solutions in support of the movement toward resource recovery.
"The new, Lystek Mobile THP unit is part of our plan to continue innovating and providing the market with a range of practical solutions for biosolids and organics management," says Rick Mosher, Chief Technology Officer for Lystek. "It extends the opportunity to a wider range of wastewater treatment facilities to participate in the many benefits of Thermal Hydrolysis with a compact package based on our proven, award-winning technology."
In terms of scalability, the Lystek Mobile THP unit is the company's smallest commercial system built to date. It capitalizes modular design and extends the proven advantages of Lystek' s in-plant Thermal Hydrolysis solutions by providing a compact, cost effective package that is capable of rapid implementation. It is designed to operate entirely within two vertically stacked 50' containers and requires minimal, external utilities.
The unit will be made available for installation as a permanent solution in smaller scale facilities where the operating parameters and capacity of the unit can be matched to processing needs, or it will be leased for shorter terms to confirm market demand or to address challenges requiring time-sensitive solutions, while developing a long-term, full-scale plan.
"Capital remains a primary constraint for many small to medium sized treatment plants who are also tasked with managing ageing infrastructure and the risk of evolving regulations surrounding biosolids management, Lystek Mobile THP offers a practical solution to respond to these changes in a cost effective manner, particularly when a full facility upgrade may be premature or not required," concludes Mr. Mosher, of Lystek "We are excited to be able to offer this option." | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUgDHxK7IDOB8Ti1SV | This is an absolutely stunning villa in the beautiful Italian Lakes, situated just a 20 to 25 minute walk from the lakeside beaches and set within large, beautifully kept private gardens with swimming pool. The situation is wonderfully quiet and peaceful in a sought after and well kept residential neighbourhood.
The property is set over two levels. On the ground floor, there is a lovely open plan dining and kitchen area. Multiple French windows open out onto the spacious terrace. The kitchen is well equipped to a high standard. Equipment includes a Nespresso coffee machine, dishwasher and microwave. The lovely dining area has a square teak dining table with chairs for 8 guests. There is also an additional table seating 4. A portable Bose docking station is available for guests' use.
There are also 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on this floor. The first of these bedrooms is a spacious kingsize double room, with French doors that open on to the terrace area. There is a chest of drawers and wardrobe in this room. The second bedroom can sleep up to 4 guests in total. There is a set of bunk beds as well as a single bed with pull out bed below. This allows us to create a double bed or two single beds in this room, dependent on what guests prefer. This room has also has a wardrobe and chest of drawers. The bathroom on this floor has a large corner bath as well as a separate walk in shower. In the hallway, there is a shelf unit with selection of board games, ideal for families.
Upstairs, there is a wonderful bright and airy living area. For those staying during the Winter months, there is a log burning fireplace, whilst for those staying in the Spring and Summer, multiple French doors lead off the living area to a spacious balcony enjoying stunning views and with table and chairs for al fresco Summer dining as well as comfortable sun loungers. There is a large TV in the living room for use with the DVD player or guests can connect a laptop using the HDMI cable supplied. It is also equipped with Apple TV. There is no 'standard' TV service at the villa.
There are also two double bedrooms on this floor, both with ensuite bathrooms with showers. The kingsize master bedroom has a large double wardrobe and chest of drawers and French windows leading directly on to the balcony. The second queen size bedroom also has plenty of storage with wardrobe, chest of drawers and dressing table.
For those who like to dine outside, there is also a large terrace area on the ground floor of the property with large oval dining table and chairs with seating for 10. There is also a Weber BBQ. Two large awnings can be extended to provide shade during hot Summer days.
The gardens are spacious and offer plenty of space for children to play and for adults to relax and enjoy the sunshine. A gardener regularly tends the mature gardens and in the Summer months, it is filled with the scent of the numerous roses and lavender plants that dominate the area immediately surrounding the terrace.
The beautiful private swimming pool is perfect for cooling off on a hot day or you can just relax and sunbathe on the loungers on the large poolside terrace. The high quality in-ground pool has a contemporary look and measures 10m x 4.5m with a maximum depth of 1.6m. There is an electric security pool cover that can be used if young children are staying in the property.
For those staying for a longer period, the property enjoys all the practical elements you would expect. There is a large basement area housing a washing machine and dryer. There is also an extra fridge here and a freezer, perfect for storing your ice cream and wine supplies!
The property has a long private driveway with ample parking for a number of cars.
Rental fees include utllities with the exception of £150 cleaning fee. Additional charges may apply during the Winter months to cover heating costs. Please ask for more details. Pool heating is included from June to end September. For any guests wishing to use the pool in May or October, it will be open should the weather allow it but there will be an additional £200 per week to cover pool heating costs.
We really want to thank you for having helped us to spend a great holiday. I'm not exaggerating to say that this was one of the best times we've ever had in a vacation home. The property was absolutely amazing and as my husband and I spent the holidays with my quite big family we really appreciated the spaciousness of the house and the garden. Both adults and children had lots of things to enjoy in and around the house. We really didn't miss anything and to quote my mother who especially cherished the very well equipped kitchen: "There is nothing in this house that is lacking." It was absolutely worth it! We are so glad we came upon Booking For You and I want to give a special thanks to you for the personal contact and advice you provided in advance. The service you offer is really remarkable and absolutely recommendable. If we are ever to spend another holiday in Italy Bookings For You will be the first address to look to.
I think Bookings for You was an easy partner to co-operate with and everything went smoothly. They answered us quickly and in a friendly way. I am happy to use their services again and I have been already searching villa for next summer. We had a lovely week in Villa Colmegna. The villa was very good, one of the best we have rented, and it was just like described beforehand: very good beds and bathrooms, good coal bbq, very well equipped kitchen, lovely pool, nice garden and great view. We loved the lake and little villages nearby. There was problems first with keys and then with wifi, but problems were quickly fixed. Olimpia was very helpful. We appreciated the good instructions about how to find villa and how things work there. Recycling was a little bit difficult.
