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I served my last day at the Bank last October 30, 2009 -- after exactly two years and two months of working for one of the country's largest private commercial banks.
To the people who know what I've been through at the office, this is one of the happiest days of my life. I was in a state of bliss indeed. Why wouldn't I be, at least I'd be out of the rut where I (and my colleagues) seem to have been "stuck." Whew, at last I wouldn't have to put up with ridiculous (and mostly irrational) screaming fits anymore. Plus, my days of praying for miracles are over. That easy. Or is it?
Well, honestly-speaking it's not. It's almost, how do you describe that, bittersweet? On one hand, you're happy and relieved. On the other, you suddenly feel saddened. The two weeks leading to my last day were the most "critical." Suddenly, the reality that you are already saying goodbye to your dearest friends is already sinking in. Admittedly, I am one of those persons who are almost in torment when muttering the word goodbye. What I didn't like the most was the fact that I'd get nostalgic almost every minute. Thoughts (happy, of course) randomly pop up in my head. Sometimes, I feel that a good cry (and maybe a nervous breakdown) is the only option. To better describe it, the feeling was so low that I entertained the thought of revoking my resignation. Though obviously I didn't do that.
As the days passed, and my "big day" approached nearer, I began to feel a certain peace. Like acceptance, as illustrated in the Kubler-Ross model of grief, wherein you begin to, well, admit the fact that one phase of your life has ended and you are about to tread a new journey. There are uncertainties, for sure, wherever that destination may be. It might not even be as prospective or even as obliging as the previous territory but, similar to others who have been through near-trauma experiences, I just want to get out, move forward, and start anew. A leap of faith, so to speak.
In any case, I'm just hopeful that this new voyage wouldn't be as turbulent. With renewed faith and optimism, I'm looking forward to counting better days as I live out each moment.
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Letter of the Day: A better electoral method
By dailybreeze | [email protected] |
PUBLISHED: July 26, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2017 at 8:08 a.m.
A better electoral method
The Daily Breeze conducted a reader poll on how California should award its electoral votes but neglected to include the congressional district method, in which the majority winner in each district would win one electoral vote for that district. The candidate who wins the majority of the popular vote statewide wins the two electoral votes representing the two senators.
This option has the following advantages:
1. Every electoral vote would be in play. Each voter in the state would be better represented. Republican voters in the central and eastern parts of the state could contribute toward awarding their candidate some electoral votes.
2. Political candidates would be more inclined to campaign in California, which up to now has been all but guaranteed to the Democratic candidate for the past 20 years.
3. Voter turnout would increase, since more voters would feel that their vote actually counted.
4. In the event that there has to be a recount, tallying could focus on specific congressional districts in dispute as opposed to a burdensome canvassing of the entire state.
– Arthur Christopher Schaper, Torrance
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How Pipedrive saved 350 hours (and counting) on talent relocation
Pipedrive went from having constant issues with local authorities to saving hundreds of hours on talent relocation.
Relocation and Immigration Services
https://www.pipedrive.com/
Founded in 2010, Pipedrive is a tool built by salespeople for salespeople to manage intricate or lengthy sales processes.
The company today is 77th on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, covers more than 170 countries and 16 languages, and has 500+ employees across eight offices in six countries. That's a lot of numbers to squeeze into one sentence. The point is, they're everywhere.
And they're hiring a lot—also from everywhere.
Rocky beginnings
When Pipedrive first started relocating people to their Estonian HQ in 2015, it wasn't exactly smooth sailing. "We were having difficulties understanding the legal system in Estonia," says Girli Moks, People Operations Team Lead at the Tallinn office. "And we had some problems when communicating with the Police and Border Guard Board. It happened really often that we wanted to relocate a candidate or a new employee to Estonia and we thought that maybe it would take a month or two, but actually it ended up taking three or four months."
But there was no turning back. The floodgates were open.
Because hiring internationally is inevitable for a company like Pipedrive. "Although we have a lot of great talent here, it's not really meeting the actual demand of our company," says Mirjam Laurisaar, Talent Acquisition Team Lead. "There aren't enough specialists on the local market."
So the writing was on the wall—they needed a helping hand. Team Pipedrive had their hesitations about bringing on a relocation partner. They worried about whether Jobbatical had enough knowledge and people to get the job done fast. "We didn't know how long it would take for Jobbatical to get our new employees here," Girli remembers. "Will we need to chase them? But actually they ended up chasing us with different questions, so it was a really surprisingly good service."
70+ relocations later, they're glad they took a chance on Jobbatical. Because that translates roughly to 350 hours of work saved. Plus a lot of happy new hires.
"From the moment that we know we want to move a candidate to Estonia for the final interview, they take it over from the recruiter and they start to compose all the documents and residence permits and visas," Girli describes their cooperation with Jobbatical. "In Estonia, they also help our relocated employees find family doctors and register their address."
When boring is a good thing
And just like that, Pipedrive went from constant communication issues with local authorities to being able to offer their hires the smoothest relocation experience around. You know you've got a good thing going when even the most potentially challenging relocation cases turn out… well, kind of boring, actually.
For Girli, the most memorable case was a fresh hire from Indonesia. A lot of room for disastrous mishaps here, as there's no Estonian embassy in Indonesia. "So the employee had to go to the Chinese embassy to apply for a Chinese visa, then to China to apply for an Estonian visa," Girli recalls. "Then after that, he could come to Estonia. The process had to be very well thought through. And Jobbatical managed it very well, so everything went fine."
The relocation case that stands out for Mirjam is also memorable mostly for how shockingly uneventful it was. Same old story: new hire moving from Iran. No Estonian embassy. Things could have gone spectacularly wrong… and then didn't.
"I was just baffled by the fact that the whole process was so smooth," Mirjam says. "It went really fast, we didn't have any hurdles whatsoever. Also, it was the first Iranian person we've had here at Pipedrive, so it was a milestone for me and the company."
Stop and celebrate the diversity
Being able to take a moment to appreciate the milestones is one of the happy side effects of trusting experts with relocation paperwork. Instead of getting caught up in the red tape and putting out fires, you can afford to save your energy and excitement for the big-picture stuff. Pipedrive, for example, gets excited about the immense value of having an international team.
"We strongly believe in diversity," Mirjam says. "Having people from different backgrounds, different cultural experiences enforces this very strong company culture that we have by bringing on diverse ideas."
With around 45 nationalities represented, Pipedrive really is a true melting pot. And the benefits of that extend far beyond the bottom line of the business. "We get to learn from each other's cultures," Mirjam says. "We are growing as human beings. I truly believe that people from different backgrounds, when you bring them together into one room, into one team, something wonderful happens. Much better ideas are being brought to life."
Girli couldn't agree more. "With hiring from abroad and having this very diverse culture at Pipedrive, I have understood that there is no way that is always the only correct way. You can do and see things from a different angle and it will still be the correct angle, even if it's not the same as your friend or coworker has."
"We are super happy with Jobbatical, so definitely recommend to everyone. If I would have to put a number behind it, then definitely 10/10. We're very satisfied, we very much appreciate the support that you guys are giving us." — Mirjam Laurisaar, Talent Acquisition Team Lead
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Pakistan trio await spot-fixing verdict
Published Saturday, February 05, 2011
Accused Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were awaiting a sporting tribunal's ruling on spot-fixing allegations against them Saturday.
The charges relate to alleged incidents during a Test match against England at Lord's last year, when Britain's News of the World tabloid claimed the players were willing to deliberately bowl no-balls.
A three-man International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption tribunal, which deferred a decision after a six-day hearing last month, began proceedings in Doha at 9.00 am local time (0600 GMT).
The tribunal is headed by Michael Beloff QC, while the other two members are Albie Sachs of South Africa and Sharad Rao of Kenya.
Aamer's lawyer Shahid Karim said that a set procedure would be followed. "We understand that written verdicts are given to the players and the ICC by the tribunal first. If they are found guilty the lawyers and players will debate on the possible sanctions," Karim told AFP.
If found guilty the minimum punishment the tribunal can impose is a five-year ban, with a life bar the maximum.
Separately the trio, along with British-based agent Mazhar Majeed, were charged by Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) in London on Friday.
Karim said: "I am surprised and shocked by the CPS announcement. A day before the ICC tribunal verdict, the CPS announcement has changed the scenario in the case."
All three players, who are currently suspended from international cricket, have repeatedly denied the allegations and have expressed confidence they will resume their careers.
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Thomson River (Cooper Creek), ein Quellfluss des Cooper Creek
Thomson River (Victoria), ein Nebenfluss des Latrobe River
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Interspecies SCNT-derived Humanesque Blastocysts
Since the 1950s, scientists have developed interspecies blastocysts in laboratory settings, but not until the 1990s did proposals emerge to engineer interspecies blastocysts that contained human genetic or cellular material. Even if these embryos were not permitted to mature to fetal stages, their ethical and political status became debated within nations attempting to use them for research.
Subject: Theories
The Role of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Myogenesis
Among other functions, the Notch signaling pathway forestalls the process of myogenesis in animals. The Notch signaling pathway is a pathway in animals by which two adjacent cells within an organism use a protein named Notch to mechanically interact with each other. Myogenesis is the formation of muscle that occurs throughout an animal's development, from embryo to the end of life. The cellular precursors of skeletal muscle originate in somites that form along the dorsal side of the organism.
Subject: Theories, Processes
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak's Telomere and Telomerase Experiments (1982-1989)
Experiments conducted by Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak from 1982 to 1989 provided theories of how the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, and the enzyme that repairs telomeres, called telomerase, worked. The experiments took place at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute and at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and at the University of California in Berkeley, California. For their research on telomeres and telomerase, Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.
"The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize" (1950), by Barbara McClintock
The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize, by Barbara McClintock, was published in 1950 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. McClintock worked at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow, New York, at the time of the publication, and describes her discovery of transposable elements in the genome of corn (Zea mays). Transposable elements, sometimes called transposons or jumping genes, are pieces of the chromosome capable of physically changing positions along the chromosome.
Walter Stanborough Sutton (1877-1916)
Walter Stanborough Sutton studied grasshoppers and connected the phenomena of meiosis, segregation, and independent assortment with the chromosomal theory of inheritance in the early twentieth century in the US. Sutton researched chromosomes, then called inheritance mechanisms. He confirmed a theory of Wilhelm Roux, who studied embryos in Breslau, Germany, in the late 1880s, who had argued that chromosomes and heredity were linked. Theodor Boveri, working in Munich, Germany, independently reached similar conclusions about heredity as Sutton.
Julia Bell (1879-1979)
Julia Bell worked in twentieth-century Britain, discovered Fragile X Syndrome, and helped find heritable elements of other developmental and genetic disorders. Bell also wrote much of the five volume Treasury of Human Inheritance, a collection about genetics and genetic disorders. Bell researched until late in life, authoring an original research article on the effects of the rubella virus of fetal development (Congenital Rubella Syndrome) at the age of 80.
Howard Wilber Jones Jr.
Howard Wilber Jones Jr. and his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, developed a method of in vitro fertilization and helped create the first baby in the US using that method. Though the first in vitro baby was born in England in 1978, Jones and his wife's contribution allowed for the birth of Elizabeth Carr on 28 December 1981. Jones, a gynecologist and an obstetrician, researched human reproduction for most of his life.
"A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development" (2002), by Eric H. Davidson, et al.
In 2002 Eric Davidson and his research team published 'A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development' in Science. The authors present the first experimental verification and systemic description of a gene regulatory network. This publication represents the culmination of greater than thirty years of work on gene regulation that began in 1969 with 'A Gene Regulatory Network for Development: A Theory' by Roy Britten and Davidson. The modeling of a large number of interactions in a gene network had not been achieved before.
Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger (1781-1833)
Johann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development. During Meckel's lifetime he catalogued embryonic malformations in multiple treatises. Meckel's focus on malformations led him to develop concepts like primary and secondary malformations, atavism, and recapitulation- all of which influenced the fields of medicine and embryology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Hedgehog Signaling Pathway
The hedgehog signaling pathway is a mechanism that directs the development of embryonic cells in animals, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The hedgehog signaling pathway is a system of genes and gene products, mostly proteins, that convert one kind of signal into another, called transduction. In 1980, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, identified several fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) genes.
"The Cell-Theory" (1853), by Thomas Henry Huxley
The Cell-Theory was written by Thomas Henry Huxley in Britain and published in 1853 by The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. The twenty-two page article reviews twelve works on cell theory, including those in Germany by Caspar Friedrich Wolff in the eighteenth century and by Karl Ernst von Baer in the nineteenth century. Huxley spends much of The Cell-Theory on a cell theory proposed in the late 1830s by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in Germany.
Studies in Spermatogenesis (1905), by Nettie Maria Stevens
Studies in Spermatogenesis is a two volume book written by Nettie Maria Stevens, and published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905 and 1906. In the books Stevens explains the research she conducted on chromosomal sex determination in the sperm and egg cells of insect species while at Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Studies in Spermatogenesis described early examples of chromosomal XY sex-determination.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
In nineteenth century Great Britain, Thomas Henry Huxley proposed connections between the development of organisms and their evolutionary histories, critiqued previously held concepts of homology, and promoted Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Many called him Darwin's Bulldog. Huxley helped professionalize and redefine British science. He wrote about philosophy, religion, and social issues, and researched and theorized in many biological fields.
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor worked in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His early research focused on oligonucleotides, small molecules of DNA or RNA. That research enabled the development of a technique that Cantor subsequently used to describe nucleotide sequences of DNA, a process called sequencing, in humans. Cantor was the principal scientist for the Human Genome Project, for which scientists sequenced the entirety of the human genome in 2003.
"Gene Regulation for Higher Cells: A Theory" (1969), by Roy J. Britten and Eric H. Davidson
In 1969, Roy J. Britten and Eric H. Davidson published Gene Regulation for Higher Cells: A Theory, in Science. A Theory proposes a minimal model of gene regulation, in which various types of genes interact to control the differentiation of cells through differential gene expression. Britten worked at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Washington, D.C., while Davidson worked at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Their paper was an early theoretical and mechanistic description of gene regulation in higher organisms.
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
David Starr Jordan studied fish and promoted eugenics in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his work, he embraced Charles Darwin s theory of evolution and described the importance of embryology in tracing phylogenic relationships. In 1891, he became the president of Stanford University in Stanford, California. Jordan condemned war and promoted conservationist causes for the California wilderness, and he advocated for the eugenic sterilization of thousands of Americans.
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973), by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. There have been eight editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as sequels such as Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause.
Subject: Outreach, Reproduction
Whitner v. South Carolina (1997)
In the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable fetuses. This allowed grounds for prosecution of a pregnant womanÕs prenatal activity if those activities endangered or could potentially endanger the fetus within her. The case brought the issue of fetal rights versus pregnant womenÕs rights to light.
Osborne Overton Heard (1890-1983)
Osborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW), Baltimore, Maryland. Heard was born in Frederick, Maryland, on 21 November 1890. His father died while Heard and his three brothers were quite young. Heard attended night school at the Maryland Institute of Art and Design where he studied sculpting and patternmaking. While working as a patternmaker for the Detrick and Harvey Machine Company, Heard made models of tools using a variety of materials such as wood, plastic, and plaster of Paris.
Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959)
A pioneer in experimental embryology, Ross Granville Harrison made numerous discoveries that advanced biology. One of the most significant was his adaptation of the hanging drop method from bacteriology to carry out the first tissue culture. This method allowed for further studies in embryology as well as experimental improvements in oncology, virology, genetics, and a number of other fields.
George W. Bush Executive Order 13455, June 2007
On 20 January 2001, Republican George W. Bush was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, replacing Democrat William J. Clinton. During his eight years in office, Bush issued many executive orders, often altering previous policy. By signing Order 13435 on 22 June 2007, he changed how stem cell research would be performed in America.
Subject: Legal
Dickey-Wicker Amendment, 1996
The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education each year since 1996 restricting the use of federal funds for creating, destroying, or knowingly injuring human embryos. The Dickey-Wicker Amendment began as a rider (another name for an amendment) attached to House Resolution (H.R.) 2880. H.R.
"Transplantation of Living Nuclei from Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs' Eggs" (1952), by Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King
In 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King published their article, "Transplantation of Living Nuclei from Blastula Cells into Enucleated Frogs' Eggs," in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the culmination of a series of experiments conducted at the Institute for Cancer Research and Lankenau Hospital Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this paper Briggs and King examined whether nuclei of embryonic cells are differentiated, and by doing so, were the first to conduct a successful nuclear transplantation with amphibian embryos.
Endoderm
Endoderm is one of the germ layers-- aggregates of cells that organize early during embryonic life and from which all organs and tissues develop. All animals, with the exception of sponges, form either two or three germ layers through a process known as gastrulation. During gastrulation, a ball of cells transforms into a two-layered embryo made of an inner layer of endoderm and an outer layer of ectoderm. In more complex organisms, like vertebrates, these two primary germ layers interact to give rise to a third germ layer, called mesoderm.
Sex-determining Region Y in Mammals
The Sex-determining Region Y (Sry in mammals but SRY in humans) is a gene found on Y chromosomes that leads to the development of male phenotypes, such as testes. The Sry gene, located on the short branch of the Y chromosome, initiates male embryonic development in the XY sex determination system. The Sry gene follows the central dogma of molecular biology; the DNA encoding the gene is transcribed into messenger RNA, which then produces a single Sry protein.
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CO-OP Picks Up Maryland's Biggest CU
Maryland's largest credit union, the $1.6 billion State Employees Credit Union of Maryland has become the latest CU to join the CO-OP Network, according to CO-OP Financial Services, the CUSO which owns the network.
By Staff Writer | May 08, 2007 at 08:00 PM | The original version of this story was published on Credit Union Times Magazine
ONTARIO, Calif. — Maryland's largest credit union, the $1.6 billion State Employees Credit Union of Maryland has become the latest CU to join the CO-OP Network, according to CO-OP Financial Services, the CUSO which owns the network.
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Asheboro man flies planes without leaving the ground
By Larry Penkava [email protected] Twitter: @larrypenkavaCT
ASHEBORO — Imagine you're flying in a single-engine turboprop from Charlotte to Tangier Island, Va. You're sitting in the captain's seat watching a myriad of dials, buttons and switches while clouds swirl around and the Piedmont terrain passes below.
The plane is the ultramodern Carenado Daher Socota TBM 850, one of the smallest turboprops made, but highly engineered.
Tim Garris has flown more than 1,000 passengers from Charlotte to Tangier Island, Va., in this plane and he hasn't charged any of them a dime.
Although he is a licensed pilot with instrument ratings, Garris has found his passion in flying while remaining on the ground. He designs flight simulation videos for his own Youtube channel, FS MaNiA.
An Asheboro designer/builder by day, Garris spends much of his free time creating simulated flights in various aircraft, from space-age corporate jets to low-tech propeller planes. His aim is to make the videos seem as real as actual flight.
"I've been doing this since the first flight simulators came on a floppy drive," Garris said from his home office with a desk that looks suspiciously like a cockpit. "I got a copy and played with it."
Early on in flight simulation, he said, Microsoft had a team working on the programs. "They gave a platform to build on. There was great visual representation, navigation aids and aircraft from small planes to (Boeing) 747s."
When Microsoft realized their customer base was limited to a small niche community of enthusiasts, the company dropped flight simulation, Garris said. It took a handful of those passionate about flight simulation to pick up the slack.
"A lot of very smart people have built on what Microsoft started," he said. "One company develops heavy aircraft, like the 747."
Other people develop add-on systems such as weather conditions, realistic terrain and views of various airports, all of which "ups the experience."
Garris said the flight simulation "community stepped in to support the platform. Others stepped in to work on new platforms.
"You have to know a lot about computers to build a flight simulator," he said. "If you're willing to invest the time, the reward is the fruit of being able to fly any aircraft to any airport. You can buy a basic platform plus add-ons."
Garris said a flight simulation platform is "so sophisticated it takes a thick manual, pretty much the same as with a real aircraft. They model all the systems."
Regulars in the flight simulation community can post problems or helpful information concerning details in a simulated model, Garris said. His own Youtube channel receives dozens of comments from people who watch his videos.
"Being a real-world pilot puts you to an elevated status, gives you more credibility," he said. "I use what I learned in my private pilot career."
Garris said he took ground school at Guilford Technical Community College, then passed his instrument rating in 1996. "That's a big advantage," he said, "the kind of information needed for flight simulation."
With his pilot's license, Garris continued to be checked out in larger planes to carry more people. That way he could split the cost among more passengers. He once flew to the Bahamas and split the cost four ways.
Interestingly, Garris has given up real-world flying. "I always rented planes," he said. "The first was a Cessna 152 at the Asheboro airport. The last plane I flew was a Cessna 210 Centurion for over $100 an hour."
One of those real-world flights was to Tangier Island, where he took some passengers to dine on soft crab sandwiches. The trip back home got kind of dicey when ice began forming on the windshield. He recalls that trip on his flight simulation video to Tangier.
A typical video might be divided into three parts, with the first describing the selected aircraft and its capabilities. The second may include takeoff and much of the flight while the third segment culminates in the landing.
Garris acts not only as an instructor but also as a tour guide, relating interesting facts about locations the video flies over. For instance, on the flight to Tangier, he flies over Asheboro and talks about how the regional airport was once known officially as Whiskey 44, despite the town's "dry" status. It's now called KHBI.
From the video, you learn that Tangier Island is in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, is accessible only by plane, boat or "swimming," and has a population of some 700. Its economy is based on fishing and tourism.
Garris established his Youtube channel in August of 2015 and soon had 2,000 subscribers. Duties in his business kept him from developing new videos for about a year, but after he went back, his viewers grew to about 4,000.
Besides using add-on programs with his platforms, Garris adds on some of his own features. He said he took a year of photography at Randolph Community College and now "spend(s) more time establishing shots to put in a story format."
More recently, he said, he has begun learning all he can about air traffic control to add to videos. He tapes real-world ATC voices to use with his flight simulations, which makes it seem like he's communicating with the ground.
"There are different elements to add to the experience," Garris said. "A video is the culmination of all the parts coming together. It's entertainment and education, factual and realistic.
"Someone who is passionate about aviation will hang on every part of it," he said. "Either you love it or you don't. The people really tuned in are passionate.
"It's amazing how sophisticated it has become," he said. "It continues to develop with new platforms and add-on software."
While flight simulation is a hobby for Garris, the hobby that began in real airplanes when he was 24 years old has continued "at a relatively affordable price.
"I never lost the passion."
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Offset filmed himself being detained by police at a Trump rally
"What is you grabbing my wrist for? That's aggressive, bro"
By Jennifer Savin
Gabriel OlsenGetty Images
Cardi B's husband and one third of rap group Migos, Offset, live streamed himself being detained by police at a Trump rally in Beverley Hills on Saturday. The footage, which was shared on Instagram Live, shows officers approaching Offset's car and asking him to stop the engine running – a request he declined, citing the fact that officers were holding guns as the reason why.
Following that, police then reached inside the car window, unlocked the driver's side door and pulled the 'Ric Flair Drip (& Metro Boomin)' hitmaker from the vehicle. In the video, he can be heard saying, "You can't just open my door like that, it's illegal. I'm going to sue the sh*t outta y'all" and later, "What is you grabbing my f*cking wrist for? [It's] aggressive, bro!"
Although Offset was released after questioning from officers, Cardi B's cousin, Marcelo Almanzar, who was also travelling with him in the car, was arrested.
It was later reported by The LA Times, that the Beverly Hills police department released a statement saying that officers conducted the stop after receiving a report that someone had pointed a gun from a vehicle near Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Drive at around 5pm. They add that Offset's license plate matched the one given by a witness.
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The Beverly Hills PD tweeted that Almanzar was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a loaded firearm in public, and had a $35,000 bail to his name. Their statement says that Offset was not arrested and reports stating so are false.
Offset's publicist also released a public comment on the incident, saying the rapper was detained following an attack by aggressive Trump supporters, adding that he was not the aggressor and that he complied despite having guns pointed at him by officers.
The statement added: "Offset thanks his fans for their support and wishes everyone peace and safety during these trying times. He encourages everyone to get out and vote because nothing changes if nothing changes.
"Offset's current focus is encouraging younger voters to get to the polls in order to keep incidents like this from continuously happening."
Cardi B, who recently filed for divorce from Offset but has seemingly rekindled their relationship of late, also posted on social media about her experience of Trump rallies. On her Instagram Stories she shared a series of videos in which she could be seen driving through one and appeared on edge. "Nah, we gonna get jumped. I really feel like we gonna get jumped. Oh my God," she told her followers. "Trump supporters are everywhere, I'm scared, I don't like it with these big a*s trucks."
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The Progress of Olefin Metathesis: Can It Handle Every Functional Group Now?
03 March, 2015 / by SK / in Blog
In January 2015, Yves Chauvin, the French chemist who was the first to propose the reaction mechanism of olefin metathesis, passed away. For his contribution, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 with Robert Grubbs and Richard Schrock, who developed first well-defined catalysts.
As you all know, olefin metathesis (or olefin cross-metathesis) is the reaction in which the double bonds of two different olefins can be swapped to produce a new pair of olefins. The advent of this extraordinary reaction was a major game-changer in organic synthesis, and it didn't take long until the reaction became one of the essential tools of synthetic chemists.
Important modifications have been made to the original catalysts and substrate generality has improved considerably for E-selective olefin metathesis. For example, the ruthenium-based "second generation Grubbs-Hoveyda catalyst" is known as a particularly effective catalyst (shown in the figure below).
On the other hand, however, Z-selective metathesis is fundamentally more challenging and the substrate scope has remained much more limited.
In this context, a new example of Z-selective cross-metathesis using novel ruthenium catalysts was reported in the end of last year by the group of Amir Hoveyda of Boston College, who is one of the leaders in this field.
"High-value alcohols and higher-oxidation-state compounds by catalytic Z-selective cross-metathesis"
Koh, M. J.; Khan, R. K. M.; Torker, S.; Yu, M.; Mikus, M. S.; Hoveyda, A. H. Nature 2015, 517, 181. DOI:10.1038/nature14061
They were successful in obtaining olefins with high Z-selectivity for substrates containing alcohol and carboxylic acid groups, many of which had previously been either difficult or completely unviable.
So what do the catalysts look like and how were they able to solve the long-standing problem? Let us take a look.
Z-Selective Cross Metathesis
Z-Selective cross metathesis had been very difficult as mentioned, but it was finally reported by the groups of Hoveyda and Schrock in 2011.[1] This chemistry was introduced on this website before so we'll only touch it briefly this time. As shown below, the reaction effectively produced Z-olefins from enol ethers and allylic amides by employing the molybdenum alkylidene complex.
Reports of Z-selective cross-metathesis by several other groups followed it, but few of those systems were general enough to be compatible with substrates containing reactive functional groups of the likes of aldehyde and carboxylic acid. Towards solving this problem, the researchers had to reexamine the central metal atom of the catalyst.
Development of the New Ruthenium Catalysts
In general, molybdenum and tungsten catalysts are deactivated in the presence of unprotected oxygen-containing functional groups such as alcohol, aldehyde, and carboxylic acid. In contrast, ruthenium dichloride complexes are known to catalyze metathesis unaffected by these groups.
The authors first looked at the two ruthenium complexes (Ru-2 and Ru-3a), which contain anionic ligands similar to the dichloride complexes.
These complexes had been demonstrated to be effective catalysts for Z-selective homo-metathesis and ring-opening metathesis reactions.[2] Indeed, these catalysts worked for cross-metathesis of alcohol-containing substrates, and the authors ultimately found that Ru-3b, the derivative of Ru-3a, was the most active and selective.
The improved catalytic activity of Ru-3b was attributed to the suppression of catalyst decomposition thanks to the introduction of chlorine atoms. For those of you who are interested in learning more about the details, we would recommend checking out the paper that explains it with DFT energy calculation.
The newly developed catalyst was demonstrated to be effective not only for substrates containing alcohol, aldehyde, and carboxylic acid, but also for some sterically hindered substrates and diene substrates.
The authors also applied it to the stereoselective synthesis of the substructure of natural products such as neopeltolide and leucascandrolide A. They went on to complete the total synthesis of (+)-neopeltolide.[3]
In yet another application, the new catalytic system was successfully applied to the direct conversion of oleyl alcohol and oleic acid, both of which are abundant raw materials found in animal fats and vegetable oils, into high-value Z-alkene products.
