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Music in Motion Columbus "The only truth is music." ~ Jack Kerouac Columbus Bands Ohio Bands National Bands Album Review – Jovan Karcic – 2015 Posted by Jesse Jester on February 20, 2019 0 Comments Shane Sweeney Joins Pantheon of Best Storytellers With New EP "Love, The Dynamo" Never Boring, Go Go Buffalo Prove It with "Live In Hell" The Broken Relics Shine on Debut EP "With Reverence" Band – Jovan Karcic Album / Label – 2015 / Scioto Records Rating – 6.5 / 10 If you've lived in Columbus long enough, you've probably come across Jovan Karcic. You may not recognize him or his name, but he has a trail of musical breadcrumbs spanning over two decades that includes legendary punk act Gaunt, The Black Swans and his current endeavor Scrawl. When he's not making music, he runs a coffee shop in Clintonville called Yeah, Me Too. Tucked between the Eat, Purr, Love Café and Savor Growl, you might even miss it if you didn't know what you're looking for. But don't bother calling them to see if they're open; there literally is not a phone inside. No chairs, either. And no goofy Starbucks lingo, thank God. I guess you could say Jovan Karcic is a no bullshit kind of guy, and that's just the way I like my coffee, as well. But we're not here to talk about French press. No, we're here to delve into his newest album titled 2015. One of my favorite things about this record is that Karcic actually recorded the majority of it in the tiny shop. To say it's DIY is an understatement on that level, but along the way Karcic called upon a few of his friends; namely the venerable Counterfeit Madison and Lisa Bella Donna. The amount of musical ability between just those three would surely tickle the fascination of anyone looking for good honest music. The record tells a story from the perspective of a middle aged man (Karcic himself in 2015) looking back on the bumps and bruises of his younger days. He likens the journey to climbing a hill, which is a familiar metaphor I've heard many use when describing the aging process. The tale begins with King, and immediately you are treated to jazzy keyboards before you're plunged into a massive soundscape that makes you scratch your ears. You honestly have to listen to the track three or four times before you're able to separate every twinkle and blip from one another. It all blends into what I can only describe as a cleansing for your ear canals, and at 2:28 it ends almost as abruptly as it begins, leaving you yearning for what must happen next. Tumbleweed gives you a heavy dose of synthesized sobriety before Karcic picks back up on his tale of climbing a metaphorical hill. Again, it took me a few listens on this one to really accept his unique tone. If you listen hard enough you can definitely pick out who is singing the female harmony part. The song beeps and wobbles at its mid-point before shifting its entire dynamic, almost as Derek and the Dominos gave you two wonderful parts for the price of one on Layla. Larry's has a more cohesive feel to it, with less musical shifting and more focus on brilliant lyrical work. "Tonight the booths are filled with people; the tabletops are carved with history's initials" might be the most fascinating line on the entire album. Karcic's voice seems to swim among the electronic bloops and blips that paint this ethereal tale about an old dive bar on the corner of Woodruff and High. By the time you get to Gambler's Dream, you might be asking yourself what else Karcic could throw at you to catch you off-guard. The entire record is nothing short of an exquisite exploration; something you might hear half-way to Mars to go hang out with Opportunity (RIP). Suddenly, you hear the sharp twinkle of a harp amongst the keys and clatter. "Where are the naysayers? Will there be a banquet?" Karcic asks, almost sarcastically recalling his marvelous night-time fantasy. On Lesserman, Karcic's voice is clearer than on the last few, and you find yourself wondering where you've heard it before. The closest thing I could derive was an older Gregg Alexander, minus the silly fishing hat and falsetto, reflecting on 20-plus years of obscure fame. I believe that's The Alwood Sisters you hear harmonizing on this track, and it's worth noting that that specific band also features Karcic and his wife Amy. Am I Not Enough is a question that every human must ask themselves at least once in their life. It's a dialed back track with an easy drum-and-bass part pushing it forward. Karcic lyrics are poignant throughout as he croons "am I not enough, cursing as a madman? Stalking the streets, no place to go…" The song almost feels like Karcic is spinning a wheel to decide which instrument to add next. Flute? Piano? Guitar? If it wasn't so relaxing, I would almost call it chaotic. The longest track on the record is Feet On The Ground, and it serves as sort of a segue between the first half of the journey and the descent. It is literally all downhill from there. The song has a lot of atmosphere sprinkled between a buzzing guitar, a bouncy synthesizer and a twinkling xylophone. It has a little bit of everything for everyone, almost too much so on this number. Echo Echo takes a sharp turn and focuses more on vocal harmonization, and perhaps you wonder if Matthew Bellamy had a hand in putting it together. There is enough fuzz and buzz that the Muse front-man would probably be impressed, as well. In Deal An Ace, however, Karcic finds himself waxing poetic about his younger days, repeating "Damn the dark days of my youth" over and over again. The jazzy twinkling aura returns, at least for the first half of the song, before Karcic drops my favorite line, "catch a fire, leave a trace, make an impact, deal an ace…" Nearing the end of our journey, we find Joy and Pain, which feels like a John Mellencamp story, except that the Cougar would obviously never dare to have a heaping handful of synthesizers on one of his songs. It's a cute story that builds into the final track, Shadow and Echo. The orchestra you hear here was actually recorded in Hollywood by legendary composer Brent Fischer, whose stable of credits include Prince, Toni Braxton and his father Clare. It is a fitting end to this figurative journey, soaring and diving until finally coming to rest. When trying to describe a record, I try to think of two or three words that best fit what I was just treated with. Relaxing and ambitious were the first two that came to me, but then I realized that anything else I tried to use to relate to it would only serve as a juxtaposition. The complete contrast of harmony and discord are found in almost every song, to the point where if you don't immediately get it, you might get lost among the sheer irrationality of it all. That may be the biggest detraction to the entire record. But it is in that madness that you find the cohesion, the relaxation and the brilliance. Karcic has found a way to harness the many splinters within him to build a great tapestry of sound, one that should certainly be revered. It is much more poetic than pop music, so don't come around looking for smash hits and singles. Just like you shouldn't go to Yeah, Me Too if you're looking for a blueberry torte and a caramel macchiato, or whatever the hell the kids are drinking these days. Like I said – Karcic is my kind of guy, and this is my kind of record for winding down a long day, or relaxing over the weekend.5 Larry's Gambler's Dream Lesserman Am I Not Enough Feet on the Ground Echo Echo Deal an Ace Shadow and Echo Jovan KarcicScioto Records Jesse Jester Jesse Jester likes hugs, local music, and occasionally referring to himself in the 1st person. The Gospel According To Monk "I say, play your own way. 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Welcome Mediation Begins In Sudan Crisis Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, middle right, and Somalian President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, right, after the IGAD meeting. Leaders from Kenya and Ethiopia have laid the groundwork for a possible end to the violence and ethnic targeting raging in South Sudan. Leaders from Kenya and Ethiopia have laid the groundwork for a possible end to the violence and ethnic targeting raging in South Sudan, meeting with President Salva Kiir to encourage peace talks with former Vice President Reik Macher. The United States urges both sides to cease hostilities and begin mediated political talks. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya, flew to the capital Juba on December 26 to meet with the president and encourage dialogue. No deadline was set for beginning talks between the two sides, but further discussions to encourage negotiations are to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, by representatives of other nations in the region. United Nations officials estimate that more than 1,000 people may have been killed since fighting erupted there this month, and any negotiations to end the violence dividing the country would be welcome. The United States urges both sides to cease hostilities and begin mediated political talks. Implementing a cease-fire will give aid groups access to people in dire need of assistance. It will also send a strong signal to the citizens of South Sudan and the world that the nation's leaders have the courage to accept compromise and work for the best interests of all South Sudanese people. Violence today will not pave the way for a more stable or prosperous tomorrow. Policy Brief: Mediation For South Sudan Crisis Crisis In South Sudan

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Outdoors: Teen hunted monster 'like any other deer' Mike Barnabi Alex Wright, of Uhrichsville, had seen the trail camera pictures of an animal that appeared to be more backwoods Moose than Ohio whitetail deer. He had heard the rumors of several escaped monster bucks from a nearby Stillwater Trophy Outfitters, and knew one of them recently was at the property he was hunting on Dec. 6 during the recently completed Ohio gun season. And, according to the 17-year-old Claymont junior, the idea that he essentially shot an escaped pen-raised buck in the wild doesn't take away from the fact that he managed to harvest a 200-plus-inch whitetail buck with a 20-guage shotgun. "Years from now, what am I going to tell people?" he asked rhetorically. "I'm going to tell people I hunted that deer just like I would have any other deer. I'm going to leave the tag in its ear, but I'm going to tell people what happened." Escaped deer or not, what happened was that Wright put together a pretty good plan for taking down the monster during the final weekend of gun season. "I knew it was going to rain on Saturday, but I assumed when the rain stopped the deer would be up and moving," said Wright, the son of Devin and Brenda Wright. "I was sitting in a tree stand in the rain when I thought I heard something behind me at around 4:45 p.m., but I couldn't see anything," added Wright, who said he's been hunting since he was 8 or 10 years old. "A few minutes later, I heard something to my left. I looked and there he was — 20 yards away walking down a trail. I knew the deer had been there from the trail cam pictures, but when I actually saw him it was really exciting. I was shocked. "I knew it was one of the deer that escaped from the pen, but I figured that wasn't my fault. I hunted like I would have any other deer that would have been there. I shot him in the heart, he went about 30 yards and dropped." Then what happened? "I was pretty emotional afterwards," said Wright. "I couldn't believe what just happened." The game warden took some pictures of the deer, and came up with a final tally of 30 points. Scoring the beast is another matter. Some estimates have it at just over 200 inches, while others have been closer to 260 or even 300 inches. Either way, it's the deer of a lifetime. "I'm not that old, but I've been waiting on a day like that for years," said Wright. "I've been waiting on a big buck, but then it seemed like it would never happen. I've killed some does and I got a basket-rack 6-pointer a couple years ago, but nothing like this!"

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In this week's Backendless Spotlight, we are excited to introduce you to one of the many nonprofit organizations that use the Backendless platform to support their mobile presence. Help A Paw is a startup out of Bulgaria that is seeking to solve a local problem with an eye for reaching communities facing the same issue globally: helping stray animals. If you are a developer looking to make a difference for a nonprofit organization in need, please read to the end. Editor's Note: If you or someone you know have an app using Backendless for its backend and would like to be considered for a future Backendless Spotlight, please send us an email with a link to the app or website and a description of how Backendless has helped them be successful. In this week's Backendless Spotlight, we bring you an Australian company that has grabbed a piece of the crypto craze by creating a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market ticker for Australia's crypto markets. BTC Market Ticker provides users with up-to-the-second market movements on BTCMarkets.net, one of Australia's largest crypto and blockchain asset exchanges. Editor's Note: If you or someone you know have an app using Backendless for its backend and would like to be considered for a future Backendless Spotlight, please send us an email with a link to your app and a description of how Backendless has helped you be successful. In this week's Backendless Spotlight, we are going to introduce you to a startup company out of Beirut, Lebanon, called Lifebook. Lifebook is a mobile app and physical product company that allows users to build their own custom photo album through the app and have it printed and delivered to them as a hand-crafted, leatherbound photo album. Lifebook invites users to become "Oxpeckers" (a species of bird known for perching on large animals) and let "Oppy" the hippo guard their memories forever.

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Judges 11:1 — 13:25 11 Now Jephthah the Gileadite had become a mighty, valiant man, and he was the son of a prostitute woman, and Gilead came to be the father of Jephthah. 2 And Gilead's wife kept bearing sons to him. When the sons of the wife got big, they proceeded to drive Jephthah out and to say to him: "You must have no inheritance in the household of our father, for you are the son of another woman." 3 So Jephthah ran away because of his brothers and took up dwelling in the land of Tob. And idle men kept bringing themselves together to Jephthah, and they would go out with him. 4 And it came about after a while that the sons of Ammon began to fight against Israel. 5 And it came about that when the sons of Ammon did fight against Israel, the older men of Gilead immediately went to take Jephthah out of the land of Tob. 6 Then they said to Jephthah: "Do come and serve as our commander, and let us fight against the sons of Ammon." 7 But Jephthah said to the older men of Gilead: "Was it not YOU that hated me so that YOU drove me out of my father's house? And why is it that YOU have come to me now just when YOU are in distress?" 8 At this the older men of Gilead said to Jephthah: "That is why now we have returned to you, and you must go with us and fight against the sons of Ammon, and you must become for us the head of all the inhabitants of Gilead." 9 So Jephthah said to the older men of Gilead: "If YOU are bringing me back to fight against the sons of Ammon, and Jehovah does abandon them to me, I, for my part, shall become YOUR head!" 10 In turn the older men of Gilead said to Jephthah: "Let Jehovah prove to be the listener between us if the way we shall do is not according to your word." 11 Consequently Jephthah went with the older men of Gilead and the people set him over them as head and commander. And Jephthah proceeded to speak all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah. 12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying: "What do I have to do with you, seeing that you have come against me to fight in my land?" 13 So the king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah: "It is because Israel took my land when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as the Jordan. And now do return it peacefully." 14 But Jephthah sent once more messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon 15 and said to him: "This is what Jephthah has said, 'Israel did not take the land of Moab and the land of the sons of Ammon. 16 For when they came up out of Egypt Israel went walking through the wilderness as far as the Red Sea and got to come to Kadesh. 17 Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying: "Let me pass, please, through your land," and the king of Edom did not listen. And also to the king of Moab they sent, and he did not consent. And Israel kept dwelling in Kadesh. 18 When they walked on through the wilderness, they went their way around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, so that they went toward the rising of the sun as respects the land of Moab and took up camping in the region of the Arnon; and they did not come within the boundary of Moab, because Arnon was the boundary of Moab. 19 "'After that Israel sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him: "Let us pass, please, through your land to my own place." 20 And Sihon did not feel sure about Israel's crossing through his territory, and Sihon went gathering all his people together and camping in Jahaz and fighting against Israel. 21 At this Jehovah the God of Israel gave Sihon and all his people into Israel's hand, so that they struck them and Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites inhabiting that land. 22 Thus they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan. 23 "'And now Jehovah the God of Israel it was that dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you, for your part, would dispossess them. 24 Is it not whomever Chemosh your god causes you to dispossess that you will dispossess? And every one whom Jehovah our God has dispossessed from before us is the one we shall dispossess. 25 And now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel, or did he ever fight against them? 26 While Israel was dwelling in Heshbon and its dependent towns and in Aroer and its dependent towns and in all the cities that are by the banks of Arnon for three hundred years, why, then, did you never snatch them away during that time? 27 As for me, I have not sinned against you, but you are dealing wrong with me by fighting against me. Let Jehovah the Judge judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.'" 28 And the king of the sons of Ammon did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he had sent to him. 29 Jehovah's spirit now came upon Jephthah, and he proceeded to pass through Gilead and Manasseh and to pass through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed along to the sons of Ammon. 30 Then Jephthah made a vow to Jehovah and said: "If you without fail give the sons of Ammon into my hand, 31 it must also occur that the one coming out, who comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, must also become Jehovah's, and I must offer that one up as a burnt offering." 32 So Jephthah passed along to the sons of Ammon to fight against them, and Jehovah proceeded to give them into his hand. 33 And he went striking them from Aroer all the way to Minnith—twenty cities—and as far as Abel-keramim with a very great slaughter. Thus the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel. 34 Finally Jephthah came to Mizpah to his home, and, look! his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourine playing and dancing! Now she was absolutely the only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And it came about that when he caught sight of her, he began to rip his garments and to say: "Alas, my daughter! You have indeed made me bend down, and you yourself have become the one I was ostracizing. And I—I have opened my mouth to Jehovah, and I am unable to turn back." 36 But she said to him: "My father, if you have opened your mouth to Jehovah, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, since Jehovah has executed acts of vengeance for you upon your enemies, the sons of Ammon." 37 And she went on to say to her father: "Let this thing be done to me: Let me alone for two months, and let me go, and I will descend upon the mountains, and let me weep over my virginity, I and my girl companions." 38 At this he said: "Go!" So he sent her away for two months; and she kept going, she with her girl companions, and weeping over her virginity upon the mountains. 39 And it came about at the end of two months that she made her return to her father, after which he carried out his vow that he had made toward her. As for her, she never had relations with a man. And it came to be a regulation in Israel: 40 From year to year the daughters of Israel would go to give commendation to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in the year. 12 Then the men of Ephraim were called together and crossed over northward and said to Jephthah: "Why is it that you crossed over to fight against the sons of Ammon, and to us you did not issue a call to go with you? Your very house we shall burn over you with fire." 2 But Jephthah said to them: "I became a special contender, I and my people, with the sons of Ammon. And I proceeded to call to YOU for aid, and YOU did not save me out of their hand. 3 When I got to see that you were no savior, then I determined to put my soul in my own palm and go over against the sons of Ammon. At that Jehovah gave them into my hand. So why have YOU come up against me this day to fight against me?" 4 Immediately Jephthah collected all the men of Gilead together and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead went striking Ephraim down, for they had said: "Men escaped from Ephraim is what YOU are, O Gilead, inside of Ephraim, inside of Manasseh." 5 And Gilead got to capture the fords of the Jordan ahead of Ephraim; and it occurred that when the escaping men of Ephraim would say: "Let me pass over," then the men of Gilead would say to each one: "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he would say: "No!" 6 then they would say to him: "Please say Shibboleth." And he would say: "Sibboleth," as he was unable to say the word correctly. And they would lay hold of him and slay him at the fords of the Jordan. So there fell at that time forty-two thousand out of Ephraim. 7 And Jephthah continued to judge Israel for six years, after which Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead. 8 And Ibzan from Bethlehem began to judge Israel after him. 9 And he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent outside and brought in thirty daughters for his sons from outside. And he continued to judge Israel for seven years. 10 Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem. 11 And after him Elon the Zebulunite began to judge Israel. And he continued to judge Israel ten years. 12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite began to judge Israel. 14 And he came to have forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy full-grown asses. And he continued to judge Israel eight years. 15 Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim in the mountain of the Amalekite. 13 And the sons of Israel engaged again in doing what was bad in Jehovah's eyes, so that Jehovah gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. 2 Meanwhile there happened to be a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had borne no child. 3 In time Jehovah's angel appeared to the woman and said to her: "Look, now, you are barren and have borne no child. And you will certainly become pregnant and give birth to a son. 4 And now watch yourself, please, and do not drink wine or intoxicating liquor, and do not eat anything unclean. 5 For, look! you will be pregnant, and you will certainly give birth to a son, and no razor should come upon his head, because a Nazirite of God is what the child will become on leaving the belly; and he it is who will take the lead in saving Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." 6 Then the woman went and said to her husband: "There was a man of the [true] God that came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of the [true] God, very fear-inspiring. And I did not ask him from just where he was, neither did he tell me his name. 7 But he said to me, 'Look! You will be pregnant, and you will certainly give birth to a son. And now do not drink wine or intoxicating liquor, and do not eat any unclean thing, because a Nazirite of God is what the child will become on leaving the belly until the day of his death.'" 8 And Manoah began to entreat Jehovah and say: "Excuse me, Jehovah. The man of the [true] God that you just sent, let him, please, come again to us and instruct us as to what we ought to do to the child that will be born." 9 Accordingly the [true] God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of the [true] God came again to the woman while she was sitting in the field, and Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 Immediately the woman hurried and ran and told her husband and said to him: "Look! The man that came the other day to me has appeared to me." 11 At that Manoah got up and accompanied his wife and came to the man and said to him: "Are you the man that spoke to the woman?" to which he said: "I am." 12 Then Manoah said: "Now let your words come true. What will become the child's mode of life and his work?" 13 So Jehovah's angel said to Manoah: "From everything that I mentioned to the woman she should keep herself. 14 Nothing at all that comes forth from the wine vine should she eat, and no wine or intoxicating liquor let her drink, and no unclean thing of any sort let her eat. Everything that I have commanded her let her keep." 15 Manoah now said to Jehovah's angel: "Let us, please, detain you and fix up a kid of the goats before you." 16 But Jehovah's angel said to Manoah: "If you detain me, I shall not feed myself on your bread; but if you will render up a burnt offering to Jehovah, you may offer it up." For Manoah did not know that he was Jehovah's angel. 17 Then Manoah said to Jehovah's angel: "What is your name, that when your word comes true we shall certainly do you honor?" 18 However, Jehovah's angel said to him: "Just why should you ask about my name, when it is a wonderful one?" 19 And Manoah proceeded to take the kid of the goats and the grain offering and to offer it upon the rock to Jehovah. And He was doing something in a wonderful way while Manoah and his wife were looking on. 20 So it came about that, as the flame ascended from off the altar heavenward, then Jehovah's angel ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife were looking on. At once they fell upon their faces to the earth. 21 And Jehovah's angel did not repeat appearing to Manoah and his wife anymore. Then it was that Manoah knew that he had been Jehovah's angel. 22 Consequently Manoah said to his wife: "We shall positively die, because it is God that we have seen." 23 But his wife said to him: "If Jehovah had been delighted only to put us to death, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hand, and he would not have shown us all these things, and he would not as now have let us hear anything like this." 24 Later the woman gave birth to a son and called his name Samson; and the boy kept getting bigger, and Jehovah continued to bless him. 25 In time Jehovah's spirit started to impel him in Mahaneh-dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Riu Hotels & Resorts buys Baraka Group's iconic 650-room Madrid hotel by Newsroom | Jun 5, 2017 10:37am The Edificio España, Madrid, Spain(Image: Tim Adams / CC BY 2.0) Riu Hotels & Resorts has agreed to purchase and renovate the Edificio España in Madrid from Baraka Group. The hotel chain will rebrand the hotel as the Riu Plaza, the first of the brand in Spain. The Baraka Group originally purchased the building from Wanda. Riu has shown immense interest in this new project. "It had always been part of our strategic plan to open a Riu Plaza hotel in Spain, and this opportunity in Madrid, in such an unbeatable location and emblematic building, surpasses all expectations. After several months, the operation progressed to the point where Riu could buy the building outright, an opportunity that, after examining it in depth, we haven't wanted to pass up," Carmen and Luis Riu, CEOs of Riu Hotels, said in a statement. As was announced at the beginning of the year, the future 4-star Riu Plaza hotel will occupy 24 of Edificio España's 27 floors, with 650 rooms. The rest will be given over to retail. The Baraka Group's chairman Trinitario Casanova will manage the approximately 161,000 square foot commercial area, which will include department stores. The hotel will also contain about 19,400 square feet of space for events, two restaurants, a rooftop swimming pool next to the Sky Bar and an additional 9,600+ square feet of space for events. Riu currently has six Riu Plaza hotels around the world. The first opened in Panama City in 2010. Since then, the company has opened the Riu Plaza Guadalajara in Mexico; the Riu Plaza Miami Beach and Riu Plaza New York Times Square; the Riu Plaza Berlin; and more recently, the Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin. Construction Rebranding Renovation Acquisitions Development Franchising Openings Madrid Spain Riu Hotels & Resorts Wanda Group Baraka Group Riu Plaza

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NYC unveils 10-year transit modernization plan Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit President Andy Byford proposed a 10-year modernization of the city's transportation systems, a schedule that has been reduced by 75% from the agency's previous timeline of 40 years. The revised plan's costs have been estimated at between $19 billion and $37 billion, depending on various news outlets' sources. Within five years, the Fast Forward Plan would see a new signal system installed on five subway lines; approximately 50 new subway stations made accessible and repairs made to 150; the addition of 650 new subway cars and more than 1,200 modified with communications-based train control (CBTC); a citywide redesign of bus routes; 2,800 new buses and a new fare payment system. Within 10 years, the new signal system would encompass 11 subway lines; more than 130 stations would be accessible; a total of 300 stations would have undergone repairs, and New Yorkers' daily commutes would be made easier by 2,100 new buses and more than 3,000 new subway cars. The success of the Fast Forward Plan, according to transportation officials, is reliant on the ability of MTA to secure the necessary funding, obtain expedited permits and reviews, control costs and deliver projects on schedule and within the budget. The plan, according to The New York Times, still must win approval from the MTA board and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In order to achieve successful delivery of the Fast Forward Plan, the MTA is going to have to overcome the obstacles that have prevented it from previously bringing in projects on time and on budget. According to a 2017 Times investigation, New York City subway construction costs are the highest in the world. This, according to The Times, is due to inflated union wage rates, pricey construction bids from politically-connected contractors, consultant agreements for more design and management services than necessary and overall mismanagement. In one example, a union with members working on the East Side Access tunnel secured a $111 wage-benefit rate, which ballooned to $400 per hour on the weekends. The agency's East Side Access tunnel project serves as a stark example of this agency trend. The future Long Island Rail Road connector to Manhattan's Grand Central Station is now expected to cost $11.2 billion, on track to meet total cost projections of $12 billion, or $3.5-billion-per-mile. This is more than $1 billion in excess of 2014 estimates and about $3 billion more per mile than it costs other U.S. states and foreign countries to execute similar projects. The article was published on constructiondive.com

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Build your own dry cell and rechargable battery tester electronic project.. Test the circuit by using a breadboard before soldering the parts onto the PCB. This is . Qualification testing is designed to determine whether a cell or battery is fit for the. Short circuit; Overcharge (time); Overcharge (voltage); Over-discharge . Battery Tester and Charger: The Objective of this project is to test batteries to find out if. I realized I needed a quick way to test each individual 3.7 volt lithium ion cell.. its really a matter of connecting the wires as shown in the circuit diagram. Related Post "Mobile Battery Tester Circuit"

