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package com.gentics.mesh.core.jobs;
import io.reactivex.Completable;
/**
* A class responsible for processing all jobs
*/
public interface JobProcessor {
/**
* process all jobs
* @return completable
*/
Completable process();
}
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I was interested to read in our local paper this morning that the town council has issued a request to motorists to take more care in parking in the older parts of the town with very narrow streets. The available road is then often less than 3.20m wide. Emergency vehicles and the like it would appear, are having problems getting past vehicles parked opposite each other.
In addition because of this problem of narrow streets, parking with two wheels on pavements (sidewalks) is tolerated, but motorists are supposed to leave a 1m gap between the car and the wall to allow pensioners with wheeled Zimmer frames, wheelchairs, pram pushing mums and children under eight on bicycles to pass without hindrance. Children under eight must use the pavement by law. This gap of 1m is often ignored. At the moment these children are forced out into the road. The town council requests parents, teachers etc. make the law clear to any motorist they find parking so that the pavement is blocked. This might however lead to unpleasant scenes. German motorists are not amused when one points out that they are wrongly parked.
In addition cycleways are often regarded as a parking place.
I suspect a campaign by the town's parking wardens issuing tickets would be more effective. Even though it might well be political suicide for any council taking this course of action.
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Dorian's unbanned once every decade, while Cliff and Sledg are never banned. I can say Rescue has a Marco Cr, but he's banned oh well.
Interesting deck. Congrats on the 1300.
Ya apparently this deck is still good this week. lost my 1st match in elo(used eddy and futoshi ld) and went back to it and havent lost its 18 wins 0 losses and 2 draws now.
Fang Pi Clang with Sphiagi Splash by m i l e s .
Posted wednesday 17/04/2013, 02:53 by m i l e s .
Rate and comment please. If you could recommend any tips and suggestions, you are most welcome to do so. Thank you for you time! Please don't rate down.
Interesting deck. i would personally change Dalhia Cr to Selma (extra damage and I prefer + pillz to - pillz).
Not only that, they don't have decent 7-8 power cards. Most of them rely on their bonus to reach the 8 power mark.
Freaks, like what the oracle said, relies too much on their first round.
I'm pretty sure the dev's plan was create a clan with high power and low damage but most damage comes from the bonus, but sometimes you won't always get a free pass in the first round. IMO : Freaks lack manipulation and damage. Mostly damage.
Like pussycats whose main role is supposed to soak damage, they have some great cards with high damage too.
Indeed Ulrich does DR La Junta and FPC for 6 but then the Piranas as a whole is pretty weak against them.
I don't think La Junta should worry about Ulrich anyway.
You didn't help! That's the joke!
Well, I only like to use 1 2* in Pussycats, and that is Lucy.
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The new Lexington senior center will open this Thursday, September 15th. Located at 212 St. Ann Drive, the new center, measuring at 33,000 square feet, is nearly double the size of the former location at the corner of Nicholasville and Alumni. The new building includes a lot of updates that make it more accommodating to seniors.
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The Geography of Food looks at the global pattern of food production and consumption. It reveals a complex pattern of global connections. The map of the Geography of food shows a pattern that reflects the dominance of developed countries over developing countries. The map reveals the deeply layered connection between food innovation, its production, transportation, retail and consumption but hides the many environmental and human costs. It shows how agribusiness and supermarkets produce and import food for year-round consumption but indirectly export drought, soil degradation, groundwater exploitation and human dislocation. It shows how developing countries can be both exporters of food yet importers of food aid. The map of the Geography of food reveals a modern day land grab by agribusiness, it shows how the control of food supply is being gently ripped from the hands of local indigeneous people and placed in the control of the corporation. The map shows a rapid increase in food production alongside a growth in food scarcity. The geopoitics of food is complex. Food security for the rich improves alongside its protection and subsidy. At the same time, food security for the poor declines, perhaps as a result of their governments being advised to reduce their own agricultural support. The Geography of food reveals a paradox and hypocrisy and a power relation that profits the corporations to produce vast amounts of food that the poor and vulnerable will never see.
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[2:02] <ChuangTzu> do any of you guys use the adafruit webide?
[4:40] <CarlFK> duh. what is the default user/pw ?
[4:40] <pksato> pi raspberry ?
[4:48] <CarlFK> next newb q: what command line player will play an mp3 stream?
[5:01] <shiftplusone> Not that it matters now, but if you see such problems again, just use alsa.
[5:02] <CarlFK> mplaeyr -ao alsa ... ?
[5:11] <stevarino> hey all, can anyone provide an example on how to wire a 5V dc signmal as input to a GPIO? obviously "connect the two with a wire" is bad.
[5:12] <shiftplusone> got any transistors handy?
[5:13] <pksato> for low speed, use a voltage divider.
[5:13] <shiftplusone> and is this bidirectional or unidirectional?
[5:13] <shiftplusone> ah, sorry "as input", so uni.
[5:14] <shiftplusone> Or do what pksato says and use a voltage divider. I feel it's a little dodgy though.
[5:14] <stevarino> shiftplusone: that looks good, replace 12V with 3.3 I'm guessing?
[5:15] <pksato> for most application, voltage divider is ok.
[5:16] <stevarino> pksato: cool, just do math and throw some resisters together?
[5:18] <pksato> Its a common nomenclature on eletronics.
[5:19] <pksato> 2k3 is a typo erro, correct is 2k2.
[5:20] <pksato> 2k2 or 2,2k or 2200Ohms.
[5:22] <pksato> and, refers to eletrical resistance of resistor.
[5:26] <pksato> and, it work to bidirectional comunication.
[6:43] <CarlFK> Ben64: voice commands!
[6:44] <x29a> Ben64: maybe DLNA?
[6:44] <x29a> "siri, play next song"
[6:45] <Ben64> "bohemian rhapsody, engage"
[6:50] <CarlFK> Ben64: how much control do you want anyway?
[6:50] <CarlFK> personally I would be fine with "plug in usb stick, everything on it gets played randomly"
[9:10] <Kumiorava> hi, is it possible to pxe-boot raspi?
[9:13] <shiftplusone> Jusii, does that work on the pi?
[9:13] <shiftplusone> I know an NFS root works fine.... don't know which uboot features are supported though.
[9:17] <voxadam> I was currious about something but don't have a Pi that's not in use that I could play with. Can anyone give me some idea of how much extra CPU time and memory is required for a Pi to connect to a network via USB wireless vs. the on-board USB ethernet NIC?
[9:19] <shiftplusone> I haven't noticed any.
[9:20] <voxadam> Thanks. That's kind of what I figured but I wanted to ask.
[9:21] <MordFustang> hello can anyone tell me how to make small backup image of raspbian not the whole 8gb image ?
[9:21] <shiftplusone> Tar up the files.
[9:22] <MordFustang> is there any tutorial?
[9:23] <MordFustang> dd is not for backup?
[9:23] <shiftplusone> dd is for reading and witting disks and disk images.
[9:24] <shiftplusone> You COULD shrunk the partition, take a backup of it and then resize back, but that's not very elegant.
[9:29] <shiftplusone> keep in mind that this method won't back up the first partition or the partition table, so you'll have to do that as well.
[11:02] <bitnumus> hey, can anyone recommend a LCD screen for the rpi and what type of connection it would be? i'm looking at this Nokia N8 screen, i think its a DSI interface, howe easy would this be to get running ?
[11:19] <bitnumus> i am using all GPIOs for a keypad, what options are there to work around this ?
[11:29] <shiftplusone> bitnumus, all? you have a 64 key keypad?
[11:30] <bitnumus> is it easy to reconfigure the others then ?
[11:31] <shiftplusone> iirc you have 17 pins all up.
[12:00] <shiftplusone> Are you using some python library where everything is hidden so you have no idea how to do these things?
[12:02] <bitnumus> easier to just buy another module.
[12:05] <Vostok> usb serial adapter?
[12:06] <shiftplusone> a little silly, given that there is uart on the pi already.
[12:12] <bitnumus> so you are talking to me?
[12:13] <shiftplusone> I think everyone needs to relax and hug it out.
[12:13] <bitnumus> weird as hell!
[12:14] <Jck_True> Every 5 seconds it downloads "clientdataraw.txt"
[12:15] <shiftplusone> Jck_True, hey, it works. Don't touch it.
[12:16] <shiftplusone> python programmers, I am guessing.
[12:17] <Peetz0r> Jck_True: in the back. twice.
[12:56] <gordonDrogon> I think you can use a -- to tell grep (and some others) to stop parsing arguments at that point..
[13:18] <bosnjak> I am having an issue with booting arch, the following errors are present: http://pastebin.com/UsuPTZWP - I have found on google a possible explanation, but I don't seem to understand it, here: http://goo.gl/MB70lG - if someone would be so kind as to help me understand why this happened? I understand the filesystem is somehow faulty? And this has something to do with kernel upgrade?
[13:20] <shiftplusone> bosnjak, try #archlinux-arm. Smells like sd card corruption to me.
[13:51] <dheeraj_> I am new to it.. I hav some confusion..
[13:52] <dheeraj_> I hav my laptop with me.. and i want to interface rPi via my laptop's screen and keyboard..??
[13:58] <gordonDrogon> use ssh to login to the Pi, then run tighvncserver on the Pi and a vncviewer on the laptop.
[14:51] <Mjolinor> can anyone tell me how to turn on composite video when HDMI is also connected?
[14:59] <J_Rey> Mjolinor: what bootloader & O/S? e.g. NOOBS + Raspbian is it?
[15:03] <Ben64> "it is hte only signal that disappears when the Pi completes shutdown"
[15:05] <Sonny_Jim> You want to know when the Pi has shutdown?
[15:12] <chris_99> might be better to do it that way?
[15:13] <pksato> PIC have ADC? monitor voltage on TP1-TP2. have a small increase on voltage if is shutdown.
[15:13] <chris_99> what are you trying to do Mjolinor ?
[15:13] <Mjolinor> you got a link fo rhte TP1 TP2 thing?
[15:14] <pksato> or, 5V line on GPIO header.
[15:14] <pksato> test it with a voltameter.
[15:15] <pksato> on other words, monitor the current flow to RPI.
[15:19] <chris_99> not sure whether that matters though?
[15:22] <Sonny_Jim> You know that the GPIO pins don't like 5V right?
[15:25] <Sonny_Jim> Well, can't you tell by the power LED?
[15:26] <Sonny_Jim> Is the Pi networked?
[15:26] <pksato> Mjolinor: pic circuit control power of RPi?
[15:27] <Sonny_Jim> You want to know what the Pi is doing, right?
[15:28] <pksato> current sensor is a simple resistor. or use F3 polyfuse.
[15:28] <Sonny_Jim> I mean, you only want to know if the Pi is on battery power and if it's shutting down, right?
[15:38] <Sonny_Jim> Well, write a list of design requirements and get designing!
[15:43] <pksato> Mjolinor: you can use tvservice to enable/swap composite output.
[15:44] <pksato> when shutdown start, enable TV out.
[16:12] <AHammar> beaky, what do you mean by server? What do you want to use it for?
[16:16] <pksato> beaky: install some http daemon, and interpleter/cgi to you blog engine.
[17:12] <gordonDrogon> have you done any electronics interfacing?
[18:23] <gordonDrogon> gertboard has analog inputs, piface doesn't.
[18:23] <gordonDrogon> Piface is more compact though.
[18:24] <gordonDrogon> the motor PiTx board has - motor outputs and digital inputs.
[18:24] <bitnumus> this above converter would be amazing right?
[18:24] <bitnumus> HDMI > DSI, that would allow rpi to use any mobile screen with DSI connector right ?
[18:25] <gordonDrogon> I've no idea - sounds intersting though. I've used hdmi to VGA adapters in the past.
[18:25] <bitnumus> a 4" mobile display would be far nicer?
[18:26] <gordonDrogon> however, yes, they're somewhat sub-optimal.
[18:26] * IT_Sean can't be bothered to /kick you, as heh is eatng lunch, but... mind the language, aye?
[18:27] <Windy> the car backup monitor thing?
[18:27] <gordonDrogon> that's just the chip - you'll need a board to mount it on, connectors, cables, power, etc.
[18:27] <gordonDrogon> I bet you won't see change out of $35 when you put it all together.
[18:28] <gordonDrogon> Sonny_Jim, Hmm.. maybe stick an ATmega in-between... defeats the purpose though!
[18:31] <gordonDrogon> it depends on the efficiency of the compiler and the range of switch values - sometimes it can be better than a linear if/then/else type of construct.
[18:31] <gordonDrogon> but a big lookup table might be the answer - depending on the range..
[18:36] * gordonDrogon nods. tricky to track down..
[18:55] <Demon_Jester> Oh, I just didn't know if that was too high for encoding audio.
[18:56] <Lartza> Demon_Jester, What setting are you converting to?
[18:57] <Lartza> Demon_Jester, And wav or flac or what?
[18:57] <gordonDrogon> why encode them? disk space is cheap now.
[18:58] <gordonDrogon> I'm 50 - quality is lost on me now anyway, but I still don't bother compressing stuff.
[19:46] <urs> nicdev: I compiled a version yesterday and had no problems with that... what configure flags did you use?
[19:46] <urs> and: which version did you try to build?
[19:48] <J_Rey> nicdev: XBMC doesn't come by itself are you talking about RaspBMC, OpenELEC or another base O/S?
[19:50] <J_Rey> Isn't there a package for it?
[19:56] <urs> nicdev: maybe that's why it doesn't work for me.
[19:56] <urs> Will retry with that.
[20:02] <J_Rey> nicdev & urs: about how much avail storage space on SD needed?
[20:02] <urs> J_Rey: for building it? Or for running?
[20:03] <urs> my build directory is 1.1GB in size.
[20:12] <Perdouille> Is there a way to install Ndiswrapper on my raspberry ?
[20:13] <Sonny_Jim> What dongle do you have?
[20:14] <Sonny_Jim> what happens when you plug it in atm?
[20:14] <Sonny_Jim> does ifconfig -a show a wlan0?
[20:15] <Sonny_Jim> I'm guessing you don't have a powered hub?
[20:15] <Sonny_Jim> Is that a bridge?
[20:17] <gordonDrogon> ndiswrapper? On the Pi? Really?
[20:18] <gordonDrogon> I was under the impression that allows Linux to run i386 code - ie windows drivers.
[20:19] <Sonny_Jim> Which distribution is this?
[20:19] <gordonDrogon> Perdouille, I'd see if there was a native driver for it now. if not, just buy a new wifi dongle that's supported.
[20:19] <sney> and sometimes they still don't work! hooray!
[20:22] <Perdouille> So I install "b43-fwcutter" and it'll be okay ?
[20:47] <[sr]> does the device works with the RCA video for instalation is it has to be with HDMI ?
[20:53] <sney> well, don't take my word for it.
[20:53] <[sr]> even without the sd card, it's supposed to have an image, some sort of bios ?
[20:54] <sney> it has a boot splash that's just a gradient color test.
[20:54] <sney> the pi does not have a bios.
[21:01] <k1ng> sney, its dies after i see the recovery screen.
[21:04] <k1ng> sney, Raspbian wont boot after install. how do i debug or fix it?
[21:05] <sney> I haven't used the NOOBS installer. what exactly happens when you try to boot it?
[21:51] <Aquifex> Hiya, just got my raspberry pi today, tried to set it up using my old television and a composite scart lead.. didn't display. Used USB keyboard. Now the USB keyboard doesn't work in it's original computer. any ideas about the keyboard?
[21:56] <steve_rox> try keyboard on another pc?
[21:58] <[sr]> sney: i'm feeding power with my mobile phone that has only 0.15Amps, could it be that?
[21:59] <IT_Sean> yeah, and you need 750mA or better. 1A recommended.
[22:01] <IT_Sean> Try another (cheap) keyboard.
[22:01] <IT_Sean> see what happens.
[22:01] <IT_Sean> Gotta test somehow!
[22:03] <IT_Sean> "My raspi does 16 damage out it's USB port!"
[22:03] <IT_Sean> the PWR led?
[22:03] <IT_Sean> That means it's hooked up to power.
[22:04] <IT_Sean> that LED is supposta be on.
[22:05] <Aquifex> haha great. then how do you get it to boot?
[22:06] <IT_Sean> you power it on, with a sufficiently beefy supply, with a properly imaged SD card in it.
[22:08] <IT_Sean> So, your Pi is not booting?
[22:08] <IT_Sean> What's the rating on your power supply?
[22:13] <krautguy> Hello Everyone.. do you know any german RasPi-related IRC Channels?
[22:52] <gordonDrogon> is the gps a serial device?
[22:54] <gordonDrogon> if it accepts serial commands.
[22:55] <k1ng> i am there, whats now?
[22:56] <Gadget-Mac> gordonDrogon: Evening. Did you get my e-mail ?
[23:11] <k1ng> gordonDrogon, you there?
[23:12] <urs> to see if updates exist, presumably.
[23:12] <urs> Unfortunately, it fills up all memory and then gets OOM-killed.
[23:56] <[sr]> let me find a keyboard!!
[23:57] <[sr]> still use an old AT keyboard with the ps/2 adapter, i love this old keyboard !
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What Does the President's Re-election Mean for Electronic Health Records?
With President Barack Obama's re-election most of the remaining uncertainty regarding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has been lifted and will continue to move forward. Health IT adoption, on which health reform depends was less affected by the results on November 6. The task of replacing paper with electronic health records (EHRs) will continue.
The Obama administration's agenda in regard to health information technology and electronic health record adoption has been clear from the start – the President is a supporter of EHRs advancement.
Here are some HIT predictions for Obama's second term:
Meaningful use stages will continue on course. This was a hot topic and was broadly opposed by several Republicans in the months leading up to the election. With a chance of being reduced or eliminated had Romney won, we can expect to see the Meaningful Use continue on path into stage three after Obama's election.
Meaningful Use incentives and EHRs will continue to be questioned whether they are producing results. NCG Medical stresses the fact that Meaningful Use and EHR implementation have in fact been meaningful. The incentives will continue to motivate adoption of new technology and electronic health records will continue to help the nation's health care system.
There was not an instant change with the re-election of Obama. Our nation's health care system will continue its growth and see some changes in the future. NCG Medical will continue to provide help every step of the way to make the transition as simple as possible.
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When it comes to improving quality of life, almost nothing compares to getting adequate, good quality sleep.
We've written plenty of posts that discuss the causes of peripheral neuropathy, potential treatments and lifestyle modifications. As doctors who have cared for people suffering from peripheral neuropathy for many years, one of the most debilitating problems we hear from our patients is their inability to sleep well. More and more scientific evidence is being compiled studying sleep and its benefits to a host of body system functions. Studies have shown that getting good quality sleep helps with controlling blood sugar as well. So, we've pulled together some simple tips to help you get the rest you need.
5. Exercise. But do it during daytime hours. Giving our bodies enough exertion throughout the day can help us sleep better at night. But exercising also helps to release energy-boosting hormones, so stick to an exercise routine that you can accomplish during the morning/early afternoon hours.
Studies have consistently shown that adequate sleep at night is associated with reduced pain levels in people who suffer from chronic pain conditions like peripheral neuropathy. And we also know that a good night's rest gives us a much sunnier outlook on the day ahead--important for those with peripheral neuropathy. If you are dealing with peripheral neuropathy and have other healthy tips for sleeping well, please share them with our readers in the comment section on this blog, on our Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/NeuraVite) or on Twitter (www.twitter.com/NeuraVite.) Together, we can help each other get the sweet, reparative rest needed to win the fight against peripheral neuropathy symptoms.
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The College Football Playoff will offer financial aid to families of players traveling to the national championship, the organization announced on Tuesday.
As many as two parents or legal guardians for each player can be reimbursed up to $1,250 per person for lodging, travel and meal expenses.
"We know how expensive travel can be, so we're pleased to provide assistance to parents or guardians who want to see their sons play in the first College Football Playoff National Championship," said Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff. "It will make the game even more special for the student-athletes to know that their family members are receiving this benefit."
The NCAA will also offer financial assistance to student-athletes' families for the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy.
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer praised the NCAA's decision to allow financial assistance for players' parents and guardians.
Oregon is set to meet Ohio State in the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday. The game will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
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Preseason top-10 Notre Dame lost to Navy and is now 3-6
Three wins and six losses.
By Richard Johnson@RJ_Writes Updated Nov 6, 2016, 9:18am EST
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Unless you've been living under a rock, devoid of internet connection to this website, or do not possess the ability to appreciate Schadenfreude, you're aware how poorly Notre Dame's season is going.
Now it's gone from bad to worse as Navy has knocked off Notre Dame, 28-27, beating the Fighting Irish for the fourth time in 52 years.
A moment to backhandedly compliment Notre Dame's defense.
A team that is insanely young on defense struggled with an option squad, but that's to be expected. Defending the option is something that takes discipline and focus. You can't be unsound with any of your defensive principles, or you'll get torched. And that goes double if you don't face the system often, which the Irish don't.
Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo has built something, and he knows it's here to stay. He told our Alex Kirshner in October:
"We're not a one-hit wonder program," Niumatalolo says. "We've been winning for a long time. We're kind of used to it. We're kind of used to, like, 'There's the nice kids that wear their uniforms.' That's fine, however people see us, but we feel like we have a really good football program."
Navy rushed for over 300 yards for the fifth time this season as the nation's No. 5 rushing attack did what it does.
Notre Dame had six total possessions against Navy. Four in the first half, two in the second half.
— Brian Fremeau (@bcfremeau) November 5, 2016
Brian Kelly showed faith in his defense by kicking a field goal with 7:28 left to make the score 28-24, but they didn't come through.
And in a moment of sweet irony, Navy iced the game with a pass, converting on fourth down with around one minute left in the game. Read carefully, please, because Navy held the ball for 7:28 to salt this game away, and it wasn't even the longest drive of the day. The Midshipmen also had a nine-minute drive bridging the third and fourth quarter, and had a total time of posession of 20:20 in the second half.
Unfortunately, Notre Dame's special teams did what it does as well.
And that's damning the Fighting Irish at the worst time. Last week against Miami, four critical blunders nearly gave away a double-digit lead.
This week, Navy went the entire game without punting. But the one time it almost did, the Irish committed a blunder.
Is there anything Notre Dame has not done on special teams this year? 12-men on the field, reviewed, now Navy gets 4th-and-1.
— Irish Illustrated (@PeteSampson_) November 5, 2016
The Midshipmen would convert the ensuing fourth-and-1, then score a touchdown to take a 28-24 lead. But not until the defense followed suit with a 12-men penalty of its own near the goal line. Stopping the option is hard, but you can't just use extra players willy nilly whenever you'd like.
So where does this leave Brian Kelly?
The seat's been hot under Mr. Kelly's posterior. This team had talent returning and was supposed to be good, if not elite. It is most certainly not either of those things. Last week, he got the dreaded vote of confidence from Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick.
#NotreDame AD Jack Swarbrick to @espn: "Brian (Kelly) will lead this team out of the tunnel opening day next year." https://t.co/NbaalLTNL5
— Matt Fortuna (@Matt_Fortuna) October 21, 2016
Cool, right? Your boss is happy with you even though you're not doing a good job! But Kelly told ESPN's Matt Fortuna this week that he actually wasn't too happy with his athletic director's vote of confidence given this week.
"Well I was disappointed actually. But anytime that your athletic director has to come out and say that, as a head coach you're disappointed that any kind of comments like that have to be made. So I didn't ask him, that was his decision, but I clearly understand what he was doing. He was probably sick and tired of being sick and tired, too. But for me it's disappointing, certainly, that you have to make those comments."
It's OK because no matter what Swarbrick says, if the Irish keep losing games, that vote of confidence will eventually be replaced by a pink slip and a boot straight out of South Bend, even if it's next year.
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I don't know about you, but every time we get anything new from Taylor Bennett I'm instantly in a better mood. Maybe that's because of the artists penchant for dropping feel good bangers or maybe it's just that I'm excited for his next project "THE AMERICAN REJECT" to drop.
Serving as a warm up to that, Taylor decided to let loose the latest video off the tape for his track "STREAMING SERVICES." Featuring Zxxk and Melo Makes Music, the colorful video perfectly compliments the songs energetic vibe.
Check out the video now and be sure to be on the lookout for Taylor's next tape dropping sooner than later.
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The Patriots' offense is still a chore, but Thursday finally gave us a glimmer of hope
Boston.com | November 25, 2022
Related Topics: New England Patriots, Justin Jefferson
For all the good the Patriots (finally) displayed on offense Thursday night in Minnesota, everything else fell apart.
Four days after leading New England to a last-second victory over the New York Jets, its special teams bottomed out; directly leading to 14 points for the Vikings off a kickoff return and a costly fourth-quarter penalty on rookie Pierre Strong for running into the punter. The Patriots' secondary, meanwhile, couldn't handle Justin Jefferson (who can?), who torched New England for nine catches for 139 yards and a touchdown. Indeed, "Primetime" Kirk Cousins (299 yards, three touchdowns, one interception) took Thanksgiving night off in leading his team to a 33-26 win, giving the Vikings a commanding five-game lead in the NFC North with only six left to play.
See full article at Boston.com
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Failure-to-Warn Case Results in $63 Million Verdict
A recent case illustrates that victims of adverse reactions to a drug can obtain compensation for their injuries if they are willing to travel the often long and difficult road to victory in the court room against a multi-billion dollar defendant.
In February of this year, more than six years after plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, a Massachusetts jury in Plymouth awarded a young girl and her parents a total of $63 million in compensatory damages (plus $46 million in interest and costs) for damages the girl suffered after taking the Children's Motrin brand of ibuprofen.
This case was just the latest in a series of cases filed against the defendant related to a rare and severe allergic reaction that plaintiffs have contended is caused by Motrin. The early cases all resulted in defeat for plaintiffs, but recently the tide has turned in the wake of growing information about children who have suffered similar injuries, with a Pennsylvania case reportedly resulting in a multi-million dollar verdict in late 2011.
In this most recent case, the plaintiff child – named Samantha Reckis – was just 7 years old when she was given Motrin for treatment of fever and what appeared to be flu-like symptoms. When her fever spiked, her parents consulted medical professionals who advised that they increase the dosage. The plaintiffs' lawyer contended that this was the worst possible course of action, and that it resulted partly or entirely because the warning label for the Motrin product was inadequate.
Brad Henry of Boston's Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow, successfully explained to a jury that the top layer of Samantha's skin first became inflamed and then began to peel away, essentially leaving her entire body "burned" and exposed to infection.