The system is different from previously known systems in that: 1) It does not require protecting group manipulation, and 2) The reaction proceeds at lower temperature, which leads to higher Z-selectivity. The high stereoselectivity also helps simplify otherwise-difficult separation of olefin isomers. Please check the paper for more detailed information.
Well, what did you think? As said in the title, it may not be an exaggeration to say that olefin metathesis has now overcome nearly every functional group.
With the expanding substrate scope, the reaction will continue to contribute to the development of organic synthesis. We are saddened by the loss of a great chemist who pioneered this field, but his legacy will always be remembered.
Meek, S. J.; O'Brien, R. V.; Llaveria, J.; Schrock, R. R.; Hoveyda, A. H. Nature 2011, 471, 461. DOI:10.1038/nature09957
Khan, R. K. M.; Torker, S.; Hoveyda, A. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 10258. DOI: 10.1021/ja404208a
Yu, M.; Schrock, R. R.; Hoveyda, A. H. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 215. DOI:10.1002/anie.201409120
Hoveyda Research Group: The group at Boston College that developed the present system.
Functional group-tolerant olefin metathesis, ruthenium alkylidene catalyst, Z-selective cross metathesis
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These 'Stranger Things' Season 3 Spoilers Hint At A Much Darker Future For The Series
By Meghan DeMaria
Stranger Things' second season hit Netflix less than a year ago, but fans are still eager to know what's next for the show. While it doesn't have a release date yet, executive producer and director Shawn Levy and actor David Harbour did reveal a few clues about Stranger Things' third season in an interview with Deadline on Thursday, July 12. The series received 12 Emmy Award nominations, including a supporting actor nomination for Harbour.
Fans should be warned that according to Levy, the third season is "definitely going to yet darker still." For a show that stars a group of children, Stranger Things is already pretty dark — no child should have to undergo, say, being lost in a parallel dimension. Fortunately, Levy also told Deadline that the third season has "so much heart and humor," which will hopefully balance out the scarier and/or sadder moments ahead. After all, fans have already been introduced to Dad Steve, and it wouldn't be fair not to include more heartwarming scenes with him now.
Levy also told Deadline that Stranger Things has been shooting its third season for at least a few weeks now. They're evidently doing a great job of keeping the filming hidden from any onlookers in Georgia, considering the fact that nothing's been spoiled by savvy fans yet. (There are a few leaked set photos, but they don't reveal much, other than the fact that Harbour can totally pull off printed shirts.)
Harbour also provided a clue about the upcoming season. While the first two Stranger Things seasons paid homage to Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, as Harbour pointed out, the actor hinted that there will be new '80s inspiration for the third season. He told Deadline,
"I would go look at the great films that were released in '85, of which there were many, and just go down that list and think of the possibilities that we could be going with. I think it is a specific season to 1985, and so you'll see references to that."
Harbour didn't say which 1985 movies Stranger Things might be inspired by, but there are a lot of possibilities. If the show is taking inspiration from movies that aren't horror films or thrillers, there are plenty of movies released in '85 that might have the "heart and humor" Levy mentioned. Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, St. Elmo's Fire, and Teen Wolf were all released that year. There's also Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. And fans will remember that the first episode of season 2 was titled "Madmax," as it was when Sadie Sink's character was introduced in the show.
There's another small spoiler that fans know about Stranger Things season 3, too. Noah Schnapp revealed that the Byers' family dog, Chester, passed away. That's not the biggest spoiler, but at this point, fans will take what they can get.
Stranger Things' Season 2 finale left plenty of things unanswered. The Mind Flayer is still out there, looming over the kids. And Dr. Brenner, AKA Papa, might not be dead. Eleven is safe — and adopted — but that doesn't mean the trouble in Hawkins is over. Plus, the show could still introduce fans to some of Eleven's other "siblings," who were also victims of the experiments she went through. Fans might not have seen the last of Dart. And there are still plenty of unanswered questions about Eleven's biological mom.
There are any number of things that could happen in Stranger Things' next season, and it's reassuring to hear that there will be at least some humor amid all of the darkness. Until there's more information about the new season, fans will likely be happy to cheer on Stranger Things at the Emmy Awards.
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'Letterman,' 'Ferguson' employees to be paid
4:00 AM PST 11/15/2007 by Paul J. Gough , AP
STRIKE ZONE: LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES
NEW YORK -- Strike or not, employees of "The Late Show with David Letterman" and the "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be paid through the end of the year.
The programs' production company, Worldwide Pants Inc., notified its employees in New York and Los Angeles on Tuesday that they would be paid regardless of whether the show returned or not. It would make Worldwide Pants, which is owned by "Late Show" host David Letterman, the first known company to guarantee its staff a paycheck during the writers' strike.
The move was made to assure employees who were concerned about making ends meet, as thousands of other employees on other shows that are being idled as the strike continues.
It comes at a time when other shows, like NBC's "The Tonight Show," have told their employees to expect to be idled as the strike continues through its second week. There were rumors, since denied, that "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart had initially guaranteed a paycheck to the writers.
Unlike NBC, which owns "The Tonight Show," CBS does not own the "Late Show" or "The Late Late Show." The network pays a license fee to the production company, which it has stopped due to the strike and the fact that there are no new shows.
It doesn't mean, however, that there will be no work on "The Late Show." Decisions are being made week-to-week on whether the show will return to the air in some form.
The news about "The Late Show" was initially broken by the blog DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com.
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Babelsbergparken, tyska: Park Babelsberg, är en 114 hektar stor park i stadsdelen Babelsberg i östra delen av staden Potsdam i Brandenburg, Tyskland. Parken anlades tillsammans med Babelsbergs slott för prins Vilhelm av Preussen, den senare kejsaren Vilhelm I och påbörjades 1833 efter att kung Fredrik Vilhelm III givit sitt godkännande. Parken anlades av de kända trädgårdsarkitekterna Peter Joseph Lenné och efterföljaren Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, som omvandlade berget Babelsberg och den kuperade terrängen intill floden Havel till ett engelskt parklandskap.
I parken ägde 22 september 1862 det berömda samtal mellan kung Vilhelm I och Otto von Bismarck rum, som ledde till att Bismarck utnämndes till ministerpresident och utrikesminister i Preussen.
Parken drogs in till den tyska staten efter att huset Hohenzollern abdikerat 1918. Efter andra världskriget omvandlades delar av parken till ett utbildningscentrum för sjöfart, sport och teknik, och ett studentboende uppfördes i utkanten av parken. 1961 drogs Berlinmuren genom parkens norra del vid gränsen mot dåvarande Västberlin. I samband med Tysklands återförening påbörjades ett större rekonstruktionsprojekt. Berlinmurens anläggningar och många av byggnaderna som uppförts under DDR-tiden revs. Sedan 1990 ingår parken i Unesco-världsarvet Palats och parker i Potsdam och Berlin.
Byggnader i parken
Babelsbergs slott, Vilhelm I:s sommarresidens.
Flatowturm, utsiktstorn.
Kleines Schloss, uppförd som arvprins Fredrik Vilhelms bostad, idag restaurang.
Ångmaskinhuset
Berliner Gerichtslaube, staden Berlins medeltida domstolsbyggnad som flyttades hit 1871.
Matrosenhaus
Källor
Externa länkar
Palats och parker i Potsdam och Berlin
Babelsberg
Parker i Tyskland
Parker i engelsk stil
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In An Era of Republican Bad Faith, The Left Must Respond In Kind
By Jason Rhode | January 11, 2019 | 10:35am
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Here's good truth: bad faith is real. In a normal world, it saves time to assume your opponent is operating in good faith. But American politics is a far cry from rational.
Join me on a trip down memory lane. In the '70s, the conservative movement hacked the reigning liberal orthodoxies. The mandarins of the right understood how liberal culture worked. In particular, they identified three weak spots of liberalism, and two had to do with fear. One, liberals feared being identified with leftism. Two, liberals feared populism.
And three—most importantly—liberals based their right to rule on being reasonable and open-minded, whatever those words are supposed to mean.
The first two weak spots explained how to scare liberals. But the third spot worked best of all. It showed the conservatives how to make liberals love them, or at least tolerate them.
The Far Right learned to dress up their policies according to the polite fictions of media, academia, and think tanks. They learned to mutter "just asking questions" before proposing to measure skull shapes. They fooled liberals once, and have not stopped fooling them since. As a result, any right-wing hack without obvious marks of bodily disease can pass serious muster in Washington.
the persistence of grovr norquist in the discourse underscores that we've had decades to figure out how to cover people whose fundamental stance is to make claims in bad faith and haven't figured out how to just, like, not take what they say at face value
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) January 6, 2019
And until recently, none of the Important People had figured this out. But times are changing.
I think a big reason why @AOC is so much better at politics than so many older, more experienced Dems is that she's never known a world where Republicans aren't cartoonish villains who reliably act in bad faith. So she treats them as what they are.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 6, 2019
The ease at which Alexandria Ocasio Cortez basic answers fluster reporters and dictates the terms of the public discourse on policies should show you just how little the Democrats have tried over the past 4 decades.
— Chad Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) January 7, 2019
The user goes on to say—and AOC would agree—that Ocasio-Cortez isn't some kind of singular political genius. She's nothing more than an elected official with the ability to describe objective reality. The Right and the media and the pundits treat AOC as if she was turning air into rat poison. How debased our politics have become. You open your mouth and utter clear, factual, declarative statements in a calm voice, and all of a sudden you're a dark wizard.
What AOC and Rashida Tlaib are doing is basic. They're not blindly assuming good faith where good faith is unwarranted. That's their killer app.
See, what passes for "good faith" these days is nothing but reciprocal class courtesy among the urban professionals. Everybody under fifty understands this. Most young Americans can recognize bad faith. We see it all around us. That's why the clash between generations—between complacency and truth, between the real story and the official narrative—has been striking to watch.
Did you watch AOC's interview? Where in the seventeen hells of Henry Kissinger does Anderson Cooper get off asking if Trump is racist? Jesus, man, does the sky hold water? AOC's simple statement traumatized Cooper. You could see the light of the Hamptons waning in his eyes.
Look, we can discuss philosophic and legal terms for what "good faith" means. But let's throw out the gumbo and drill down. In essence, acting in "good faith" means this: you play a game with the understanding that everyone else is playing the contest fairly. When you argue in good faith, you assume the other party is actually interested in debate, not tricking you. However, when it is obvious that the other team is cheating, when they playing with demonstrable malice, then you are not required to play in good faith.
In fact, it is important for an ethical person to immediately call out bad faith. But this is what the Establishment refuses to do.
How gullible is the Establishment?
Quite. They will do the Right's work for them. Just so the Heritage Foundation will think well of them.
It's why Washington Post editors and reporters like Sal Rizzo and Glenn Kessler keep trying to "well, actually" Ocasio-Cortez. In comparison, they regularly let Trump get away with semantic murder. It doesn't matter that Ocasio-Cortez quoted a simplification, and that the Administration spreads racist mythology every day. The Post pretends they're the same thing. AOC and Tlaib aren't even in the same galaxy as Trump. It's not comparing apples to oranges; it's like claiming an apple is cancer. That doesn't matter to the Post. The Kessler-Rizzo style of good faith means being a handmaiden to power.
You see, the higher up you go, the more good faith you get. That's the way the Establishment works.
So very. The television networks made Trump President. Since that time, they've spent time propping up his regime, giving his fantasies airtime, and refusing to call him out on his most obvious falsehoods. Despite assurances that they are on our side, the news still treats the office of President as if it were occupied by an important person, a peer of Washington, of Lincoln. As if Trump were a Very Serious President on a Very Serious Earth. On the basis of good faith, they granted the world's most famous liar a chunk of primetime television.
Let's review the facts. We know Trump lies. Trump knows he lies. The Establishment knows he lies. But they still gave him a free pass.
That's right, true believers. The Orangeman spent half his term slamming the networks stern to bow. In response, the broadcasters handed their precious screens to a known fabulist. In service of what? A good faith that the President has never practiced, nor pretended to practice. No wonder Trump voters in the suburban fortresses around America's Cheesecake Factories worship him. He makes his haters into his servants.
It is obvious, and has been obvious for decades that the far right is, in the words of the tweet above, "cartoonishly evil." They live to practice bad faith.
So: if it is obvious that one side is not acting or speaking in good faith, why would anyone with power act as if they were? The bipartisan marriage broke up decades ago, but the press is still denying there was a divorce.
Why do the institutions of the American Establishment, particularly the media, act as if Trump was respectable, and that his party is sane? Why do they consider fantasies like The Wall and Climate Change Denial worthy of coverage? After all, the Establishment doesn't give time to the Flat Earth Society, but there's always column space for weather truthers. Isn't that funny?
Most journalists live in bone-deep terror of being called out as leftists, But if verifiable facts happen to jive with progressive ideas, then why be afraid to publish them? Why should the press worry about being called liberals? Isn't it the media's job to publish the truth?
Well: the Establishment is centrist. Centrists cling to institutions. The media (and approved opinion) are such institutions. And the American media's self-appointed job is not to speak truth, to find truth, or come near the truth. Rather, it is to be an "honest" broker between powers.
The reason climate denialists have column space in the Times is because there are very, very powerful people backing them. Now, if the Flat Earthers get picked up by the right number of billionaires, then I guarantee you the Times will discover that there's been an interesting story there all the while. That is the good faith the media practices. We will be a decent mediator between incredibly wealthy people. You can count on us, sir. It's the good faith of a Harvard divorce lawyer, not a brave reporter.
Good faith in politics only makes sense in a society where everyone agrees on human dignity. We do not live in that world. Practicing good faith in a time of bad faith debases the coinage of legitimacy. In other words, it renders democratic government a sham. It makes the citizens feel, correctly, that their representatives do not represent them, do not share their passions. Civility is useless when the civic itself is in jeopardy. If the opposite number stops being cartoonishly evil—if they stop supporting the President who believes in imaginary walls—then we can talk. Politics is not a market for miracles, and we are far from a state of grace. Let's see works first. Good faith follows.
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The Himalayan Times > Kathmandu > Melamchi project to conduct test run of water treatment plant from next month
Melamchi project to conduct test run of water treatment plant from next month
Published: June 12, 2017 3:17 am On: Kathmandu
Kathmandu, June 11
The Melamchi Water Supply Development Project is preparing to conduct test run of the Sundarijal-based treatment plant starting next month. The treatment plant's construction is nearing completion.
Deputy Executive Director at Melamchi Water Supply Development Board Ramakant Duwadi said the board had instructed contractors to conduct a test run of the treatment plant and water supply systems.
"Contractors have begun procurement of pipes to supply water from the Bagmati River to the treatment plant in Sundarijal. They have also begun construction of a small intake dam on the Bagmati River after seeking permission from the Shivapuri Nagarjuna National Park ," Duwadi told The Himalayan Times, adding that they had to seek permission as the intake lies in the buffer zone area of SNNP.
Duwadi informed that the test run of the treatment plant would be conducted after water level in the Bagmati River rises. "First a test run of the treatment plant would be conducted. Then, treated water will supplied through the bulk distribution system from July," he said.
Sundarijal-based plant has the capacity of treating 85 million litres of water per day.
Two Indian Companies VA Tech Wabag Ltd and Pratibha Industries Ltd are working to conduct test run of the water treatment plant. PIL is the contractor for Sundarijal-based plant whereas VA Tech Wabag Ltd is the contractor for expansion of the Guheshwori-based treatment plant.
Meanwhile, MWSDB said the speed of tunnel construction was yet to speed up due to weak rocks and slow excavation. Recent progress report obtained from MWSDB has shown that of total 27,584.5 metre tunnel, only 24,512.6 metre had been excavated so far.
The government had earlier provided additional support after the contractor said they were unlikely to complete tunnel excavation on time without using new technology. On demand of the contractor, the government had provided an additional USD 3 million for tunnel excavation.
With the third deadline fast approaching, MWSDB is struggling to complete its task on time by using the most effective technology. The third deadline for completion of the project is expiring on October 2017. However, given the pace of work, the project is likely to miss this deadline too.
Started in 21 December 2000, the Melamchi Water Supply Project is a project assisted by the Asian Development Bank which aims to reduce the problems of drinking water scarcity in the Valley. The Melamchi Project envisages supplying 510,000,000 litres of water per day to the Valley from the Melamchi, Yangri, and Larke rivers of Sindhupalchowk District. In phase one, the project will supply 170,000,000 litres of water per day to the Valley.
A version of this article appears in print on June 12, 2017 of The Himalayan Times.
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Mother's Day is an ideal opportunity to treat mum to something special. One of our Yarra River boat cruises is the perfect gift, and can be booked online today. You might be hosting a small group- or an extended family. Either way, there's sure to be a boat that's perfect for the occasion.
Take Dad out to celebrate and let him be a boatie for a day with our self-drive boat hire. If you'd like to spoil him with an indulgence- one of our skippered cruises might just be the ideal way to say "thanks". With options for food and drink, you can do something really different- definitely a welcome change from the standard presents of socks!
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UTILS_HOME = ../../utils
CLOSURE ?= $(UTILS_HOME)/closure.jar
BUILD_DIR = ../../build/firefox
RESTARTLESS_DIR = ../../build/firefox-restartless
PROFILE ?= $(error Specify Firefox profile in PROFILE)
BUNDLES_DIR = ../../build/bundles-cc
# Just builds a ff extension
VERSION = `head -n 1 ../../build/version/version.txt`
build: ensureoutputdir
# Copying extension files
echo "Creating extension version: $(VERSION)"
cp -R ../../LICENSE ../../LICENSE-OFL.txt ../../README-LICENSE.txt content chrome bootstrap.js chrome.manifest icon.png icon64.png $(BUILD_DIR)/
sed s/\(SHUMWAY_VERSION\)/$(VERSION)/ install.rdf > $(BUILD_DIR)/install.rdf
sed s/\(SHUMWAY_VERSION\)/$(VERSION)/ update.rdf > $(BUILD_DIR)/update.rdf
cp ../../examples/inspector/debug/pingpong.js $(BUILD_DIR)/chrome/
# Copying JavaScript content files
mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)/content/playerglobal
cp ../../build/playerglobal/playerglobal.json $(BUILD_DIR)/content/playerglobal/
cp ../../build/playerglobal/playerglobal.abcs $(BUILD_DIR)/content/playerglobal/
# Copying ABC and Relooper files
mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)/content/libs
cp ../../build/libs/builtin.abc $(BUILD_DIR)/content/libs/
cp ../../build/libs/relooper.js $(BUILD_DIR)/content/libs/
# Copying closure optimized shumway.js files
cp $(BUNDLES_DIR)/shumway*.js $(BUILD_DIR)/content/
cp ../../build/version/version.txt $(BUILD_DIR)/content/version.txt
echo "extension" >> $(BUILD_DIR)/content/version.txt
# Packaging XPI file
cd $(BUILD_DIR); zip -r shumway.xpi *
ensureoutputdir: clean
-mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)
clean:
-rm -rf build
-rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)
-rm -rf $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)
restartless:
-rm -rf $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)
mkdir -p $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)
cd $(RESTARTLESS_DIR); find ../../extension/firefox -type f -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec ln -s {} \;
mkdir -p $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/chrome
cd $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/chrome; find ../../../extension/firefox/chrome -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec ln -s {} \;
mkdir -p $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content
cd $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content; find ../../../extension/firefox/content -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec ln -s {} \;
ln -s ../../../examples/inspector/debug/pingpong.js $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/chrome/pingpong.js
ln -s ../../../src/gfx $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/gfx
ln -s ../../../build/playerglobal $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/playerglobal
ln -s ../../../build/libs $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/libs
ln -s ../../../build/bundles/shumway.gfx.js $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/shumway.gfx.js
ln -s ../../../build/bundles/shumway.player.js $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/shumway.player.js
ln -s ../../../build/version/version.txt $(RESTARTLESS_DIR)/content/version.txt
cd $(RESTARTLESS_DIR); pwd > "$(PROFILE)/extensions/[email protected]"
grep "nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache\", true" "$(PROFILE)/prefs.js" 1>/dev/null || echo "Set create 'nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache' boolean preference to 'true'."
PHONY: build clean ensureoutputdir restartless
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Five Things: Raiders v Dragons
Wed 10 Jul 2019, 09:37 AM
The Canberra Raiders will be looking to get back to winning ways when they take on the St George Illawarra Dragons on Sunday at WIN Stadium. Here are five things to look out for:
The Full 80 minutes
The Raiders will be looking for another fast start this week against the Dragons but will be hoping to maintain the pressure throughout the game.
Last week, Canberra had a strong first 30 minutes against the Parramatta Eels, scoring three early tries.
But the momentum switched after the Eels scored two quick tries in the last five minutes of the half. Parramatta ultimately went on to score another two tries in the second half to take out the win.
Time to change history
The Raiders have had a tough time in recent years when they face the Dragons, only winning one out of the last six.
Before this, however, the Green Machine had won nine in a row against the Dragons, scoring at least 20 points in eight out of the nine games.
Canberra will be looking to break the Dragons streak and hope to start their own streak on Sunday night.
Croker Milestone
All eyes will be on Jarrod Croker once again, with the co-captain still one try away from being the all-time leading try scorer for the club.
Jarrod is currently tied with long-time Raiders great Jason Croker on 120 tries, Jarrod is also currently coming second in scoring in the NRL this season with 128 points.
The Raiders centre has also impressed when it comes to facing off against the Dragons, scoring seven tries in 13 appearances.
The One Percenters
Canberra this season has become the kings of dummy half runs, posting 250 runs this season. This is 47 more runs than the second-best South Sydney Rabbitohs who sit on 203.
The Raiders have also impressed when it comes to the kicking game. Ricky Stuart's side is placed first in the NRL for both total kicks (333) and 40/20 kicks (3).
Both stats help the Raiders gain crucial metres out of the back half of the field, leading to strong attacking positions.
Post Origin Performances
Canberra currently sits fourth on the ladder and wins in the final half of the season will help the Raiders secure a top-four spot.
The Raiders will be looking to get essential wins in the next four weeks when they face the Dragons, West Tigers, Penrith Panthers and the New Zealand Warriors, all teams sitting outside the eight.
With Origin ending this week, the Green Machine will be looking to make a strong push towards the finals.
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Nilaya Productions / About Us
An independent production company headed by Patricia Boutinard Rouelle, Nilaya has been active since 2011.
Our films are marked by a desire to explore in depth the issues at the heart of our societies and history – to give original writing its place and trust in the public's intelligence. From archive-based documentaries to docu-fictions, from works of history to immersive films and investigations, Nilaya Productions primes diversity and liveliness. Realscreen Magazine rated Nilaya one of the 100 most influential producers.
Our films are broadcast on all French channels, but also internationally (Curiosity Stream, NAT GEO, YLE, DR, RTS, SVT, ZDF, SVT, RTBF, ARTV, NHK, CCTV9 …).
Our notable productions include: Gabriel Le Bomin's "The Algerian War, the Fracture"; Caroline Fourest's "Marine Le Pen"; "Das Reich, Hitler's death squads" by Michael Prazan; "Middle Classes, a Life on the Wire" by Frédéric Brunnquell; "First Man"by Frédéric Fougea and Jérome Guiot; and "France between the two wars" by Romain Icard. "Simone Veil" by Hugues Nancy was selected at the Prix Europa and received France Télévisions's highest impact score for 2018.
We are currently producing documentaries for Arte and France Télévisions on particularly complex subjects, often ones in echo with the news: "We, Muslims in France" by Romain Icard; "Globesity" by Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade; "MBS, the Prince" by Antoine Vitkine; and Laurent Follea's "Frogies, What Will We Become?". We also explore "heritage" topics, mixing history and biographical portraits, such as "In the Shadow of Hitchcock" by Laurent Herbiet. Finally, we continue our daring exploration of ancient history with a 2×52' series on the French Revolution by Hugues Nancy and Jacques Malaterre for the prime time on France 2. After the sucess of "France between the two wars", we are developping the next episodes of our series on France during the 20th century.
For the past two years, we have been turning towards fiction for television and cinema. In 2018, we produced Amos Gitaï's film, "West of the Jourdain River," which was for the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight. And in 2019, we are developing fiction for television, including a TV movie for the series "Murder in…" for France 3.
Patricia Boutinard Rouelle, producer, spent 16 years as head of documentaries at France Televisions.
Patricia Boutinard Rouelle spent the previous 16 years in charge of the different documentary units at France Televisions Group. During that time, she initiated a great number of documentary slots still on the air and developed a policy of prime-time events on France2 and France3 such as the celebrated blue-chip series on prime-time Apocalypse, sold internationally, the very successful prime time programs Rendez vous en terre inconnue acclaimed as the French favourite show and the weekly documentary slot Infrarouge.
She coproduced many series with BBC such as Walking with Dinosaurs and one- shots like D-Day. She initiated the renowned international trilogy on prehistory: L'Odyssée de l'Espèce, Homo Sapiens and The Rise of Man, on France3.
In April 2011, she created her new production company, Nilaya Productions.
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Meet Kayla Santosuosso, Justin Brannan's New Deputy Chief Of Staff
BY: Zainab Iqbal
Kayla Santosuosso does not eat pizza with a fork. Want a slice to eat while walking? Go to Elegante. Want to sit and eat some pizza? Find a table at Lombardo's. Who was once a little girl sitting in her father's pizza restaurant in Ohio, is now an organizer and activist fighting for change in Bay Ridge. She's also Council Member Justin Brannan's new deputy chief of staff.
Santosuosso (pronounced San-toh-soo-WOH-so) grew up in a small town in Ohio called Medina. During her childhood, it was mainly a farm town but has now converted into the suburbs. Santosuosso described it as a "mostly white, maybe socio-economically diverse, but not racially diverse at all, town in Northeastern, Ohio."
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So I've been trying to keep my development skills somewhat sharp by working on coding up certain data structures in C#. Course I'd rather do this with F# or even some more interesting FP language (Elm anyone?) but I do have a need to be able to show this code to student developers and the students I get know C#.
1.) I found it hard to find an abstract discussion of these CRDT data structures. This article on Wikipedia is fine but there's some math notation there that I find a bit tough to read. I suppose I need to do a bit more digging.
2.) It's a bit of an impedance mismatch to try to build a read-only data structure in an imperative language. OO especially doesn't really seem to fit the idea of returning new data (as opposed to mutating in place) as well as it might. Still we soldier on as best we can.
Without any further ado here's my code.
I would greatly appreciate any comments that folks with a deeper knowledge of CRDT data structures may care to share.
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The other day we got wifi set up at my current location and it was just in time for an interview with an online English company called DaDa ABC.
All you need to travel the world these days (besides a passport) is online employment and there's always work in language teaching, especially if you're a native English speaker. That's exactly what I'll be covering today: the best online teaching opportunities!
Over the past few months I've been looking into and applying at various online English teaching companies to get an idea of what's worth it and what's not and see if I can't garner a decent income from part-time teaching that will give me time and money to travel and do other things I love–things like writing, sports, music, and art.
In total, I will be covering nine different companies on a variety of platforms, from online to mobile, with everything from self-managed to fixed-schedule work. I will give my evaluation of each company, along with a brief overview of the application process and time investment.
Rates: You should be able to make at least $15 per hour.
Schedule: Their peak hours are from 6-9pm (Beijing time), with additional hours on the weekend.
Pro: They offer fairly good pay and good hours (although DaDaABC has similar hours and better pay). A big plus though: you don't strictly have to be a native English speaker and it's especially great for Filipino teachers.
Con: 51Talk is probably the largest English teaching company in China and as such, they receive a lot of applicants–especially during the summer holidays. For this reason, recruiters are a little tougher on their candidates and even if you're a good teacher, you won't get the job without a bachelor's degree.
Conclusion: Though I ended up pursuing other opportunities, 51Talk still strikes me as a solid option for an online teaching job and friends who work for the company seem quite positive about it.
Apply: If you live in the Philippines, click here.
Pros: Everything sounds great when you begin the application process, but as soon as you realize how little you're going to get paid none of it is worth it anymore.
Cons: you are expected to create your own material and essentially manage your own classes with access to a few poorly organized folders of mostly unhelpful teaching resources. For the amount of work you would have to do to manage, prepare, and teach classes, the pay Antoree offers is way too low.
Conclusion: Unless you're really desperate, don't bother!
Pros: Skype lessons can be taught from anywhere; similarly to Antoree, Best Teacher sounds like a great platform for online English teachers; however, as soon as they tell you the rates you'll wish you hadn't wasted all that time applying.