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Big THANK YOU for all yours wonderful testimonials. We'll treasure them forever and they will motivate us to become better and better each and every time. Bless you all. Have you ever had a pleasure to eat our food? Do you recall our chefs? We'd love to hear from you. Dear Lucian, Thank you so much for a fantastic meal on Saturday and please pass on thanks to Pascal for being such an excellent wine waiter, photographer, etc etc. He has such a bubbly personality and was so attentive it was a pleasure to have him with us for the afternoon.Thank you does not really cover how grateful I am. Every one commented on how good the food was and the size of the pear tart is still a talking point. I could not have imagined it to be any better than it was and I realise how hard both of you worked.I have already passed your contact details to some friends and I would not hesitate to call on you again for another function. Should you need a referral, I would be happy to speak to potential customers for you. You are truly a wonderful chef and I am so grateful that you and Pascal made, what was an emotional day, an enjoyable one. Hi Lucian, I hope you are recovering well after hard day yesterday. Many thanks for the party. It was absolutely fantastic, I couldn't wish for more. You were fabulous and I am very happy I had a chance to meet you. Guests liked your food very much (you could tell by the amount of the food they've eaten) and we were very impressed how easy it is for you to come into someone else's kitchen and cook. Well done.Thank you, and I hope we see you again soon (guests already invited themselves for the summer party) if you don't mind obviously. Have a nice day and good luck with your business. Hi Lucian… Firstly I would like to thank you for the tremendous meal you cooked for my friends and I at Long's Park Castle. We had a fabulous time there which was topped off by your amazing cooking, thank you. I have had a look at your new website. Really liked the changes you have made. I will be looking to use you again in the near future, just have to come up with a good excuse to do so. Lucian, Just back from our trip to Utah skiing and wanted to thank you and of course Jay for the most successful Christmas day dinner – we were all so impressed with absolutely everything and will be recommending your services to EVERYONE. A very happy and prosperous New Year to you both. Hi Lucian Would just like to thank you for a great evening on Saturday. The food was more than perfect as I am sure you could tell by all the plates being practically licked clean. We would very much like to do the same again some time so if it's ok I'll hang onto your e-mail address for future reference! Once again thank you!! Lucian, Just a quick note to say thanks for Saturday, we had a great evening and the food was delicious. It was quite an eye opener to see a proper skilled chef working in your own kitchen! Since you left before the desserts, I've also been asked to pass on that the tiramisu was superb, as was the homemade ice cream. Fee free to use these comments as a testimonial; I'd certainly use you again if the chance arises. Lucian, I thought it would be worth dropping you a quick note to let you know how it all went. I have to say it was a resounding success and I was extremely impressed with the way that Nagoo handled the evening. He arrived early, but not too early, was set up in double quick time and then let me know what he had planned to do as well as the menu as a double check. The food was absolutely exquisite with every course eagerly awaited by my guests. I was very very pleased with the quality of the ingredients as Nagoo mentioned you had sourced organically, which i am very keen on myself. Nagoo was extremely polite and very well organized, my vegetarian guest also complemented specifically on her meal so overall there is not a single thing that I would have changed. Many thanks and I am sure we will be contacting you again in the future. I hope that your 32 person event went well. Lucian, We wanted to send you an e-mail to say what a fantastic evening we had on Saturday and how happy we all were with Nagoo and the food. Nagoo was really polite, friendly and a pleasure to have for the evening. He insisted on serving all the courses so that we could all relax something that we did not expect. All of the courses were perfectly cooked and most of us decided that the home made pasta was the nicest pasta we had ever tasted. Given the restaurants we have eaten in and the time we have spent in Italy that is a huge compliment. The lamb was also superb. So thanks to yourself and Nagoo, everyone had an amazing evening and our mothers had fantastic birthdays. We will definitely recommend Nagoo and yourself to any friends who are doing something similar and are sure that we will use you again in the future. Dear Lucian and Pascal, Thank you very much for preparing and serving a very special meal for us and our friends last Saturday. It was a wonderful surprise for me. The food was fantastic and our friends are still raving about the food. It was all fantastic – sea bass is one of my favourites and was delicious but the lamb with morel sauce was just divine too. It was all amazing and beautifully cooked and presented. Thank you for leaving the kitchen so spotlessly clean to. It was a very memorable evening and we all enjoyed ourselves enormously. I think you will definitely be hearing from us (and some of our friends) in the future. Lucian and Pascal, Thank you very much for Saturday night. The food and service were perfect. Everybody was full of compliments for your food and for Pascal's service. The whole evening worked perfectly. Lucian, I'm back now from hospital after the birth of our baby son, William. I wanted to thank you for the fantastic evening had by all when you cooked for my mother's 75th birthday. Thank you and my friends will be bearing you in mind as will we for future evening at home. Many thanks for a creating a wonderful evening for my mother (especially) and others that enjoyed your creations, especially as I was in hospital it worked out perfectly. Lucian, First of all a big thank you for your sushi. It was a complete success. Everyone loved it so much! Congratulations! We are definitely ordering sushi from you again as it was very very tasty! Thanks once again! Dear Lucian, Just a short note to thank you again for a tremendous meal last night in Norfolk. As I hope you noticed last night my friends were overwhelmed with the meal you served – the silence during the main course spoke 'volumes' as everyone just enjoyed the food. We will definitely be calling again – sometime in the future. Lucian, Sorry I did not email earlier in the week, but after pleasure must come work!! I had to write to thank you for the meals you prepared last Friday — The evening was absolutely stunning — Yourself and Jay where wonderful to have into our kitchen and home, The time and effort you spent preparing exactly what we had asked for (done in your own special way) was remarkable. I have never seen so many fresh ingredients transformed into such wonderful dishes, sauces, meals etc.. Our guests also loved their meals & I really appreciate the effort you made in ensuring they had their requirements catered for, to do this & the separate dishes for Jan & I was fantastic. Next year is year number 25, so I must think if something new, but I really think it will involve you cooking!! I really wish you the best, you deserve loads of success and recognition, I would be so happy to recommend you to anyone you need, and I will give your details to people I know would appreciate your work. You traveled quite a long way to us and please pass our thanks to Jay; he was a real gentleman, and a nice addition to your fantastic service. Hi Lucian, Thank you for this and apologies for not getting back to you sooner! Thank YOU for preparing and serving the best meal we have ever tasted, everyone could not stop talking about it and discussing which was their favourite course! It was absolutely superb and made our anniversary so special. if I can be of help to you in any way, please let me know! I have already passed your name onto somebody. Every success in all you do! Hi Lucian, Sorry I missed saying goodbye to you on Saturday. I just wanted to thank you for all the effort you put in for our wedding reception on Saturday. We received lots of complements about the food from people and even my dad, who isn't very adventurous with his food (typical Englishman) absolutely loved it so thanks for helping to make everything run so smoothly. If we throw another big party in the future we'll be sure to get in touch again. Thanks & good look with the business for the future. Hi Lucian! We all greatly appreciated your splendid canapes and lunch yesterday – superb preparation of delicious, interesting dishes and effective and friendly service by Pascal. All in all : perfect! The whole occasion was a great happy success which we enjoyed so much, and I know that hosts Pilar and Vince very much enjoyed having you both in their house. All my family were very impressed and pleased with your cuisine and the friendly way you worked in the midst of family! You did a truly great job: thank you again. Happy New Year! What delicious food!!!! Thank you, Lucian. I had a horrible migraine in the afternoon and still managed to not only eat too much but to enjoy myself enormously. The little lamb was so delicious too! Alex did a wonderful job. The tables looked great and his service was impeccable. I also very much appreciate the lovely clean kitchen. Many many thanks. I hope tonight goes well for you all. Have a wonderful holiday season and see you in the New Year. Ps. Debbie so enjoyed her gluten free fare. Mickey ended up eating everything as it was too delicious and tempting!! Lucian Just a note to say thank you very much for everything on Saturday. You were wonderful. I've recommended you to all of my colleagues in the events team and I'm sure more business will be coming your way. Hello Lucian, Very many thanks for the superb food at my birthday parties. All my guests were very impressed and I am sure there will be some contacts coming through. Please pass on my thanks to your efficient and professional team. Hello Lucian, Thanks for your cooking on Saturday. Superb! Our guests all phoned the day after to say how much they had enjoyed the occasion and in particular the food and the service provided by butler Alex. Please thank Alex for us. If we do this again you are the only chef on our list. Dear Lucian & Pascal, Thank you so much for such a delicious meal and making the dinner party such a wonderful, memorable event. Thanks also for turning out on such an awful night. Jonathan really enjoyed it and it's certainly the best way to entertain. I hope you reached home safely and look forward to using your wonderful service again. Take care and have a great Christmas. Hi Lucian Sorry for the late email, but I wanted to thank you so much for our lovely meal on Saturday 16th May for all us hens. Everyone commented on how good the food was. Thank you again and I will be recommending you to friends and family. Once I have a photo of us all together I will email it across to you. Lucian, A belated thank you from Sarah and I for organising a super event for us last week. All of our guests have written to say what a great night it was, and for us the pleasure was sharing it with the rather than cooking all evening. Instead, we enjoyed great food ourselves with them which was a joy. Thanks again and I hope we can find cause to get in touch and see if you can help us out again one day. Lucian, The food was as usual delicious. My mother-in-law enjoyed all the flavors. Sure made cooking easy for several days. We appreciated all the extras you gave us. There was tons of food and kept us well fed for days. Nathan really really liked your vegetables. Ate so much of it at each meal. He's a great eater and tries different things. Ate so much of it at each meal. He's a great eater and tries different things. Unfortunately, Natalie is picky as can be and refuses to try much of anything new. Hope that changes. There wasn't anything we didn't like. I must admit though that the broad beans comfit wasn't my favorite. Eric enjoyed it though and my mother-in-law thought it was interesting. Enjoy the rest of the week. Thanks again. Lucian, Just a quick note to say thanks for Saturday, we had a great evening and the food was delicious. It was quite an eye opener to see a proper skilled chef working in your own kitchen!. Since you left before the desserts, I've also been asked to pass on that the tiramisu was superb, as was the homemade ice cream. Fee free to use these comments as a testimonial; I'd certainly use you again if the chance arises.

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Mindshare Blends Dynamic Video With Data-Informed Creative For Mazda by Kelly Liyakasa // Monday, March 7th, 2016 – 3:36 pm Campaign briefs are increasingly filled with demands for advanced creative versioning, forcing agencies into closer collaboration with ad tech providers. It's one of the reasons why Mindshare partnered with dynamic creative optimization platform Spongecell last fall to support a Mazda Rebels campaign, featuring a series of short films profiling engineers and innovators on the cusp of the "next big idea." It's important to note Mazda works with a range of WPP agencies, including a specialized shop called Garage Team Mazda, which WPP founded in 2010 to support much of Mazda's North American marketing and creative needs. For this particular campaign, Mindshare UK used Spongecell's dynamic creative and data tools to convert Mazda Rebels' creative into nine different digital videos localized for 23 markets. The videos each contained unique creative and calls to action to encourage consumers to "Visit MazdaRebels.com" and vote for their favorite filmmaker. In turn, Mazda would help fund the winning creator's pet project. "For each video, there were 10 or so component parts Spongecell could chop and change dynamically to customize the creative in real time," said Adam Ray, head of programmatic for Mindshare. "The volume we got was huge – [about] half a million [views] and hundreds of thousands of votes, so it worked well to generate engagement with our target audience." By dynamically swapping subheads, background images, calls to action and localizing text for French and Spanish audiences, for instance, the average time spent on Mazda's videos was 47.5% above the benchmark with a 29% higher completion rate. Although Mindshare has used Spongecell's DCO tools for several years, Spongecell recently rolled out a platform called CORE, which integrates its pixel server/creative optimization and reporting tools with a number of data management/demand-side platforms and ad servers. "We were more interested in integrating with and playing with the ad servers than being an ad server ourselves, since it's a piece of the stack that's pretty commoditized," said Ben Kartzman, CEO of Spongecell. "We kind of sit on top of the ad server, ingest data and turn that into dynamic variations for sequential messaging in real time." Spongecell said CORE isn't a data management platform, but instead serves pixels and syncs cookies with a client's DMP or data partners. Agency clients like Mindshare typically come to Spongecell when they want to do more programmatic decisioning around their creative. It often sits on top of an agency or advertiser's database or ad server, and can match creative variables to different audience targets based on loyalty card data, for example. Buyers can upload different creative assets and to "auto-optimize" an output based on specific product deals, countries, audience segments or period of time, which goes well beyond rich-media optimization, Kartzman said. "As we saw this year with the death of flash and rise of HTML5 – the desire by advertisers to use data to influence creative will challenge an old-school rich-media business for sure," he said. He noted how PointRoll sold for $20 million to Sizmek. Spongecell's platform is designed to target based on factors like location and site visitation habits. It then builds multiple combinations of creative variables dynamically based on what is known about the user. Although Mindshare's largest multinational clients like Unilever and Kimberly-Clark have undergone hefty build-outs of private trading desks and first-party data onboarding projects, Ray said doing dynamic creative at scale is a relatively new undertaking for many brands. "The realization that it's important is starting to hit home," he said, adding the caveat that "when you've got big scale and millions of records across 80 different brands, it's a massive endeavor to onboard that data just to be smart and buy against [targeted audience segments]. The next step then is to inform the creative."

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In the situation we're in, we need more comedy A baby boomer's guide to the best of classic TV. Seinfeld, "The Stall," Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards, Jami Gertz and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. [ SONY PICTURES TELEVISION | TNS ] By Roy Peter Clark Published Sep. 2, 2021 Imagine, if you can, a world suffering a global pandemic along with a climate catastrophe said to pose an existential threat to life on the planet. Hey, that's us! At such a time, many people will even experience the news as dystopian. Not me. I am a news junkie — until 11 p.m. At that time, I need something different to sweeten my dreams. Something humorous, whimsical, maybe nostalgic. Not another episode of The Walking Dead. I need an antidote to the zombie apocalypse. I need a good situation comedy. In short, I need Seinfeld. Best television sitcoms of all time I am about to list my favorite sitcoms of all time. It will have a predictably baby boomer slant. By my standards, a sitcom must be a half-hour in length. It must have originated on network television, not cable channels or streaming services. As a personal preference, I have eliminated cartoons. (Sorry, The Flintstones and The Simpsons.) Also gone are several good shows in military settings (The Phil Silvers Show, M*A*S*H, McHale's Navy and Hogan's Heroes). Also out are popular shows of which I have never seen a full episode (Everybody Loves Raymond, Golden Girls and Friends). Here are my criteria for selection to the sitcom hall of fame: • Every episode makes me laugh out loud, at least once. • The shows are so consistently good that I want to send a thank-you note to the writers. • If I am channel surfing and come upon a rerun of an episode, I will stop and watch it to the end. • In addition to the stars, the great shows have a supporting character who is a notorious scene stealer and who becomes iconic. • We know these shows so well that we begin to incorporate scenes and catchphrases into our daily lives. If you have ever said "yada yada," you know what I mean. • For nostalgia, I give extra points to shows that are in black and white. A drumroll, please The four greatest television sitcoms: Seinfeld: Four neurotic New Yorkers seek love and success in the 1990s. What made this show special for me was that the biggest laughs came from secondary characters, such as George's father (played by Jerry Stiller) and Jerry Seinfeld's foil, the portly postal worker Newman (Wayne Knight), who steals every scene in which he appears. Minor characters, like the Library Cop played by Philip Baker Hall, raise the laugh level to the roof. No topic was too taboo. Planning your weekend? Subscribe to our free Top 5 things to do newsletter We'll deliver ideas every Thursday for going out, staying home or spending time outdoors. I Love Lucy: First aired in 1951, I Love Lucy is the progenitor of the sitcom as we know it and arguably the most important entertainment show in television history. Everything about this show seemed funny and original when I watched it as a boy. My father, an even-tempered man, would gasp and then howl in laughter. My favorite comic moment is the controlled rehearsal of taking Lucy to the hospital to have her baby, only to be followed by slapstick chaos when the real moment comes. The Dick Van Dyke Show: I am struck by how all three of my top picks are shows about show business. Dick Van Dyke plays Rob Petrie, comedy writer for a television variety show, starring comic genius Carl Reiner. There are plenty of sight gags and baldy jokes, along with occasional song and dance numbers. But this show would not have gone as far as it did without the incandescent Mary Tyler Moore. Her beauty and comedic talent are on full display. More important, perhaps, is how this showcase would become a launching pad toward The Mary Tyler Moore Show, changing forever the way a single professional woman could be portrayed in television comedy. The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Griffith built his career upon a persona, the congenial country fellow, full of humility, hospitality and small-town wisdom. Mayberry offered an uncomplicated vision of the South, with no direct reference to the legacy of slavery. Sheriff Andy was always up to the task, usually with the questionable help of perhaps the greatest second banana in the history of television comedy: Deputy Barnie Fife, played by Don Knotts. Once he left the show, I became less interested. But he stands forever as a parody of the person who is given a little more authority than he deserves. All in the Family: It gave us Archie and Edith, and brought social issues of the 1960s to center stage. Great spinoffs included Maude and The Jeffersons. The Honeymooners: Best scene: Ralph and Ed in the kitchen trying to figure out how to hit a golf ball from written instructions: "Address the ball." Norton: "Hello, ball!" Family Matters: It offered a wonderful ensemble of Black actors, a multigenerational family, where each character gets to step forward in an emotional or comedic way. A young Jaleel White turned Urkel into a social type. Leave It To Beaver: It gave us the most patient and thoughtful of 1950s know-it-all fathers; the most stylish of stay-at-home moms; the funniest character nicknames (Beaver and Lumpy); and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), the most obsequious and unctuous young hypocrite to ever appear on stage or screen. Highs and the lows Most important question raised by a sitcom: Ginger or Mary Ann (Gilligan's Island) Show I loved but can no longer watch: The Cosby Show My guilty pleasure: Married With Children Spinoffs better than the original: Laverne & Shirley from Happy Days; Frasier from Cheers. Shows where women stand up against efforts to keep them in their place: I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Most ridiculous moment: The Fonz, waterskiing in his leather jacket, jumps over a man-eating shark, leading to the popular phrase "jump the shark." Which is a sign I should stop here. When things are down, what is your go-to sitcom? Up next:Mike Richards is out as producer of 'Jeopardy!' and 'Wheel of Fortune' Man dies in van fire outside Daytona Beach Police DepartmentJan. 12• News Old Seven Mile Bridge in Florida Keys reopens to pedestrians, bicyclistsJan. 12• News Nevada candidate seeks Trump's favor with Florida TV spotJan. 14• News What it's like for Fox Sports cameras to keep track of Tom Brady, Bucs on game daysJan. 16• Sports How turmoil in a Clearwater city department ended in an arrestJan. 13• News Snow, ice blasts through South with powerful winter stormJan. 16• Associated Press Sidney Poitier was the only one we had | ColumnJan. 12• Opinion 40 years later, Clearwater man's hockey team still calls him coachYesterday• Life & Culture

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Plaintiff's Assumption of the Risk of Wild Animals in Georgia Home » Premises Liability Archive » Plaintiff's Assumption of the Risk of Wild Animals in Georgia Premises Liability Archive In a recent case, the Georgia Supreme Court considered a premises liability case in which an 83-year-old woman was attacked and killed by an alligator in a planned residential community owned by The Landings. At the time of the attack, the woman was housesitting for her daughter's family at The Landings, a residential community with a golf course located on an island off the coast of Georgia. Before the land was developed, it was mostly marsh, with indigenous alligators. The Landings defendants installed a lagoon for drainage so that they could build residential properties on the land. The project was completed in the 1970s and indigenous alligators began going on and off the property through the lagoon. Nobody was ever attacked in spite of the alligator presence until the woman was attacked. Although alligators inhabited the area of The Landings before and after its establishment, no person had ever been attacked until the night of the woman's attack. She was walking near a lagoon after 6:00 p.m., and the next morning her body was found floating in the water with her limbs bitten off. An eight-foot alligator was caught in the lagoon and when the alligator was killed, part of her body had been found in its stomach. The woman's estate and heirs sued the Landings for wrongful death and pain and suffering. The Landings defendants brought a motion for summary judgment, which the trial court had denied in parts. The Court of Appeals affirmed the denial. The defendants asked the Georgia Supreme Court to review and the Court agreed. Before the attack the woman was aware of the alligators' presence. Her son-in-law had testified that he had once stopped the car to let the woman look at an alligator. He thought she had a normal respect for wild animals. However, he didn't ever have a conversation about how to behave around wild animals with her because he saw her as intelligent. Similarly the woman's own son had stopped the car to let his mother look at alligators though she didn't like them. In a Georgia premises liability case, a plaintiff faced with a defendant's motion for summary judgment must present evidence that would allow a rational trier of fact to find the defendant knew or should have known of a hazard. Once that's shown, the defendant must produce evidence that the plaintiff's own negligence (intentional disregard or failure to use ordinary care) caused her injuries. If the defendant successfully produces that evidence, the burden of production shifts back to the plaintiff who must show a genuine disputed fact on her negligence. Alternatively the plaintiff must show that any negligence on her part stemmed from the defendants' conduct. The Court noted that a proprietor is considered to have greater knowledge of the peril. Recovery is appropriate if the owner knows the peril and the injured person does not know of the peril. In this case, the woman was well-aware of the alligators. The Court found that she had knowledge equal to The Landings defendants. She had also stated previously that she didn't want to be near the alligators because she saw them as dangerous. Yet she elected to go walking near the lagoon at night by herself. The Court found that this showed she had assumed the risk of walking by wild alligators or else had failed to exercise reasonable care. The plaintiffs argued that the woman didn't necessarily know there were alligators that were seven or eight feet in length. However, the Court reversed the judgment for the plaintiffs, noting that a reasonable nondisabled adult understands small alligators have large parents and can move from one lagoon to the next. That adult assumes the risk. If you are seriously injured on somebody else's property, you may have grounds for a lawsuit. Experienced Atlanta personal injury attorney Terrence R. Bethune can evaluate your case and fight for any compensation you may deserve. Contact us at 404-875-7800 or via our online form. PrevPreviousProximate Cause in Georgia Car Accidents NextGeorgia Arbitration Award Not Vacated in Motorcycle Accident CaseNext

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City Council to take on Oakland's parking problem Mary K. Flynn on September 21, 2009 City residents may take some small measure of comfort in knowing their City Council is aware of the discontent regarding the parking measures that went into effect on July 1. "I've been doing this for twelve years and this is a big reaction," said City Council President Jane Brunner, whose District 1 is North Oakland, where many of the sharpest complaints have been directed regarding overzealous parking enforcement and extended hours. "If you have this big of a reaction you have to listen to it." The city council will reconvene this Tuesday, September 22 to discuss, among other issues, the new parking measures. The changes have been four-fold: increased hourly parking meter rates from $1.50 to $2.00, extended parking meter hours from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., increased fines on select parking violations, and stricter enforcement of parking policy. To many residents, the changes seemed to occur overnight, and with almost no advance notice. "It was pretty sudden–we only had a few days lead time," said Jill Shira, an employee at Form Vintage Modern, a furniture and antique store in Rockridge, who at one point received two tickets in one week. Shira said many customers have complained about the extended hours, increased fines, and stricter enforcement, but mostly about the tickets that resulted. "It's like we have to budget now for our tickets," she said. "That's a fair criticism," said Brunner, referring to the suddenness with which the changes were implemented. "If we made a mistake, that's a mistake we made." Although the changes have angered many residents, Brunner said the decision was not an easy one in light of the city's budget deficit. "When you're cutting $91 million, when 85 percent of the general fund goes to police and fire, there aren't a lot of wasteful spots to find the money," Brunner said. "You're cutting real programs." Programs and services edging towards the chopping block include further cuts to library hours, a decrease in recreation programs at local parks and the elimination of the city's park ranger positions. All city employees have already taken a ten percent pay cut for the budget year. Many Oakland residents and business owners are unhappy with the new parking changes. Looking around the normally bustling Grand Lake retail district, business owners point to empty parking spaces as an indicator of hard times. "I've lost 25 percent in business since the parking went into effect, discounting for the recession," said Bob Jaffe, owner of The Grand Bakery on Grand Avenue. "I've been here eleven years and this is the fewest number of cars that have been in the parking lot. People have changed their habits." Marlene Rubain of North Oakland agreed that her habits have changed. "We aren't as spontaneous," she said. "If we want to stop and pop into a store to browse, we don't." Rubain noted the parking changes have affected her spending habits by forcing her to be more aware of how now driving costs her more money. "I take the bus," she said, "But since I can't carry as much I spend a lot less without the car." Non-metered parking in the Grand Lake district is only available in residential neighborhoods, which are increasingly crowded with drivers trying to avoid parking fees. "In the evening, people who live here can't find parking anymore because people are coming over to park for free," said Sarah Kutner, an employee at Gold's Gym on Grand Ave. Many residents acknowledge the city is in a tough spot economically, but the hardest change to accept has been the extension of parking meter hours from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. "A price increase is a price increase," said Kutner: "It's the time increase that is the problem. You can't park for free to go to dinner or a movie anymore. If the city had done it better, I doubt there would be an uproar." Council member Pat Kernighan, whose district includes the Grand Lake area, has offered a potential compromise. On her web site, she outlines her plan to "rescind the 8 pm ending time for meter enforcement and go back to 6 pm." Under her plan, the $2.00 hourly parking fee and increased parking fines would still stand. While she would like to vote in favor of this proposal, Brunner said she does not see this as an adequate compromise. "If you cut that money you have to find the money elsewhere," Brunner said. "I'm just not going to be irresponsible and have another $1.3 million deficit that we don't know how to deal with." Brunner noted her staff has reviewed programs to see if cuts could be made elsewhere, but said no answers had been found. Kernighan's site affirms if the rollback from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. occurs, the city will need to make further spending cuts. She does not indicate what those cuts will be. Many residents spoke of the council's obvious need to attempt to balance its budget in some way. The question will be, are enough people willing to pony up? "I'm glad the council made a hard decision," said Oakland resident Miron Murcury. "It's better than passing the buck and just shutting down services." Additional reporting by Lauren Callahan. Local business owners point to vacant parking lots like this one behind Grand Avenue as an indication of how the new parking measures have affected their business. Economy | Politics | Public Policy Game on: Lawn bowlers battle by the lake Frank Snapp and the not-so-secret guerrilla garden Oakland North » Small group gathers to consider council recall on September 30, 2009 at 2:48 pm […] last night to discuss what to do in response to the September 22nd city council meeting, where the July 1st parking measures were kept […]

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Statement of Archdiocesan Actions Regarding Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse by Father Brian Cox Sean Caine In responding to allegations of child abuse, the highest priorities for the Archdiocese of Baltimore are the safety of children and concern for victims. Our consistent reporting of child abuse allegations, cooperation with authorities, and offers of assistance to victims are vital to meeting these priorities. In July 1995 the Archdiocese received allegations of child sex abuse against Father Brian Cox. On August 7, 1995, he was placed on leave of absence and his faculties to perform the functions of a priest were removed. That status has remained in place since then. Father Cox was sent for an evaluation and a report of the alleged abuse was made to the State's Attorney's Office for Carroll County. At the time, the Archdiocese notified parishioners and others of the allegations, seeking information on possible additional victims. A Statement from the Archdiocese disclosing that Father Cox had acknowledged engaging in inappropriate activity with a minor was published in parish bulletins on September 3, 1995 at St. John, Westminster and St. Peter, Libertytown and in The Catholic Review, the Archdiocesan newspaper, on September 6, 1995. In June 1996, the Archdiocese learned that Father Cox, without faculties as a Catholic priest, was planning to return to Resurrection Farm, a non-profit, privately owned facility that is not affiliated in any way with the Archdiocese. He did so without the recommendation or support of the Archdiocese. In June 1996, letters indicating that the Archdiocese did not approve of Father Cox's return to Resurrection Farm, that Archdiocesan schools and parishes were not to use Resurrection Farm for any youth activities, and that Father Cox had no assignment or faculties within the Archdiocese were sent to all pastors in the Archdiocese, nearby high schools, the Diocese of Harrisburg, Father Cox himself, and Resurrection Farm. In June 1996, another statement reiterating Father Cox's admission of misconduct and planned return to Resurrection Farm was again made in the parish bulletins of St. John and St. Peter. Father Brian Cox was a priest of the Josephite Order until 1983 when he was incardinated into (made a priest of) the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He was an associate pastor at St. Pius V parish 1968-1973. He also served as a chaplain at Archbishop Keough H.S. 1975-1978. From 1978 until 1989, he served as Associate Pastor at St. John, Westminster. Beginning in 1989, Father Cox did not have a formal assignment from the Archdiocese while he resided and worked full-time at Resurrection Farm. Father Cox did continue to assist at St. Peter, Libertytown and St. John, Westminster until 1995 when faculties to function as a priest were removed. The Archdiocese stands ready to cooperate fully with any criminal investigation that may follow Father Cox's arrest yesterday by Maryland State Police. Sean Caine is Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Communications Archbishop Lori's Homily: "Life is Beautiful" Mass January 16, 2022 A message of consolation and encouragement from Archbishop Lori January 5, 2022 Archbishop Lori's Homily: Epiphany of the Lord January 2, 2022 Archbishop William E. Lori on the Death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu December 28, 2021