£300 per week discount for all stays across July and August 2015! | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcqrxK7FjYCv2RSuc | Submit address documents to TSE from 1st April. Your address document must be dated no earlier than 1st April.
Apply for your DBS online on 1st June or as soon as possible thereafter.
We recommend that you join the Update Service.
Obtain any overseas criminal check from your previous country of residence, if applicable, by 1st June.
Book your skills tests as soon as you have accepted our offer, you cannot start the course unless you have passed these tests.
Ensure all original documents have been seen by TSE. Apply for any duplicate/replacement certificates immediately.
Let TSE know your degree class as soon as it has been awarded.
For overseas qualifications, ensure you have a NARIC statement of comparability. Where NARIC have indicated that you do not have Maths and or English GCSE equivalent, book an equivalency test.
If undertaking an SKE is a condition of your offer, please book it as early as possible.
SKE courses must be completed before you start your Initial Teacher Training.
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Complete the confidential online health questionnaire as early as possible.
Please ensure you disclose all information relating to your health.
SALARIED TRAINEES ONLY Please contact your employing school as soon as you can. They are responsible for obtaining your DBS and Fitness to Teach checks and it is therefore very important that you liaise with them. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfHk5qhLBmcl5psyC | Who: Open to all educators, administrators, and people curious about adding an innovative edge to their practice.
Cost: $145. Space is limited.
Educators and administrators from all backgrounds are encouraged to attend and contribute to the learning. The conference will have 12 sessions covering all division areas; topics include Maker Education, Inquiry and Design Thinking, among others. Sessions are developed and led by the educators from various backgrounds and school districts across central and southern Alberta and are currently in the middle of their learning with TELUS Spark.
Maker experiences provide opportunities for students to personalize their learning through following their interests and curiosities. How can we take it one step further and inspire students to share their ideas through writing? Join us as we explore what it means to "capture" an idea and the many means through which students can express themselves in ways that are meaningful and engaging.
Here the stories of two teachers working to build resiliency in students and reframe their perception of "failure"; In this session we will look at student stories of resilience, different activities that can be done with students that build their vocabulary, and real life examples of what has been tried in a gr. 6 classroom. We'll also explore the use of mini-challenges in the classroom, attempting to reframe students' perception of failure. By celebrating risk-taking and failing forward, we are shifting our own perspective of what failure looks like it and how valuable it can be as a learner.
We will share with you our hands-on plan for how to foster a Maker Mindset in a dual-track, Elementary School setting. Join us as we share our tips and tricks on starting a Maker Space through building capacity and engagement with a fun, Fairy Tale twist. Come prepared to dive into literature and think outside the box in order to succeed using design thinking.
Come and participate in a journey through the Grade 5 curriculum. We will explore combining a student-led maker experience with a literacy focus to create a user experience (UX) that creates engagement and excitement in the classroom. This experience will lead you through connecting multiple strands of the curriculum as well as community experts with hands-on challenges, to inspire you into attempting something big, too.
We invite you to join us in our journey of bringing maker culture into our classrooms through encouraging a growth mindset and incorporating design thinking. We will share our stories of our journey so far, provide examples of activities that meet curricular outcomes and can be used in your classroom starting tomorrow, and show how you can cultivate a growth mindset in your classroom.
Find out what happens when the design thinking process is used to help students make connections between science, technology, and society. In this session, we will embark on a journey and see how what started as effort to incorporate design thinking into the science classroom became a powerful toolkit for building empathy and resiliency in middle school students.
Design Thinking: It's Not a Bubble, It's a Springboard.
What does community mean to you? This session is about the discovery of what community meant in our classroom. From incorporating curricular outcomes, to working within small groups, or other classes/grades in our school (or even the larger community outside of our school), students have been exploring and learning about what community means, and what it can look like. I'll be reflecting on different tasks and discussions that my students have taken part in, and how it's impacted my students and the evolution of my teaching this year!
In this session, we will follow the journey of creating maker's space in a K-12 school. The purpose of the space is to create an opportunity for students from Kindergarten to grade 12 to be innovative and explore their interests. To create an inclusive environment, the Space has to offer opportunities to involve the smallest hands to the more experienced learners, as well as include learners with different abilities and interests. Our goal is to create a Space that can be used for free exploration as well as to support curriculum-oriented inquiry projects. The session will showcase how the teachers worked collaboratively using the design thinking process to create Maker's Space in our school with the goal of promoting innovation in an inclusive Maker's environment.
How can the Learning Commons become a central part of active learning for all students in a large school community? Join us as we share our adventure of engaging students in generating design tasks to create a community of collaborative thinkers from kindergarten to grade 4. Work with grade 3 students as they share a student generated design thinking task which they facilitated for other classes in the school. Find out about how the Learning Commons is used an essential piece of this process and how this learning is extending into the larger school community.
When students are given play time throughout school they are able to dig a little deeper into what they are passionate about. In this session we discuss how giving students a chance to pursue their passions gives them the time and ability to find or follow an interest that they may not otherwise be given time for. We will explore how giving children from grade 1 and 2 benefited from free play time every day.
Join us as we navigate the high-tech world of maker culture with lowtech materials, found objects, and beautiful stuff! We will share our experiences with low-tech maker spaces in both Div I and Div II. Participants will be invited to tinker with beautiful stuff, engage in dialogue about the potential for "no-money" maker spaces in their classrooms and schools, and discover how nature land-based learning can be brought into classrooms" | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUevXxK7kjXLlzdiY1 | Top MLB storylines for September
Michael Dixon
The 2018 MLB season is winding down. But while we're only one month away from the postseason, there's still an awful lot to follow in September.
For the majority of the season, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have had baseball's best records. Not surprisingly, each team gives us a lot to monitor over the final month, including their race against each other.
Much like the AL East, it's a virtual certainty that two playoff teams will come out of the AL West. In all likelihood, those teams will be the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics. But do the Seattle Mariners have one final push in them?