Con: In order to apply, you provide some basic information and take a test. The test is quite tricky to pass because it's so riddled with errors that it's nearly impossible to figure out which answer they intended to be correct. This, in itself, should be a sure sign that this is not the best company for teachers.
Conclusion: Don't waste your time!
DaDa ABC – Worth it!
Schedule: Class hours are 18:00-21:10 every day plus 10:04-12:10 and 14:00-16:06 on Saturday and Sunday; to get a contract you must commit to at least 2 fixed hours for two days a week (4 hours total) and you are asked to keep a regular schedule.
Pros: DaDaACB offers competitive rates and an easy-to-use platform with decent materials; once you set your fixed hours you will still get paid at least half your hourly rate even if you don't have any scheduled classes. You can also book extra hours but during those times you'll only be paid for actual classes and not for standby time.
Apply: To get more information or apply right away, click here.
Rates: regular 45-minutes classes have a fixed rate of $6, with an additional dollar or two per positive rating from each student. Classes can have between one and six students. However, many don't rate the lesson. I was told I could expect up to $18-23 per hour, but because only one or two students attended per class and less than half of them rated the lesson, I ended up averaging only $6-7.
Schedule: You can select any hours you are available to teach on a weekly or even daily basis; you're typically guaranteed to get classes scheduled during peak hours in the morning, evening, and on weekends (Beijing time).
Pros: You can easily fill up your schedule if you're willing to work peak hours. You can set your schedule day by day and you don't have to commit to any fixed hours.
Cons: Unfortunately, the pay is frustratingly low. It also takes a bit of time to get set up on the platform. For starters, you have to schedule a 2-hour training session that is unpaid. Additionally, this is not a great option for travelers as you are required to be hard-lined and wear a headset and dress shirt in front of a clean white background for every class. Finally, their platform is not great and there is always an audio lag which slows down the class.
Conclusion: Perhaps, if you were willing to stick it out with iTutor and put in the hours of low-paying classes and unpaid training, you might eventually qualify for higher-paying classes. After a month or two of teaching here and there, however, I decided it was not worth my time anymore. Did I mention that if you earn less than $500 a month they deduct a $35 banking fee from your payment? That's basically five hours of work!
The Online Teacher – Worth it!
Rates: They will work with you; for example, if you're willing to work for $15-25 per hour, they will only offer contracts with hourly rates in that range.
Schedule: You will set your hours and they will commit to filling your schedule over time.
Cons: You may need to be patient. You will also be charged a one-time fee of $25 per offer, which you will be expected to pay upon successfully receiving an offer. In my case, I got my first offer but I ended up not getting the job and I still had to pay this fee. However, since I didn't get the first job I was not charged for my second offer.
Conclusion: The Online Teacher is a service to help teachers get a full schedule and stable income from online English teaching. Once you set up a profile, they will connect you will companies that are looking for teachers. All you have to do is select the hours you would like to work and wait for offers from companies interested in you as a teacher. You will have to be patient though. It took nearly two months for me to get my second offer, but it was worth it!
Apply: Send me a message and I will refer you!
Pros: Tandem is an app, so all you need to teach is your smartphone. If you're already into language exchange, this may be a good opportunity to earn a little here and there.
Cons: Most people join Tandem for free language exchange and not many are willing to pay for classes, so you're not likely to get too many classes.
Conclusion: I became a tutor on Tandem, set some available times, and chose to give a few free demo classes. However, none of the potential students who booked trial classes ended up enrolling in lessons. Again, most of them were using the platform for free language exchange and simply took advantage of the free trial option. For now, I have stopped using Tandem as I already have a schedule to manage with a few other companies that are more worthwhile.
Apply: download the app, sign up, and apply to be a tutor.
Pros: It's very easy to get set up on Vebling. You can set your own rates and schedule, create your own lessons, manage your own students, and be your own boss.Cons: 15% cut; filling up your schedule is tough; many prospective students and messages and some book free trials, but a much smaller percentage invest in purchasing regular classes. For example, I currently have 17 students but only one has purchased regular classes. At least five booked a trial class but never showed up.
Cons: 15% cut; filling up your schedule is tough; many prospective students and messages and some book free trials, but a much smaller percentage invest in purchasing regular classes. For example, I currently have 17 students but only one has purchased regular classes. At least five booked a trial class but never showed up.Conclusion: You will get a lot of messages, including spam and invitations from recruiters for other teaching companies. In fact, I got invited to The Online Teacher (see below) through Verbling. If nothing else, Verbling is a great place to set up your teaching profile and introduce yourself to the language-learning world. Of all the platforms I have tried, it is the easiest and most straightforward to set up and use.
Conclusion: You will get a lot of messages, including spam and invitations from recruiters for other teaching companies. In fact, I got invited to The Online Teacher (see below) through Verbling. If nothing else, Verbling is a great place to set up your teaching profile and introduce yourself to the language-learning world. Of all the platforms I have tried, it is the easiest and most straightforward to set up and use. Additionally, you can market yourself by creating and selling packages or five or ten lessons, you can post articles on their blog, and there are some other ways to attract students to book lessons with you.
Pros: You can teach the 15 or 25-minute classes from anywhere by sending audio and text messages back and forth. All you need is a smartphone with wifi or mobile data. Furthermore, when you become a Yoli teacher you are invited into a wonderful community of teachers, travelers, and all sorts of interesting people who will become your support group!
Cons: You won't typically get more than a few classes a day so don't count on Yoli for a full or even part-time income. You'll also have to grab classes on the spot before someone else gets them.
Conclusion: Although you have to go through quite a process to apply at Yoli, I would actually consider that a pro. They do a great job preparing you to teach and if you're interested in improving your overall skills as a language teacher you will be sure to learn a thing or two from their method. Moreover, the recruiters and support staff are friendly and helpful.
Apply: Sign up here and give them my name–Florence Alcasas.
Requirements to teach differ from company to company, but if you are good at teaching and you have at least some experience of note, and you're a native speaker you stand a good chance. It helps if you have a college degree; in some cases a Bachelor's degree but often an Associate's will do.
You don't necessarily need to have a TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) certificate; in fact, some of the companies listed below will help you get one once you start working for them. On the other hand, if you're not a native speaker, you can get still get great offers with a degree in teaching and a TESOL certificate.
On a final note, you don't only have to teach English! On some platforms, such as Verbling and Tandem, you can teach any language and on Yolichat you can also teach Mandarin.
Go ahead and send me a message if you want more information on any of these teaching opportunities and I will gladly help you out.
Hi, Chris! From what I gather, iTalki is similar to Verbling but an older platform. It also doesn't have a built in classroom: it simply helps you connect with students but you would arrange classes yourself on another platform such as Skype. Some teachers like iTalki but I prefer Verbling because you can manage everything in one place (schedule, classroom, materials, progress reports) and they do a lot of marketing to get new students.
Hi Flo, thanks for the info. I've heard of Verbling…I've check it out. Are you aware of any conditions with iTalki and/or Verbling whereby you can only use one of them exclusively?
I don't use iTalki so I can't say for sure but there's no exclusivity with Verbling that I know of. There is a condition that you can't take students you've connected with on the platform and start having private classes with them.
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Rudolf Steiner called his philosophy "Anthroposophy".
1. The exact the scientific method of research into the supersensible world founded by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925).
2. The results of this research. These are also known as "Spiritual Science" and are the necessary complement to Natural Science. They are the science of the supersensible constitution of man, of the spiritual beings in the nature and the cosmos, and they are also the extension of historical and other sciences, e.g., a scientific answer to the question: who was and is the Christ?
3. The application of the results gained through spiritual science in the practical life of the individual or of the community, for example, in education, medicine, curative education, pharmacy, agriculture, sociology, as well as the diverse branches of the arts.
Otto Fränkel-Lundbourg. What is Anthroposophy? Trans: Joseph Wetzl. St. George Publications: Spring Valley NY, 1979. Page 9.
Anthroposophy... cannot find its way through the world by ordinary agitation or propaganda, no matter how well meant. Agitation kills true Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy must come forward because the Spirit impels it to come forward. It must show forth its life because life cannot but reveal itself in existence. But it must never force its existence upon people. Waiting always for those to come who want it, it must be far removed from all constraint even the constraint of persuasion.
Rudolf Steiner. The Life, Nature and Cultivation of Anthroposophy. Rudolf Steiner Press: London, 1963. Page 17.
Above all one must know what the true standard and content of Anthroposophy should be. It does not consist of a sum of opinions which must be entertained by 'anthroposophists'. It ought never to be said amongst anthroposophists, 'We believe this', 'We reject that'. Such agreement may arise naturally as the result of out anthroposophical study, but it can never be put forward as an anthroposophical 'programme'. The right attitude can only be: 'Anthroposophy is there. It has been acquired by persistent effort. I am here to represent it, so that what has thus been acquired may be made known in the world.' It is still much too little felt in anthroposophical circles what a difference-indeed as between day and night exists between these two standards.
Rudolf Steiner. The Life, Nature and Cultivation of Anthroposophy. Rudolf Steiner Press: London, 1963. Page 52.
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Carol Channing, the wide-eyed, raspy-voiced Broadway star who made an indelible impression as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" and as Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," died the morning of Jan. 15 at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 97.
While studying drama and dance at Bennington College in Vermont, in 1941 she went to New York and auditioned for a role in Marc Blitzstein's musical play "No For an Answer." She got the role, and although the show closed after only three performances, her performance was praised, and she decided to pursue a Broadway career. She was cast as an understudy for Eve Arden in Cole Porter's "Let's Face It" and found work in nightclubs and at Catskills resorts, but returned home at her father's insistence in 1946. Convincing him to give her one more chance, she came to Los Angeles where she auditioned for Gower and Marge Champion, who cast her in their revue, "Lend an Ear." A success in Los Angeles, the show also played for a year on Broadway and led to her being cast in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in 1949.
Playing Lorelei Lee, the innocent flapper and gold digger, made her an immediate star. Time magazine wrote: "Perhaps once in a decade a nova explodes above the Great White Way with enough brilliance to re-illumine the whole gaudy legend of show business." The show ran for two years on Broadway, followed by a yearlong national tour; the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" became her signature song. She went on to star in "Wonderful Town," "Pygmalion" and "Show Girl" on Broadway, toured the country in her own cabaret act and performed in nightclubs with George Burns when Burns' wife and performing partner, Gracie Allen, was ill.
The role of Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" brought her even bigger fame. A massive hit, it won 10 Tony Awards (including best actress for Channing), and ran for seven years. Channing left after the first year, but returned to the role on Broadway in 1977, 1981 and 1994. She also appeared as "Lorelei" (reprising her role from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") in 1973; "Sugar Babies" in 1980; "Jerry's Girls" in 1984; and with Mary Martin in "Legends!" in 1986.
Channing's brassy, exaggerated persona didn't make an easy transition to film and TV. She received an Oscar nomination for supporting actress in 1967's "Thoroughly Modern Millie," but "The Carol Channing Show," a sitcom produced by Desilu productions in 1966, was never picked up. She guest-starred on many shows, including "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," Flip Wilson's show "Flip," "The Muppet Show," "Sesame Street" and "The Love Boat." She also played the White Queen in Irwin Allen's made for TV production of "Alice in Wonderland." A lifelong Democrat, her name appeared on Richard Nixon's "enemies list," which she called the highest honor of her career.
Channing was married four times: to Theodore Naidish, Alex Carson, Charles Lowe and Harry Kullijian. She had one son, Channing Lowe, an editorial cartoonist, who survives her.
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Climate change is, at its core, an energy problem, a problem of how we produce and use energy. The states have long recognised this and have led the clean energy revolution. The federal government has never set a comprehensive, coherent national energy policy. Yes, over the years, Congress has acted variously to support nuclear power and some renewable sectors, the exploitation of domestic fossil-fuel resources, and the opening up of the electric grid to independent power producers; but at the national level there has been no real attempt at comprehensive reform to drive energy production and use toward the lowest cost and least environmentally harmful resources.
States have developed and implemented programmes for financing renewable technologies, until those technologies are able to compete on fair terms in the market. They have created new markets to provide not only electricity, but also the unique services – flexibility and balancing – that electricity production needs, because kilowatt-hours cannot yet be easily or economically stored. They have seen how technological change has made small-scale, distributed clean energy a reality, and made it possible for consumers to manage their demand in ways that benefit the system and save money.
And they have implemented programmes that put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and create revenue streams for direct investment in clean energy measures, such as end-use efficiency and renewables, to accelerate emissions reduction and drive down the costs of compliance. The cumulative national carbon effects of state actions are already projected to achieve nearly all of what the CPP would require by 2030.
Frederick Weston directs the Regulatory Assistance Project's China Program. He joined RAP in 1999 after eleven years as an economist and hearing officer with the Vermont Public Service Board, the state's utility regulator.
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UConn: Offensive line coach Frank Giufre is being promoted to offensive coordinator, per multiple reports.
Good for Frank! I've known the family for a very long time and Frank has tremendous coaching roots.
Not an enviable position to be in though. The Boneyard base is in turmoil and most hate the internal promotion of someone who has, according to the board experts, "never called a play." I guess someone has to take the UCONN OC job but there have to be about 497,318 better coaching jobs in college football.
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As a global customer engagement agency, The Marketing Store creates cutting-edge brand experiences that captivate, promote discussion, and spark action. Areas of expertise include loyalty & CRM, contests, games & sweeps, retail experience, brand identity & packaging, partnerships, and product. The Marketing Store specializes in creating and sustaining high-value customer relationships for clients such as McDonald's and T-Mobile. They are headquartered in downtown Chicago with 13 locations across the globe and are privately held as part of the HAVI Group.
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Casual Discussion Science Forum @scivillage › Culture › Fitness & Mental Health
Scans Show Female Brains Remain Youthful As Male Brains Wind Down
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-wind-down
INTRO: Women tend to have more youthful brains than their male counterparts — at least when it comes to metabolism. While age reduces the metabolism of all brains, women retain a higher rate throughout the lifespan, researchers reported Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Females had a younger brain age relative to males," says Dr. Manu Goyal, an assistant professor of radiology and neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. And that may mean women are better equipped to learn and be creative in later life, he says.
The finding is "great news for many women," says Roberta Diaz Brinton, who wasn't connected with the study and directs the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. But she cautions that even though women's brain metabolism is higher overall, some women's brains experience a dramatic metabolic decline around menopause, leaving them vulnerable to Alzheimer's.
[...] She thinks women's higher brain metabolism protects them from Alzheimer's when they are young. But menopause, she says, causes an "energy transition in the brain," one that affects the brain metabolism of some women far more than others. Brinton's research suggests that the women most likely to experience a dramatic drop are those who carry a gene variant called APOE4, which increases a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's, or those who have risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. "It's those women who will begin to develop the pathology of Alzheimer's disease earlier," she says....
MORE (details): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...-wind-down
Good. With their longer life expectancy, I would hope that their brains are better equipped to function longer.
Why the brains of teenagers excel at taking risks C C 0 259 Jun 16, 2016 06:09 AM
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Sister Peggy Bare passed into life eternal on Friday March 29th. Please remember her companion, brother Maynard (Sonny), and all her family.
Arrangements are a viewing at Foard's funeral home in Rising Sun MD on Tuesday April 2 at 7 PM, with the funeral service on Wednesday April 3 at 10 AM, also at Foard's. The funeral home is located at 111 S. Queen Street, Rising Sun, MD, 21911.
Read the obituary & sign the guestbook HERE.
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4. One of the highlights or lowlights of practice was seeing fullback Tyler Clutts run in for a score against the first team defense to finish an easy drive in 11-on-11 drills. Now this was a first team offense that was without quarterback Tony Romo, who was on a rest day, receiver Dez Bryant, who is out with a hamstring, and the injured Randle. Coach Jason Garrett began a cursing tirade: "You blanking kidding me." Defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli also had choice words for the unit as did linebacker Sean Lee.
5. The defense did a lot better the next time around, holding the offense to a field goal. The increased intensity level on defense resulted in a brief skirmish after Clutts was stopped on a run. Defensive tackle Tyrone Crawford pushed Clutts. Offensvie tackle Tyron Smith quickly jumped in, pushing with Crawford. Defensive end Greg Hardy and center Travis Frederick were among the host of offensive and defensive players getting in on the action.
6. Rookie cornerback Byron Jones had a rough day. He was beaten by receiver Terrance Williams three times in the 1-on-1 drill. Jones also drew a flag for interference on a deep route to Williams during team drills.
7. Defensive tackle Tyrone Crawford is having a solid camp and holding his own against Pro Bowl guard Zack Martin. Crawford beat Martin in a 1-on-1 pass rush drill and then came back and beat Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick. The Cowboys expect big things from Crawford this year and he is showing why against two talented offensive linemen.
8. The pass rush compete drill in front of the team was won by the offense. Tackle Darrion Weems handled rookie defensive end Randy Gregory. Rookie guard La'el Collins won against rookie defensive end Ryan Russell. Defensive tackle Davin Coleman got a win for the defense against guard Mackenzy Bernadeau. The good news is that Weems, who is competing for the swing tackle spot, is starting to look better and better. He has worked with the starters for much of the last week in place of the injured Doug Free and will start at right tackle in the preseason opener against the San Diego Chargers.
9. Emerging receiver Cole Beasley is getting more and more put on his plate. Not only is he in the mix to be the primary punt returner as well as third receiver but he is now getting looks as the primary kickoff returner.
10. Rookie center Shane McDermott and third quarterback Dustin Vaughan had snap problems Monday that could pose a problem on Thursday. Both stand to get a lot of playing time in the preseason opener against the Chargers.
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San Diego County Bar Association leader Janice Mulligan was recently appointed chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Medical Professional Liability. She will assume her position as chair at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Aug. 4-9. It is a one-year appointment, subject to reappointment for a possible total of three years.
The ABA's 15-member Standing Committee on Medical Professional Liability provides testimony to Congress and assists in the formulation of policy regarding medical professional liability at the national level. The committee opposes caps on pain and suffering awards and is in favor of trial by jury for health-related cases. Mulligan has served as a member of the committee since 1999.
"ABA policy is very much in favor of consumers," Mulligan said. "It is a privilege to be able to advocate these positions at the national level."
Mulligan, a partner in the law firm of Mulligan & Banham in San Diego, represents consumers in catastrophic cases arising out of medical negligence, pharmaceutical litigation, personal injury and elder abuse actions. She is an active member of the San Diego County Bar Association, having served on the bar board of directors between 1987-90, and chaired the bar's Lawyer Referral and Information Service community service effort between 1985-88. Mulligan currently serves on the Task Force on Judicial Appointments, a position she has held since 2001.
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I Can Do That: ABS-CBN's Latest Foreign Franchised Show
March 10, 2017 ralphierceABS-CBN, ABS-CBN franchised shows, ABS-CBN new programs, ABS-CBN new shows, ABS-CBN PR, ABS-CBN upcoming programs, ABS-CBN upcoming shows, Alex Gonzaga, Arci Munoz, Armoza Formats, Cristine Reyes, Daniel Matsunaga, Gab Valenciano, I Can Do That, I Can Do That ABS-CBN, I Can Do That debut, I Can Do That debut episode, I Can Do That debut week, I Can Do That first episode, I Can Do That first week, I Can Do That franchise, I Can Do That maiden episode, I Can Do That maiden week, I Can Do That opening episode, I Can Do That opening week, I Can Do That Philippines, I Can Do That pilot, I Can Do That pilot episode, I Can Do That pilot week, I Can Do That premiere, I Can Do That premiere episode, I Can Do That premiere week, I CANdidates, Israel, JC Santos, Maalaala Mo Kaya, Maalaala Mo Kaya ABS-CBN, MMK, MMK ABS-CBN, Pokwang, Rated k, Rated K ABS-CBN, Robi Domingo, Sue Ramirez, United States, Wacky Kiray 2 Comments
Franchised shows and ABS-CBN continue to be inseparable.
This weekend will be no exception, as the Kapamilya network premieres its latest acquisition. Enter 'I Can Do That', ABS-CBN's newest talent reality show where celebrities perform the riskiest and most imaginative of acts in order to entertain the audience.
'I Can Do That' originated in Israel under the watchful eyes of Armoza Formats. Twenty countries, including the United States, have put their own spin on the franchise.
The Philippine franchise of 'I Can Do That' will be hosted by Robi Domingo and Alex Gonzaga. The show will be headlined by eight actors known as the I CANdidates: Cristine Reyes, Arci Muñoz, Pokwang, Sue Ramirez, JC Santos, Gab Valenciano, Wacky Kiray and Daniel Matsunaga.
Via ABS-CBN PR, here is how 'I Can Do That' is played:
Every week, the I CANdidates will perform extraordinary acts in pairs. The fun begins when different groups of professional performers demonstrate a variety of acts that I CANdidates have never done before.
If the I CANdidates think they can do a certain act, they will make their way down the stairs towards the performers. The first to reach the fourth and last step will be locked in to perform the act and will get to choose the I CANdidate who he or she believes will help him or her give a winning performance.
Given only one week to practice, the I CANdidates should be able to perform their assigned act and entertain the audience.
The weekly winner will be determined based on the combined scores culled from the scores given individually by the iCANdidates and the extra points granted to the winner of the audience vote.
With 'I Can Do That' bordering towards improvisation and danger, expect lots of pain and exhaustion from the I CANdidates and the professional performers. This show is definitely not for the weak at heart.
Still, despite the death-defying acts, expect no shortage of entertainment and laughter among the eight I CANdidates. After all, 'I Can Do That' is about captivating the audience with every move they make.
'I Can Do That' airs Saturdays after 'MMK' and Sundays after 'Rated K' on ABS-CBN.
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Till I Met You Underachieves As It Enters Finale
January 16, 2017 ralphierceABS-CBN Primetime Bida, Dolce Amore, Dolce Amore ABS-CBN, Dolce Amore national ratings, Dolce Amore ratings, GMA, GMA Network, GMA Telebabad, JaDine, James Reid, JC Santos, Kantar national ratings, Kantar Ratings, KathNiel, LizQuen, Magpahanggang Wakas, Magpahanggang Wakas ABS-CBN, Meant to Be, Meant to Be GMA, Meant to Be national ratings, Meant to Be ratings, My Husband's Lover, My Husband's Lover GMA, Nadine Lustre, On the Wings of Love, On the Wings of Love ABS-CBN, On the Wings of Love national ratings, On the Wings of Love ratings, Pangako Sa 'Yo, Pangako Sa 'Yo 2015, Pangako Sa 'Yo ABS-CBN, Pangako Sa 'Yo national ratings, Pangako Sa 'Yo ratings, Primetime Bida, Someone to Watch Over Me, Someone to Watch Over Me GMA, Someone to Watch Over Me national ratings, Someone to Watch Over Me ratings, Till I Met You, Till I Met You ABS-CBN, Till I Met You closing episode, Till I Met You closing week, Till I Met You conclusion, Till I Met You final episode, Till I Met You final week, Till I Met You finale, Till I Met You last episode, Till I Met You last week, Till I Met You national ratings, Till I Met You ratings Leave a comment
The tumultuous run of 'Till I Met You' is about to end.
The second teleserye to star James Reid (as Basti) and Nadine Lustre (as Iris), 'Till I Met You' marked a change of direction for the love team. While their previous series 'On the Wings of Love' was presented as more of a light-hearted drama, 'Till I Met You' incorporated more serious themes such as LGBT relationships, as evidenced by the addition of JC Santos (as Ali).
'Till I Met You' first premiered on August 29, 2016. At first, it was placed in the second slot of Primetime Bida, as ABS-CBN hoped that the series can maintain the standard of excellence that KathNiel ('Pangako sa 'Yo') and LizQuen ('Dolce Amore') instilled earlier that year.
Unfortunately for JaDine, it was not to be. 'Till I Met You' only mustered around 26% average ratings in its first two weeks (in contrast, 'Pangako sa 'Yo' and 'Dolce Amore' scored around 30% or more in each episode), forcing ABS-CBN to demote the drama to the third slot in favor of 'Magpahanggang Wakas'.
Despite JaDine's familiarity with the third slot, 'Till I Met You' found it hard to win back viewers, at least locally. Unlike 'On the Wings of Love' which scored better than 25% during its run, 'Till I Met You' only managed 13% on average.
To make matters worse, 'Till I Met You' failed to dominate its timeslot, and even lost in the ratings battle at times to rival GMA series 'Someone to Watch Over Me' and 'Meant to Be'. The series' seemingly familiar plot (remember 'My Husband's Lover'?) may have turned off some more knowledgeable viewers.
Overall, even with the total count of 105 episodes by Friday's finale, 'Till I Met You' is considered a 'bust' by JaDine's standards. There may have been some moments worth talking about (e.g. Basti and Iris' car scene), but other than that, 'Till I Met You' essentially underachieved under the bright lights of primetime.
Whether or not JaDine can bounce back with their next TV project remains to be seen. But for the viewers who have enjoyed watching 'Till I Met You' despite its underachieving status, the last week of the series should be worth the price of admission.
JaDine Returns with Till I Met You
August 26, 2016 ralphierceABS-CBN, ABS-CBN Primetime Bida, Andoy Ranay, Ang Probinsyano, Ang Probinsyano ABS-CBN, Angel Aquino, Antonette Jadaone, Carmina Villaroel, Descendants of the Sun, Descendants of the Sun Asianovela, Descendants of the Sun GMA, Descendants of the Sun Koreanovela, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano ABS-CBN, GMA, GMA Network, Greece, JaDine, James Reid, Jay Manalo, JC Santos, Kim Molina, Nadine Lustre, Noel Trinidad, On the Wings of Love, On the Wings of Love ABS-CBN, Pokwang, Primetime Bida, Richard Yap, Robert Seña, Till I Met You, Till I Met You ABS-CBN, Till I Met You debut episode, Till I Met You debut week, Till I Met You first episode, Till I Met You first week, Till I Met You hype, Till I Met You maiden episode, Till I Met You maiden week, Till I Met You opening episode, Till I Met You opening week, Till I Met You pilot episode, Till I Met You pilot week, Till I Met You popularity, Till I Met You premiere, Till I Met You premiere episode, Till I Met You premiere week, Zoren Legaspi 22 Comments
JaDine is back on the small screen.
Seven months after the conclusion of the love team's breakout TV hit 'On the Wings of Love', James Reid and Nadine Lustre return for a greater dose of 'kilig', but at the same time tackle more serious storylines. Their newest project, 'Till I Met You', will showcase a more mature JaDine, while it introduces a new star.
'Till I Met You' will focus on the lives of three people, each with a story to tell. Iris (Nadine) and Basti (James) are a couple and are set to marry, but things soon turn when Iris' best friend Ali, played by JC Santos, is revealed to have a secret relationship with Basti.
Like more recent ABS-CBN dramas featuring their love teams, 'Till I Met You' will also highlight a particular tourist attraction. The early portion of the series was shot in Greece, a country that features a mild Mediterranean climate and a vast tradition of civilization and commerce.
Joining JaDine and JC on 'Till I Met You' are Carmina Villaroel, Zoren Legaspi, Pokwang, Angel Aquino, Kim Molina, Noel Trinidad and Robert Seña, with Richard Yap and Jay Manalo playing special roles. The series will be directed by Antonette Jadaone and Andoy Ranay, both of whom have been the directors of JaDine's projects in the past.
The hype for 'Till I Met You' has been tremendous leading up to its premiere. News regarding the upcoming series became a constant trending topic on social media, and as such, fans of JaDine cannot stop talking about 'Till I Met You"s hit potential.
This should cause a concern for GMA, whose continuous failures to concoct their own popular love teams have been well documented. The expected popularity of 'Till I Met You' could keep GMA out of it, especially now that they are airing a Koreanovela (in this case 'Descendants of the Sun') as a last resort.
It will be interesting to see how the new and improved JaDine will fare the second time around. But as far as viewers are concerned, there will be no surprises, as they are poised to once again generate high ratings for ABS-CBN based on past reputation.
'Till I Met You' premieres this Monday, and airs weeknights after 'Ang Probinsyano' on ABS-CBN's Primetime Bida.
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And it was free this time!
The best way to let someone know you have quality products is give them one.
All the plans on this site are of equal quality.
This design is intended for experienced box builders only.