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Long Islander's Blog – September 2010 Archive (15) First Wind key backer hits skids Please note that D.E. Shaw is also a major backer of First Wind. Deepwater Wind's key backer hits skids Big layoffs at D.E. Shaw as assets plunge Updated: Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010, 10:19 AM EDT Published : Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010, 10:03 AM EDT Added by Long Islander on September 29, 2010 at 3:48pm — No Comments Iberdrola CEO Finally Admits To Real Reason Behind $1.4 Billion Maine Power Reliability Project: WIND Building the transmission upgrade for wind, eh? What about the originally cited reason of "aging lines". See: "Central Maine Power wants to replace aging lines"… Added by Long Islander on September 29, 2010 at 12:57am — 1 Comment Iberdrola: "Let's experiment on Maine" The primary reason for the $1.4 billion upgrade is so that wind farms can transport their electrons from disfigured Maine mountains to Mass and Ct. where they can power giant screen TV's and air conditioned McMansions when nobody's home. Great. Yet when this project was "sold in" to us, it was done so under the entirely false pretense of aging lines. See: "Central Maine Power wants to replace aging lines"… Added by Long Islander on September 28, 2010 at 11:05am — 3 Comments State's Only Wind Turbine Experiment Marks 500th Day Today marks the 500th day of operation of the UMPI wind turbine, the state's only experiment in this technology which creates enormous impact across the state and virtually no benefit. After 500 days, only 10.8% of capacity has been attained. These are very clear and compelling results that argue for a revisitation of all the bloated industrial wind claims within the context of the damage to Mainers, the damage to our environment and the negative economic effects that will result from the… Added by Long Islander on September 26, 2010 at 12:36pm — 1 Comment Today marks the 500th day of operation of the UMPI wind turbine, the state's only experiment in this flawed technology which creates enormous impact across the state and virtually no benefit. After 500 days, only 10.8% of capacity has been attained. These are very clear and compelling results that argue for a revisitation of all the bloated industrial wind claims within the context of the damage to Mainers, the damage to our environment and the negative economic effects that will result from… Added by Long Islander on September 26, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments Future Postcard From Maine? Turbines destroyed in France Added by Long Islander on September 23, 2010 at 6:30am — 1 Comment UMPI Spins Turbine - Get Out The Microscope UMPI has added a new feature to the page on its website that provides data for its wind turbine - the page now includes a spinning turbine. And unlike the actual $2 million plus turbine on the campus, it seems to spin all the time. Please see http://www.umpi.edu/wind/live and click on "Live Turbine… Boston Herald Editorial on the "No Hydro" Rule, etc. Revisit renewables By Boston Herald Editorial Staff http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1282285 National Grid has testified that its contract with Cape Wind is the best way of meeting new state requirements that a portion of electricity come from renewable sources. Yet Cape Wind's extravagant $2 billion… Voices of Vinalhaven - A Listen Back Rep. Hannah Pingree, Gov. Baldacci, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, George Baker, and students celebrate the largest community wind development in NE on Vinalhaven. (Source: Maine Insights) For a look back (or listen back) please see the Vinalhaven video at: Important: From Fox Islands Wind Neighbors Important UPDATE: September 9, 2010 State of Maine finds Fox Island Wind Turbines in violation of noise standard After months of data collection and analysis, the State of Maine agrees with the neighbors of the turbine farm on Vinalhaven: Fox Island Wind is in violation of state noise standard… Added by Long Islander on September 13, 2010 at 9:38am — 5 Comments Denmark to abandon future onshore wind farms in the country? For all the hype we hear about Denmark cited as a shining example of wind power, it is interesting to read that "Last month, unnoticed in the UK, Denmark's giant state-owned power company, Dong Energy, announced that it would abandon future onshore wind farms in the country. "Every time we were building onshore, the public reacts in a negative way and we had a lot of criticism from neighbours," said a spokesman for the company. "Now we are putting all our efforts into… Added by Long Islander on September 12, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments UMPI Wind Turbine Site Now Reporting CO2 Emissions - Incongruity Revealed? Has anyone noticed that the UMPI site now reports CO2 along with wind turbine KWH production? Although the site provides no reference to time period in its reporting, one can only presume that the CO2 reported is for the same time period as the KWH reported - presumably project to date, with the project start date of 5/14/9 as reported in May 2009 by the Bangor Daily News. The new CO2 reporting seems to reveal an incongruity. When the project was started the… Added by Long Islander on September 10, 2010 at 10:42am — No Comments Maine Freedom of Information Coalition is challenging all candidates NEWS from MFOIC… Added by Long Islander on September 7, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments Steve Thurston: True impacts obscured True impacts obscured By Steve Thurston Friday, September 3, 2010 2:12 PM EDT I am writing in response to Karin Tilberg's letter-to-the-editor, in which she defends the "Wind Law" and the task force that led to its implementation "Articles were unfair," Aug. 27). She criticizes Naomi Schalit for unfairly characterizing the process, but the incriminating words in Schalit's three-part series came not from Schalit, but… Added by Long Islander on September 3, 2010 at 4:11pm — 3 Comments Archived Documents - latest document added 9/1/10 This is a place to find and download archived documents on this website. Please add documents to this repository as desired. Adding a file is very easy to do. This is accomplished by adding a comment to this post (entitled "Archived Documents") - when doing so, you simply click on the icon above the comment box that looks like a piece of paper, browse your hard drive for a file, add the file and click "Add Comment". A link to the file now exists as the comment and anyone can now… Added by Long Islander on September 1, 2010 at 12:00pm — 46 Comments Robert Bryce: Warren Buffett's Iowa Wind Power Expansion Derailed By The Bridges Of Madison County In the Maine woods, preparations signal imminent start of CMP power line project Maine's current offshore project is foolhardy Maine land rush spurred by unprecedented wave of solar development John Droz, Jr: Energy & Environmental Newsletter: December 28, 2020 Hancock County wind farm goes online after years of failed development attempts Federal report raises offshore wind concerns, Mills administrations says Maine project is 'much different' Wind turbine shot multiple times with high-powered rifle in southern Alberta IT HAS HAPPENED: SunEdison Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy...the Decay of Maine's Turbine Litter Formally Underway S. Donald Sussman, who personally incubated D.E. Shaw, longtime half owner of First Wind, sells his newspapers Hawaii wind player gets comeuppance in Maine Maine Wind Cartel Crybabies Crying Again (Portland Press Herald) PPH: Maine board sets stage for rejection of First Wind project

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Funeral to be held for boy with autism found in creek after dayslong search Posted on: October 5th, 2018 by ABC News No Comments iStock/Thinkstock(GASTONIA, N.C.) — A 6-year-old boy whose body was found in a North Carolina creek after a dayslong search is being laid to rest. The funeral for Maddox Ritch is slated for Friday in his hometown of Gastonia, according to ABC station WTVD. Maddox, who had autism and was nonverbal, disappeared while on a trip to Rankin Lake Park with his father and another adult on Sept. 22, prompting a massive search. A body was found partially submerged in a creek about a mile from the park on Sept. 27, and authorities confirmed that it was Maddox on Oct. 1. Maddox's father, Ian Ritch, had said his son started sprinting roughly 25 to 30 feet ahead of him before running out of sight. "As soon as I got to the point where I couldn't see him anymore, I started panicking," he said last week. After Maddox disappeared, a park employee called 911, sparking a wide search by local, state and federal investigators. They scoured the area with police dogs, searched dumpsters, waded through the park's lake using sonar and divers, and scanned the area with helicopters and drones, police said. Authorities also recorded messages from Maddox's parents and played those messages in the woods in the hopes that their voices might persuade him to come out if he was there. Tweets by @WIMSRADIO ©2021 WIMS AM 1420-685 E 1675 N, Michigan City, IN 46360 Office 219.809.0445, Ric Federighi 630.975.0970, Hotline 219.861.1632

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Chemical Society Reviews Recent progress in morphology control of supramolecular fullereneassemblies and its applications Sukumaran Santhosh Babu,b Helmuth Möhwaldb and Takashi Nakanishi*abc a National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan E-mail: [email protected] b Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany c PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Self-organisation is an elegant tool for the creation of assemblies controlled in all dimensions with tunable properties in natural as well as artificial supramolecular systems. Especially, the supramolecular organisation of fullerene (C60) using π-stacking interaction to form various functional assemblies is of particular importance as it can provide excellent optoelectronic properties. Interestingly, the insufficient solubility of C60 has been overcome through the noncovalent interaction with other hosts and covalent functionalisation with organic moieties. This has resulted in supramolecular assemblies at the nano/micro/macro scales under different preparation conditions. The developments in the area of fullerene self-assembly during the last few decades have significantly contributed to the sensible design and fabrication of organic electronic devices. A summary of the very recent reports regarding the organisation of pristine C60, its coassembly with other hosts, unique polymorphs of fullerene derivatives, functional liquid crystalline assemblies, donor/acceptor heterojunctions and its applications will be presented in this tutorial review. Future research directions in which the supramolecular fullerene assembly may achieve more precision and improve the efficiency of the photovoltaic devices are also discussed. https://doi.org/10.1039/C000680G Tutorial Review Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010,39, 4021-4035 Recent progress in morphology control of supramolecular fullerene assemblies and its applications S. S. Babu, H. Möhwald and T. Nakanishi, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, 39, 4021 DOI: 10.1039/C000680G Sukumaran Santhosh Babu Helmuth Möhwald Takashi Nakanishi

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Statistics (.pdf) Softball opens day one of OAC Tournament with 2-0 victory over No. 2-seeded Heidelberg, 3-2 victory over No. 1 seed Otterbein Ohio Northern (28-9) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 1 Heidelberg (24-13) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 #21 Otterbein #21 Otterbein (31-9) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 10 2 Ohio Northern (29-9) 1 0 0 0 2 0 X 3 8 1 2B: Alicia Swierz; Hailee Loughman; Lexie Hess 2B: Gabby Stewart By Caleb Scott WESTERVILLE — The Ohio Northern softball team team kicked off the 2018 Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament with an impressive defensive effort and a 2-0 victory over No. 2-seeded Heidelberg on Friday morning before defeating host and No. 1-seed Otterbein 3-2 at the Otterbein Softball Field. The Polar Bears improve to 28-9 overall, while the Student Princes fall to 25-14 and Otterbein falls to 31-9. Senior Jenna Hollar (Lima/Bath) led the way offensively for ONU in game one, going 3-for-4 at the plate with a RBI and a run scored. In the second contest, sophomore Gabby Stewart (Union, Ky./St. Henry) led the way, going 2-for-3 with a crucial RBI and run scored. After Hollar opened the first contest with a single and a stolen base in the top of the first inning, junior Hailee Loughman (Brookville) drove her home with a single to give ONU a 1-0 lead. The Polar Bears added to their lead in the top of the second inning as a single from Hollar plated senior Miranda Huddle (Versailles) and pushed the lead to 2-0. The Northern defense would then step up and put an exclamation point on the contest with a double play to seal the 2-0 victory. Senior Kirsten Lightel (Tallmadge) picked up the game one victory, allowing only four hits and fanning seven batters. Lightel improves to 16-3 on the year. In Northern's second contest of the tournament, Hollar opened the game reaching on an Otterbein miscue before Stewart pushed her home with an RBI double to give ONU an early 1-0 lead. The Cardinals would score their first run of the contest in the top of the fourth inning to knot the game at 1-all. Sophomore Alicia Swierz (Deerfield/Southeast) was able to score in the bottom of the fifth inning to give ONU a 2-1 lead before rain forced the contest to be delayed. Following the 30-minute rain delay, Northern responded with another run in the bottom of the fifth inning to give ONU a 3-1 lead. Otterbein was able to add one more run, but Lightel and company closed the door in the top of the seventh inning, sealing the 3-2 victory. Lightel improved to 17-3 on the season with the victory in the pitchers circle. The Polar Bears will return to action on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. and will take on the winner of the fifth game of the tournament which has yet to be determined.

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Q: How to combine array value with same key? So i have this array that i get from query. The array look like this when i print_r Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => NAME 1 [Last] => LastValue1 [Bid] => [Ask] => ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => NAME 1 [Last] => [Bid] => BidValue1 [Ask] => ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Name 2 [Last] => LastValue2 [Bid] => BidValue2 [Ask] => ) [3] => Array ( [Name] => NAME 1 [Last] => [Bid] => [Ask] => AskValue1 ) [4] => Array ( [Name] =>Name 2 [Last] => [Bid] => [Ask] => AskValue2 ) ) and i want to achieve array looks like this Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => NAME 1 [Last] => LastValue1 [Bid] => BidValue1 [Ask] => AskValue1 ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Name 2 [Last] => LastValue2 [Bid] => BidValue2 [Ask] => AskValue2 ) ) I try this way (get it from google) $result = array(); foreach ($newArray as $element) { $result[$element['Name']][] = $element; } echo "<pre>";print_r($result); But it is not showing the result that i want. How can i achieve it ? thanks in advance and sorry for my english A: You can use below snippet for the same, $result = []; foreach ($newArray as $element) { foreach ($element as $key => $value) { // checking if value for key is already added to result array if ((!empty($result[$element['Name']]) && !array_key_exists($key, $result[$element['Name']])) || empty($result[$element['Name']])) { if (!empty($value)) { // checking if value not empty $result[$element['Name']] = ($result[$element['Name']] ?? []); // merge it to group wise name result array $result[$element['Name']] = array_merge($result[$element['Name']], [$key => $value]); } } } } array_merge — Merge one or more arrays array_key_exists — Checks if the given key or index exists in the array Demo Output:- Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => NAME1 [Last] => LastValue1 [Bid] => BidValue1 [Ask] => AskValue1 ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Name2 [Last] => LastValue2 [Bid] => BidValue2 [Ask] => AskValue2 ) ) A: Here is the shortest and simple solution by using foreach with array_filter foreach($a as &$v){ $v = array_filter($v); isset($r[$v['Name']]) ? ($r[$v['Name']] += $v) : ($r[$v['Name']] = $v); } You can use array_values to re arrange the order of array. Working example : https://3v4l.org/XeQHa

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A northeastern city in Morocco often referred to as the country's cultural capital. It's primarily known for its Fes El Bali walled medina, with medieval Marinid architecture, vibrant souks and old-world atmosphere. The medina is home to religious schools such as the 14th-century Bou Inania and Al Attarine, both decorated with elaborate cedar carvings and ornate tile work. Donkeys cart goods down the warren of alleyways as they have done since medieval times, and ruinous pockets loom around every corner – though a government drive to restore Fès el-Bali to its former glory is spurring changes. Fez' medina can seem like it's in a state of perpetual pandemonium; some visitors fall instantly in love and others recoil in horror. But its charms are many. Seemingly blind alleys lead to squares with exquisite fountains and streets bursting with aromatic food stands, rooftops unveil a sea of minarets, and stooped doorways reveal the workshops of tireless artisans.

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Dhaulagiri is the seventh highest mountain in the world at above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country (Nepal). It was first climbed on 13 May 1960 by a Swiss-Austrian-Nepali expedition. Annapurna I () is east of Dhaulagiri. The Kali Gandaki River flows between the two in the Kaligandaki Gorge, said to be the world's deepest. The town of Pokhara is south of the Annapurnas, an important regional center and the gateway for climbers and trekkers visiting both ranges as well as a tourist destination in its own right. Toponymy Dhaulagiri (धौलागिरी) is the Nepali name for the mountain which comes from Sanskrit where धवल (dhawala) means dazzling, white, beautiful and गिरि (giri) means mountain. Dhaulagiri I is also the highest point of the Gandaki river basin. Geography Looking north from the plains of India, most 8,000-metre peaks are obscured by nearer mountains, but in clear weather, Dhaulagiri is conspicuous from northern Bihar and as far south as Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. In 1808, survey computations showed it to be the highest mountain yet surveyed. This lasted until 1838 when Kangchenjunga took its place, followed by Mount Everest in 1858. Dhaulagiri I's sudden rise from lower terrain is almost unequaled. It rises from the Kali Gandaki River 30 km to the southeast. The south and west faces rise precipitously over . The south face of Gurja Himal in the same massif is also notably immense. Climbing history Most ascents have followed the northeast ridge route of the first ascent, but climbs have been made from most directions. As of 2007, there had been 358 successful ascents and 58 fatalities, which is a summit to a fatality rate of 16.2%. Between 1950 and 2006, 2.88% of 2,016 expedition members and staff going above base camp on Dhaulagiri I died. On all 8,000 metre peaks in Nepal the death rate was 1.63%, ranging from 0.65% on Cho Oyu to 4.04% on Annapurna I and 3.05% on Manaslu. Partial timeline 1950 – Dhaulagiri I reconnoitered by a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog. They do not see a feasible route and switch to Annapurna, where they make the first ascent of an 8000 m peak. 1953–1958 – Five expeditions attempt the north face, or "Pear Buttress", route. 1959 – Austrian expedition led by Fritz Moravec makes the first attempt on the northeast ridge. 1960 – Swiss-Austrian expedition led by Max Eiselin, successful ascent by Kurt Diemberger, Peter Diener, Ernst Forrer, Albin Schelbert, Nyima Dorje Sherpa, Nawang Dorje Sherpa on 13 May. First Himalayan climb supported by the first prototype fixed-wing aircraft, which, after establishing the still standing record for highest fixed wing landing, eventually crashed in Hidden Valley north of the mountain during takeoff and was abandoned. 1969 – American team led by Boyd Everett attempt southeast ridge; seven team members, including Everett, were killed in an avalanche. 1970 – The second ascent, via the northeast ridge by a Japanese expedition led by Tokufu Ohta and Shoji Imanari. Tetsuji Kawada and Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa reach the summit. 1973 – American team led by James D. Morrissey makes the third ascent via the northeast ridge. Summit team: John Roskelley, Louis Reichardt, and Nawang Samden Sherpa. 1975 – Japanese team led by Takashi Amemiya attempts southwest ridge (also known as the south pillar). Six are killed in an avalanche, including Norio Suzuki. 1976 – Italian expedition makes the fourth ascent. 1977 – International team led by Reinhold Messner attempts the south face. 1978, spring: Amemiya returns with an expedition that puts five members on the summit via the southwest ridge—the first ascent not using the northeast ridge. One team member dies during the ascent. 1978, autumn – Seiko Tanaka of Japan leads successful climb of the very difficult southeast ridge. Four are killed during the ascent. French team attempts the southwest buttress (also called the "south buttress"), only reaches 7,200 m. 1980 – A four-man team consisting of Polish climbers Voytek Kurtyka, Ludwik Wiczyczynski, Frenchman René Ghilini, and Scotsman Alex MacIntyre climb the east face, topping out at 7,500 m on the northeast ridge. After a bivouac, they descend back to base camp in a storm. One week later they climb the mountain via the northeast ridge reaching the summit on 18 May. 1981 – Yugoslav team reaches 7,950 m after putting up the first route on the true south face of the mountain, on the right side, connecting with the southeast ridge. They climb in alpine style but suffer four days of open bivouacs and six days without food before returning. Hironobu Kamuro of Japan reaches the summit alone, via the normal route. 1982, 5 May – Three members – Philip Cornelissen, Rudi Van Snick, and Ang Rita Sherpa – of a Belgian-Nepali team reach the summit via the north-east ridge. A day later, four more climbers – Ang Jangbu Sherpa, Marnix Lefever, Lut Vivijs, and Jan Vanhees – summit also. Vivijs becomes the first woman to reach the summit. 1982, 13 December – Two members (Akio Koizumi and Wangchu Shelpa) of the Japanese team led by Jun Arima of the Academic Alpine Club of Hokkaido University reach the summit. By the world calendar, winter begins 21 December, so this was not winter but a very-late-autumn-climb. However, the climb was done under a winter climbing permit, which the Nepali government issues for climbs beginning on or after 1 December. 1984 – Three members of the Czechoslovakian expedition (Jan Simon, Karel Jakes, Jaromir Stejskal) climb the west face to the summit. Simon died during the descent. 1985 – Polish expedition led by Adam Bilczewski set out to conquer Dhaulagiri for the first time in winter. After seven weeks of dramatic struggle against hurricane-force winds and temperatures below −40c°, Andrzej Czok and Jerzy Kukuczka successfully made first winter ascent on 21 January. 1986 – A mostly Polish expedition puts up a second south face route, on the left side of the face connecting with the southwest ridge route. They go above 7,500 m but do not reach the summit. 1988 – Soviet mountaineers Yuri Moiseev and Kazbek Valiev, in cooperation with Zoltan Demján of Czechoslovakia, succeed in climbing the southwest buttress. This 3,000-metre ascent, with difficult technical climbing at 6,800–7,300 m, was acknowledged as the year's best achievement at the UIAA Expedition Commission Conference. 1993 – Russian-British team puts up the direct north face route. 1995 — Anatoli Boukreev, speed ascent, record time 17 hours 15 mins, base camp to summit. 1998 – French climber Chantal Mauduit and Sherpa Ang Tshering die when an avalanche strikes their tent on the Northeast Ridge. On 1 May the Greek climber Nikolaos Papandreou is killed falling in a gorge. On 2 October, the Greek Babis Tsoupras reaches the summit but does not return. The bodies of the Greek climbers were not found. 1999 – On 24 October, British climber Ginette Harrison dies in an avalanche on Dhaulagiri. Days later, Slovenian Tomaž Humar climbs the south face solo but does not reach the summit. His ascent ended at 7,300 m due to a 300 m band of rotten rock. Humar traverses to the dangerous southeast ridge, re-enters the face briefly, and exits at 8000 m for a descent on the northeast ridge. Dhaulagiri's south face is still unclimbed, making it one of the greatest remaining challenges in alpinism. References Notes Sources American Alpine Journal, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1999, 2000. Eiselin, Max, The Ascent of Dhaulagiri, OUP, 1961 Himalayan Index External links Dhaulagiri Expedition Dhaulagiri on Himalaya-Info.org (German) Dhaulagiri on summitpost.org (Detailed description of trekking and of first ascent) Himalayan Index Eight-thousanders of the Himalayas Mountains of the Gandaki Province

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Henson, Colorado and the Ute-Ulay Mines Henson, Colorado by Mike Sinnwell, Rocky Mountain Profiles Henson, Colorado is a ghost town located about 3.5 miles west of Lake City on the Alpine Loop Backcountry Byway. Minerals were first discovered here in 1871 by Joel Mullen, Albert Mead and Henry Henson. Two years before, the Brunot Treaty removed the Ute Indians from the San Juan Mountains and opened the area up to prospectors and settlers. In 1874, Joel Mullen, Albert Mead, Henry Henson, and Charles Godwin staked formal claims on the site and performed some initial development. The mine was named in honor of Chief Ouray. Ulay is how the Ute Indians pronounced his name. The Ute-Ulay claims along Henson Creek were the first registered mining claims in Hinsdale County. However, the initial owners of the claim lacked financing to fully work the site and they sold it to the Crooke Mining and Smelting Company for $125,000 in the summer of 1876. This company was based in London, England, with offices in New York. Comprised of brothers, John J. Crooke and Lewis Crooke, the company was more commonly referred to as the Crooke Brothers. They also had holdings at Summitville and in Lake City. In addition to the Ute-Ulay, the company also bought up several other area mines and constructed a smelter just south of Lake City. The Ute-Ulay mine soon began serious production and spurred the growth of nearby Lake City, which had a population of 1,000 by November 1876. Otto Mears Toll Road in Southwest Colorado Otto Mears built a toll road through the area in 1877, which ran from Lake City to Silverton and Ouray. By 1878, Crooke Mining had constructed quarters for the miners, a shaft, ore houses, and a concentrating mill. The camp that grew up around the Ute-Ulay mining complex was called Henson for one of its discoverers. The town of Henson was officially laid out in 1880 on the north side of Henson Creek. Most of the people who lived in Henson worked at the Ute-Ulay or Hidden Treasure mines. The town was never incorporated In 1882, the new owners built a concentration works, but transportation was a severe and costly problem without a railroad. At about the same time, a dam was built on Henson Creek to meet the rising energy needs of the site. The Henson post office was established in May 1883, but the same year the mine was temporarily shut down. In the winter of 1884, Henson Creek froze entirely, cutting off the Ute-Ulay's energy source. At that time, the mill ceased operation and the Crooke brothers defaulted on their mortgage. The post office was discontinued in April 1884. The closing of the mine also threw nearby Lake City into a full-scale depression. Henson Creek near Lake City, Colorado The site was then sold to the Lake City Mining Company, which over the next three years invested heavily in the Ute-Ulay mining complex. In 1887, the Ute-Ulay mine was reopened and began shipping ore. However, the price of ore was so low and shipping costs so high, the mine wasn't profitable. It wasn't until the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad reached Lake City, that Henson and the other area mining towns, would begin to prosper. But, for the Lake City Mining Company who owned the Ute-Ulay Mine, it was too late. In 1890, the company defaulted on its mortgage and went out of business. Production continued, however, under the Ute and Ulay Mines, Ltd., another British group. At that time, a new 118-foot high dam was built on Henson Creek with a hydroelectric power plant to supply the mill. Henson flourished in the early 1890s, boasting a population of about 300 people, three saloons, a school, a barbershop, several grocery stores, and a branch of the Western Federation of Miners, a labor union that counted many San Juan miners as members. The post office was re-established in November 1892. In 1893 when the U.S. Government demonetized silver, the Ute-Ulay was forced to halt production in early August. In dire financial straits, the owners leased the mines to the Ute and Ulay Mines Leasing Company and production resumed. During this time, much of the area's population and the economy continued to grow because the local mines produced a variety of valuable minerals. Hidden Treasure Mine, Henson, Colorado In February 1896 the Ute and Ulay Mines, Ltd. made a last-ditch effort to attain profitability by purchasing the Hidden Treasure Mine, located just uphill from the Ute-Ulay site. But the effort didn't pan out and the owners were unable to pay their debt. The mine was then leased to the Auric Mining Company, of Leadville, Colorado. During this time it took a lot of men to run the mine and relatively cheap labor was available in the form of immigrants. The town of Henson quickly became very diverse as many of the miners hailed from Europe, including England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Germany, and Italy. Many of the Italians had earlier worked on the railroad and stayed in the area to work in the mines. One of the largest foreign groups, they kept to themselves, lived in a separate community south of Henson Creek called "Little Rome," and published their own newspaper, La Verita. The Italian workers were members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and promoted unionization of the mine. Ute-Ulay Mine, Henson, Colorado However, the Auric Mining Company had little patience for the collective demands of their workers, probably because they had dealt with the WFM a few years earlier in Leadville. In response for demands for unionization, Samual Nicholson, one of the men who ran the Auric Mining Company, declared that all single men working at the Ute-Ulay and Hidden Treasure Mines must live in company boarding houses. During these busy mining years, the town of Henson had become rather lawless and shootings were common. Nicholson blamed most of this on the single men and generally perceived that WFM members had a reputation for lawlessness. There had been tension at the mines for weeks, but this declaration immediately provoked the ire of the union members. For many of the single men, the forced move meant higher rents, deplorable living conditions, and longer commuting distances. On March 14, 1899, about 100 well-armed miners, most of which were Italian, went on strike, blocking the entrances to both the Ute-Ulay and Hidden Treasure Mines and made every attempt to intimidate other miners who showed up for work. Ghost Towns Main Page

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Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Gaupp (ur. 13 lipca 1865 w Bytomiu, zm. 24 listopada 1916 we Wrocławiu) – niemiecki anatom. Życiorys Jego ojcem był radca prawny Theodor Gaupp, syn Ernsta Theodora Gauppa, miał sześcioro rodzeństwa. Studiował nauki przyrodnicze i medycynę na Uniwersytecie w Jenie, Uniwersytecie Albrechta w Królewcu i Uniwersytecie we Wrocławiu, gdzie w 1889 roku otrzymał tytuł doktora medycyny. Następnie pracował jako anatom, kolejno, we Fryburgu Bryzgowijskim, Królewcu i Wrocławiu. Przyczynił się do sformułowania zasady znanej dziś jako prawo Recherta-Gauppa (dotyczy przebiegu kostnienia kosteczek słuchowych ssaków). Wybrane prace Veröffentlichung über die Rechtshändigkeit der Menschen. Jena Fischer 1906 Zur Kenntnis des Primordial-Craniums der Amphibien und Reptilien Verh. Anat. Ges. 5 (1891), ss. 114–120 Alte Probleme und neuere Arbeiten ueber den Wirbeltierschaedel. Erg. Anat. Entw. 10, ss. 847–1001 (1900) Bibliografia Absolwenci i studenci Uniwersytetu Albrechta w Królewcu Absolwenci i studenci Uniwersytetu w Jenie Niemieccy anatomowie Wykładowcy Śląskiego Uniwersytetu Fryderyka Wilhelma we Wrocławiu Wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Albrechta w Królewcu Ludzie urodzeni w Bytomiu Urodzeni w 1865 Zmarli w 1916