Henry set his sights on proving that the reaction, known as toxic epidermal necrolysis, was actually a rare but well-known side effect for some children who have taken Motrin, a contention that the defendant has refuted in the past.
In Samantha's case, she reportedly suffered skin burns and a severely inflamed throat, mouth, eyes, esophagus, intestinal tract, respiratory system and reproductive system, forcing her doctors to put her into a therapeutic coma.
The brave young girl also suffered temporary brain damage, permanently lost almost all of her vision, and had her lung capacity significantly and irreversibly reduced, but she battled back from the coma and over a period of years became an honors student at her school.
The defendant reportedly asserted after trial that Children's Motrin is "labeled appropriately" and is proven as a "safe and effective treatment option for minor aches, pains and fever," adding that it disagreed with the verdict and would consider remaining legal options (presumably including appeal or settlement for a lesser amount).
If you have taken a drug and suffered what you believe to be an adverse reaction, do not hesitate to contact our office at (312) 477-2500 to speak with a qualified personal injury attorney who can help you determine if and how you might have been harmed by a company's failure to warn. You can also check out our Website for more information about our law firm, Cogan & Power, P.C.
Sourcing: news reports published by CBS, WBZ Boston, and interview with the plaintiff's lawyer on WBZ's Night-side program, hosted by veteran lawyer-journalist Dan Rea.
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On sale date: October 8, 2019
This brutal, original crime thriller graphic novel, from the co-creator of Love and Rockets, tells the story of femme fatale Maria M.
Maria M.'s is a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. When she comes to America for a better life, she marries a drug kingpin, whose son learns Maria's darkest secret, leading to the most violent gangland bloodbath in organized crime history. Maria M. collects 2013's Book One (now out of print), and the never-before-published Book Two, presenting the complete graphic novel for the first time. Longtime readers of Hernandez's books will recognize a metatwist worthy of Maria M.'s pulpy pages: Maria M. doubles as a "biopic" of the mother of Hernandez's most beloved character: Luba from Love and Rockets!
Maria M. is part of the Love and Rockets series.
"Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics." — New York Times Book Review
"Hernandez has become the medium's David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns." — The A.V. Club
"The combination of classic cartooning and cinematic storytelling, as well as graphic sex and violence, pushed to near surrealistic extremes, should satisfy most devotees and inspire the creation of even more." — Library Journal
"Maria M. is executed with style, strong and sensitive character development, practiced casual linework, and the kind of gonzo weirdness that defines the Hernandez ethos. This tale feels like the half-remembered dream of a midnight movie, making for a whimsy worth reading." — Publishers Weekly
"Every writer should be so lucky to have the imaginative chops that Hernandez shows in Maria M." — Southwest Review
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The new information portal now offers detailed information of the German society for oral and maxillo – facial surgery (DGMKG). The completely redesigned Internet portal is accessible directly through patient info-mkg.de and delivers patient-friendly and reader-friendly extensive factual information to all interventions in the mouth, jaw and facial area according to the latest standards. In addition, a clear Arztsuchmaschine helps when choosing a specialist close to the place of residence: because in addition to the exact contact data of the respective oral and Maxillofacial surgeons, the user receives a useful overview to prove what certification of physician a very important aspect when it comes to quality assurance (plastic surgery, implantology, Periodontology). Current innovations in the online magazine in addition to the detailed and patient to understand the descriptions with valuable tips and comments on the individual interventions of aesthetic facial surgery, oral implantology, sleep medicine about operating possibilities of the conservation of the tooth or the gentle Removal of teeth and jaw and facial pain and inflammation, periodontal surgery, to trauma surgery and help dealing with cancer is correction of jaw deformities and facial malformations of user news and up-to-date information promptly in the online magazine. And who wants to learn about the well-attended annual press conference of in recent years, can browse undisturbed in the image gallery. Flyers and brochures simply download in addition to the convenient print function for each page provides the option that the user for specific subjects, like for example, oral implantology can download a detailed fact sheet. The comprehensive patient information brochure of the DGMKG is also simply with a click.
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WWE Confirms Injury And Surgery For Rowan - Wrestling Inc.
WWE has confirmed that Rowan of The Bludgeon Brothers suffered an arm injury and will be undergoing surgery in Alabama this week.
As noted, word going around WWE this week was that Rowan suffered a biceps tear in the SmackDown Tag Team Title match with The New Day at SummerSlam on Sunday. Rowan and Harper then dropped the titles to The New Day on last night's SmackDown in a No DQ match.
WWE has not announced when Rowan is expected back in action but the usual recovery time for a biceps tear is 4-6 months. Stay tuned for updates on his status.
Rowan of The Bludgeon Brothers has suffered a torn right bicep, WWE.com has learned.
The former SmackDown Tag Team Champion is currently scheduled to undergo surgery to repair the injury this week.
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Wow, what a year. It's hard to believe we're at the end of 2010 already. This year has really been a great one, and I am grateful for all of the things I was able to experience this year. I learned so much this year and grew in so many ways. Most of all I have to thank my husband Blake for encouraging me, helping me through the hard days, and believing that I can do anything. I would never have started my business if it wasn't for him.
I thought it'd be fun to choose my top 10 favorite portrait and top 10 favorite wedding pictures from this year. Each one of these photos are ones I am proud of, and I think they show my style and who I am. I hope you'll enjoy looking back on 2010 with me.
In case you don't know, this is actually a picture of me, my husband, my parents, and my siblings. I know it's kind of silly for me to put this in here, but I really do love it. I set up the camera on a tripod and then ran as fast as I could into place. What I love about this picture is the expanse of green above us, as well as the color scheme of our clothes. We spent so long trying to figure out what to wear and finally I came up with this look. It just clicked.
I love how just plain silly this is. I mean, who thinks to play Hide and Seek at their family session? I love how the turquoise and lime look with the surroundings. Again, I love the ferns, and the light coming through the trees is almost magical.
I love the surroundings here, especially the texture of those mossy pebbles on the ground. I think it's beautiful. But the thing I love most about this photograph, is that I really didn't think I could pull it off. You probably can't tell, but they were standing in dark shade, and the water and land behind them was in the brightest noon-day sun. It would have been so easy to over-expose and ruin the background. I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to make this picture happen, but with the help of Blake and some flashes, I pulled it off. So now this one is one I am quite proud of, and it's made me more confident in my ability.
I think what I love most about this one is how funny this family is, and them doing a super 'bad' pose like this just cracks me up. But the thing is, they actually look good doing it. The black and white tops it off. Way to go guys.
If you've been following my blog you'll know this is actually an engagement session. But I thought I'd count it as a family portrait, because that's kind of what it is. I love how cute the baby is, and I love how in love the couple looks. Having it in black and white really accentuates the emotion portrayed here.
I think this girl is so beautiful. I love the way she put her hand through her hair. The grass popping out of the rocks pretty much makes the photograph. I think her gaze is mesmerizing.
Oh the colors! The turquoise she's wearing looks perfect by the yellow wall, and the fact that her eyes are blue and her hair blonde (yellow) make it all the better. And isn't she just a cute little girl!
Let's talk about fabulous. The purple color scheme works great with the other colors surrounding them. I love the lush greens and the beautiful flowers. The fact that I captured four kids and a dog looking great in one photograph is awesome. And to top it all off, this picture was taken in their backyard. Gorgeous.
It may be a sin to have her as number one and number two, but hey, just look at her. She is seriously the cutest thing ever and this picture captures her just as I remember her: an absolute doll. Her pose is perfect, but I didn't direct her at all! She seriously just posed herself like this when I told her where to sit. The flowers around her set the perfect scene and her adorable little outfit looks perfect. This photograph is just overflowing with cuteness.
I hope you enjoyed, and be sure to stay tuned for my top 10 wedding photograph picks for this year!
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Q: por que o FloatingActionButton está transparente? Estou com um problema depois que atualizei a lib support.design:22.2.0 para 23.0.1, o floatingActionButton passou a ser transparente quando executado na API 10.
Aqui está o código:
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
app:borderWidth="0dp"
android:src="@drawable/ic_mode_edit_white_24dp"
app:layout_anchor="@id/appBar"
app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
android:elevation="2dp"
android:id="@+id/btnClick"
app:fabSize="normal"
android:backgroundTint="@color/colorFAB"
android:layout_gravity="right|bottom" />
A: Me parece que isso é um bug do Android 10 que foi corrigido na versão 14, de uma olhada na issue #183315 mas que apareceu durante a versão 23.0.0 da design library.
Existem duas soluções, uma simples e outra que depende de uma sobreescrever o comportamento do FAB.
1) Voltar para a versão 22.2.1.
As vezes isso é comum (infelizmente). Se existe um bug da biblioteca, e que não tem solução, basta regredir se não usar nenhuma função específica da versão.
2) Criar uma classe que herda do FloatActionButton da design library como um "workaround", sugerido pelo comentário #9:
public class TintFloatingActionButton extends FloatingActionButton implements TintableBackgroundView {
static final int[] PRESSED_ENABLED_STATE_SET = {android.R.attr.state_pressed,
android.R.attr.state_enabled};
static final int[] FOCUSED_ENABLED_STATE_SET = {android.R.attr.state_focused,
android.R.attr.state_enabled};
private static final int[] TINT_ATTRS = {
android.R.attr.background
};
private TintInfo mBackgroundTint;
public TintFloatingActionButton(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public TintFloatingActionButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
}
public TintFloatingActionButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
if (TintManager.SHOULD_BE_USED) {
TintTypedArray a = TintTypedArray.obtainStyledAttributes(getContext(), attrs,
TINT_ATTRS, defStyleAttr, 0);
if (a.hasValue(0)) {
setSupportBackgroundTintList(createColorStateList(a.getResourceId(0, -1)));
}
a.recycle();
}
}
private static ColorStateList createColorStateList(int selectedColor) {
final int[][] states = new int[3][];
final int[] colors = new int[3];
int i = 0;
states[i] = FOCUSED_ENABLED_STATE_SET;
colors[i] = selectedColor;
i++;
states[i] = PRESSED_ENABLED_STATE_SET;
colors[i] = selectedColor;
i++;
// Default enabled state
states[i] = new int[0];
colors[i] = Color.TRANSPARENT;
i++;
return new ColorStateList(states, colors);
}
@Override
public void setSupportBackgroundTintList(ColorStateList tint) {
if (mBackgroundTint == null) {
mBackgroundTint = new TintInfo();
}
mBackgroundTint.mTintList = tint;
mBackgroundTint.mHasTintList = tint != null;
applySupportBackgroundTint();
}
@Nullable
@Override
public ColorStateList getSupportBackgroundTintList() {
return mBackgroundTint != null ? mBackgroundTint.mTintList : null;
}
@Override
public void setSupportBackgroundTintMode(@Nullable PorterDuff.Mode tintMode) {
if (mBackgroundTint == null) {
mBackgroundTint = new TintInfo();
}
mBackgroundTint.mTintMode = tintMode;
mBackgroundTint.mHasTintMode = tintMode != null;
applySupportBackgroundTint();
}
@Nullable
@Override
public PorterDuff.Mode getSupportBackgroundTintMode() {
return mBackgroundTint != null ? mBackgroundTint.mTintMode : null;
}
private void applySupportBackgroundTint() {
if (getBackground() != null && mBackgroundTint != null) {
TintManager.tintViewBackground(this, mBackgroundTint);
}
}
}
Código completo neste gist: https://gist.github.com/arturgaleno/5cca1934ed324bd2d9a7
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Tucker Carlson Goes to Church to Tee Up a Holy War
Over the last few years we've watched as Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Lou Dobbs have competed for the title of "most avowed white nationalist on Fox News." Personally, I don't know who I would vote for because they have all been deplorable.
But Tucker Carlson is in the process of adding to his repertoire. He traveled to Tennessee in October to speak at a church in Nashville and, as he says in the video below, it was the first time he has addressed a congregation.
The point of Carlson's speech was to suggest that the polarized divide we are experiencing in the country these days is not political, but theological. In his framing, it all comes down to whether you believe that God is in charge and humans are powerless. That is the beginning of a classic authoritarian framework, which leaves a certain class of people in charge of enlightening the rest of us about God's intentions.
But I am most interested in why Carlson, who claims to be a traditional Episcopalian, would find this a good time to frame the issues that divide us as theological. We all know that he has garnered the support of the white nationalists who are part of Trump's base. The other group that has unequivocally supported the president are white evangelical Christians—who no doubt overlap with white nationalists to some degree. So it probably shouldn't surprise us that Carlson is now reaching out to that audience as well.
As we've seen recently, Trump is starting to lose ground in terms of support—both in Congress and with voters. It is not in his nature to adapt, so we can expect him to simply double-down as the pressure mounts. He'll need the support of his most ardent followers going forward, which is why we'll see tweets like this pop out of the woodwork.
Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!
Of course that is all nonsense, as Mark Chancey explains.
The need to shore up support from white evangelical Christians was also demonstrated by Sarah Huckabee Sanders' interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network where she said: "I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become President, and that's why he's there. I think he has done a tremendous job in supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about."
As the president feels increasingly threatened, we'll be seeing a lot more of this in an attempt to shore up Trump's support among white evangelical Christians and convince them that the president is engaged in some kind of holy war. That is precisely why Tucker Carlson left the comfort of his television studio and went to church.
Nancy LeTourneau
Nancy LeTourneau is a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly. Follow her on Twitter @Smartypants60.
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A section of Ashfield along Parramatta Road was acquired and demolished for WestConnex. The exit to the M4 tunnel will be opposite Bunnings Warehouse near the crossroads of Frederick St/ City West Link and Parramatta Road.
Some of the issues raised in relation to WestConnex in Haberfield include home acquisitions, destruction of heritage architecture, noise and vibrations for homes adjacent to construction sites, changes to traffic flows and the impact of all of these factors on the nature of the suburb.
WestConnex unused land should be handed back say inner west residents.
Residents in Haberfield and Beverley Hills claim WestConnex work is cracking walls of houses near motorway construction sites.
Urban dynamics have shaped the city of Sydney. Over time the economic character, nature and location of land has changed. Economic character refers to how much particular areas, or pieces of land are worth. Nature refers to the type or kind of use. For example, within residential land there can be a variety of housing, or within commercial land there can be a variety of different type of shopping centres, malls, office buildings, etc. Location refers to the way in within land use is distributed throughout the city.
The main types of land use within the city of Sydney can be categorised as residential (housing), commercial (business and retailing), and industrial (factories and manufacturing).
You must prepare and distribute a two page handout. Your presentation should go for 8-10 minutes and should include a range of simulus (visual aids, etc).
Sustainability is development which meets the needs of the present population without endangering the capacity of future generation to meet their needs. It incorporates three main principles: economic development, environment protection and social and cultural well-being. Each of these three principle is considered equally important, and act as a criteria to judge new development against. View sustainability infographic.
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SEHK:927
Will the Promising Trends At Fujikon Industrial Holdings (HKG:927) Continue?
To find a multi-bagger stock, what are the underlying trends we should look for in a business? In a perfect world, we'd like to see a company investing more capital into its business and ideally the returns earned from that capital are also increasing. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at Fujikon Industrial Holdings (HKG:927) so let's look a bit deeper.
Understanding Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)
If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for Fujikon Industrial Holdings:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.013 = HK$9.3m ÷ (HK$1.0b - HK$296m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2020).
Therefore, Fujikon Industrial Holdings has an ROCE of 1.3%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Consumer Durables industry average of 16%.
Check out our latest analysis for Fujikon Industrial Holdings
SEHK:927 Return on Capital Employed February 5th 2021
Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Fujikon Industrial Holdings' ROCE against it's prior returns. If you want to delve into the historical earnings, revenue and cash flow of Fujikon Industrial Holdings, check out these free graphs here.
What Does the ROCE Trend For Fujikon Industrial Holdings Tell Us?
While there are companies with higher returns on capital out there, we still find the trend at Fujikon Industrial Holdings promising. More specifically, while the company has kept capital employed relatively flat over the last five years, the ROCE has climbed 463% in that same time. Basically the business is generating higher returns from the same amount of capital and that is proof that there are improvements in the company's efficiencies. It's worth looking deeper into this though because while it's great that the business is more efficient, it might also mean that going forward the areas to invest internally for the organic growth are lacking.
The Bottom Line On Fujikon Industrial Holdings' ROCE
In summary, we're delighted to see that Fujikon Industrial Holdings has been able to increase efficiencies and earn higher rates of return on the same amount of capital. Since the stock has only returned 33% to shareholders over the last five years, the promising fundamentals may not be recognized yet by investors. Given that, we'd look further into this stock in case it has more traits that could make it multiply in the long term.
Fujikon Industrial Holdings does have some risks though, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Fujikon Industrial Holdings that you might be interested in.
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About SEHK:927
Fujikon Industrial Holdings
Fujikon Industrial Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, designs, manufactures, markets, and trades in electro-acoustic products, accessories, and other electronic products in Hong Kong and China.
Flawless balance sheet and slightly overvalued.
Bank of Communications Co., Ltd.'s (HKG:3328) top owners are individual investors with 29% stake, while 24% is held by state or government
Investors Will Want EVA Precision Industrial Holdings' (HKG:838) Growth In ROCE To Persist
Greatview Aseptic Packaging's (HKG:468) Returns On Capital Tell Us There Is Reason To Feel Uneasy
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Life coaching has become nothing less than a phenomenon. The Harvard Business Review reported that coaching is a $1 billion a year industry. People who work as "coaches" have a simple goal: to help you advance your career, start life as an entrepreneur or help you create a better, more fulfilling life. Sounds good, right? But how can we trust the coaching itself? And isn't a lot of the coaching superficial - like a self-help book? Thankfully, we have access to the ultimate life coaching from God in the deepest, most transforming areas of life. The areas that shape our 24-hour day, our relationships, our families, our jobs.
James Emery White brings the Bible's teaching, along with more than 30 years of experience as a life coach, to bear in a way never packaged before. Based on clear biblical principles, this series offers a clear and distinct coaching tool that can be used to instantly diagnose a life and ultimate life change.
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Melody of the Heath () is a 1956 West German romance film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Carsta Löck, Martin Benrath and Kurt Vespermann. It is part of the post-war tradition of heimatfilm, taking place on Lüneburg Heath. It was shot in eastmancolor.
Synopsis
A young woman schoolteacher replaces an older male in rural Germany.
Cast
Carsta Löck as Luise Nettebohm
Martin Benrath as Ulrich Haagen
Kurt Vespermann as Brettschneider
Ludwig Linkmann as Windewitt
Heinz Engelmann as Dr. Martin Newiger
Hans Leibelt as Moralt
Antje Weisgerber as Hanne Brink
Charlott Daudert as Klara
Gustl Gstettenbaur as Sepp
Richard Handwerk as Nissen
Harald Martens as Jörg
Franca Parisi as Manuela Moralt
References
Bibliography
Harald Höbusch. "Mountain of Destiny": Nanga Parbat and Its Path Into the German Imagination. Boydell & Brewer, 2016.
External links
1956 films
1950s romance films
German romance films
West German films
1950s German-language films
Films directed by Ulrich Erfurth
1950s German films
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Home » Actors/Actresses » Comedy » Happy 80th, Ronnie Corbett
Happy 80th, Ronnie Corbett
On: December 4, 2010, By: Bill Young
We've written recently about Ronnie Corbett showcasing his culinary talents on Ronnie Corbett's Supper Club, but now, to celebrate his 80th, Ronnie returns to his comedy roots for The One Ronnie, a sketch comedy special with James Corden, Rob Brydon and Miranda Hart set for a Christmas Day transmission on the BBC.
English freelance writer and journalist, Adrian Peel, who has had numerous articles published in the U.S. the UK and Mexico, recently conducted an extensive interview with the British comedy legend and one half of the comedy duo, The Two Ronnies, with the great Ronnie Barker. Originally written and published for Suite 101, Adrian has generously allowed tellyspotting to reprint his piece in honor of Ronnie Corbett's 80th birthday today.
Ronnie Corbett in 2010
Suite101: How are you? What have you been up to of late?
Ronnie Corbett (RC): "I am very well, thank you very much. I have recently been recording a show for the BBC to celebrate my 80th birthday and I have to say it is full of the most wonderful names – Rob Brydon, Hugh Dennis, Robert Lindsay, Matt Lucas and David Williams, Miranda Hart, Rory Bremner, Harry Enfield etc. It's just a real treat. It was a little bit of a worry because it was an enormous number of sketchers – about 22, but I did it at the weekend."
Comedy Beginnings
"The biggest influences on me were of course British comedians," explains a still-sprightly Ronnie Corbett, when asked to name the comics who most inspired him. "Certainly Max Miller and Max Wall, who in the early days I used to see quite a lot of.
Perhaps on top of them all really – because they were such classy and stylish performers with good writing – would be Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Danny Kaye, who were all wonderful on the stage."
Suite 101: And double acts?
RC: "Well obviously Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise at the top of the list and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. So they would certainly hold a very important position in the back catalogue."
Suite 101: When did you first realise you had the ability to make people laugh?
"I suppose when I was a sixteen year old boy in the church youth club in Edinburgh. I used to take part in shows, and a pantomime in particular, where I played the Dame and I realised that it was a very comfortable thing for me to do.
I hope I have improved, because I have now been in the business over fifty years."
The Frost Report
After having met in The Buckstone Club in London's Haymarket – where Ronnie C. was working as a barman – in 1963, Ronnie and Ronnie made their TV debuts in 1966 on The Frost Report, a satirical sketch-based programme hosted by David Frost.
"David Frost invited me on to The Frost Report, having seen me in nightclubs," remembers Ronnie, "and it was a major turning point in my life. David Frost has been a close friend and a great supporter and perhaps the foundation of my career because he put me on television."
Suite 101: Who wrote the legendary "Class" sketch, in which you appeared with Ronnie and John Cleese and which remains an unforgettable moment in British comedy history?
"The 'Class' sketch was written by a Glasgow chap, whose name, I think, was John Law. He was married to a ballerina, I do know that – Bery Kaye I think it was. But it has lasted forever and whenever there is an article about class, that picture appears."
The Two Ronnies
As mentioned, The Two Ronnies began in 1971 and ran continually until 1987, making it one of the longest-running comedy sketch shows of all time, anywhere in the world.
Universally acclaimed, it featured such timeless classics as Mastermind (where the contestant's specialist subject was answering the question before last) and The Worm that Turned, a dystopian society ruled by leather-clad women.
"My favourite Two Ronnies sketches? Very difficult," muses Ronnie when asked for his opinion on the subject, "but because it's everybody's favourite: Fork Handles (this inspired use of wordplay once topped a TV poll to find the nation's favourite sketch) and of course and The Two Men at the Bar, who wouldn't let each other finish what they were saying."
Suite 101: Were you surprised when Ronnie Barker retired?
RC: "Yes, when Ronnie retired it was a little bit of a shock, but I wasn't surprised because he hadn't been very well, and of course we did re-unite for The Sketchbook, which was really a collection of stuff we had done in the past linked afresh. It was a great thrill to do it, and that's how it was revived."
Suite 101: Why do you think the more innocent style of sketch comedy, as performed by the likes of The Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise, has all but disappeared from our screens?
RC: "I'm not sure that the innocent style of sketch comedy has absolutely disappeared from our screens, but people's tastes do vary; they seesaw up and down.
They come and they go and I think people probably have a different sort of basis to their education than perhaps university college boys who are a little bit smarter, but don't have the same true blue vaudevillian spirit inside them because it has been slightly hammered out of them by their education in a way."
Ronnie Barker: Death of a Friend
Shortly after completing work on The Two Ronnie's Sketchbook, Ronnie Barker, who had been ill for some time, passed away from a heart condition on October 3rd, 2005. What are Ronnie Corbett's fondest memories of his much-missed colleague?
"It's too much of a question about missing Ronnie Barker," he sighs. "He was a very dear friend, darling mate, generous, sweet, talented, clever and his memories are dotted all around my house, with photographs and drawings and books and typed and handwritten notes and goodness knows what. So although he's gone, he's still here."
Despite The Two Ronnies taking up much of their schedule, the pair found time to broaden their horizons as solo performers. Ronnie Barker showed off his considerable range most successfully in Porridge and Open All Hours, while Ronnie Corbett's Sorry! with its "Language Timothy!" catchphrase proved to be the perfect vehicle for the often underrated actor.
"Sorry! I was very lucky to stumble on. Ronnie B. was about then and read it and said he thought it was the best sitcom that had been written for me. It was a great pleasure to do, and the boys – Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, who wrote it, have also written a radio series that I did last year on Radio 4 – When the Dog Dies.
They are writing another one, because it has been re-commissioned, so I should be doing that later on in the year as well. So that has been a great pleasure, because Ian and David are very dear friends."
Comedy Today: Ronnie Corbett in Extras
In 2006, Ronnie made a hilarious cameo in the Ricky Gervais sitcom, Extras, playing a version of himself caught up in illegal substance abuse.
In a scene involving Gervais and co-writer, Stephen Merchant, the three get caught snorting cocaine (given to Ronnie by newsreader, Moira Stewart) in the toilets at the BAFTA Awards and subsequently get banned from attending all future events.
"I enjoyed doing Ricky Gervais's Extras show," says Ronnie, "and it had an amazing affect because people still talk about it, and remember it very clearly. I suppose for the unlikely casting of me as a user of some sort and I was always quite relieved to know that Moira Stewart was my supplier!"
Suite 101: What current sitcoms or sketch shows do you enjoy?
RC: "The sitcom I'm enjoying at the moment is Miranda, who is a new discovery. She writes it herself, stars in it herself and is enormously funny in a very natural, unhampered way. She is a very free spirit."
Proudest Achievements
Suite 101: What are your proudest achievements in your career to date? Do you have any ambitions left to fulfill?
RC: "I'm just pleased to jog on as always is the answer to this question. My God you are full of enquiries! I hope these answers satisfy your needs."
Thanks, Adrian and Happy 80th, Ronnie. Thanks for the decades of laughter you've brought the world.
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Comedy legends gather for Ronnie Corbett tribute at Westminster Abbey
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The premise is simple, you take a car that is commonly considered ugly that you think looks cool.
ill start off with the Volkswagen Thing.
Lexus IS250F Sport. Really like the V6 and the unsettled handling style.
Also 4th gen, but I don't really like it as much after the 1998 facelift.