...You're probably wondering what the magic angles are, and all the dimensions etc. Okay, here they are: 8", 4", and 2". These are the three magic numbers needed to layout this design, regardless of the optional size you choose to make it. Wait a minute, optional size? Yes, you have the option of making the length any size between 24" and 36" ! The formula that determines the layout will automatically self adjust for any of the optional lengths you might choose for your horn.
Cut two panels 36" wide by whatever depth you want between 24" and 36". Lay one flat on your bench. The illustrations are a top view of the panel laying on your bench. Take your tape measure and find the centers as shown. Draw these lines on your panel.
From the bottom center measure 4" in each direction and make a mark as illustrated in blue. From the top right and left edges measure 8" and make a mark as shown. (only one side is marked in the illustration to keep it from getting cluttered.) Remember whatever you do on one half you must do to the other half. This is a mirrored design.
Draw an X on the panel by connecting your marks as illustrated by the green lines. As you can see, you now have the lines to lay out 10 panels leaving only 4 to go!
Starting at the top, draw a vertical line on each side of the panel 8" from the edge as illustrated in red.
Now draw two lines connecting the three points illustrated by the circles. You now have the lines for two more panels, only two left now!
Notice the intersection circled in orange. This point where two panels join should land on the original black X you drew when finding the centers. Following this point, like a road map, head North West on the black line and turn North (up) on the red line then back to the starting point on the green line. This triangle illustrates where to locate the stiffening strut on the panel, and shows the correct width to make it.
Measuring 2" from the lower corner plot and intersection as shown. This point determines the throat of the horn. Since you're using material that is 3/4" of an inch thick, the throat opening will be 1.25 x 1.25 inches when measured from the inside after the panels are in place. NOTE: Enlarging this opening to no more than double, will raise the high frequency cutoff point. Combined with reversing the speaker baffle 180 degrees it is possible when using higher frequency drivers to reach a cutoff of 5khz. This is desirable when using this design as a full range enclosure. Applications of that would include PA use and Home theater Center Channels. The green circles illustrate the last two intersections needed to plot the line for the last panel illustrated by the green line.
You now have the layout to build your horn. As you can see, the formula will self adjust for any height between 24" and 36". Pretty neat huh.. This allows you to have some control over the physical size of the cabinet for reasons of woofer selection, i.e.. internal chamber volume, and placement. A direct parallel between the efficiency curve and the height dimension is eminent. The larger up to the full 36 inches, will be louder.
The way to cut your panels that make up the rest of this horn is simply to cut several 48 x 10" or 48 x 12" inch pieces to work with. The 10 or 12" dimension is used for 8 and 10" woofers respectively. Take one of these stock panels and lay it on the large panel you just drew a crop circle on. Using your pencil carefully align the panel with the lines you drew and trace the other side so that you create a duplicate set of line 3/4's of an inch away from the original set. This way you can see exactly how your panels will intersect, and where to locate them.
Now take a protractor, and decide how you want to join your panels. You may wish to end join them or miter them. The determining factor will be the abilities of your table saw. I recommend drawing the joints on your masterpiece too. That way you wont forget how you're planning to join each panel.
You'll be pleased to find out there is a way to join the panels (end join) so that almost every angle in the design can be cut from one setting on your table saw. In other words, most of the angles in this design are identical, no matter what size you picked for the height of the enclosure. If you think this is getting rather amazing, wait until you hear the sound quality of the perfectly flat, extended response of this horn and the incredible efficiency!
The baffle for the speaker should be double thick, although it is only a suggestion. Once you have cut it and placed it as shown in the illustrations (Notice it follows the original center lines) you may flip it over 180 degrees if you want. Do what moves you as the best way. If you're going for a full range response, it must be flipped.
Final construction tip... assemble the angled panels to the bottom that you drew on with wood glue, and then hot glue the seams. This will hold you box together during assembly, but before you do that, you might want to transfer the design to the top, so that you can drill holes in the top every 4 inches over every single panel in the box. We use a rubber gasket glued to the top edge of all the panels to achieve a seal against the top. The holes are for screws so that the top can be removed for service.
That's it! One of the most complex but rewarding boxes you'll ever make. I hope you appreciate the freebie, as these plans are compliments of myself, Steve Deckert, to illustrate the killer designs sold on this site. Naturally, although free, this information, and illustrations are copyright (c) 1996 by High Fidelity Engineering Co. and represent a design which is also copyrighted by High Fidelity Engineering Co. & Designer Steve Deckert 1996. "The Wicked One" is a registered trademark of High Fidelity Engineering Co. License is granted for the personal use of this information. No permission is granted for commercial reproduction of this enclosure design, including car audio road shops and installers for the intent of wholesale or resale.
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Do you want to sound more like the French maestro Stephane Grappelli? Here is the answer. I've selected around 250 classic Grappelli licks for you to learn. Using Simple chord theory and tips for timing and style. You can start these songs instantly. The online audio recording contains samples, solos and backing tracks to practice your new-found skills on. Includes access to online audio.
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<h2 class="title">H</h2>
<dl>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/ApplicationStatusObserver.html#handleLogout--">handleLogout()</a></span> - Method in interface eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/ApplicationStatusObserver.html" title="interface in eu.focusnet.app.controller">ApplicationStatusObserver</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Actions to perform on logout.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/CronService.html#handleLogout--">handleLogout()</a></span> - Method in class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/CronService.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">CronService</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Inherited</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/DataManager.html#handleLogout--">handleLogout()</a></span> - Method in class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/DataManager.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">DataManager</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">logout.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/UserManager.html#handleLogout--">handleLogout()</a></span> - Method in class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/UserManager.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">UserManager</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Inherited.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/TableWidgetInstance.html#headers">headers</a></span> - Variable in class eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/TableWidgetInstance.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets">TableWidgetInstance</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Headers</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/BarChartWidgetFragment.html#HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH">HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/BarChartWidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget">BarChartWidgetFragment</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">The height of the widget if it takes the full width of the screen.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/LineChartWidgetFragment.html#HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH">HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/LineChartWidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget">LineChartWidgetFragment</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">The height of the widget if it takes the full width of the screen.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/PieChartWidgetFragment.html#HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH">HEIGHT_DP_FOR_FULL_WIDTH</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/PieChartWidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget">PieChartWidgetFragment</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">The height of the widget if it takes the full width of the screen.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/TableWidgetFragment.html#HEIGHT_DP_PER_ROW">HEIGHT_DP_PER_ROW</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/TableWidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget">TableWidgetFragment</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Indication on the height to use for each row.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/common/UiHelper.html#hideSoftKeyboard-Activity-">hideSoftKeyboard(Activity)</a></span> - Static method in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.common.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/common/UiHelper.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.common">UiHelper</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Helper function to hide the keyboard when clicking on an element.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/activity/ProjectsListingActivity.html#highlightSelectedMenuItem-int-">highlightSelectedMenuItem(int)</a></span> - Method in class eu.focusnet.app.ui.activity.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/activity/ProjectsListingActivity.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.activity">ProjectsListingActivity</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Highlight the currently selected menu item</div>
</dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/Html5WidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget"><span class="typeNameLink">Html5WidgetFragment</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">A <code>Fragment</code> rendering a webapp inside a <code>WebView</code>.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/Html5WidgetFragment.html#Html5WidgetFragment--">Html5WidgetFragment()</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/Html5WidgetFragment.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget">Html5WidgetFragment</a></dt>
<dd> </dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/Html5WidgetFragment.FocusAppWebViewClient.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget"><span class="typeNameLink">Html5WidgetFragment.FocusAppWebViewClient</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Create a web client, which loads internal HTML pages with the custom <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/common/TouchWebView.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.common"><code>TouchWebView</code></a>.</div>
</dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/Html5WidgetFragment.WebAppInterface.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget"><span class="typeNameLink">Html5WidgetFragment.WebAppInterface</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/ui/fragment/widget/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.ui.fragment.widget</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">JavaScript interface definition.</div>
</dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/Html5WidgetInstance.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets"><span class="typeNameLink">Html5WidgetInstance</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">An instance containing all information pertaining to a webapp widget.</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/Html5WidgetInstance.html#Html5WidgetInstance-eu.focusnet.app.model.gson.WidgetTemplate-java.util.Map-eu.focusnet.app.model.DataContext-">Html5WidgetInstance(WidgetTemplate, Map<String, String>, DataContext)</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/model/widgets/Html5WidgetInstance.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.model.widgets">Html5WidgetInstance</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">C'tor</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html#HTTP_METHOD_DELETE">HTTP_METHOD_DELETE</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.util.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.util">Constant.Networking</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">HTTP DELETE</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html#HTTP_METHOD_GET">HTTP_METHOD_GET</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.util.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.util">Constant.Networking</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">HTTP GET</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html#HTTP_METHOD_POST">HTTP_METHOD_POST</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.util.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.util">Constant.Networking</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">HTTP POST</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html#HTTP_METHOD_PUT">HTTP_METHOD_PUT</a></span> - Static variable in class eu.focusnet.app.util.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/util/Constant.Networking.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.util">Constant.Networking</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">HTTP PUT</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html#httpConnectionFactory-java.net.URL-java.lang.String-">httpConnectionFactory(URL, String)</a></span> - Static method in class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">HttpRequest</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">Create an HTTP(S) connection.</div>
</dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller"><span class="typeNameLink">HttpRequest</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.controller</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">An HTTP request to be issued to the REST server</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html#HttpRequest-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-">HttpRequest(String, String)</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">HttpRequest</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">A simple Request without payload (GET or DELETE)</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html#HttpRequest-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-eu.focusnet.app.model.gson.FocusObject-">HttpRequest(String, String, FocusObject)</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">HttpRequest</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">A request with associated payload to be passed in the body (POST or PUT)</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html#HttpRequest-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-">HttpRequest(String, String, String)</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpRequest.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">HttpRequest</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">A request with associated payload to be passed in the body (POST or PUT)</div>
</dd>
<dt><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpResponse.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller"><span class="typeNameLink">HttpResponse</span></a> - Class in <a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/package-summary.html">eu.focusnet.app.controller</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">A response to an HTTP request to the FOCUS platform</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpResponse.html#HttpResponse-java.net.HttpURLConnection-">HttpResponse(HttpURLConnection)</a></span> - Constructor for class eu.focusnet.app.controller.<a href="../eu/focusnet/app/controller/HttpResponse.html" title="class in eu.focusnet.app.controller">HttpResponse</a></dt>
<dd>
<div class="block">An HttpResponse contains all information that may be useful by the application to
decide what to do after a network call.</div>
</dd>
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"redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaGithub"
}
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Stephen Grimwood Electrical Ltd are electrical contractors based in Hampshire. Located on the South Coast approximately half way between between Bournemouth & Southampton.
As you'd expect we carry out all types of electrical works from additional points in your house through to larger commercial installations and of course we are members of the NICEIC.
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"redpajama_set_name": "RedPajamaC4"
}
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FAA/TSO-C114 OEM quality AmSafe® 3-point diagonal replacement restraint for PA31 Navajos and Chieftains with existing factory installed shoulder harness.
This is a non-stock item. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery.
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}
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At present, development of IWT mode is in a nascent stage and plays a very insignificant role in the overall transportation scenario of the country. However, the demand for IWT is expected to grow on a faster rate than ever before. The policy makers have recognised that there is a compelling need for revival of IWT system as a supplementary mode of transport in the integrated transportation system of the country. The significance of such development during the 9th Plan Five Year Plan has been emphasised.
CIWTC has the expertise and experience to undertake IWT operations on a large scale. It is in a position to offer leadership in IWT development in the country. With adequate support from the Govt. of India, CIWTC can emerge as the principal IWT operator not only in Eastern / North-Eastern region but also other regions of the Country and can usher in an accelerated fast paced phase of development in this sector.
Inland Water Transport on the rivers & some coastal routes was developed by the Britishers about 180 years ago.
The Joint Steamer Companies i.e. India General Steam Navigation Co. and Rivers Steam Navigation Co. were made a P.S.U. in 1967 as CIWTC.
The main activities are transportation of cargo in the rivers in the Eastern India & North-Eastern India and on the Indo-Bangladesh protocol routes. Operate & Maintain terminals.
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Spacious and very central, just a short distance from the Rialto Bridge, Apartment Calice is on the first floor and consists of a large living room with open plan kitchen, two triple bedrooms and two bathrooms with shower.
Spacious and very central, just a short distance from the Rialto Bridge, Apartment Calice is on the first floor and consists of a large living room with open plan kitchen, two triple bedrooms and two bathrooms with shower. It benefits from air conditioning, washing machine and Wifi and is ideal for large families or for groups of friends looking both for a central location and value for money.
When you need to stay in Calice?
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Day 5 – Classes day.
We woke up that morning and made the decision to skip out on first class and go mail stuff home while we still could. I shipped 40 pounds and it cost just shy of $80 – but worth every penny as flying home with that would have cost me more in overweight baggage fees. Stephanie shipped slightly less than I did – I think about 30 pounds and it cost her about $60? I texted home to tell DH about it, and he jokingly replied that the box might make it home before I do… this will eventually grow to be less funny in less than 24 hours… I digress… After shipping we took the first bit of leisure time for just us. We hit up a great little coffee shop I discovered the day before and did a coffee run to. Coffee in Utah seems to generally be awful – I am sure it is to appease the Mormons, but it doesn't appease the Starbucks lover in me. So, yummy mochas in hand on a gorgeous, hot sunny morning we took off to the top of the parking garage, sipped our coffees, took photos of the great scenery and just relaxed. For the first time all week we weren't on the go and could just breathe.
So, back in to pick up our class kit from the first class. It was an acrylic mini-album from Little Yellow Bicycle and it was Hallowe'en themed. Their Hallowe'en papers are absolutely great! I really fell in love with their delicious Dolce Vita line on Thursday, but their Hallowe'en is stand out great as well. It was a well organized kit with lots of great instructions so I should be able to complete it at a crop no problem. Nice and easy. They also gave us a bonus tote bag and one extra sheet each of their Hallowe'en papers.
Second class was from Piggy Tales. I don't necessarly *love* the paper used for this chipboard mini album, but I do love the chipboard mini album itself. It has a lot of fun sliding doors to hide things like journalling, or more photos, or patterned paper, or rub-ons – you get the idea. I did manage to get this one pretty much finished through class time and a bit over lunch.
Third class was from Scenic Route and was taught by Layle Koncar. She was great, really great. Fun woman, loves to talk, and the layout turned out really nice. I mostly got that one done too, just need to stick some of the flowers down that were covered in glossy accents and not yet dry. Either way – cute layout, cute teacher and Scenic Route is for the most part pretty fun paper too. Stephanie won some cute little acrylic stamps in this workshop too.
That night was commencement crop. For me it was just ok. The slideshow was very long, and the photos less inspiring than past years when Candace Stringham was taking them. She is one talented lady, and her replacement just didn't have the same eye that she does. I did, however, become a connoisseur of salt water taffy as it was everywhere on the tables – typical for the area. The crop carried on – we went out to hit the mall because I needed to buy some stuff from Bath and Body Works, and Stephanie needed to get back to Archivers to buy stamps that didn't get bought on a previous trip. On a neat aside, we happened to see CD Muckosky shopping at Archivers when we were there as well. She didn't seem to have anything to do with CKU – unless she was at the Scrapbooker of the Year banquet that we wound up missing because of the bus tour. When we got back to the crop, Lance Anderson from Rusty Pickle had set up a makeshift impromptu album workshop for $40. We went back to the room to finalize packing and get some semblance of sleep.
So – we left off with the first woman I spoke with at United. She attempted to be pretty helpful, but was limited in what flights she was able to view. From what she could see there was no way we were getting home at all on Sunday, but she asked for a number I could be reached at if she should find anything. In the interim she gave me the number for United central reservations to call as they have access to a greater number of flights to view and can get a little more creative. I spent nearly an hour on the phone with him, and he managed to find a way out for us – leaving now at 6AM, by way of Los Angeles and then on to Toronto. It was another code share with Air Canada, which is what we originally booked on, however the issue was the first plane was United. He was able to confirm us on the United flight no problem, but couldn't reach anyone at Air Canada to confirm the second leg. I even sat on hold with Air Canada myself with no luck. With our flight now leaving at 6AM, it meant leaving the hotel at 3 to get to the airport for 4 and it was at this point pushing 2:30, with only one bellman on for the night. I asked this United guy if I could leave him a contact # so he could call me with confirmation numbers and he flat out refused to call me back. When I said to him "Clearly you've never been stranded before" it was met with silence, and then a persistent refusal to call me back.
We get to Salt Lake Airport and are directed to some special line – Stephanie was taking care of this initial part while I returned the rental car. We wind up getting served by some disgruntled employee who was frustrated with United and hated working for them. He refused to charge us for our second bags, and didn't weigh them either – which was huge for Stephanie as her bags were definitely pushing the limit, if not over it. He also placed us in emergency exit row seating for the longest leg of the trip, which was also much appreciated.
I don't really know much of the flights as it was the only sleep I was managing to grab in a 24 hour timespan. I slept the bulk of the way to LA, and from LA to Toronto I was awake for the small amount of time we were over Arizona, otherwise I was asleep. It was good to get home after more travel stress and ordeals. I didn't relish the idea of being stuck in Salt Lake for another night, especially with having to work on Monday – and now needing to pay for a lot of shopping.
Customs was shockingly painless for both of us. We were both over and both claimed shipping items home that didn't accompany us. Neither of us had to pay, which was nice.
The rumor mill has it that there will only be 2 CKU's next year – one east cost, the other west coast. There is also a rumor there will be another similar CK event in December that will be announced by Lisa B soonish.
All the travel stresses were well worth it and I am filled with happy memories and lots of loot. The mecca was everything I hoped it would be and more. I really wish there was more time to go to some of the sales we missed, like Scenic Route, and DCWV and of course Cosmo Cricket and SEI. I can't wait until my huge box arrives. I shipped most of my purchases and freebies so I would have lots of room for the day 2 projects, that wound up being not so necessary after all.
I know there are details I probably left out, but those days were just so jam packed and there was little sleep to be had – also so worth it! I can't wait for the next one!
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Ian M. Fairchild, Shareholder
Steven Harr
David Mattka
D. Ronald Reneker
Munsch Hardt Shareholders Named Among Super Lawyers
Munsch Hardt, a Texas-based law firm with over 100 attorneys and offices in Dallas, Houston and Austin, announced four of its Shareholders have been named among the Texas "Super Lawyers" ranks, which was published in the March/April 2009 Corporate Counsel Edition by Key Professional Media, Inc. Steven A. Harr, David C. Mattka and D. Ronald Reneker were recognized in Business Litigation.
Published since 2008, the Corporate Counsel Edition is a directory of a nationwide attorneys selected by those named to the Super Lawyers list in business-related practice areas. Polling, research and selection are performed by Law & Politics, a publication of Key Professional Media, Inc.
Steven A. Harr
Steve was one of the firm's founding partners, currently serves as General Counsel and has served in virtually every position of responsibility, including Chief Executive Officer for four years, Section Head of the Business Litigation group for over 15 years and as a member of our Shareholder Compensation and Management Committees. His practice focus is on commercial/business litigation, arbitration, mediation and federal/state receiverships. Steve received his Juris Doctor, graduating cum laude, from Texas Tech University School of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Education, with honors, from Texas Tech University.
David C. Mattka
David's practice covers all aspects of complex business litigation, with a particular emphasis in business tort, contract, director and officer liability, shareholder derivative actions and securities fraud litigation involving investment transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, commercial mortgage backed securitizations, collateralized loan obligations, private equity and hedge funds, venture capital syndications, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures. David also represents corporate boards, directors and officers, audit committees, special litigation committees and other board committees in internal investigations addressing liability, disclosure, remediation and compliance issues in connection with actual or potential litigation claims. David received his Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and his Bachelor of Business Administration also from Southern Methodist University.
During his 37 year career, the primary emphasis of Ron's practice has been business litigation on both sides of the docket. He also handles insurance coverage matters on behalf of both carriers and policyholders, and has often represented lawyers and law firms in matters relating to professional liability and law firm withdrawals and dissolutions. Ron has tried numerous jury and non-jury cases, has handled many appeals and has served as counsel in arbitrations. Ron received his Juris Doctor, graduating with honors, from The University of Texas School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from The University of Tulsa.
Munsch Hardt, a commercial law firm, provides the highest quality legal services and strategic business advice to companies and individuals of all sizes. Whether you're a big business or a growing company seeking cost-effective results - Munsch Hardt is the Right Firm. Right Now. Our areas of practice include all aspects of Business Litigation; Corporate & Securities; Finance; Insolvency, Restructuring & Creditors' Rights; Intellectual Property; Real Estate and Tax. Munsch Hardt is a multi-specialty firm where experienced practitioners work together as a team across disciplinary lines to solve legal problems. For more information, visit munsch.com.
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The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.
S. and B. Arkin to M. Atkin and R. Balthaser, 54 Broadview Road, 1.67 acres, Feb. 7, $5,095,000.
L. and E. Sherrill and Bell to 85 NHR L.L.C., 85 Napeague Harbor Road, .25 acre, Feb. 14, $1,250,000.
B. Booth to C. and S. Sachs, 263 Cranberry Hole Road, 1.45 acres, Feb. 1, $3,700,000.
Bolch and L. Cookson to J. and T. Novogratz, 18 Cranberry Lane, 5.2 acres, Jan. 22, $8,750,000.
M. Ryan III to R. Webb Jr., 459 Abraham's Path, .79 acre (vacant), Feb. 5, $145,000.
J. and C. Touma to T. Kelly, 462 Montauk Highway, .46 acre (vacant), Nov. 27, $650,000.
C. and R. Kramer Trusts to Gilbert Dunes L.L.C., 59 Gilbert's Path, .74 acre, Jan. 29, $3,640,000.
B and LT Bridgehampton to L. Friedrich, 920 Old Sag Harbor Road, 3.47 acres, Jan. 26, $3,436,500.
F. Reigler to A. and E. Gilbert, 16 Casey Lane, 1 acre, Jan. 26, $2,300,000.
P. Block to M. Krouse and P. Liebman, 4 Fair Hills Lane, .94 acre, Feb. 9, $3,650,000.
P. Harding to S. Pagano, 57 Hampton Court, .72 acre, Nov. 28, $400,000.
R. DePetris (by executors and trustee) to Bridge Pooh L.L.C., 2446 Montauk Highway, .21 acre, Jan. 25, $3,000,000.
M. Wolohojian to G. Belsher and S. Maxwell, 71 Williams Way, .57 acre, Jan. 31, $2,850,000.
J., R., and R. Hirt to 72 Little Noyac Path L.L.C., 65 Ellen Court, 2.49 acres, Feb. 5, $5,950,000.
E. Munroe (by executor) to 719 Ocean Road L.L.C., 719 Ocean Road, 4.17 acres, Feb. 13, $22,711,119.
M. Kindred and Traykovski to A. Roberts, 2 Patriots Lane, .47 acre, Dec. 20, $935,000.
W. Cohan to Wheelock Walk L.L.C., 11 Wheelock Walk, .64 acre, Jan. 25, $1,065,000.
T. and T. Duong to D. Koontz and S. Dermont, 211 Route 114, .21 acre, Feb. 6, $585,000.
C. McLean to K. Drucker, 8 Warwick Road, .23 acre, Feb. 2, $670,000.
Fieldview Partners to P. Quillen Trust, 22 Fieldview Lane, .87 acre, Feb. 16, $3,325,000.
J. Gagliotti to M. Edwards, 23 Spring Close Highway, .82 acre (vacant), Feb. 6, $540,000.
G. Henoch to ARCA 1 L.L.C., 8 Cutter Court, .85 acre, Jan. 10, $1,130,000.
Robich Inc. to East Hampton Real Esate, 100 North Main Street, .52 acre, Jan. 24, $5,000,000.
J. and C. de Klerk to Kelly Clan L.L.C., 12 Heller Lane, 1.03 acres, Jan. 22, $10,500,000.
J. McMonagle to Fulling Mill Farm, 10 Briar Patch Road, 1.88 acres, Jan. 17, $5,250,000.
T. Lane to D. and B. Glickberg, 17 Wills Point Road, 1.4 acres, Feb. 1, $3,700,000.
M. and D. Dombrowski to L. Goren, 5 North Fleming Court, .46 acre, Jan. 22, $900,000.
RMS Market L.L.C. to Montauk Real Estate, 654 Montauk Hwy and lot 7, .5 acre, Jan. 24, $5,000,000.
L. Percy to 781 Montauk Highway, 781 Montauk Highway, .09 acre, Feb. 7, $1,100,000.
K. and L. Larsen to Sagcentive L.L.C., 3618 Noyack Road, .47 acre, Dec. 29, $675,000.
48 Windermere L.L.C. to T. Clavin and L. Reingold, 48 Windermere Drive, .23 acre, Dec. 5, $891,300.
A. McCarthy and J. Marsden to M. Keyser, 31 North View Drive, 1.03 acres, Dec. 21, $1,100,000.
64 Mt. Misery Drive to K. Cunningham, 64 Mount Misery Drive, .57 acre, Feb. 5, $810,000.
U.S. Bank National Association to J. Snyder Jr., 252 Northside Drive, .97 acre, Dec. 5, $706,314.
R. Cavaluzzo and Boulton to 392 Division L.L.C., 392 Division Street, .63 acre, Jan. 25, $1,375,000.
Germal Group Inc. to Sagcinema L.L.C., 90 Main Street, .16 acre, Jan. 8, $8,000,000.
P. and A. DiBella to J. and A. Libath, 15 Bay Inlet Road, .65 acre, Jan. 8, $990,000.
J. Hong to A. Russo and Hawman Trust, 10 Bull Pasture Lane, .45 acre, Feb. 2, $1,240,000.
B. Basma to T. Amato, 166 Woodbine Drive, .8 acre, Feb. 5, $895,000.
Town of East Hampton to G. and S. Polsky, part of Waters Edge, Dec. 29, $204,000.
J. and A. Lafferty to A. and T. Glass, 7 Spruce Street, .5 acre, Feb. 7, $648,900.
Lenox and Urban Bridgehampton to 1085 Noyack Path Owners, 1085 Noyack Path, .13 acre (vacant), Jan. 26, $263,500.
Little Noyac Field to Little Whonka L.L.C., 74 Little Noyack Path, 3.01 acres (vacant), Jan. 29, $3,672,250.
72 Little Noyac Path to HFTGK L.L.C., 72 Little Noyack Path, 2.85 acres (vacant), Jan. 29, $3,275,250.
D. Lawenda,D and K. Menard to 27 Cooks Lane L.L.C., 27 Cooks Lane, 1.01 acres, Feb. 6, $2,625,000.
G. Schalkwyk to DF Building L.L.C., 99 Schwenks Road, .92 acre, Jan. 26, $1,500,000.
P. Gray to E. Rothman Trust, 27 Lower Seven Ponds Road, 8.05 acres, Feb. 8, $1,775,000.
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New exhaust "straight through" - good sound!
After the crash at the Crystal Palace Sprint at the end of May I placed Baggy Joe on hold until we had worked out the best way to restore him to the race track.
My other project, "Chalky" a Fiat 126 from 1973 eligible for use in "Historic" AutoSolo events, was occupying the garage and since there was also a spare "Chalky 2" in the garage there was not much room for anything else. At one point neither car had any front wheels as we were putting 1987 parts onto the 1973 car (bigger wheels and brakes). When we found that they were not identical we decided also to change over the front of the cars as well. This involved cuttings off the front of the 1987 car in front of the front suspension and grafting it onto the body of the 1973 car. The measurements looked OK and we decided to "go for it". In my mind was the thought that was one option for Baggy Joe - remove the front from Baggy Jubillee and graft that onto Baggy Joe. Valuable experience would be gained before cutting off Baggy Joe's nose! Not wasted time then! These things are never as simple one might think and this was no exception. It all took much longer than expected and we did not start to put in serious time on Baggy Joe until the end of July.
Well the Fiat experience convinced me that it was better to try to straighten out Baggy Joe than replace the damaged parts with better (?) parts from Jubillee! The photographs below show the twisted metal on Baggy Joe that would have to be pulled straight. See part 2, to follow.
Back in business for fun!
Part 2. The next pictures show the "straightening out process". Examination of the twisted and compressed panels suggested that they were all in front of the suspension and that the car still looked straight. Measurements from the front cross-member also looked good. The bent parts carried the radiator, fan, headlights and lifting system, the air duct, the bumper and the nose cone. None of these are structural and they should be possible to repair.