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← Hail, Caesar! (2016) Mustang (2015) → Dheepan (2015) Posted on December 15, 2016 by SMW By all accounts, Jacques Audiard's Dheepan (2015) is a curious film. On one hand, it's a story of immigration, of Sri Lankan refugees seeking escape to the west, told in an almost documentary-style form. On the other, it's a slow-burning descent into bloody violence that started life as a Peckinpah remake. Its nuanced, carefully measured character study gives way eventually to an explosive climax, and beyond to a deceptively subtle coda. Nevertheless, perhaps in spite, perhaps because of its peculiarity, it won the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, beating the hotly-tipped Carol, Sight & Sound poll-topper The Assassin and future Oscar-winner Son of Saul to the prize. Curious audiences drawn to this emotionally complex, award-winning tale may be tacken aback by its denouement, but the tension in Dheepan between social-realism and a kind of Hollywood classicism is increasingly a hallmark of Audiard's work. Most recently, Rust And Bone (2012), which starred Marion Cotillard as a killer whale trainer who loses her legs in an accident, "almost felt more like an effects movie than a purportedly intimate drama set on the fringes of society."1 Audiard also told The Observer recently of his nostalgia for the heyday of the Hollywood Western, when "cinema dealt in pure truth"2. It's perhaps not surprising then, given Audiard has never been reluctant to pay tribute to his Hollywood inspirations (The Beat That My Heart Skipped was a remake of James Toback's Fingers (1978); A Prophet's lead, Malik, was reportedly inspired by The Godfather's Michael Corleone) that he should consider producing a remake of Straw Dogs (Dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1971). "Initially," Audiard has explained, "we had the idea of using genre as a Trojan horse… But using genre gave us a 'vigilante' film, a rather stupid and reactionary genre."3 From Straw Dogs, Audiard, with his writing collaborators Noé Debré and Thomas Bidegain, took "the idea of an outsider, somebody who comes from another place"4 and began to glean that the film they wanted to make "was a love story, that this man would do anything for his family out of love."5 Audiard's work has long concerned itself with the struggle of inchoate voices to find form (2001's Read My Lips), the struggle for self-actualisation (1996's A Self Made Hero), and the struggle to create one's self, to forge one's own destiny (2009's A Prophet). The director's intention, however, is not simply to give voice to the voiceless or a platform to underrepresented minorities, but to discover and engage with "people that are totally different from me, my social milieu, and my culture."6 This impetus, away from French culture, domestic and colonial, drove Audiard in this case inevitably towards Sri Lanka and the civil war, "that I had totally ignored, and that was not at all represented or covered by the French press."7 Essaying the conflict itself, though, is less important to Audiard than showing how that past tells upon his characters as they attempt to start new lives, under assumed identities, in a Parisian housing estate. The director looked to the Tamil community in Paris to cast his film, and there found his Dheepan in writer and ex-Tamil Tiger Antonythasan Jesuthasan. Jesuthasan, who has lived in France for 23 years, reportedly auditioned for a minor part, but was promoted to lead when Audiard discovered how closely his life story matched the script. Radicalised by the events of Sri Lanka's Black July in 1983, a 17-year-old Jesuthasan joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, fighting with them for seven years until his group was all but wiped out. With fake documents, he eventually made it to France, where he worked a series of odd jobs and embarked on a new career as a writer of Tamil fiction.8 Audiard, however, is keen to point out the similarities are merely serindipitous and Dheepan is not Jesuthasan, as should really be clear by the film's conclusion. That's because Dheepan switches into a new gear close to the end, dispensing with what has been an almost documentary style in favour of kinetic action – gunfire, explosions and "macho heroics à la Sylvester Stallone"9. Some have attributed its "abrupt" narrative turns to an unfinished edit, assembled for Cannes and fixed forever once it won the Palme d'Or10. Indeed, the elision that swoops a bloody Dheepan from the ninth floor of an embattled apartment block to behind the wheel of a London taxi is clearly jarring. However, whether a visual pun is intended or not, the image certainly recalls another film in which a psychologically troubled outsider descends into vigilantism towards certain death, only to find himself miraculously granted something approaching a fairy tale ending.11 Roger Ebert wrote of the much debated final scenes of Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) that, "the end sequence plays like music, not drama: It completes the story on an emotional, not a literal, level."12 If that comparison is instructive at all, it's up to the audience to decide whether or not it contradicts or complements Audiard's own view of his dramatic conceit: "the history of love constructed in front of our eyes. In the beginning it is a lie, a fiction, but we go from a lie they pretend to something that becomes real."13 Sean Welsh, April 2016 This article was originally commissioned as a programme note by GFT. 1. David Jenkins, 'Dheepan – first look review' Little White Lies 2. Jacques Audiard, interviewed by Jonathan Romney, The Observer, Sunday 3rd April, 2016 3. Jacques Audiard, interviewed by Fabien Lemercier 4. Jacques Audiard, interviewed by Katie Kilkenny, LA Review of Books, 10/12/15 5. Jacques Audiard, interviewed by Kenneth Turan 6. Jacques Audiard, Kilkenny, ibid. 8. 'Dheepan's Antonythasan Jesuthasan: from Tamil Tiger to star of a Palme d'Or winner' in The Guardian, Thursday 31st March, 2016 9. Ginette Vincendeau, Dheepan review, Sight & Sound, May 2016, Volume 26 Issue 5, p61 11. In their recent interview with Antonythasan Jesuthasan, The Guardian curiously notes the 'Taxi Driver-like poster in the foyer'. 12. Roger Ebert, Taxi Driver review, 2004 13. Jacques Audiard, Turan, ibid. This entry was posted in Cinema, Film, GFT, Glasgow, Movies, Programme Note and tagged 2015, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Cinema, Dheepan, Film, Films, France, GFT, Glasgow, Jacques Audiard, Movie, Movies, Programme Note, Sean Welsh, Sri Lanka, Taxi Driver. Bookmark the permalink.

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SEARCH SCS.com SCS.com HOME SCS.com FORUM CONFERENCE PAGES CUSA SOUTHERN SHOWDOWNS, NEW HEISMAN LEADER David, Staff Writer Contact David Certainly one of the best weeks in college football history just passed us by last weekend. All of the best games lived up to the hype, such as Georgia defending the home turf against Spurrier's Gamecocks, Notre Dame establishing itself as a national power in Charlie Weis's first year by winning in Ann Arbor, and Texas squeaking past Ohio State in possibly the best game we will see until November. If you had the privilege of attending any great game last weekend as I did in the Horseshoe, you know the magical feeling those three to four hours in the stadium can become. I had planned on doing a little different type of article this week, but my tape recorder batteries failed me at halftime of the Texas-OSU game. Instead of a play-by-play analysis of that game, I am instead going to make this type of article my regular one: eastern college football overall big stories, then a rundown of the conferences I cover. Please let me know through e-mail or in The College Corner if you have any ideas or if you like the format. Feedback is always appreciated here on the east side of the country. Looking at the week just completed, the biggest news comes out of Columbus, Ohio as expected. Texas overcame mistakes and textbook Tresselball (defense + special teams + small leads = wins and championships, for the uninitiated) to become a solid top challenger to USC. Vince Young looked mediocre at times against one of the best defenses in the country, but at the end of the night, his stats and gutsy leadership proved he is Matt Leinart's biggest threat as far as the Heisman race is concerned. Ohio State had never lost a night home game and had not let a Heisman hopeful come out of Columbus with a good game (arguably) for 10 years, so Texas and Vince Young deserve as much attention as USC for the remainder of the season. The other big news came from Ann Arbor, as the third ranked Wolverines were smashed by Notre Dame much more than the 17-10 score indicates. Michigan's defense is suspect, but Notre Dame is all of a sudden a legitimate top 10 team again for the first time in many years. If they can knock off #3 Michigan in the Big House, USC and Tennessee better watch out for a upset when they get their shot at the Irish in the next month. The week ahead seems somewhat disappointing in comparison to last weekend (for us Midwesterners at least), but there are some highlights to look forward to. The showdowns travel from the Big Ten and Big XII to the ACC and SEC this weekend as these conferences begin some important conference showdowns. #6 Tennessee travels to The Swamp to play #5 Florida in the game of the week. Florida has swept through easy games against Wyoming and Louisiana Tech, while Tennessee barely beat UAB at home and had an extra week to prepare for this one. I think Tennessee has a better team overall, but you cannot bet against Florida at home so I'll guess UF by 10. The ACC has the other two interesting matchups of the week with Florida State visiting Boston College in the Eagles' first ACC game ever and Miami traveling to Clemson, who is 2-0 after wins over Texas A&M and Maryland in the first two weeks. Look for Miami's stifling defense to be a huge test for Clemson, and I'll take the Hurricanes by 14. I picked Boston College to finish second behind Florida State in the Atlantic Division, but that was obviously contingent upon Florida State going into Boston and winning this game. I really think this is a toss-up, and I'll switch my pick up a little by taking BC by 3. The SEC and ACC conference races will become clearer after this week and these big showdowns. While Florida State, Clemson, and Boston College are jockeying for early position in the tightly-contested Atlantic Division race, Miami is going into this week's showdown trying to avoid an 0-2 record, which would probably knock them out of the Coastal race with Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech. Larry Coker is not used to starting 0-2, especially with a tough defense this year, but Clemson and FSU are not easy places to come out of with wins. Maryland has an important regional game against West Virginia this week as well. North Carolina also hosts another possible national power in Wisconsin, while Virginia Tech hosts the giant-killering Ohio Bobcats. This week has a lot of interesting in-conference as well as out-of-conference games for the ACC, and it will give us a better idea how this conference stacks up nationally. After both division favorites Texas and Iowa State won huge games against Big Ten foes this week, the conference looks strong with a 11-1 record overall for the North and 8-2 for the South. After two very shady looking games at home for Oklahoma, a road trip to UCLA doesn't seem so easy anymore. All the Texas teams have easy home games this week, and all should be quiet enough for the conference to brag about their big wins last week as well as the conference MVP Vince Young (sorry Adrian Peterson, but your team has to do something - like beat Texas - before I believe again). Other than Cincinnati's loss at Penn State this week, every team with a loss looks very mediocre so far this season. Then there's Pittsburgh, which gets a tough trip to Nebraska to try and right their shipwreck of 0-2. The top 3 teams (Pittsburgh, you've been replaced) all have pretty tough tests this week. The aforementioned WVU-Maryland game will give us a better gage on what the Mountaineers really have this season. Connecticut travels to Georgia Tech in another important ACC-Big East matchup, and Louisville gets the easiest test of Oregon State at home. If the ACC wins the two big games this weekend, Louisville will be the only conference favorite left undefeated as we move into conference play. Well, my home conference took a licking in the top 3 games of last week, but the good news is the rest of the conference is pristine and the overall conference record now stands at 18-3. While Ohio State, Michigan, and Iowa have nice easy home recovery games to get back on track before conference play begins, the rest of the conference will be tested toughly this weekend. Michigan State has the displeasure of being the next intended sacrifice on Notre Dame's schedule, while Illinois travels out west to take on another ranked team in California. Indiana's home game against rival Kentucky and Wisconsin's road trip to North Carolina may not be as easy as they look either. One more team has a tough road game against a ranked opponent as Northwestern goes out to Tempe to face the Sun Devils, who are looking to rebound from a tough loss to LSU. There is certainly plenty to watch as every team tries to hold on to their undefeated records going into conference play. Marshall and UAB almost shock Kansas State and Tennessee, while SMU beats giant-killer and rival TCU. This really is all the important news coming from this mid-major until conference play rolls around. This week's highlights include Houston visiting UTEP for a West Division showdown and SMU trying to keep the streak going at Texas A&M. Every team from the West has a big name opponent this week, so look for possibly a couple upsets at North Texas or Texas this week (OK, just kidding Longhorn fans). Ohio grabbed the biggest headlines of the week by beating Pittsburgh, but a tougher test comes this week with a trip to Blacksburg. Bowling Green and Toledo (early division favorites) took home their first conference wins last weekend, but this week is quiet as Toledo has a game against Temple. Northern Illinois had a tough loss to Northwestern after a rough loss at Michigan, but Tennessee Tech should provide some relief and a win this week. Miami, 0-2, at 1-1 Kent State provide the best in-conference battle this week, so overall, it's a quiet week for this conference as well. With Vanderbilt's 2-0 start, the East looks tough with the Commodores joining traditional powers Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida at the top of that division. Georgia finally takes a break from big games this week, while Vanderbilt has their second easy conference tilt (with Mississippi this week) and Florida and Tennessee determine who will be a bigger threat to the Bulldogs this year. Arkansas has the toughest game of the week by traveling to meet USC, but Alabama's trip to South Carolina will be a huge conference game alongside the game of the week discussed above. LSU gets a real off week this week, and they will be happy to sit in the national top ten after an appropriate win at "home" in Tempe last week. Just like the ACC, this conference race becomes clear early in the season starting after this weekend's tilts. Well I do not have much to report here, except North Texas looks good as usual. Tulsa probably will not break the only undefeated team in the conference, while Troy and Arkansas State try to continue their winning ways as well. Everybody else has a lot of work to do, but tough out-of-conference games and 0-2 or 0-3 records look like a sure bet for the majority of this conference after this week. That's all the conferences I cover, and I covered them all this week! I wouldn't expect that much in the future, but I also don't want to alienate any Sun Belt or Conference USA fans and readers out there. Races in each conference get fired up this week or next week, so let's get ready for some great action to kick off conference play! We'll see you next week! My record at picking the top 3 games of the week to date: 1-5 (0-3 last week) Fitzy's Top 10 - Week 3 1. USC (1-0) NC 2. Texas (2-0) NC 3. Virginia Tech (2-0) +2 4. Georgia (2-0) +3 5. Florida (2-0) +4 6. LSU (1-0) NR 7. Florida State (2-0) +3 8. Ohio State (1-1) -5 9. Tennessee (1-0) -1 10. Notre Dame (2-0) NR Dropped Out: Michigan (1-1, 4th last week), Iowa (1-1, 6th last week) Atlantic Sun Atlantic Ten Horizon League Metro Atlantic Mid-Continent COLLEGE WEBSITES CBSSportsline The Sporting News CNNSI FOXSports Copyright � 2005 SouthernCollegeSports.com. All rights reserved. This website is an unofficial and independently operated source of news and information not affiliated with any school, team, or league.

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County Kildare's Covid-19 help plan aims "to leave nobody behind" Community policing: On the Covid-19 beat with Kildare gardaí Paul O'Meara [email protected] Staff at the Curragh Lawns nursing home, Kinneagh, Curragh and Sgt Gavin Dunphy On a prematurely warm morning last week at an agricultural holding some miles south of Naas, a conversation took place between two gardaí and a farmer. Words flowed back and forth over a four bar galvanised farm gate. Read more County Kildare news The easy pace of conversation matched the slow movement of cattle in a nearby shed as they ate hay from an opened round bale and drank water from a plastic tank. The subjects covered the prices received from the sale of livestock, the price of alcohol, how bad roads can lead to poor driving outcomes, even murders in an African state. The rolling background countryside was bathed in misty sunshine and it was as if time was standing still. It was another small chapter in the expanding volume that represents the work being done to ensure that communities across County Kildare are not suffering unduly as a result of the lockdown imposed as the central plank to control the spread of Covid-19. The day began for Gda Gary Cogan and Sgt Gavin Dunphy in Kilcullen, at Fallon's restaurant to be precise, where they collected specially prepared food. Specially prepared at the hands of Mickael Viljanen, head chef at The Greenhouse restaurant on Dublin's Dawson Street. The food production is a collaboration between Naas-based Redmond Fine Foods, a specialist ingredients procurement and distribution business; Brian Fallon of the aforementioned eatery and Mark Moriarty and Paddy Lee of The Greenhouse. Rocky Redmond who operates Redmond's with brother Ian said: "The aim is to bring hearty and wholesome meals to frontline workers and other individuals in the community. "The meals bring a much needed boost in morale at this critical time. Brian Fallon has very kindly provided his kitchen in Kilcullen to facilitate this project. The project will run for a minimum two months and work to three days production and availability — Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday." It is a non-profit venture. "All funds raised are used to cover the cost of ingredients and production. OSF Accountants in Clane, will independently manage and administer the funds." Some €10,000 has been raised and they hope to generate €50,000 via a GoFundMe page (https://bit.ly/2VaZcLc) The food is prepared for Naas Hospital intensive care unit staff as well as those working in local nursing homes like Curragh Lawns, Larchfield, Craddock House, Willowbrook, and the community. Some 250 meals are produced three times a week. "It's good wholesome nutritious food and more than that it is a morale booster. Our aim is to see out the longevity of the crisis and the money is needed to see out the project," added Rocky. Garda Cogan said: "They identified a need to do something and they'll do it for as long as they can depending on when chefs will be called back to work, for example." One day last week the gardai delivered some 120 meals over a wide area between Naas and the County Wicklow border. Sgt Dunphy says it's more than just food delivery. "This is a massive relationship building process with the community. People can approach us by calling the station and like a hospital setting we triage the calls and divert the need to organisations, many of them working voluntarily, best placed to deal with them. We work with many groups such as the Red Cross, Civil Defence, Naas GAA club to name just some. And the gardai have delivered everything from "ventilators to hair nets." Among those they met was Ballymore man Myles Byrne, who praised the overall effort to reach out to people and he feels vulnerable. "If I get the virus I'd say my chances of surviving it are zilch, " he said. "We can contact the community first responders who are also trained to deal with issues like stroke, cardiac arrest or choking and we are available to settings like McAuley Place in Naas. Our work is to try to match the need to the skilled professional," said Gda Cogan. Normally people contact the gardai when a law has been broken or some trouble is brewing. But Gda Cogan says that the virus crisis is allowing community policing to develop to a much higher — and probably much more practical — level. The gardaí meet with a number of organisations every Friday for a crisis meeting to share what they have learned and to gather information. Kildare County Council's role in coordinating all of the Covid-19 emergency responses is crucial. KCC has set up a freephone number (1800-374100) as a first point of contact and can otherwise be contacted on 045-980202. The thrust of all of their efforts — Kildare County Council, the gardai, the voluntary groups, the volunteers — is summed up by Sgt Dunphy. "Nobody gets left behind."

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Vermont news from The Associated Press for Monday, March 11, 2019. GAS PRICES: Gasoline prices are still climbing in northern New England. COLLEGE-POTENTIAL CLOSURE: A Vermont college facing the potential loss of its accreditation says it may have found a partner institution to keep itself open.

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My son is an avid Matchbox collector and a fan of the NYPD, so this was a must-buy for us. Given the scale, the labeling is pretty accurate, which may or may not be important to you. This is a Christmas gift for a little boy whose father works for NYPD so how could I not resist in buying this for him! The vehicles looked fine in the package. Kids loved them. The first words out of their mouth were "COOL!" There's so much to see and to do in Carpet city! Kids will enjoy exploring and traveling trough the busy streets of this friendly neighborhood. The IQ Toys city carpet has it all:A school, Hotel, Playground, Shopping center, Police Gas Fire & Ambulance station- even its very own hospital! Real Working Parts. No Batteries Required. Easy To Set-up. Play with Real Water. Includes 1 Vehicle (car, color and decoration may vary). Fun toy that allows small play vehicles to be washed like a real car wash. All aboard for high seas adventures! There's a sneaky shark on the loose and he's snacking on Matchbox cars! Lucky for kids, this is no ordinary Shark Ship-it floats in water and rolls on land so kids can keep the adventures going from the tabletop to the tub! Send the squirting helicopter "flying"

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With all the sneak peeks over the past few months ThreeA have released a few photos of the one sixth scale Marvel Doctor DOOM! Looks like three versions for now. But do not hold me to that as ThreeA likes to give collectors secret releases! Personally liking this version the most…….still unsure on style of the feet. Doctor Doom will be available for pre-order on October 31st atwww.bambalanstore.com priced at 220USD no word on how long the wait for it to be shipped. Knowing ThreeA maybe 5 months? But they have recently changed their style of keeping collectors updated and readjusted waiting time. We will updated you as soon as possible.

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The 49ers have been working through the offseason to try to address some of the many needs they have on the roster, as every fan undoubtedly knows. Their focus has been on defense, which was necessary because of, among other things, poor play in several positions, loss of players due to expiration of contracts, and even the jettisoning of a player for non-football reasons. The Niners have had challenges come at them from every direction, mostly as a result of injuries to key players as well as to players they had wanted to spend significant time watching during game situations. I mean the defensive backfield in particular here. Adding Kwon Alexander, Dee Ford and Jason Verrett gave them a Ruben Foster-like linebacker without the baggage, a proven edge rusher and a cornerback who, if healthy, could prove to be the steal of the offseason (albeit a HUGE "if"). Less attention has been paid, by both the front office and the fan base, to the offense. The team added Tevin Coleman to the running back stable, even though the team was already rather well-stocked at tailback. They also added Jordan Matthews, a big, fast receiver who has had flashes but has not been the steady performer that the team would like at that position. This leaves what is, to many fans, the biggest need on the team still unaddressed: A Number One Wideout. Everyone is more than familiar with the Niners' flirtation with Antonio Brown via social media, and their efforts to trade for Odell Beckham, Jr., both of which came to nothing, as the Raiders traded a bag of sand and some pocket lint for Brown and the Browns got OBJ for a first- and a third-round pick and Jabril Peppers. The available free agents all had their respective flaws (even Tyrell Williams, signed by the Raiders), and the Niners did not make any splash moves. That leaves the draft. If you were to enter any site that has Niner chat on it, you would encounter dozens and dozens of rabid fans clamoring for the Niners to take a receiver and take one early. D.K. Metcalf in the first. Hakeem Butler or N'Keal Harry with their second-round pick. Trade the #2 pick for two firsts and use one for Metcalf. The names and draft slots change, but the message is the same: Draft a receiver, and grab one early. Drafting receivers, however, is not such an exact science, not a sure thing, even when you draft them early. Since 2009, the 49ers have drafted 11 wide receivers, an average of one per year. Five of those receivers were taken in Round 5 or later - Kyle Williams, Ronald Johnson, Aaron Burbidge, Trent Taylor and Richie James. Johnson and Burbidge are tough to remember, because neither recorded a catch with the team before being cut. Williams might be the most reviled player in team history, thanks to the fiasco that was his game against the Giants in the 2012 playoffs. He was nothing resembling a factor in the team's offensive successes in his 3+ years with the team. Taylor and James have shown flashes, but Taylor was hurt last year and not the player he was in 2017 and James has not gotten much of an opportunity yet. While the jury is still out, neither, certainly, has set the league on fire at this point. But these were later-round picks, fliers, risks with little downside, right? Let's look at the receivers the Niners drafted earlier, using more significant draft stock. Of the remaining six receivers, three were selected in the Fourth Round, one in the Second Round and two in the First. Quinton Patton, Bruce Ellington and DeAndre Smelter (remember him?) were drafted in the Fourth Round. Patton was on the team from 2013-16; Ellington hung around for a couple of years. Smelter had a single catch during the season he spent as a member of the team. None of these players did much, if anything, of note while with the Niners. Of all the receivers mentioned to this point, only Ellington is still in the league, although whether he sticks with Detroit this year (his third team) remains to be seen. This leaves the three high picks - Dante Pettis (2nd Round), Michael Crabtree (1st Round), and the ever-memorable A.J. Jenkins, whose name Trent Baalke famously wrote on the card and sealed in an envelope the night before the draft. While this conjures up visions of Kevin Costner in Draft Day (one of my favorite guilty pleasures, and don't @ me for it), it is about as bad a move as a GM could make. But Trent was full of moves that warped the mind. Better to move on. Pettis showed recognizable skill last season, but he was injured for a chunk of the year, and was nicked up a lot of the time that he was active, which raises concerns about his rather slight frame and his ability to stay healthy during the brutal NFL season. Fingers crossed on him. Crabtree was a bona fide hit, at least for two or three of the years that he was with the Niners, although one could argue that a single 1,000-yard season in six years after being drafted 10th overall does not live up to the hype. Crabtree also showed an utter lack of heart on more than one occasion, took plays off and complained incessantly while with the team. Jenkins isn't worth mentioning other than to say he may have been the team's worst pick ever - and that includes their selection of Marcus Lattimore, whose knee was unfortunately ruined in college. At least that was a 4th-round pick and not number 30 overall. But wait, you say, this is a new regime. Different scouts and evaluators of talent. They have taken James, Taylor and Pettis thus far, and they all seem like they can all at least play in the league. Don't look at the poor selections of the previous GMs, look at this one. A valid point, but John Lynch has no track record whatsoever, and Marin Mayhew, his right-hand man, did not exactly set the world on fire as part of the group drafting wideouts in Detroit. From 2009-2015, Mayhew selected 6 receivers in the draft. Three were later rounds (TJ Jones, Corey Fuller, Tim Toone), Derrick Williams was picked in Round 3 and Ryan Broyles and Titus Young were selected in the Second Round. Young showed flashes but his mental health deteriorated to the point that he could not play. Mayhew, then, went 0 for 6 on receivers while with Detroit. What I am getting at is that drafting a receiver, drafting any player, for that matter, is far from a sure thing. The NFL is an infinitely harder venue in which to succeed than college. I could go into the last 5 years of wide receivers drafted in the first 2 Rounds to further illustrate my point, but I fear that I have already lost many of those who started this piece. The upshot is that the odds of selecting a receiver who will eventually start and play a significant role on the team, let alone turn into a stud for 10 or so years, is not even a coin flip (sorry, Kyle, couldn't pass that up) - it's trying to roll a 7 on command at the craps table. And, more often than not, the player loses. We just have to hope that Lynch and Shanahan have somehow loaded the dice on April 25th. Comment: Pettis came along extremely well when healthy. However the Niners still have a glaring need for another play making receiver. Comment: Dante Pettis was a complete non factor even when healthy and Crabtree started off his career by whining about his pay and didn't play for like 5 games. The niners should never draft wide receivers.