That looked like an awkward and riced out Mitsubishi FTO… but it's a Supra? Wtf?
It's real JDM brah, love it or hate it.
Here's a game of Spot the supercar!
From the outside appearance, it is certainly outlandish, but not entirely out of this world. Just not appropriate for what it is. It's not looking like it used to, not looking like it should, not like the lame hybrid granny-mover most know it as.
Now… it became rice. It possibly just needs more power to justify the looks!
I actually agree with 4LGE, to some extent. I think that the body of the Prius looks very athletic and sleek, certainly a large improvement from the old ones. Of course, the fixtures are just totally fugly, but the Prime version of the Prius improves on this aspect quite a lot.
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Q: React Router v4 not loading component For some reason, my web app is not directing to the component whenever I go to the parameters. Specifically, it is not going to the Battle component.
Here is what the navigation looks:
import React from 'react';
import Header from './components/Header/Header';
import SelectPlayers from './pages/SelectPlayers/SelectPlayers';
import Popular from './pages/Popular/Popular'
import Battle from './pages/Battle/Battle'
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Link, Switch } from "react-router-dom";
function App() {
return (
<Router>
<div className={'flex flex-column'}>
<Header />
<Switch>
<Route exact path={'/'} component={Popular}/>
<Route exact path={'/battle/select-player'} component={SelectPlayers} />
<Route exact path={'/results?playerOne=:playerOne&playerTwo=:playerTwo'} component={Battle} />
</Switch>
</div>
</Router>
);
}
export default App;
In the SelectPlayers component, whenever the user presses a button it runs:
import React, {useState} from 'react';
function SelectPlayers(props) {
const [playerOne, setPlayerOne] = useState('');
const [playerTwo, setPlayerTwo] = useState('');
function setPlayerName(event, player){
if (player === 1){
setPlayerOne(event.target.value)
} else if (player === 2) {
setPlayerTwo(event.target.value)
}
}
function goToBattle(event){
event.preventDefault();
props.history.push(`/results?playerOne=${playerOne}&playerTwo=${playerTwo}`)
}
return (
<div className={'pa3 mh7-l mh7-m'}>
<div className="flex flex-column">
<div className={'mb1'}>
<h1 className={'mb0'}>Player One</h1>
<input onChange={(e) => setPlayerName(e, 1)} type="text" placeholder={'github username'} className={'input-reset pa1 w-100 h2 ba b--black br2'}/>
</div>
<div className="tc dark-red">
<h1>Versus</h1>
</div>
<div className={'mb3'}>
<h1 className={'mb0 mt0 tr'}>Player Two</h1>
<input onChange={(e) => setPlayerName(e, 2)} type="text" placeholder={'github username'} className={'input-reset pa1 w-100 h2 ba b--black br2'}/>
</div>
<div>
<button onClick={(e) => goToBattle(e)} className={'input-reset pa1 h2 fw1 bg-black white ba w-100 b--black br2'}>Battle</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
);
}
export default SelectPlayers;
On the Battle component, I write some console.log stuff just to check if the Component loaded. However, whenever I go to that parameter, none of the code in my componentDidMount is running. I don't see any of the console.logs I wrote in componentDidMount in my developer console. Here is the component:
import React, {Component} from 'react';
class Battle extends Component {
constructor(props){
super(props)
}
componentDidMount() {
console.log('runngins');
console.log(this.props);
}
render() {
return (
<div className={'pa3 mh7-l mh7-m'}>
<div className="flex flex-column">
</div>
</div>
);
}
}
export default Battle;
You can see the code at this repo: https://github.com/tarekgabarin/github_compete
It would be greatly appreciated if anyone helped me.
A: As per your new comment that code is working without queryset, looks like there is some problem with your queryset parameters.
As suggested in comment box, don't define Router with queryset.
<Switch>
<Route exact path={'/'} component={Popular}/>
<Route exact path={'/battle/select-player'} component={SelectPlayers} />
<Route exact path={'/results'} component={Battle} />
</Switch>
In your SelectPlayers component, navigate to next page with queryset.
props.history.push("/results?playerOne=" +playerOne+ "&playerTwo=" +playerTwo)
On Battle component, use (query-string) to read the parameter. For example:
const values = queryString.parse(this.props.location.search);
const player_one = values.playerOne
const player_two = values.playerTwo
Please note that my above code is not tested.
Thanks
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It's said that the first recorded recipe in human history was for a beer-like beverage. Some anthropologists suggest that the reason our ancestors gave up the relatively easy hunter-gatherer lifestyle in favor of an agricultural one was to allow time for alcohol to ferment.
Regardless of how true these "facts" may be, beer is pretty damned integral part of human history. That's something I like to remind myself of when I'm scrubbing my fermenter for what seems like the thousandth time.
I am a home brewer. My fingers are stained with santizer and my fridge reeks of hops. Pretty much any spare storage space in my house is packed with brewing equipment and ingredients. I cringe at the sight of people putting cigarette butts into bottles, wondering how they can sully such a perfectly good longneck. I do, indeed, have a beard.
A certain historical figure might have turned water into wine, but I turn water, grain, hops and yeast into delicious ales on the regular. And you can too.
You, too, can look down your nose at your local's beer draft selection!
The best thing about brewing beer is that it's way, way easier than people would have you believe. If you can follow a recipe and get your hands on about 400 RMB worth of equipment, you're good to go. Best yet, it's now easier and cheaper than ever to do it right here in Ningbo, thanks to people like Eddy Dong, who runs his own homebrew supply shop out of Shenyang, Liaoning province with his wife. Here's a link to that shop.
NG: Tell us about yourself, Eddy.
ED: I love brewing and home brewing, first time I get to know about home brewing was in 2012. My main job is IT.
NG: Tell us a little about your business.
ED: Me and my wife own a bar in Shenyang and we created our own brand "Duo Jie Home Brewing Equipment Shop". Now our shop has become pretty well-known in the homebrewing industry in China. A lot of people buy our ingredients, and some of them bought our tailored ingredient packages (editor's note: these are kits Eddy will put together for you to make a certain style of beer if you're not comfortable doing that yourself) and won some pretty prestigious prizes at home brewing competitions.
NG: How did you get started in the homebrew business?
ED: At the beginning, we imported ingredients and equipment from abroad and we brewed our own beer, then we started to import for our friends. After that it was a pretty logical move to open our own shop.
NG: Why do you think homebrew gotten more popular among not just foreigners in China but Chinese people as well?
ED: First of all, a lot of people first tasted the home brewed beer and realized how bad the beers we see at the stores are. Then they started looking for good beers. The imported craft beers are usually pretty expensive, so start brewing their own beer is a better option for them. Use the right ingredients, follow the recipe, it cost less money when you brew your own beer at home and taste great—easily on par with the imported ones. On the other hand, young people find it fun to be creative and make beer in the way they want to make it and are trying many different ways to brew beers.
NG: What advice do you have for people who want to get into brewing beer?
ED: If you have someone to teach you how to brew beer, you are lucky*. If you brew by yourself with no other help, it's better to read some books, forums, and other related information. Don't rush to make a decision and start it without knowing about brewing. Join some QQ group, talk to people and ask questions. Buy the necessary equipment all at once so you can avoid ending up buying same equipments twice and waste money on it. Invite your friends to join you when you start brewing, share your experience (and beer) with your friends so that you have people to help you keep up the habit!
NG: What do you see in the future of craft beer in China?
ED: In recent years the craft beer culture is developing very fast. Many people start brewing at home, and you're starting to see many craft beer associations popping up. There has been a craft beer brewing contest every year for the last three years. Also, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing, people opened many craft beer shops and bars. They sell home brewed beer or imported craft beer, and the decorations of the shops are amazing. On the business side, there aren't certain clear laws about craft beers yet, so you can expect the craft beer industry to be effected by national law somehow in the future.
While there are plenty of folks online selling everything you need to make a zesty IPA, Eddy combines a huge selection, great prices and relentlessly awesome service (in English!) to be the only guy I go to anymore. Add him on WeChat (QR Code just below) and he'll make sure you get everything you need to get started right away.
Seriously, great guy. Great advice. Great service. Add him on WeChat.
*be on the lookout for a homebrew class starting up soon! We'll keep you posted.
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You can leave a dog in a car.
You can leave a cake in a car.
But you can't leave a dog and a cake in a car.
Unless you really wanted to see how cute a dog looks with cake crumbs in her beard. Trust me when I say that it's so cute you can't even be mad about only having 75% of your cake left.
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'You can't sell a sunset'
Scott Silver
photo courtesy Wild Wilderness
Scott Silver is the founder of Wild Wilderness, an anti-fee organization based in Bend,Ore.:
"The Forest Service is looking at industrial strength recreation as their new business and us as their customers. More and more, the Forest Service is putting itself in between (the public) and nature. All the pull-outs have been McDonalds-ized - with all the kiosks and signs, it's like the golden arches.
"You can't sell a sunset, but if you put an interpretive sign in front of a tree, you've suddenly created a product, and you can include the vista in that. Interpretation is such an important part of the new recreation agenda. It's basically leveraging; it's putting the smallest investment in possible, and then using it to sell the entire product.
"I think the land managers see no other option. Everyone from the General Accounting Office to the environmental community has just hammered on the Forest Service for its financial incompetence. They see their budgets being cut, and they don't see that there's anything else to do other than adopt this new entrepreneurial spirit. The attitude is if we're not going to log it, mine it or graze it, there must be other ways we can get money out of it.
"What worries me about turning the Forest Service into a bunch of entrepreneurs is that it prejudices the decision of the local forest manager. Our public lands don't have to be run as self-supporting. As a society, we can make the decision to fund these agencies."
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The exhibition gives an intriguing glimpse into women's lives in the 19th and 20th centuries via items from our extensive collection of women's magazines. We're focusing on love, and will be displaying romantic stories, letters to agony aunts, and more. Come in and have a look!
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import pkgutil
from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import PurePath
from typing import Generator
from pants.backend.docker.target_types import DockerImageSources
from pants.backend.python.goals.lockfile import PythonLockfileRequest, PythonToolLockfileSentinel
from pants.backend.python.subsystems.python_tool_base import PythonToolRequirementsBase
from pants.backend.python.target_types import EntryPoint
from pants.backend.python.util_rules.pex import PexRequest, VenvPex, VenvPexProcess
from pants.engine.fs import CreateDigest, Digest, FileContent
from pants.engine.process import Process, ProcessResult
from pants.engine.rules import Get, collect_rules, rule
from pants.engine.target import HydratedSources, HydrateSourcesRequest
from pants.engine.unions import UnionRule
from pants.util.docutil import git_url
from pants.util.logging import LogLevel
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_DOCKERFILE_PACKAGE = "pants.backend.docker.subsystems"
class DockerfileParser(PythonToolRequirementsBase):
options_scope = "dockerfile-parser"
help = "Used to parse Dockerfile build specs to infer their dependencies."
default_version = "dockerfile==3.2.0"
register_interpreter_constraints = True
default_interpreter_constraints = ["CPython>=3.7"]
register_lockfile = True
default_lockfile_resource = (_DOCKERFILE_PACKAGE, "dockerfile_lockfile.txt")
default_lockfile_path = (
f"src/python/{_DOCKERFILE_PACKAGE.replace('.', '/')}/dockerfile_lockfile.txt"
)
default_lockfile_url = git_url(default_lockfile_path)
class DockerfileParserLockfileSentinel(PythonToolLockfileSentinel):
options_scope = DockerfileParser.options_scope
@rule
def setup_lockfile_request(
_: DockerfileParserLockfileSentinel, dockerfile_parser: DockerfileParser
) -> PythonLockfileRequest:
return PythonLockfileRequest.from_tool(dockerfile_parser)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class ParserSetup:
pex: VenvPex
@rule
async def setup_parser(dockerfile_parser: DockerfileParser) -> ParserSetup:
parser_script_content = pkgutil.get_data(_DOCKERFILE_PACKAGE, _DOCKERFILE_SANDBOX_TOOL)
if not parser_script_content:
raise ValueError(
"Unable to find source to {_DOCKERFILE_SANDBOX_TOOL!r} in {_DOCKERFILE_PACKAGE}."
)
parser_content = FileContent(
path="__pants_df_parser.py",
content=parser_script_content,
is_executable=True,
)
parser_digest = await Get(Digest, CreateDigest([parser_content]))
parser_pex = await Get(
VenvPex,
PexRequest(
output_filename="dockerfile_parser.pex",
internal_only=True,
requirements=dockerfile_parser.pex_requirements(),
interpreter_constraints=dockerfile_parser.interpreter_constraints,
main=EntryPoint(PurePath(parser_content.path).stem),
sources=parser_digest,
),
)
return ParserSetup(parser_pex)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class DockerfileParseRequest:
sources_digest: Digest
args: tuple[str, ...]
@rule
async def setup_process_for_parse_dockerfile(
request: DockerfileParseRequest, parser: ParserSetup
) -> Process:
process = await Get(
Process,
VenvPexProcess(
parser.pex,
argv=request.args,
description="Parse Dockerfile.",
input_digest=request.sources_digest,
level=LogLevel.DEBUG,
),
)
return process
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class DockerfileInfo:
putative_target_addresses: tuple[str, ...] = ()
version_tags: tuple[str, ...] = ()
def split_iterable(
sep: str, obj: list[str] | tuple[str, ...]
) -> Generator[tuple[str, ...], None, None]:
while sep in obj:
idx = obj.index(sep)
yield tuple(obj[:idx])
obj = obj[idx + 1 :]
yield tuple(obj)
@rule
async def parse_dockerfile(sources: DockerImageSources) -> DockerfileInfo:
hydrated_sources = await Get(HydratedSources, HydrateSourcesRequest(sources))
result = await Get(
ProcessResult,
DockerfileParseRequest(
hydrated_sources.snapshot.digest,
("version-tags,putative-targets", *hydrated_sources.snapshot.files),
),
)
output = result.stdout.decode("utf-8").strip().split("\n")
version_tags, putative_targets = split_iterable("---", output)
return DockerfileInfo(
putative_target_addresses=putative_targets,
version_tags=version_tags,
)
def rules():
return (
*collect_rules(),
UnionRule(PythonToolLockfileSentinel, DockerfileParserLockfileSentinel),
)
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UK liquids production rose by 27 thousand b/d m/m to 1.03 mb/d in December 2018, despite output being curtailed by an unplanned outage at Buzzard lasting from 19 November to 17 December. Production was higher y/y by 0.24 mb/d, owing to December 2017's shutdown of the Forties Pipeline System (FPS). Across 2018, UK production averaged 1.00 mb/d, higher y/y by just 17 thousand b/d, compared with our early 2018 expectations of 0.1 mb/d of growth, as incremental output from new projects was mostly offset by steep declines and unplanned outages at older fields. In 2019, we expect UK liquids production growth to accelerate to around 70 thousand b/d y/y, buoyed by the start-up of the 0.12 mb/d Clair field in November 2018 and a slew of 2019 start-ups totalling 0.1 mb/d of peak capacity. January 2019 production should come in higher m/m given higher loading programmes for January at 0.43 mb/d for Brent and Forties combined (+78 thousand b/d m/m). Loadings remain flat m/m in February, before rising to 0.46 mb/d in March. Nonetheless, despite higher production, North Sea differentials have strengthened with Brent spreads largely moving back into backwardation, driven by a sustained demand for cargoes from the east. Moreover, with WTI-Brent rallying alongside USGC grades, we expect less US exports to head to Europe, also supporting North Sea balances, at least until the weather disruptions along the Turkish straits ease.
UK oil demand rose y/y by 48 thousand b/d to 1.56 mb/d in November, with growth logged across the barrel. Refinery runs fell m/m by 57 thousand b/d to total 1.20 mb/d, though were still higher y/y by 38 thousand b/d, the fifth consecutive month of y/y gains. Runs were still 40 thousand b/d lower y/y in the year to November, owing to heavy H1 18 maintenance.
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The Washington Capitals beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 (OT) Thursday night at Capital One Arena. The win improves the Capitals record to 30-18-6 (66 points) on the season. The Capitals return to the ice on Saturday when they host the Florida Panthers at Capital One Arena. Puck drop is set for 7:00 PM.
The Capitals opened the scoring with a goal from Andre Burakovsky for a 1-0 lead at the first intermission. The Avs tied the game just 35 seconds into the second period, but Evgeny Kuznetsov would register a power play goal midway through the middle frame to give the Caps a 2-1 lead at the second break. Matt Niskanen would make it 3-1 just 34 second into the final frame, but the Avs would close the gap to a single goal 5:10 into the final period. The Avs would tie the game with just over two minutes remaining, making it 3-3, and sent the game to overtime. Evgeny Kuznetsov would win it for the Capitals in overtime.
Scratches: Jonas Siegenthaler, Nic Dowd and Dmitrij Jaskin were the healthy scratches. Christian Djoos wrapped up his conditioning stint in Hershey and is returning to Washington. Reirden stated Djoos is a possibility for Saturday night versus the Panthers.The Capitals will need to make a roster move before Djoos can return to the roster.
The Capitals opened the scoring with an early goal from Andre Burakovsky at 6:31 of the first period. The goal was setup by a nice pass from T.J. Oshie. T.J. Oshie (15) and Matt Niskanen (13) were credited with the helpers.
The first period would end with the Caps leading 1-0. The Avs out-attempted the Capitals 25-16 but the Caps led in shots on goal (SOG) 12-9. Both teams were 0 for 1 on the power play in the opening frame.
The Avs tied the game just 35 seconds into the second period with a tally from Nathan MacKinnon, making it 1-1.
The Capitals challenged the call, claiming offsides, but the play was deemed on sides, giving the Avs a power play, but the Avs could not convert.
The Capitals regained the lead with a power play goal from Evgeny Kuznetsov at 8:38 of the second period.
The middle frame would close with the Capitals holding on to a 2-1 lead. The Capitals out-attempted the Avs 19-18, but the Avs led 16-15 in SOG. The Avs led 43-35 in attempts with the Caps leading 27-25 in SOG after 40 minutes of play. The Capitals were 1 for 4 and the Avs were 0 for 2 on the power play after two periods.
The Capitals would stretch their lead to 3-1 with a goal from Matt Niskanen 34 seconds into the final frame. Jakub Vrana (16) and Evgeny Kuznetsov (36) were credited with the assists.
The Avs would answer with a goal from Mikko Rantanen at 5:10 of the final period, making it 3-2.
Tom Wilson and Ian Cole dropped the mitts midway through the final frame. Wilson took objection to a hit that Cole levied on Evgeny Kuznetsov just prior to the fight. Wilson demolished Cole. Kuznetsov would go to the room.
The Avs would tie the game with just over two minutes left in the game with a goal from Colin Wilson to make it 3-3.
The Capitals would win it in the extra frame with a goal from Evgeny Kuznetsov.
Evgeny Kuznetsov now has seven points in the four games since the break.
The Avalanche led in shot attempts 55-41.
Capitals led in shots on goal 42-37.
The Capitals were 1 for 6 and the Avalanche 0 for 2 on the power play.
Andre Burakovsky played in his 300th NHL/Capitals game.
Brett Connolly played in his 400th NHL game.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Andre Burakovsky, Colorado Avalanche, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Jon Sorensen, Matt Niskanen, Philipp Grubauer, Washington Capitals. Bookmark the permalink.
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This album by Emam and Friends features many Ancient Future musicians and shows influences from jazz, rock, Indian, Turkish, Eastern European, Spanish, folk, and devotional music. The music ranges from upbeat rock fused with Indian music to traditional Turkish & Macedonian gypsy songs to very jazzy sounds with sophisticated rhythms with George Brooks on the sax to soft rock and devotional songs by the singer songwriter Jillian Speer.
Sacred Insanity features Sivamani (South Indian drum set master), Emam (tabla, nylon string guitar, synth programming), Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard and electric guitar), Moses Sedler (cello), Manose Singh (bamboo flutes), Tom Grant (piano), Jillian Speer (vocals, nylon string guitar), Gary Haggerty (oud, mandocello), George Brooks (sax), Phil Baker (bass), Kip Richardson (drums), Jeffry Sick (violin), Shabda Khan (vocals), and Narottama Alden (bass).
Dancing Fairies (Emam. 4:43). Rock and roll meets the bamboo flute! RealAudio.
Om Namah Shivay (Jillian Speer. 5:21). Jillian's original composition with ancient Sanskrit prayers as the lyrics.
Sacred Insanity (Emam. 6:28). A jazzy tune with a sacredly insane drum track (21 beat rhythm cycle: 5+5+5+6) and a smooth sax. RealAudio.
Angel Among Us (Jillian Speer. 6:30). Original lyrics and music by Jillian.
Spanish Trance - Part I (Traditional. 3:44). A vocal approach to an old song. Inspired by Spanish music, Gregorian chants, and Indian rhythms.
Smile My Friend (Emam. 6:48). A compositional gift to Gary Haggerty, who loves to play gypsy tunes with odd rhythms!
Gayatri (Jillian Speer. 5:21). Another one of Jillian's original compositions with ancient Sanskrit prayers as the lyrics. RealAudio.
Gypsy Song (Traditional. 4:16). Adaptation of a traditional Turkish gypsy dance tune, presented with the Indian tabla for rhythm.
Spanish Trance II, III (Traditional. 3:34, 2:02). An instrumental/improvisational approach to the same Spanish song. RealAudio.
The Rejected. (Jillian Speer. 4:35). Jillian wrote this one as a response to how the wealthy treats the under class especially in India.
Tinkers Dance (Traditional. 4:36). Gary's interpretation of a traditional Macedonian song, with a world fusion twist. RealAudio.
Dance of the Hermit (Emam. 14:48). A fascination with the Tarot card #9 (Hermit) resulted in this piece in a slow 9 beat cycle. It moves between very Indian sounding and very jazzy sections, then resolves into an oud solo.
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The Solutions Architect
My Thoughts On Progress – Sports Cars, Tech and Everything in between.
Is Netscaler Cloud Gateway just Project Horizon on-premise?
The Netscaler Cloud Gateway was released by Citrix with the purpose of delivery applications to the enterprise in a more efficient and better managed process. The delivery includes not just the existing apps but also SaaS apps like SalesForce and others that support the SAML authentication tokens. For most of the VMware followers out there this sounds strikingly like MyOneLogin or what was just released as the Horizon App Manager. There are some key differences however between the products. Starting on the physical side, the Cloud Gateway is an on-premise device or virtual appliance, while Horizon is designed to be a cloud based services that does not put any equipment in the enterprise datacenters. Gloud Gateway will be available according to Citrix as a service from Citrix Solutions Providers as well but that does not seem to be the focus at this point. That is not where the differences stop, the Netscaler allows for quality of services management and license management for these applications across the enterprise. The Cloud Gateway also integrates directly with all the different versions of Citrix Receiver.
Not surprisingly there are alot of similarities and the release will most likely force VMware to continue with the application push and hopefully integrate ThinApp into Horizon sooner rather than later, since the Cloud Gateway can already present XenApp published apps.
Type 1 Hypervisor Battle
Citrix was the first of the big players to release a Type 1 hypervisor for desktops with the first release of XenClient, but it's limited hardware compatibility list and the high cost for the equipment it did support was a major limiting factor in it's success. MokaFive claims to have a type 1 hypervisor but without the backing of one of the big players it is having limited success, the same goes for NXtop. VMware had promised a type one for years and has since gone back to claim that the Type 2 Workstation is the future, with options like offline mode for View being a good enough solution.
This week Citrix dropped the gauntlet on the competition with the release of XenClient2 and XenClient XT. Xen Client 2 supposedly will support 45 million systems and with the integration with Syncronizer you can truly present a enterprise and a personal computer completely isolated from each other on the bare metal of a laptop. You also get enhance video card support with the support of AMD chipsets. While the release of XenClient2 gives us more access the XenClientXT release is the one that could have some of the most impact, especially for those of us inside the Beltway. The ability to have secure access to multiple enclaves with a single device from a company that is already presenting virtual desktops within these same enclaves could result in closing a hole in the O-zone layer just by not having 5 computers under the desk of every federal employee that works with classified data.
Is the type 1 hypervisor ready for production? That is probably still to be seen, and we need some healthy competition to help us see it grow but this is definitely a significant step towards a new paradigm in endpoint computing.
Citrix is releasing a reference architecture to help you build your own cloud offering
The key parameters that are to be considered when building a multi-tenant environment are Isolation, performance sla, user customization, ease of administration, and financial cost. Citrix is providing ways to build this with multiple different models. The first is session isolation. This would involve fully shared hardware with just a user session separate. The next is server isolation,with each tenant having their own virtual servers. The next is a full network isolation. This is dedicated hardware and systems. The cost increases with each model. Within the next few months (June 30th they say) Citrix will be releasing a full fledged white paper on how to configure each of these setups.
While the full isolation would be the preferred option in most cases, it will also involve the most hardware for this cloud. Some of the components then require you to duplicate solutions, this includes a separate XenApp farm for each tenant. By building multiple farms you also lose some of the new functionality in XenApp 6 that will allow for worker groups to auto populate apps depending on OU. Parts that don't need to be multiple would include the Access gateway and Netscaler. A Netscaler will create a virtual server that provides client less access into the tenants network. With the netscaler you could have separation with virtual VPX gateways, or for a large environment you could have unto 20,000 concurrent connections with the MPX appliance.
For monitoring the cloud environment you can use Edgesight to monitor end to end details of the environment. This is definitely an advantage since you are often unable to monitor multiple systems through a single pane of glass. Edgesight now provides for some new reports for SLA compliance and Usage reports, specifically built around solution providers.
The goal with the latest releases is to combine the multiple management tools, AD, SQL, and XenApp just to name a few. The release of the Cortex Cloud Control Panel will allow you to manage multiple consoles in one pane as well as delegate access out to either staff or even to tenants to manage their own environment.
Is Citrix finally back in it's love affair with Microsoft?
Today Citrix released the Service Provider Automation Pack (See Jon Spallone's details here) in conjunction with Microsoft. it includes a powershell script to automate the provisioning of desktops from Service Providers for the small to medium businesses. On the surface this looks like a great new concept, the ability to give end users in a small to medium workspace the option of purchasing desktops without needing to spend countless capital expenditures. However it appears this is rally the latest rendition of Terminal Services just done better.