In the National League, the race far more is wide open. The postseason could feature a seemingly endless combination of teams. Plenty of them will give baseball fans something to watch.
As far as individuals go, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, and Aaron Nola are in a heated race for the NL Cy Young. Meanwhile, J.D. Martinez can do something that's only been done once in the last 50 years. Nolan Arenado can do something not done in more than 80 years. Combined, the two can do something not done in even longer.
Fans of contenders and non-contenders alike have a lot to follow through the season's final month. These are the most notable storylines to monitor.
All stats and records are accurate through play on Monday, August 27.
Will an AL East race materialize?
Both the Red Sox and Yankees are all but assured of a playoff spot. But only one will win the AL East (and likely finish with MLB's best record). The other will be relegated to the dreaded Wild Card Game. Boston holds a 6.5-game lead over New York. That's certainly sizable. But after action on August 18, the Sox were up 10.5 games. So, the Yankees have already made some significant ground up. The two teams play six more times, including three in Boston to end the year. The Red Sox will certainly want to have everything wrapped up before their biggest rivals roll into Fenway for that series.
Nolan Arenado's quest to break 81-year drought
While Arenado doesn't lead in any Triple Crown category, a strong September would give him a real chance at the Triple Crown. He's only five batting average points, three home runs, and six RBI short of the NL lead in each category. It would be quite the historic achievement. While we wouldn't call the Triple Crown common in the AL, five junior circuit players have won it since Joe "Ducky" Medwick won the senior circuit's Triple Crown in 1937. For more historical perspective, Arenado is within striking distance of doing something that players like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Barry Bonds never did.
Can the Mariners add a wrinkle to AL playoff picture?
We don't know the seeds, but it seems inevitable that the five AL playoff teams will be the Red Sox, Yankees, Astros, Athletics, and the Cleveland Indians. The Seattle Mariners are only team with any chance of breaking that up. Seattle trails Houston by seven in the AL West and is 5.5 behind Oakland for the second wild card spot. But with seven games against the A's and three against the Astros remaining, the Mariners do have a degree of control in this race. Does this team have a run in it? Or, will the longest active postseason drought in North America's major leagues be extended?
Orioles try to avoid futility record
Since 1900, only 10 MLB teams have lost 110 or more games in a season. Both the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals have a real shot at that. In fact, Baltimore has a chance to make even more history, albeit of the wrong kind. The O's are presently on pace to lose 115 games. Only three teams since 1900 have hit that mark. With a tough finishing stretch (including a brutal final stretch against the Yankees, Red Sox, and Astros), the single-season loss records for both the American League (119) and MLB (120) are both very much in play.
Which prospects will we see?
For fans of non-contending teams, September often lacks real excitement. But there are some teams that have, or at least can have, something to look forward to in the way of prospects coming up with the roster expansion. The White Sox have already seen Michael Kopech in Chicago. Eloy Jimenez should be next. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. absolutely needs to be with the Toronto Blue Jays. The San Diego Padres will see Luis Urias could see their primary return in the Brad Hand trade with Francisco Mejia. So, even if your team is well out of contention, September could offer a lot.
Cleveland trying to avoid complacency
The Indians are going to win the AL Central with ample room to spare. This seems like a blessing. Cleveland will get to spend the final month of the year resting players, getting healthy, and setting the rotation however it wants. What could go wrong? Well, teams who clinch early often struggle in the playoffs. While they still play everyday, early clinchers frequently have a hard time getting back into playing meaningful games after playing what essentially amounts to exhibition games for so long. For the Indians, a team getting over disappointing playoff trips in 2016 and 2017, maintaining that edge will be important.
Who will emerge in the cluttered NL playoff race?
The Chicago Cubs have plenty of cushion to at least be a wild card team. So, let's assume that they'll make the playoffs. That leaves the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers battling for the other four spots. The best and worst of those teams (Atlanta and Los Angeles) are separated by only 3.5 games. The Braves or Phillies will win the NL East while the D-Backs, Rockies, or Dodgers will win the NL West. That leaves five teams fighting for two wild card spots. If nothing else, it promises to be interesting.
Health of Chris Sale
It seems likely that Sale will return to the Boston rotation soon. Sale getting back is one thing. But it's not as important as him staying healthy. Sale has made two trips to the DL this year. So, a little caution is normal. Additionally, even if the health is no longer a concern, it's important that he gets back to top form. Sale is the guy who can match up with another team's ace. He can give the Red Sox a big edge in Game 1 of the ALDS when the Wild Card Game winner won't have its best starter available until Game 3. As good as Boston is, moving through a top heavy AL will be quite difficult without him at his best.
Which version of the Cardinals will show up?
No team in the aforementioned cluttered NL playoff race is as interesting as St. Louis. The Cards have gone 19-5 in August. If they keep that pace up, they'll not only cruise to a playoff spot, but could challenge the Cubs in the NL Central. On the other hand, St. Louis was 54-53 entering August. So, what are we to trust? The smaller but more recent sampling? Or, the slightly less recent, but far bigger one that we saw for four months? Given the number of teams that the Cards are competing with, plenty of fan bases will be looking towards St. Louis with great interest in September.
Will a leader emerge in the three-way NL Cy Young race?
It's all but certain that the NL Cy Young winner will come from the NL East. A trio of aces, Philadelphia's Aaron Nola, New York Mets starter Jacob deGrom, and winner of the last two NL Cy Youngs, Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer are the primary candidates. Will the race remain open? Or, will one of these three emerge as the leader in the race over the final month? Right now, it's hard to separate these guys. deGrom's 1.71 ERA gives him an edge here. Scherzer leads the way in strikeouts and WHIP. Nola gets an edge if you prefer to see someone on a contender. Their remaining starts will certainly be worth watching.
When will Aaron Judge return?