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Q: Using boost::hash with boost::property_tree? I am attempting to generate a hash value for an object that contains a boost::property_tree (boost::property_tree::basic_ptree<std::basic_string<char>, std::basic_string<char> >). Searching through the boost header files for property tree I cannot find any defined hash_value function for it. Basic example of what I am trying to achieve: class MyClass{ public: friend std::size_t hash_value(const MyClass & obj); private: boost::property_tree m_data; } inline std::size_t hash_value(const MyClass & obj){ std::size_t seed = 0; boost::hash_combine(seed,obj.m_data); return seed; } This code will fail to compile with: "no matching function for call to 'hash_value(const boost::property_tree &)'" My question: Is hash_value defined for boost::property_tree in some header file I haven't found. If not, what is the boost idiomatic way to hash a property_tree by traversing it? Should I use use ptree serialization to convert to std::string and hash that, or manually traverse the tree and create a recursive hash? A: Just specialize hash<> for ptree: #include <boost/property_tree/ptree.hpp> #include <boost/functional/hash.hpp> namespace boost { template<typename Key, typename Data, typename KeyCompare> struct hash<boost::property_tree::basic_ptree<Key, Data, KeyCompare> > { size_t operator()(boost::property_tree::basic_ptree<Key, Data, KeyCompare> const& pt) const { std::size_t seed = 0; boost::hash_combine(seed, pt.template get_value<std::string>()); boost::hash_range(seed, pt.begin(), pt.end()); return seed; } }; } That's enough! Here's a small MyClass that reads from a json-like literal: #include <boost/property_tree/json_parser.hpp> class MyClass{ public: MyClass(std::string const& json) { std::istringstream iss(json); read_json(iss, m_data); } private: boost::property_tree::ptree m_data; friend inline std::size_t hash_value(const MyClass& obj){ std::size_t seed = 0; boost::hash_combine(seed, obj.m_data); return seed; } }; Now you can test it Live On Coliru #include <iostream> int main() { for (std::string const data : { R"({"a":[1,2,3],"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"}})", R"({"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"},"a":[1,2,3]})", R"({ })", R"({})", }) { MyClass o(data); std::cout << "object hash: " << hash_value(o) << " " << data << "\n"; } } Prints: object hash: 3573231694259656572 {"a":[1,2,3],"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"}} object hash: 11176663460548092204 {"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"},"a":[1,2,3]} object hash: 3864292196 { } object hash: 3864292196 {} CAUTION: Hash and Equality For many containers, hash<> assumes a corresponding equality comparator. If they don't match, you get Undefined Behaviour. You might be tempted to define the hash_range in terms of the ordered (associative) interface of ptree: boost::hash_range(seed, pt.ordered_begin(), pt.not_found()); // CAUTION This has the advantage that {"a":1,"b":2} would match {"b":2,"a":1}. Don't do this, unless you know what you're doing. Specifically, you need to pass a compatible equality comparator to every container/algorithm that use this hash. If you write it like this, and test using a driver like: int main() { MyClass a{ R"({"a":[1,2,3],"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"}})" }, b{R"({"b":{"nest":"hello","more":"world"},"a":[1,2,3]})" }, c{R"({ })" }, d{R"({})" }; for (auto& lhs : {a,b,c,d}) for (auto& rhs : {a,b,c,d}) { std::cout << "hash: " << hash_value(lhs) << " " << hash_value(rhs) << " - equality: " << std::boolalpha << (lhs==rhs) << "\n"; if ((hash_value(lhs) == hash_value(rhs)) != (lhs==rhs)) std::cout << " -- MISMATCH\n"; } } It will print: hash: 10737438301360613971 10737438301360613971 - equality: true hash: 10737438301360613971 10737438301360613971 - equality: false -- MISMATCH hash: 10737438301360613971 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 10737438301360613971 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 10737438301360613971 10737438301360613971 - equality: false -- MISMATCH hash: 10737438301360613971 10737438301360613971 - equality: true hash: 10737438301360613971 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 10737438301360613971 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 10737438301360613971 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 10737438301360613971 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 10737438301360613971 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 10737438301360613971 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true The MISMATCH warnings indicate that equality and hash do not agree. If you run the test-driver with the original hash (above the fold) it will print: hash: 3573231694259656572 3573231694259656572 - equality: true hash: 3573231694259656572 11176663460548092204 - equality: false hash: 3573231694259656572 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 3573231694259656572 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 11176663460548092204 3573231694259656572 - equality: false hash: 11176663460548092204 11176663460548092204 - equality: true hash: 11176663460548092204 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 11176663460548092204 3864292196 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 3573231694259656572 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 11176663460548092204 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 3573231694259656572 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 11176663460548092204 - equality: false hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true hash: 3864292196 3864292196 - equality: true

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NAME: James GORDON PLACE OF BIRTH: Fitzroy DATE OF ENLISTMENT: 20 September 1915 PLACE OF ENLISTMENT: Holsworthy, NSW UNIT: 1st Australian Machine Gun Company (late 18th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement) EMBARKED: 20 December 1915 TROOPSHIP: HMAT A29 Suevic FATE: Died of Wounds – 21 July 1916 – Pozieres, France James Gordon was born at Fitzroy in 1885, a son of William Gordon and Jane McKenzie. James barely knew his father as William died in 1888 at Fitzroy. The following year, James' grandmother Elizabeth Gordon died at Clunes and James inherited £2000 to be held in trust until he was twenty. In 1899, James' old sister Euphemia Gordon married Samuel Davey and she moved to Hamilton. When James finished school, he worked as a draper but in 1913, his mother Jane died at Fitzroy. Sometime after Jane's death, James moved to Sydney and worked as a hospital wardsman. When WW1 broke, he was living at 25 Clarence Street, Sydney. On 10 July 1915, James' older brother Harold enlisted in Melbourne and the following month on 20 September 1915, James also enlisted. He nominated his sister Euphemia Davey of Ballarat Road, Hamilton as his next of kin. The following year, Euphemia's husband Samuel Davey also enlisted. In late 1915, James arrived in Egypt with the 18th Battalion 7th Reinforcements but was soon transferred to the 3rd Battalion. He left Alexandria, Egypt for France on 22 March 1916 and was later transferred to the 1st Australian Machine Gun Company. The company moved to northern France in April. On 26 May 1916, James was hospitalised with illness, rejoining the battalion on 31 May. James' company was on the frontline on 19 July at the Battle of Fromelles. On 20 July there was heavy shelling and five men were wounded. The following day, the company attacked Pozieres. There was heavy enemy shelling and by the end of the day, the casualties were five wounded and one killed. It was a hectic time for the AIF and at times it was difficult to keep track of those wounded and missing. Sometime over the days of 20 July and 21 July, James Gordon was wounded when a shell hit his trench. He was taken to the 45th Casualty Clearance Station at Daours with wounds to his chest. He died on 22 July 1916. The Roll of Honour has his date of death as 21 July, however eyewitness accounts give the date he was hit as 20 July with his death on 22 July. He was buried at the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension. Even the cemetery records show a discrepancy with one record showing James' death as 21 July and another 22 July. On 1 August 1916, Euphemia received word of James' death. It was something she must have dreaded each day with a husband, three brothers, four nephews and a brother-in-law serving. "[?] Spectator" Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 – 1918) 2 August 1916: 4. Web. 4 Apr 2017 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133704779&gt;. On 5 August 1916, James' family placed a notice in The Argus. "Family Notices" The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957) 5 August 1916: 13. Web. 4 Apr 2017 . James was remembered in Hamilton with a tree planted along Anzac Avenue. Australian War Memorial – 1st Australian Machine Gun Company Unit Diary Australian War Memorial – Red Cross Missing and Wounded Files – James Gordon Australian War Memorial – Roll of Honour – James Gordon Australian War Memorial WW1 Embarkation Roll – James Gordon Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Daours Communal Cemetery Extension – Somme, France – James Gordon Discovering Anzacs – WW1 Service Record – James Gordon Newspaper Articles from Trove – James Gordon Photographic War Graves Project – James Gordon The AIF Project – James Gordon

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Norfolk selected 'I bought my Christmas presents in charity shops' Jump to media player A charity shop YouTuber with thousands of followers speaks of the benefits of second-hand presents. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-50719893/charity-shop-youtuber-kate-mccabe-on-christmas-presents How Instagram trends wrestled wreaths from Christmas Jump to media player The "picture-perfect life of Instagram" sees wreath-making explode into an "all-year trend" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-50504591/how-instagram-trends-wrestled-wreaths-from-christmas How to be a YouTube star Jump to media player Two Sunday League footballers and rising internet stars find out from YouTube royalty. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-50353778/what-do-you-need-to-do-to-become-a-youtube-star The social influencer making gardening 'cool' Jump to media player She preaches the benefits of gardening to her many thousands of online followers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-49371716/ellen-mary-gardening-influencer-preaches-benefits-to-social-media-generation Sunday League side gains YouTube fans Jump to media player Thousands of people watch the non-league footballers' match highlights each week. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-suffolk-46845282/ipswich-sunday-league-footballers-gain-youtube-fans-with-highlights Mulled wine... in a slow cooker? Jump to media player The slow cooker enthusiast who brought you the easy fry-up has this great Christmas hack. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-46568454/mulled-wine-in-a-slow-cooker Charity shop YouTuber Kate McCabe on Christmas presents A YouTube vlogger has explained why she will be buying her Christmas presents from charity shops this year. Kate McCabe, from Great Yarmouth, makes videos about the bargains she finds in second-hand stores and has amassed 23,000 followers. She says the shops benefit those in need and are a good fit in a society that is more geared towards preserving the environment. "Everyone is into recycling... if you've got some clothes that you don't want to wear, don't throw them away, re-home them," she said. "I've got my friend some lovely shirts and they were only £1.49," she added. Go to next video: How Instagram trends wrestled wreaths from Christmas

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Clypd, an audience-based sales platform for TV advertising, on Tuesday announced the release of Optimize Private Marketplace (PMP), a set of private marketplace sales tools for media companies. The tools build on clypd's existing linear TV private marketplace offering and are designed to help media companies increase their yield and enable audience-focused sales transactions. New features include the ability to manage the life cycle of ad sales deals, data onboarding, yield-optimized and audience-focused scheduling, and proposal generation. The Optimize PMP product layers audience and yield optimization on top of traditional TV media sales strategies to improve the way in which media companies transact with their agency and brand partners. Discovery Communications, ESPN, and Fox Networks Group have been using the clypd platform to get more from their audience data and improvements in workflow automation, according to a release.

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The beauty of Shipping Solutions software is that it saves you time by eliminating redundant data entry. The software allows you to enter your export information once and then it automatically appears in the appropriate format on all the export forms. It eliminates the need to reenter your data when you file through the Automated Export System (AES). And it can remove the need to reenter your shipping information in order to generate UPS and FedEx shipping labels and schedule pickup. Click a button on the Parcel Shipping screen to make your shipment data available for import to UPS WorldShip and/or FedEx Ship Manager. You can then click a button to import the data into the UPS or FedEx software, print out your label, and schedule a pickup. Once your shipment has been submitted, the tracking number gets written back to Shipping Solutions so you can track your shipment. Read the Shipping Solutions Parcel Shipping Instructions.

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L'E-Prix di Long Beach 2016 è stato il sesto appuntamento della seconda stagione del campionato di Formula E. La gara è stata vinta da Lucas Di Grassi ed ha visto la prima donna a cogliere punti nella categoria: Simona de Silvestro. Pre-gara Fanboost Il fanboost è stato ottenuto da Nick Heidfeld, Jérôme d'Ambrosio e Lucas Di Grassi. Risultati Qualifiche Gara Classifiche Piloti Squadre Note Voci correlate E-Prix di Città del Messico 2016 E-Prix di Parigi 2016 E-Prix di Long Beach 2015 06 E-Prix di Long Beach

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Nature or nurture: unravelling the roots of childhood behaviour disorders Read more It's this crisis, and the country's inadequate response to it, that Liz Garbus's new HBO documentary A Dangerous Son puts in sharp focus. From 2009 to 2012, states slashed funding for mental health services by $5bn while the country got rid of almost 10% of its total number of public psychiatric hospital beds. As the author Andrew Solomon says in the film: "There is the sense that rehabilitation is a luxury." Garbus, the prolific documentary film-maker behind Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and What Happened, Miss Simone?, took interest in the subject after the 2012 Newtown shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 27 people. Though she'd previously examined institutional hurdles and the criminal justice system in documentaries like The Farm and The Execution of Wanda Jean, her hope, this time, was to empathize with the mothers who apply what she calls "herculean efforts" in order to care for their children. But he terrifies me." The mothers featured in A Dangerous Son, Stacy, Edie and Cora, feel similarly. "The is not a film about these mass shooters," she says, underscoring the fact that, while focus on mental health is often used as a crutch in media coverage of gun violence, stigmas about mental illness often come at the expense of families like the ones featured in the film. "But when you open your home to somebody whose child is suffering from mental illness, the stigma and the blowback can feel overwhelming." As noted in the film, 17 million children in the US have or have had a psychiatric disorder, but there are currently less than 60,000 beds to accommodate them. But in his budget proposal for 2019, funding for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was decreased by 30%, from $1.6bn to $1.1bn. "That has followed me throughout my journey with him, even though we were a loving family. Even kids from very good homes are susceptible to mental illness and autism and other issues. In 1955, the number of mentally ill Americans in public psychiatric hospitals peaked at 560,000. Since then, that number has been in sharp decline: as a result of deinstitutionalization and the massive transfer of mental health funding from the federal government to states, people – especially children – suffering from psychiatric disorders and emotional disturbances have fallen through the cracks. It's this crisis, and the country's inadequate response to it, that Liz Garbus's new HBO documentary A Dangerous Son puts in sharp focus. Through the lens of three mothers whose sons suffer from mental illness, the documentary chronicles in intimate, often painful detail the roadblocks families face in securing treatment, as well as the effects of a dismantled and under-resourced apparatus for psychiatric care in the US. Garbus, the prolific documentary film-maker behind Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and What Happened, Miss Simone?, took interest in the subject after the 2012 Newtown shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 27 people. Though she'd previously examined institutional hurdles and the criminal justice system in documentaries like The Farm and The Execution of Wanda Jean, her hope, this time, was to empathize with the mothers who apply what she calls "herculean efforts" in order to care for their children.

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You can eat pretty well in my adopted town of Amsterdam… which is fortunate given eating is one of the few things I really excel at. Leaving your home to live somewhere new is never easy, and when food is as important to you as it is to me, leaving a city which has as world-class a food scene as London can be verging on terrifying. But I landed firmly on two feet here all those years ago; Amsterdam definitely knows how to eat well. I've actually been coming to The Dylan hotel for much longer than the 6 years I've been frequenting its flagship restaurant, given I often stayed here when I was in town on business travel. When we got married at the Museum van Loon a few blocks down the same canal, we spent our wedding night at The Dylan. So it's pretty close to our hearts. Needless to say it doesn't hurt that it also houses an outstanding restaurant, and one which we personally hold in pretty high regard. This was my 7th (I begin to lose count) visit to Vinkeles and second time at the Chef's table. And any poor soul who has had to put up with me talking about the Amsterdam restaurant scene knows I think a lot of the place. Things change through time; The menu is overhauled regularly and items come and go, though within season you'll almost always find the signature dish of perfectly cooked pigeon royale on it. From my first visit sometime in 2011, I recall quite vividly an amazing hot and cold dish of potato and caviar which looked like a savory version of Peter Gilmore's snow egg. We were talking about it for weeks. But it also moves with the times, and currently shows a subtle nod to the Asian influence that has permeated a lot of European fine dining over the last years, whilst never threatening to lose it's essentially 'modern French with a Dutch spin' character. I'd describe it as conservatively delicious approach; There never seems a desire to run the risk of putting diners on edge just for the sake of being different. No kombu and foie gras, or grouse with tangerine here. Just interesting, always really delicious food that leaves you satisfied. And that satisfaction is not just of being full, although you certainly will be if you eat the whole 8 course menu. More so, that if you're interested in food, this kind of cooking is also both intellectually and artistically satisfying too. Getting that balance right between creativity and taste, between intellect and deliciousness, is something that fascinates me. When you get it right, like they do at Azurmendi for example, where the diner is left simultaneously aesthetically surprised and salivating, it's like nothing else. Perhaps that's why we keep coming back – I'm always hungry and it's always delicious. Speaking of salivating we can proceed to the amuses… The meal starts with three introductory notes; The classic pearl shot which I believe was developed by Tommy Den Hartog when he worked here, and which he's reproduced at both Johannes and now at the revolving restaurant Moon. This dish is already so deeply associated with Vinkeles it would be a shame to see it come off the menu. Likewise, it would certainly also be a shame to eat at a high-end restaurant in Holland and not get some format of eel – one of my favourite ingredients of all and thankfully much favoured within the Dutch kitchen – it appeared next as a tiny crunchy bite. Lastly, to really prepare us for the menu, next came an ingenious concoction of sea bass and cucumber encased within a light cucumber meringue. I think dish is a cracker really, it's the epitome of what an amuse should be; Interesting to look at, interesting to taste, light, and full of umami, preparing your palate for whats to come. Again we chose to sit at the chef's table, about a meter from the pass. Of course it's a lot of fun watching the chefs at work, but it also manages to still be quite an intimate little setting in itself with your dining companion. Best of both worlds for me. The main dining room certainly leans towards a classic refined Michelin setting; Its elegant, restrained and, sadly for those of us who take photos of our food, it's also very elegantly lit. So for a whole range of reasons I think we'll continue to want to eat in the kitchen from now on when we return. Vinkeles offers a 8 courses tasting menu for €125 ,with supplements for special items like caviar or wagyu, which puts it towards the higher price end of the group of 1 stars in the city. Frankly I think that's appropriate given the ambition of the restaurant is clearly to move to 2 stars; It already has a score of 18 in Gault&Millau, which is similar territory to some of the places already holding 2 macarons, and this year also celebrated the Maitre of the year in Casper Westerveld. Things are clearly going in the right direction. But I give up trying to predict the Benelux Michelin team – like some of my fellow (and better known) blogger colleagues, I was surprised to put it mildly by the new stars this year. So is Vinkeles already a two star restaurant? Time will tell. Is it a mile ahead of the other 1 stars in town? Clearly. As usual on the menu, there was a beautiful array of shell-fish. The first dish of crab I found slightly under seasoned. A little bit like the kohlrabi was washing away the subtle flavour of the crabmeat… but otherwise perfectly delicious, and certainly very pretty. Next up, a duo of bivalves. First an amazing dish of oyster and caviar with a beurre blanc flavoured with uni. The oysters were stunningly cooked – just warm, still with a little bite, their ozoney freshness given a great hug by the urchin infused butter sauce and highlighted with little bursts of salty caviar. This dish doesn't look much but seriously delivers in flavour. To follow, a perfectly respectable classic combination of scallop, apple and black pudding with just a hint of curry. Vinkeles is always a joy for carnivores and I wasn't disappointed receiving a beautifully cooked piece of veal sweetbread served with artichoke. I had watched with some interest Chef de Cuisine Jurgen van der Zalm portioning the offal when we first arrived, each piece cut with care and weighed for consistency. This is the attention to detail that makes great restaurants. The pigeon which came next I probably have eaten more than 4 times now in various guises, and I really liked the version tonight with a liquorice of beetroot and preserved blackberries. The preservation had rendered just the right amount of sweetness from them for my taste; I'm really not sure about actually sweet things with game. The liquorice itself was also an interesting idea, and the sauce thickened with liver as delicious as usual. The sauce jug was left on the table which never fails to impress – I endless bemoan that sauce is often teasingly dripped on the plate and then smuggled again away by waiters. Indeed the same generosity was shown with the following dish of splendidly fatty A5 Wagyu, which was served with a whole teapot of deliciously umami-rich dashi. As usual my faithful dining companion enjoyed the vegetarian menu whilst I was chomping on flesh. Beetroot and artichoke loomed large, appearing in multiple different guises through multiple dishes. The first, a fresh and pretty riff on the classic beetroot and goats cheese. This was followed up with a beautiful dish of globe and Jerusalem artichoke with potato and mustard. With respect this is not the most innovative vegetarian menu we've ever seen but Nadya assured me it was very delicious. Sometimes less is indeed more. Of course as goes the saying 'is less is more, imagine how much more more would be'. Such was the philosophy it seems with the latest dish to be introduced to the menu, which was some kind of Machiavellian masterpiece of fat. White beans, duck fat, egg yolk, parmesan, a LOT of winter truffle. I don't think I need to say much more about this dish, it was like the best truffled carbonara and cassoulet rolled into one bowl of gloriousness. The variety of different preparations of beet and artichoke continued now with elements from the main menu making clever appearances within a vegetarian setting. Blackberries and liquorice from the pigeon dish were reinvented into a standalone beetroot plate, then came a dedicated Jerusalem artichoke dish that flipped it all on its head. That was now a vegetarian dish that was lending part of itself to the main menu where it appeared with scallops. Given I also often cook like this for myself and wife at home, sharing similar items on two different dishes, I found the whole process quite fascinating. No hint of laziness here, actually quite the opposite – a well planned and thoughtful sharing of seasonal ingredients to delight both meat-eater and vegetarian. And how nice that for once we could actually talk about parts of each other's meals. We had a little stumble into dessert with a pretty strange dish of rice pudding and coconut. For me it was too heavy after a long tasting menu and somewhat ill-conceived in balance. However we swiftly forgot all about it as we attacked a deliciously fresh desert of tropical fruit. I continue to be a big fan of Dennis Kuiper's whole team, and especially recent promotee to Chef de Cuisine Jurgen van der Zalm, who took such good care of us at our last visit from the pass. That, combined with a attentive and friendly front of house and an ever changing but always impressive menu, really combines to makes this restaurant something quite special. Big thumbs up, we'll surely be going back again in the near future (if Dennis lets us back in the kitchen after this review)…. I only wish they'd put that pommes Tsarine dish back on! p.s. Chef Kuipers commented that pommes Tsarine can be requested off the menu in advance. Don't miss out!

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Q: Unable to resize correctly nested Pane JavaFX I've the current situation: a main windows with a main BorderPane. At the center of it I have an AnchorPane with some objects inside. I want to distribute the objects equally inside the height of the pane, even if the pane is resized. The problem I'm falled in is that all things works when the resize increase the height of the pane. When I decrease the size of the window, the pane's height continue to increase. I have reproduced the error in this example application using a simple line (in my application I've also a line like this): import javafx.application.Application; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.layout.AnchorPane; import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane; import javafx.scene.layout.Pane; import javafx.scene.shape.Line; import javafx.stage.Stage; public class ResizeProblem extends Application { @Override public void start(Stage primaryStage) { BorderPane root = new BorderPane(); AnchorPane inner = new AnchorPane(); Line line = new Line(); // comment from here... root.setCenter(inner); Pane pane = inner; // ...to here and uncomment next to make things work //Pane pane = root; line.startXProperty().bind(pane.widthProperty().divide(2)); line.endXProperty().bind(pane.widthProperty().divide(2)); line.setStartY(0.); line.endYProperty().bind(pane.heightProperty()); pane.heightProperty().addListener((obs, ov, nv) -> System.out.println("ov: " + ov + " nv: " + nv)); pane.getChildren().add(line); Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250); primaryStage.setTitle("Resize Problem"); primaryStage.setScene(scene); primaryStage.show(); } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } } I've seen that avoiding nesting, everything works as expected. What's wrong with that? Please help me find the right direction. A: This is my explanation .. BorderPane does not resize its children to its layout Bounds, it careless, same goes to AnchorPane and even Pane, when you have one nesting, your line ending point is matched with the Pane's height, so automatically it obeys what ever value is being restricted on it, but if you nest an AnchorPane in a BorderPane who is going to take care of the kids? BorderPane and AnchorPane is a bad marriage, unless you want to put them in a contract marriage where you manually check each individual's height and alignment, so the BorderPane's height increases and the AnchorPane does the same, and your respect matching is to the parent. Also your static reference of inner is a Pane, and with Pane you have to manually position your children in your Node, Pane does not do that for you so using Pane means your children will be street kids wondering around. Hope it helpful

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Q: Use an Outlook Macro to Send Files by Email Attaching all files of a folder to a Microsoft outlook email using a macro code Dim fldName As String Sub SendFilesbuEmail() ' From slipstick.me/njpnx Dim sFName As String i = 0 fldName = "C:\Users\" sFName = Dir(fldName) Do While Len(sFName) > 0 Call SendasAttachment(sFName) sFName = Dir i = i + 1 Debug.Print fName Loop MsgBox i & " files were sent" End Sub Function SendasAttachment(fName As String) Dim olApp As Outlook.Application Dim olMsg As Outlook.MailItem Dim olAtt As Outlook.Attachments Set olApp = Outlook.Application Set olMsg = olApp.CreateItem(0) ' email Set olAtt = olMsg.Attachments ' attach file olAtt.Add (fldName & fName) ' send message With olMsg .Subject = "Here's that file you wanted" .To = "[email protected]" .HTMLBody = "Hi " & olMsg.To & ", <br /><br /> I have attached " & fName & " as you requested." .Send End With End Function I am getting 0 files sent and the document is not getting transferred to Microsoft outlook in the email A: To Attached all files into one Email, try modifying your code. Example. Option Explicit Dim FilesPath As String Sub SendFilesbuEmail() Dim File As String Dim i As Long FilesPath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Desktop\" 'FilesPath = "C:\Users\Om3r\Desktop\FolderName\" File = Dir(FilesPath) Call SendasAttachment(File) End Sub Function SendasAttachment(File As String) Dim olApp As Object ' Outlook.Application Dim olMsg As Object ' Outlook.MailItem Dim Atmts As Object ' Outlook.Attachments Dim i As Long Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set olMsg = olApp.CreateItem(0) ' email Set Atmts = olMsg.Attachments i = 0 ' send message With olMsg Do While Len(File) > 0 Atmts.Add (FilesPath & File) File = Dir i = i + 1 Loop .Display .Subject = "Here's that file you wanted" .To = "[email protected]" .HTMLBody = "Hi " & olMsg.To & ", <br /><br /> I hav attch Files" End With MsgBox i & " Files were sent" Set olMsg = Nothing Set Atmts = Nothing End Function Make sure to update FilesPath = Environ("USERPROFILE") & "\Desktop\FolderName\" FolderName to the correct folder name. You can also use FilesPath = "C:\Users\Om3r\Desktop\FolderName\" and make sure to update Om3r and FolderName