This in itself is what makes the solution even more interesting. The Microsoft licensing model for virtual desktops has in the past revolved around the VDA license. The license was essentially a tax on users that wanted the Windows 7 experience without a physical desktop. A yearly cost that Microsoft added to the cost of VDI that can make the return on investment stretch into the 6 and 7 year timeframe. with the SPAP, you are using a version of Windows Server 2008 that is built to look like Win7. This would mean that a Service Provider can now use SPLA licensing and finally offer a desktop as a service with full compliance. The VDA license was never available as part of the SPLA. VMware offers View in a way that you could present desktops, and they offer vCloud Director to automate virtual machine management task, but they do not offer something to present anything other than a Windows 7 desktop in an automated method.
Releasing the SPAP with Citrix harkens back to the days of the release of Metaframe and the early relationship between Microsoft and Citrix. At the same time we get to see the argument between Citrix/Microsoft and VMware to continue to grow.
Citrix gets it mostly right with the CTP Program
The advent of social media and the increased use of user bulletin boards, companies have come to realize that there is a significant value to be gained from having users and partners as product evangelists. Microsoft has been doing this for years with the MVP program and a few years ago VMware joined suit with the vExpert program. Citrix has also seen the benefits of these evangelist. Arriving in San Fransisco today for the Citrix Partner Summit, it is immediately evident that the Citrix community not only supports the designation of Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) but wants to see it succeed. The group gather on a semi regular basis and Citrix provides support for the program through incentives that include invitations to exclusive events, access to the product teams, and access to early release software. These are just a few of the incentives provided to a group that Citrix has entrusted not only with their name but provided backing. The largest drawback I can see with the program is the extremely limited size of the group. While a small group makes it easier to provide benefits to, it also limits the reach of the group. This past year the VMware team has said that there were over 1000 applicants for the vExpert program, clearly a number that has to be trimmed down to be able to provide the credentials as an exclusive and beneficial group. Neither group has stated how many times someone can become a CTP or vExpert, and having the same members year in and year out could result in an "old boys club" rather than the true group of passionate supporters and technologists. Overall the program looks to be very beneficial for Citrix and the CTPs.The CTP group is also speaking throughout Citrix Synergy and Summit. I look forward to hearing how this group can represent the Citrix products line.
Citrix – Not just the Terminal Server Guys.. Look at Networking
Citrix has been steadily moving away from the reputation of being the "terminal server guys." For the past year, 20% of Citrix business was networking including Netscaler, Branch Repeater, and Access Gateway. This is a great transition as the desktop OS moves towards the hybrid cloud and application centric computing.
There is an interesting pitch, that Citrix provides the only end to end solution, providing web access and branch office access to the virtual desktop. This is a bit of a stretch although the ability to offload a web interface from a Windows machine onto the NetScaler and move load balanced web access to an appliance seems to provide a much more secure and potentially robust solution than the VMware Security Server. Adding a load balancer to the View Solution could add cost if you don't use some of the available open source load balancers. There is an added cost however with the NetScaler as well and the Netscaler is built to replace the free Secure Gateway solution that is built into XenDesktop. You do however get unlimited connection and the added access from the Citrix Receiver plug-in and the Branch Repeater plug-in. The one area that VMware can not provide is the Branch Repeater and Acceleration features. If a customer purchases XenDesktop Platinum Edition, they are able to get the Branch Repeater VPX for free a virtual appliance version of the Branch Repeater.
Branch Repeater gives the user visibility into 500+ applications, and you can auto configure it without changing Xendesktop. You can also prioritize by user groups or apps. That acceleration is a feature that sounds great and because it can be deployed as a virtual machine you could demo a proof of concept or acceleration without impacting your existing networking.
Probably the most intriguing product in the networking portfolio is the Citrix Receiver connection into SAAS apps leveraging the Open Cloud Access. This is very similar to VMware's newly releasedHorizon App Manager. It utilizes SAML just like Horizon App Manager does to pass through authentication utilizing the token approach. This cNetombination with the Open Cloud Access is that next step into the application centric computing space of tomorrow. Another great transition from the terminal server space into the future.
The death of an operating system..Say goodbye to Windows..
I have been working in IT for almost 15 years and throughout the time, Microsoft has helped me grow a career but over the last few years we have seen possibly the most significant transition since the advent of the personal computer. What should not be surprising is that Apple has been the catalyst for change. Many people in Generation X and Y and every other name you would like to give those born after 1970, first learned how to use a computer in school, working on early Apple and Macintosh systems. This led this same kids to expect the ability to so word processing without a typewriter, followed by sending messages to each other without paying for a stamp, and now the earliest advocates of computers along with the youngest generations entering the workforce have demanded another change. No longer will these users accept whatever computer and system is thrown in front of them.
I place the blame on Apple with the release of the iphone and the App Store. The idea of presenting a single application to a group of users is not something new,in all reality Citrix has been presenting applications to business users since the days of Metaframe and the original Web Interface, but the ability for Apple to change a global mindset is something Citrix has never been able todo. Users now expect that you can access a single application regardless of what device I am using. Google continued to reinforce the attitude with the release of Android. Android is the largest deployed mobile platform in the world, and along with it comes multiple app stores.
The next question is how would applications being presented to a phone or tablet kill an operating system. The answer is rather easy on this one. Users want to bring a Macbook or a ipad or a Android tablet and get all the same applications that you used to only be able to get with Windows. VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft will all present a full windows desktop to a user, but why would I want a full desktop when all I need is an email client and a word processor or an internet browser. The added overhead on a device that I bought because it was optimized seems pointless. The same generations that grew up on Apple II Plus computers and a green screen now have 10x the power in their pocket with smartphones and even more with the ipad and newer tablets. Microsoft has even realized that application based computing is the wave of the future, with the release of Office Live, Microsoft is allowing users to get to their largest consumer product through the web without ever installing a product. When you combine that with the likes o Dropbox and SugarSync you can have all your data and all your applications sitting in a datacenter that you could care less where it is as long as you can access it from your optimized device. A device that is optimized to just run what others create and give you the best connection possible to the internet and the plethora of cloud products.
Windows may not die in the next year or two but with the speed of computing today it is very possible that the life of what has at this point been the most common base for personal computing is very short. Over the next week Citrix will make multiple releases allowing the user to get closer to the application centric computing model during their major conference, you can expect the same style releases from VMware in the end of August at their conference. Microsoft itself has been focusing on the other product lines with added push to use Unified Communications and Collaboration tools along with their own virtualization products. Windows has been around longer than many people imagined and has ridden the wave but it may have been its own biggest enemy by not staying with the times and just becoming a delivery system like iOS.
It has finally come time to close the Windows.
Sent from my iPad 🙂
Project Horizon finally goes public
After at least 2 years of anticipation and waiting we get to see the first release of VMware's Project Horizon today. We still have to wait to get the application publishing that many of us hoped would be the first part of Horizon to go public but this new single sign on cloud connected enterprise tool can go along way to help enterprises give the flexibility back to the users. Horizon App Manager is delivered as a virtual appliance that sends secure tokens instead of full passwords between the corporate environment and cloud providers like SalesForce and Workday. This gives users the comfort of knowing that a seasoned IT pro had secured the connections and validated that the site they are visiting is in fact the proper place to go and not a hackers imitation. What Horizon also does is provides a app store in a sense that corporate users can request accounts on these third party services directly within the corporate environment. Check out the video below from VMwareTV for more details. I look forward to seeing the next few releases from the Horizon Team.
The Google Chromebook just helped VDI into the mainstream
Google announced that they will be selling the Chromebook for Business for $28 a month per user starting in June. At first you probably wonder how a web based dumbed down notebook could help the likes of VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft sell VDI solutions. The answer is simple. As our data moves into the cloud we have less and less need for the large fast hard drives that have been populating notebooks for the past few years. Add that to always on connectivity of 3g and you have access to your data (for free up to 100 mb a month). The next question is now that I can get to my data how to I use it. You could follow the party line from Google and move everything to Google Docs but that does not work for most enterprises. However published applications from XenApp or single sign-on solutions like Project Horizon from VMware are moving enterprise applications into the cloud and onto the internet. So now you can have a notebook that can boot in less than 8 seconds with full web connectivity and a minimal security threat footprint that also has access to your documents that sit in DropBox or SugarSync, If you add that to the latest release from Ericom of a HTML5 client for VMware View and you can now have enterprise class desktops at your fingertips. There is of course the worry of what happens in someone hacks the ChromeOS that is on these machines do they now have access to all my data anyway? It is still possible that could happen but with a team of engineers and an auto-update feature on the Chromebook you would hope whatever vulnerability that may be found would be patched extremely quickly.
This is great now for your work computer but what if I want to use it at home? The applications that are loaded are already the ones that most uses want to use from their home PC, with full access to chrome, google docs, chat clients, twitter clients and of course angry birds who could want more?
VMware FlowCharts Part 2 : SRM Installation
In an effort to make these processes as easy as possible heres the next in my series of flowcharts for supporting VMware. Keep in mind that this is simply for installation. Make sure you follow best practices and do a full application assessment before assuming your DR plan is complete. Attempting to deploy a DR plan for Exchange, SQL or any other multi-tier application without looking at all the interconnectivity will result in an unsuccessful DR failover. With that being said… heres the flowchart.
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The world's largest Victoria's Secret is located in Herald Square on Broadway in New York City. This iconic member of New York's retail flagship fleet gained its "world's largest" designation after being reimagined and renovated in October 2012. That renovation doubled the store's original size, from 30,000 square feet to 60,000 square feet. As of June 2016, it was still the world's largest Victoria's Secret brick-and-mortar retail location, measured in square footage.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but, the Herald Square Flagship Store is not the only Victoria's Secret Flagship Store in the world. Technically, according to the definition of flagship stores, any store that is the first to be opened in any state (or any country) is a "flagship" store.
A replica of Victoria's Secret star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Victoria's Secret is the only company, or brand, with a Hollywood "star"
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Body by BlueBella, Not just any body, Plunge neck, Adjustable straps, Hook-and-eye fastening, Thong cut. Inspired by what lies beneath, British lingerie label BlueBella creates fashion cross-over styles with a provocative twist. Check out our edit of its bras, briefs and bodies and get to know our favourites – the brand's silky pyjama sets are definitely up there, too.
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We are aware that many of you have been waiting a long time to get your hands on this game, so we want to make it available to you before we can even make a dime off of it!
The download above includes all of the materials needed to play a game of War Haven, all you have to do is Print (and Cut) and Play!
We will continue to update the Print & Play as we move toward final release of the game, so please give us your feedback!
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With the tiring academic schedule and exhausting examinations that you face as an engineering student, you need a refreshing break now and then to lift your spirits. This can vary from catching a movie with your buddies to playing your favourite sport.
But doing these activities will just help you to relax and escape from your day-to-day schedule. It will not help you to restore your spirit and boost the innovator within you.
So, if you want to bring back the innovator within you for which you set out to pursue engineering initially, you need to do some activities that will spark your curiosity towards latest technologies.
Most engineering students go for technical festivals that happens at various reputed institutions and participate in some technical events to achieve this.
Attending the technical festivals that are hosted by premier institutions like IITs will give you a very good exposure to the latest technological advancements and takes you closer to the innovations happening all across the globe.
You can also attend the robotics workshops that are conducted as part of their technical festival to get good technical knowledge and hands-on experience on latest robotics technologies. As robotics is one of the most researched technology today, participating in such workshops will make you understand the current industrial trends and advancements in an exciting manner.
These robotics workshops will not only help you to acquire latest technological knowledge but also increase your curiosity & desire to learn new technical concepts and bring out the innovator within you.
We have seen a number of instances where a lot of students got influenced by attending such innovative robotics workshops in IITs and developed a thirst to participate in national level robotics competitions to showcase their skills.
In this article, I am suggesting some tips for you to make the most out of robotics workshops in IITs.
So why you should attend robotics workshops in IITs?
How can you register for these robotics workshops?
Since the technical festivals organized by the IITs attract a huge crowd, you need to register for these robotics workshops well in advance to confirm your participation. Going for on-spot registration for these robotics workshops is not recommended.
As these technical festivals happening in IITs attract a large number of engineering students across the nation, the organizers of such fest will launch their official websites at least 2-3 months prior. You can go through their website to find information about the workshops and register directly.
You can also subscribe to their website newsletter or follow their official social media pages to get timely updates about such robotics workshops in IITs. There are also various public forums available that lists the workshop details, you can check their pages periodically to stay updated.
For instance, Skyfi Labs also organizes various technical workshops as part of the technical festivals of IITs, NITs and other esteemed universities. Whenever such technical workshops are scheduled, the details will be updated in our website. Therefore, students who are looking to attend such workshops can check the details with our forum and register directly with ease.
Know your facts - Although these workshops are organised in IITs, they are not organized by IITs: Yes, don't get fooled and attend them thinking they are organized by IITs (especially those in techfests). The techfest organizers (students mostly) invite other companies to conduct these workshops. Most of the times, the companies who pay more to the organizers get a chance to conduct these. And so they are not conducted by IITs.
These workshops don't give IIT Certificates: IIT has nothing to do with these workshops and they are organized by techfest teams who invite other private companies to conduct them. So the certificate you get is from the company (and maybe the techfest and not from IIT). A lot of students think it is IIT certificate and make mistake. Don't do that.
Quality is not guaranteed just because workshop is happening in IIT: As I mentioned above, the workshops are not conducted by IIT faculty and are conducted by private companies who pay a lot of amount to the techfest organizers to get this slot. So the quality you get will be the same level as the quality of the organizing company. So instead of blindly going thinking it is IIT, we suggest you to look at the organizing company and do some research about their quality standards.
You might ask does IIT not take care of this before allowing them? – Unfortunately from what we observed, they don't. IITs don't even know who are the faculty coming to these workshops and what content they are going to teach. A number of times various companies approached us asking to send out trainers to the workshops they have agreed to conduct in IITs! Don't attend such events!
What are the common topics on which Robotics Workshops are conducted in IITs?
What if you can't travel to IIT? Or you don't want to waste time and money to travel to IIT? Can you still learn these useful courses?
We at Skyfi Labs have developed some amazing robotics project-based online courses which make it very easy for you to learn and build robots from your home itself. These courses follow an innovative methodology of Learn-Do-Review to ensure that you learn the theoretical concepts and get good hands-on experience building robotics projects.
With the kits shipped to your doorstep and 1-1 technical assistance provided, building 100% output guaranteed robotics projects was never this simple. Students from 25+ countries have experienced how easy it is. You can also try our courses for free before choosing to pay and getting the kit at your home!
Do let us know about your experience with Robotics Workshops at IITs by commenting below.
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Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014
Whenever Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) sends out media invites to its official events — such as for its iPhone 5 event — it likes to drop subtle hints as to what it has up its iSleeve. Consumers are currently in one of Apple's longest dry spells, with no notable events or product introductions.
Business Insider notes just how long it's been since any official event, particularly since this year has had no iPad event in the spring like in previous years. Apple has now set the official dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, which will take place from June 10 to June 14.
WWDC is frequently a staging ground for product introductions or unveilings, both hardware and software. Last year's WWDC opening keynote introduced the Retina MacBook Pro and previews of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion. Prior years frequently saw new iPhones unveiled.
Hardware aside, the guaranteed software news will headline the event. This version of iOS is arguably one of Apple's most important in years, as it will mark a dramatic shift for the platform that drives more than 70% of sales. iOS 7 will be the first version under design chief Jony Ive's influence, following Scott Forstall's ouster in October, and it's set for an aesthetic overhaul.
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: Bellway PLC (BWY)
Bellway p.l.c. is a United Kingdom-based holding company, owning subsidiary undertakings, which is engaged principally in housebuilding in the United Kingdom. The Company's subsidiaries include Bellway Homes Limited, Bellway Properties Limited, Bellway (Services) Limited, Litrose Investments Limited, Bellway Financial Services Limited, Bellway Housing Trust Limited and The Victoria Dock Company Limited. Advisors' Opinion:
[By Sofia Horta e Costa]
Bellway Plc (BWY) added 1.4 percent after the homebuilder said reservations in the past four months rose 31 percent as buyers had greater access to mortgages. Elan (ELN) Corp. jumped to a 10-month high in Dublin after Royalty Pharma increased its offer for the Irish drugmaker to as much as $6.7 billion. BT Group increased 3.7 percent as Barclays Plc recommended investors buy shares of the U.K.'s largest fixed-line company.
Persimmon dropped 4.3 percent to 1,061 pence, while Bellway Plc (BWY) declined 3.1 percent to 1,262 pence. Bovis Homes Group Plc slipped 2.7 percent to 712 pence. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and the Bank of England will reassess the Help-to-Buy program, which allows the purchase of homes with a deposit as small as 5 percent, every September from 2014, the Treasury said.
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated(PEG)
Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, operates in the energy industry primarily in the northeastern and mid Atlantic United States. The company primarily operates as a wholesale energy supply company that integrates its generating asset operations through its wholesale energy, fuel supply, energy trading, and marketing and risk management activities. It operates nuclear, coal, gas, and oil-fired generation facilities. The company also involves in the transmission of electricity and distribution of electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as invests in the development of solar generation projects and energy efficiency programs. In addition, it owns and operates domestic projects engaged in the generation of energy; and offers appliance services and repairs to customers. As of December 31, 2010, it owned approximately 13,538 megawatts of generation capacity. The company also owned and operated approximately 17,608 miles of gas mains, 12 gas distribution headquarters, and 2 subheadquarters, as well as 62 natural gas metering and regulating stations. Public Service Enterprise Group was founded in 1985 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.
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Power company Public Service Enterprise Group(PEG) unveiled a $12 billion five-year capital spending plan Friday, an effort to boost earnings growth at its utility segment.
[By Jake L'Ecuyer]
Leading and Lagging Sectors
Utilities sector surged 0.26%, saw CPFL Energia SA (NYSE: CPL) as the top gainer. Among leading sector stocks, gains came from Consolidated Water Co (NASDAQ: CWCO), Companhia Paranaense de Energia (NYSE: ELP) and Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE: PEG).
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: Harris & Harris Group Inc.(TINY)
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. is a venture capital and venture debt firm specializing in seed, start up, early stage, and mid venture investments. It primarily invests in tiny-technology-enabled companies with a focus on nanotechnology, microsystems, and microelectromechanical systems technology. Harris & Harris Group, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Los Angeles, California.
[By Sally Jones]
Highlight: Harris & Harris Group Inc. (TINY)
The TINY share price is currently $3.07 or 22.1% off the 52-week high of $3.94. The company does not pay a dividend.
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: Splunk Inc (SPLK)
Splunk Inc. (Splunk) provides a software platform. Splunk's software collects and indexes data regardless of format or source, and enables users to search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on this data, all in real time. Its software is designed to help users in various roles, including information technology (IT) and business professionals, analyze machine data and realize real-time visibility into and about their organization's operations. The core of its software is a machine data engine, comprised of collection, indexing, search and data management capabilities. Its software can collect and index terabytes of information daily, irrespective of format or source. As of January 31, 2012, the Company had approximately 3,700 customers.
The Company's software enables users to identify problems, get answers and gain new business insights and intelligence from machine data across their globally distributed enterprise all through one platform. Its softwar e contains features and functionality, such as Universally collect, index, store and archive any machine data, from any source, search and investigate, user-friendly interface, knowledge store, monitor and alert, report and analyze, custom dashboards and views, platform extensibility, role-based access and controls.
The Company competes with BMC Software, Inc., CA, Compuware, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Corporation, Quest Software, Adobe Systems, Google, Webtrends, EMC, Oracle and SAP.
[By Rob DeFrancesco]
Steve Halpern: Now, you also like a company called Splunk (SPLK). Can you tell us what that company does?
Rob DeFrancesco: Splunk provides a software that analyzes machine data. It's a big data play, or Internet of things, so analyzing any type of—even something like manufacturing facilities and you can even analyze flow of elevators in buildings to see where—just basically any type of tick data where you're analyzing information for a machine.
[By Matt Jarzemsky]
The start of the year saw a spate of similar offerings, including equity sales by advertising-technology firm Rocket Fuel Inc.(FUEL), data-analysis firm Splunk Inc.(SPLK) and human-resources software maker Workday Inc.
[By Benjamin Pimentel]
Shares of WorkDay Inc. (WDAY) were down 5% to close at $109.92, while Splunk Inc. (SPLK) shed 3% to close at $92.75.
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: AXT Inc(AXTI)
AXT, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes compound and single element semiconductor substrates for use in wireless communications, lighting display applications, fiber optic communications, and solar cell. It offers semi-insulating substrates made from gallium arsenide, which are used in power amplifiers and radio frequency integrated circuits of wireless handsets, direct broadcast televisions, high-performance transistors, and satellite communications applications. The company also provides semi-conducting substrates made from gallium arsenide that are used for applications in light emitting diodes, lasers, and optical couplers; substrates made from indium phosphide used in broadband and fiber optic communications; and substrates made from germanium used in satellite and terrestrial solar cells, and for optical applications. It manufactures its semiconductor substrates using its proprietary vertical gradient freeze technol ogy. In addition, the company, through its joint venture agreements, manufactures and sells gallium, arsenic, germanium, germanium dioxide, paralytic boron nitride crucibles, and boron oxide. AXT, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force in the United States, as well as through independent sales representatives in France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as American Xtal Technology, Inc. and changed its name to AXT, Inc. in July 2000. AXT, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
[By Eric Volkman]
SciClone (NASDAQ: SCLN ) has a new man leading its finance team. The company announced that it hired Wilson Cheung to be its new CFO. Cheung is a longtime executive who most recently served as chief compliance officer, Asia Pacific, at digital marketing agency Velti, following a stint as that company's CFO. Before that, he was CFO and corporate secretary at AXT (NASDAQ: AXTI ) and served in various managerial positions in firms such as KPMG and Yahoo!
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: DTE Energy Company(DTE)
DTE Energy Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an electric and natural gas utility company in Michigan. It also involves in non-utility operations. The company?s Energy Utility segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity in southeastern Michigan. It generates electricity from various fuels, including coal, as well as from nuclear and hydro facilitates. As of December 31, 2010, this segment owned and operated approximately 674 distribution substations and approximately 412,100 line transformers; and supplied electricity to 2.1 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southeastern Michigan. The company?s Gas Utility segment engages in the purchase, storage, transmission, distribution, and sale of natural gas in Michigan. As of December 31, 2010, this segment?s distribution system included approximately 19,000 miles of distribution mains, 1,036,000 service lines, and 1,319,000 active meters. It also o wned approximately 2,000 miles of transmission lines that deliver natural gas; and supplied natural gas to approximately 1.2 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout Michigan, as well as to approximately 17,000 customers in Adrian, Michigan. The company?s non-utility operations include natural gas pipelines and storage; unconventional gas exploration, development, and production; power and industrial projects, and coal transportation and marketing; and energy marketing and trading operations. Its customers include electric utilities, merchant power producers, integrated steel mills, and industrial companies. DTE Energy Company was founded in 1995 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
[By Richard Stavros]
Michigan-based ITC Holdings Corp (NYSE: ITC) is the largest electric transmission company in the US. The company is in charge of the electric transmission system formerly owned by DTE Energy Holding Co (NYSE: DTE) and CMS Energy Corp (NYSE: CMS).
[By Marie Mawad]
European telecommunications companies are disposing of peripheral assets as they increase investments in high-speed mobile networks in their largest markets and cut debt. Last week, Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) agreed to sell a 70 percent stake in its Scout24 Holding digital-classifieds business.
[By John Udovich]
Small cap Plug Power Inc was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between Michigan utility owner DTE Energy Co (NYSE: DTE) and Mechanical Technology Inc (OTCMKTS: MKTY) to develop fuel-cell systems to power homes and small businesses. Plug Power Inc says it has revolutionized the material handling industry with cost-effective power solutions that increase productivity, lower operating costs and reduce carbon footprints as it manufactures a full suite of products designed to fit seamlessly into the existing battery compartment of all major OEM material handling equipment. In addition, the company says its GenDrive fuel cell is a superior alternative to lead-acid batteries for electric lift trucks in the $20 billion global material handling market.
Top Cheapest Companies To Watch For 2014: Prestige Brand Holdings Inc.(PBH)
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in marketing, selling, and distributing over-the-counter healthcare and household cleaning products primarily in North America. The company?s Over-The-Counter Healthcare segment offers a portfolio of OTC products under nine core OTC brands, including Chloraseptic sore throat remedies, Clear Eyes eye drops, Compound W wart removers, Dramamine motion sickness products, Efferdent and Effergrip denture products, Little Remedies pediatric healthcare products, Luden's cough drops, PediaCare pediatric healthcare products, and The Doctor?s brand of oral care products. This segment also provides other significant brands that include Dermoplast first-aid products, Murine eye and ear care products, NasalCrom allergy relief product, New-Skin liquid bandage, and Wartner wart removers. Its Household Cleaning segment markets household cleaning products, such as abrasive and non-abrasive tub and tile cleaner, scrubb i ng pads and sponges, dilutables, anti-bacterial hard surface spray for counter tops, and glass cleaners under the Comet, Chore Boy, and Spic and Span brands. Prestige Brands Holdings distributes its products through various retail channels, including drug, food, dollar, and club stores, as well as supermarkets and mass merchandisers. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.
[By Sean Williams]
What: Shares of Prestige Brands (NYSE: PBH ) , a marketer of over-the-counter health care and household cleaning products, jumped as much as 14% after it announced the acquisition of Australia's Care Pharmaceuticals.
Prestige Brands (NYSE: PBH ) is reaching to the other side of the world for its latest acquisition. The company announced that it has purchased the privately held Care Pharmaceuticals, based in New South Wales, Australia. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Prestige Brands did admit that it would be funded by monies drawn from an existing credit facility combined with cash on hand.
[By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Prestige Brands Holdings (NYSE: PBH ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Castor believes the cash has disappeared into working capital, which has grown from 23% to more than 50% since 2008. Comparable company Prestige Brand (PBH) uses 11%; Unilever (UL) and Colgate-Palmolive (CL) far less.
This entry was posted in Canadian Stocks, Performing Stocks, Small Cap Stocks on May 2, 2014 by admin.
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Neodiplocampta painteri är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Hull och Martin 1974. Neodiplocampta painteri ingår i släktet Neodiplocampta och familjen svävflugor.
Artens utbredningsområde är Jamaica. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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Free FableCroft ebooks for Easter!
It's a lovely long weekend, so for a very limited time we have two free ebooks on Amazon! Until Monday only, you can grab great stories by Dirk Flinthart and Margo Lanagan, instantly available on your ereader!