With the rear competition tow ring tied to my 2 tonne Jeep Wrangler as an anchor, and the damaged parts attached to the pulling winch I use to load Baggy Joe onto the trailer, we started to pull - VERY SLOWLY - all the while keeping out of the way of wires and rope in case something broke!
The right side was the worst and we decided to remove the vertical section on which the nose cone rests as this was already very rusty. Replacing that with the part from Baggy Jubillee seemed to be a good idea.
To my great surprise and pleasure at the first attempt the right hand side radiator bracket started to unfurl just like a sail. It pulled downwards and well as forwards because the winch was on the floor. When the metal was 95% straight we changed over to the left side which was not as badly damaged. That also came straight quite quickly as we had realigned the winch to pull horizontally instead. More pictures attached.
Part 3 Reassembly - the fun bit!
I had ordered a new radiator as the original one was seen to be leaking as they pulled me out of the hedge! In fact the pipe taking the water from the heater into the radiator had broken off. That should be easily repairable for the future. In the mean time I wanted to improve the cooling, particularly when the car is sitting in the queue waiting for the start line. The engine has to be kept going as you move every 30 seconds but the heat build up in warm weather was quite a problem. Wearing full race overall flameproof racing suit ("Rompers" I call them!), fireproof helmet, FIA gloves and Nomex underwear plus the heater running full power and the windows and door open, I was close to expiring with the heat! More cooling was a VERY GOOD IDEA!. Guildford radiators made a new radiator within the limitations of the standard Bagheera end tanks. The core is now 42mm thick compared with 31mm on the standard product. There are also 25 rows instead of the 24 on the original. So we should have about 33% extra cooling capacity. In addition we realised that we could fit two Bagheera fans side by side with a little bit of modification! Photos below! You can also see that we have fitted the right side headlight from Baggy Jubilee.
Instead of adding a second heavy cooler why not replace the rear window with a peace of perspex with some holes in it. Add some lightness as a famous English person once sad.
Lowering the ambient engine temperature should lower the cooling needs.
This is something I'm planning to do to my trackday murena.
But keep up the good work, I'm sure you'll be back on the road in no time.
btw, what is that bottle in the second picture of part 1?
Well done! Will you make Etretat this year?
My Rancho had the problem when driving in city traffic that the engine temperature was raising (too much for my liking).
I had the standard core element in the radiator replaced with a "tropical core" which gives 30% better cooling. Add an additional high capacity fan, and the problem is solved.
what is that bottle in the second picture of part 1?
The brown plastic bottle is a Renault equivalent to the Matra/Simca/Renault 4 glass bottle. The cap is much easier to tighten and the relief valve seems to be more reliable. The downside is that the connection is on the bottom of the bottle and it has to be raised up by about 20mm on a block of wood. Recommended!
PS To Sukkolk Pete. Yes, I am entered at Etretat at the end of August and do hope to be there.
Baggy Joe's engine was run today for the first time since the accident. Apart from some minor leaks on hoses clamped with cheap non-"Jubillee" hose clips it looks good. I found some alternatives called "High Torque" which seem to be much stronger.
Now for the rewiring and the GRP repairs!
So, it's a coolant bottle, why isn't it at the back where the engine is?
It's at the front where the radiator is! There is also more space there!
I didn't respond to the idea of replacing the rear glass with lightweight plastic and making some air vent holes in it!
Good idea! Graham Pryme has done the same thing on his Murena 2.2.
I have not done it so far because I also entered Baggy Joe in AutoSolo events and you are not permitted to change window material in that class. Now I am building a Fiat 126 for "Historic" AutoSolo events there are a number of things I can do to improve performance and/or reduce the weight that were not permitted in AutoSolo, e.g. convert to perspex windows all round (execpt for the windscreen) - save the weight of the glass and remove the electric window motors etc.
We made it to Etretat and completed the course!
Baggy Joe is not "finished" as you can see in the pictures but he was good enough to compete! At scrutineering in front of the Mairie we put photos of the Crystal Palace crash on the windscreen and stickers on the repairs saying "Travaux en progres" (with the accents!). It caused a great deal of interest and we gained credibility. If we had said nothing they might have assumed that I thought it WAS finished and we would have lost credibility!
As always everybody wins a prize at Etretat and the last picture shows me collecting mine!
We were not last in that we beat several Fraser-Nash cars although I will admit my main objective was to get home in one piece and start to rebuild my confidence!
Now, September 21st, I have three Sprints in the next five weeks and have a chance to win the Southern Area Sprint Championship in my Class. I already have won the Class Hillclimb Championship as nobody else can get enough points to beat me! There are not many in our class!
I have started a new topic about Clutch problems. Any advice will be most welcome.
I was in Etretat on the Sunday for reasons unconnected with the event, but it all seemed very low key. Apart from a couple of Austin sevens and Morgans and a road closure sign, there was no evidence of the "Cours de Cote". Anyway, well done!
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Roark Capital Group:
Roark Acquires Great Expressions Dental Centers
By: Roark Capital Group | 0 Shares 129 Reads
Private Equity Firm Adds Multi-Unit, Retail Healthcare Company to Portfolio
ATLANTA - Sept. 28, 2016 // PRNewswire // - Roark Capital Group, an Atlanta-based private equity firm focused on consumer brands and multi-unit businesses, announced today that its affiliate has acquired Great Expressions Dental Centers. Rich Beckman will continue to lead the business as CEO, and the company will remain headquartered in Southfield, Mich. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"This transaction marks an exciting new chapter for the company," Beckman said. "With our new partner, Roark, we look forward to accelerating our strategy of growth through affiliation with other high-quality dental practices. We also look forward to leveraging Roark's consumer and branding expertise to enhance our own Great Expressions brand. We appreciate the support and partnership OMERS Private Equity offered throughout the life of their investment."
Great Expressions provides comprehensive affordable dental services through its network of 269 affiliated practices staffed by more than 900 dentists and hygienists who care for over 600,000 patients per year. Founded in 1982 and operating as a single brand, Great Expressions is one of the largest dental support organizations (DSO) in the United States.
Neal Aronson, Roark's Managing Partner, said, "Great Expressions is the branded DSO of choice for dentists desiring an affiliation and for consumers desiring consistent, quality care. It's the perfect company to launch Roark's entrance into retail healthcare."
Tim Armstrong, Managing Director at Roark, noted, "We're partnering with an outstanding, experienced, and long-tenured management team to accelerate the growth of the business from their already proven and successful strategy."
Paul, Weiss and DLA Piper acted as legal counsel to Roark. Jefferies LLC served as financial advisor to Great Expressions.
About Great Expressions Dental Centers
For nearly 40 years, Great Expressions has been a leader in preventative dental care, orthodontics and specialty care with offices in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. Great Expressions is consistently recognized for contributions to improving oral health through quality and safety initiatives, affordable dental care services, patient convenience, research and more. Great Expressions Dental Centers branded practices are independently-owned and operated in specific states by licensed dentists and their professional entities who employ the licensed professionals providing dental treatment and services. ADG, LLC provides administrative and business support services and licenses the Great Expressions Dental Centers brand name to independently-owned and operated dental practices. ADG does not own or operate dental practices, or employ the licensed professionals providing dental treatment and services. For more information, please visit www.greatexpressions.com.
About Roark Capital Group
Roark focuses on franchised and multi-unit business models in the retail, restaurant, consumer and business services sectors. Affiliates of Roark have invested in 56 franchise/multi-unit brands which collectively generate $21 billion in annual system revenues from 23,000 locations in 50 states and 75 countries. Roark's current brands include Anytime Fitness, Arby's, Atkins Nutritionals, Batteries Plus Bulbs, CKE Restaurants (the owner of Carl Jr.'s and Hardee's), Corner Bakery, Driven Brands (the owner of Maaco, Meineke, CARSTAR, 1-800-Radiator and Take 5 Oil Change), Drybar, FOCUS Brands (the owner of Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Carvel Ice Cream, Cinnabon, McAlister's Deli, Moe's Southwest Grill, and Schlotzsky's), Il Fornaio, Massage Envy, Miller's Ale House, Naf Naf Grill, Orangetheory Fitness, Pet Retail Brands (the owner of Pet Supermarket and Pet Valu), Primrose Schools, Waxing the City and Wingstop. For more information, please visit www.roarkcapital.com.
SOURCE Roark Capital Group
Debra Vilchis
Roark Capital Group
Fishman Public Relations
[email protected]
Megan McCarl
Great Expressions Dental Centers
Lambert, Edwards & Associates
[email protected]
Roark focuses on consumer and business service companies, with a specialization around franchised and multi-unit business models in the retail, restaurant, consumer and business services sectors.
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"The Covered Market is dear to all our hearts, so to demonstrate Oxford Preservation Trust's support for it, and with the help of The William Delafield Trust, we are working in partnership with Oxford City Council to restore the Lindsey Butcher's units to their former glory."
Debbie Dance, Director at Oxford Preservation Trust
Oxford Preservation Trust received a generous grant from The William Delafield Charitable Trust to support the restoration of three stalls (Units 46-48) in Oxford's Covered Market, positioning the town's heritage at the heart of the city. This project sought to reclaim the original design of the high-quality retail units and showcase historic craftsmanship within the locally and nationally significant heritage asset that is Oxford's Covered Market.
Uncovering the Past
The Covered Market, in its original form, first opened in late 1774 and has remained in continuous use ever since. It was designed by architect, John Gwynn (who also designed Magdalen Bridge), as a replacement to the street markets. The sale of meat, fish and poultry on Oxford's streets was banned, with the passing of the 1771 Oxford Mileways Act signalling a gear change in the local history of transport, trade, and industry. The Mileways Act sought to encourage traffic into the city – a very different place to the Oxford we know today!
The John Lindsey Butcher & Son unit is situated in the earliest surviving part of the Victorian market, designed by architect Thomas Wyatt the Younger, and built as part of the 'New Market' extension around 1839-40. The unit holds high evidential value with the potential to reveal information about the earlier form of the market and its various phases of change. Not only of architectural interest, Units 46-48 were also constructed using a variety of local professions and therefore sheds light on the fortunes of individual trades in Oxford.
Hidden Treasure Revealed
In May 2019, strip out works began in the unit, with the first element uncovered being the vaulted lath and plaster ceiling, which needed significant repair. When plasterboard was removed, wrought iron latticework was exposed, miraculously surviving in place between the units and wrapping around the outside, and originally the ventilation for the stalls.
Although we initially believed the columns to be made of concrete, the removal of many layers of paint has revealed solid stone columns hidden beneath. Careful restoration is now taking place to mend the damage and restore their structural integrity. Taking off the latex floor screed has uncovered the original stone flag floor, well preserved in parts, and instantly adding character to the building, so that a decision has been made to repair, seal and to leave it exposed. We were pleased to launch Oxford Open Doors 2019 at the Covered Market with the theme 'Made in Oxford', and we opened the unit across the weekend for visitors to discover what we had found and to share our restoration plans.
An Unexpected Year
In January 2020, restoration work began on the unit, with lath and plaster repairs on the ceiling and repointing of original brickwork. However, by the end of March, the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold, and lockdown brought the work to a halt.
Nonetheless, by June progress was again being made with our dedicated and skilled contractors safely returning to the site. Keen to assist with the re-opening of the Covered Market to customers, a decision was made to remove the 1970s brick façade, which had been acting as the site hoardings, but was reducing the width of the aisle and space to move around within the market's public areas. On 15th June, the Market reopened with the original building line restored, enabling improvement to the sightlines of the avenues, and reintroducing the architectural rhythm of the market. The rear brick wall looks splendid with its limewash, and we were all thrilled with the craftsmanship that went into saving and restoring Lindsey's original painted signage above the door.
More headway was made in August and September, with the plastering, painting, skirting, block paving and ventilation being completed, as well as the installation of the windows, doorframes, joinery, and reworked iron trelliswork. A carefully chosen colour scheme was also agreed to act as an exemplar for work to other units in the Market that might come forward in future years. The team visited the site to assess the scope of works to the incredible original stone floor, which has now been pointed.
In 2021, the focus was on reaching project completion. This involved cleaning of the interiors, electrics, and final repairs to areas such as the fretwork. Lattice grilles have also been fabricated and fitted within the unit.
The final touches also involved decorating the Units in a manner which was sympathetic with the original design- including the painstakingly detailed restoration of the old "Lindsey's" sign above the units.
Excitingly, the units are now ready for new tenants to move into! Currently, the units are being leased to Makespace Oxford, who are collaborating with Oxford City Council to provide temporary 'meanwhile' leases to four Oxford-based retailers that have social and environmental purpose at their core. The four resident organisations are Ducky Zebra, a start-up creating colourful, sustainable clothing for children; Y.O.U Underwear, a social enterprise making a difference selling sustainable, organic undergarments with a focus on ethical supply chains; The Woolhound, an independent yarn and craft store; and Headington Fair Trade, a shop selling ethical and fairly-traded food, homewares, stationery and more.This arrangement will be running until February 2022, and will hopefully pave the way for a new era on Oxford's High Street, with the community at its heart. So please visit these businesses at the Covered Market before February and help support Oxfordshire-based Organisations!
The Un-Covered Market
In time for Oxford Open Doors 2021, OPT were delighted to share with our members the new Un-Covered Market Audio Tour created by the Covered Market and funded by Oxford City Council and the Museum of Oxford. The project brought together local historians, poets, filmmakers and artists to create "an immersive audio tour that's part informative and part poetic wandering. The 15 minute tour leads you around the market allowing you to stop and notice things you may have overlooked and giving you permission to discover new things about this well-known, well-loved building."
The tour is free to stream/download, and all you need is a pair of headphones! Discover the history of the Covered Market for yourself HERE.
As a communal, atmospheric, and trading hub, this Covered Market project has brought together multiple stakeholders. We are most grateful to Oxford City Council for their commitment to this project, working with James Mackintosh Architects, Cliveden Conservation, Croft Building and Conservation and Gelder Joinery.
Once again, a huge thank you goes to the William Delafield Charitable Trust, without whom this project would not exist.
Want to know more? For additional information about the Covered Market more generally, please visit the Oxford City Council website here and here.
Support Oxford. If, like us, you love Oxford, please support our work.
Watch the 'History of the Covered Market with Malcolm Graham' here, which was made for Oxford Open Doors 2020. This project was selected for the monthly film festival screening and was an Award Winner at the Tagore International Film Festival (Category of Educational Film).
Debbie with Tom Gilman from the Delafield Trust
Henry Taunt 1909
Oxford Open Doors 2019
Strip Out Works
Modern Shop Front Removal (June 2020)
Windows Fitted (October 2020)
Restoration of old "Lindsey's" Sign
Debbie & Cllr Susan Brown at the Restored Units, October 2021
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1. What is dopamine responsible for in the human body?
2. What have low levels of dopamine been linked to?
Take this multiple-choice quiz at any time to see what you know about dopamine. Questions will cover areas like an explanation of dopamine and its role(s) in the human body.
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Are there actually any elections that are "all manual"?
I don't think so. Certainly the tabulation of results, the transport of results up the chain, the tracking of warehouses full of ballots, the design of ballots, the collection of voter registrations, and the creation and management of poll books, must use computers all along the chain. Is there a single state or county where computers are used for none of these activities? I suspect not.
So, where are the cool videos and PR campaigns illustrating the ways in which an all manual count could be compromised? I've seen magicians do some impossible things while manipulating pieces of paper. And there are a lot of magicians.
And by the way, we also use computers... to control whether and in what direction to launch missiles, to control the brakes in my car (oops, bad example :), to "land a man on the moon", and of course our whole financial system only exists inside of the black boxes that are called computers.
I know as a society we don't like nuance, but as people who are devoted to making things better, techies and non-techies alike, I'd like to see and read fewer statements like: "We will never ever do X", "Y is the absolute only way to do this."
Things are never that black and white. And while we may need to keep it simple to win the argument, it's more than about just winning the argument. It's about discovering real weaknesses (and there are always trade-offs -- I can hear the black-and-white crowd saying: "We should not ever make ANY trade-offs when it comes to our Democracy", which is my point, exactly) and so we should always be seeking honest ways of imagining and testing to discover true improvements.
[Today's guest post is from election technology expert Doug Jones, who is now revealed as also being an encyclopedia of U.S. elections history. Doug's remarks below were in a discussion about how to effectively use post-election ballot-count audits as a means to gain trust in the correct operation of voting machines -- particularly timely, given the news and comment about hacking India's voting machines. Doug pointed out that in the U.S., we've had similar voting-machine trust issues for many years. -- ejs] Lever machines have always (as used in the US) contained one feature intended for auditing: The public and protective counters, used to record the total number of activations of the machine. Thus, they are slightly auditable. They are less auditable than DRE machines built to 1990 standards because they retain nothing comparable to an event log and because they do not explicitly count undervotes -- allowing election officials to claim, post election, that the reason Sam got no votes was because people abstained rather than vote for him. (Where in fact, there might have been a bit of pencil lead jammed in the counters to prevent votes for Sam from registering).
I thought I'd share a comment and response I got about trusting software to count votes. The comment was a very sensible one, though a mis-perception: that TTV is suggesting that software should be trust to count vote correctly. Not so! Here is the true but less simple story.
Many election officials want to conduct elections with paper ballots.
Most of those election officials want to count paper ballots using optical scanning and analysis software.
Most of those election officials conduct statistical audits, in order to mitigate risk that the tabulation software malfunctioned in a way could have effected the election result.
In other words, the latter group of election officials don't trust the software to do the vote counting right, and use selective hand-count audit in addition to software counting.
TTV development of scanning/tabulation software does not depend on the election officials' choices on how to conduct audits as part of an optical scan/tabulation method.
In other words, we don't make any assumptions about whether or how people trust software, and what additional non-technological steps they take to mitigate risk. To repeat what you may have heard me say before, we just make the technology; we don't tell the administrators how to deal with the risks that they manage, but we do listen to them to make sure that we're making technology that they can manage in the way that they want to. If their audit scheme can be improved by new features of the software, then we want to learn enough to provide features that are truly helpful.
In a recent post, I gave my view of a recent German High Court ruling that involved election technology. It seems I may have confused some readers by talking about what was, in some sense, the side effect. So, I should say a bit more about the main point. Throwing out a recent election was the main point of the petition to the court. The petitioners started with a premise -- that the Nedap voting machines were unlawful for use in Germany -- and reached a conclusion that the recent election using those machines was flawed and should be invalidated.
Petitioners lost. The court declined to invalidate the election, although they did agree with the premise that the Nedap machines did not meet the requirements for comprehension by an ordinary person without specialist computing technical knowledge (my paraphrase of the requirement).
I wouldn't be 100% certain until the next German election cycle shows us the Nedap system being completely tossed out, but it sure looks like Nedap and similar systems would under this ruling and opinion, be disallowed going forward.
So, to those who drew the conclusion that because the Court declined to invalidate the election meant that the underlying voting technology used remains "legal" (under German law), ... I (and actual lawyer's I've asked) respond, " not so much."
I also point out that the ruling provided some interesting speculation on what kinds of voting systems could or would meet the constitutional requirement for comprehensibility. With many readers, opinions vary.
I already provided my guesses. Others' range from a ringing validation of e-voting including Internet voting, to a validation of the principle of "software independence" which has been under discussion in the EAC for some years. That's a pretty wide range of opinion!
But I'm not the lawyer in the OSDV Foundation family (nor do I play one on a blog), so I won't effort to opine further on the jurisprudence of the (foreign) court ruling, but I have to note that I really like the German election law's principle that it is every citizen's constitutional right to be able to understand the systems used to cast and count their ballots. It's a great goal for the TrustTheVote Project, as we develop election technology with transparency.
2. Early on in our nearly 3 year old project we recognized that we did not want to build the ideal "Smithsonian solution" (i.e., an elegant solution that no one adopted, but made a perfect example of how it could've and should've been done). Therefore, we realized that amongst all stakeholders in America's elections systems, the States' Elections Directors and local elections jurisdictions officials are the front lines and arguably have the most at stake -- they succeed or fail by their decisions on what technology to choose and deploy to manage elections. So, we created a stakeholder community we affectionately call the "Design Congress," comprised of States' elections directors. Ideally, at full implementation, we will have all 50 states and 5 territories represented. Currently, 18 states have expressed interest at some level, and about 12-15 are committed, on board, and advising us. In many cases, we even have Secretaries of States' themselves involved.
3. The TTV Project's voter registration system is part of a larger elections management system we're designing and building -- under the advice and counsel of those very States' elections directors and other domain experts who are actively "weighing in." We use a process very similar to that of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) called the "RFC" or "Request for Comment."
5. So, you are 110% correct in your observations, and the TrustTheVote Project is already fully on track with you in building a strong stakeholder community to drive the design and specifications of all parts of the voting technology ecosystem we're examining, re-thinking, designing, developing, and offering in an open source manner.
Our goal is simple: create accountable, reliable, transparent, and trustworthy elections and voting systems that are publicly owned "critical democracy infrastructure."
And our work is gaining the attention of folks from the U.S. DoJ, the Obama Administration's OSTP, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, several universities, States' Secretaries, and of course, folks like Rock The Vote, and the Overseas Vote Foundation.
Mitch Trachtenberg pointed out that paper ballots are helpful, but are much more helpful if the paper ballots are available for independent counting "whether by hand of by computer assisted projects like the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project."
Daniel Cannon also pointed out that paper ballots by themselves are not sufficient for trust. Cannon wants measures for trust in the counting technology, including technology transparency (full disclosure from vendors) to address concerns of technical methods for stealing elections.
Henry Finkelstein points out that paper ballots are easily tampered with. Hand counting created tampering concerns that led to voting machines in the first place -- the mechanical "lever machines" that work fine without computers.
John Smith agrees with the need for paper audit trails, but isn't sold on optically scanned paper ballots because of the cost of paper ballots, especially the need to print enough to avoid running out in polling places.
What a range of opinions! And the oddest part is that each of these 5 remarks has merit, despite seeming contradicting one or more of the others -- yet another poignant testament to the inherent squirrelly-ness of U.S. election practices and technology.
And with such poignancy, I will have to save for another day the pleasure of doing a Stevens-vs.-Finkelstein face-off posting, or a posting of counterpoint to Smith explaining why dollars per voter per election for paper ballots isn't so terrible compared to existing alternatives, to say nothing of cheaper near term alternatives.
As you might imagine, it is hard to choose from the manyevents of Election Day 2008 to report and reflect on! But I thought that I'd pick a handful of events that show just how vitally important it is the election equipment be designed carefully – and the consequences of products that aren't, and vendors that don't seem to care. I have to say, it's potentially dire, which is why I've picked as many as 3 events to support my claims.
Just back from an excellent (5th) edition of the Freedom to Connect Conference.
I want to tell you about another event next week our CTO will be speaking at descibed below, but first I owe a quick comment about F2C, as the Producer graciously gave us the podium to speak about the OSDV Project, which led to 3 hours of excellent conversation at an evening reception.
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Pride organizers in South Korea urge police to protect their rights
Richard Ammon | February 27, 2019 | South Korea | GlobalGayz
Seoul's 20th Queer Culture Festival will kick off in May amid rising violence from conservative Christian groups
Organizers of the largest LGBTI pride event in South Korea urged the government not to give in to conservative groups and protect attendees.
The 20th Queer Culture Festival will take place in May, including a parade on June 1, organizers said at a press conference on Tuesday (26 February).
Organizers have applied for government permission to use Seoul Plaza as the starting point of the parade.
Pride events in Korea are increasingly under attack from conservative Christians. The groups pressure authorities to deny permission and violently disrupt activities.
'The government should drop its attitude of walking on eggshells around haters and instead show its willingness to guarantee universal rights for the socially marginalized, including sexual minorities' said organizer Kang Myung-jin.
He called on the Seoul government and police to protect their rights to hold the event and ensure participants safety, according to the Korea Herald.
Organizers tend to keep the pride parade secret until the last minute to deter anti-LGBTI activists.
But, according to the Korea Herald, organizers made the date public early this year to confront the hatred head-on.
Pride under attack
South Korea's fledging LGBTI movement has triggered a conservative backlash, rights groups recently warned.
Homosexuality is legal in South Korea. But, conservative attitudes, especially among Christians, force many LGBTI Koreans to live in the closet.
What's more, there is currently no discrimination legislation to protect LGBTI Koreans. Same-sex marriage is also not legal.
According to activist Minsoo Kim, LGBTI Koreans are 'facing hate and ignorance in every moment of their lives'.
Conservative Christian groups have launched significant attacks against LGBTI pride events in 2018.
More than 200,000 people signed a petition demanding the government acts to prevent the Seoul Queer Festival from taking place.
'We do not want to see their abominable events in a square' the petition read.
Christian protesters, meanwhile, disrupted LGBTI events across the country. Anti-LGBTI protestors also blocked a pride festival in Incheon.
In Busan,thousands of police protected pride attendees.
This year's Seoul Queer Culture Festival takes the theme '20th Fight for Rights'.
It is slated to include performances by bands, LGBTQ artists.
There will be information booths from human rights organizations, global companies, embassies and universities to raise awareness of LGBTI issues.
Organizers have also taken inspiration from Singapore and Hong Kong by including a 'pink dot'.
Attendees will be encouraged to wear pink and gather together to show solidarity with LGBTI people.
by Rik Glauert
Source – Gay Star News
Tags: south korea gay rights
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Un panal es una estructura formada por celdillas de cera que comparten paredes en común construida por las abejas melíferas para contener sus larvas y acopiar miel y polen dentro de la colmena. Esta capacidad se debe a que las obreras cuentan con glándulas cereras que producen este elemento natural tan apreciado. El panal es utilizado para depositar sus alimentos: polen y miel. También la celda es utilizada como habitáculo para la cría de obreras y zánganos. El tamaño de la celda varía según la necesidad de la abeja, siendo de aproximadamente 6 milímetros para obreras y 8 milímetros para zánganos en el caso de Apis
Las diferentes especies del género Apis construyen diferentes tamaños de celdas (sin base de cera estampada), adecuados a sus respectivas castas, lo que es muy útil para distinguir las especies y las razas del género Apis.
En las abejas de nido cerrado, Apis cerana y Apis mellifera los panales son construidos en forma transversal al orificio de entrada de la colmena. De esta manera, los panales anteriores cercanos a la entrada (piquera) hacen de barrera natural a la entrada de aire frío.
La distancia de diez celdas de panal construido por la abeja oriental (Apis cerana) en las Filipinas tiene un promedio de 4,1 centímetros, y en el sur de la India, la distancia es de 4,3 a 4,4 centímetros. Las razas africanas de la abeja occidental (Apis mellifera) construyen panales con medidas de 4,7 a 4,9 centímetros por cada 10 celdas, mientras la distancia de los panales construidos por las razas europeas comunes es 5,2 a 5,6 centímetros cada 10 celdas.
En los panales de cera de la colmena rústica (huecos de árboles) o en las colmenas que no tienen cuadros móviles la construcción no es siempre paralela, ya que las abejas construyen los panales en diferentes radios.
Espacio abeja
El espacio abeja, que es el lugar por el cual las abejas transitan entre los cuadros y en la colmena, es el espacio natural que la abeja separa un panal del adyacente. Este espacio fue descubierto por Lorenzo Langstroth en Apis mellifera siendo diferente del de Apis cerana aunque muy parecido. Las abejas africanizadas de América son más pequeñas y el volumen del nido para una población dada es 10% menor. No respetar el espacio de abeja hace que la abeja rellene el mismo con propóleo o cera. Nunca debe ser menor a 5 milímetros porque lo rellenará con propóleo ni mayor a 9 milímetros porque construirá panal de cera. Hay autores que definen el espacio abeja como 7,5 mm ± 1,5 mm.
Panales de cera en apicultura racional
En la apicultura racional el panal de cera es construido dentro de un marco móvil de madera para que la abeja mantenga una línea de construcción determinada con antelación por los apicultores. Para ello se ha desarrollado una lámina de cera estampada que es adherida a alambres que cruzan el marco en forma horizontal o vertical. Estos panales tienen dimensiones preestablecidas por los tamaños de los cuadros móviles lo mismo que la lámina de cera estampada. Sobre esta base fundacional las abejas estiran sus celdas hexagonales con una leve inclinación superior desde el fondo a la boca con el propósito de que no se derrame la miel que guardan en el interior.