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umu.sePublikasjoner 123 1 - 50 of 127 http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/resultList.jsf?query=&language=no&searchType=SIMPLE&noOfRows=50&sortOrder=author_sort_asc&sortOrder2=title_sort_asc&onlyFullText=false&sf=all&aq=%5B%5B%7B%22personId%22%3A%22authority-person%3A63547%22%7D%5D%5D&aqe=%5B%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%5D%5D&af=%5B%5D 1. Abafe, Ovokeroye A. Späth, Jana Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Kemiska institutionen. Fick, Jerker Jansson, Stina Buckley, Chris Stark, Annegret Pietruschka, Bjoern Martincigh, Bice S. LC-MS/MS determination of antiretroviral drugs in influents and effluents from wastewater treatment plants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa2018Inngår i: Chemosphere, ISSN 0045-6535, E-ISSN 1879-1298, Vol. 200, s. 660-670Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) South Africa has the largest occurrence of the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) in the world but has also implemented the largest antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. It was therefore of interest to determine the presence and concentrations of commonly used antiretroviral drugs (ARVDs) and, also, to determine the capabilities of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) for removing ARVDs. To this end, a surrogate standard based LC-MS/MS method was optimized and applied for the detection of thirteen ARVDs used in the treatment and management of HIV/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in two major and one modular WWTP in the eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The method was validated and the detection limits fell within the range of 2–20 ng L−1. The analytical recoveries for the ARVDs were mainly greater than 50% with acceptable relative standard deviations. The concentration values ranged from <LOD – 53000 ng L−1 (influent), <LOD – 34000 ng L−1 (effluent) in a decentralized wastewater treatment facility (DEWATS); <LOD – 24000 ng L−1 (influent), <LOD – 33000 ng L−1 (effluent) in Northern WWTP and 61–34000 ng L−1 (influent), <LOD – 20000 ng L−1 (effluent) in Phoenix WWTP. Whilst abacavir, lamivudine and zidovudine were almost completely removed from the effluents, atazanavir, efavirenz, lopinavir and nevirapine persisted in the effluents from all three WWTPs. To estimate the ecotoxicological risks associated with the discharge of ARVDs, a countrywide survey focussing on the occurrence of ARVDs in WWTPs, surface and fresh water bodies, and aquatic organisms, is necessary. 2. Accinelli, Cesare Saccà, Maria Ludovica Batisson, Isabelle Mencarelli, Mariangela Grabic, Roman Removal of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and other selected pharmaceuticals from wastewater using a granular bioplastic formulation entrapping propagules of Phanerochaete chrysosporium2010Inngår i: Chemosphere, ISSN 0045-6535, E-ISSN 1879-1298, Vol. 81, nr 3, s. 436-43Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The capacity of the ligninolytic fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium to degrade a wide variety of environmentally persistent xenobiotics has been largely reported in the literature. Beside other factors, one barrier to a wider use of this bioremediation fungus is the availability of effective formulations that ensure easy preparation, handling and application. In this series of laboratory experiments, we evaluated the efficiency of a granular bioplastic formulation entrapping propagules of P. chrysosporium for removal of four selected pharmaceuticals from wastewater samples. Addition of inoculated granules to samples of the wastewater treatment plant of Bologna significantly increased the removal of the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), and the antibiotics, erythromycin, sulfamethoxazol, and ciprofloxacin. Similar effects were also observed in effluent water. Oseltamivir was the most persistent of the four active substances. After 30d of incubation, approximately two times more oseltamivir was removed in bioremediated wastewater than controls. The highest removal efficiency of the bioplastic formulation was observed with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin. Microbiological DNA-based analysis showed that the bioplastic matrix supported the growth of P. chrysosporium, thus facilitating its adaptation to unusual environment such as wastewater. Lindberg, Richard Olsen, Björn Dissipation and removal of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) in different aquatic environments2010Inngår i: Chemosphere, ISSN 0045-6535, E-ISSN 1879-1298, Vol. 79, nr 8, s. 891-897Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) has received recent attention due to the potential use as a first-line defense against H5N1 and H1N1 influenza viruses. Research has shown that oseltamivir is not removed during conventional wastewater treatments, thus having the potential to enter surface water bodies. A series of laboratory experiments investigated the fate and the removal of oseltamivir in two surface water ecosystems of Japan and in a municipal wastewater treatment plant located in Northern Italy. Persistence of oseltamivir in surface water ranged from non-detectable degradation to a half-life of 53d. After 40d, <3% of radiolabeled oseltamivir evolved as (14)CO(2). The presence of sediments (5%) led to a significant increase of oseltamivir degradation and mineralization rates. A more intense mineralization was observed in samples of the wastewater treatment plant when applying a long incubation period (40d). More precisely, 76% and 37% of the initial radioactivity applied as (14)C-oseltamivir was recovered as (14)CO(2) from samples of the biological tank and effluent water, respectively. Two bacterial strains growing on oseltamivir as sole carbon source were isolated and used for its removal from synthetic medium and environmental samples, including surface water and wastewater. Inoculation of water and wastewater samples with the two oseltamivir-degrading strains showed that mineralization of oseltamivir was significantly higher in both inoculated water and wastewater, than in uninoculated controls. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and quantitative PCR analysis showed that Tamiflu would not affect the microbial population of surface water and wastewater. 4. Almroth, Bethanie M. Carney Gunnarsson, Lina M. Cuklev, Filip Kristiansson, Erik Larsson, D. G. Joakim Waterborne beclomethasone dipropionate affects the physiology of fish while its metabolite beclomethasone is not taken up2015Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 511, s. 37-46Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Asthma is commonly treated with inhalable glucocorticosteroids, including beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP). This is a synthetic prodrug which is metabolized to the more active monopropionate (BMP) and free beclomethasone in humans. To evaluate potential effects of residual drugs on fish, we conducted a 14 day flow-through exposure experiment with BDP and beclomethasone using rainbow trout, and analyzed effects on plasma glucose, hepatic glutathione and catalase activity together with water and body concentrations of the BDP, BMP and beclomethasone. We also analyzed hepatic gene expression in BDP-exposed fish by micro-array and quantitative PCR Beclomethasone (up to 0.65 mu g/L) was not taken up in the fish while BDP (0.65 and 0.07 mu g/L) resulted in accumulation of both beclomethasone, BMP and BDP in plasma, reaching levels up to those found in humans during therapy. Accordingly, exposure to 0.65 mu g/L of BDP significantly increased blood glucose as well as oxidized glutathione levels and catalase activity in the liver. Exposure to beclomethasone or the low concentration of BDP had no effect on these endpoints. Both exposure concentrations of BDP resulted in significantly higher transcript abundance of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase involved in gluconeogenesis, and of genes involved in immune responses. As only the rapidly metabolized prodrug was potent in fish, the environmental risks associated with the use of BDP are probably small. However, the observed physiological effects in fish of BDP at plasma concentrations known to affect human physiology provides valuable input to the development of read-across approaches in the identification of pharmaceuticals of environmental concern. Andersson, Patrik L Rännar, Stefan A Multivariate Chemical Similarity Approach to Search for Drugs of Potential Environmental Concern2011Inngår i: Journal of chemical information and modeling, ISSN 1549-960X, Vol. 51, nr 8, s. 1788-1794Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) A structural similarity tool was developed and aimed to search for environmentally persistent drugs. The basis for the tool was a selection of so-called anchor molecules and a multidimensional chemical map of drugs. The map was constructed using principal component analysis covering 899 drugs described by 67 diverse calculated chemical descriptors. The anchor molecules (diclofenac, trimethoprim, and carbamazepine) were selected to represent drugs of known environmental concern. In addition 12 chemicals listed by the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants were used representing typical environmental pollutants. Chemical similarity was quantified by measuring relative Euclidean distances in the five-dimensional chemical map, and more than 100 nearest neighbors (kNNs) were found within a relative distance of less than 10% from each drug anchor. The developed chemical similarity approach not only identified persistent or semipersistent drugs but also a large number of potentially persistent drugs lacking environmental fate data. 6. Antoniou, Maria G. Hey, Gerly Rodriguez Vega, Sergio Spiliotopoulou, Aikaterini Tysklind, Mats Jansen, Jes La Cour Andersen, Henrik Rasmus Variability in required ozone doses for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater effluents2013Inngår i: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology / [ed] Lekkas, TD, Global Nest, Secretariat , 2013Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert) Aim of study. The aim of the present study was to investigate the ozone dosage required to remove active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from biologically treated wastewater of varying quality originating from different wastewater treatment processes. Methods. Secondary effluents from six Swedish wastewater treatment plants (VWVTP) were spiked with 42 APIs (nominal concentration 1pg/L) and treated with different 03 doses (0.5-12.0 mg/L ozone) in bench-scale experiments (Antoniou et al, 2012). Concentrations of APIs were measured by SPE extraction using OASIS HLB cartridges followed by quantification using LC-MS-MS (Grabic et al, 2012).. Results. For each wastewater effluent a profile of sensitivity of each API to a range of ozone doses were generated as shown in Figure 1. Rodríguez Vega, Sergio la Cour Jansen, Jes Required ozone doses for removing pharmaceuticals from wastewater effluents2013Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 456-457, s. 42-49Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The aim of the this study was to investigate the ozone dosage required to remove active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from biologically treated wastewater of varying quality, originated from different raw wastewater and wastewater treatment processes. Secondary effluents from six Swedish wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) were spiked with 42 APIs (nominal concentration 1μg/L) and treated with different O3 doses (0.5-12.0mg/L ozone) in bench-scale experiments. In order to compare the sensitivity of APIs in each matrix, the specific dose of ozone required to achieve reduction by one decade of each investigated API (DDO3) was determined for each effluent by fitting a first order equation to the remaining concentration of API at each applied ozone dose. Ozone dose requirements were found to vary significantly between effluents depending on their matrix characteristics. The specific ozone dose was then normalized to the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of each effluent. The DDO3/DOC ratios were comparable for each API between the effluents. 15 of the 42 investigated APIs could be classified as easily degradable (DDO3/DOC≤0.7), while 19 were moderately degradable (0.7<DDO3/DOC≤1.4), and 8 were recalcitrant towards O3-treatment (DDO3/DOC >1.4). Furthermore, we predict that a reasonable estimate of the ozone dose required to remove any of the investigated APIs may be attained by multiplying the experimental average DDO3/DOC obtained with the actual DOC of any effluent. Aurell, Johanna Marklund, Stellan Effects of sulfur on PCDD/F formation under stable and transient combustion conditions during MSW incineration2009Inngår i: Chemosphere, ISSN 0045-6535, E-ISSN 1879-1298, Vol. 76, nr 6, s. 767-773Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) SO2 levels in the flue gas from a laboratory-scale fluidized bed reactor combusting artificial municipal solid waste (MSW) were varied (resulting in four different SO2:HCl ratios 0, 0.2, 0.7 and 2.7 (by mass)) to study the effects of sulfur on the formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated dibenzothiophenes (PCDTs). Sampling was performed simultaneously at three fixed points in the post-combustion zone with temperatures of 400, 300 and 200 °C, under normal combustion conditions and both during and after transient combustion conditions. The findings indicate that sulfur has a greater inhibitory effect on PCDF formation than on PCDD formation and that the PCDD/PCDF ratio in the flue gas depends on both the SO2:HCl ratio in the flue gas and memory effects arising from transient combustion conditions. The results also indicate that the relative importance of different pathways shifts in the post-combustion zone; condensation products increasing with reductions in temperature and increases in residence time. However, these changes appear to depend on the SO2:HCl ratio in the flue gas and combustion conditions. Sulfur seems to inhibit the chlorination of PCDFs. A tendency for increased SO2 levels in the flue gas to increase levels of PCDTs was also detected, but the increases were much less significant than the reductions in PCDF levels. Effects of transient combustion conditions on the formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and benzenes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons during municipal solid waste incineration2009Inngår i: Environmental Engineering Science, ISSN 1092-8758, E-ISSN 1557-9018, Vol. 26, nr 3, s. 509-520Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) This study investigated the effects of transient combustion conditions on formation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDF) along the postcombustion zone. Polychlorinated benzenes (PCBz) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were also studied. The study was conducted in a laboratory fluidized-bed reactor fed with an artificial municipal solid waste (MSW) under controllable but realistic combustion conditions. PCDD/Fs, PCBz, and PAHs were monitored under normal, transient, and posttransient combustion conditions and simultaneously sampled at three different sampling points/temperatures (400°C, 300°C, and 200°C). Substantially higher PCDD/F, PCBz, and PAH concentrations were found during transient combustion than during normal combustion. Elevated concentrations were found to decrease with time. PCDD/F concentrations were similar at all points during normal and transient combustion conditions, but were found in higher concentrations at 200°C than 400°C under the posttransient combustion periods. Higher concentrations of the sum PAH and PCBz were also found at 200°C than 400°C in the posttransient combustion periods. Transient combustion conditions induced changes in both PCDD/F homologue profile and PCDD/F congener patterns compared to normal combustion. PCDD/PCDF ratios indicated an increase of the de novo synthesis during transient combustion conditions. Although, the PCDD/F congeners found to be most strongly affected by the transient combustion conditions indicated different reactions pathways active for formation of PCDF and PCDD, de novo synthesis and precursors, respectively. The most strongly affected PCDD/F congeners of transient combustion were identified and are presented. 10. Bengtsson-Palme, Johan Boulund, Fredrik Shotgun metagenomics reveals a wide array of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile elements in a polluted lake in India2014Inngår i: Frontiers in Microbiology, ISSN 1664-302X, E-ISSN 1664-302X, Vol. 5 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) There is increasing evidence for an environmental origin of many antibiotic resistance genes. Consequently, it is important to identify environments of particular risk for selecting and maintaining such resistance factors. In this study, we described the diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in an Indian lake subjected to industrial pollution with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. We also assessed the genetic context of the identified resistance genes, to try to predict their genetic transferability. The lake harbored a wide range of resistance genes (81 identified gene types) against essentially every major class of antibiotics, as well as genes responsible for mobilization of genetic material. Resistance genes were estimated to be 7000 times more abundant than in a Swedish lake included for comparison, where only eight resistance genes were found. The sul2 and qnrD genes were the most common resistance genes in the Indian lake. Twenty-six known and 21 putative novel plasmids were recovered in the Indian lake metagenome, which, together with the genes found, indicate a large potential for horizontal gene transfer through conjugation. Interestingly, the microbial community of the lake still included a wide range of taxa, suggesting that, across most phyla, bacteria has adapted relatively well to this highly polluted environment. Based on the wide range and high abundance of known resistance factors we have detected, it is plausible that yet unrecognized resistance genes are also present in the lake. Thus, we conclude that environments polluted with waste from antibiotic manufacturing could be important reservoirs for mobile antibiotic resistance genes. Hammarén, Rickard Pal, Chandan Östman, Marcus Björlenius, Berndt Flach, Carl-Fredrik Larsson, D.G. Joakim Elucidating selection processes for antibiotic resistance in sewage treatment plants using metagenomics2016Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 572, s. 697-712Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Sewage treatment plants (STPs) have repeatedly been suggested as "hotspots" for the emergence and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A critical question still unanswered is if selection pressures within STPs, caused by residual antibiotics or other co-selective agents, are sufficient to specifically promote resistance. To address this, we employed shotgun metagenomic sequencing of samples from different steps of the treatment process in three Swedish STPs. In parallel, concentrations of selected antibiotics, biocides and metals were analyzed. We found that concentrations of tetracycline and ciprofloxacin in the influent were above predicted concentrations for resistance selection, however, there was no consistent enrichment of resistance genes to any particular class of antibiotics in the STPs, neither for biocide and metal resistance genes. The most substantial change of the bacterial communities compared to human feces occurred already in the sewage pipes, manifested by a strong shift from obligate to facultative anaerobes. Through the treatment process, resistance genes against antibiotics, biocides and metals were not reduced to the same extent as fecal bacteria. The OXA-48 gene was consistently enriched in surplus and digested sludge. We find this worrying as OXA-48, still rare in Swedish clinical isolates, provides resistance to carbapenems, one of our most critically important classes of antibiotics. Taken together, metagenomics analyses did not provide clear support for specific antibiotic resistance selection. However, stronger selective forces affecting gross taxonomic composition, and with that resistance gene abundances, limit interpretability. Comprehensive analyses of resistant/non-resistant strains within relevant species are therefore warranted. 12. Berg, C Säfholm, M Jansson, E Olsson, A J Brandt, I Combined exposure to progestin and oestrogen mixtures: Effects on vitellogenin and hormone receptor mRNA expression2012Inngår i: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, ISSN 1095-6433, E-ISSN 1531-4332, Vol. 163, nr 1, s. S56-S57Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet vitenskapelig) 13. Berglund, Bjorn Lindgren, Per-Eric Urban wastewater effluent increases antibiotic resistance gene concentrations in a receiving northern european river2015Inngår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, ISSN 0730-7268, E-ISSN 1552-8618, Vol. 34, nr 1, s. 192-196Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an emerging global problem that threatens to undermine important advances in modern medicine. The environment is likely to play an important role in the dissemination of antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) among both environmental and pathogenic bacteria. Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) accumulate both chemical and biological waste from the surrounding urban milieu and have therefore been viewed as potential hotspots for dissemination and development of antibiotic resistance. To assess the effect of wastewater effluent on a river that flows through a Swedish city, sediment and water samples were collected from Stangan River, both upstream and downstream of an adjacent WWTP over 3 mo. Seven ARGs and the integrase gene on class 1 integrons were quantified in the collected sediment using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to assess the abundance of 10 different antibiotics in the water phase of the samples. The results showed an increase in ARGs and integrons downstream of the WWTP. The measured concentrations of antibiotics were low in the water samples from the Stangan River, suggesting that selection for ARGs did not occur in the surface water. Instead, the downstream increase in ARGs is likely to be attributable to accumulation of genes present in the treated effluent discharged from the WWTP. Environ Toxicol Chem 2015;34:192-196. (c) 2014 SETAC 14. Berglund, Björn Khan, Ghazanfar Ali Abundance and dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes and integrons in lake sediment microcosms2014Inngår i: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 9, nr 9, artikkel-id e108151 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Antibiotic resistance in bacteria causing disease is an ever growing threat to the world. Recently, environmental bacteria have become established as important both as sources of antibiotic resistance genes and in disseminating resistance genes. Low levels of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals are regularly released into water environments via wastewater, and the concern is that such environmental contamination may serve to create hotspots for antibiotic resistance gene selection and dissemination. In this study, microcosms were created from water and sediments gathered from a lake in Sweden only lightly affected by human activities. The microcosms were exposed to a mixture of antibiotics of varying environmentally relevant concentrations (i.e., concentrations commonly encountered in wastewaters) in order to investigate the effect of low levels of antibiotics on antibiotic resistance gene abundances and dynamics in a previously uncontaminated environment. Antibiotic concentrations were measured using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Abundances of seven antibiotic resistance genes and the class 1 integron integrase gene, intL1, were quantified using real-time PCR. Resistance genes sulI and ermB were quantified in the microcosm sediments with mean abundances 5 and 15 gene copies/10(6) 16S rRNA gene copies, respectively. Class 1 integrons were determined in the sediments with a mean concentration of 3.86x10(4) copies/10(6) 16S rRNA gene copies. The antibiotic treatment had no observable effect on antibiotic resistance gene or integron abundances. Weisner, Stefan E. B. Ehde, Per Magnus Efficient removal of antibiotics in surface-flow constructed wetlands, with no observed impact on antibiotic resistance genes2014Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 476-477, s. 29-37Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Recently, there have been growing concerns about pharmaceuticals including antibiotics as environmental contaminants. Antibiotics of concentrations commonly encountered in wastewater have been suggested to affect bacterial population dynamics and to promote dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Conventional wastewater treatment processes do not always adequately remove pharmaceuticals causing environmental dissemination of low levels of these compounds. Using constructed wetlands as an additional treatment step after sewage treatment plants have been proposed as a cheap alternative to increase reduction of wastewater contaminants, however this means that the natural microbial community of the wetlands becomes exposed to elevated levels of antibiotics. In this study, experimental surface-flow wetlands in Sweden were continuously exposed to antibiotics of concentrations commonly encountered in wastewater. The aim was to assess the antibiotic removal efficiency of constructed wetlands and to evaluate the impact of low levels of antibiotics on bacterial diversity, resistance development and expression in the wetland bacterial community. Antibiotic concentrations were measured using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and the effect on the bacterial diversity was assessed with 16S rRNA-based denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Real-time PCR was used to detect and quantify antibiotic resistance genes and integrons in the wetlands, during and after the exposure period. The results indicated that the antibiotic removal efficiency of constructed wetlands was comparable to conventional wastewater treatment schemes. Furthermore, short-term treatment of the constructed wetlands with environmentally relevant concentrations (i.e. 100-2000 ng x 1(-1)) of antibiotics did not significantly affect resistance gene concentrations, suggesting that surface-flow constructed wetlands are well-suited for wastewater treatment purposes. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 16. Björlenius, Berndt Ripszám, Mátyás Lindberg, Richard H. Pharmaceutical residues are widespread in Baltic Sea coastal and offshore waters: Screening for pharmaceuticals and modelling of environmental concentrations of carbamazepine2018Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 633, s. 1496-1509Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The consumption of pharmaceuticals worldwide coupled with modest removal efficiencies of sewage treatment plants have resulted in the presence of pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems globally. In this study, we investigated the environmental concentrations of a selection of 93 pharmaceuticals in 43 locations in the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak. The Baltic Sea is vulnerable to anthropogenic activities due to a long turnover time and a sensitive ecosystem in the brackish water. Thirty-nine of 93 pharmaceuticals were detected in at least one sample, with concentrations ranging between 0.01 and 80 ng/L. One of the pharmaceuticals investigated, the anti-epileptic drug carbamazepine, was widespread in coastal and offshore seawaters (present in 37 of 43 samples). In order to predict concentrations of pharmaceuticals in the sub-basins of the Baltic Sea, a mass balance-based grey box model was set up and the persistent, widely used carbamazepine was selected as the model substance. The model was based on hydrological and meteorological sub-basin characteristics, removal data from smaller watersheds and wastewater treatment plants, and statistics relating to population, consumption and excretion rate of carbamazepine in humans. The grey box model predicted average environmental concentrations of carbamazepine in sub-basins with no significant difference from the measured concentrations, amounting to 0.57–3.2 ng/L depending on sub-basin location. In the Baltic Sea, the removal rate of carbamazepine in seawater was estimated to be 6.2 10−9 s−1 based on a calculated half-life time of 3.5 years at 10 °C, which demonstrates the long response time of the environment to measures phasing out persistent or slowly degradable substances such as carbamazepine. Sampling, analysis and grey box modelling were all valuable in describing the presence and removal of carbamazepine in the Baltic Sea. 17. Breitholtz, Magnus Näslund, Maria Stråe, Daniel Borg, Hans An evaluation of free water surface wetlands as tertiary sewage water treatment of micro-pollutants2012Inngår i: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, ISSN 0147-6513, E-ISSN 1090-2414, Vol. 78, s. 63-71Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Increased attention is currently directed towards potential negative effects of pharmaceuticals and other micro-pollutants discharged into the aquatic environment via municipal sewage water. A number of additional treatment technologies, such as ozonation, have therefore been suggested as promising tools for improving the removal efficiency of pharmaceuticals in existing Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs). Constructed wetlands are also capable of removing a variety of micro-pollutants, including some pharmaceuticals, and could hence be a resource efficient complement to more advanced treatment technologies. The purpose of the present study was therefore to increase the knowledge base concerning the potential use of constructed wetlands as a treatment step to reduce emissions of organic micro-pollutants from municipal sewage effluents. Under cold winter conditions, incoming and outgoing waters from four Swedish free water surface wetlands, operated as final treatment steps of sewage effluent from municipal STPs, were sampled and analyzed for levels of a set of 92 pharmaceuticals and 22 inorganic components as well as assessed using subchronic ecotoxicity tests with a macro-alga and a crustacean. Sixty-five pharmaceuticals were detected in the range from 1ngL(-1) to 7.6μgL(-1) in incoming and outgoing waters from the four investigated wetlands. Although the sampling design used in the present study lacks the robustness of volume proportional to 24h composite samples, the average estimated removal rates ranged from 42% to 52%, which correlates to previous published values. The effects observed in the ecotoxicity tests with the macro-alga (EC(50)s in the range of 7.5-46%) and the crustacean (LOECs in the range of 11.25-90%) could not be assigned to either pharmaceutical residues or metals, but in general showed that these treatment facilities release water with a relatively low toxic potential, comparable to water that has been treated with advanced tertiary treatments. From the present study it can be concluded that constructed wetlands may provide a complementary sewage treatment option, especially where other treatment is lacking today. To fully remove micro-pollutants from sewage effluent, however, other more advanced treatment technologies are likely needed. Brodin, Tomas Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap. Jonsson, Micael Klaminder, Jonatan Dilute concentrations of a psychiatric drug alter behavior of fish from natural populations2013Inngår i: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, E-ISSN 1095-9203, Vol. 339, nr 6121, s. 814-815Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Environmental pollution by pharmaceuticals is increasingly recognized as a major threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide. A variety of pharmaceuticals enter waterways by way of treated wastewater effluents and remain biochemically active in aquatic systems. Several ecotoxicological studies have been done, but generally, little is known about the ecological effects of pharmaceuticals. Here we show that a benzodiazepine anxiolytic drug (oxazepam) alters behavior and feeding rate of wild European perch (Perca fluviatilis) at concentrations encountered in effluent-influenced surface waters. Individuals exposed to water with dilute drug concentrations (1.8 micrograms liter–1) exhibited increased activity, reduced sociality, and higher feeding rate. As such, our results show that anxiolytic drugs in surface waters alter animal behaviors that are known to have ecological and evolutionary consequences. Nordling, Johanna Lagesson, Annelie Hellström, Gustav Christensen, Bent Environmental relevant levels of a benzodiazepine (oxazepam) alters important behavioral traits in a common planktivorous fish, (Rutilus rutilus)2017Inngår i: Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, ISSN 1528-7394, E-ISSN 1087-2620, Vol. 80, nr 16–18, s. 963-970Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Environmental pollution by pharmaceuticals is increasingly recognized as a major threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide. A complex mix of pharmaceuticals enters waterways via treated wastewater effluent and many remain biochemically active after the drugs reach aquatic systems. However, to date little is known regarding the ecological effects that might arise following pharmaceutical contamination of aquatic environments. One group of particular concern is behaviorally modifying pharmaceuticals as seemingly minor changes in behavior may initiate marked ecological consequences. The aim of this study was to examine the influence of a benzodiazepine anxiolytic drug (oxazepam) on key behavioral traits in wild roach (Rutilus rutilus) at concentrations similar to those encountered in effluent surface waters. Roach exposed to water with high concentrations of oxazepam (280 mu g/L) exhibited increased boldness, while roach at low treatment (0.84 mu g/L) became bolder and more active compared to control fish. Our results reinforce the notion that anxiolytic drugs may be affecting fish behavior in natural systems, emphasizing the need for further research on ecological impacts of pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems and development of new tools to incorporate ecologically relevant behavioral endpoints into ecotoxicological risk assessment. Piovano, Susanna Heynen, Martina Ecological effects of pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems-impacts through behavioural alterations2014Inngår i: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8436, E-ISSN 1471-2970, Vol. 369, nr 1656, s. 20130580-Artikkel, forskningsoversikt (Fagfellevurdert) The study of animal behaviour is important for both ecology and ecotoxicology, yet research in these two fields is currently developing independently. Here, we synthesize the available knowledge on drug-induced behavioural alterations in fish, discuss potential ecological consequences and report results from an experiment in which we quantify both uptake and behavioural impact of a psychiatric drug on a predatory fish (Perca fluviatilis) and its invertebrate prey (Coenagrion hastulatum). We show that perch became more active while damselfly behaviour was unaffected, illustrating that behavioural effects of pharmaceuticals can differ between species. Furthermore, we demonstrate that prey consumption can be an important exposure route as on average 46% of the pharmaceutical in ingested prey accumulated in the predator. This suggests that investigations of exposure through bioconcentration, where trophic interactions and subsequent bioaccumulation of exposed individuals are ignored, underestimate exposure. Wildlife may therefore be exposed to higher levels of behaviourally altering pharmaceuticals than predictions based on commonly used exposure assays and pharmaceutical concentrations found in environmental monitoring programmes. Cerveny, Daniel Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Kemiska institutionen. University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodnany, Czech Republic. Brodin, T. Cisar, P. McCallum, E. S. Bioconcentration and behavioral effects of four benzodiazepines and their environmentally relevant mixture in wild fish2020Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 702, artikkel-id UNSP 134780Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) We studied the adverse effects of four benzodiazepines frequently measured in European surface waters. We evaluated bioaccumulation potential of oxazepam, bromazepam, temazepam, and clobazam in freshwater fish species - perch (Perca fluviatilis) and we conducted a series of behavioral trials to assess their potential to alter boldness, activity, and social behavior. All selected endpoints were studied individually for each target benzodiazepine and as a mixture of all tested compounds to assess possible combinatory effects. We used a three-dimensional automated tracking system to quantify the fish behavior. The four compounds bioconcentrated differently in fish muscle (temazepam > clobazam > oxazepam > bromazepam) at high exposure (9.1, 6.9, 5.7, 8.1 mu g L-1, respectively) and low exposure (0.5, 0.5, 0.3, 0.4 mu g L-1, respectively) concentrations. A significant amount of oxazepam was also measured in fish exposed to temazepam, most likely because of the metabolic transformation of temazepam within the fish. Bromazepam, temazepam, and clobazam significantly affected fish behavior at high concentration, while no statistically significant changes were registered for oxazepam. The studied benzodiazepines affected behavior in combination, because the mixture treatment significantly changed several important behavioral traits even at low concentration, while no single compound exposure had such an effect at that dose. Based on our results, we conclude that effects of pharmaceuticals on aquatic environments could be underestimated if risk assessments only rely on the evaluation of single compounds. More studies focused on the combinatory effects of environmentally relevant mixtures of pharmaceuticals are necessary to fill the gaps in this knowledge. 22. Cuklev, Filip Cvijovic, Marija Larsson, D G Joakim Does ketoprofen or diclofenac pose the lowest risk to fish?2012Inngår i: Journal of Hazardous Materials, ISSN 0304-3894, E-ISSN 1873-3336, Vol. 229-230, s. 100-106Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Ketoprofen and diclofenac are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) often used for similar indications, and both are frequently found in surface waters. Diclofenac affects organ histology and gene expression in fish at around 1μg/L. Here, we exposed rainbow trout to ketoprofen (1, 10 and 100μg/L) to investigate if this alternative causes less risk for pharmacological responses in fish. The bioconcentration factor from water to fish blood plasma was <0.05 (4 for diclofenac based on previous studies). Ketoprofen only reached up to 0.6‰ of the human therapeutic plasma concentration, thus the probability of target-related effects was estimated to be fairly low. Accordingly, a comprehensive analysis of hepatic gene expression revealed no consistent responses. In some contrast, trout exposed to undiluted, treated sewage effluents bioconcentrated ketoprofen and other NSAIDs much more efficiently, according to a meta-analysis of recent studies. Neither of the setups is however an ideal representation of the field situation. If a controlled exposure system with a single chemical in pure water is a reasonable representation of the environment, then the use of ketoprofen is likely to pose a lower risk for wild fish than diclofenac, but if bioconcentration factors from effluent-exposed fish are applied, the risks may be more similar. Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden och Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Asker, Noomi Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden och Faculty of Science, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Faculty of Science, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Diclofenac in fish: blood plasma levels similar to human therapeutic levels affect global hepatic gene expression2011Inngår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, ISSN 0730-7268, E-ISSN 1552-8618, Vol. 30, nr 9, s. 2126-2134Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug frequently found in the aquatic environment. Previous studies have reported histological changes in the liver, kidney and gills of fish at concentrations similar to those measured in treated sewage effluents (approximately 1 µg/L). Analyses or predictions of blood plasma levels in fish allow a direct comparison with human therapeutic plasma levels, and may therefore be used to indicate a risk for pharmacological effects in fish. To relate internal exposure to a pharmacological interaction we investigated global hepatic gene expression together with bioconcentration in blood plasma and liver of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to waterborne diclofenac. At the highest exposure concentration (81.5 µg/L) the fish plasma concentration reached approximately 88% of the human therapeutic levels (C(max) ) after two weeks. Using an oligonucleotide microarray followed by quantitative PCR we found extensive effects on hepatic gene expression at this concentration, and some genes were found to be regulated down to the lowest concentration tested (1.6 µg/L) corresponding to approximately 1.5% of the human C(max) . Thus, at concentrations detected in European surface waters, diclofenac can affect the expression of multiple genes in exposed fish. Functional analysis of differentially expressed genes revealed effects on biological processes such as inflammation and immune response, in agreement with the mode of action of diclofenac in mammals. In contrast to some previously reported results, the bioconcentration factor was found to be stable (4.02 ± 0.75 for blood plasma and 2.54 ± 0.36 for liver) regardless of the water concentration. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. © 2011 SETAC. 24. Davidsson, A Eriksson, E Ozonation and thermal pre-treatment of municipal sewage sludge-implications for toxicity and methane potential2013Inngår i: Journal of residuals science & technology, ISSN 1544-8053, Vol. 10, nr 2, s. 85-91Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The aim of this study was to determine effects on methane potential and overall sludge quality from two different sludge pre-treatment technologies (ozonation high/low dosage and thermal treatment 55/70 degrees C). In general both treatments produced increased methane potential. Thermal treatment resulted in higher chemical oxygen demand (COD)-solubilisation, while the highest volatile fatty acids (VFA) increase was obtained with ozonation. Sludges had inhibiting effects in a barley seed germination assay and a yeast oestrogen screen both before and after pre-treatment, but inhibition was reduced by ozone treatment and digestion. No statistical significant reduction in concentrations of included pharmaceuticals could be observed. 