"Sanction" by Dirk Flinthart – continuing on from the events of the Aurealis Award-shortlisted Path of Night (though standing alone!), this brand new story follows former detective Jen Morris on a mission that will see her question everything she knows, and she's dragging a very much changed Michael Devlin along for the ride. Will what she has to do take too much toll?
"Flower and Weed" by Margo Lanagan – a short story glimpse into the vividly imagined world of Margo Lanagan's powerful, multi-award-winning novel Sea Hearts (also published as The Brides of Rollrock Island). Selkies are in the background, but this is a story of a liaison between a selkie's earthly husband and one of the witches who does the magic that's essential to keeping the selkie-wife trade going.
If that's not enough, you can still pre-order Jo Anderton's new Veiled Worlds novel right now and receive an exclusive bonus content ebook, containing both original and previously published stories in the Veiled Worlds. Don't miss out!
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HSS: Vestiges / Panopticon Split LP - new Panopticon track streaming!
Vestiges / Panopticon Split LP - new Panopticon track streaming!
A new split LP from two of the best bands in extreme music today - Washington D.C.'s Vestiges and Kentucky's one-man band Panopticon. Two tracks from Vestiges, and three from Panopticon, all of which represent some of each band's strongest output to date. Tracks "VII" and "VIII" are the latest in Vestiges ongoing narrative centered around the relationship between man and nature. These tracks are definitely the darkest and strongest in their already powerful discography. Absolutely mind-blowing, These two tracks have been streaming via the Vestiges website as well as their Bandcamp for months now - if you haven't checked them out, do so now. The Panopticon tracks are also very impressive, and are some of the most beautiful and captivating material that Austin has released. "A Letter" and "Eulogy" sound heavily influenced by post-rock, and have a similar vibe to the songs on the recent split with Wheels Within Wheels. Soaked in atmopshere, melancholy, and decidedly poignant. The third Panopticon track is a very dark and emotional cover of Suicide Nation - the punk/metal band from Tempe, Arizona that broke up in the early 2000's - called "Collapse and Die." If you're familiar with the original, you'll know that this is really terrific; it pays homage to the original while bringing its own fury and meaning. We are very proud and honored to be streaming this track for you, below.
This split is a vinyl-only release handled by The Flenser and Vestiges' own label, Replenish Records. All of the tracks were mastered by Colin Marston, who also mixed the Panopticon tracks. The LP is packaged in a gatefold cover with stunning artwork by Alex Mody, and comes with an 11" x 17" poster. Each label has its own color blend for the records - The Flenser's copies will be on electric blue vinyl with black in the center, while Replenish's copies will be on electric blue vinyl with black splatter. Both editions are limited to 300. Black vinyl, limited to 600, is also available.
Preorder from The Flenser here and preorder from Replenish here. Both labels are awesome, and are friends of ours, so we encourage you, if you have the means, to order from both. I will be.
While you're ordering your copy from The Flenser, you have an opportunity to also pick up a second pressing of Panopticon's latest full-length, Kentucky, on a beautiful 2xLP. With the first pressing long-since sold out, people have been screaming for a second press, and it is now coming to fruition. This time, it's a 2xLP in a single sleeve with an insert and new custom matrix. Co-released with Panopticon's label Lundr records. If you missed out the first time, now is your chance to have it on wax, where it obviously sounds phenomenal.
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A: The events that occur from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of next constitute a cardiac cycle. It can be divided into three phases (contraction of heart is called systole and relaxation is known as diastole).
1. Atrial Systole (0.1 sec): When the atria are filled with blood, action potential generates in sinoatrial node. Thus a wave of systole spreads over the atria. Hence atria contract.
from right atrium flows into right ventricle. The oxygenated blood from left atrium flows into left ventricle.
closed (to prevent backward flow of blood into atria) causing the first heart sound lub.
oxygenated blood from left ventricle flows into the systemic arch.
3. Cardiac Diastole (0.4 sec): Now the ventricles relax. Thus pressure falls, resulting in the closure of semilunar valves at the bases of aortic arches causing second heart sound dup. When the pressure falls further, the tricuspid and bicuspid valves open and blood from atria flows into ventricles freely. At this phase all the four chambers of heart are in relaxed state. Soon another cardiac cycle sets in.
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Beautiful colors and light texture allows light to penetrate into the room. Adds a nice atmosphere to the space.
I was afraid it was not going to look like the picture but when it came I was super excited! Love this curtain it is beautiful. The picture is not distorted and does not look cheap.
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People talk about whether knowledge or experience is better – I believe that knowledge is better but the experience matters too. Michel passed his CCIE lab exam recently, Daniel is close to taking the exam. I say this piece of conversation on Twitter.
I have to admire the openness and good humour of these men. Daniel already knows the answer of course, but Michel is making a good point. Knowing all the theory in the world will not necessarily make you the best engineer. Equally, having all the experience in the world will not make you the best engineer.
It's possible that there are jobs where either of these is true. Maybe having twenty five years of experience on X25 is still useful. Or maybe knowing the X25 protocol in full detail so as to build X25 terminal software is important.
But having both experience and knowledge leads to wisdom. Knowing what you can and cannot do, helps to make the right choice. Practical experience means being able to fit into a team, and learning how to communicate, fill out the paperwork, making better technical choices, understanding how technologies move through acceptance to death, and so much more.
Good post Greg. This is very true. I'm just about to start at a new employer with more senior work and network design involved. Getting a CCIE won't do a lot for my career at the moment, it will lead to respect among others of course but with that respect comes also expectations. I plan to see this thing through but there is this thing called life that you don't know what will get thrown at you so whatever the result I will definately not regret the studying. The learning experience is tremendous whether I get a cert or not.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Experience is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. It is difficult to gain experience without also gaining knowledge. It is rather trivial to gain knowledge with no experience.
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How The Financial System Is Being Used To Disempower Us
Tags: Banking, Federal Reserve
A way in which we can conceptualise the banking system is by imagining 100 people all being given $100 and as a result of this they are expected to pay back $110 at the end of the month. The only way in which you can earn extra money is by earning it from someone else in this group of 100. So there is $10000 in circulation, but $11000 needs to be paid back. In the best of situations this would mean 10 people would end up with nothing and go bankrupt, and the other 90 would be able to continue the cycle. But in our current system it does not work in this way as there is such inequality. It is more like 10 people have $5000 each and the 90 get $55.55 each, but still need the $110 at the end of the month. So as a result they have to borrow the extra $54.45 from one of the 10 with $5000 to keep on going, but for this to happen they will need to pay more interest and the never ending cycle continues.
The central reserve banks create money which are not backed by anything tangible, meaning there is no gold or asset supporting it, it is generated from nothing. They then put interest on that money, loan it to the banks and add their fees. The banks then loan it to the people and add interest. The money can never be paid back, as there is not enough money in circulation to pay back the debt. It is like one giant ponzi scheme that will eventually collapse.
This has ramifications on an individual level, but it is so much more far reaching than that. Because the debt keeps growing, the only way to keep feeding the system is through aggressive growth of industry. This comes at the expense of the environment, human rights and anything that can damage profits.
Our government is supported and influenced by this system and as a result the majority of the problems we face can be linked back to the financial sector. Halliburton a company that have armed multiple sides of global conflicts for nearly 100 years made $39.5 billion from the Iraq War (a bill picked up in part by taxpayers), they also had Dick Cheney as their CEO before he became vice president, Dick Cheney was very vocal on why we should go to war in Iraq. Does anyone see the conflict of interest here?
Education is provided to keep this system flowing and science for the most part is funded by organisations that have agendas. We literally have a system that is created to serve a very small group who want to disempower us, so they can continue with their abuse. The groups that are creating this mess are by definition parasites.
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@sirphenom I did, but the fact that their servers can still see the conversations was a turn-off. I really should mention it in the article.
@levisan Hmm... didn't know that. I was told it was HIPAA compliant too - oh well.
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AYUCR's booster section is much like the booster section on any high-power rocket. There are a couple of interesting things I think are worth mentioning though. The original design for the booster called for baffled motor ejection to eliminate the need for wadding, a replacable forward section in case of damage on landing and a 29mm motor mount. The first two decisions were good ones, the last one was not. I severely underestimated the finished weight of the whole thing and ended up with a booster that could barely lift the rocket off the ground. Back to the drawing board.
Baffled motor ejection was basically used because I hate wadding. The cellulose insulation that many people use doesn't seem to work well unless you use a lot of it. I have had success with baffling in the past and since I was designing this rocket from the ground up I decided to use it. The motor mount tube would be pluged at the top. The motor ejection gases would escape from holes in the side of the motor mount tube into a compartment between the motor tube and the airframe. The gas would then escape through holes in the forward centering ring. I painted all surfaces along the path with Rustoleum High Heat Enamel to try to protect the surfaces over time. I cannot say if this has worked or not because I cannot get at the inside of the booster to inspect. It seemed like it couldn't hurt.
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Events from the year 1954 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Winston Churchill (Conservative)
Parliament – 40th
Events
10 January – a British Overseas Airways Corporation de Havilland Comet jet airliner on BOAC Flight 781 from Singapore to London crashes in the Mediterranean Sea following fatigue failure, killing all 35 on board.
25 January – first broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's death, with Richard Burton as 'First Voice', on the BBC Third Programme.
12 February
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority founded.
British Medical Committee report suggests the existence of a link between smoking and lung cancer.
23 March – film of Doctor in the House released.
24 March – after an eight-day trial at Winchester Assizes, The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, his cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers, and their friend Peter Wildeblood are convicted of "conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons" or buggery and related charges. Pitt-Rivers and Wildebood are sentenced to eighteen months and Lord Montagu to twelve months in prison.
2 April – BBC Television broadcasts the opening episode of The Grove Family, the first British TV soap opera.
3 April – Oxford wins the 100th Boat Race.
14 April – Aneurin Bevan resigns from the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's failure to oppose the rearmament of West Germany.
24 April – Wolverhampton Wanderers win the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history. The result ends the hopes that their local rivals, FA Cup finalists West Bromwich Albion, had of becoming the first team of the 20th century to win the double of the league title and FA Cup.
1 May – West Bromwich Albion win the FA Cup for the fourth time in their history with a 3-2 win over Preston North End in the final at Wembley Stadium.
6 May – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile, at the Iffley Road Track of the University of Oxford.
29 May – Diane Leather becomes the first woman to break the five-minute mile, at the Alexander Sports Ground in Birmingham.
6 June – first broadcast on the Eurovision Network founded by Britain, Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland of a message from Pope Pius XII.
12 June – an Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough Barracks in Armagh, signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.
30 June – Britain witnesses its first eclipse since 1927 as the eclipse in America casts its shadow over Europe and Asia.
July – Crichel Down affair, a political scandal over compulsory land purchase leads to resignation of Sir Thomas Dugdale, the government minister responsible.
4 July – fourteen years of rationing during and following World War II comes to an end when meat officially comes off ration.
15 July – Donald McGill, the artist of saucy seaside postcards, found guilty of breaching the Obscene Publications Act 1857 in Lincoln.
19 July – United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority established by the Atomic Energy Act "to produce, use and dispose of atomic energy and carry out research into any matters therewith".
3 August – No. 1321 Flight RAF formed at RAF Wittering to bring the Blue Danube (nuclear weapon) into service with Vickers Valiant aircraft.
4 August – maiden flight of the English Electric Lightning P-1 supersonic fighter plane.
5 August – Julian Slade's musical Salad Days opens in London, following a premiere at the Bristol Old Vic; it becomes the longest-running musical in British theatre history until 1960.
September
Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Hunstanton, Norfolk, considered a key building in modern British architecture, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson, opens.
Kidbrooke School in the London Borough of Greenwich opens as England's first purpose-built comprehensive school.
3 September – the National Trust for Scotland acquires Fair Isle.
11 September – Roy of the Rovers comic strip first appears, on the cover of Tiger comic.
14 September – Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
15 September – the Wolfenden Committee, set up to report on "Homosexual Offences and Prostitution", convenes for the first time
18 September
Marble head of Mithras from London Mithraeum unearthed in Walbrook Square.
The Last Night of the Proms for the first time features the almost invariable coupling of Sir Henry Wood's 1905 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Sir Edward Elgar's 1902 setting of "Land of Hope and Glory", Sir Hubert Parry's 1916 setting of William Blake's "Jerusalem", and "Rule, Britannia!".
22 September – Terence Rattigan's plays Separate Tables premiere in London.
13 October – Chris Chataway breaks the world record for the 5000 metres by five seconds.
14 October – the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie visits the United Kingdom.
19 October
Britain agrees to end its military occupation of the Suez Canal.
A public inquiry into the de Havilland Comet airline disasters hears that metal fatigue was the most likely cause of the two recent crashes which claimed the lives of a total of 50 people.
November – postwar government limitations on housebuilding are lifted.
2 November – radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour first aired.
13 November
The Great Britain national rugby league team beat France to win the first Rugby League World Cup at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
BBC Television broadcasts the opening episode of Fabian of the Yard, the first British TV police procedural.
27 November – the South Goodwin lightvessel is wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of six of the seven on board. The tanker World Concord breaks in two in the Irish Sea.
29 November – the leading case of Ladd v Marshall is decided in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, establishing criteria for the Court to admit fresh evidence in a case on which a judgement has already been delivered.
30 November – Winston Churchill becomes the first, and to the present day; the only UK Prime Minister to celebrate his eightieth birthday whilst in office.
25 December – 1954 Prestwick air disaster: BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser G-ALSA crashes on landing at Prestwick Airport from London in poor visibility at 03:30, killing 28.
Undated – the first UK Wimpy Bar is opened at the Lyons Corner House in Coventry Street, London.
Publications
Kingsley Amis's first work of fiction, the comic campus novel Lucky Jim.
Agatha Christie's spy novel Destination Unknown.
Ian Fleming's James Bond spy novel Live and Let Die.
William Golding's first book, the dystopian allegorical novel Lord of the Flies.
C. S. Lewis's children's fantasy novel The Horse and His Boy, fifth of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Iris Murdoch's first work of fiction, the philosophical picaresque novel Under the Net.
Alan S. C. Ross's paper "Linguistic class-indicators in present-day English" in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.
Rosemary Sutcliff's historical children's novel The Eagle of the Ninth illustrated by C. Walter Hodges, first in the series of the same name.
J. R. R. Tolkien's epic high fantasy novels The Fellowship of the Ring (29 July) and The Two Towers (11 November), the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Births
4 January – Dave Ulliott, professional poker player (died 2015)
6 January
Anthony Minghella, film director (died 2008)
Trudie Styler, actress and activist
10 January – John Gidman, footballer and manager
9 February – Kevin Warwick, scientist
16 February – Iain Banks, writer (died 2013)
20 February – Anthony Head, actor
22 January – Paul O'Brien, chemist (died 2018)
4 March – Willie Thorne, snooker player (died 2020)
8 March – David Wilkie, swimmer
13 March – Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, politician
15 March – Clare Marx, surgeon (died 2022)
16 March – Jimmy Nail, singer, songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer
17 March – Lesley-Anne Down, actress
24 March – Jude Kelly, arts administrator
30 March – Kari Blackburn, journalist (died 2007)
1 April – Arnold Sidebottom, footballer and cricketer
19 April – Trevor Francis, footballer
1 May – Archie Norman, politician and businessman
8 May – Gary Wilmot, entertainer
9 May – Andrew Dillon, businessman
14 May – Peter J. Ratcliffe, cellular biologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
28 May – Andy Hamilton, comedian, director and screenwriter
10 July – Neil Tennant, musician
18 July – Peter Crane, English-American botanist and academic
2 August – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
11 August – Joe Jackson, singer
25 August – Elvis Costello, singer
26 August – Steve Wright, disc jockey
1 September – Richard Burden, politician
15 September – Colin Cunningham, swimmer
19 September – Mark Drakeford, Welsh politician
24 September – Helen Lederer, Welsh comedian and actress
3 November – Adam Ant, singer
8 November – Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born author, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature
5 December – Hanif Kureishi, novelist and screenwriter
8 December – Louis de Bernières, author
25 December – Annie Lennox, singer
31 December – Alex Salmond, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland
Deaths
18 January – Sydney Greenstreet, actor (born 1879)
20 January – Fred Root, cricketer (born 1890)
8 February – Ronald Stuart, Royal Navy captain, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1886)
4 March – John Dalzell Kenworthy, artist, sculptor and writer (born 1858)
26 March – James Peters, black rugby union international (born 1879)
29 April – K. C. Groom, fiction writer (born 1872)
6 May – B. C. Forbes, Scottish-born publisher (born 1880)
7 June – Alan Turing, mathematician, logician and cryptographer (born 1912)
9 June – Arthur Greenwood, politician (born 1880)
11 July – Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author (born 1859)
24 September – Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (born 1904)
20 December – James Hilton, novelist (born 1900)
See also
1954 in British music
1954 in British television
List of British films of 1954
References
Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom
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Joan Of Bar
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Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly
On Saturday, 14th October, Conisbrough Castle was the venue for my first talk after the release of my book, Heroines of the Medieval World. In the glorious sunshine, the Castle looked spectacular, the ideal setting for a history talk.
I grew up just 5 miles from Conisbrough Castle and so, as a child, every summer holiday included a picnic at the castle and a climb to the top of the keep. As a student I volunteered at the castle, helping out at events and giving guided tours to school groups. In those days, the castle was just a shell, with green slime on the walls, but now it has floors inside, a roof to protect it from the elements and visual displays throughout. The Visitor Centre has a small museum with a cartoon strip telling the castle's story and interactive displays for the kids. Conisbrough Castle's only claim to fame seemed to be its link to Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, in which it played the part of a Saxon stronghold.
Conisbrough Castle, South Yorkshire, built by Hamelin and Isabel de Warenne in the late twelfth century. (Heroines of the Medieval World, Amberley Publishing)
However, Conisbrough had been very much a Norman stronghold since the Conquest, given as a prize to one of William the Conquerors' most loyal followers, William de Warenne, first earl of Warenne and Surrey. My talk took place on the 951st anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the day the Castle changed hands. On the morning of the battle, it belonged to Harold II, but by the end of the day Harold had lost the kingdom and his life and Conisbrough was a prize of war.
Heroines of the Medieval World looks at the lives of the women – famous, infamous and unknown who broke the mould. Those who defied social norms and made their own future, consequently changing lives, society and even the course of history. Four of the women in the book had strong connections with Conisbrough Castle, and so it seemed appropriate to hold my first talk and book signing at my 'home' castle.
Roche Abbey, final resting place of Maud Clifford, Countess of Cambridge. (Heroines of the Medieval World, Amberley Publishing)
My talk concentrated on these four women, telling the stories of their lives and explaining their links to this magnificent castle. The first was Isabel de Warenne, great granddaughter of the first Earl of Warenne and Surrey. Isabel was one of the greatest heiresses in England and it was her second husband, Hamelin, who was responsible for building the keep we still see today. The second Heroine was Joan of Bar, neglected wife of the last de Warenne Earl of Surrey. She was followed by Isabel of Castile, who gave birth to her son, Richard of Conisbrough, Earl of Cambridge, within the castle walls and thus became the matriarch of the York dynasty which would rule England under Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III. And the last was Maud de Clifford, widow of Richard of Conisbrough, who lived out her life at the castle and was buried at nearby Roche Abbey, and who had family on both sides of the Wars of the Roses.
The talk was aimed at demonstrating the many links that Conisbrough Castle has to the major events in English medieval history, from the Norman Conquest, to the disastrous reign of Edward II and the civil war which became known as the Wars of the Roses. Conisbrough Castle and its former residents have a rich history and it was a pleasure to bring just a few moments of it to life.
Attended by over 50 people, the audience was made up of friends, family, readers of my book and blog – historytheinterestingbits.com - and visitors who had called at the Castle because it was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. And they were aged from 3 to 73! I was nervous – the last time I had done a talk was when I used to give tours at this very castle as a student. I had made plenty of notes, but in the end, I never even looked at them. The stories just flowed, from one Medieval Heroine to the next, with the children kept busy counting the number of Heroines, and the number of gruesome deaths!
However, the audience was lovely. Some had travelled from as far afield as Manchester, Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire. One lady gave me flowers and another gave me a 'congratulations' card from The Swinton Book Lovers Club (from my home town). Several people had brought their copies of 'Heroines of the Medieval World' for me to sign and many more bought the book on the day – it was a pleasure to sign every single copy.
I am very grateful to the staff at Conisbrough Castle, who were absolutely wonderful, welcoming guests and encouraging visitors to join the talk, and even offering discounts on Castle entry to anyone who had a copy of my book.
It was a perfect day.
Sharon Bennett Connolly's new book Heroines of the Medieval World is available for purchase now.
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He Walked with a Zombie
Geoffrey O'Brien
March 9, 2006 issue
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
9 films by Val Lewton
DVD box set, $59.98
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures
by Alexander Nemerov
University of California Press, 213 pp., $60.00; $24.95 (paper)
The creative career of Val Lewton—the part with a continuing afterlife—lasted just four years, from the spring of 1942, when pre-production work began on his film Cat People, until April 1946, when Bedlam, the last of the eleven films he produced for RKO, was released. Nine of those films—all but the studio-mangled melodrama Youth Runs Wild and the underrated Maupassant adaptation Mademoiselle Fifi—have now been released on DVD as "The Val Lewton Horror Collection," providing a welcome opportunity for reimmersion in a body of work whose power to fascinate seems to have grown over time.
Probably unavoidably, the films are being marketed with the same misleading poster art and the promises of "chillers," "shockers," and "tales of terror" that inveigled their original audiences into anticipating something quite different from what they got. What they actually did get remains mysterious enough to keep these movies from becoming comfortably campy artifacts of another era. Like flowers preternaturally slow to unfold, they seem to be still in the process of revealing their final form: odd as it may be that such miraculous freshness should be suggested by movies whose themes are inescapably decay, morbid regret, the temptation to welcome death.
Even when we know them well they continue to instill, as in John Ashbery's description of The Seventh Victim, "the feeling that the ground under our feet is unstable." What Lewton's movies are actually about, in the most literal sense, is always open to question; one can watch I Walked with a Zombie or The Seventh Victim or Isle of the Dead many times without being able to give a coherent summary of their plots. On its release, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times thought that The Seventh Victim "might make more sense if it was run backward." (Lewton's most narratively coherent picture, The Body Snatcher, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's story, though admirable in many ways, has less of his distinctive poetry than the others.) In American film, the only predecessors that come to mind for such destabilizing effects are Edgar Ulmer's formally rigorous Gothic delirium The Black Cat (1934) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), in which Cornell took the seventy-six-minute jungle picture East of Borneo (1932) and condensed and recombined its sequences into nineteen minutes of mesmeric suggestiveness, a dream vision of what remains of movies after their stories have gone.
Alexander Nemerov's recent critical study of Lewton—Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures—demonstrates, with its lyrical, nearly trancelike dedication to defining the elusive essence of these films, the capacity of Lewton's work to draw its commentators ever deeper into the mood of dreamy morbidity that infuses Cat People and The Leopard Man and Isle of the Dead. Lewton is the Ancient Mariner of filmmakers: like the old sailor at the beginning of The Ghost Ship or the ominous calypso singer in I Walked with a Zombie, he hooks you with the beginning of a tale and leads you on through the bewildering paces of a journey whose significance (could it ever be determined) might hinge on fleeting, apparently random encounters with minor characters or with abrupt and inexplicable deviations from the main trail. His films might be described as mood pieces interrupted by discordant apparitions, but that would make them sound flimsier and vaguer than the vigorously graphic compositions that they are: not dreamy but, rather, truly dreamlike, which is to say hauntingly specific, brutally elliptical, wily in their resistance to easy explanation.
Prior to his brief flowering, Lewton had been a dabbler in journalism, poetry, and pornography, a writer of pulp novels with titles like Where the Cobra Sings and The Cossack Sword, a publicist at MGM, and for eight doubtless grueling years a writer, story editor, and factotum for David Selznick; afterward, poor health and professional misfortune pretty much sidelined him before he died at forty-six in 1951. From what came before, it would have been impossible to predict the nature and the durability of the work he did at RKO, but the very disparateness of his early career offers some clues to the peculiar qualities of that work. Born as Vladimir Leventon in Yalta in 1904, he and his family had come to America five years later to rejoin his mother's younger sister, who as Alla Nazimova had become a Broadway star—the great exponent of Ibsen—and whose subsequent filmmaking career would clear a way for Lewton in the film business.
Lewton's early literary productions veered from the aspirations of Old-World high culture to the imperatives of hard-boiled American brashness, from poems written under the pseudonym Toison d'Or to novels exploring tabloid crime cases (The Fateful Star Murder) and the misadventures of hard-luck girls drifting into prostitution (No Bed of Her Own). A certain neurotic flamboyance seems to have impressed people early on—"Two particular phobias of Lewton's youth," his biographer Edmund G. Bansak notes, "were his fear of cats and his extreme aversion to being touched"—but any artistic ambitions were rapidly subsumed by the demands of commercial work: he was, in his son's words,
a kind of hack, but he enjoyed the challenge that came with turning hack work into something special…. There is a sort of pride in being a whore. He saw a certain honesty in being able to make a living.*
Whatever mixture of whorish pride, dandyish rebellion, barely suppressed phobia, aesthetic yearning, and nostalgia for the lost world of his birthplace might swirl in Lewton's consciousness (his son described him as "a strange combination of gentleness and authoritarianism"), he had acquired through those eight years with Selznick as thorough a command of the practicalities of grand-scale filmmaking as anyone in Hollywood. He had been responsible, with the director Jacques Tourneur, for the memorable revolutionary scenes in the 1935 A Tale of Two Cities, and took credit for some of the most vivid details—"the harp, the parrot, and the ancestral portraits being taken out of town"—in the evacuation of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind. He had also apparently been pushed to his limits by that most obsessive of moguls: "You can't talk reason," he wrote of Selznick, "to a man who believes that he has made the greatest motion picture of all time, past, present, and future."
There is a quality of happy accident to the inception of his career at RKO. Had it not been for the failure of Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons—a debacle that led to executive upheaval at the studio—there might have been no occasion to celebrate Lewton. As it was, the timing was perfect; Lewton wanted to leave Selznick, and RKO's new chief, Charles Koerner, was looking for someone who could help move the studio in a more frankly commercial direction. Universal had just made a huge profit on The Wolf Man, and so Koerner invited Lewton to head up a unit dedicated to turning out short, low-budget horror films. Lewton liked to joke that somebody had said he wrote "horrible novels" and the studio had misconstrued it as "horror novels."