En la apicultura racional la disposición de los panales que se utiliza frecuentemente es longitudinal con respecto a la entrada de la colmena (piquera) esto permite una mejor aireación de los mismos y facilita el secado del néctar evitando el trabajo de ventilación que tiene que desarrollar las obreras. A diferencia de los panales naturales que son construidos transversalmente al orificio de entrada de la colmena, denominado exposición en caliente; la colmena racional utiliza el método llamado exposición en frío para sus panales longitudinales con respecto a la entrada de la misma.
Hay colmenas construidas para ser utilizadas con panales de exposición en caliente, pero son las menos y generalmente se utilizan en climas fríos o templados fríos.
Ángulo de las celdas de los panales
Es interesante ver la geometría de una celda de panal, y la forma en que éstas encastran con el panal opuesto del marco móvil.
Geometría tridimensional de una celda de panal.
Celdas de panal de lados opuestos.
Pero hay toda una discusión desde antiguo sobre los ángulos que éstos tienen.
En 1700 se hicieron cálculos referentes a la medida de los ángulos de los rombos en los fondos piramidales de las celdas del panal. Comenzó en 1712 y continuó por varios años durante los siglos siguientes.
El astrónomo y genio italiano, Maraldi estudió las celdas de la abeja, midió el largo de las mismas encontrando que son aproximadamente iguales unas a otras. Entonces midió los ángulos de las celdas de un panal, calculando que eran de 109º 28'. Anne D. Betts en un artículo en julio de 1921 relacionó la historia de manera más lejana, Maraldi en una advertencia tremenda a todos nosotros, se expresó claramente para evitar todo el peligro de ser entendido mal.
Refiriéndose al naturalista francés Reaumur atribuyó la idea de que este había encontrado el valor de 109º 28 en los ángulos de las celdas de un panal. Toda una hazaña, que varios escritores han comentado ya que era imposible de realizar con los instrumentos existentes en su época, incluso si las celdas fueran regulares, que no lo son.
Reaumur sospechó que las abejas economizaban cera, consultando a su amigo matemático Koenig, para resolver el problema de la celdas de la abeja calculó el ángulo más grande de los rombos obteniendo 109º 26'. Investigaciones posteriores demostraron que 109º 28' era la respuesta correcta. (Sólo dos minutos fue la diferencia aclarando que Koenig había cometido un error en su aritmética). Kent L. Pellett en un artículo en junio de 1929 agregó más información a la historia; Reaumur maravillado por su economía vio tan cerca la perfección.
Otros científicos que estudiaron en las abejas la posibilidad de encontrar el ángulo perfecto tomaron rápidamente el caso para solucionar el problema por sí mismos, obteniendo el mismo resultado que Koenig. Pero las abejas rechazaron corregir su error, leve como era, y continuaron construyendo los fondos de la celdas con los viejos ángulos de 109º 28'.
Años más tarde, la investigación de un accidente marítimo demostró que el capitán había dirigido mal el curso de su barco, debido a que el cálculo de las tablas de logaritmo existentes era defectuoso. Las tablas fueron corregidas para evitar un error adicional. Entonces se descubrió que éstas eran las mismas tablas logarítmicas con las cuales Koenig había hecho sus cálculos. El problema del ángulo de la celdas fue calculado otra vez, con las tablas corregidas, y los ángulos obtenidos fueron los que las abejas habían utilizado siempre: 109º 28'. La conclusión final fue que las abejas hicieron el cálculo correcto y el matemático lo hizo mal.
Véase también
Abeja obrera
Abeja reina
Abeja zángano
Apis mellifera
Cera estampada
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
Madriguera
Hormiguero y Termitero
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Asociación PANAL. Defensa del patrimonio de Nalda (La Rioja)
Apicultura
Asociaciones
Bioconstrucciones
Productos de las abejas
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HomeUncategorizedRoadside safety messages increase crashes by distracting drivers
Roadside safety messages increase crashes by distracting drivers
January 9, 2023 The Conversation Uncategorized
Behavioural interventions involve gently suggesting that people reconsider or change specific undesirable behaviours. They are a low-cost, easy-to-implement and increasingly common tool used by policymakers to encourage socially desirable behaviours.
Examples of behavioural interventions include telling people how their electricity usage compares to their neighbours or sending text messages reminding people to pay fines.
Many of these interventions are expressly designed to "seize people's attention" at a time when they can take the desired action. Unfortunately, seizing people's attention can crowd out other, more important considerations, and cause even a simple intervention to backfire with costly individual and social consequences.
One such behavioural intervention struck us as odd: Several U.S. states display year-to-date fatality statistics (number of deaths) on roadside dynamic message signs (DMSs). The hope is that these sobering messages will reduce traffic crashes, a leading cause of death of five- to 29-year-olds worldwide. Perhaps because of its low cost and ease of implementation, at least 28 U.S. states have displayed fatality statistics at least once since 2012. We estimate that approximately 90 million drivers have been exposed to such messages.
Startling results
As academic researchers with backgrounds in information disclosure and transportation policy, we teamed up to investigate and quantify the effects of these messages. What we found startled us.
Contrary to policymakers' expectations (and ours), we found that displaying fatality messages increases the number of crashes.
We studied the use of these fatality messages in Texas. The state provides a useful laboratory to study such messages, as it has 880 DMSs, 17 million drivers and, unfortunately, typically over 3,000 road-related fatalities per year. The most advantageous aspect of this sample, however, is that from August 2012 until the end of our sample in 2017, the Texas Department of Transportation only showed these fatality messages for one week each month — the week before the Texas Transportation Commission's monthly meeting.
This institutional feature allowed us to compare, for instance, the hourly number of crashes occurring around a DMS during the week when fatality messages are being shown, relative to crashes on the same road segment during the other three weeks of the same month. Also, we were able to control for time of day, day of week, weather conditions and holidays.
We found that there were two to three per cent more crashes within one to 10 kilometres downstream of each DMS during the week fatality messages were shown. This suggests that this specific behavioural intervention backfired in Texas.
Warning distractions
We conducted two tests to rule out whether this finding was simply because these weeks happen to be inherently more dangerous. First, we looked upstream of each DMS. In doing so, we limited our sample to those DMSs without another DMS within 10 kilometres upstream. We found no increase in accidents upstream of these DMSs, but still find an effect downstream.
Second, we investigated whether the weeks before the monthly meetings of the Texas Transportation Commission had more crashes in the months before Texas began showing these fatality messages. Looking at data between January 2010 and July 2012, we found no evidence of a change in crashes during the week prior to the Texas Transportation Commission meeting.
Based on our findings, we hypothesized that these fatality messages cause more crashes because they make drivers anxious and distract them. Our research found several pieces of evidence that supported this hypothesis.
First, we found that the larger the displayed number of fatalities (a plausibly more shocking and distracting message), the greater the increase in crashes. Higher fatality counts are associated with significantly more crashes, whereas lower fatality counts are associated with fewer crashes.
Related, fatality messages cause the largest increase in crashes in January, when the display shows the prior year's total in Texas. Conversely, there are marginally fewer crashes in February, when the fatality count resets and is at its lowest.
Second, the increase in crashes is concentrated in more complex road segments, where focusing on the road is likely more important and the cost of a distraction more severe. We also found that crashes increased statewide during the weeks when messages were displayed, inconsistent with improved driving farther away from DMSs; that the days after a campaign end are no safer than other days; and that these messages continue to affect drivers after more than five years of showing fatality statistics.
Counterproductive to safety
Our research shows that displaying fatality messages does not result in safer driving and fewer crashes. Besides the more obvious takeaway that displaying fatality messages may be counterproductive, our findings highlight two broader issues.
First, while behavioural interventions should grab attention, this can be taken too far and have costly consequences. Second, it is vital to evaluate policies and their outcomes over time, as even good intentions may not necessarily lead to the desired outcomes.
By: Jonathan Hall
Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Toronto
By: Joshua Madsen
Assistant Professor, Accounting, University of Minnesota
Jonathan Hall has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, the NET Institute, and via an interagency agreement between the US Department of Transportation and the National Science Foundation.
Joshua Madsen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
This post was originally published at The Conversation.
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UAHDX Release!
Finally, its here! The release of Ultra Air Hockey DX for PCs!
Starting in October 2014, EagleSoft Ltd worked on its first Indie Unity3D video game, Ultra Air Hockey DX, not only for fun and for software engineering experience, but also as a university project for a Fundamentals of Software Engineering class programming project. This project was much more difficult than we first imagined, since we had to self-teach ourselves and to learn quickly a new programming language (C#), a game engine (Unity3D), and fundamentals of software engineering, including creating documentation such as an SRS, a Gantt chart, and a plethora of other documents. Nevertheless, through hard work and persistence, we finally finished programming the game in early January of 2015, and are ready to release it as a purchasable download from the shop section of the website! The game is currently available for Windows 7 (x86/x64), Mac OS X (x86/x64/universal), and Linux 10.04 (x86/x64/universal). A demo of the game for all of the previous OS and bit combinations is also available (the demo only has Air Hockey mode available) on the UAHDX Page and at the shop (for free).
Everything is finished with the game (all powerups, all 3 modes, and all game assets), except for online multiplayer. We plan on implementing this complex feature, as well as any other bug fixes, post-mortem as a update patch.
Below is an advertisement for the game, showing off all of the gameplay features.
We hope you enjoy the game as much as we had in creating it!
EagleSoft Ltd and UAHDX Dev Team
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UAHDX v1.1 and Android ports in progress!
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EagleSoft Store Deployed!
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27 June 2019 / SF News / Joe Kukura
Solano County Teens Accused Of Online Dating Scam Where Victims Were Shot, Robbed
You've heard of online dates going badly, but this scheme entrapped two separate victims who were shot, robbed, and left abandoned in rural Solano County.
A couple of 18-year-old men in northern Solano County may be a little apprehensive to get back into the online dating game, as we have news today of scam "dates" that left both shot and robbed — and in one case, also relieved of two ounces of his marijuana. The Sacramento Bee reports that three Woodland teens have been arrested for luring two male victims to setup dates, shooting and robbing them, and leaving both abandoned and bleeding on Putah Creek Road in unincorporated Solano County.
***PRESS RELEASE*** 2 Arrested on 2 Cases of Attempted Murder & Armed Robbery On April 22, 2019 just after midnight, a...
Posted by Solano County Sheriff's Office on Monday, June 24, 2019
The Solano County Sheriff's Office details the scheme pretty thoroughly in the above Facebook post; two separate incidents happened in April and June, with the suspects using the same M.O. According to the sheriff's department, 18-year-old Amit Chhoker connected with the victims using an online dating service, picked them up in a green Land Rover, and drove them out to a remote road.
"Then they'd get intimate," Solano County Undersheriff Brad Dewall told KPIX.
Except things would take an ugly turn. Suspected accomplices Branden Lerma, 19, and a 17-year-old suspect whose name has not been released, allegedly ambushed the car from nearby bushes and pulled each victim from the vehicle. The suspects allegedly told the victims to curl up in a ball on the ground, at which point they were promptly shot, and in both cases the victim was robbed of his phone, cash, and shoes.
"He walked about a mile for help," Dewall says of one of the victims to the Woodland Daily Democrat.
Stealing the victims' phones may not have been the best move, though, as law enforcement was able to ping one of the phones and track down its location. The three have been arrested and charged with armed robbery and attempted murder. Each of the three is claiming that another one pulled the trigger, though Solano County sheriffs say "Lerma is believed to be the shooter in at least one of the incidents."
Related: SFPD Arrests Suspect In String Of Violent Bayview Robberies That Targeted Women
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The great John Waters returns to Oakland's Mosswood Park next weekend (July 6-7) for his fifth time hosting Burger Boogaloo. And while The Jesus & Mary Chain is headlining, Waters says he's most looking forward to the band called Amyl & the Sniffers.
New Chronicle Food Critic Unveils A Notably Different Top 100
The Chronicle Top 100 has just gotten a major update in the hands of new critic Soleil Ho, and the omissions include some local sacred cows and Michelin-starred destinations like Saison, Boulevard, Frances, and Octavia.
Joe Kukura
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We are happy to announce we have updated our system to the latest code technology and upgraded our servers for increased performance. In addition, we just launched a new billing system to replace our old system. We are committed to providing our users with the best experience with our software.
We now have the ability to upload photos for each person in your church. This is one of our more requested features and we are happy to release it. Just go to Edit Profile and click to upload a new photo. Once uploaded, you will be able to crop it to the desired shape and size. Then you can enjoy the benefits of photos for everyone in your church.
We now offer attendance tracking to record attendance at all your church services and events quickly and accurately. Add both one-time events and recurring events, and easily manage them all from one page. Even link them to a ministry or small group. View past and future events with just one click on the calendar display.
For our international customers, we now offer date and time formatting options to make using our system easier outside the US. We have also made it possible for your church to enable or disable parts of the software to limit access or hide any unneeded features.
We are happy to announce we have completed upgrading our church podcasting accounts to version 2 of Connect Podcast. We are excited to offer our customers new features and improvements.
We have added a brand new addition to Connect Manage. Now you can send emails to anyone directly through our system. No need to open new email software. Send emails to one person or multiple people, including the ability to email ministries and small groups with one click.
Take a look at the new Email page inside Connect Manage and share your feedback with us. We would love to hear what you think of it!
Connect Manage Mobile has arrived!
We now have a smartphone specific version of Connect Manage. When away from your office or computer, you can easily access Connect Manage Mobile on your smartphone. Search for people in your congregation, view their entire profiles, or record notes. Quickly send emails, make calls, or view addresses on maps on your phone.
Connect Manage Mobile is compatible with any smartphone in use today including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and more. Just go to your Connect Manage web address on your phone and you will be automatically directed to the mobile version. Bookmark this page for easy access to Connect Manage Mobile in the future.
We have added help buttons across Connect Manage to give you instructions for every feature we offer. Just look for the ? at the top of each page. Click these and a pop-up window will appear with instructions and links to related Helpdesk articles. We believe these will help our churches learn the software quickly, making it even easier to use.
We released a new page called "Important Dates" that shows all of the upcoming birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and student graduation dates. You will find it on the People page. We also made a major update to our backup system so we can roll back any unwanted changes to your system to a point of your choosing. Just get in contact with us if you need any assistance.
Today we upgraded our servers to improve the speed of load times while using our software. We swapped in new SSD hard drives which feature some of the highest performing technology available.
This is our blog with general updates and news about Easy Church Tools. You can Subscribe via RSS or bookmark for future access.
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On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Arcane Mage for each boss of the Uldir raid. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5.
This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in Uldir. This page will focus primarily on how an Arcane Mage can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Uldir, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.
Arcane Mages are looking to be a very strong pick in Uldir, due to their strong burst DPS, which is amplified on multiple bosses. This is mainly due to the bonus damage phases or strict DPS checks on certain mechanics. Additionally, there are no fights which Arcane truly struggles with, since none of the fights contain Arcane's main weakness, 2-target cleave.
The fight is comprised of two main mechanics, Plasma Discharge and Sanguine Static. Sanguine Static targets a player in the raid and shoots 5 blood orbs towards the target. Be ready to sidestep the projectiles when he finishes the cast. If you are not running Slipstream, make sure you are not channeling Evocation when you are targeted with this spell, as it will knock you back and interrupt you.
A location to drop Plasma Discharge should be marked before the fight begins. You should use Blink (or Shimmer, if you chose the talent) to get out of the group and start dropping the blood. When you are done dropping the blood, you can use Displacement to get back into the group. This mechanic is the main reason for picking Slipstream, as it allows you to still do some damage while dropping these debuffs off, if you get any Clearcasting procs. If Taloc has cast Cudgel of Gore and his weapon remains on the ground, do not stand between the boss and his weapon at any time in Phase One or Phase Three.
In Phase 2, you begin your descent into the raid. Taloc goes immune to all damage and begins to spawn two sets of adds, so make sure that you do not use any big DPS cooldowns right before the boss enters Phase 2. Coalesced Blood is the Phase 2-exclusive add and must be prioritized over all other targets. Volatile Droplet will be soaked or burned down quickly as a secondary target.
4.1. Suggested Talents for Arcane Mage on M.O.T.H.E.R.
Rune of Power is a lot better for DPS on this boss if you can pull it off effectively, so it is advised that you practice with Rune of Power, only changing to Incanter's Flow if you end up having a lot of issues with Rune of Power.
4.2. Arcane Mage Playstyle on M.O.T.H.E.R.
Effectively playing Arcane on M.O.T.H.E.R. is all about how effectively you can deal with the different abilities that force you to move a lot.
M.O.T.H.E.R is another 3-phase fight, split into three rectangular boss rooms. Each room is on a timer, based on when the boss enters. All players must pass through the barrier and reach the end to defeat M.O.T.H.E.R. before they are incinerated.
Wind Tunnel conjures a gust of wind in the room, which pushes you towards zones of fire. On beta, you could stand against the wall where the boss is tanked to avoid getting pushed into the fire. However, the assumption is that this will be changed to no longer work on live. If this indeed does not work on live, you can deal with this effectively by using Shimmer early on when the wind starts pushing you, and then waiting a couple of seconds and using Displacement to get back to where you Shimmered from. This should allow you to keep DPSing for the entire duration of the wind without ending up in the fire. Purifying Flame creates several void zones beneath players that must be moved from. You can use a stack of Shimmer on this, but make sure you check the timer of Wind Tunnel, and hold on to the Shimmer if Wind Tunnel is coming soon.
The main fight mechanic revolves around Defense Grid. Everytime players cross into the next room, the entire raid takes damage and adds spawn, based on how many players crossed the threshold. If many players are crossing over, make sure you preemptively cast Prismatic Barrier, or if a huge number of people are moving over at once, use Greater Invisibility.
These adds are the top priority in this encounter. They must be stunned, interrupted, and knocked back until they are dead. If their cast completes, the raid will wipe. Depending on how many people move over at once, you should either burn them down one after the other, or AoE them down if there are 3 or more close to each other.
Fetid Devourer is a fight that Arcane Mages should excel on. This is due to the vulnerability phase, which Arcane Mage can exploit very well due to its high burst DPS. During the vulnerability phase, the boss will take increased damage from 50% onwards. If the boss is close to 50%, save your cooldowns to burn the boss.
The main boss casts very few abilities. Rotting Regurgitation is a cone ability targeted at a random player, which must be dodged or you will take a large amount of damage and have Malodorous Miasma applied to you. If you are afflicted with Malodorous Miasma, be it random or through the breath, it will evolve into Putrid Paroxysm, which is another debuff which does substantially more damage in a short duration. If you have this debuff, consider casting Greater Invisibility, especially if it lines up with Shockwave Stomp.
Shockwave Stomp (Heroic and up) is a raid-wide knockback, which pushes you backwards a considerable distance. Make sure you watch for this timer before using cooldowns, such as Rune of Power. You can use Shimmer while mid-air from this knockback to return back to your original position.
Two adds will spawn from six waste disposal units at random. You can save a stack of Rune of Power for these adds to quickly burn them down. Make sure you have enough Mana when these adds spawn, so you can focus on priority damage to them.
There are a couple of choices that you can make in terms of talents. It mostly comes down to what your raid needs extra help with. If your group has trouble clearing the phase one Silithid Warriors, you can opt into Reverberate (or Nether Tempest, for a more hybrid approach).
This encounter is split into three phases, with a few basic mechanics that persist through the whole fight. The main mechanic is Surging Darkness. This creates three zones of darkness centering where the boss casted the ability. One zone will be safe for every pulse. Make sure you have Shimmer stacks available for this mechanic.
Phase 1 spawns many Silithid Warriors that fixate a target and can be stunned and burned down effortlessly. Simply use Arcane Explosion on them when they are clumped up until 4 Arcane Charges, and then use Arcane Barrage, repeating until they are dead. If you talented into Nether Tempest or Arcane Orb, you should use them as described on the Rotation page.
During Phase 1, players will be targeted with Eye Beam at random. Players fixated by C'Thun's gaze will have a small indicator below them that will show if they are standing close enough to cleave another player. Always avoid having other players in your circle while being fixated and use a personal coolwdown, such as Prismatic Barrier.
Phase 2 is a priority damage phase. Three adds will spawn and begin casting on players. These casters can be interrupted, stunned, CC'd, but not moved. Counterspell should be used to interrupt them. The boss mechanic during this phase casts Roiling Deceit on a handful of players. These players will take damage and then drop a cloud at their feet upon expiration. Get this cloud out of the raid by using Shimmer right before the debuff expires, and then using Displacement to get back to the group.
Phase 3 is the final phase of the fight. There will be no more adds or previous Old God mechanics during this phase. Instead, the boss will spawn Orb of Corruption around the boss room. These orbs must be soaked by players. Players who soak the orb get a temporary damage increase and once the buff times out, they will be mind controlled until killed. Mind controlled targets must be silenced, stunned, or interrupted while they live. You should soak one of these orbs while all your cooldowns are ready, so you can maximize the DPS bonus from the orbs.
Vectis will begin the fight by casting Omega Vector on a few party members. This debuff does not expire and will bounce from target to target the entire fight. Everytime the debuff bounces, the player contracts one stack of Lingering Infection, which increases all nature damage taken. While Omega Vector deals shadow damage, other fight mechanics deal nature damage.
During the "up phase", the boss will cast two abilities. Contagion is a raid wide nature damage explosion and Gestate stuns the target dealing shadow damage to all players around the target and spawns and add. This add must be burned down immediately or the healing absorb debuff it casts on the raid will be too much for your healers. If you get this debuff, you should Shimmer out of the group, and Displacement back into the group after you have spawned the add.
Vectis submerges and spawns Plague Bombs, which must be soaked by players. During this phase, Vectis will also send out waves of blood that must be sidestepped or the player will take a stack of Lingering Infection. These waves of blood move quite quickly and are hard to dodge if you are close to the submerged boss, so you should remain relatively far away. If a Plague Bomb spawns close to the submerged boss, you can soak this by using Shimmer to get to it, and then casting Ice Block to avoid getting hit by the waves of blood.
If you are very comfortable with the fight, you can run Rune of Power to help burst down adds quicker. However, there are a lot of reasons that make Rune of Power hard to use, especially if you are one of the main soakers for Pool of Darkness, in which case Incanter's Flow is a better option. Additionally, you can run either Resonance or Charged Up, depending on if you need more priority DPS or more AoE DPS. The same choice goes for Touch of the Magi versus Nether Tempest.
The main mechanic that Arcane Mages can handle is Pool of Darkness (Heroic and up). Due to having both Shimmer and Displacement, we have a lot of mobility to get into the pools. You can then use Prismatic Barrier to reduce the damage taken from them, or Greater Invisibility / Ice Block if you are soaking these pools at the same time Dark Revelation or Deathwish is happening.
There are three sets of adds that spawn in Phase 1. Nazmani Bloodhexer spawn in packs of two and must remain separated. Focus these first and kill them quickly. If your group runs a strategy in which you crowd control these adds, you can use Polymorph on them when needed. The second Bloodhexer may possibly cast Congeal Blood; the add that spawns from this cast is the only target that takes priority over the two Bloodhexers. Bloodhexers can be hard CC'd, knocked back, stunned, and silenced, as well as the add that they spawn. These adds are the ones you will most likely want to use your DPS cooldowns on.
Nazmani Crusher is your second priority and Bloodthirsty Crawg are normally just burned down through passive cleave. The Crushers will spawn one at a time and the Crawgs will spawn four at a time. When there are no Nazmani Bloodhexers active, target the Crusher and cleave off of him.
The choice between Rune of Power and Incanter's Flow largely depends on how comfortable you are with the encounter. You will want to go the standard single-target DPS talents on this fight, however, Resonance and Reverberate can be considered if your group has trouble killing the groups of adds. Nether Tempest is a good hybrid option if you want to add a bit more DPS to the groups of adds, without giving up a lot of single-target DPS.
This fight consists of a boss phase and an intermission phase. During the boss phase, just be aware of any Annihilation stacks you have. Clear them if they get too high, or if you are called to clear them using Existence Fragments. You can limit the number of stacks you receive by avoiding casts of Obliteration Blast, which targets a random player and shoots a laser at them, and its intermission counterpart, Obliteration Beam. If you get Imminent Ruin, simply Shimmer when it is about to expire, and then use Displacement to get back.
At 75% Health, the boss moves into the middle of the room and takes 99% less damage, so make sure you do not activate your DPS cooldowns when the boss is close to 75% Health. During the intermission, two large N'raqi Destroyers spawn and must stay separated while being burned down. Additionally, several players will be targeted with Visions of Madness. Try to stay grouped so players can cleave them down easily. Counterspell any adds that are out of the main group.
Damage timings are very telegraphed during this fight. Raid-wide damage is dealt after every mind control break, at the beginning of every intermission, and also when Imminent Ruin expires. If any mechanics line up, or you are afflicted with Imminent Ruin, be sure to use your Greater Invisibility or Ice Block.
You can run Nether Tempest over Touch of the Magi if you need more add DPS during the first phase. Aside from that, a standard single-target talent setup is recommended.
G'huun is the final boss of the raid. The encounter consists of an upstairs minigame portion, as well as three downstairs phases.
Arcane Mages are a decent choice (but by no means the best choice) for the upstairs mini-game, as with the double Shimmer usage, they can get very far along the platform to deliver the Power Matrix. So, if your group is lacking Warriors, Monks and Demon Hunters, it is worth trying as an Arcane Mage.
Phase 1 is the add phase. Your focus in this phase is to cleave down all units, but have at least one target ready to be focused down. The priority is Blightspreader Tendril (Heroic and up), then Cyclopean Terror, and finally Dark Young. Make sure all casts during this phase are interrupted. The Dark Young add will cast an ability called Dark Bargain in a circle around itself. If you take one stack, you deal increased damage and healing but also take increased damage. If you get a second stack, you will be mind controlled. You can coordinate with your healers to get one stack of this for bonus DPS. You should make sure to line up your DPS cooldowns for this buff. During this phase, G'huun will also cast Explosive Corruption on one random player. This player should move to the edges of the room, so they do not infect any other members. This ability will persist through the fight. You can simply Shimmer out right before it expires and use Displacement to get back in.
When G'huun is forced from his lair, he stops stops spawning the adds from the previous phase and brings new mechanics to the fight. Be sure to spread to reduce stacks of Putrid Blood contracted from the Wave of Corruption. A player will be targeted with Blood Feast, rooting them to the ground. Stack up on that player to remove all stacks of Putrid Blood. He will spawn a Gibbering Horror, whose strength is increased by the amount of Putrid Blood stacks that were removed. Focus this down when it is active and avoid being interrupted by Mind-Numbing Chatter.
At 15%, the final phase begins. The upstairs mechanics end and the raid takes a large amount of damage. Only two new mechanics are added to the phase, but you are no longer able to remove Putrid Blood, so spreading is very important. Malignant Growth (Heroic and up) must be moved away from if they spawn nearby. G'huun will also be casting Gaze of G'huun, which will fear you if you face him, so make sure to turn away right before it. If you have a Clearcasting proc, you can start the Arcane Missiles channel before Gaze of G'huun finishes, and turn around already, as your channel will not be interrupted from facing away.
30 Aug. 2018: Added guides and talent recommedations for Heroic and Normal modes.
10 Aug. 2018: Added Arcane Mage Boss by Boss page (empty for now).
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RS Components' support for Young Enterprise expanded after two decades of involvement
22nd March 2019 News 491 Views
RS Components (RS) has expanded its support for the 2019 Young Enterprise initiative. RS, which has been involved with the programme for almost 20 years, hosted a week-long workshop at both its Corby head offices and the RS Local branch in Watford. These workshops provided a great opportunity to inspire local talented students to develop their design and engineering skills.
RS invited students to its offices in Corby from local schools including Northampton High School, Gartree High School, Kingsthorpe College, Northampton School for Boys, Northampton School for Girls, Rawlins Academy and The Duston School and gave them a challenge to repurpose everyday disposable items. Following this, the students will now work on their design projects for one month before sending them to the RS judging panel which includes Lindsley Ruth, Chief Executive of Electrocomponents. Up to ten finalists will be invited to the Group head office in London in June to present their projects back to the panel.
Earlier this month RS helped to curate the Young Enterprise presentation delivered to 130 gifted and talented Year 9 students from across the UK. The programme helps students build skills including marketing, finance and communications to aid employability. RS also provided STEM ambassadors as mentors for the students, available to them on each day of the week-long event.