25. Davidsson, A. Kjerstadius, H. Haghighatafshar, S. Olsson, M. Wachtmeister, H. Eriksson, E. Jansen, J. la Cour Effect of anaerobic digestion at 35, 55 and 60 degrees C on pharmaceuticals and organic contaminants2014Inngår i: Water Science and Technology, ISSN 0273-1223, E-ISSN 1996-9732, Vol. 69, nr 6, s. 1282-1288Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The application of treated sewage sludge on farmland is a suggested method for recycling nutrients and reducing demand for commercial fertilizer. However, sludge needs to be safe from possible contaminants which can cause acute and long-term health and environmental problems. Residual pharmaceuticals and organic contaminants are mentioned as emerging threats since wastewater treatment plants are not designed to degrade these substances. The aim of this study was to screen and evaluate the presence, and reduction, of pharmaceuticals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during anaerobic digestion of mixed primary and waste-activated sludge at 35, 55 and 60 degrees C and during pasteurization at 70 degrees C. The study showed the difficulty of analysing pharmaceutical compounds in low concentrations in the sludge matrix. No general reduction of these compounds was seen during treatment, but for individual substances some reduction occured. The PAHs were generally not reduced during digestion or pasteurization, but for three substances (indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyreneand dibenzo[a,h] anthracene (analysed together) and benzo [g,h,i] perylene) reduction (up to 60%) during digestion was seen. Digestion at 35 and 55 degrees C resulted in about the same order of reduction of the three individual PAHs, which was higher than for digestion at 60 degrees C. Egan Sjölander, Annika Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper. Nordlund, Annika Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för psykologi. Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för geografi och ekonomisk historia, Kulturgeografi, Transportforskningsenheten (TRUM). The multiple meanings of water: wastewater treatment and reuse seen from a communication perspective2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig) Fahlman, Johan Karlsson, Jan Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap. Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden. Using laboratory incubations to predict the fate of pharmaceuticals in aquatic ecosystems2018Inngår i: Environmental Chemistry, ISSN 1448-2517, E-ISSN 1449-8979, Vol. 15, nr 8, s. 463-471Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Environmental contextEnvironmental persistence of excreted pharmaceuticals in aquatic ecosystems is usually predicted using small-scale laboratory experiments assumed to simulate natural conditions. We studied five pharmaceuticals comparing their removal rates from water under laboratory conditions and under natural environmental conditions existing in a large pond. We found that the laboratory conditions did not fully capture the complexity within the pond, which led to different removal rates in the two systems. AbstractEnvironmental persistence is a key property when evaluating risks with excreted pharmaceuticals in aquatic ecosystems. Such persistence is typically predicted using small-scale laboratory incubations, but the variation in aquatic environments and scarcity of field studies to verify laboratory-based persistence estimates create uncertainties around the predictive power of these incubations. In this study we: (1) assess the persistence of five pharmaceuticals (diclofenac, diphenhydramine, hydroxyzine, trimethoprim and oxazepam) in laboratory experiments under different environmental conditions; and (2) use a three-month-long field study in an aquatic ecosystem to verify the laboratory-based persistence estimates. In our laboratory assays, we found that water temperature (TEMP), concentrations of organic solutes (TOC), presence of sediment (SED), and solar radiation (SOL) individually affected dissipation rates. Moreover, we identified rarely studied interaction effects between the treatments (i.e. SOLxSED and TEMPxSOL), which affected the persistence of the studied drugs. Half-lives obtained from the laboratory assays largely explained the dissipation rates during the first week of the field study. However, none of the applied models could accurately predict the long-term dissipation rates (month time-scale) from the water column. For example, the studied antibioticum (trimethoprim) and the anti-anxiety drug (oxazepam) remained at detectable levels in the aquatic environment long after (similar to 150 days) our laboratory based models predicted complete dissipation. We conclude that small-scale laboratory incubations seem sufficient to approximate the short-term (i.e. within a week) dissipation rate of drugs in aquatic ecosystems. However, this simplistic approach does not capture interacting environmental processes that preserve a fraction of the dissolved pharmaceuticals for months in natural water bodies. 28. Faleye, A. C. Adegoke, A. A. Ramluckan, K. Bux, F. Stenstrom, T. A. Concentration and reduction of antibiotic residues in selected wastewater treatment plants and receiving waterbodies in Durban, South Africa2019Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 678, s. 10-20Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) In the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa the incidence of resistant tuberculosis, upper respiratory tract diseases as well as diarrhoeal and parasitic infections is high. Treatment of these diseases with antibiotics is partly reflected by the excretion of the respective antibiotics and their subsequent occurrence in wastewater. Their quantitative reduction in wastewater treatment reflects their potential environmental as well as human impact, the latter due to the use of the recipient water for domestic purposes and for irrigation. Information of the occurrence and reduction of different classes of antibiotics in wastewater treatment is sparse, especially the particle bound fraction of these. Due to this, analyses of aqueous and particle bound antibiotics in untreated wastewater of four selected wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their receiving water bodies was carried out in Durban, South Africa. The treatment step especially considered was the biological one, represented by activated sludge and trickling filters. The treatment further included secondary clarifiers and final chlorine disinfection. Composite samples were collected during the period February 2017 to May 2017 and analysed with online solid phase extraction - high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (SPE-HPLC-MS). For the 13 assessed antibiotics, the limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantification (LOQ) ranged from 0.07 to 0.33 ng L-1 and 0.23 to 1.09 ng L-1 respectively, while the total percentage recovery was in the range of 51 to 111%. The percentage of individual antibiotics bound to the particulate fraction normally lost by sample (influent) filtration, if not analysed in parallel, was in the range of 2.6%-97.3% (n = 32). In this fraction (sludge from centrifuge sample), the concentration of bound antibiotics of all the target antibiotics were detected in the influent of all WWTP in concentration ranges between 1.3 ng L-1 (Azithromycin; AZI) to 81,748 ng(-1) (Ciprofloxacin; CIP). The antibiotics with the highest median concentrations in receiving water bodies of the respective WWTP were: Sulfamethoxazole; SUL (239 ng L-1) WWTP "K", Ciprofloxacin; CIP (708 ng L-1) WWTP "S" and Albendazole; ALB (325 ng L-1 and 683 ng L-1) WWTP "P" and "I" respectively. The overall percentage removal efficiency for the four WWTPs ranged from 21% to 100%. The biological treatment steps, activated sludge and trickling filters, were effective in removing antibiotics especially with the trickling filter and the impact of the sedimentation stage after activated sludge treatment. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. A search for 120 pharmaceuticals in wild fish from five European countries2012Inngår i: Toxicology Letters, ISSN 0378-4274, E-ISSN 1879-3169, Vol. 211, s. S30-Artikkel i tidsskrift (Annet vitenskapelig) Chemical reactions in ventilation systems: Ozonolysis of monoterpenes2003Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig) Chemicals in indoor air, either emitted from a source or from a reaction, have been suggested to cause ill health in buildings. However, no clear correlations between exposure and health effects have been made. In this thesis we studied the reaction between monoterpenes, a group of biogenic unsaturated C10 hydrocarbons, and ozone. Ozonolysis of monoterpenes was used as model reactions for unsaturated compounds in ambient air. Also the products formed from these reactions have been suggested as important participants in the occurrence of discomfort and ill health in buildings. To enable a reliable and sensitive measurement of ppb-ppt levels of monoterpenes and the formed products in the presence of ozone an evaluation of available scrubber materials was made. Potassium iodide was shown to remove ambient levels of ozone and have a recovery of >95% for all monoterpenes and formed products included in the investigation. Experimental conditions showed to have a large impact on the initial steps of the ozonolysis, and also on the composition of the formed products. We showed that water plays an important and complex role both in the initial stage of ozonolysis of ∆3-carene and in the formation and composition of products from the ozonolysis of ∆-pinene. The use of experimental design facilitated the evaluation of the investigated reactions. We showed that the formation of OH radicals could be studied using multiple linear regression models and that the presence or absence of OH radicals had a profound impact on the formation of many of the formed products. We also made an observation of the lack of formed OH radicals in the ozonolysis of limonene and discussed probable causes of this observation. Despite the short reaction times and the ambient levels of ozone and monoterpenes used in our experiments we showed that a number of oxidation products were formed, and that the reaction rate is significantly increased in a ventilation system. This formation is underestimated by theoretical calculations and leads to high amounts of known irritants in the indoor air. We showed that theoretical calculations underestimate the formation of these oxidation products 3-13 times, depending on ventilation system and monoterpene. Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskaplig fakultet, Kemi. Andersson, Patrik Johansson, M Selection of antibiotics: A chemometric approach2004Inngår i: 4th International Conference on Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water, Minneapolis, USA, 2004, s. 143-50Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig) Grabicova, Katerina Randak, Tomas Kodes, Vit Slobodnik, Jaroslav Sweetman, Andrew Earnshaw, Mark Caracciolo, Anna Barra Lettieri, Teresa Loos, Robert Screening of benzodiazepines in thirty European rivers2017Inngår i: Chemosphere, ISSN 0045-6535, E-ISSN 1879-1298, Vol. 176, s. 324-332Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Pharmaceuticals as environmental contaminants have received a lot of interest over the past decade but, for several pharmaceuticals, relatively little is known about their occurrence in European surface waters. Benzodiazepines, a class of pharmaceuticals with anxiolytic properties, have received interest due to their behavioral modifying effect on exposed biota. In this study, our results show the presence of one or more benzodiazepine(s) in 86% of the analyzed surface water samples (n = 138) from 30 rivers, representing seven larger European catchments. Of the 13 benzodiazepines included in the study, we detected 9, which together showed median and mean concentrations (of the results above limit of quantification) of 5.4 and 9.6 ng L-1, respectively. Four benzodiazepines (oxazepam, temazepam, clobazam, and bromazepam) were the most commonly detected. In particular, oxazepam had the highest frequency of detection (85%) and a maximum concentration of 61 ng L-1. Temazepam and clobazam were found in 26% (maximum concentration of 39 ng L-1) and 14% (maximum concentration of 11 ng L-1) of the samples analyzed, respectively. Finally, bromazepam was found only in Germany and in 16 out of total 138 samples (12%), with a maximum concentration of 320 ng L-1. This study clearly shows that benzodiazepines are common micro-contaminants of the largest European river systems at ng L-1 levels. Although these concentrations are more than a magnitude lower than those reported to have effective effects on exposed biota, environmental effects cannot be excluded considering the possibility of additive and sub-lethal effects. Larsson, Joakim D G Lindberg, Richard H Bioconcentration of Pharmaceuticals2010Inngår i: Towards Sustainable Pharmaceuticals in a Healthy Society: MistraPharma Research / [ed] Christina Rudén, Karin Liljelund, Helene Hagerman, Stockholm: Elander Sverige AB , 2010, 1, s. 36-45Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig) Residues of human pharmaceuticals have been widely detected in various parts of the environment and trace concentrations are often found in sewage effl uent and surface waters, typically ranging from low ng L-1 to low μg L-1 levels (Lindberg et al., 2005; Nikolaou et al., 2007; Loos et al., 2009). These concentrations, however, are orders of magnitude below the therapeutic concentrations reached in human blood plasma. Thus, the potential for a physiological impact of pharmaceuticals on water-living organisms (such as fi sh) have been questioned. On the other hand, the levels measured in surface waters do not simply mirror the levels encountered by the receptors or enzymes present inside the fi sh living in these waters. Indeed, levels of pharmaceutical in for example fi sh blood plasma is sometimes much higher than the levels in the surrounding water. This can be explained by the concepts of bioconcentration and bioaccumulation. Arvidsson, Björn Therapeutic levels of levonorgestrel detected in blood plasma of fish: results from screening rainbow trout exposed to treated sewage effluents2010Inngår i: Environmental Science and Technology, ISSN 0013-936X, E-ISSN 1520-5851, Vol. 44, nr 7, s. 2661-2666Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Pharmaceuticals are found in surface waters worldwide, raising concerns about effects on aquatic organisms. Analyses of pharmaceuticals in blood plasma of fish could provide means to assess risk for pharmacological effects, as these concentrations could be compared with available human therapeutic plasma levels. In this study we investigated if fish exposed to sewage effluents have plasma concentrations of pharmaceuticals that are approaching human therapeutic levels. We also evaluated how well the bioconcentration of pharmaceuticals into fish blood plasma can be predicted based on lipophilicity. Rainbow trout were exposed to undiluted, treated sewage effluents at three sites in Sweden for 14 days. Levels of 25 pharmaceuticals in blood plasma and effluents were analyzed with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. The progestin pharmaceutical levonorgestrel was detected in fish blood plasma at concentrations (8.5-12 ng mL(-1)), exceeding the human therapeutic plasma level. In total 16 pharmaceuticals were detected in fish plasma at concentrations higher than 1/1000 of the human therapeutic plasma concentration. Twenty-one pharmaceuticals were detected in either plasma or effluent, and 14 were detected in both compartments, allowing plasma bioconcentration factors to be determined. For 11 of these, theoretically calculated and experimentally measured values were in reasonably good agreement. However a few drugs, including levonorgestrel, did not bioconcentrate according to the screening model used. This study shows that rainbow trout exposed to sewage effluents have blood plasma levels of pharmaceuticals similar to human therapeutic concentrations, suggesting a risk for pharmacological effects in the fish. There is a particular concern about effects of progestin pharmaceuticals. For levonorgestrel, the measured effluent level (1 ng/L) was higher than water levels shown to reduce the fertility of fish. Predicted critical environmental concentrations for 500 pharmaceuticals2010Inngår i: Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology, ISSN 0273-2300, E-ISSN 1096-0295, Vol. 58, nr 3, s. 516-23Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) A growing number of pharmaceuticals are found in surface waters worldwide, raising concerns about their effects on aquatic organisms and it is a major challenge to develop a rational strategy for prioritizing drugs on which to focus the most extensive environmental research efforts. However, in contrast to most other chemicals, very good understanding of the human potency of pharmaceuticals has been obtained through efficacy and safety testing. Assuming that a drug acts primarily through the same target(s) also in a non-target species, it would be possible to predict the likelihood for pharmacological interactions in wildlife. Among aquatic organisms, fish most often share drug targets with humans. In this study, we have calculated the predicted critical environmental concentration (CECs), i.e. the surface water concentration expected to cause a pharmacological effect in fish, for 500 pharmaceuticals, assuming equivalent pharmacological activity. The CECs are based on literature data on human potencies together with a predicted bioconcentration factor in fish for each drug based on lipophilicity. We propose that CECs could be used as preliminary indicators of specific drugs' potential to cause adverse pharmacological effects at specific water concentrations, used when selecting pharmaceuticals to include in screening campaigns and for assessing relevant detection limits. Haemig, Paul D Waldenström, Jonas Antiviral oseltamivir is not removed or degraded in normal sewage water treatment: implications for development of resistance by influenza A virus2007Inngår i: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 2, nr 10 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Oseltamivir is the main antiviral for treatment and prevention of pandemic influenza. The increase in oseltamivir resistance reported recently has therefore sparked a debate on how to use oseltamivir in non pandemic influenza and the risks associated with wide spread use during a pandemic. Several questions have been asked about the fate of oseltamivir in the sewage treatment plants and in the environment. We have assessed the fate of oseltamivir and discuss the implications of environmental residues of oseltamivir regarding the occurrence of resistance. A series of batch experiments that simulated normal sewage treatment with oseltamivir present was conducted and the UV-spectra of oseltamivir were recorded. Findings: Our experiments show that the active moiety of oseltamivir is not removed in normal sewage water treatments and is not degraded substantially by UV light radiation, and that the active substance is released in waste water leaving the plant. Our conclusion is that a ubiquitous use of oseltamivir may result in selection pressures in the environment that favor development of drug-resistance. Nilsson, Calle Andersson, Barbro Formation of oxidation products in a ventilation system2004Inngår i: Atmospheric Environment, ISSN 1352-2310, Vol. 38, nr 35, s. 5895-9Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) We have studied the formation of oxidation products from the ozonolysis of a monoterpene (α-pinene) in an authentic ventilation system. We observed ten products, norpinic acid, pinic acid, glyoxal, methyl glyoxal, norpinonic acid, pinonic acid, a C4 dicarbonyl (C4H6O2), a C5 dicarbonyl (C5H8O2), norpinon aldehyde, and pinon aldehyde. Experiments were conducted at a low (2.0 g m−3) and moderate (8 g m−3) humidity levels. All products but C4 dicarbonyl and norpinon aldehyde were detected at the low humidity level, but only glyoxal, methyl glyoxal, C4 dicarbonyl, norpinon aldehyde and pinon aldehyde were detected at a moderate humidity. Experiments were conducted at low ppb levels (75 ppb ozone and 4 and 10 ppb α-pinene) and with a short reaction time (75 s). Experiments showed that 5–6% of the α-pinene reacted, which was approximately 4–5 times more than predicted by theoretical calculations. This discrepancy suggests a significant contribution from heterogeneous reactions. These oxidation products were formed despite low reactant concentrations and a short reaction time, indicating that the formation of oxidation products likely occurs at ambient levels and in real settings. Pommer, Linda Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, Energiteknik och termisk processkemi. Unit for Biomass Technology and Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. A study of the gas-phase ozonolysis of terpenes: the impact of radicals formed during the reaction2002Inngår i: Atmospheric Environment, ISSN 1352-2310, E-ISSN 1873-2844, Vol. 36, nr 20, s. 3299-3308Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The gas-phase ozonolysis of α-pinene, Δ3-carene and limonene was investigated at ppb levels and the impact of the ozone, relative air humidity (RH), and time was studied using experimental design. The amounts of terpene reacted varied in the different settings and were as high as 8.1% for α-pinene, 10.9% forΔ3-carene and 23.4% for limonene. The designs were able to describe almost all the variation in the experimental data and were also successful in predicting omitted values. The results described the effects of time and ozone and also showed that RH did not have a statistically significant effect on the ozonolysis. The results also showed that all three terpenes were affected by an additional oxidation of OH radicals and/or other reactive species. The results from the designs states that this additional oxidation was responsible for 40% of the total amount of α-pinene reacted, 33% of the total amount of Δ3-carene reacted and 41% of the total amount of limonene reacted at the settings 20 ppb terpene, 75 ppb ozone, 20% RH and a reaction time of 213 s. Additional experiments with 2-butanol as OH radical scavenger showed that the reaction with OH radicals was responsible for 37% of the total α-pinene reacted and 39% of the total Δ3-carene reacted at the same settings. The scavenger experiments also showed that there were no significant amounts of OH radicals formed during the ozonolysis of limonene. The results from the designs were also compared to a mathematical model in order to evaluate further the data. Ozone Removal in the Sampling of Parts per Billion Levels of Terpenoid Compounds: An Evaluation of Different Scrubber Materials2001Inngår i: Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 35, nr 7, s. 1458-62Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Some reactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are prone to degradation during sampling in an ozone-rich environment. A wide variety of different chemicals have been used to remove the ozone prior to sampling, but the possibility of interference by such chemicals with the sampled VOCs has not been thoroughly examined. In the present investigation, the retention/degradation of four terpenes (-pinene, -pinene, 3-carene, and limonene) and isoprene together with some of their oxidation products (-pinene oxide, nopinone, 4-acetyl-1-methylcyclohexene (AMCH), methylglyoxal, and methacrolein) has been studied, using various ozone-removing chemicals in an attempt to evaluate their potential as ozone scrubbers in the sampling of ambient air. The chemicals included in this first screening and their ozone-removing capacity are as follows: KI, MnO2, and Na2SO3 removed ozone for more than 24 h when exposed to 73-78 ppb (150-160 g/m3) at a sampling flow rate of 500 mL/min. Silanized poly(1,4-phenylene sulfide) (PFS) removed ozone for 5 h, unsilanized PFS removed ozone for 1 h and 50 min, and Na2S2O3 removed ozone for 20 min. The recovery of the selected compounds with the different scrubbers was >95% for all compounds for KI; >95% for the terpenes oxidation products; >90% for the terpenes and isoprene for PFS; >90% for the terpenes and isoprene for MnO2 on copper nets, Na2SO3, and Na2S2O3; and <90% for the terpenes and isoprene for carulite (a commercial mixture between MnO2, CuO, and Al2O3), CuO, and indigo carmine. Effect of OH radicals, relative humidity, and time on the composition of the products formed in the ozonolysis of α-pinene2003Inngår i: Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 37, nr 29, s. 4087-96Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The gas-phase ozonolysis of α-pinene at ppb levels were studied and the effects of OH radicals formed in the reaction, the relative humidity (RH), and time on the products formed were investigated. Identified products were pinic acid, glyoxal, methyl glyoxal, norpinonic acid and a norpinonic acid isomer, pinonic acid, a C4 dicarbonyl, a C5 dicarbonyl, norpinon aldehyde, and pinon aldehyde. The different parameters effect on the formation of these products were evaluated using experimental design and multivariate modeling. Pinonic acid, norpinonic acid and its isomer, were not detected in the absence of OH radicals. The amounts of pinic acid, norpinon aldehyde, and pinon aldehyde all decreased in the absence of OH radicals. Glyoxal and methyl glyoxal were not affected. The formation of pinonic acid decreased when the RH was increased. The formation of pinic acid, glyoxal, methyl glyoxal, and pinon aldehyde increased with increasing RH, while norpinon aldehyde was not affected. The implications of these observations and additional interaction effects are discussed, and a novel route of the formation of pinic acid is presented. Åstrand, Anders Östin, Ronny Ozonolysis of monoterpenes in mechanical ventilation systems2005Inngår i: ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, Vol. 39, nr 34, s. 6315-25Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) In this investigation the ozonolysis of of three monoterpenes (alpha-pinene, Delta(3)-carene and limonene) was studied was studied in authentic mechanical ventilation systems, that included either a cross flow or a rotary heat exchanger. The effects of varying three experimental parameters were investigated: the level of ozone (25 and 75 ppb), the reaction time (25 and 75s), and the surface area in the ventilation duct (14.8 and 29.5 m(2)). The initial concentration of each of the monoterpenes was 20 ppb in every experiment, and 1-16% of the alpha-pinene, < 0.5-13% of the Delta(3)-carene, and < 0.5-16% of the limonene reacted. The effects of humidity (g m(-3)) and temperature of the outdoor and supply air, and water losses in the ventilation duct, were also evaluated. Experiments were based on a chemometric statistical design. Comparison of the results to theoretically calculated values showed that theoretical calculations underestimated the amounts that reacted in the ventilation systems by factors of 2-13, depending on the monoterpene and experimental settings. Umeå universitet, Teknisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Ekologi och geovetenskap. The effect of mechanical ventilation systems on the chemistry in the supply airArtikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Söderström, Hanna Phan, Chau Contamination of surface, ground, and drinking water from pharmaceutical production2009Inngår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, ISSN 0730-7268, E-ISSN 1552-8618, Vol. 28, nr 12, s. 2522-2527Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Low levels of pharmaceuticals are detected in surface, ground, and drinking water worldwide. Usage and incorrect disposal have been considered the major environmental sources of these micro-contaminants. Recent publications, however, suggest that wastewater from drug production can potentially be a source of much higher concentrations in certain locations. We investigated the environmental fate of active pharmaceutical ingredients in a major production area for the global bulk-drug market. Water samples were taken from a common effluent treatment plant near Hyderabad, India, which receives process water from about 90 bulk drug manufacturers. Surface water was analyzed from the recipient stream and from two lakes that are not contaminated by the treatment plant. Water samples were also taken from wells in six nearby villages. The samples were analyzed for the presence of twelve pharmaceuticals with LC-MS/MS. All wells were determined to be contaminated with drugs. Ciprofloxacin, enoxacin, cetirizine, terbinafine and citalopram were detected at >1microg l-1 in several wells. Very high concentrations of ciprofloxacin (up to 14 mg L-1) and other pharmaceuticals (up to 2 mg L-1) were found in the effluent of the treatment plant and in the two lakes (up to 6.5 mg L-1). Thus, insufficient wastewater treatment in one of the world's largest centers for bulk drug production leads to unprecedented drug contamination of surface, ground, and drinking water. This raises serious concerns regarding the development of antibiotic resistance, and it creates a major challenge for producers and regulatory agencies to improve the situation. 44. Flach, Carl-Fredrik Genheden, Maja A comprehensive screening of Escherichia coli isolates from Scandinavia's largest sewage treatment plant indicates no selection for antibiotic resistance2018Inngår i: Environmental Science and Technology, ISSN 0013-936X, E-ISSN 1520-5851, Vol. 52, nr 19, s. 11419-11428Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) There is concern that sewage treatment plants (STPs) serve as hotspots for emergence and selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria. However, field studies investigating resistance selection by comparing bacterial populations in influents and effluents have produced variable and sometimes contradictive results. Also, large taxonomic changes between influents and effluents make interpretation of studies measuring relative gene abundances ambiguous. The aim here was to investigate whether within-species selection occurs by conducting a comprehensive screening of Escherichia coli isolated from composite influent and effluent samples collected at Scandinavia's largest STP, accompanied by analyses of antibiotics residues. In total, 4028 isolates, collected on eight occasions during 18 months, were screened for resistance to seven antibiotics. Although differences in proportions of resistant E. coli between influent and effluent samples were detected for a few antibiotics on two occasions, aggregated data over time showed no such differences for any of the investigated antibiotics. Neither was there any enrichment of multiresistant or extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing isolates through the treatment process. Despite some antibiotics were detected at or close to concentrations predicted to provide some selective pressure, field observations of resistance profiles in E. coli do not provide support for systematic selection in the investigated STP. 45. Gentili, Francesco G. Algal cultivation in urban wastewater: an efficient way to reduce pharmaceutical pollutants2017Inngår i: Journal of Applied Phycology, ISSN 0921-8971, E-ISSN 1573-5176, Vol. 29, nr 1, s. 255-262Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pharmaceutical pollutants in urban wastewater can be reduced during algal cultivation. A mixed population of wild freshwater green algal species was grown on urban wastewater influent in a 650 L photobioreactor under natural light and with the addition of flue gases. Removal efficiencies were very high (> 90 %), moderate (50-90 %), low (10-50 %), and very low or non-quantifiable (< 10 %) for 9, 14, 11, and 18 pharmaceuticals, respectively, over a 7-day period. High reduction was found in the following pharmaceuticals: the beta-blockers atenolol, bispropol, and metoprolol; the antibiotic clarithromycine; the antidepressant bupropion; the muscle relaxant atracurium; hypertension drugs diltiazem and terbutaline used to relive the symptoms of asthma. Regression analysis did not detect any relationship between the reduction in pharmaceutical contents and light intensity reaching the water surface of the algal culture. However, the reduction was positively correlated with light intensity inside the culture and stronger when data collected during the night were excluded. Algae cultivation can remove partially or totally pharmaceutical pollutants from urban wastewater, and this opens up new possibilities for treating urban wastewater. Fedeorova, Ganna Multi-residue method for trace level determination of pharmaceuticals in environmental samples using liquid chromatography coupled to triple quadrupole mass spectrometry2012Inngår i: Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry, ISSN 0039-9140, E-ISSN 1873-3573, Vol. 100, s. 183-195Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) A multi-residue method for the simultaneous determination of more than 90 pharmaceuticals in water samples was developed and validated. The developed method utilizes a single liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) run after sample enrichment using solid-phase extraction (SPE). The pharmaceuticals included in this method were chosen based on their potency (effect/concentration ratio) and potential to bioaccumulate in fish. Because the selection was based on ecotoxicological criteria and not on ease of detection, the pharmaceuticals have a wide range of physico-chemical properties and represent twenty-seven distinct classes. No method for surface, waste water or similar matrices was previously described for 52 of the 100 target analytes. Four chromatographic columns were tested to optimize the separation prior to detection by mass spectrometry (MS). The resulting method utilizes a Hypersil Gold aQ column. Three different water matrices were tested during method validation: Milli-Q water, surface water (river water from the Umea River) and effluent from the Umea waste water treatment plant (WWTP). Four of the selected pharmaceuticals exhibited poor method efficiency in all matrices. Amiodarone, Dihydroergotamine, Perphenazine and Terbutalin were omitted from the final analytical method (). In addition, five compounds were excluded from the method for surface water (Atorvastatin, Chloropromazin, Dipyridamol, Furosemid and Ranitidin) and three other pharmaceuticals (Glibenclamid, Glimepirid and Meclozine) from waste water method respectively. Absolute recoveries were above 70% for Milli-Q water, surface water, and sewage effluent for most pharmaceuticals. The limits of quantification (LOQs) ranged from 0.05 to 50 ng L−1 (median 5 ng L−1). The use of matrix-matched standards led to the elimination of ionization enhancement or suppression. The recoveries of the method for real matrices were in the range of 23% to 134% for surface water (only three compounds were outside of the range of 40–130%) and in the range of 47% to 162% for waste water (five compounds were outside of the range of 40–130% at lower validated concentration). 47. Grabicova, Katerina Fedorova, Ganna Kolarova, Jitka Turek, Jan Zlabek, Vladimir Bioaccumulation of psychoactive pharmaceuticals in fish in an effluent dominated stream2017Inngår i: Water Research, ISSN 0043-1354, E-ISSN 1879-2448, Vol. 124, s. 654-662Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) The treated effluent from sewage treatment plants (STP) is a major source of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that enter the aquatic environment. Bioaccumulation of 11 selected psychoactive pharmaceuticals (citalopram, clomipramine, haloperidol, hydroxyzine, levomepromazine, mianserin, mirtazapine, paroxetine, sertraline, tramadol and venlafaxine) was examined in Zivny Stream (tributary of the Blanice River, the Czech Republic), which is a small stream highly affected by effluent from the Prachatice STP. Six of the 11 pharmaceuticals were detected in grab water samples and in passive samplers. All pharmaceuticals were found in fish exposed to the stream for a defined time. The organs with highest presence of the selected pharmaceuticals were the liver and kidney; whereas only one pharmaceutical (sertraline) was detected in the brain of exposed fish. Fish plasma and muscle samples were not adequate in revealing exposure because the number of hits was much lower than that in the liver or kidney. Using the criterion of a bioaccumulation factor (BAF) >= 500, citalopram, mianserin, mirtazapine and sertraline could be classified as potential bioaccumulative compounds. In combination, data from integrative passive samplers and fish liver or kidney tissue samples were complimentary in detection of target compounds and simultaneously helped to distinguish between bioconcentration and bioaccumulation. Larsson, DG Joakim Tissue-specific bioconcentration of antidepressants in fish exposed to effluent from a municipal sewage treatment plant2014Inngår i: Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, E-ISSN 1879-1026, Vol. 488, s. 46-50Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Tissue-specific bioconcentration of selected antidepressants was studied in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to undiluted effluent from a Swedish municipal sewage treatment plant for 13 days. Citalopram, sertraline and venlafaxine were found in the brains and livers of most fish, but not in blood plasma or muscle. Venlafaxine was the only drug found in plasma (3/20 fish). Fluoxetine was not detected in any fish tissue, in accordance with a low concentration in the effluent and a comparably high limit of quantification in tissues. Concentrations of citalopram, sertraline and venlafaxine in fish brain were up to 1/12, 1/8 and 1/26, respectively, of the lowest concentrations found in the brains of mammals treated with therapeutic doses. Thus, given coexposure to several antidepressants and an assumed similar potency in fish, the margin of safety for targetrelated effects in fish residing in effluent-dominated streams is relatively low. Furthermore, the non-detectable levels of these drugs in blood plasma suggest that analyses of concentrations in target tissues (brain) would be more informative in field studies and other studies with environmentally realistic exposure concentrations. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Gunnarsson, Lina Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Göteborg, Box 434, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Rutgersson, Carolin Sturve, Joachim Department of Zoology, University of Göteborg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Pharmaceutical industry effluent diluted 1:500 affects global gene expression, cytochrome P4501A activity and plasma phosphate in fish2009Inngår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, ISSN 0730-7268, E-ISSN 1552-8618, Vol. 28, nr 12, s. 2639-2647Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Patancheru, near Hyderabad, India, is a major production site for the global bulk drug market. Approximately 90 manufacturers send their wastewater to a common treatment plant in Patancheru. Extraordinary high levels of a wide range of pharmaceuticals have recently been demonstrated in the treated effluent. As little as 0.2% of this effluent can strongly reduce the growth rate of tadpoles, but the underlying mechanisms of toxicity are not known. To begin addressing how the effluent affects aquatic vertebrates, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were exposed to 0.2% effluent for five days. Several physiological endpoints, together with effects on global hepatic gene expression patterns, were analyzed. The exposed fish showed both an induction of hepatic cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A) gene expression, as well as enzyme activity. Clinical blood chemistry analyses revealed an increase in plasma phosphate levels, which in humans indicates impaired kidney function. Several oxidative stress-related genes were induced in the livers; however, no significant changes in antioxidant enzyme activities or in the hepatic glutathione levels were found. Furthermore, estrogen-regulated genes were slightly up-regulated following exposure, and moderate levels of estriol were detected in the effluent. The present study identifies changes in gene expression triggered by exposure to a high dilution of the effluent, supporting the hypothesis that these fish are responding to chemical exposure. The pattern of regulated genes may contribute to the identification of mechanisms of sub-lethal toxicity, as well as illuminate possible causative agents. 50. Gyllenhammar, Irina Eriksson, Hanna Söderqvist, Anneli Berg, Cecilia Clotrimazole exposure modulates aromatase activity in gonads, brain during gonadal differentiation in Xenopus tropicalis frogs2009Inngår i: Aquatic Toxicology, ISSN 0166-445X, E-ISSN 1879-1514, Vol. 91, nr 2, s. 102-109Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Clotrimazole is a pharmaceutical used for treatment of fungal infections. It has been found in surface waters outside municipal waste water treatment plants but data are scarce regarding its effects on aquatic organisms. It is known that clotrimazole and other imidazole fungicides are inhibitors of the enzyme aromatase (CYP 19). Aromatase converts androgens into estrogens and is suggested to be involved in the sex differentiation in amphibians. The aim of the present study was to evaluate effects of larval exposure to clotrimazole on aromatase activity in brain and gonads, and on gonadal differentiation in Xenopus tropicalis frogs. Another purpose was to determine if larval exposure to ethynylestradiol (EE2), at a concentration known to cause male-to-female sex reversal, affects aromatase activity in brain and gonads during gonadal differentiation. Tadpoles were exposed from shortly after hatching (Nieuwkoop and Faber developmental stage 47-48) until complete metamorphosis (NF stage 66) to 6, 41, and 375 nM clotrimazole or 100 nM (nominal) EE2. Aromatase activity was measured in the brain and gonad/kidney complex of tadpoles during gonadal differentiation (NF stage 56) and, in the clotrimazole experiment, also at metamorphosis. In clotrimazoleexposed tadpoles gonadal aromatase activity increased over exposure time in the 41- and 375 nM groups but did not differ significantly from the control group. Gonadal aromatase activity was increased in both sexes exposed to 41 and 375 nM clotrimazole at metamorphosis. Brain aromatase activity was decreased in tadpoles (NF stage 56) exposed to 375 nM clotrimazole, but at metamorphosis no differences were seen between groups or between sexes. No effects of clotrimazole on sex ratio or gonadal histology were noted at completed metamorphosis. EE2-exposed tadpoles had a slightly decreased gonadal aromatase activity, though not significantly different from control group, and there was no effect of EE2 on brain aromatase activity. All EE2-exposed tadpoles developed ovaries. These findings indicate that estrogen-induced ovarian differentiation is not paralleled by increased gonadal aromatase activity in X. tropicalis. Further studies are needed, especially on developmental reproductive toxicity, to assess the risk for endocrine disruption in wild amphibians posed by clotrimazole and other imidazole fungicides.