An instinctive anti-authoritarian who had learned to play the game had now been entrusted with a good deal of authority, however tightly defined the limits within which it could be exercised. Lewton was still answerable to the studio executives he despised. His budgets were stringent, and the films had to be marketed to an audience assumed by RKO to crave only the most lurid stimulation, in an era whose horror movies were dominated by werewolves, apemen, brain transplants, and old dark houses of the creakiest kind. Even the titles were often imposed: Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie, the first two productions, began in fact as nothing but titles, with Lewton obliged to concoct stories to match.
With Cat People Lewton demonstrated that he could give his bosses what they wanted—a movie brought in for under $135,000 which grossed some $4 million worldwide—while altogether subverting their notions of what a horror movie should be. Lewton's most obvious breakthrough was to avoid showing what the audience is supposed to be afraid of, on the grounds that what we don't see is more frightening than what we see—and also cheaper to depict in a movie. This approach has largely defined his popular reputation, as evidenced in the titles of Bansak's biography (Fearing the Dark) and the documentary that accompanies the DVD set (Shadows in the Dark), not to mention the episode of Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) where producer Kirk Douglas applies the same method to the production of Doom of the Cat Men. Jane Randolph's long walk through Central Park, stalked by an unseen panther, in which the only scary thing that happens in the end is a bus whooshing harmlessly to an abrupt halt, is the classic instance, the blueprint for what became an unavoidable cliché of horror films.
In fact, whatever effect it may have had on audiences in 1942, Cat People now seems one of the least frightening of horror films. What it has instead is a sinuously strung out mood of barely suppressed eroticism and gnawing discontent that develops from the opening instants, when Kent Smith as Oliver Reed—the straightest of straight men, "a good plain Americano" in his own words—meets, at the Central Park zoo, the exotic Simone Simon, as the Serbian émigré artist Irena Dubrovna, who fears she may be one of the diabolical "cat people" driven underground in medieval times. They fall in love and get married, but the marriage cannot be consummated because of her fear that sex will unleash her destructive cat-nature; he sends her to a psychiatrist, and then finds consolation with a less troubled girlfriend. The mood created is not of horror so much as the disorientations of exile and the lingering sadness of sexual dissatisfaction.
Everything is in the details: Irena turning on a light in a darkened room as she murmurs, "I like the dark, it's friendly"; her encounter with the unknown catlike woman who stares at her and greets her as a sister (an exchange of glances that lasts only a second but flavors the whole film); the beads of water clinging to Irena's naked back as she crouches forward in a tub with clawlike feet (an image of startling erotic potency for 1942 Hollywood); the giant black statue of the Egyptian god Anubis by which she stands on a museum stairway. Even the most genuinely frightening scene—in which Irena, in (unseen) panther form, stalks her rival, Kent Smith's girlfriend, in a deserted swimming pool—lingers in the mind more for the exhilarating patterns of the lights in the water, an explosion of pure abstraction brilliantly realized by the director, Jacques Tourneur, and cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca.
The huge success of Cat People enabled Lewton to keep making, under the guise of B-movie thrillers, movies that are often more like symbolist poems or obscure fetishistic rituals. They are not so much frightening as unnervingly strange and shot through with a palpable melancholy. They are almost too beautiful to be scary, except that the beauty that soothes is finally what most unsettles. As Tom Conway, playing a world-weary plantation owner in I Walked with a Zombie, remarks to the young nurse who is accompanying him to his island home, across a glistening sea evoked with gorgeously blatant cinematographic fakery: "That luminous water—it takes its gleam from millions of dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay."
The intensely personal quality of these films is not belied by their being thoroughly collective enterprises. If in Hollywood tradition the producer is usually characterized as someone who interferes with other people's work, Lewton was the rare instance of a producer directing the best energies of his collaborators—among them the writers Donald Henderson Clarke and DeWitt Bodeen (abetted by Lewton himself, sometimes under the pseudonym Carlos Keith), the cinematographers Nicholas Musuraca and Robert De Grasse, the omnipresent composer Roy Webb—toward a seamlessly unified effect. Obsessive and controlling he could certainly be, but there is little suggestion that he curtailed or distorted the intentions of those he worked with. In Jacques Tourneur, who directed Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man, he found the perfect partner, a film poet who imparted luminous intensity to every moment of those films; but in the other films, directed by Robert Wise and Mark Robson, both originally editors who had worked with Orson Welles, Lewton achieved results as expressive, if less unfailingly inspired.
Quite aside from any question of expressive beauty, one could look at these films purely as instances of extraordinary skill marshaled under the most restrictive circumstances. Their brevity (they range in length from sixty-six to seventy-nine minutes), their slender budgets, their reliance on preexisting production materials (costumes and sets from Gone with the Wind, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Bells of St. Mary's are worked in as needed), above all the requirement that the end product be acceptable in a precisely defined commercial niche (however puzzled horror audiences may have been to find that Curse of the Cat People was in fact a delicate fantasy of childhood loneliness): to have satisfied all those conditions and still produced work of such careful detail and defiant individuality was a rare feat. It is not hard to understand the impact produced on contemporary critics like Manny Farber ("They are about the only Hollywood movies in which the writing and direction try to keep in front of rather than behind the audience's intelligence") and James Agee ("I esteem them so highly because for all their unevenness their achievements are so consistently alive, limber, poetic, humane, so eager toward the possibilities of the screen, and so resolutely against the grain of all we have learned to expect from the big studios").
Part of what made Lewton's films stand out was their flaunting of cultural sophistication. The Seventh Victim opens with a quote from John Donne ("I run to Death, and Death meets me as fast,/And all my Pleasures are like Yesterday"); Isle of the Dead takes its title and its central image from Arnold Böcklin's painting; The Body Snatcher weaves in a traditional British ballad of the sort that might have been found on a Folkways release; Bedlam, set in eighteenth-century London, reenacts Hogarth's print of Bedlam in the "Rake's Progress" series; I Walked with a Zombie is serious in its effort to incorporate calypso music and Haitian ritual, not to mention the way it makes the legacy of slavery a central theme through the recurring visual motif of "Ti Misery," a slave-ship figurehead of Saint Sebastian. Fashion illustrators, psychoanalysts, and Greenwich Village poets are characteristic denizens of Lewton's world, while hints of homosexual interest (the cat woman who accosts Irena, the intellectual radio officer who flirts openly with the hero of The Ghost Ship) play around its edges.
A world is acknowledged in which the exotic—rhumba music, ethnic restaurants, Elizabethan poetry, books on psychology—is normal, while the all-American straightness of the office workers in Cat People or the Christmas carolers in Curse of the Cat People has begun to seem strange. (The backlot New York of Cat People and The Seventh Victim carries a powerful charge of displaced ordinariness which became diffused when Lewton switched to costume pictures like The Body Snatcher and Bedlam.)
Finally there is the dialogue, in its day often characterized as surprisingly literate, if not as ponderously literary, but just as important as the images in Lewton's cinematic scheme. Words are important here, and the self-conscious verbal flourishes are there to make sure their importance is not missed. In his essay on The Seventh Victim John Ashbery describes "our sense throughout the film that people are saying anything that comes into their heads," but the sort of thing that comes into their heads often seems a message from beyond the confines of the narrative, a prophetic tip that however solemn or obvious produces a jarring effect by the unexpectedness with which it is dropped in. "The poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together." "Caged animals are unpredictable—they're like frustrated human beings." "Authority cannot be questioned." "The people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel." "The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence; it follows the wars." "Amy, listen to me. Death isn't such a terrible thing." "—What was the matter with him?—I don't know, sir. He didn't want to die."
Yet after we have remarked on their influence on subsequent filmmakers, their technical inventiveness, and the heterogeneity of an allusive range that gives them a collage-like quality, there remains the heart of Lewton's films to be accounted for: the emotional force that makes them a great deal more than the sum of their very diverting parts. In Icons of Grief, Alexander Nemerov links that force directly to the war which was raging at a distance when the films were made; the persistent sadness, the inescapable presence of death are an acknowledgment of a grief that the American public would rather avoid facing but to which Lewton, more Russian than American at heart, responds with imagery that reflects the religious icons of his cultural past, imagery that he smuggles into films which are marketed as quickie thrillers.
Nemerov develops his thesis forcefully and with a rich complement of period detail ranging from Norman Rockwell magazine covers to photographs of dead soldiers in Life; he discerns historical necessity in every detail of the way things happen to fall out, so that, for example, the mad boy in Bedlam, painted gold for the amusement of courtiers and who dies of asphyxia in consequence, becomes an emblem of the bomb that had fallen on Hiroshima five days before the scene was shot:
The close-up of the boy's face…is a post-Hiroshima editing choice that seems, all unknowing, to give some imaginative expression to radiation sickness, flash burns, and the bomb's other terrible effects.
Whatever one makes of the farther reaches of this associative logic, Icons of Grief is a superbly original (and intricately researched) attempt to define the singularity of this work. Nemerov identifies two crucial and related aspects of Lewton's aesthetic: the unusual importance he allows minor characters and his penchant for figures of iconic immobility "standing statuesque and alone…." "This figure," he writes,
would…arrest the flow of the film, suspend the plot, and for just those moments produce the melancholy and all-but-sculptural frozenness of a world that has stopped.
To linger on the icons Nemerov singles out—Simone Simon as the ghostly Irena standing in the snow in Curse of the Cat People and singing an old French song to a troubled child; Skelton Knaggs as the mute Finnish sailor in The Ghost Ship, sharpening his knife aboard the ill-omened Altair as we hear his thoughts in voice-over ("I am cut off from other men, but in my own silence I can hear things they cannot hear"); Darby Jones as the catatonic zombie Carre-Four who guards with staring eyes the path to the houmfort in I Walked with a Zombie; and Glenn Vernon as Bedlam's Gilded Boy—is to confirm how elegantly he has moved into the core of Lewton's parallel cinematic world, finding out the privileged sacred recesses and translating the oracular pronouncements. He makes overt what one might have sensed all along, that Lewton's stories are contrived so as to provide a way out of the story, to be liberated beyond plot into a commemorative domain of stillness and silence, grounded in "a prerational, magical conception of the image." Writing of the somnambulistic gait of two key figures in I Walked with a Zombie, he describes how Lewton "tried to slow movement down enough so that, almost impossibly, it too might take on the quality of stillness." Throughout Nemerov captures with exactness the qualities of cadence and composition that draw one back to these movies, and underscores how deliberately those effects evade the spectator's expectations.
He emphasizes finally the "minor mode" of Lewton's films, their deliberate offhandedness and underplaying of what might otherwise be grandiloquent moments. The penitential procession at the end of The Leopard Man—a march across the desert to commemorate a massacre of Indians by conquistadors—is powerful precisely because of the extreme concision of the images that record it, so far from big-scale Hollywood bombast. In Lewton's films the unexpected erupts, then vanishes as rapidly—vanishes from sight but not from memory. Here digressions are central, fleeting characters are dominant, and moments of stasis and silence are the heart of the action.
Prolonged contemplation of this toy theater, with its artificial sets and lighting, its densely furnished frames in which small figures are crowded together in artful tableaux, its bric-a-brac of songs, statues, poetic mottoes, and obscure rituals, prompts questions about what audience this performance is really intended for. The odd blankness of many of the principal players, offset by the vividness and grotesquerie of characters who may emerge only for a moment, might be standing in for the spectator: it's as if the leading characters, those naive intruders, were themselves watching a film, and found themselves constantly bewildered by the narrative's gaps and rapid changes of focus. In this world you never know where to look or whom to trust. The cleaning woman on her hands and knees in the lobby of the office building in Cat People is somehow as important—the image's composition tells us so—as the panther-threatened leads, and when the police chief in The Leopard Man describes an otherwise insignificant shoeshine man as "a genius in his own line," the piece of dialogue dangles like an Ariadnean thread to lead out of the labyrinth, as if the whole world were hanging on a shoestring.
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Geoffrey O'Brien's latest books are Where Did Poetry Come From and the poetry collection Who Goes There. (October 2022)
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The Ritz-Carlton Pays Homage to Japan's Cultural Heart with the Opening of The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
Japan's First Urban Resort Officially Opens
Kyoto – February 7, 2014: Heralded as one of the most highly-anticipated openings of 2014 in one of the world's most culturally-rich cities, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. and Sekisui House, Ltd., one of Japan's leading property developers, officially opened The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto today; the city's first truly international luxury hotel and Japan's first urban resort.
Located in the heart of a city famed for its Zen temples, palaces and gardens, the riverside resort brings the unsurpassed elegance and renowned service of The Ritz-Carlton to Kyoto, while honoring the cultural heritage of the city through design.
"We are honoured to open our fourth Ritz-Carlton in Japan, in the beautiful city of Kyoto. Our customers are always looking to explore evocative, new and inspiring destinations and have long expressed a desire for us to offer in this incredible location" said Herve Humler, president and chief operating officer of The Ritz-Carlton. "I believe this hotel offers a timeless window to Japan and complements perfectly 85 other Ritz-Carlton properties around the globe."
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto is a peaceful sanctuary. It sits on the gentle banks of the Kamogawa River in Nijho Ohashi, close to Kyoto's popular downtown areas including Gion and Kawaramachi-dori, the city's retail and entertainment districts.
The hotel's luxury guestrooms and suites offer full views of the river and the Higashiyama Mountains. The architects and designers have retained the character and aesthetic of a traditional Meiji house and courtyard into the architectural structure of the building. The interiors created by Peter Remedios and Spin Studios pay homage to the traditions of Japan, with patterned motifs created by local artisans and the incorporation of Zen rock gardens (karesansui) and water features, including a four-storey waterfall are aesthetically positioned in the heart of the hotel.
The Kamogawa Suite and its sister suites with their moon deck gardens (tsukimidai) and floor to ceiling windows offer luxurious accommodations with enviable panoramic views of the river and mountains, forming an unrivalled sanctuary of luxury refinement and service.
The Ritz-Carlton Spa, nestled at the foot of the waterfall, features seven intimate and inviting treatment rooms and offers signature services inspired by the rich culture of Japan and ESPA. These include a traditional Acupressure Massage using the dry Shiatsu techniques as well as the Ryokucha Serenity Ritual based on green tea leaves, Gyokuro, dried from the Sun for 20 days in Uji, southern Kyoto and famed for their restorative properties.
In a city famed for its culinary offerings, The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto adds new and distinctive fine-dining experiences against an elegant backdrop.
The Japanese restaurant, Mizuki, modeled around a dynamic landscape composed of stone garden, water fall and historical features, serves modern Japanese cuisine including a famed Kaiseki options alongside sushi, tempura and teppanyaki. The restaurant includes an outdoor terrace complete with fire pits for gourmet diners to enjoy the dynamic scenery during Sakura and Autumn seasons.
La Locanda, the Italian restaurant, pays homage to the hotel site's history. Its private room, called Ebisugawatei, is a preserved historically-listed building while the restaurant also features its own walk-in charcuterie and l'affineur cheese cellar. The unrivalled wine list offers 250 varieties from Super Tuscans to Italian regional classics.
Meanwhile, Pierre Hermé Paris, creator of Haute Pâtisserie, will bring his popular creations and introduce an exclusive range of signature desserts to The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto. The unique collaboration will showcase his work throughout the property including restaurants, meetings, weddings and banquets.
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto also introduces extraordinary meetings, luxury weddings and special events spaces with four rooms, each named after a cherry blossom species – Takane Ballroom, Kocho, Shidare and Kanzan meeting rooms. The property will also feature a wedding showroom consulting for couples on their big day, showcasing the detailed finery and services that will transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Exceptionally rich in beauty, history, spirituality and culture, Kyoto draws 50 million visitors annually to experience the former capital of Japan and its 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city and its environs is also home to almost a quarter of Japan's national treasures. While many of these visitors are Japanese, there is real growth in the numbers of international visitors coming to the city, and Kyoto is now very much must-see destination for sophisticated global travelers who are attracted to the city for its quintessential Japanese experience.
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The standard length for a US resume is one to two pages.
A resume that dates back too far can make an applicant look older or automatically convince the hiring manager that you will want more money than they want to pay.
A resume with too many listings can make it appear as if you can't hold a job. This might cause the hiring manager to question why you move around so much. In particular, if you need to list more than two employers for a single year, it can leave a negative impression.
A resume that focuses on repetitive job listings because of short-term or contract employment can lose a reader's interest and they might not take note of your significant accomplishments as a result.
Even though many online job applications will request detailed dates of employment (including day, month, or both along with the year), it is best to use only years for your resume. Using only years will allow you to leave temporary employment off your resume and cover other small job gaps that would appear if you include months.
It is understandable if you don't leave one job and immediately start another. A job search can take several months. Some people even use being downsized as an opportunity to spend time with family or take a vacation they couldn't go on while working. There is just no reason to advertise that you were unemployed for an extended period of time. So just go ahead and use only years for when you started and ended your employment.
Sometimes a job doesn't work out. Maybe it wasn't a good fit. Perhaps the company was sold and restructured right after you were hired. Maybe you were recruited to a more ideal position just a few months after you started a new role. Or perhaps you took the role knowing it would be short-term.
No matter what, if you held the job for only a few months and it doesn't add anything to your resume, go ahead and leave it off. Since you need to limit your resume to two pages and want to avoid the perception of job hoping, omitting short-term employment can help you achieve those goals. The only reason to make an exception is if you accomplished something significant at that job that can't be covered with any other role.
In order to avoid the appearance of job hoping, you may want to consider grouping contract roles or freelance employment together on your resume. If you can group three or more together under a title such as "Contract Project Manager" or "Contract Business Consultant" that can save space and give the appearance that you were working in one capacity for several years instead of several months.
Leveraging this strategy can be particularly useful when you have performed similar duties in multiple contract roles. That way, instead of being repetitive on your resume, you can list all those job duties under one position. Then you can list special achievements by company name.
Generally speaking, hiring managers are only interested in your last 10 to 15 years of experience. If you are a senior-level manager or executive, your experience probably far exceeds that range. Still, there are times when people don't want to completely omit their earlier experience. In those cases, summarizing your work in a career note can be effective. When doing so, you can include a highlight or two, but go ahead and leave out years, using only your title and company name.
Career Note: Prior experience includes Senior Finance Manager for Company X, overseeing P&L for $2M in revenue, and Senior Accountant/Consultant for Company Y and the Big 4 Firm XYZ.
While the phrase "less is more" can certainly be applied to resume writing, it can also be carried too far. I've seen resumes where the person stripped out so much of their professional experience that it looked like they were a recent graduate instead of a Senior-Level Manager. A resume needs to strike the delicate balance of being brief and impactful while still giving the applicant the weight of experience the job demands. One good guide is to keep the word count to 700 - 800 words. That should allow you to make a positive impression on the reader without bogging them down in too much detail.
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Tottenham Hotspur (BENNY)
Filmed: May 2022
Release status: Unreleased
Shown in: Twitter - Worldwide
London football club, Tottenham Hotspurs (commonly referred to as just "Spurs") have a new signing from Sweden in the form of national Swedish football star, Dejan Kulusevski, who was on loan from Juventus (Italian football team).
On Tuesday 10 May, Spurs' social media platforms posted this short video of British comedian Michael McIntyre singing a football chant with Benny to the tune of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) with the tag-line, "The duet you didn't know you needed... Michael McIntyre and ABBA's Benny Andersson".
Apparently football fans have been chanting this for Dejan Kulusevski for a while with the following lyrics:
Gimme, gimme, gimme a ginger from Sweden
He came from Juventus,
And he plays on the wing
His name is Kulusevski
View Benny and Michael McIntyre here on Instagram
Where this was filmed and when I do not know.
This whole thing confused me at first because Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal are both North London football clubs and fierce rivals. It is known that Benny is an Arsenal supporter so why would he be joining in for a Spurs player? Probably because he's Swedish and plays for the national side, but what do I know? I am Just A Girl.
Thanks to Anna Mailer c/o ABBAtalk.
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More than 7,000 Kids Decide to Follow Jesus –YFC
Billy Graham Archive & Research Center is Now Open
'Praise the Lord!' Ukrainian Christians Cheer Kherson Liberation
JESUS Film Makes History, Now Translated in 2,000 Languages
U.S. Renews Calls Against Blasphemy Laws
MercyMe hopes new album can help heal divisions: 'We've got a divided body of Christ'
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By: Joyce Dimaculangan
The Youth for Christ (YFC) announced that 7,323 kids and teens made the decision to follow Jesus Christ this year. This is twice the record reported in 2021.
"I know that God is going to use YFC to bring revival to today's kids," said YFC President and CEO Jake Bland. "God's Spirit is moving through leaders everywhere across the nation, The Gospel is needed and as effective as ever, especially as the unfailing love of Christ meets today's changing youth landscape."
God is already uncovering His story of hope among this next generation, and I believe He's preparing to do even more. —Jake Bland, Youth for Christ president and CEO
Bland said today's youth faces issues which are different in nature. For example, he pointed out that 20 years ago, the biggest issues for teens were drunk driving or teen pregnancy, but now, it's their mental health. "The U.S. Surgeon General recently declared youth mental health as a state of emergency."
He added that what's disturbing is that the young are dealing with mental health problems, but one-third of them have no trusted adults in their lives. "Over 50% of youth are not connected to a church. The reality is our kids in this nation are at a vulnerable tipping point — a pivotal moment. There's a whole generation that could slip through the cracks."
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in seven 10 to 19-year-olds experiences a mental disorder. The young people are dealing with depression, anxiety and behavioral disorders that are among the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents. The report found that, globally, it is estimated that 1 in 7 (14%) 10-19 year-olds experience mental health conditions, yet these remain largely unrecognized and untreated. The agency warned that, "The consequences of failing to address adolescent mental health conditions extend to adulthood. It can impair both physical and mental health while limiting opportunities to lead fulfilling lives as adults."
Despite the grim statistics, the YFC president believes that there are many ways and opportunities to give hope to these troubled teens. "I have never been more convinced that Christ is moving. Right now, we are living in the kinds of cultural conditions that God often uses for His purpose," he claimed. "Despite the challenges kids face and a culture that confuses, it's never been clearer. God is already uncovering His story of hope among this next generation, and I believe He's preparing to do even more."
Bland said the number of young people who made the decision to follow Jesus in 2022 is proof that God's Spirit is working. He maintained that a deep, meaningful and sincere relationship with Jesus Christ can help today's youth during these crucial times in their lives.
A recent survey of 13 to 25-year-olds backs YFC's assertion that the youth benefits from having a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Dr. Josh Packard of the Springtide Research Institute said his extensive research concluded that those who pray and have a connection with God are more likely to flourish in their overall happiness and mental health, reports Vision Christian Media.
"Faith and spirituality are good for you. If you're a person who believes in some kind of higher power and has a connection to that higher power, you're generally flourishing more than your peers," he said. "Those who pray more tend to be flourishing more in all areas including their mental health."
The executive director of the institute concluded that it is advantageous for young people to have a connection to something bigger than themselves. "I think a lot of religious institutions and leaders would do well to take mental health into account, so that faith and belief could be appropriately part of somebody's overall approach to health."
Joyce Dimaculangan
Joyce has more than 15 years experience writing news, industry articles and blogs for the private and public sectors. Most of her career was spent writing technical documentation for a software company in the Philippines. She earned a B.A. in Communication Arts with a concentration in writing from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. During her leisure time, Joyce pursues her interest in reading fiction and playing with her dogs. She can be contacted at [email protected].
Joyce Dimaculangan - November 19, 2022
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Family Research Council and Summit Ministries announced a partnership launching a new biblical worldview series called Now We Live.
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Center for Christianity and Public Life was launched on October 17 and it will prioritize public service to the less fortunate.
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A major ad campaign to rebrand Jesus is set to expand in the next few months starting with an updated website, an online store, and an ad placement at the Super Bowl.
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Ukrainian Christians celebrate the liberation of Kherson with cheers of praise and thanksgiving, seven months after Russia occupied the city.
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Q: Position polyfill sticky not working correctly with columns I am trying to make my sidebar sticky when the navbar touches the sidebar. However, it does not seem to be working for some reason I don't know if it is an issue with flexbox but I have no idea why it does not become sticky.
My HTML:
<div class='nav'><h1>Nav</h1></div>
<div class="container">
<div class="m01">
<div class="m01__grid">
<div class="m01__grid__text">
<h2>Tell me tommorrow</h2>
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</div>
<div class="m01__grid__sidebar">
<div class="m01__sidebar">
<h3 class="m01__sidebar__title">Sidebar</h3>
<a href="#!" class="m01__sidebar__links">This is a link</a>
<a href="#!" class="m01__sidebar__links">This is a link</a>
<a href="#!" class="m01__sidebar__links">This is a link</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
My CSS/Sass:
html,
body{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.container{
width: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1107px;
position: relative;
}
.nav{
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
top:0;
background-color: grey;
height: 100px;
z-index: 9;
h1{
margin: 0;
}
}
.m01{
margin-top: 150px;
&__grid{
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: space-between;
&__text{
width: calc(70% - 40px);
}
&__sidebar{
width: calc(30%);
}
}
&__sidebar{
position: sticky;
&__links{
display: block;
}
}
}
The codepen to my problem is https://codepen.io/mrsalami/pen/oNXQYOx. Any help will be appreciated.
A: Add offset on your sidebar, due to your nav.
&__sidebar{
position: sticky;
top: 100px;
&__links{
display: block;
}
}
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85%66°45°Cloudy with a high of 64 °F (17.8 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph).Night - Cloudy with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 8 to 11 mph (12.9 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C).
Tonight - Cloudy with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 8 to 11 mph (12.9 to 17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C).
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ESpERANZA SPALdING | live at SMALLS jazz club
Jazz You Too
Esperanza Spalding – bass, Tivon Pennicott – sax,
Roy Mor – piano, Saul Rubin – guitar,
Justin Tyson – drums (Aaron Burnett – sax)
General Electric would be an 'ideal Warren Buffett investment,' RBC says
Penney Vanderbilt and KC Jones: All About Railroads
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RBC Capital Markets says Warren Buffett may invest in General Electric, but could extract a high price for his involvement.
"In many ways, GE's current situation fits the profile of an ideal Warren Buffett investment," the firm's analyst writes
Warren Buffett may come to the rescue of General Electric once again, according to one Wall Street firm.