Laura Giddings, STEM education manager, Northern Europe, commented: "RS has been working with the Young Enterprise programme for almost two decades, and we have extended our support this year to demonstrate our passion for inspiring young entrepreneurs, and our commitment to promote engineering. Young Enterprise's mission statement is 'to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise' – an ambition which is close to our own, which is to enable and inspire tomorrow's engineers to make more possible.
"Over the week, we have delivered valuable information about engineering and technology to the students and shown them how RS supports engineers and technologists. The students really enjoyed their time with RS, taking on board the knowledge and advice that was offered to them. We can't wait to see how the efforts from this week will translate into designed products."
Robin Neighbour, area manager for Young Enterprise in Northamptonshire, said: "We're grateful for the support RS has given to Young Enterprise over the years. This year has been phenomenal with support on the presentation to students – which is a key part of inspiring them to participate in the initiative – and support with hosting and judging. We're thrilled with the calibre of students coming through the programme and it's been great to focus on the important area of technology and engineering."
The deadline for entries is 26th April, with finalists announced on Friday 10th May. The finals will take place on 18th June 2019, when up to 60 students will be visiting the RS London office with their teachers. First, second and third place prizes will be awarded.
Young Enterprise is a not-for-profit business and enterprise charity in England and Wales. For further information about the Young Enterprise programme, visit https://www.young-enterprise.org.uk.
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Q: Is it OK to create 2 instances of C# MongoClient connecting to the same replica set? I used to create an instance of MongoClient from the official driver and register it in the DI as a singleton. But now because of design issues, I have to create another MongoClient instance in the other place to connect to the very same Replica Set.
Are there any potential problems? Do the two instances will use the same connection or create two separate connections?
Project is written in ASP.NET Core 3.1
MongoDB driver's version 2.8
MongoDB server uses 4.2
A: Currently, if all client options are the same, it will work since the underlying mongo client's data is stored on the cluster level. And as it was mentioned in the comments above, mongoClient constructor tries to retrieve this data from the static storage each time when you create a new client.
However, there is a restriction, your MongoClientSettings should not contain the configured ClusterConfigurator option. Otherwise, it will lead to creating two different clusters with all related stuff for example connection pools.
Also, see Re-use section here: https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-csharp-driver/2.10/reference/driver/connecting/
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Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center say they have developed a technique for finding where DNA repair happens throughout all of human DNA. Their study ("Genome-wide analysis of human global and transcription-coupled excision repair of UV damage at single-nucleotide resolution"), published in Genes & Development, offers scientists a potential way to find and target the proteins cancer cells use to circumnavigate therapy, according to the researchers, who add that the benefit of this new method could be more effective and better tolerated classes of cancer therapeutics.
The research, led by Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., the Sarah Graham Kenan professor of biochemistry and biophysics, reportedly marks the first time scientists have been able to map the repair of DNA damage over the entire human genome.
When DNA is damaged, cells use many enzymes to cut the strand of DNA and excise the damaged fragment. Then, other enzymes repair the original DNA so that the cells can function properly. Previously, Dr. Sancar's lab relied on purified enzymes to discover how this process happens in DNA damaged by UV irradiation and by chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatin and oxaliplatin.
In recent years, Michael Kemp, Ph.D., a researcher on Dr. Sancar's team, found that a particular protein called TFIIH bound tightly to the excised damaged DNA fragment in the test tube. But for this information to be truly useful to biomedical researchers, the experiment needed to be replicated in human cells.
Extracting a stable TFIIH-DNA fragment proved difficult. Not until postdoctoral fellow Jinchuan Hu, Ph.D., joined Dr. Sancar's lab could the team accomplish the task.
Through a series of sophisticated experiments with human skin cells, Dr. Hu exposed the cells to UV radiation and used an antibody against the enzyme TFIIH to isolate the enzyme complex with the excised DNA damage. Then he created experimental techniques to pull the enzyme, as well as the excised DNA fragment it was bound to, from the cells.
The fragment was stable enough for Dr. Sancar's lab to sequence it. Then, Sheera Adar, Ph.D., fellow postdoc, and Jason Lieb, Ph.D., co-senior investigator of the study used their expertise in computational biology to analyze where the DNA repair happened throughout the entire genome and thus generate a human genome repair map for the first time.
Because UV radiation and common chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin cause DNA damage in similar ways, Dr. Sancar's team is now using their new DNA excision repair method, known as XR-Seq, to study cells affected by cisplatin. They also hope to use it to study the biochemical reactions in animal models with the goal of finding the specific mechanisms that allow cancer cells to repair DNA damage to survive.
"XR-seq and the resulting repair maps will facilitate studies of the effects of genomic location, chromatin context, transcription, and replication on DNA repair in human cells," wrote the investigators.
The research also revealed that parts of the genome scientists previously thought did very little are actually part of this repair process. On chromosomes, DNA forms genes that create proteins. Between these genes, there are DNA sequences.
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I went out adulting today. I bought myself a new lamp for my bedroom and some seriously bright light bulbs.
The story starts about a year ago, when the kids finally convinced me that we needed to move out of the construction zone that was our former apartment. We toured a bunch of apartment communities -- and when I say "a bunch," I mean nine or ten. The list of potential apartments took some serious research and planning, nearly all of it done by Amy. What made it tougher than your typical apartment search was that we were looking for a three-bedroom place -- or at least a two-bedroom with a den -- so each of us could have a real door we could shut. (In the old place, we'd used Japanese screens to make a bedroom for Kitty out of the dining room.) A second bathroom was also on our wish list, as well as access to public transit and a short commute.
After all that work, after touring all those properties and looking at our preferences...we had zero properties that all three of us liked. We reconsidered our criteria and decided to go back to a couple of places that could work if we worked at it. One of them was this place, which was awesome in nearly every way -- except that the den, which someone would have to sleep in, was an interior room with no window. (Which is why they couldn't call it a bedroom, I suspect. Bedrooms have to have two means of ingress and egress in case of fire.) Other than that, it was a great apartment. I mean, the location is stellar and the kitchen is to die for.
So guess who fell on her sword and said she'd take the den?
I didn't think having no natural light in a bedroom would bug me as much as it does. But I recently realized I've been doing a lot of knitting -- way more than I've been writing. And it's partly because the knitting chair is by the big window in the living room, and my desk is in my bedroom. Once I figured that out, I realized Something Needed to Be Done.
The extra lamp made a difference, but the real key was the type of lightbulb I put in it. I picked up a pack of GE's Refresh LED bulbs, which are billed as providing energetic daylight. "Recommended for home offices," the package said.
I expect I would be less thrilled with this "energetic daylight" thing in the lamp next to my bed. But at least now I'm looking forward to sitting at my computer. Who knows? Maybe I'll even get some writing done.
I'll bore y'all with a knitting post next week.
Oh, one piece of housekeeping: Google Plus is being dismantled, and one of the first casualties is the G+ comment plug-in on blogs like mine. So hearth/myth is back to the native Blogger comment system, which has never worked particularly well. Apologies for that.
These moments of well-lit blogginess have been brought to you, as a public service, by Lynne Cantwell.
Every Presidents' Day weekend, my daughters attend Katsucon, a massive anime convention across the Potomac River from us in National Harbor, Maryland. (When I say massive, I mean massive. They have 21,000 attendees this year.) Kitty is the assistant head of Video Operations, so my kids get there a day earlier and stay a day longer than the regular attendees.
Which means I've had the apartment to myself since I got home from work Thursday -- or (checks the time) approximately 76 hours. And counting.
Yesterday, Kitty texted me to ask whether I could run something over to her in a few hours, after she got some sleep. Sure, I said. Then she offered to send me a reminder text.
"I think I'll be okay. There's not much here today to distract me," I said.
She LOL'ed and offered to text me earlier, "if you wanna cut the boredom sooner."
But it's not the same diff. At work, I sit in a doorless cubicle in a hallway. My phone has twelve active lines. There's always background noise -- conversations, phones ringing. Then to get to work, I take public transit, and there's always background noise there, as well -- announcements over the intercom, other commuters' conversations, trains and buses starting and stopping. It's distracting.
And at home, our schedules are different enough that someone is always coming or going, or listening to music, or sleeping, or having a conversation.
It gets to the point where it's hard to find a minute to think.
These moments of laid-back blogginess have been brought to you, as a public service, by Lynne Cantwell.
I hear there's some kind of sportsball thing happening tonight. Which means some of y'all will soon be really happy, some will be angry and/or sad, and some will be too stuffed from the buffet to care.
Then there's the contingent who suffer through the game just to watch the halftime show. From what I'm seeing in my Facebook feed, those folks are already regretting their life choices tonight.
Well, fear not! I have here a thing that everyone can win.
Do you guys like word searches? I loved them as a kid. I was already good at spelling, and it turned out I was also good at spotting letter combinations in word search puzzles. You wouldn't think that would be a useful life skill -- but then I became an editor.
Anyway, below you will find a word search puzzle. The word list consists of the names of some of the deities in the Pipe Woman Chronicles universe, as lifted from the table of contents of A Billion Gods and Goddesses, 2nd Ed.
I used an online word search generator for this puzzle, and I haven't tried it myself yet. The words can go in any direction -- up, down, across, forward and backward, and diagonally. The generator wouldn't take a word that was more than 15 characters, so White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman has been shortened to "goddess," which is what Naomi calls her most of the time anyway.
Also, the graphic is a .png converted from a pdf. I hope it's clear enough. If not, Adobe owes me fifteen bucks.
These moments of bloggy fun and games have been brought to you, as a public service, by Lynne Cantwell.
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After one wound up lodged in the airway of a five-year-old boy.
Angela Henderson shared the post on the Finlee and Me Facebook page, reminding parents to "cut the damn grapes" after one wound up lodged in the airway of a five-year-old boy.
"Attention Parents," the post begins.
The grape became lodged in the boy's airway last week and his mother gave Angela permission to share their story.
"This sweet soul had to be operated on, under general anaesthetic to remove the grape" the post continues.
"He is VERY lucky that part of his airway was open or else this could have ended badly.
Since posting, the X-ray has been shared over 25,000 times with many people warning their friends.
"As a former paramedic - grapes and hot dogs are the worst for lodging in throats, but anything soft and circular can be deadly. I always encourage anyone I see feeding young kids soft, circular items, to cut the food in half."
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Bo's daughter succumbed to a rare liver disease in 2003, three years after she graduated from Marquette. So he and his wife, Candy, started the Nicole Ellis Foundation, which is funded mainly through private gifts and the annual Warrior Golf Outing. The foundation also provides an annual scholarship through Marquette's Ethnic Alumni Association and supports the American Liver Foundation.
Kevin is an institution. As senior vice president of public and community relations for the Baltimore Ravens, an organization he has been with for 31 years, he oversees an award-winning staff responsible for the team's website and most of the print publications. He also has provided media relations assistance at 24 Super Bowls and two Pro Bowls and was Marquette's sports information director during the final years of Al McGuire's tenure.
As a season ticket holder for Marquette men's and women's basketball, Craig and his wife, Wendy, don't miss a game. And as a major supporter of Marquette athletics, Craig doesn't miss an opportunity to help the university's student-athletes and proud athletic tradition continue to soar to greater heights.
Playing basketball at Marquette was just the beginning of Tom's athletic connection to the university. He served four terms as M Club president, the longest in history; was a member of the men's basketball alumni reunion committees; is on the Marquette Athletics Board; and, with wife Pat, has committed to establishing endowed scholarships for men's and women's basketball through their estate plans.
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The Wood Word • February 24, 2019 • https://www.thewoodword.org/top-stories/2019/02/24/opinion-the-year-without-an-oscars-host/
OPINION: The year without an Oscars host
Photo credit to the American Broadcasting Company.
Ashlynn Gallagher, Opinion Editor
At this year's Oscars, the bold decision has been made to go without a host.
It's no secret the Academy originally planned on Kevin Hart hosting before his controversial drop out. While it is unclear whether or not the Academy asked other celebrities to host it is clear what their answer was.
One of my favorite parts about award shows are the hosts' opening monologues. Call me crazy, but there is something satisfying about watching celebrities make fun of each other for over five minutes. Getting to see Jimmy Kimmel mock Matt Damon and Mel Gibson brings me more joy than I'm proud to admit.
If I'm going to sit down and stare at my television screen for hours on end, I want to be entertained. I want to laugh and cry. I want to feel something. With a lack of human interaction, I just don't see how that's possible. Having celebrity presenters like Michael B. Jordan, Constance Wu and James McAvoy helps, but the presenters are not as memorable as the host.
Over the years, stars like Bob Hope, Billy Crystal and Steve Martin graced the stage, setting the bar high for all future hosts. The host is the life of the party. They are the comedic break we all need while watching endless categories and acceptance speeches.
Who could forget when Jimmy Kimmel brought a group of tourists into the theater mid-ceremony to get autographs, Hugh Jackman's memorable opening number honoring that year's nominated films or when Ellen DeGeneres had pizza delivered to hungry guests while staging the most iconic selfie of all time?
The last time the Oscars didn't have a host was in 1989 which featured an infamous 11-minute musical opening featuring Rob Lowe and Snow White. Let's just hope they learned from their previous mistake because after having record-low views last year, they can't afford another poor ceremony.
I'm not saying that the show can't end well. Who knows, this could be one of the best shows they've had in years, but to say I am skeptical would be an understatement.
When it comes down to it, every great ceremony needs a great emcee. Don't worry Academy, there's always next year… have your people call my people.
Contact the writer: [email protected]
Twitter: @AGallagherTWW
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Retired Gary Neville backed to replace Gray at Sky
Gary Neville is now as short as 3/1 to replace Andy Gray at Sky following his retirement from football.
The 35-year-old Manchester United full-back has ended his competitive career and a move into the media could well be on the cards, with Victor Chandler cutting the odds on the former England man becoming a Sky Sports pundit to 3/1.
There is a vacancy to fill following Gray's recent departure from Sky following allegations of sexist behaviour and Neville's retirement could come at the perfect time for him to fill the position. Jamie Redknapp is currently the 8/11 favourite.
Neville, who made 602 appearances for United and 85 for England, said of his retirement: "I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I've ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it's knowing when that time is and for me that time is now."
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We are a small AKC Specialty Club located on the NW side of Tucson, Arizona.
Our club works to promote the German Shepherd Dog breed and to provide education opportunities for the public about the breed.
We offer GSD Specialty Shows in March of each year (until 2018 it was April but we were fortunate enough to be able to move back to cooler dates beginning in 2019). We also offer AKC All-Breed (with preference to the GSD) Obedience and Rally trials in conjunction with the Specialty Shows. Please take a look at the pages under the Show Information menu item for more information.
Our club offers dog training classes on the NW side of Tucson, AZ. These classes are open to all breeds. Please see the pages under our Training Classes menu item for more information.
We have also made our newsletter available online. Please check under the Newsletter menu to see what we have been up to!
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Florence and the Machine announced their early summer North American tour in support of the band's 2018 LP "High as Hope." The tour starts May 10th at Mayer, Arizona's FORM Arcosanti Fest and concludes June 9th in Miami. Florence Welch and company will also be headlining New York's Governors Ball on June 1st.
On select dates Christine and the Queens, Blood Orange, Perfume Genius and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats will be opening acts.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale to the public on February 8th on Live Nation.
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Q: find all permutations of non-overlapping polygons in R (sp or sf objects) I have a spatial object (say a Multipolygon in sf or a SpatialPolygons in sp) and I want to find all the possible permutations of non-overlapping features. Here are some diagrams that illustrate what I am after. Let's say I have the following polygons.
library(sf)
# points
a <- st_as_sf(data.frame(lon = c(1,2,3.5,3,6), lat = c(0,1,0,1.5,-3)), coords = c('lon', 'lat'))
# circles
b <- st_buffer(a, 1)
# colors
cols = c('grey', 'red', 'green', 'yellow', 'blue')
cols = adjustcolor(cols, alpha.f = .5)
# plot
plot(b, col = cols)
I am after a routine that would create the following 3 objects whose plots would look like:
a.
b.
c.
Ideally, the routine would also allow for a threshold on the intersection of polygons.
I think whatever routine I could write myself would take prohibitively long even for moderate-sized objects (say, 150 polygons, yielding lots of possible combinations). I was hoping that someone have already figured this problem out.
A: M <- st_overlaps(b, sparse = FALSE) * 1
(M <- 1 - M)
# [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
# [1,] 1 0 1 1 1
# [2,] 0 1 0 0 1
# [3,] 1 0 1 0 1
# [4,] 1 0 0 1 1
# [5,] 1 1 1 1 1
colnames(M) <- c('grey', 'red', 'green', 'yellow', 'blue')
library(igraph)
A <- graph_from_adjacency_matrix(M)
max_cliques(A)
# [[1]]
# + 2/5 vertices, named, from dae1f9f:
# [1] red blue
#
# [[2]]
# + 3/5 vertices, named, from dae1f9f:
# [1] grey blue yellow
#
# [[3]]
# + 3/5 vertices, named, from dae1f9f:
# [1] grey blue green
cliques(A)
# ...
# Omitted, 13 cliques in total
First we use st_overlaps to get a kind of adjacency matrix, M, where two polygons are adjacent in this graph if they overlap in your data. But actually we are going to need 1 - M, where two polygons are adjacent in this new graph if they don't overlap. That's useful because what you are looking for then corresponds to (maximal) cliques in this graph:
cliques find all complete subgraphs in the input graph, obeying the
size limitations given in the min and max arguments.
max_cliques finds all maximal cliques in the input graph. A clique in
maximal if it cannot be extended to a larger clique. The largest
cliques are always maximal, but a maximal clique is not neccessarily
the largest.
In this case cliques are sets of polygons where none of the polygons overlap with any of the rest.
Also, as to apply this to sp objects, you only need to compute a corresponding M. I believe that over helps with that.
Bonus
As to add the possibility for thresholds, we just need to recompute M.
aux <- function(x) if (length(x) == 1) x else 0
M <- matrix(1, nrow(a), nrow(a))
for(i in 1:nrow(a))
for(j in 1:nrow(a))
M[i, j] <- aux(st_area(st_intersection(b[i, 1], b[j, 1])))
diag(M) <- 0
Then, for instance, if we count two polygons as intersecting only if the intersection area is greater than 0.2, we run
M <- 1 * (M > 0.2) # Getting threshold-overlaps
M <- 1 - M # The needed adjacency matrix
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Ethan Truong Nguyen, 9, makes an atom at the DCCCD STEM Institute booth during the Pi Day Math Festival presented by talkSTEM at Sammons Park. The event also debuted walkSTEM, which included guided walks aimed to teach children that math is all around.
Brookhaven College Math, Science and Engineering Division hosts an annual STEM Fair. The community-centered fair is open to children ages 6-18 and provides information about careers in science, technology, engineering and math while participating in hands-on activities.
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1950s >> 1958 >> no-651-november-1958
The Passing Show: 'Ardies' 'At
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At the Labour Party conference the executive only narrowly escaped defeat on a motion which advocated the integration of the public schools in the state system. This would mean the end of public schools as we know them, and the speakers who called for this won the applause of the conference. The executive finally succeeded in getting the motion rejected only because the majority of those old props of the platform, the union block votes, was behind them.
But what difference would it make to our society, which rests on the exploitation of the many by the few, if every public school was closed down tomorrow? Some Labourites seem to come near to believing in this connection that if we all dropped our H's and spoke with provincial accents we should have taken a stride forward towards Socialism. It reminds one of the people who, when asked why the Labour Party claims to be Socialist, recall that Keir Hardie turned up at the House of Commons in a cloth cap, and seem to think that it clinches the argument. But the important thing is not how you dress, but what you do; not how you speak, but what you say.
Miss Bacon's Dislikes
Even the speakers from the platform had to join in the general denunciation. Alice Bacon, M.P., who replied to the debate for the executive, said, "we all detest and dislike the public schools." If by "all" she meant all the people in the Labour Party, the statement is not true. Many leading Labourites not only went to public schools themselves, but send their children there as well. The reason is simple and obvious—they think that children get a better education at public schools than they do at state schools. The equipment and accommodation at the average public school is much better than it is at the average state school, teachers at public schools get more social prestige and higher pay, so teachers with the highest academic qualifications tend to go to them, and most important of all, a teacher at a state secondary or grammar school often has to take a class of thirty-five or forty, while his public school colleague can concentrate on a much smaller number. Naturally those Labour leaders who can afford it send their children to public schools.
Under new management
But the question goes much deeper than this. Even supposing that we had absolute equality of opportunity—which is impossible in a Capitalist society—even supposing that no member of the ruling class could give money or shares or a better education to his children, and that while the Smiths and Browns provided the Capitalists of this generation, the Joneses and the Robinsons provided the Capitalists of the next (again, impossible, but let it pass) even supposing all this, we should have exactly the same society that we have now. So long as we have a Capitalist society—part private and part state, like the Conservatives want, or a little-less-private and a little-more-state like the Labourites want—we will have the exploitation of the mass of people, the working class, by a small minority, the ruling class. To support Capitalism while demanding equality of opportunity is like supporting burglary, provided everyone has an equal chance to become a burglar. Equality of opportunity in our present society simply means that each generation of Capitalists would have different names from the last lot. But who in the world cares what they are called? To alter a familiar line, a sewer by any other name would smell as foul.
The Socialist Answer
Of course, there would be no public schools in a Socialist society. It would be impossible for one child to be huddled with forty others in a badly-vefltilated room opposite a soap factory, with the teacher wondering how he can keep up the instalments, while another is in a class of ten or twelve, in an airy room in pleasant surroundings. In a Socialist society, the members of it would determine what education would best fit children for living, and the children would have equal opportunities to benefit by it. But those Labourites who call for the abolition of public schools in our present society are confusing, as they so often do. the effects with the cause.
The Methods of Colonel Grivas
There are some facts about Cyprus which seem to have been forgotten.
Colonel Grivas, who is the head of Eoka, has a long history of extreme right wing activity, and of willingness to resort to violence to achieve his ends. It would not strain an over-used word to call him a Fascist.
Grivas took the opportunity of the feeling aroused by the announcement by a member of the British Government in the House of Commons that Cyprus could "never" be given its independence to begin a campaign of terrorism in the island, which still continues. This campaign is directed not only against the British, but also against Grivas's political opponents among the Greeks, who make up more than eighty per cent, of the island's population. Grivas has killed more Greeks than he has Britons. This fact has been repeatedly stressed by the British authorities. Some of the Greeks have been killed by shooting, others by being beaten or hacked to death in circumstances of revolting brutality: both men and women have been murdered.
A Death in Famagusta
In early October a British woman, the wife of a soldier, was shot dead in the streets of Famagusta. At the time of writing it is not known who did it. Eoka have issued leaflets denying responsibly, and the authorities say that if it was an Eoka gunman, this is the first British woman killed by Eoka. However, it seems more likely to have been done by Eoka than by anyone else.
This was a most deplorable crime. The woman had five children, the youngest being still in arms. What happens to the children now? Inevitably the crime must have a terrible effect on them. There is a saying that if you educate a woman, you educate a family: and there is a grim sense in which it is true to say, if you kill a woman, you kill a family.
More Deaths in Famagusta
As soon as the crime was known, a body of British troops descended on the district of the town where the murder, as it happened, had taken place. Famagusta is not a large town, and in it numbers of Greeks have been killed by Eoka because Grivas did not like their politics. No doubt in this district there were many Greeks who have had friends or relatives shot or otherwise brutally done to death by Eoka.
The British troops cordoned off the district, and proceeded to arrest every young man they could find. Within hours a thirty-year-old Greek was dead from suffocation, having been thrust into an army lorry with many others who had the misfortune to live in the area; an eighteen-year-old Greek was also dead, in circumstances which have not yet been revealed; a British soldier had been accidentally shot dead by one of his own comrades; ambulances were running shuttle services carrying injured Greeks from the temporary compounds where they were being "questioned" by British troops; no less than two hundred and fifty Greeks had been treated for injuries ("only" sixteen had been retained in hospital, said an official spokesman—"only" is an interesting word to use in this connection); and a twelve-year-old girl, having seen the "questioning" in progress, ran away in terror and died of shock. Apart from this the material damage, such as car-windows and shop-windows smashed in, was considerable.
These figures of casualties are those given by British official sources: unofficial sources put the numbers of dead and injured higher. (At first even an official spokesman said five Greeks had died during the operations, according to The Observer. October 5th, 1958, but subsequently he admitted less.)
Revenge—on whom?
If the dead and wounded Greeks, down to the twelve-year-old girl, had all been proved members or supporters of Eoka, then the British ruling class could claim that their soldiers were taking revenge—assuming that revenge, rather than the usual claim of "justice," is to be the British aim in Cyprus. But the victims of this military brutality were simply those Greeks who happened to live in the area—people who, the British authorities admit, are terrorised by Grivas and have suffered more in the way of Eoka killings than the British themselves.
Broken heads, but no violence
Sir Hugh Foot, the Governor of Cyprus, one of whose duties theoretically is to look after the welfare of the citizens under him, issued a statement after these events saying "Our first obligation is to stand against violence," but made not even the most perfunctory expression of regret for the activities of the British troops. Presumably death and injury do not come within his definition of violence when the sufferers are only Greek Cypriots. The War Minister, Mr. Soames, has denied that the troops concerned were out of control; for which one can only conclude that the things they did were not objected to by their officers and commanders. Mr. Soames said that he was very satisfied with the conduct of our troops in Cyprus (Manchester Guardian, October 7th, 1958). According to a BBC broadcast, Mr. Duncan Sandys, the Defence Minister, claimed that he was proud of the way the British troops had behaved.
Pride—and prejudice
Couldn't you have said, Mr. Soames, that you would have been even more satisfied if the British troops had injured only two hundred, say, of the local inhabitants, instead of two hundred and fifty? Couldn't you have said, Mr. Sandys, that you would have been even more proud if the soldiers during these operations had caused the deaths of only three people, say, instead of four?
How satisfied, how proud, can you get?
Alwyn Edgar
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The harvest of the top-quality kiwi for the Sweeki brand has started in Chile. Origine Group plans to sell 2,000 tons of Italian kiwifruit, and intends to sell the same amount from Chile as well.
In Chile, the harvest of green kiwis for Origine Group's "Sweeki" brand has begun. This season, the two Chilean members of Origine Group, David del Curto and Copefrut, will increase the quantity of Hayward kiwi under the brand "Sweeki Green", used to market top-quality Origine Group kiwis. Only kiwifruit of a superior quality, excellent appearance, high sugar content, and high dry matter can become a Sweeki kiwi.
In the orchards of the two Chilean companies, the picking started with high hopes, in terms of both quantity and quality. Chilean-grown Sweeki kiwi will be mostly directed to the Asian market, where they will join the late Italian kiwi, of which shipments are drawing to a close.
Alessandro Zampagna, Managing Director of Origine Group.
The very first shipments of Sweeki from Chile are expected shortly in the coming weeks.
The consortium Origine Group was founded in 2015 by several companies who are leaders in international markets in the production and trading of fresh fruit and vegetables. The consortium – established by Afe, Apofruit, Fruit C2, Gran Frutta Zani, Kiwi Uno, Op Kiwi Sole, Pempa-Corer, Salvi-Unacoa, Spreafico, Minguzzi and the Chilean groups David Del Curto and Copefrut – represents companies already firmly present in domestic and international markets, with a total turnover of over 1,200 million dollars. They have joined forces to provide top-quality products and are working together on innovative new varieties to explore new and emerging markets.
For more information, visit www.sweeki.co and www.origine-group.com.
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The bill's sponsor and families dependent on THC oil were scrambling to get it to a vote ahead of Crossover Day.
AJC Deja News: Georgia governor roots out marijuana crops (1984)
Mandi Albright, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A review of the news that made The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's front pages through the decades.
Today's AJC Deja News comes to you from the Thursday, March 22, 1984, edition of The Atlanta Constitution.
HARRIS PLANS TO STOP POT AT SOURCE: TEAMS TO SEEK OUT MARIJUANA FIELDS
Georgia Governor Joe Frank Harris declared all-out war in 1984. On pot.
He even had a cool name for his battalion: The Governor's Special Strike Force on Drug Suppression. Its logo? "A bright green marijuana leaf with a helicopter superimposed on it, the propeller tearing through the plant," Constitution reporter Celia W. Dugger wrote in her article detailing the state's plan to root out pot in the Peach State.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris began an aggressive war on illegal marijuana growing in Georgia back in 1984.