The Yankees are likely to get both Didi Gregorius and Gary Sanchez back quickly. The return of Judge, however, remains something of a mystery. Obviously, Judge's return would help New York in its quest to chase down Boston. But regardless of whether that happens, a healthy Judge will be important to the Yankees' playoff hopes. The New York lineup is deep, but it's been a little inconsistent in Judge's absence. The last thing the Yankees want to do is head into the playoffs facing the likes of Verlander, Gerrit Cole, Corey Kluber, Chris Sale, or the slew of elite AL relievers, with a wounded offense.
J.D. Martinez vies for the triple crown
Arenado is not the only man with a chance to win a Triple Crown. In fact, Martinez's chances for the American League Triple Crown are even more realistic. The Red Sox slugger leads the junior circuit in both batting average and RBI and is only one home run behind Oakland's Khris Davis. Should Martinez do it, he'd join Miguel Cabrera as the only hitters from either league to win the Triple Crown since 1967. If both Martinez and Arenado pull it off, it'll be only the second time in MLB history (Jimmie Foxx and Chuck Klein in 1933) that each league had a Triple Crown winner in the same season. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
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Today's most well-liked city delusion authors come jointly during this scrumptious brew that crackles and boils over with stories of robust witches and darkish magic!In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a gorgeous vampire joins forces with a witch from an historical line to determine who killed her liked husband. In "Seeing Eye" by way of Patricia Briggs, a blind witch is helping attractive werewolf Tom Franklin locate his lacking brother—and is helping him in additional methods than both of them ever suspected. And in Jim Butcher's "Last Call," wizard Harry Dresden takes at the darkest of darkish powers—the ones who dare to debris with this favourite beer.For someone who's ever questioned what lies past the boundaries of truth, who's imagined the key areas the place witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. allow your self fall lower than the spell of this bewitching collection!
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Do you're keen on Philadelphia? Do you like reliable writing? good, this can be the booklet for you. it really is in regards to the humans of Philadelphia—the strong, the fantastic, and the imperfect. convinced, the activities heroes are here—Mike Schmidt, Julius ("Dr. J.") Erving. And the politicians—Ed Rendell, John highway. And the moguls—Brian Roberts, Comcast honcho. And the would-be moguls—Mark Yagalla, world-class embezzler. And such a lot of extra, including—writing of their personal words—Terry Gross, Patti LaBelle, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Judy Wicks, Judith Rodin, and Smarty Jones (proving that this horse is not any one-trick pony). And such a lot of more—25 of them in all. The people—and the horse—who have intended whatever to this urban over the last two decades. Ripped from the pages of Philadelphia journal (well, okay, rigorously got rid of and lovingly pasted into this book), listed here are profiles of the folks who made an period.
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A brand new voice unearths the original personality of the higher MidwestIn the spirit of different writers who percentage an affinity for the traditional world---authors corresponding to Robert Frost, Emerson, and invoice Bryson---Looking for Hickories is Tom Springer's ode to the folks, normal good looks, and lore of the Midwest, a spot the place bustling groups neighbor a delicate mosaic of quiet woods, fertile meadows, and miles of farmland.Touching and funny by means of turns, searching for Hickories captures the essence of the higher Midwest's personality with topics specific to the sector but usually common in subject, from barn construction to land protection to the ignored significance of assorted bushes within the landscape.Like Frost's most sensible poems, Springer's essays frequently commence with pride and result in knowledge. They mingle a generosity of spirit and the childlike excitement of discovery with a grown-up experience of a time and a spot, if now not misplaced, then at risk of disappearing altogether---things to treasure and protect for this day and day after today.
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A ground-breaking examine of the way literature either mirrored and contributed to the eclipse and next revival of militarism within the 19th century. concentrating on 4 significant disputes within the Crimea, India, the Sudan, and South Africa in addition to the position of the military in Britain, John Peck examines how Victorian writers replied to army concerns. on the middle of the e-book is a obstacle that characterises the Victorian interval: the impossibility of reconciling imperial aggression with liberal family values.
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Translated from French by means of Ron Padgett. PROSE POEMS is Peirre Reverdy's first number of poems, initially released in 1967. "I enjoyed its austerity, its spookiness, and what I speculated to be its cubism...Dedications--removed from later editions--were to Max Jacob, Pablo Gargallo, Henri Laurens, Marcelle Braque, Josette Gris, Andre point, Pablo Picasso, Leonce Rosenberg, Claude Laurens, Marthe Laurens, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, all of whom have been neighbors or associates of the author"--Ron Padgett.
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This publication is a set of Ch'an poems, lots of which have been penned via celebrated Ch'an masters. grasp Hsing Yun, writer of Being reliable (Weatherhill, Inc) and just a nice Rain (Wisdom), deals us his statement on every one of those poems, giving us the good thing about his a long time of deep perform and perception. The master's commentaries now not basically include many tales but in addition new verses in their personal which shed mild at the which means of those appealing poems.
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BkiUfro5qhDCjszB7LxL | What most "personal injury lawyers" don't want you to know is that many times you do not need them. The personal injury factories that advertise for your case are usually handling hundreds of cases at a time. They have form letters they send to the insurance companies explaining the nature of your case and your injuries in the hope that the insurance company will quickly settle. Their goal is not to maximize each individual settlement, but rather to receive mediocre settlements on a large number of cases. They make their money by handling a large number of cases and putting minimal resources into each individual case. If you have been involved in a low-speed collision and have $1,000-$10,000 in medical bills, then in all likelihood you are just as capable of settling your case with an insurance company as a lawyer. The good news is, if you settle the case on your own, a lawyer will not take a substantial percentage of your recovery as a fee. In the vast majority of cases involving minor personal injuries, an individual can end up settling their case and recovering more money than they would have if they had hired an attorney.