RBC Capital Markets analyzed whether it made sense for Buffett to invest in GE at these levels.
General Electric's stock rose 4.3 percent Tuesday amid unsubstantiated speculation that the Oracle of Omaha was buying shares of the beleaguered industrial conglomerate.
The company's shares have significantly underperformed the market. Its stock has declined 55 percent in the past 12 months through Tuesday versus the S&P 500's 11 percent return.
"Berkshire Hathaway has a history of investing in storied businesses struggling at steep valuation dislocations. In many ways, GE's current situation fits the…
Amtrak gets nearly $2 billion in federal spending bill, despite Trump criticism and accidents
Amtrak gets nearly $2 billion in federal funding, rather than a steep cut that President Trump proposed, under a broad spending measure released Wednesday.
Trump had proposed cutting $630 million from the national passenger railroad's federal subsidies for the year that started Oct. 1, out of $1.4 billion provided the previous year.
"Amtrak's long-distance trains do not serve a vital transportation purpose and are a vestige of when train service was the only viable transcontinental transportation option," Trump's budget said.
But the spending bill provides $1.3 billion for the long-distance network. The bill also provides $650 million to Amtrak for the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the popular route which runs from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
"Amtrak thanks Congress for recognizing the importance of intercity passenger rail and the Northeast Corridor," Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said. "The increased NEC capital funding will allow us to address many important needs along the corridor…
City Council demands discounted MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers
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The City Council is taking matters into its own hands after Mayor de Blasio neglected to include funding for a reduced fare MetroCard program for low-income New Yorkers in the preliminary draft of the city's fiscal year 2019 budget. This marks the second year in a rowDe Blasio has bucked the proposed program.
As a response, more than half of the City Council has signed a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm affirming their support for Fair Fares. The discount fare program proposed by the Community Service Society and Riders Alliance would make working-age New York residents living at or below the poverty line of $24,339 for a family of four eligible to receive half-price MetroCards.
Mayor de Blasio maintains that all things relating to the MTA are the jurisdiction of the state. But that's not sitting well with the council…
Questions raised over future of Hyperloop train in Maryland
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A faster way of getting from Maryland to DC may involve going underground.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space-X, wants to build something called a Hyperloop that would take traffic underground. The idea is the tunnel would start in Baltimore and would only take up the space of a parking spot.
RELATED: Elon Musk working on bringing Hyperloop to Maryland
The plans indicate there would be trailers called skates, and individual cars to hold passengers and bicyclists speeding up to 124 miles per hour underground reducing the trip to only 29 minutes. The 35-mile long tunnel would end at New York Avenue in DC.
Boeing already has a permit to start digging, and they're working with more than a dozen agencies including the MDTA to get the plans off the ground. They say construction of the tunnels could take 1-2 years, but the digging would happen 30…
New Development To Include Elevator Access At Broad Street Subway Station
City Land
Mixed-use building seeks to add two new elevators to lower Manhattan subway station. On March 14, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing for a special permit for a proposed new mixed-use development at 45 Broad Street in the Financial District in Manhattan in connection with improvements to the Broad Street Station and the Wall Street Station. Applicants, Madison 45 Broad Development LLC, plan to build a 65-story condominium building in what is currently an empty lot on the east side of Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street. The building will become the highest condo in Downtown Manhattan.
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Hyundai has revealed the first pictures of the new i40 Estate, ahead of its world premiere at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The debut of i40 Estate comes as Hyundai launches its new brand slogan `New Thinking. New Possibilities.' The i40 Estate reflects the spirit of change at Hyundai, and represents the company's bold new concept of `modern premium' - the philosophy that premium quality and characteristics should be accessible to everyone. The i40 Estate is the company's first D-segment vehicle to be developed specifically for the European market, with a package of powertrains, equipment and technology tailored for European tastes. It will be shown in Geneva in estate form, and this will be the first i40 Estate bodystyle to be introduced to Europe, with a saloon to follow later this year.
Designed and engineered at Hyundai's R&D headquarters in Russelsheim, Germany, the i40 Estate is the latest Hyundai model to have a purely European identity. Taking styling cues from Hyundai's `fluidic sculpture' design language, it maintains signature features such as the hexagonal grille. The grille is flanked by two jewel-like headlamps, for a contemporary, confident look that is accentuated by the characterful lines that connect the front and rear of the vehicle, adding to the i40 Estate's eye-catching, sophisticated style.
In line with Hyundai's commitment to make premium products and features available to everyone, the i40 Estate has a class-leading level of standard equipment. Among the specification are new technologies for Hyundai, including: heated and reclining front and rear seats; a heated steering wheel; and an active de-mist system that automatically detects and clears mist on the windscreen.
The `modern premium' concept is also evident in the efficient powertrain choices available to i40 Estate buyers. The i40 Estate's 1.7-litre diesel engine, codenamed `UII', will emit from just 113 g/km of CO2 emissions - a best-in-class figure that also demonstrates the advances the company is making towards global leadership in eco-technology.
Hyundai's unrivalled customer care package, Five Year Triple Care, will come as standard on i40 Estate. The industry-leading package offers total peace of mind, with a five-year unlimited-mileage warranty, five years' roadside assistance and five years of vehicle health checks.
Allan Rushforth, Senior Vice President and COO of Hyundai Motor Europe, commented, "Offering more for less has always been a fundamental principle at Hyundai, and now we are advancing this with our new brand direction under the `New Thinking. New Possibilities.' slogan. The i40 Estate is a perfect example of how we are offering the best and making it accessible to everyone. From stunning design and specification, to industry-leading technology and aftersales care - the i40 Estate sets itself apart from its competitors."
The i40 Estate will be joined on stage by Hyundai's ground-breaking new 1+2 door Veloster coupe, set for launch in Europe later in 2011. The Curb concept will also be shown, highlighting the latest telematics technology from Hyundai in an `urban-ready' design. Both cars received their world premieres at the North America International Auto Show last month, and will be making their European debuts in Geneva.
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Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates.
Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the leading causes of bloodstream infections, particularly in premature neonates, and biofilm formation is a major virulence factor. We characterized biofilm formation by 50 S. epidermidis neonatal isolates under osmotic stress and evaluated the expression of biofilm-associated genes. Phenotypical analyses of biofilm production were performed in culture medium with or without addition of NaCl or glucose. In control medium (no additions), most isolates (84%) were nonproducers or weak biofilm producers. Growth in NaCl-containing medium increased the number of moderate/strong producers, and this increase was even greater in medium containing glucose. Most of the protein-enriched biofilms (60%) could be observed only during growth in glucose, whereas 50% of the polysaccharide-enriched biofilms were observed during growth in NaCl. Studies that evaluate the conditions used to characterize biofilm production are important to help us understand the dynamics of this important virulence factor in S. epidermidis and their impact on neonatal infections.
Ferreira RBR
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Ferreira MCS
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Glatthardt T
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Silvério MP
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Chamon RC
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Salgueiro VC
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Guimarães LC
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Alves ES
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Dos Santos KRN
Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 94:4 2019 Aug pg 337-341
Ferreira, Rosana B R., et al. "Osmotic Stress Induces Biofilm Production By Staphylococcus Epidermidis Isolates From Neonates." Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, vol. 94, no. 4, 2019, pp. 337-341.
Ferreira RBR, Ferreira MCS, Glatthardt T, et al. Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019;94(4):337-341.
Ferreira, R. B. R., Ferreira, M. C. S., Glatthardt, T., Silvério, M. P., Chamon, R. C., Salgueiro, V. C., ... Dos Santos, K. R. N. (2019). Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 94(4), pp. 337-341. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.02.009.
Ferreira RBR, et al. Osmotic Stress Induces Biofilm Production By Staphylococcus Epidermidis Isolates From Neonates. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2019;94(4):337-341. PubMed PMID: 30885396.
TY - JOUR T1 - Osmotic stress induces biofilm production by Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates. AU - Ferreira,Rosana B R, AU - Ferreira,Marcelle C S, AU - Glatthardt,Thaís, AU - Silvério,Myllena Pereira, AU - Chamon,Raiane C, AU - Salgueiro,Vivian C, AU - Guimarães,Lorrayne Cardoso, AU - Alves,Eduardo Souza, AU - Dos Santos,Kátia R N, Y1 - 2019/02/20/ PY - 2018/10/30/received PY - 2019/01/30/revised PY - 2019/02/09/accepted PY - 2019/3/20/pubmed PY - 2019/3/20/medline PY - 2019/3/20/entrez KW - Biofilm production KW - Bloodstream infections KW - Nasal colonization KW - Neonates KW - Staphylococcus epidermidis KW - aap KW - ica SP - 337 EP - 341 JF - Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease JO - Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. VL - 94 IS - 4 N2 - Staphylococcus epidermidis is one of the leading causes of bloodstream infections, particularly in premature neonates, and biofilm formation is a major virulence factor. We characterized biofilm formation by 50 S. epidermidis neonatal isolates under osmotic stress and evaluated the expression of biofilm-associated genes. Phenotypical analyses of biofilm production were performed in culture medium with or without addition of NaCl or glucose. In control medium (no additions), most isolates (84%) were nonproducers or weak biofilm producers. Growth in NaCl-containing medium increased the number of moderate/strong producers, and this increase was even greater in medium containing glucose. Most of the protein-enriched biofilms (60%) could be observed only during growth in glucose, whereas 50% of the polysaccharide-enriched biofilms were observed during growth in NaCl. Studies that evaluate the conditions used to characterize biofilm production are important to help us understand the dynamics of this important virulence factor in S. epidermidis and their impact on neonatal infections. SN - 1879-0070 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30885396/Osmotic_stress_induces_biofilm_production_by_Staphylococcus_epidermidis_isolates_from_neonates L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0732-8893(18)30577-7 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -
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Methicillin resistance and virulence genes in invasive and nasal Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from neonates.
[Comparison of genotypic and phenotypic characteristics in biofilm production of Staphylococcus aureus isolates].
Role of the two-component regulatory system arlRS in ica operon and aap positive but non-biofilm-forming Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from hospitalized patients.
Versatility of Biofilm Matrix Molecules in Staphylococcus epidermidis Clinical Isolates and Importance of Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Expression during High Shear Stress.
Biofilm and the role of the ica operon and aap in Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates causing neurosurgical meningitis.
Biofilm characteristics of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates associated with device-related meningitis.
Does Extracellular DNA Production Vary in Staphylococcal Biofilms Isolated From Infected Implants versus Controls?
Comparative characterisation of the biofilm-production abilities of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from human skin and platelet concentrates.
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"My child is bad at sports!"
TEAM sports at early tweens (ages 7 to 11) facilitates development of cognitive and psychomotor skills, says an educator and a former top athlete, a view shared by two other experts in sports education. With generally higher levels of obesity and a tendency to small families offering fewer socially appropriate interactive contexts for the early primary school child, team sports offer him/her significant health and developmentally appropriate social benefits. They get a chance to make new friends and have good fun at the same time. In this concluding installment of a story on tweens and team sports, the experts discuss how parents can provide appropriate support in helping their child to cope with likely challenges.
UNLESS a family is outdoor sports-oriented, it is likely that a child gets his or her early introduction to team sports via their school CCAs. In the primary school, the common ones would be netball and football with greater participation by those in the upper primary (late tweens, ages 11-12). And since 2007, there's a new team sport CCA, floorball. Some experts may argue, based on developmental criteria, that the early to mid tweens (7-10 years) may be too soon for team sports participation. Others may disagree citing other benefits. But the existence of such team sports CCAs in our primary schools underscore the value(s) a child can acquire if the participation is under proper guidance. Former athletes (individual and team sports) and educators provide their perspectives in this two-part article.
GREEK mythology merges with 21st century teenage life to bring forth this interesting novel, part of a series of books by award-winning fantasy writer Rick Riordan. Our teen reviewer Juanita Joseph from CHIJ St Joseph who had perused the series provided this review of the first book which forms the basis of the 2010 movie release, now playing at a theatre near you.
MAKE a family date with Singapore museums this holiday period and into 2010! The National Heritage Board (NHB) presents exciting activities that include interactive WWII adventures for families and young adults (War-on-Wheels tour), performances and workshops for kids at the Asian Civilisations Museum, to bargain hunting at the Flea & Music Alley at the Peranakan Museum among others (some of the activities may not be available after 6 December...check the NHB site for a complete updated listing). With these and other engaging activities that become available at individual museums moving into 2010, the NHB seeks to rekindle the community's love for our heritage through the 'I Love Museums' theme.
IN a world which we share with germs, we must understand that it is not unusual for every square inch of our bodies to be covered with millions of germs, and that some of these germs have the potential to cause disease. "The trick is to try and minimize and limit your exposure within a reasonable context," says Dr Aaron Glatt, a spokesperson for the Infectious Disease Society of America. The best approach is to use soap and water.
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NC towns turn to bow hunting to control deer
Posted on October 22, 2013 by southernipmcenter
A growing number of communities around Charlotte are turning to bow hunters to thin the herds of deer that cause thousands of vehicle collisions a year.
After decades of restoration, white-tailed deer have rebounded from a low of 10,000 statewide in 1900 to the estimated 1.1 million today. Their population growth has leveled off in many parts of the state – except in cities and suburbs, where hunting is typically banned and deer are spreading.
Lovely to look at, deer are also prolific breeders, happy devourers of home landscaping, and they figured in 90 percent of the 20,181 animal-car collisions reported in North Carolina last year.
The answer, dozens of communities have decided in recent years, is in judicious use of the bow and arrow. The silent, short-range weapons are safer within city limits than firearms but just as lethal to their targets.
The foothills town of Elkin, in 2007, became the first to adopt an urban archery season authorized by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. For this coming season, Jan. 11 to Feb. 15, 44 towns and cities will allow bow hunting for deer.
Among the latest additions is Huntersville, the only Mecklenburg County community to adopt the hunting season. Concord, Harrisburg, Indian Trail, Kannapolis, Troutman and Weddington are among the towns already enrolled.
"One of the primary drivers for us is public safety, being suburban and with lots of open areas with high concentrations of deer," said Huntersville town manager Greg Ferguson. "We've had a number of deer-auto crashes, and some of those at high speeds."
Mecklenburg County ranked 10th-highest statewide with 1,345 animal-vehicle collisions between 2010 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Transportation reports.
Unlike some towns, Huntersville already allows bow hunting during the statewide deer season, which runs from early September through December. Ferguson said the town has heard no opposition to the add-on archery season.
Troutman, on the northern end of Lake Norman and surrounded by woods, was also plagued by deer-car accidents. Three years after adding an archery season, police Chief Matthew Selves said, "I can just tell you we have less traffic accidents."
Statewide, urban bow hunters killed 82 deer earlier this year, more than half of them does. The harvest by guns and other weapons took more than 167,000. If you wish to be a part of this, I would recommend you look at these upper parts for AR-15's and use them to get the max out of every shot you fire.
"It's not so much the number of deer taken from a community, it's just reintroducing a predator – and that's the hunter," said Ramon Bell, past president of the 1,000-member N.C. Bowhunters Association. "That area that has become a sanctuary for deer no longer is."
The bow hunters group offers certified, insured hunters to cull deer on private land, including gated communities and Duke University's research forest. Only one town has signed on, Bell said.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals calls bowhunting to control deer populations cruel and ineffective.
"It's not new and it doesn't work," said campaign specialist Ashley Byrne in New York. "Bowhunting is one of the cruelest forms of hunting." She said hunters sometimes trail their bleeding prey for hours.
PETA argues that killing deer only leaves a void that others soon fill, and that communities wouldn't continue to offer the hunts if they worked. The group advises nonlethal methods of deer control, such as using repellants around landscaping.
The Mecklenburg County parks department allows controlled deer hunts in the Latta Plantation, Cowans Ford and McDowell nature preserves to thin herds that over-graze native plants and can carry diseases. The hunts, in which only muzzle-loading rifles and shotguns are allowed because of their limited firing ranges, result in about 60 to 70 deer a year.
The marquee urban-archery town is Elkin, 70 miles north of Charlotte. The rural town on the Yadkin River is surrounded by rolling forests.
"We're blessed with deer, or cursed by them, you might say, depending on when the last time you hit a deer," said town manager Lloyd Payne.
So many night-patrolling police cars collided with the animals that the town's insurance company urged Elkin to do something. Some residents didn't like the idea. At a town forum, they worried about the sight of wounded deer bounding through backyards.
That hasn't happened, Payne said, but like most towns Elkin has placed strict limits on its archery. Hunting is allowed only on private land and with the owner's permission.
Elkin's bow hunters took 45 deer in 2008 and have led the state for each urban archery season since then. Deer numbers appear to be down, Payne said, as are patrol car collisions.
Tim Gestwicki, chief executive of the N.C. Wildlife Federation in Charlotte, called urban archery "a sign of the times that more and more municipalities will opt in as a management tool." The federation last month named Elkin its Municipal Conservationist of the Year.
Henderson: 704-358-5051; Twitter: @bhender
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/19/4398609/towns-turn-to-bow-hunting-to-control.html#storylink=cpy
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You love classic cars but you know that they come with a price and particular upkeep that you might not be able to maintain on your own. Whenever you see a beautiful old Chevy or Mustang pass you by, you might wonder when you'll ever have your dream vehicle or if it's simply a dream that is getting away from you. Luckily, there is an item known as a replica car kit that will build you the muscle car of your dreams if you have made this your ongoing hobby. Some might say that these car kits are 'not as good as the originals,' but this is far from the truth.
If you believe that a replica car kit is just as good as the real thing, making any vehicle into a beauty without the care of an old vehicle, there are many kits available for you on the market. One of the most popular is the Shelby Cobra kit, with many people feeling nostalgic about this beautiful vehicle that stormed the country.
For many, one of these car kits is just what they need to get the feel of a Cobra and the speed that they desired. With racing becoming more and more popular on raceways, people are choosing these kits for their vehicle dreams. Some of these vehicles, which are primarily used for racing, can weigh up to 3,400 pounds but Cobras and other small vehicles are known for weighing less. Cobras have been popular since the 60s. In fact, Carroll Shelby built 654 small-blcok Cobras and big block versions from the early 60s into 1968.
In one race, a Cobra reached up to 186 mph, making it one of the fastest race cars of its time. This is why, today, Cobras have become extremely popular in the racing and show worlds. If you believe that a Cobra is right for you but you desire a new vehicle, a replica Cobra car kit might be just the option that you need so that you can maintain the vehicle of your dreams. Get started on the vehicle of your dreams and invest in your kit today!
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Beck's Basic Moves
By Brad Gruetzmacher -
Mighty No. 9 has had a busy couple of weeks. After the announcement of a new animated series in the works, the team at comcept have decided to get back to the basics and reveal more about the main character Beck.
In our last update we were treated to some information about Beck's sidekick Call and her character animations. Now we learn more information about the main hero Beck and some of his basic moves.
The first video being shared shows off Beck's basic actions of running/jumping/shooting. As fans of platformers know, each game takes a different approach to jump mechanics and running. LittleBigPlanet's floaty jumps in despised by some and loved by others, while Mario has a much tighter control. It would appear that Beck runs with a much looser style, but you can judge for yourself in this newly released video.
In the second video we are treated to seeing Beck and his climbing abilities. This includes both going up and down ladders, but also dangling from ledges. It gives a good idea as to how Beck will shoot while traversing both up and down.
Video three shows off Beck's dash attack, which is an ability that we've learned Call will not have. The dash will not only be useful for attacks, but also to gain access to tight spaces.
And finally we get a look at Beck's "absorb" ability. Once Beck has worn down an enemy sufficiently enough, he can dash into them in order to absorb their "Xel" which can then be converted into power-ups. This is an ability that is unique to Beck "and it's this ability he has to use in order to save everybody."
As each video warns though, this is a work in progress so the final game may not turn out exactly as these videos portray. More information on Mighy No. 9 can be expected in future updates from comcept, and the game is due for release in April 2015.
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Brad is a video game enthusiast and family man. He's been gaming since the days of the Intellivision, and while that indicates he's been doing this for quite some time, he doesn't intend to quit anytime soon. Currently he's trying desperately to convince his daughter that there are more games than just Minecraft (unsuccessfully so far).
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I found these trailers to be average, nothing that much special from what we've seen already. Kinda wish they showed more background music.
I wonder what game play hook Call is going to have. I hope it's more fun than instant hard mode.
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So far the only one I know of is her ability to crawl, which takes the place of Beck's dash attack. But since the game is still a year away, I'm sure more surprises are in store.
I sure hope so!
So it is a straight Mega Man clone.
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Q: Why does +!{}[true] output 1 in javascript I was watching this video
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Athens special-ed teacher indicted
A Clarke County grand jury last week indicted an Athens public school teacher for allegedly sexually assaulting a student.
Quinnesha Sha'Tara Turner, 24, was charged with aggravated child molestation, soliciting a minor for indecent purposes and sexual assault of a student, according to the indictment that was filed May 28 in Clarke County Superior Court.
When arrested May 11, Turner was a science special education teacher at Hilsman Middle School, according to Mary Walsh Wickwire, spokesperson for the Clarke County School District.
Quinnesha Sha'Tara Turner
The indictment alleges that Turner had sexual relations with the student at Turner's home in Watkinsville.
The student's gender was not noted in the indictment an Athens-Clarke County police did not release the gender and other details of the case.
The indictment only identifies the student as being under 16 years old.
Turner's defense attorney Ryan Swingle declined to comment about the accusations against his client.
"Que Turner is a solid person, athlete and citizen," Swingle said on Tuesday.
"She's worked incredibly hard throughout her athletic and academic career," Swingle said. "She would never intentionally hurt a child."
The attorney said that as a student, Turner was a standout athlete at Cedar Shoals High School who went on to play basketball for Brenau University where she had a full-ride scholarship.
Following her arrest, Turner was released from the Clarke County Jail upon posting a $38,700 property bond, according to court records.
She is scheduled to be arraigned June 19.
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What was the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?
The British passed the Intolerable Acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They closed the Boston Harbor demanding the city had to pay for the tea that had been dumped into the harbor.
What are facts about Boston Massacre?
Interesting Boston Massacre Facts: The Boston Massacre occurred in the evening on March 5th, 1770 on King Street in Boston. There was heavy military presence at the time, a result of the Townshend Act of 1767 which imposed taxes to help cover the cost of Britain's military assistance.
What is the story behind the Boston Tea Party?
Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
What was the cause and effect of the Boston Tea Party?
The cause of the Boston Tea Party was the colonists didn't want taxed tea. The effect was the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped all the tea of three ships when they brought a new supply to the colonists.
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Bostonians and British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House had a conflict on March 5, 1770, which became known as the Boston Massacre. Soldiers shot into the crowd after one of them was struck by a snowball, in spite of orders to not fire.
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Sep 24, 2019 · The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre were two events that inspired the American Revolution, which later led to the independence of the thirteen colonies. Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773, nine o'clock at night. A group of around sixty men had dressed as native americans and snuck onto three British ships, the Dartmouth, […]
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The Boston Tea Party occurred on Thursday, December 16, 1773, and took 3 hours between 7 and 10 PM 90,000 lbs (45 tons) of tea in 342 containers was thrown overboard 116 people participated in the destruction of tea Each full container had a weight of 400 pounds. Half-containers were 100 pounds each The destroyed tea was worth an estimated £10,000.
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the ta…
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Mar 18, 2021 · The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre were two events that inspired the American Revolution, which later led to the independence of the thirteen colonies. December 16, 1773, nine o'clock at night. The men dumped the tea into the water. The Boston Tea Party, it was later named.
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By the beginning of March, 1770, tensions seemed to reach a boiling point. On the evening of March 5, Private Hugh White was under assault by a crowd of boys throwing snowballs, oysters in their shells, stones and clubs.
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Q: What are these PCB calibration standards? I found these shunt resistors in a paper that uses them to calibrate AC equipment for EIS testing. They used the "frequency dependent complex impedance response" of these standards to calculate the error coefficients.
I'm interested in implementing the same method myself but am having trouble finding these. I tried looking up PCB calibration standard, PCB shunt resistor but couldn't find anything with known inductive properties.
Not sure if these are custom PCBs or if they are commercially available and would really appreciate it if someone could point me to where I can find/make some of these.
A: The term "standard" is not the thing that you first thought of, such as IEC-... or EN-... . Yes, sounds confusing.
A standard is basically a reference for error-corrected measurements and measurement devices. All of its useful properties (complex impedance, delay, thermal-related, loss factor, etc.) are known and don't change from measurement to measurement. So it can be used as a reference.
A standard can be a SHORT (Zero Ohms), OPEN (Infinite Ohms), LOAD, etc. But in practice we know that nothing can be exactly zero Ohms, or infinite Ohms (because we don't know what number is) or 10.0000000000000000000000000000000000....00 milliohms.
So, the standards are created to have parameters which are "constant" and "close enough to desired value", just to define the zero, max, and error of a measurement and/or a device i.e. to say, for example, "0.003 milliohms is my zero". Hence the name standard.
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Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays Casey Cooke, runs towards safety in a scene from the movie, "Split." Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures.
M. Night Shyamalan is a controversial name amongst the film community. He has been praised for his early films like the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but people nowadays mostly think of his more recent work like The Last Airbender, The Happening, and After Earth. His recent streak of bad films has made Shyamalan more of a punch line than anything else, but I am glad to say that his new film, Split, breaks this trend.
Split is about three teenage girls who get kidnapped by a strange man named Kevin, played by James McAvoy. As the film goes on, the girls discover that Kevin suffers from split personality disorder, each of which have different emotions and memories. The girls must find a way to escape before the "beast" comes for them.
The concept of Split could have easily come off as cartoony, but it comes off as very tense and nerve racking thanks to a masterful performance by McAvoy. In my opinion, this is the best acting I have seen from McAvoy, who has been great in the X-Men films as Professor Xavier. He really shows his range in this film transforming into each of the different personalities, but what really impressed me was McAvoy's physical performance. For each personality, he would have a different posture and way of walking and I found that fascinating. Anya Taylor-Joy who took the role of the main girl Casey was also great. Her character had a troubled past, as seen through flashbacks, which allowed Joy to show off her range as an actress through many emotional scenes throughout the film.
Shyamalan's directing shines in this film. He does a great job creating this creepy world the audience experiences. The way the shots are arranged with various sounds really creates a tense and uncomfortable environment for the audience. This is a Shyamalan film, which means there must be a twist, and the twist works. It helps make some of the unbelievable aspects of the film have some sense to it. If you are familiar with Shyamalan's previous work, you will get a nice kick out of the ending.