Photo: AJC Newspaper Archives
"More than 200 state employees this spring will be swooping over Georgia in helicopters and planes," Dugger continued, "hiking into remote wooded areas, and harvesting for destruction one of the state's most lucrative cash crops -- marijuana."
The governor had just empowered the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to "enlist and organize the resources of other state departments to combat marijuana growing."
Now, fast-forward 35 years. Georgia legislators are considering bills this session to allow medical marijuana to be grown in the state and sold to patients.
Photo: Mike Snook / Special to AJC
The Georgia Hemp Farm Act, HB 213, would provide for licensing and permit requirements for hemp growers and hemp processors. HB 324 would permit medical marijuana growing, manufacturing, testing and distribution at 60 dispensaries.
» Live: Use the AJC's tracker to follow Georgia bills
The AJC's Mark Niesse writes in a March 5 article that the "dispensaries would serve the state's rising number of physician-approved medical marijuana patients — more than 8,400 so far. Marijuana would remain illegal for recreational use."
Growing legal cannabis wouldn't be cheap.
"Initial licenses would cost $150,000 for large companies, $37,500 for smaller companies and $30,000 for retailers," Niesse writes. "Businesses would also have to pay annual license renewal fees ranging from $10,000 to $50,000."
A member of the Drug Suppression unit of the Governor's Task Force removes marijuana plants found near Southlake Mall in Morrow, Georgia, June 9, 1988.
Photo: BILLY DOWNS / AJC File
In our March 1984 report, GBI Director Phil Peters told the Constitution that in 1983, "state and local officials uprooted more than 660,000 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $291 million, and arrested 140 people in connection with the seizures."
Attitudes towards marijuana and laws regulating it have relaxed in the U.S. since the '80s. Washington D.C. and 10 states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington -- have all legalized recreational marijuana use. Georgia's medical marijuana law, passed in 2015, allows patients to possess and use marijuana with less than 5 percent THC, but it remains illegal to buy, sell or transport it. THC is the main psychoactive component of the cannabis plant.
When the AJC asked Georgians in January 2018 if marijuana should be legalized for any use, 50% of respondents said yes, 46% said no and 3% said they didn't know. According to an October 2018 Gallup poll, 66% of Americans support legalizing pot.
Georgia lawmakers on the House Study Committee on Industrial Hemp Production voted unanimously Dec. 3 to support the start of in-state hemp farming. The proposal will be considered by the Georgia General Assembly next year. From left: state Reps. Carl Gilliard, D-Garden City; Jimmy Pruett, R-Eastman; John Corbett, R-Lake Park; and Robert Dickey, R-Musella. MARK NIESSE / [email protected]
As for Governor Harris' anti-drug team, it's still operating -- just under a different name: the Governor's Task Force on Drug Suppression. Gone is the old "Strike Force" designation. Additionally, the Georgia Department of Public Safety now oversees the state's eradication/suppression program instead of the GBI.
While societal norms and marijuana laws have changed in the past 35 years, the GTF's methods for finding and confiscating illegal marijuana crops is much the same as it was in the mid-'80s. Trained pilots look for pot plants from the air while folks on the ground seek it out and yank it up by the roots.
"We're going to do it the old-fashioned way," GBI Director Peters told the AJC in 1984. "By hand."
Staff writer Mark Niesse contributed to this article.
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If you have a story you'd like researched and featured in AJC Deja News, send an email with as much information as you know. Email: [email protected]. Use the subject line "AJC Deja News."
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Bar do Peixe feels like it is a million miles away and as a result the bar has become a zen-like escape for those looking to leave the city.
On a pristine stretch of Portuguese coastline – only a short trip from Lisbon – you'll find the village of Aldeia do Meco, which has become legendary for its especially smooth sweep of golden sand, rocky cliffs, and bohemian vibes. Set directly on the beach among this fantastic natural scenery is Bar do Peixe, home to a dedicated crowd of locals and visitors alike who appreciate great drinks, good music, tantalizing fresh seafood, and sweet sunset views. While only around forty kilometers from the capital Lisbon, Bar do Peixe feels like it is a million miles away and as a result the bar has become a zen-like escape for those looking to leave the city. This doesn't mean that it isn't a lively place though, as sunset parties here are often talked about all the next day. Especially in the summer, elite DJs spin, whipping a beautiful crowd sipping sundowners of white sangria and port & tonic into a frenzy. The festivities don't end in autumn, though, as this stretch of coast is sunny and bright year-round and Bar do Peixe has been known to make a fantastic mulled wine in winter. Even though the bar has become famous all over Europe for its cocktails and nightlife, the grilled seafood here is hands down some of the best on the coast, confirming Bar do Peixe status as a true triple threat.
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August, Arnold. Cuba and its neighbours : democracy in motion. New York : Zed Books, 2013.
Franklin, Jane. Cuba and the U.S. empire : a chronological history. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2016. Germán, Sánchez. Cuba and Venezuela : an insight into two revolutions. Hershberg, Eric and William M. LeoGrande (Eds.). A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations. New York: palgrave macmillan, 2016.
Lamrani, Salim. Estado de Sitio. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
Martin, Lionel. The early Fidel : roots of Castro's communism. Secaucus, N.J. : L. Stuart, 1978 .
Nunck, Ronaldo. Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America. London: Zed Books, 1984.
Skidmore, Thomas E., Peter H. Smith, and James N. Green. Modern Latin America, Seventh Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Election Day 2010 is next Tuesday, November 2. There's been a proliferation of debates and campaign ads in recent weeks, and they're picking up speed (and urgency) all over the country.
I have recently created a new presentation that focuses on courageous coaching. What is courageous coaching?
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Meghan Markle's Wimbledon Outfit Was a Special Nod to Her First Date With Prince Harry
By Melanie Aman July 16, 2018
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The headlines at Wimbledon this year were all about Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's first ever public friends date, so we don't blame you for missing the tribute Meghan wore to her husband, Prince Harry. What was so special about her Ralph Lauren striped button-up and flared white pants? It was actually a subtle nod to how she and her husband first met.
Meghan Markle attended Wimbledon back in 2016 as a guest of the fashion designer Ralph Lauren. At some point, she became friends with Violet von Westenholz, who works for the brand's PR department. It just so happens that von Westenholz is a childhood friend of Prince Harry — and she reportedly set up her two friends on a blind date.
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"Harry was having a really hard time finding anyone," a source told E! at the time. "It was something he had confided in his closest friends about; he was ready to meet someone but it was so hard to actually find the right person."
Neither Meghan nor Harry have named the identity of their matchmaker, but one thing's for sure: Whoever set them up obviously got it right. Meghan did confirm that before the date she had no idea she was meeting Prince Harry. "It was definitely a set-up. It was a blind date," she said in the couple's first interview after announcing their engagement. "I didn't know much about him and so the only thing I had asked her when she said she wanted to set us up was, I had one question, I said 'Was he nice?'" Of course, Prince Harry proved himself to be more than just nice and roughly two years later he and his beloved tied the knot.
Though Prince Harry wasn't on hand to watch the big tennis event with his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge kept her sister-in-law company. The two were spotted laughing and whispering to each other, proving there is no bad blood between these royal relatives.
The Duchess of Sussex is known for making hidden statements with her outfits, so we're sure to see more of them honoring her husband. Judging by their royal-protocol-breaking PDA, these lovebirds will continue to show their love for each other to the world — even with their clothes.
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BGFN MAGAZINE >> Dress Code >> Celebrity fashion >> Daniel Radcliffe - the stylish wizard
Daniel Radcliffe - the stylish wizard
by Veselka Petrova, 14 May, 2016
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor, born in London, UK, in 1989. He is best know for portraying the young magician Harry Potter. Daniel was cast for the role at age 11 and starred in the series for 10 years until the release of the final movie in 2011.
Radcliffe poses at a photocall for 'Kill Your Darlings' during the 70th annual Venice International Film Festival,
Venice, Italy, September 2013
Daniel is the only child of a literary agent and a casting agent, who had both acted as children. He first expressed a desire to act at the age of five and at the age of 10, he made his acting debut in an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, portraying the title character as a young boy.
The huge success of Harry Potter series brought him so much fame and so busy schedule at such a delicate age, that it wasn't easy for him to keep going to school, so he continued his education through on-set tutors.
Daniel Radcliffe for Sharp Magazine November 2013 issue
Daniel Radcliffe covers Sharp Magazine November 2013 issue
In November 2007 Radcliffe published several poems under the pen name Jacob Gershon in underground fashion magazine Rubbish.
Daniel Radcliffe covers Flaunt Magazine, 2013
Radcliffe was involved with many charities, including Demelza Hospice Care for Children in Sittingbourne, Kent, Candle for Care program, and The Trevor Project for suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth, which gave him its Hero Award in 2011.
Daniel Radcliffe and US actress Zoe Kazan arrive for the screening of 'The F Word' during
the 38th annual Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, September 2013
We are glad to notice that Daniel is not a fan of the Black tie dress code. For his Red carpet appearances, he is always stylish and different - he experiments with colors, patterns and cuts.
Daniel Radcliffe stands on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a ceremony honoring him,
Hollywood, California, USA, November 2015
Daniel Radcliffe arrives for the premiere of the movie 'Horns',
Paris, France, September 2014
Daniel Radcliffe and actress Juno Temple arrive for the premiere of 'Horns' at Leicester Square,
London, UK, October 2014
Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple arrive for Radius-TWC's special screening of the movie 'Horns',
Hollywood, California, USA, October 2014
If you like his style and presence vote for Daniel Radcliffe in BGFN readers' voting for
Most Stylish Men.
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Baltimore Police Department in 'Chaos' over Old, Unsupported Technology
Charlie Nash
The Baltimore Police Department's technology is currently in "chaos," with police officers using technology that's over twenty-years-old, with no plans to replace aging equipment, according to a report.
"Core technologies used by the department are no longer supported by software vendors, with some over 20 years old," reported Ars Technica, who described the department's technology situation as "chaos."
"And the Motorola radio system used for mobile communications by the force, including 911 dispatch, will no longer be supported after this year — and there are no plans in place to replace it," they continued.
In an investigation into the police department, a survey noted that, "BPD lacks IT policies and procedures."
"Where they do exist, policies and procedures are often not followed [or] enforced. This includes a lack of database standards and database documentation that has contributed to grossly unreliable databases of questionable utility," the survey claimed. "Many units within the department have similarly become silos in which individuals have developed business processes that may or may not use certain information systems as intended or have created workarounds to complete analysis that the existing systems cannot do. Alternatively, some units have purchased new systems in an effort to meet their needs."
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington, or like his page at Facebook.
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Post-World War I Navigation of Imperialism, Identity, and Nationalism in the 1919-1920 Memoir Entries of Ottoman Army Officer Taha Al-Hāshimī
Tomlinson, Jay Sean
Fortna, Benjamin
Taha al-Hāshimī's memoirs, more akin to a diary or journal, written at the time of observation, contain fascinating entries from the dynamic years 1919-20, including observations of his present and imaginings of the future, during his travels through occupied Ottoman lands in the aftermath of World War I. As a Baghdad-born, Istanbul-educated, Ottoman army officer who remained in Ottoman service through the war, al-Hāshimī offers unique perspectives which bridge many traditionally-understood divisions in historical scholarship. This work consists of a discourse and historical analysis of many of al-Hāshimī's entries during this consequential time and place, focused on three general arguments. First, these entries reveal much about the historical trauma of the foreign conquest of Ottoman lands, as understood and experienced by a committed defender of the Empire. This sentiment is evident in al-Hāshimī's pervasive fears of European colonial policies and in his comparisons of Syria to Algeria and Tunisia, and Iraq to unnamed British colonies in Africa. Second, these entries illustrate seemingly-conflicting and coinciding expressions of both Ottoman and Arab identification. Through both his actions and his entries, al-Hāshimī demonstrates continuity of his Ottoman identity as well as expressions of Arab identity, without predicating it on erasure or de-legitimization of his Ottoman identity. Third, al-Hāshimī's observations of the political environment in Damascus demonstrates a multitude of nationalist activist organizations, both elite and popular, undermining Faysal's government's universalizing claims and dominant position in scholarship. This work supports many recent works arguing for a re-examination of this traditionally marginalized, liminal time. Rather than only a period of disruption, transition, and change, this work argues there are strong episodes of continuity amid uncertain imagined futures.
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Google Flights may already be your go-to travel planning app for finding flights. Now there are two new Google search features that make it easier to predict your travel costs before you book. These tools can be useful whether or not you know where you are going.
If you use the "Explore" tool on Google Flights, you already know you can see destinations by price after entering your starting airport. Now, you can enter a price ceiling to keep your flight costs below a certain dollar amount. For example, you can enable the filter to only show roundtrip flights under $250.
As usual, you can browse destinations looking at the map or the scroll-down menu. You can continue filtering the options by the airline, flight times and the number of stops.
It's been possible to compare flight prices by looking at the price graph. Some of the newest flight insights can show you how current prices compare to average prices for the last twelve months. This tool helps you determine if the flight is a good value, average value or is overpriced.
You can also have Google Flights track prices for a specific route. When prices drop, you can receive an alert to buy tickets.
Don't forget to calculate checked baggage fees into the price. That cheap seat might be a basic economy seat that has baggage and other restrictions. To help prevent you from overlooking this expense, Google Flights has a filter that asks how many carry-ons and checked bags.
Google's other travel planning ambitions focus on finding hotels. New filters include finding hotel deals instead of only searching by the nightly rate. You can also search by amenity types, star ratings and a maximum or minimum price window.
When you find a hotel you like, click on the property name. You will then see the price from the various travel websites to help you pick the best price or scoop up some loyalty points like with the Capital One Venture and Hotels.com partnership.
These new Google features make finding flights and hotels easier as you can see the best prices all in one place. The next time you are planning a trip, don't forget to try these new filters.
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New York City is the place to be for creative, contemporary loft interiors, and lucky for NYC this beautiful apartment by happens to be on Manhattan's Bond Street. This eclectic living space features an intriguing mix of modernism and luxury. Earthy textured wall tiles and contemporary art are seen between the classical Romanesque columns, summing up this interior's assorted style. Window walls invite light and the lively city skyline inside, by day and night.
Contemporary style furnishings are lovely to look at, yet livable – the perfect combination to achieve fashion and function.
A quiet den at the rear features a wrap-around couch which follows the wall of windows, blurring the boundary between indoors and out. Kick back and let time slip away from you, as you watch the world rush by outside. Plush pillows cushion every curve, and a thick, luxurious carpet pampers your toes. The windows feature pull-up charcoal shades, offering views or privacy on demand.
We love the combination of warm wood floors and these concrete block walls, and their organic appeal offset by ultra-modern, flamboyant furnishings and art.
The variety of materials within this open concept living space make for interesting interiors. From the aforementioned glass, wood and concrete, to the stainless steel kitchen, and the open yet strangely defined dining area, it's certainly an eyeful.
We love the dining area set up – a long wood table design, featuring a rich, deep hue and smooth finish, accompanied by pairs of benches on either side and a leather-upholstered dining chair at each far end. The space is topped by a delicious grouping of glass globes, providing decadent dropped display of illumination. Vibrant artwork adorns the crisp, white walls. Bon appetit!
Overlooking the dining area, the kitchen dishes up a clean, contemporary aesthetic. The stainless steel backsplash, appliances and lower cabinets anchor the space, while two-toned uppers bring added drama overhead.
Behind the kitchen's concrete wall, a recess is occupied by open coat storage – out of the way yet easily at hand.
And at last, in the private depths of this dwelling – the bathroom… The designers upped the dose of drama here, with a gently rounded, freestanding bathtub set against a backdrop of cocoa-colored tiled wrapping the space.
The second of four bathrooms features a frameless glass shower which offers some separation, but maintains a sense of openness and space.
Mirror, mirror on the wall… Elegant integrated lighting beside the vanity is a modern, yet functional feature.
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Antonio Brown plays a big role in the Steelers offense, but that won't be his only role in the coming season.
Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that the team will use Brown as a punt returner this season as well. There was some thought that the addition of the speedy Dri Archer in the draft would lead to a change in roles for Brown, but Tomlin said that Archer will only be an option for the team alongside Brown.
That announcement naturally leads to thoughts about the injury risk that Brown will take on by expanding his portfolio, but Tomlin said that the team won't live in fear of injury when it comes to deploying a player they believe can help them.
"He is a Pro Bowl caliber return man, so that's how you play him," Tomlin said of Brown, via the team.
There's no question that Brown has skills with two career punt return touchdowns and a 12.8-yard average on returns last season. He's also a Pro Bowl caliber receiver, though, and losing that would likely hurt the Steelers much more than going with Archer or others as the full-time punt return options.
Hey Coach Tomlin – He's also a Pro Bowl caliber WR, so be careful with that.
Gotta admit him returning kicks is what first stood out to me early on in his career. He runs with such conviction and even when he does get tackled it almost always looks more like a blown block assignment then a bad run. With that being said the writer has a point about the risk/reward side of it and with the combination of having Archer combined with the lack of receiver depth after Brown it might just not be worth it.
Best returner in the world. Not even close.
Enough already! These guys are football players. Have them play football. He is a very good return man. Returning footballs is a very important part of the game and establishing field position. It's also an area where the inexperienced can turn the ball over. Of course he could get hurt. It's football! Armchair coach's are not very hard to find these days….. sheeze!
With all the stupid rule changes including moving the kickoff forward a punt man is much more valuable than a kickoff return man these days. Punt return duties also require quick thinking and decision making — something that can only come with experience.
I would guess that Archer will eventually take over but AB is just too good not to put back there at least in important situations.
How often are these guys really injured during punt returns anyways? I can't remember the last great offensive player who was injured returning a punt.
AB is a great punt return man, right decision. Cant wait to see this guy and the steelers offense have a great year. Get ready to hear TD AB, TD Steelers.
Last year Jacoby Jones was out for weeks after he was back waiting to catch a punt because of his own team mate. Stuff happens, it is a risk. I wouldn't want my teams #1 WR taking undue risks.
On a related note "Tomlin said he will be on special teams when someone is returning a punt or kickoff for a TD. Also it should be noted since being Tebowed out of the playoffs years ago the steelers have o winning seasons and o playoff appearances since.
He could get hurt playing WR too. Maybe they should just put him a glass case with the Lombardi's to make sure he doesn't get hurt?
I think this is partially why the Steelers kept 6 wrs on their 53, with two more on the practice squad. This and that almost all of them also play special teams, the exception being Lance Moore. I know the Steelers depth at wr has been questioned by those who don't follow the team closely, but Heyward-Bey has not only found his hands, he has been excellent as a gunner. As has Marcus Wheaton, and solid 6-3 Justin Brown plays on the coverage teams and is also an excellent blocker. Plus Dri Archer gets snaps here too.
The team has more depth on it at wr than given credit for, and as usual I don't care what anyone else thinks. So yeah, give the man chance to make big plays. Are we all aware he's in the Hall of Fame as the only player in NFL history to ring up 1000 yards both receiving and in kick returns – in the same year? Well, we are now.
The roster is full of HOF'ers and is unparalleled in the NFL.
I love reading idiots who suggest giving playmakers less touches unless it is their traditional position. Do you want your playmakers making plays? How do you do that? Give them the ball. Who cares how they get yards, score or make defenses soften to play them honest. Every play has injury potential.
Correction to previous post. Stillers actually 3rd best team in their division. The humidity was getting to me.
I cant remember the last time I saw a punt returner get hurt. Many more get hurt playing WR.
The more important question is whether that makes him more valuable in FF (add return yards) or less valuable (injury risk) ?
Wannabe Jacoby Jones, who has destroyed the Steelers the last two years, while Brown has done nothing against the Ravens.
Steelers run all y'all. Deal.
On a related note trolls are more interested in thumbs down than a free meal at a four star restaurant….. Where is the phoney god bless today?
Brown needs to be replaced by Archer to safe guard Ben's best weapon.
Tomlin is a blithering idiot & I anxiously await the day when our team is no longer poisoned by his stupidity.
Tomlin showing his high I.Q. again lol.
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Specialist RF & Microwave distributor, Aspen/Admiral, are now the sole representation for Farran Technology in the UK. Farran are well respected for their wide range of millimetre-wave components and Subsystems and extend the offering from Aspen in this area.
Design engineers and researchers working with millimetre-wave imaging and millimetre-wave testing will find initial interest in these Farran products.
Farran's 77GHz FMCW Radar front end is based on a GaAs MMIC chipset offering wide bandwidth in a small outline package. The transmit signal is derived from an input VCO signal, which also acts as the LO for the receive mixer. The resulting IF is conditioned for gain and filtering as required. This compact, lightweight design has low power consumption and is ideal for applications such as aircraft & vehicular collision avoidance radar, critical area surveillance and incursion detection systems and traffic management systems.
The PMMW range of modules are designed for passive millimetre-wave imaging (PMMW) applications and provides the unique capability to create high resolution images in low visibility conditions, like through clothing, clouds and fog. Current applications include concealed weapon detection and airplane landing systems. Whilst PMMW modules are available up to 345GHz, a low attenuation atmospheric window from 80-110GHz exists making "W-Band" an ideal candidate for PMMW systems.
Farran also offer modules designed for millimetre-wave test systems. One such is the FPA series driver and power amplifiers - designed using discrete and MMIC pHEMT devices, they operate over the frequency range 18-98GHz for high output power applications. For convenient system integration, custom built amplifiers are offered in various RF interfaces, including standard waveguide or coaxial connectors. Another is the WHMB series of high performance harmonic mixers offer low conversion loss with no bias required and are available across the frequency range 40-500GHz. Suitable for extending the range of microwave Spectrum Analysers into the millimetre-wave range.
For over 30 years, Farran have been on the leading-edge of millimetre-wave development. Serving emerging and mature markets, covering Test & Measurement, Radar & Imaging, Communications, Research and Aerospace. Farran offers a wide range of Test & Measurement systems such as VNA Extenders, Noise Figure Analyser and Frequency Extension Sources from 40GHz-500GHz. Farran also offers Waveguide based components, which include Amplifiers, Detectors, Frequency Converters, Mixers, Multipliers and Gunn Oscillator Sources.
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Thanks for sharing some of the firsts for your mom. Yes, it would have been quite the experience to leave Germany for a new and different life in the United States, not knowing anyone but her husband and you. I wonder what she was thinking as you sailed from Bremerhaven.
Thank you Janet and you are welcome, I wonder that too, I am going to give my Mom a call this evening and pick her brain and post it! It had to have been very emotional.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring story of your mother. I look forward to the next blogs about her.
Gini, once again your post has held me in rapt attention to the very end! I love the way you wrote of all the firsts in your Mom's life and I love the way your love and devotion showed through.
She sounds like quite the lady. Very gutsy. Thanks for sharing her with us. I look forward to reading more about her experiences as a young wife and mother.
Ah, Judith, you always make my posts worth while, I love to hear from you and thank you for your wonderful words! It did take a lot of guts and strength, that is my mom. She is a pretty special lady. Thank you my friend for being there for me.
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Orange launched on April 28th 1994, with an ambitious aim - to change the way we communicate with each other. As the fourth company to enter a crowded marketplace, it needed to do things radically differently. By talking in a language people could understand and offering innovative products and services, such as per second billing, Orange put its customers first and left the competition playing catch up. Orange Group serves more than 130 million customers in five continents In June 1996 Orange plc became the youngest company to enter the FTSE-100, valued at 2.4 billion. And by July 1997 Orange had gained one million customers. Since then they have gone from strength to strength, becoming the UK's fastest growing mobile communications company and expanding internationally in countries as diverse as Hong Kong and Israel. Today, the Orange brand is one of the most powerful in the world, and the Orange Group serves more than 175 million customers in five continents. It is the number three mobile operator in Europe and number one provider of broadband Internet services. It's come a long way since launching from its Bristol HQ in 1994.
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Ralph White Presents "The Jeweled Highway: The Quest for a Life of Meaning"
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New York Open Center co-founder, Ralph White, is a pioneer of the consciousness movement. Tonight he discusses his new memoir, The Jeweled Highway, and speaks about how he embarked on a spiritual quest into a new worldview, the experience of opening to the mystical, and the contours of a life dedicated to the creation of a more sacred and ecological culture. This is an adventurous story at the forefront of a deep cultural shift as we glimpse Ralph's early years in the Celtic world and gritty Northern England, travel down Route 66, hitchhike to Machu Picchu, and hike across the Eastern Himalayas into Tibet. Join us to glimpse an insider's knowledge of the origins of major centers of holistic learning and why they serve as focal points for the emergence of a saner and wiser world.
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Sydney Shoulder Research Institute - Past Fellows
2015 Fellow
Lisa Kruse
Lisa received much of her training at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She first became involved in orthopaedic research when she was awarded a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship during medical school. In addition to her medical and orthopaedic qualifications, she has degrees in biomedical engineering, psychology, and a master's degree in biological sciences.
Lisa has been involved in orthopaedic research since the beginning of her medical career and has numerous publications and presentation in prestigious journals and conferences. She has been involved with research ranging for the genetics of clubfoot deformity and scoliosis to rehabilitation and outcomes following ACL reconstruction and meniscal repair. Most recently her research has focused on her chosen sub-specialty of shoulder and elbow surgery including outcomes following the decompression of the nerve to the teres minor, and diagnosis of scapular dyskinesia.
Lisa is half way through completing a 12-month fellowship with Sydney Shoulder Research Institute working alongside Professor Sonnabend, Dr Jeffery Hughes, Dr Ben Cass and Dr Allan Young.
Fellowship Story
To follow … after completion in 2015
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Modified Biceps Repair Study presented in Milan at SECEC Congress
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Groups ask Congress to pass conscience protection for health care workers
April 20, 2016 April 20, 2016 Catholic News Service Nation/WorldNo comments
WASHINGTON (CNS) — For decades, Congress and U.S. presidents — both Republican and Democrat — have approved federal laws "protecting conscientious objection to abortion," but it is increasingly clear current laws "offer far less protection in practice than in theory," said a group of faith-based, health care and pro-life organizations.
A group of 26 organizations made the comments in a joint April 19 letter to members of the House of Representatives urging them to pass the Conscience Protection Act of 2016, or H.R. 4828.
"Even many 'pro-choice' Americans realize that the logic of their position requires them to respect a choice not to be involved in abortion," the group said.
"We represent millions of Americans and tens of thousands of health care professionals with a profound concern about abortion, and particularly about the conscience rights of health care professionals and facilities," it added.
U.S. President Barack Obama in front of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters) (Jan. 29, 2014)
The letter pointed to several loopholes in current law that it said would be addressed by the Conscience Protection Act, introduced March 22 by Reps. John Fleming, R-Louisiana, and Vicky Hartzler, R-Missouri. Fleming is a medical doctor.
One example of such a loophole is taking place in California, it said. In 2014, the state began demanding that all health plans under the jurisdiction of the state's Department of Managed Health Care — "even those purchased by churches and other religious organizations" — cover elective abortions for any reason, "including late-term abortions and those performed for reasons of 'sex selection.'"
The state allows no exemption of any kind, the letter said, noting that such a policy "flagrantly violates" the Weldon Amendment, a federal law enacted in 2005 to protect the conscience rights of institutions and individuals.
The California Catholic Conference filed a complaint about the policy in September 2014 with the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To date, that office has not acted on the complaint, the letter said.
H.R. 4828 "is very similar to the abortion nondiscrimination provision that for the last three years has been part of the House's Labor/HHS appropriations bills," the letter said. "It takes the core policy of Weldon — protecting those who decline to perform, pay for, refer for, or provide coverage for abortion — and writes it into permanent law. It clarifies the protections of Weldon, and adds a private right of action to enforce this law and other long-standing conscience laws on abortion."
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York. (CNS photo/Ed Pfueller, Catholic University of America)
Among the signers of the letter are the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; the Christian Medical Association and Catholic Medical Association; the National Council of Catholic Women; the March for Life Education and Defense Fund; the National Association of Evangelicals; the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; the Knights of Columbus; National Right to Life; and several associations of physicians and nurses.
The group's letter follows a March 31 letter to House members from the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees urging support for H.R. 4828 and noting its "modest scope."
"While existing federal laws already protect conscientious objection to abortion in theory, this protection has not proved effective in practice," wrote New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, who chair, respectively, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities and Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.
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