It is only when you have suffered significant and debilitating injuries that you absolutely need an attorney. In these situations, why would you hire a personal injury lawyer who handles hundreds of small cases a year, and is rarely willing to invest a large amount of their time and resources into a single case? If you have suffered a significant injury or loss, then your case absolutely deserves individual attention, resources, and commitment. At Daniel Pleasant Holoman LLP, if we undertake the serious responsibility of handling your case, then you can rest assured that this is exactly what you will receive.
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BkiUb2nxaJJQnNCyfAfu | Community rallies to support charity following burglary
Community rallies to support Headway Worcestershire following burglary
TWO fundraising pages have been set up for a charity which has suffered financially following a vandalism attack.
Headway Worcestershire's building, otherwise known as The Mill, which is based in Gregory's Mill Street, was burgled on November 28.
Staff from the brain injury charity appealed for support following the break in.
Fundraising and marketing manager, Mandie Fitzgerald said: "We are so very touched by the Worcester community in support of Headway Worcestershire after our recent burglary. We have received so many kind and thoughtful messages via social media."
The burglar entered the building after breaking the fire door and then caused damage to the walls and doors which will need to be repaired.
Tom Horton, who set up a funding page said: "I was absolutely appalled to read the article in Worcester news about a recent break-in, where substantial damage has been caused, and funds have been taken."
Mr Horton added: "As someone who has been involved with the charity before, it is devastating to read articles like this and I feel that something has to be done, so this is the reason why I have set up this JustGiving page."
Staff from Headway Worcestershire devastated after vandalism
Boxing match in memory of 'brave little soldier Lukas,' 6
The funding page has so far raised £45. To donate, visit: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/fundraise4headwayworcs?
Another funding page was set up by Alicia Hammersley-Fenton from The Specialist Law Group.
The company is also organising a raffle where the money raised will be donated to charity.
Miss Fitzgerald added: "It's amazing that Tom and Alicia have taken the time and trouble to set up these fundraising pages in support of the charity, realising the financial implications on us after such an event.
"A heartfelt thanks to everyone that has supported us over the last few days." | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeR04dbghZzegC3MJ | Chris Mirabile
Chris Mirabile is Founder & CEO of NOVOS, a human longevity company. Chris graduated from NYU's Stern School of Business and later won their business plan competition with his startup company, Hotlist, a location-based social network that scaled to 220 million people's social plans.
Daniel Ives
At Shift Bioscience, Daniel is making drugs for safer cellular rejuvenation in humans through the application of machine-learning 'driver' clocks to cellular reprogramming. Daniel is also a founding fellow of the OnDeck Longevity Biotech fellowship, a continuous community for people to come together to build, join, or invest in revolutionary longevity biotechnology startups.
Gordan Lauc
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Gordan Lauc is the Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Zagreb, Director of the National Centre of Scientific Excellence in Personalised Healthcare, honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Kings College London, and member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. In 2017 he initiated the launch of the Human Glycome project and is one of its two co-directors.
Sebastian A. Brunemeier
Biotechnician
Sebastian A. Brunemeier is a biotech founder and VC investor. He is CEO and Co-Founder of ImmuneAGE Pharma, a stealth-mode company developing small molecules for immune rejuvenation. Previously, he was Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Cambrian Biopharma and a Principal at Apollo Health Ventures, the first and largest aging-focused venture capital fund in the world.
Michael Geer
Healthspans Increaser
After mass consumer success building the largest dating site (Badoo) and consumer VPN (AnchorFree) in the world, Michael, motivated by seeing family members encounter tragic health outcomes, joined forces with his Co-Founder Peter Ward to collaborate with longevity scientists to bring predictive health monitoring and longevity interventions directly to consumers to increase their healthspans. Their service Humanity is currently in private testing with thousands on the waiting list to join.
Hannah Went
Biologist
Hannah Went attended the University of Kentucky and graduated with a degree in Biology. During that time, she had multiple research internships at the University of Kentucky studying cell signaling and cell biology. After graduation, she worked for the International Peptide Society as their Director of Content and Research.
Long-time advocate for rejuvenation biotechnology and director of the aging research website Fight Aging. Reason is also the founder of Repair Biotechnologies, a new venture that will focus on the development of gene therapies relevant to human rejuvenation.
Tobias Reichmuth
Company Builder
Dr. Reichmuth has been building companies since he was 21 years old. He exited his first start-up in 2003, thereafter building Europe's leading climate change infrastructure fund SUSI Partners, co-founded Crypto Finance Group and The Singularity Group and has invested in more than 20 start-ups. In 2020, he has launched the Longevity Investors Conference together with Marc P. Bernegger.
Biotech Entrepreneu
Peter Fedichev is a scientist and biotech entrepreneur. His scientific background lies in the field of condensed matter physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. Peter earned M.S. in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbRbxK3xgpZzQmhw0 | In this video, I tackle two sections of the design. A review section is up first where a simple background image, heading, and review text is wired up to our home page using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
The final section before the footer features a contact form. For this form and for my own sanity I made use of a plugin called Ninja Forms. I really like this plugin over many other out there. The interface you interact with when creating new forms is pretty gratifying compared to others. Being a designer I appreciate that extra attention to detail.
Using Ninja Forms you can create forms to use throughout your site. I include a form on the page by defining a custom field and then propagating it with a shortcode generated from the plugin inside the HTML theme we are converting to WordPress.
After I got the form set up I went ahead and did my best to match the styles of our original HTML template. By default, the form plugin introduces new HTML into the mix so I needed to modify our styles slightly to achieve the same result. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdbo5qsBC9WrglKha | Q: Rake tasks - When should I use the bang symbol('!') when naming Rake tasks? Should I apply the ruby convention when a method can be destructive and add a bang('!') to the rake task name OR do I conform more to unix type standards and hence my personal understanding is that a bang is not often used.
eg. which is better?
$ rake update_products # OR
$ rake update_products!
Background
I have a method which pulls product data from an external API and updates records in my system with the newly imported data for each product.
The method is called like so:
e = ExternalConnection.new
e.update_products!
Im creating a rake task so I can use this in a cron job/heroku scheduler.