Split is a return to form for Shyamalan. The film hooks its audience with incredible performances and great direction by Shyamalan. This is a film that is absolutely worth checking out in the theater.
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Models and Methods for Confirmation Catechesis in Catholic Youth Ministry
Religious Values and Young People: Analysis of the Perception of Students from Secular and Religious Schools (Salesian Pedagogical Model)
10.3390/rel11080416
Apollo, M.
Wengel, Y.
Schänzel, H.
Musa, G.
Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples?
Michal Apollo
Yana Wengel
Heike Schänzel
Ghazali Musa
Department of Tourism and Regional Studies, Pedagogical University of Cracow, 30-084 Cracow, Poland
Hainan University–Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College (HAITC), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology, 1010 Auckland, New Zealand
Department of Business Strategy and Policy, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
Religions 2020, 11(8), 416; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11080416
Received: 15 July 2020 / Revised: 5 August 2020 / Accepted: 11 August 2020 / Published: 13 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health)
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This exploratory ethnographic study aims to understand the visitation experience and to identify health hazards at pilgrimage sites in India. Specifically, this research aims to assess the tourism potential of holy Hindu temple sites located along well-known pilgrimage routes. During our fieldwork, we visited several of the most significant Hindu temples in India. Framed by a critical ethnography lens, our study used unstructured interviews with local stakeholders, as well as observations and reflexive notes. The findings revealed that most of the temples have serious safety, hygiene, accessibility, and environmental issues. A lack of action could lead to serious consequences for locals and tourists. For example, important for tourism, warnings of pandemics have been sounded over the years, and disease pandemics originating in India may only be a matter of time. We propose some immediate solutions and areas for future research. View Full-Text
Keywords: ethnographic study; health hazards; heritage protection; Hindu temples; management implications; pilgrimage tourism; pilgrims' safety; public health ethnographic study; health hazards; heritage protection; Hindu temples; management implications; pilgrimage tourism; pilgrims' safety; public health
Apollo, M.; Wengel, Y.; Schänzel, H.; Musa, G. Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples? Religions 2020, 11, 416.
Apollo M, Wengel Y, Schänzel H, Musa G. Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples? Religions. 2020; 11(8):416.
Apollo, Michal; Wengel, Yana; Schänzel, Heike; Musa, Ghazali. 2020. "Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples?" Religions 11, no. 8: 416.
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Jürgen Schulz (* 6. Oktober 1952) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Fußballspieler.
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Schulz, Sohn des ehemaligen Unioner Läufers Günther Schulz (* 1923), kam 1971 vom Spandauer SV zu Tasmania Berlin, wo der Halbstürmer zum Stammspieler wurde und in 59 Regionalliga-Spielen 12 Treffer erzielte. Außerdem bestritt er acht Aufstiegsspiele zur Bundesliga und gewann mit dem Verein 1971 den Berliner Pokal sowie 1972 die Berliner Vize-Meisterschaft.
Im Sommer 1973 wechselte Schulz zu Tennis Borussia Berlin und bestritt für die Berliner 67 Spiele (6 Tore) in der Fußball-Bundesliga und 177 Spiele (10 Tore) in der 2. Liga Nord; damit ist er Rekordspieler der Lila-Weißen in der höchsten deutschen Fußballliga. Besonders bemerkenswert ist, dass sich "Schulle" von 1974 bis 1981, als Tennis Borussia die Qualifikation für die neugegründete eingleisige 2. Liga nicht erreichte, im Profikader der "Veilchen" befand. 1983 gelang ihm mit dem SC Charlottenburg der überraschende Aufstieg in die 2. Bundesliga, während der Saison 1983/84 bestritt Schulz noch 36 Spiele für den Zweitligaaufsteiger, konnte aber den sofortigen Wiederabstieg nicht verhindern. 1986 kehrte er zu Tennis Borussia Berlin zurück.
Vom Juli 1988 bis Juni 1989 trainierte er Tennis Borussia in der drittklassigen Oberliga Berlin.
Literatur
Hanns Leske: Tasmania Berlin. Der ewige Letzte. Die wahre Geschichte der Tasmanen. Agon Sportverlag, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-89784-369-1, S. 382.
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Fußballspieler (SC Charlottenburg)
Fußballspieler (Tasmania Berlin, 1900)
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Fußballtrainer (Tennis Borussia Berlin)
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Speaking loud enough to have a conversation just shouldn't be so hard. But for many people with Parkinson's Disease, it is.
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Resolutie 177 van de Veiligheidsraad van de Verenigde Naties was de laatste resolutie die in 1962 werd aangenomen door de VN-Veiligheidsraad. Dat gebeurde met unanimiteit van stemmen op 15 oktober dat jaar. De resolutie beval Oeganda aan als kandidaat VN-lidstaat.
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HCC Estimates Katrina Loss at $160M
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that anticipated claims from Hurricane Katrina are expected to result in the company's largest gross loss in its history, estimated at $160 million arising from aviation, onshore and offshore energy, property, marine and other specialty lines of business.
This loss is estimated to be $50 million net of reinsurance including reinsurance reinstatement costs, $32.5 million after tax, and will reduce third quarter earnings of the company by approximately $0.30 per diluted share.
Stephen L. Way, chairman and chief executive officer, said, "Our exposure is predominantly to energy and large commercial property accounts and is substantially protected by catastrophe reinsurance." Way added, "From an industry standpoint, premium rates will need to rise significantly in these lines of business to reflect both the increased frequency and severity of catastrophic events that have occurred over the past five years."
HCC is an international insurance holding company and a leading specialty insurance group since 1974, based in Houston, Texas, with offices across the U.S. and in Bermuda, England, and Spain.
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Shades of Green > Blog > Insects & Pests > What are the Best Plants for Butterflies?
What are the best plants for butterflies? That's a common question at the garden center this time of year, often triggered by customers noticing the different species of butterflies fluttering about our wide selection of plants. The answer isn't as straightforward as you might think. Many people assume that any plant that flowers will attract butterflies. That isn't the case. Some human favorites, such as roses, camellias, petunias, and begonias, may draw bees but are typically ignored by butterflies. Since we've been asked a lot over the years, we've have complied a list of Top Ten Native Perennials for Butterflies, however that list is only part of the answer. There are also annuals that attract butterflies. Consider cosmos, marigolds, pentas, and zinnias when planning a butterfly-friendly flowerbed.
A Monarch taking a nectar break on it's host plant, Milkweed.
Whether planting native plants, perennials, or organic plants, understand that butterflies are seeking two types of plants; nectar plants for adults to feed on, and host plants for their offspring (caterpillars) to feed on. A butterfly garden that contains both nectar and host plants will draw more butterflies because they're more likely to lay their eggs on the host plants. Butterflies are very selective when it comes to host plants and most species will only lay their eggs on one type of plant. Monarch and Queen butterflies only lay eggs on types of milkweed. (Ask our staff about tropical milkweed, an easy growing, re-seeding annual.) Gulf and Variegated Fritillary caterpillars feed on passion vine, while caterpillars of the Pipevine Swallowtail prefer pipevine, and Black Swallowtails prefer the herbs dill, fennel, or rue.
Thus, while you can feed nearly all species of adult butterflies with nectar plants such as penta, coneflower, aster, yarrow, and others, you'll need specific host plants to attract specific species. Otherwise, the adults may stop for a bit of nectar, but won't stay long enough to lay eggs. To find out what host plants are preferred by which species, visit the North American Butterfly Association and check out their Regional Butterfly Guides. Click on the map for the Dallas-Fort Worth Guide then come to Shades of Green and let us help you find the plants you need to attract the butterflies you want.
Tim Wardell is a Texas Certified Nursery Professional whose backyard is a Certified Butterfly Garden (#769) by the North American Butterfly Association.
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Jérôme Gauthier designs silent and sensitive objects.
Sober, discreet and detail-oriented, his projects seek the evidence of usage.
while being attentive to manufacturing.
La Villette is a Parisian district close to Jerome Gauthier design studio.
future. Villette has been the source of inspiration for the Villette bridge armchair.
and Maison Drucker question the present of Parisian bistro furniture.
elements : a supporting structure and a Raucord weave.
middle of this metal bridge.
This frame makes it possible for both high mechanical resistance and stackability.
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The Lab is further supported by a Council whose role will be to enable advocacy into policy making. The make-up of the council draws from leaders who are closely identified with the current policy context.
All 'nodes' have access to one another, and the ability to access the group in a way and depth that suits their needs. The composition of the Lab changes in response to external needs.
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My client based in Norwich are looking to expand their team and employ an order processor on a full-time basis. On a daily basis you will be responsible for imputing the orders and converting quotes already imputed by our estimators into the orders within the Window Designer software. You will be required to collect missing information from the client and making sure all order have been imputed and ordered correctly. In return my client offers Full time position Employment in steadily growing company with a chance of progression within the company Work in fun atmosphere with a dynamic and enthusiastic team 28 days holidays (pro-rata) staff benefits An ideal candidate would be a very meticulous person with a high attention to detail. You must be able to commute to your work place daily and be punctual. Previous experience and knowledge of Window Designer software would be treated as a great advantage. Salary: £18500 Experience: Window Designer software: 1 year (Preferred) Double Glazing Sector: 2 years (Preferred) Hales Group Ltd collects and keeps information from applicants, so that we can monitor our recruitment process, ensure compliance with the Equal Opportunities policy, and when appropriate send you details of future job opportunities. We keep your name and address, and details of your application. If you do not want us to do this please contact your local branch.
We are looking for a Website Developer and digital marketing executive to join our small team. The Website & Database Developer role is a hands-on position, where you will be involved primarily in the development of our websites , digital and social marketing . You must have a track record and experience of Word Press, PHP, Content Management Systems (CMS) and/or digital marketing experience . The ideal candidate must have experience in : Creation of new website with word press, PHP and CMS Good content creation and designing track record Experince in SEO, Keyword search , Adwords, Analytics and optimization Social media experience Good work ethics and attention to detail is crucial Self starter Can start immediately Due to the high level of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to individual submissions. Therefore if you have not received a response within two weeks you have unfortunately been unsuccessful in your application this time.
I am recruiting for a reputable business within the leisure sector, who are looking for an SEO Marketing Executive to join their growing digital team. It is a new role to the business and it's a great time to join as the brand has grown over the years and continues to expand further over the coming year. If you understand the fundamentals of SEO are a highly motivated self-starter who wants to push on in a role that offers progression, then this could be a great role for you. You will get the chance to join a dynamic team and play a key part within the business and their future growth plans. Responsibilities: You will with the help of your manager create a market-specific SEO strategy for your markets in collaboration and support its tactical implementation You will drive independent optimisation plans through analysis of search engine and user data and inform day-to-day prioritisation of work according to opportunity You will monitor the organic performance to understand the effectiveness of each initiative and generate monthly reports explaining results You will identify competitors in the market and monitor their SEO efforts, incorporating learnings into your own strategy You will create and regularly update a keyword strategy You will create meta data and on-page tags for required pages You will support the link building on-site and off-site and link earning You will implement regular tests and present back to the digital marketing team your findings on a monthly basis Requirements for the role: You are a confident Digital Marketing Executive or SEO Executive with a good understanding of Search Engine Optimisation looking to take the next step in your career You have a proven track record of making good SEO decisions and being able to illustrate the success of doing so You have good verbal and written communication skills and are able to adapt your style to your target audience You have an intermediate understanding of on-page and off-page SEO techniques You have intermediate knowledge of using Google Analytics and SEO reporting You have a basic understanding of technical SEO You have previously worked with some of these SEO tools; Screaming Frog, SEMRush, Advanced Web Rankings, Search Metrics, Moz and Google Analytics You are a team player and can work collaboratively when needed Apply now to be considered. l As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff. Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.
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We are looking for experienced self employed, Website Developer, Graphic Designer, Copywriter, Digital Marketing executive, photographer (including video and film). We will encourage interns who are specialising in Digital Marketing, Website Development, Graphic designing and copy writing . You must be living in the UK or do not require a visa to travel to the UK. Should you be interested in this role, Please email your up-to-date CV and a cover letter mentioning the preferred location .
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Content Writer Blackfriars, London Up to £32k depending on experience Job overview Become part of Croner-i's growing marketing team in London to write creative, informative and persuasive B2B copy that sells. You will promote the business as the market leader in providing online resources and commentary to professionals who need support for tax & accountancy, HR, health & safety and compliance. In a role reporting to Head of Digital Marketing you will turn dry technical subjects into outstanding pieces of clear, concise and engaging content. You'll also demonstrate skills of persuasion using nothing more than ink on a page or pixels on a screen, and you'll show a natural ability to manage multiple briefs across different media in a fast-paced business while consistently delivering quality work. Day to day responsibilities Write digital copy, scripts, and traditional marketing content that's clear, concise and engaging. Write conversion copy for email marketing, PPC ads, landing pages and conversion rate optimisation experiments. Follow the Group's tone of voice recommendations and manage constructive feedback from senior colleagues and stakeholders. Be meticulous and create work to a high standard through an understanding of writing principles. Write great copy that stands out in a market saturated with similar messages. Use technical content and expertise from within the Group as well as performing deep research. Monitor competitor activity, customer behaviour and the latest trends to improve the performance of your writing and content. Ensure all copy is delivered on time, to brief, and to the required quality standards. What you bring to the team Creativity, curiosity, enthusiasm and a desire to improve. Minimum of 3 years' professional copy/content writing experience. Demonstrable understanding of copywriting best practices. Ability to empathise with your reader/target audience to create the desired content/outcome. A track record of developing marketing content from conception to delivery to impact. Excellent organisation and project management skills. Experience using content management systems (CMS) to build and publish content. Why join our team? Croner-i is a multi-award-winning place to work. The role suits someone who enjoys writing B2B copy for a variety of industry sectors. The office is fast-paced, so we look for colleagues who have a positive and results-driven attitude. And through training and development, we make sure that you have the resources you need to build your career.
Time Appointments are delighted to be working on behalf of a client in an exciting and creative industry. As a well-known brand, with continuous development, this is the perfect opportunity to utilise your skills as a Graphic Designer. Our client is looking for someone with a proficiency in using Adobe Suite Software and two years' experience in the role so you can hit the ground running. If you can work in a fast paced role and maintain high quality levels of work, then this is definitely something to consider. Main Duties & Responsibilities: Generating creative and effective format ideas Developing marketing material to support sales Identify new design trends and make them commercially successful Maintain a quality work ability in a fast paced environment Illustrative work Print preparation Do you feel this opportunity is perfect for you? Please give us a call and explain why you would suit the role and to discuss your next career move with Time Appointments. If this role is not quite what you are looking for, then we are looking for determined and switched on candidates for several different vacancies at present, so please get in touch with one of the consultants here.
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In our automated and connected economy, data has become the coin of the realm. Companies need it to market to their customers, to develop their products, to come to corporate decisions, to build and test their own apps. It is ubiquitous — or so it would seem. In truth, the right dataset can be as valuable as any hard asset that a company might own. "As much as we all feel inundated with information overload, ask any machine learning researcher and they will tell you that there isn't enough data to learn," said Mansi Singhal CEO of qplum. Essentially a company has three choices: it can build it, like IFI CLAIMS did, it can buy it, or it can do a little of both.
Whatever the company decides, Singhal said, it will not be cheap. "This is something that many other firms are facing as the big hurdle — how to create large datasets economically so that models can be trained and answers can be more accurate and high quality," she said. But there is more than just cost to consider. Indeed a company has to weigh several — sometimes competing — factors as it makes a decision about the data it will use. It's rarely a pure IT decision — i.e. choosing the most comprehensive dataset available. "It's always a game of maximizing value," said Natalie Robb, founder of Wavelength Analytics. "Like anything else, determining which dataset is best is based on trade-offs," she said. Meaning the "best" dataset is one that fits the budget, meets the project's data quantity and quality needs and time constraints.
"Let's say you want to know consumer sentiment," Robb said. "Amazon and eBay make customer review data available — and nothing is more comprehensive than Amazon's customer reviews." But, she continued, the dataset is enormous, which means you need to have the requisite machine learning and natural language processing tools and skills.
Ultimately, the question is not so much where to get the data, but which kind of dataset could support your business, said Majken Sander, business analyst and solution architect with TimeXtender. "No matter your goal, there's a dataset out there to support you." As companies dive into this process, here are some arguments for each possibility.
Built a contact database of more than 30,000 records within a month from business cards collected by sales reps over the years for a B2B software organization.
Constructed a database of 800,000 consumers over a 6-month period by digitizing manually written warranty cards for a reputed company in consumer electronics. "A small home maintenance organization with minimum automation started to scan the 2,000 service reports to create their own CRM database within a week," Sharma said.
But the most valuable data a company has is undoubtedly what it knows about its existing customers and prospects, said Nick Worth, CMO at Selligent Marketing Cloud. "Deepening that understanding with a powerful marketing platform and augmenting that critical first-party data with external sources is the right place to start to both deepen existing customer relationships and develop look-a-like models for acquiring more customers," he said.
There are a number of sources from where companies can buy data, Robb said. There are aggregators such as Lotame, Gravy Analtyics or Foursquare. There are enterprise data sources such as Hoovers, DiscoverOrg, ZoomInfo and Lead 411. A company can get enterprise buyer intent data from companies such as Bombora or 6Sense. Finally a company can buy another organization's first party data from marketplaces or exchanges, Robb said.
The best options for building datasets are connecting and blending public and private, said Christopher Penn, co-founder of Brain+Trust Insights. For example, he said, a healthcare company will have its own proprietary data, but it may not be rich in depth. This company could go to Medicare or other government websites and append additional relevant data to its dataset to beef it up for statistical analysis, data science, machine learning and AI.
Last year, Penn did a test with the AHRQ Medicare Hospital Quality Dataset, which he said had some serious gaps in it. "I blended it with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data to enrich the AHRQ dataset and 'complete' it with imputation," he said.
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Todd co-founded Silversmith Capital Partners in 2015 and focuses on building lasting partnerships with exceptional entrepreneurs within SaaS & Information Services sectors. Thematically, Todd believes in the underlying power of data as the twenty-first century moat as well as how innovative cloud models can democratize access to technology that grows, and often creates, new markets.
Todd's career in growth equity began twenty-five years ago when he convinced Summit Partners it would be easier to hire him than to have to continue to deal with his continued, non-stop pestering. A native Bostonian, Todd spent several years in Silicon Valley helping to lead Accel Partners' growth efforts before returning to the East Coast and Bain Capital, where he was colleagues with college friend and current partner Jeff Crisan.
Todd lives with his wife and two children in the metrowest Boston suburbs. He was previously on the Board of Trustees of The Park School in Brookline, where he chaired the investment committee, and is actively involved with the non-profit Cradles to Crayons. He is an avid reader across all genres, specifically modern fiction, and is slowly sliding back into the misery of being a Red Sox fan that plagued his youth. Athletically, Todd is an ardent paddle tennis player and was, once-upon-a-time in college, a member of a world-record-setting indoor rowing team. In addition, despite a significant investment of time and treasure, he remains an astonishingly bad golfer.
MBA with Honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
AB, cum laude, in English from Dartmouth College
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This Marfione Custom Troodon knife is excellent condition. The action on this knife is perfect. Comes with original box and paperwork. Pictured above is the actual knife for sale.
This knife features a high polished stainless steel dagger blade that has been hand ground by both Anthony Marfione. The handle is black anodized aluminum with blue titanium hardware and glass breaker. The handle is marked with the Marfione Dagger and "07/2006" -- the production date. The pocket clip shows the serial number 036, Marfione Dagger and "A. MARFIONE" as well.
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Q: Why is a slice category a category? I don't understand why the Hom-sets in a slice category are disjoint.
Let $C$ be a category and $A$ an object of $C$, then the slice category $C_{A}$ has as objects all morphisms $f\colon Z \to A $ where $Z$ is an object of $C$.
For two objects of $C_A$, $f_1 \colon Z_1 \to A$ and $f_2 \colon Z_2 \to A$, the elements of $Hom_{C_A}(f_1,f_2)$ are given by the elements of $\sigma \in Hom_{C}(Z_1,Z_2)$ that satisfy $f_1=f_2 \circ \sigma$.
The definition of a category entails that $Hom_{C_A}(f,g)$ and $Hom_{C_A}(f',g')$ have to be disjoint unless $(f,g)=(f',g')$.
Now let $Z$ be an object in $C$ and let $f_1,f_2 \in Hom_{C}(Z,A)$ such that $f_1 \neq f_2$
Then the identity morphism $id_Z \in Hom_C(Z,Z)$ satisfies $f_1=f_1\circ id_Z$ and $f_2=f_2\circ id_Z$.
Hence $id_Z \in Hom_{C_A}(f_1,f_1)$ and $id_Z \in Hom_{C_A}(f_2,f_2)$, implying that $C_A$ is not a category.
What am i getting wrong here? I've had this problem since i read the definition of a slice category in Aluffi's book, which i find a bit unclear.
At first i thought that maybe the morphisms contain the information of their source and target and that instead of elements in $Hom_C(f_1,f_2)$ they would be something like tuples of the form $(f_1,f_2,\sigma)$ where $\sigma \in Hom_C(f_1,f_2)$.
But according to the definition given on Wikipedia for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_category#Definition), this doesn't seem to be the case.
A: There are two ways you can define the morphism part of a category $\mathcal{C}$. Either:
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*Define a set $\mathrm{mor}(\mathcal{C})$ of morphisms and functions $\mathrm{dom}, \mathrm{cod} : \mathrm{mor}(\mathcal{C}) \to \mathrm{ob}(\mathcal{C})$; or
*Define sets $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$ for each $A,B \in \mathrm{ob}(\mathcal{C})$.
To translate from the first definition into the second, you can define $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$ to be $\{ f \in \mathrm{mor}(\mathcal{C}) \mid \mathrm{dom}(f) = A \text{ and } \mathrm{cod}(f) = B \}$. Then the hom sets are automatically disjoint since the domain and codomain are encoded in the morphism.
In the second case, however, the hom sets don't need to be disjoint, since we haven't explicitly required disjointness of the hom sets. Thus the second case is more general than the first case. This is why some people require hom sets to be disjoint—namely, so that $\mathrm{dom}(f)$ and $\mathrm{cod}(f)$ are well-defined.
However, you can always turn a specification of a category without disjoint hom sets into a specification of a category with disjoint hom sets, by replacing $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$ by $\{A\} \times \{ B \} \times \mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$, so that a morphism $f : A \to B$ is then 'officially' a triple $(A,B,f)$.
This is equivalent to defining $\mathrm{mor}(\mathcal{C})$ to be the disjoint union $\bigsqcup\limits_{(A,B) \in \mathrm{ob}(\mathcal{C}) \times \mathrm{ob}(\mathcal{C})} \mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$ and taking $\mathrm{dom}$ and $\mathrm{cod}$ to be the respective projection maps to $\mathrm{ob}(\mathcal{C})$.
Under this encoding, a morphism $\sigma : (f_1 : Z_1 \to A) \to (f_2 : Z_2 \to A)$ in $\mathcal{C}/A$ is 'officially' a triple $(f_1,f_2,\sigma)$ where $\sigma : Z_1 \to Z_2$ and $f_2 \circ \sigma = f_1$. The morphisms $\mathrm{id}_Z : f_1 \to f_1$ and $\mathrm{id}_Z : f_2 \to f_2$ are then 'officially' triples $(f_1,f_1,\mathrm{id}_Z)$ and $(f_2,f_2,\mathrm{id}_Z)$, so you don't have any issues.
However, in practice, it's easier to define $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathcal{C}}(A,B)$ without worrying about whether the hom sets are disjoint, and rest easy with the knowledge that the hom sets could be made disjoint if you wanted them to be.
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Should straights stay out of gay bars, and gay men stay out of lesbian bars?
A group of some 30 activists gathered at My Sisters' Room on Feb. 28 to air their frustrations about what they wish to see happening in Atlanta's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
Organized by MSR owners and wife-wife team Susan Musselwhite and Patryce Yeiser along with party promoter and singer Barry Brandon, the forum's topics included racism and segregation, transgender people being left out, and the need for LGBT groups to collaborate with other groups at all times — not just when something is needed.
"I've been involved in Atlanta's LGBT community a long time and what I see is we are resource rich and collaboration poor," said Imani Evans, founder and executive director of Women Healing Women, a nonprofit that provides services to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.
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Our Finzels Reach apartments are located in Bristol in the charming district called Redcliffe which is wonderfully central, but quiet and peaceful at the same time. Across the river you will find Castle Park as well as the main Bristol shopping district. You also have direct access to the river and all the main tourist attractions, such as M-Shed and the Matthew of Bristol, and of course a host of places to eat and drink!
Redcliffe gets its name from the red sandstone cliffs at Redcliffe Wharf which are a 10 minute walk, or a couple of ferry stops from the apartments.
The cliffs are not very tall, but are contain a system of caves and tunnels known as the Redcliffe Caves. Over the years these caves have been used as storage areas, whilst the sand was extracted to make glass. You can still see some remnants of the glass making industry at the Kiln Restaurant. Sadly the caves are not open to the public.
Bristol harbour is sometimes called the Floating Harbour as it was constructed so the main harbour area is not affected by the tide. The whole harbour front has seen a huge regeneration project with the construction of Pero's footbridge and the regeneration of buildings and warehouses in the area. Finzels Reach is on the south side of the Bristol Floating Harbour and was once a sugar refinery, a brewery and part of the site was a Tramway power generation station.
The main Bristol shopping quarter is less than 10 minutes' walk from Finzels Reach over Castle Bridge, Bristol's newest bridge. This 91 meter pedestrian bridge, which opened in 2017, provides a wonderful new access right from the Finzels Reach apartments to Castle Park, where in just a short walk you have access to Cabot Circus and the main Bristol Shopping district.
Directly across the river from Finzels Reach you will find Castle Park. The park is a lovely green space in the centre of Bristol and is sometimes called Castle Green because of the open green space it provides the city. The park is dominated by the ruined St Peters Church which was bombed during World War II and has been preserved as a ruin as a memorial. You will also find the remains of Bristol Castle, a Norman Castle mentioned in the Doomsday Book and built for the defense of Bristol.
Castle Park is a lovely tranquil place to visit, and provides a welcome retreat from the hustle and bustle of the nearby Bristol city centre.
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