# scheduler.rake
task :update_products => :environment do
e = ExternalConnection.new
e.update_products!
A: It's up to you and if you want to follow the conventions. Is the update_products method going to modify the e object? If so, we could say that this is a "dangerous method" because the e state is going to change, and maybe somebody else depends on that object.
I, personally would add the "!". Why? Because if another (Ruby) programmer is going to play with the code, he will be like "oh hold on, let's be careful with this".
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BkiUfU45qg5DOdqYBgoV | I just cannot see myself staying away from colors anymore, I want to own trousers in every color of the rainbow. I just can't see me wearing black trousers, I find it boring nowadays; don't get me wrong I still wear a little bit of black with snakeskin prints. This winter I intend to do the opposite of the usual black & gray attitude, I am all about spicing up my outfit with a burst of color. A pop of color is such an attention grabbing addition that can elevate any look and make you standout from the crowd;whether it's a clutch,a piece of jewelry,lipstick...A touch of color can easily take an everyday look to a much more captivating place.
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BkiUcBjxK3xgpbERCOwu | An East Boston man is in custody after he allegedly carjacked an Uber driver in Revere and then struck a MassDOT road worker.
Matthew Ricco Tyre, 29, of East Boston was arrested last Thursday by State Police and arraigned in Chelsea District Court on numerous charges including carjacking; operating under the influence of drugs; assault with a dangerous weapon; assault and battery on a police officer; and negligent operation.
Several minutes after midnight last Thursday, an Uber driver's car that had been carjacked a few minutes earlier crashed into the rear of a MassDOT pickup truck on Route 1 northbound near the Sargent Street exit in Revere.
The MassDOT employee, a 52-year-old Revere man, was stepping out of the truck at the time of the collision and suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the Civic tried to run from the scene but was apprehended by Massachusetts State Police Trooper Devon Surian.
According to State Police, at the time of the crash, the DOT pickup truck was pulling an electronic arrow board to support Troopers who were already at that location for a previous crash involving an impaired driver. Trooper Surian was backing up another Trooper at that earlier OUI arrest scene when the crash occurred and he apprehended the suspect, who was determined to be under the influence of narcotics.
The MassDOT worker was transported to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital for treatment. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdag5qhLAB45oJZtA | @ Bloom
poetry & art
Catherine Lowe
Catherine Lowe is a writer and editor, whose work has appeared in numerous well-know publications. She lives in the US and Spain.
Dare I Breathe
Subway commute kit: liter of water, headphones, peppermint gum to poke my tongue around, lavender oil to huff off my wrist, a keychain of a garish frog in a bikini that my friend gave me.
Protocol: Look for someone in medical scrubs, who can help if the headphones (just headphones, no music), water, gum, lavender (is it going bad? I give the bottle a shake), or frog don't. Look for someone with their head in their hands or between their knees. Someone who's hungover or simply looks worse than I feel. The combination of able and miserable grounds me. Maybe I should stand up.
The trouble is I don't breathe enough in general. I produce, engage, react, but between my anxiety, the guy behind me playing a loud game on his phone, and the girl on the seat opposite doing her full face in a mirror, contouring now, there's no real occasion to breathe deeply and savor it.
My office has moved, this time to Times Square, 40th floor. Top of the world, again: I've worked in four other such buildings. Rather than contemplating the panoramas, my mind goes straight to air rights: Whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell. New York City real estate developers took that 13th century maxim literally, applied it greedily. My slice of heaven is a desk with a vista of an ALDO billboard, a stock ticker, and Broadway's golden ticket, all digital, massive, and blinding. On occasion I've exited the building weak-eyed and clammy, Google Mapping the nearest urgent care center, where I babble to a doctor about the horror of to-die-for views, have a hot, wet cry, then head back to work.
My own apartment is on the fourth floor. It has a small room with a view of the Hudson River and the sailboats, Jet Skis, and Circle Lines that traverse it. My husband and I are in this room most of the time, windows cracked open even in winter. From the sofa we talk about the water, rarely taking our eyes off it.
For vacation, we go to the end of the world. Ushuaia, Argentina, is an unfinished yet congested mess with a Hard Rock Café at its heart. Our taxi driver nicked a dog crossing the street and kept driving as he nervously complained about the now-limping animal. The town is surrounded by the Beagle Channel, whose cold, slurpy waters are the public restroom for hundreds of cormorants, budget penguins whose excrement reeks up the air. Ushuaia was built by exiled convicts in the late 19th century and retains the gloomy restlessness that must have fueled its construction.
I'm only slightly disappointed that el fin del mundo is a kind of a dump; I banished myself here willingly, after all. Its only pleasure is its post office, sitting alone on a pier on the Beagle Channel. The wood and corrugated metal shed looks proud, active, and loved. I walk in and choose a postcard and stamp to send my mother, scrawling a trite "Greetings from the end of the world!", and dropping it in a red box. I'm thrilled when she receives it two months later, though she doesn't pay it much mind.
Humble in size but important and cherished in its function, the post office elicits good cheer. Suddenly there's someone you want to write to, whose address you never had to remember. Probably many mothers and fathers receive postcards from the end of the world.
Japan is the last place I visit before having another urgent care meltdown in New York, this one followed by a few shaky beers with the friend who gave me the frog keychain, then two days in bed or on the sofa watching the Hudson River, shale-like in winter, and thinking it was time for a move.
On the remote island of Naoshima, Tadao Ando built a home specially for works by Claude Monet, Walter De Maria and James Turrell. Ando's Chichu Art Museum was built partially underground to respect and preserve Naoshima's natural features. Navigating these almost anonymous spaces, their concrete walls a low, cool breath, I hold my own, bunkered in peace.
Walking amid De Maria's strange stage of pedestals and spheres is like finding myself in Last Year at Marienbad, albeit severely underdressed. Turrell's Open Field is infinity, temporarily. But it was moving to see Monet's "Water Lilies" in a space built just for them, providing them natural light, an almost real lily life, at another edge of the earth.
Two weeks into living in Valencia, Spain, and I'm angry at the air. It's suffused with a gorgeous, sweet fragrance—orange, magnolia?—and I can't identify the source. Is someone wearing a lot, lot, lot of perfume? Is it scent branding, escaped from a hotel lobby? Did I neglect to pay an entrance fee somewhere? I stand still to case the block. It's September, the sky a thick cerulean lid. A warm breeze lifts my hair to breathe on my neck. It's almost indecent. I lift my face to a tree with flowers high atop its branches, inhale uninhibited joy, and am ravished for all the monk parakeets to see, even weeping afterward.
I stop talking after Ahmaud Arbery, just out for a jog, is killed. Give up meditating after Breonna Taylor is killed in her sleep. George Floyd is killed while running an errand, and I want nothing more to do with the air. To share the molecules still carrying George Floyd's "Mama!"—I'd rather not talk, or breathe, at all.
Nothing takes the edge off living on Earth. Air rights are now personally defined, the heavens filling with Blacks while anger, anguish, pain and covid hang heavily in the air below. I don't thrive, no hobbies. A lit fuse unless sleeping.
Walking-around kit in Valencia: liter of water, extra masks, notebook and pen, Luis Bunuel's memoir (incidentally titled Mi Ultimo Suspiro), and the frog in the bikini.
Claim your space. Your body is your temple. YOLO. These expressions make sense to me now. But bucket list remains a maudlin/morbid concept that begat a travel guide industry, produced a suspiciously cheery movie starring two handsome millionaires, and generally kept the pressure on.
After the chaos of the past two years, the bucket list seems antiquated. An appropriate reframe might be: things we hope to do before Earth dies.
A few months ago I went back to New York and met friends for brunch at a restaurant near our old office. We passed 770 Broadway later as we searched for a bar. Nobody looked up at the 40th floor, we were oblivious to skyscrapers. The bar had a working jukebox and served cheap yet overpriced prosecco I felt practically honored to drink. We talked about bands we'd seen live, high fived a lot.
Our feet tapped, scaled, and slid between the rungs of the tall barstools. We ordered another glass and wondered why we never just ordered a bottle, then quickly grew disinterested in cost value or any math other than tangents. In Times Square, of all places, I took that deep breath, and lived to tell. No bucket list destination could compare. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUc6zxK0wg09FXVafB | Indeed, when Linda Bilmes and I calculated America's war costs three years ago, the conservative tally was $3-5 trillion. Since then, the costs have mounted further. With almost 50% of returning troops eligible to receive some level of disability payment, and more than 600,000 treated so far in veterans' medical facilities, we now estimate that future disability payments and health-care costs will total $600-900 billion. But the social costs, reflected in veteran suicides (which have topped 18 per day in recent years) and family breakups, are incalculable.
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.
Today, America is focused on unemployment and the deficit. Both threats to America's future can, in no small measure, be traced to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Increased defense spending, together with the Bush tax cuts, is a key reason why America went from a fiscal surplus of 2% of GDP when Bush was elected to its parlous deficit and debt position today. Direct government spending on those wars so far amounts to roughly $2 trillion – $17,000 for every US household – with bills yet to be received increasing this amount by more than 50%.
Moreover, as Bilmes and I argued in our book The Three Trillion Dollar War, the wars contributed to America's macroeconomic weaknesses, which exacerbated its deficits and debt burden. Then, as now, disruption in the Middle East led to higher oil prices, forcing Americans to spend money on oil imports that they otherwise could have spent buying goods produced in the US.
Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others' knowledge of this threatens to weaken America's security as well. But America's real strength, more than its military and economic power, is its "soft power," its moral authority. And this, too, was weakened: as the US violated basic human rights like habeas corpus and the right not to be tortured, its longstanding commitment to international law was called into question.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, the US and its allies knew that long-term victory required winning hearts and minds. But mistakes in the early years of those wars complicated that already-difficult battle. The wars' collateral damage has been massive: by some accounts, more than a million Iraqis have died, directly or indirectly, because of the war. According to some studies, at least 137,000 civilians have died violently in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last ten years; among Iraqis alone, there are 1.8 million refugees and 1.7 million internally displaced people.
Not all of the consequences were disastrous. The deficits to which America's debt-funded wars contributed so mightily are now forcing the US to face the reality of budget constraints. America's military spending still nearly equals that of the rest of the world combined, two decades after the end of the Cold War. Some of the increased expenditures went to the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the broader Global War on Terrorism, but much of it was wasted on weapons that don't work against enemies that don't exist. Now, at last, those resources are likely to be redeployed, and the US will likely get more security by paying less.
Al Qaeda, while not conquered, no longer appears to be the threat that loomed so large in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But the price paid in getting to this point, in the US and elsewhere, has been enormous – and mostly avoidable. The legacy will be with us for a long time. It pays to think before acting. | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUeDU5qoTBGz1jzirb | Simple and impressive – two words that are not often paired when discussing baking. We're bombarded these days with elaborate cakes, fancy tarts, artisanal loaves, even encouragement to make challenging puff pastry at home. All rewarding, I'm sure, and delicious too, but also challenging, time consuming, and unlikely to succeed without practice.
Popovers, on the other hand, are a four-ingredient wonder that transform into delicious, golden brown sculptures. They're simple to mix, easy to bake, and will perform the first time.
The only downside to popovers is that they should be eaten right out of the oven. I can live with that. This is what has kept popovers out of commercial bakeries and under our radar. You can reheat them, but they never fully regain that crisp exterior and fresh-baked eggy interior.
At the Chimney Corners, a long departed restaurant in Stamford, they used to send a basket of hot popovers table to table whenever they came out of the oven. That's the way to do it.
Popovers are so simple, they're a great starter recipe for young bakers. Measure, mix, pour – that's it. A grownup is only needed to handle the hot pans.
I put that theory to the test with our granddaughter Moira, age eight. There are only four components to the recipe: flour, salt, eggs, and milk. Moira measured the flour, carefully scraping the top of the cup level, and had her first experience sifting. She's an old hand at egg cracking, and easily added the salt and poured out a cup of milk. After that, we took turns stirring vigorously. The batter should be smooth with no lumps.
Popovers can be made in a standard muffin tin, but the results are much more impressive if you spring for a special popover pan. The six cups, held together with a wire frame, are deeper with a conical shape and straighter sides that help the popover rise dramatically straight and tall. The wire frame allows the heat to swirl freely around each cup.
Moira and I visited the Cook's Nook in Wilton in search of a popover pan. Our Chicago Metallic six cup model was well worth $19 to insure glamorous popovers. Non stick makes life a lot easier. Moira enjoyed exploring the narrow aisles packed with cooking gear. The store is a wonderland of just about any cooking equipment you might want, and some you never imagined you needed.
In addition to our popover pan, Moira had to have a unicorn cookie cutter. Unicorns are an everyday part of life at age eight.
Popovers rise as the moisture in the batter turns to steam and expands. This requires a high temperature. Set the oven to 450° and make sure it's well preheated. Then preheat the pan for five minutes with a dab of butter in each cup. The butter will brown, but that gives the final product a slightly nutty flavor.
This is the tricky part. Fill each cup of the now very hot pan half full with the batter. We used a pitcher to pour it in. This is the grownup part of the job. Bake for 20 minutes, reduce the heat and cook for another 20. DON'T OPEN THE OVEN DOOR. Get ready for the oohs and aahs.
Break the crusty, hot popover open and watch the steam rise. A pat of butter will quickly melt in the hollow interior of the warm popover. I like to add a spoonful of jam or a drizzle of honey. Popovers are great at teatime or with dinner.
Yorkshire pudding is the close cousin of the popover. It's essentially the same recipe except that the pan is prepared with rendered beef fat instead of butter. These very English puddings are traditionally served with roast beef, but you don't often see them these days.
Making popovers is an excellent opportunity to engage kids in the kitchen. Baking can be a lifelong activity with all levels of challenge and skill – one of the few with a delicious result. If you're lucky your protegé will become a regular baker. If not, be sure to enjoy the pleasure yourself. The popovers are their own reward.
Frank, another great article. I am now planning a trip to the Cook's Nook. I hope the wedding is as fun as our popover night was. Thank you so much.
p.s. Moira is still cute! | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUe_jxK5YsWV5L4wy9 | Discover for yourself what it's like to meet with industry experts and growth specialists to work 'on' and grow your business.
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A friend to call on – Running a business can be a lonely place – so caring, sharing and daring with friends will significantly improve your sense of purpose and passion for your business. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUcHzxK02iP15vfS-G | TechInAfrica – Immanuel Hango is an African innovator who is on the top 30 WHO Innovation Challenge list. He made it to the list after defeating the other 2.471 entries with his concept, producing chlorine using solar energy. Hango and other innovators from other countries will be attending the second WHO Africa Health Forum in Praia, Cabo Verde, on March 26th.
The selection process was made by a panel of independent evaluators. They assessed the innovations in terms of the potential impact the innovations bring to society and whether or not it is sustainable.
Among those 2.471 applicants, 639 of them made it to the evaluation phase. On this phase, applicants had to face how they could make a progression of their ideas in terms of whether or not it can be developed into reality.
WHO Africa Health Forum will be held in three days. During the event, the 30 best innovations, as well as other submitted innovations, will be showcased on the WHO virtual marketplace platform which currently is under development. Once it's done, it will connect various stakeholders, including government ministry officials, health experts and academics, business angels, as well as investors to support scaling up the ideas.
An article writing enthusiast and is currently working on various types of article writing including technology, gadget tips & tricks, entertainment, culinary, health, and sports. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUc7Q5qhLA5_F8jqFQ | Ivo Grbić (nogometaš), hrvatski nogometaš
Ivo Grbić (političar), hrvatski političar, zastupnik u šestom sazivu Hrvatskog sabora
Ivo Grbić (slikar), hrvatski slikar | wikipedia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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package com.ichorpowered.guilds.command.command.officer.teleportation;
import com.ichorpowered.guilds.command.Command;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.CommandResult;
import org.spongepowered.api.command.spec.CommandSpec;
import org.spongepowered.api.text.Text;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
public class DeleteWarpCommand extends Command {
public DeleteWarpCommand() {
super("deletewarp", "normal.warp.delete", "delwarp", "deletewarp");
}
@Override
public CommandSpec createCommandSpec(Map<List<String>, CommandSpec> children) {
return getBaseCommandSpecBuilder()
.executor((src, args) -> {
src.sendMessage(Text.of("This command is not implemented yet."));
return CommandResult.success();
})
.build();
}
}
| github | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUd4A5qX_Bxod3l-_P | Mori joins David Meltzer Live on LInkedIn for his podcast "Office Hours with David Meltzer" to discuss her new book, Bring Yourself on October 28, 2020.
WORK WITH MORI
Mori Taheripour is a world renowned and award-winning expert on negotiation. Her insights and communications framework have been featured in top global business publications like Forbes, Inc. Magazine and Money. Mori is a regular contributor on Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM and was featured in ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary, Broke.
Mori Taheripour is a world renowned and award winning expert on negotiation. Her insights and communications framework have been featured in top global business publications like Forbes, INC and Wall Street Journal. Mori is a regular contributor on Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM and was featured in ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary, Broke.
FEATURED APPEARANCES & PODCASTS | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUdDXxK7FjYEB4VQkh | We've received feedback that, with use, the front cover gets scuffed up and doesn't look so good.
Not to fear! Scuffs can be easily removed using an eraser. The big white ones work best.
We missed including this tip in our original Pack guide, but future guides will have instructions for keeping your Pack looking as good as new. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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