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This Parents' Engagement Programme takes place on the School-Parent Meeting (SPM) Day when you will be in SST to meet up with the Form Teacher and find out your child's progress in this semester. Mr Shem Yao, is the Senior Executive of TOUCH Cyber Wellness (TCW) will be the speaker of the talk. Come and attend the talk to find out practical tips that you can guide and support your child during this holiday! There is a growing prevalence of mobile gadget usage in Singapore. Pre-school toddlers are being nanny-ed with smart mobile devices. Primary school children are pressurising their parents to buy them a smartphone. And more than 90% of youths own a smartphone by the time they are 13 years old. 50% of them own at least two or more gadgets, such as a smartphone, laptop, tablet or portable audio device. Be engaged by our experienced speaker and gain a better understanding of youths' mobile habits, some of the mobile technology concerns and how to connect with them more effectively in this digital age. Practical tips, rules and guidelines to managing the child's mobile usage will also be shared.

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Investing in Ireland HomeInsights & NewsWhen to notify Mergers & Acquisitions to the CCPC – did you know properties are sometimes relevant?! When to notify Mergers & Acquisitions to the CCPC – did you know properties are sometimes relevant?! By Conor Mac Nally Who are the CCPC? The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission ("CCPC") is an independent statutory body with a dual mandate to enforce competition and consumer protection law in Ireland. The CCPC was established under the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 ("2014 Act") following the amalgamation of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency. Its functions include; promoting competition, protecting the interests and welfare of consumers, commencement and completion of appropriate investigations, enforcement of certain statutory provisions and encouraging compliance through the publication of guidance materials. When does a merger or acquisition occur? Pursuant to its role in promoting competition, mergers and acquisitions which meet certain thresholds are subject to mandatory notification to the CCPC. A merger or acquisition will occur if: two or more undertakings, previously independent of one another, merge, or one or more individuals who already control one or more undertakings, or one or more undertakings, acquire direct or indirect control of the whole or part of one or more other undertakings; or the acquisition of part of an undertaking, although not involving the acquisition of a corporate legal entity, involves the acquisition of assets that constitute a business to which a turnover can be attributed (it should be noted that 'assets' includes goodwill). It should be noted that the acquisition of a property to which a turnover can be attributed (such as a rent roll) may, if the thresholds are met, require a notification to be made. What thresholds need to be met? The thresholds for notification were originally set down in Section 18(1) of the Competition Act 2002 as amended by Section 55(a) of the 2014 Act. These have now been amended by SI No. 388 of 2018. A notification to the CCPC will be required where, in relation to a proposed merger or acquisition, in the most recent financial year: the aggregate turnover in the State of the undertakings involved is not less than €60,000,000 (formerly €50,000,000); and the turnover in the State of each of two or more of the undertakings involved is not less than €10,000,000 (formerly €3,000,000). When these thresholds are not met, mergers and acquisitions can be notified to the CCPC on a voluntary basis in accordance with Section 18(3) of the Competition Act 2002 (as substituted by section 55(c) of the 2014 Act). When must you notify the CCPC? In accordance with section 18(1A) of the Competition Act 2002 (as amended), a notification must be made to the CCPC before the proposed merger or acquisition is put into effect, and may be made after any of the following applicable events occurs: one of the undertakings involved has publicly announced an intention to make a public bid or a public bid is made but not yet accepted; the undertakings involved demonstrate to the CCPC a good faith intention to conclude an agreement or a merger or acquisition is agreed; in relation to a scheme of arrangement, a scheme document is posted to shareholders. The number of mergers and acquisitions notified to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) increased by 36% last year, according to the organisation's Mergers and Acquisitions Report for 2018. There was also a significant increase in the number of extended investigations. How we can help? We would be happy to assist any of our clients if there are any concerns as to whether a notification is required to be made to the CCPC, and the formulation of such notification. Please contact Conor Mac Nally in our Banking & Finance Department on 01 440 8300 or [email protected] for further information. This article is for general information purposes. Legal advice must be obtained for individual circumstances. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this article, no liability is accepted by the author for any inaccuracies. The Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 – Modernising Irish Intellectual Property Law Overview The Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 ("the Act") came into full operation... BHSM Advises on Acquisition of Action Primary Care Portfolio We were delighted to act for the Valley Healthcare Fund in the acquisition of a portfolio of primary care centres from... 6-7 Harcourt Terrace, [email protected] © 2020 BHSM. All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyMade by Friday This site uses cookies to improve the user experience. By your continued use of this site you accept such use. Learn more.

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5-27 Marlins @ Nationals By el_gmac, May 27 in Miami Marlins 2 hours ago, Lakeshow00 said: knowing Anderson has struggled for awhile? Truthfully wouldn't say Anderson has been "struggling" - he's had two *really* bad outings this year, one was a game where Mattingly just left him out there too long [1.2 innings, gave up 5 runs, but if I remember right, the only hard contact he gave up was Albies grand slam], and the game against the Mets where he allowed 3 runs without getting an out. Take out those two outings and he's allowed just four runs this year. More often than not he's been pretty solid. He didn't look good today, though, I'll give you that.

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Upon first visiting the area and finding it to be a cyclist's dream, I naturally expected my free time would be consumed a lot by cycling and a little by hiking. However, there is something about the three mountain ranges encircling the area and the many peaks to be reached, not easily but worth the effort for the fantastic views. Wednesday, I hiked up to Blackett's Ridge out of Sabino Canyon. At 1.7 miles and 1800' of elevation gain, it's one of the shortest hikes but pretty steep and so, after 51:17 (which included 1.3 miles of flat trail to the base of the BR trail so a total of 3 miles), I sat on a cliff edge and watched the world go by far below. I headed down the other side of the ridge but got cliffed out and had to turn around, catching this view to the west. A good start to my stay out here and tomorrow, a night hike with some locals.

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A Sunday night accident in Assumption Parish left three victims hospitalized and one dead. Brian Gilton, 26, and his three young children were traveling along LA 1 Sunday night around 9 p.m. in a Chevrolet Impala when Gilton veered off the right hand shoulder of the highway. The Impala hit a culvert, a utility pole, and then proceeded to roll over. Gilton, and his three children ages 4, 5, and 8, were all ejected from the vehicle. The eldest child sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. The two youngest children and the father were taken to hospitals to address their injuries. It was reported that Gilton was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. It was also noted that the three children were not restrained properly. After the accident, police took a sample of Gilton's blood and investigators are currently waiting on test results. Police believe that Gilton may have been impaired during the accident. If you have been accused of drinking while driving, you have the right to competent legal representation. Bloom Legal is here to protect your rights! Call 504-599-5997 or email [email protected] for a legal consultation!

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How likely would you accept grandma's video game friend request? Leon Lin Nov 30, 2019 2 Video games are the next cultural phenomenon and virtual reality will lead that revolution The timing of when you rebalance your investment portfolio could lead to a significant difference in your returns We're bad at describing probabilities and even worse at combining them If you've been forwarded this newsletter, you can subscribe directly here: Video games killed the sports star Last week, the popular gaming company Valve announced a new game, Half-Life Alyx. Alyx is a sequel in the Half-Life series, widely considered one of the greatest games of all time. You can check out the 2 min trailer for Alyx here: Why is this important? You're subscribed to read about tech, finance, and the occasional self-deprecating joke; half of you probably didn't click on the video. Who cares about video games? Here's why you should care. I believe video games and esports (watching video games for fun) are the next cultural phenomenon. Just like you'll feel left out of conversations if you haven't watched the latest Avengers movie, the day will soon come when you'll feel sidelined because you haven't played or watched the newest video game [1]. I also believe that AR and VR will be the next form factor of how we are entertained, like how the mobile phone, PC, or television has been. I hope that Alyx is the catalyst for taking VR to the mainstream, but acknowledge the market might still be premature. Sounds ridiculous right? After all, Avengers:End Game alone was a $3bn grossing movie, you can't throw a stone [2] without hitting an unfunny Avengers meme, and Marvel movie spinoffs are reproducing like rabbits. How large could video games be? Well: Games are larger than film but still growing quicker. And with the global sports industry at $500bn in size, there's plenty of room for games to grow before reaching the same size as sports. For games to do so, they'd need to expand beyond kids playing Fortnite on their parent's credit cards. The largest esports tournament already has about the same number of viewers as the Super Bowl, but smaller tournaments cannot compare yet. You'd want new games to be inclusive experiences that adults and even the elderly could appreciate. Would grandma ever play a video game? Well [3]: I'm not alone in being bullish on gaming. a16z, a well-known venture capital firm, has increased their interest in gaming, writing about trends they believe in [4]: Games are the next social network As cross-platform play becomes the new standard, multiplayer games will grow much faster and larger than older generations The next big movie franchise, theme park, or toy line will likely come from games. There are at least three reasons why I'm confident this will happen: Demographics. Gamer kids are growing into gamer parents. Their kids will be gamers themselves, no longer having to explain why you can't pause a multiplayer game. Increased inclusion and interaction. Everyone can play video games, even a Saudi prince. You can go from watching a team win to playing that game yourself, right in the same room. When VR finally takes off, you won't even need to worry about complicated controls anymore since the interaction will be intuitive. Craving for community. Everyone wants to belong to something. Games offer essentially infinite options to identify as part of a larger tribe. As more games realise they are providing a social experience too, developers will start including community features similar to Fortnite's in-game concert [5] I wonder how the economic model for gaming will change. Selling in-game virtual items for cash is not that old, implying monetisation in games is still immature. On esports, Mitch Lasky, former gaming company exec [6], points out that the current structure of esports is different from live sports. Esports games are directly linked to the publishers, who see esports more of a marketing tool. Esports teams do make money, but only a small share of the overall game revenue. This is in contrast to live sports which get stadium ticketing and TV contract revenue, with teams and players taking a larger share. Perhaps I'm trying to convince myself the thousands of hours I spent playing video games were not wasted. I doubt it though [7], and think video games and VR are here to stay. I'm predicting with 90% certainty playing video games becomes the norm rather than the exception, and 50% certainty that VR is the platform that enables this shift. Timing luck and lucky timing Investors with a diversified portfolio usually rebalance their portfolios regularly, meaning they adjust their investments to get back to their ideal portfolio proportions. For example, if your ideal portfolio is 60% equity and 40% bonds, once a year you might check that ratio and buy and sell as needed to get back to 60% equity and 40% bonds. Does the timing of when you do this rebalancing matter? This research by Corey Hoffstein claims it does. They define and measure "timing luck" as the difference in performance from choosing a rebalance date e.g. choosing June instead of December. They then construct portfolios with various investment strategies, number of investments, and frequency of rebalancing; I'm omitting the details for brevity [8]. They find that: Higher turnover strategies have higher timing luck. Strategies that rebalance more frequently have lower timing luck. Strategies with a less constrained universe will have higher timing luck. In other words, if you have high turnover, rebalance less frequently, or have less constraints, the greater the impact that rebalancing timing will have on your final returns. The arrow below represents the difference between the best performing and the worst performing variation, of the same portfolio. They also present a summary table showing that delta across different investment strategies. To understand the below, it's saying that $1 in the "Enhanced Value" portfolio could have returned you from $4.45 to $5.45, and that entire $1 difference is due to luck in when you rebalance. They conclude by saying: For reasonably concentrated portfolios (100 stocks) with semi-annual rebalance frequencies (common in many index definitions), annual timing luck ranged from 1-to-4%, which translated to a 95% confidence interval in annual performance dispersion of about +/-1.5% to +/-12.5%. The sheer magnitude of timing luck calls into question our ability to draw meaningful relative performance conclusions between two strategies. To put this in context, stocks have averaged a nominal return of ~10% a year. Assuming your portfolio has a similar return [9], up to 4 percentage points of the 10 could be just due to timing your rebalancing date. One proposed solution for the individual investor is to split your portfolio, though this seems like a lot of work: we believe that our momentum portfolio should be rebalanced every quarter [...] we proposed splitting our capital across the three portfolios that spanned different three-month rebalance periods (e.g. JAN-APR-JUL-OCT, FEB-MAY-AUG-NOV, MAR-JUN-SEP-DEC). This solution is referred to either as "tranching" or "overlapping portfolios." Alternatively, you can reduce the timing luck by reversing the conditions mentioned earlier. Having low turnover, rebalancing more frequently, or having a less concentrated portfolio will all lower the effect that timing will have on the expected spread of returns. How likely is likely If I tell you: An expert says it's likely I quit my job to be Jameela Jamil's exclusive bartender [10] A second expert also says it's likely Would you think that it's "likely" or "highly likely" that this occurs? What if: The first expert says there's an 80% chance of the above happening The second expert says there's an 70% chance What would you think is the probability of this happening now? And would you say that is "likely?" "Highly likely?" This paper by Celia Gaertig and Robert Mislavsky discusses how people combine probability predictions from multiple sources, by conducting experiments similar to the above. If you've been reading this newsletter for a while, it should not be a surprise that we're inconsistent in our judgement and combination of probabilities [11]. We treat verbal and numerical probabilities differently; organisations and people have differing ideas of how likely "likely" is: an event described as "likely" in an IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report must have a 66% to 100% likelihood of occurring. On the other hand, an event described as "likely" in a DNI [US Director of National Intelligence] report must have a 55% to 80% likelihood. And of course, if you polled your friends on their definition of "likely", you'd get such a wide range of answers it'd be unhelpful. The paper proposes that: in general, numeric probabilities are precise but lack direction, whereas verbal probabilities have direction but lack precision With direction here meaning positive or negative connotations. For example, hearing that an event is "likely" gives me more context and confidence compared to an "80%" prediction. Having established the difference between numeric and verbal probabilities, the authors study how people combine these probabilities: we refer to participants using "averaging" or "counting" strategies when combining forecasts, "averaging" to refer to a combination strategy by which the participant takes a weighted average of the advisors' forecasts, placing their own forecast in between the advisors' forecasts "counting" to refer to a combination strategy by which participants interpret each of the advisors' forecasts as a positive signal and adjust their own forecasts in the direction of the signal For example, if received multiple forecasts ranging from 60 to 80%, an "averaging" strategy would get you close to 70%, whereas a "counting" strategy would get you above 80% since so many forecasts confirmed your point of view [12]. If you received multiple forecasts that mostly said an event was "likely", an "averaging" strategy would conclude it was "likely", whereas a "counting" strategy would think the event was "extremely likely" since so many people said it was "likely" The researchers found that people combined numeric and verbal probabilities differently: although people average multiple numeric forecasts, they "count" multiple verbal probability forecasts, resulting in forecasts that are more extreme than each advisor's forecast In other words, we average out to get to 70% in the example above, but once you convert those numerical predictions to verbal ones, we "count" the number of predictions and get to "extremely likely" instead. The researchers also show that this influences behaviour, and consumers can be influenced to purchase an item depending on how the predictions are presented. Whether you should "count" or "average" though depends on whether your experts have similar or different information. If they are working off the same information, "averaging" works better at cancelling out idiosyncratic errors. If they are not, then "counting" could be an approximation of a Bayesian strategy that improves your personal forecast. Modatrova is "a traveling boutique bringing emerging fashion brands to shoppers in private settings". The founder's a friend and looking for women who are tastemakers in their community who would be interested in hosting a private event. Please reach out if you'd be interested to host! Obvious career mistakes (that might not be so obvious) Obvious career mistake #1: you mostly ask for general advice Obvious career mistake #2: you copy the surface, not the cause Obvious career mistake #3: you plan a route that's easy, even if it's not pointed at your destination What the WSJ got wrong in their investigation of Google's search algorithms How has the dating market changed? 'Note in the charts above the up spike in "met in bar or restaurant." In data science, the technical term for these reporting individuals is "liars."' How to build a pyramid Explaining a math olympiad problem There's already 2.5 billion video gamers, loosely defined, according to Statista. Even if you haircut that number substantially to account for poor statistical methodology, it's still going to be large. Gamers - they live among us. You'll notice I refer to gaming and esports interchangeably, when technically esports are a small fraction of overall video games. I think there's enough ambiguity in definition and that esports will grow enough that the distinction becomes irrelevant. I have an i̶r̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ highly justified strong dislike for Pokemon Go, but acknowledge that it's single handedly converted more elderly into a̶d̶d̶i̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ passionate gamers than any other game I'm aware of I don't agree with all their trends, particularly the one-off hit point (Games are still one-off hits in expectation) and the organic discovery point (It's just a shifting of advertising channel), but will leave that commentary for another article. I remain hopeful for some sort of Ready Player One metagame platform that connects all the games you want to play in a VR room, and your status in one game transfers over to another. Sourced via Blake Robbins The persuasion of myself, not the wasting of time. It was definitely wasted time. You can find the details in the paper, and a quick summary is that they made four different portfolios based upon holdings of the S&P 500 from 2000-2019: 1) Value: Sort on earnings yield. 2) Momentum: Sort on prior 12-1 month returns. 3) Low Volatility: Sort on realized 12-month volatility. 4) Quality: Sort on average rank-score of ROE, accruals ratio, and leverage ratio. For each of these 4 portfolios, they further varied the 1) Number of Holdings: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400 and 2) Frequency of Rebalance: Quarterly, Semi-Annually, and Annually. A large assumption, of course, but a reasonable one for simplicity. You could argue you're expecting much greater returns than 10%, but so is everyone else and I doubt people actually get them without significantly higher expected risk. Known for her recent role on the awesome show The Good Place and also for health advocacy. This is a purely hypothetical scenario of course. Unless you happen to be Jameela, in which case please hire me thx it's extremely likely. A subtitle to this newsletter could be "How humans are bad at everything we do" but that sounds dramatic. Of course this depends on the distribution of those predictions and how you weight them, but I'm simplifying for ease of explanation. TopNewCommunityWhat is Avoid Boring People?About

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Winco BHSP-11 Slotted Basting Spoon with Stop Hook, 11" Quality materials and a clever design make the Winco BHSP-11 Slotted Basting Spoon with Stop Hook, 11" a great choice for commercial kitchen use. The head of this sturdy stainless steel basting spoon is slotted, so you can use it to draw vegetables, potatoes, meatballs and more out of their marinade or cooking liquid. The spoon features a heat-free Bakelite handle and a stop hook, which prevents the spoon from sliding into the pot or pan.

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package io.github.rockerhieu.emojiconize; import android.support.annotation.NonNull; import android.support.v4.view.LayoutInflaterCompat; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.text.style.DynamicDrawableSpan; import android.view.View; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.widget.TextView; import io.github.rockerhieu.emojicon.emoji.Emojicon; /** * @author Hieu Rocker ([email protected]) */ public final class Emojiconize { public static Builder activity(AppCompatActivity activity) { return new Builder(activity); } public static Builder view(View view) { return new Builder(view); } public static final class Builder { AppCompatActivity activity; View view; int size = -1; @Emojicon.Alignment int alignment = DynamicDrawableSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE; boolean gone = false; public Builder(@NonNull AppCompatActivity activity) { if (activity == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("The given activity must not be null"); } this.activity = activity; } public Builder(@NonNull View view) { if (view == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("The given view must not be null"); } this.view = view; } public Builder size(int size) { checkGone(); this.size = size; return this; } public Builder alignment(@Emojicon.Alignment int alignment) { checkGone(); this.alignment = alignment; return this; } public void go() { checkGone(); if (activity != null) { LayoutInflaterCompat.setFactory(activity.getLayoutInflater(), new EmojiconLayoutInflaterFactory(this)); } else { emojiconize(view); } gone = true; } private void emojiconize(View view) { if (view instanceof ViewGroup) { ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view; for (int index = 0; index < viewGroup.getChildCount(); index++) { emojiconize(viewGroup.getChildAt(index)); } } else if (view instanceof TextView) { TextView textView = (TextView) view; textView.addTextChangedListener(new EmojiconTextWatcher(textView, this)); } } void checkGone() { if (gone) { throw new IllegalStateException("Sorry, it's already gone"); } } } }

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University of St Mark & St John South England Marjon Sport Performance Scholarships Scholarships at University of St Mark & St John Scholarship Name Marjon Sport Performance Scholarships Nationality Any Scholarship Deadline 12 February 2023 We'll help you achieve, in your studies and in your sport. Marjon Sport Performance Scholarships support talented athletes to achieve their sporting potential while also succeeding in their studies. Our scholarships combine performance support services with financial assistance to help you excel in your sporting career. They are open to athletes of international, national or regional standard whether you are a team sport player or participate in an individual sport. This includes athletes who have been offered Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) support and World Class Programme funding from Sports Aid and UK Sport. Three tiers There are three tiers of scholarship available. Each provides the athlete with performance support worth up to £2000 per annum. Depending on your level of performance, you may benefit from financial support of up to £2000 per annum too. The tiers are: Tier 1 - Senior National/International Athlete. You have represented your country at Senior Level in the last 12 months or are currently competing at that standard. Tier 2 - Age Group National Athlete, or Member of a National Development Squad. You have represented your country at age group level or have been a member of a National Development Squad in the last 12 months or are currently competing at that standard. Tier 3: Regional Representative, Member of National League Team/Academy, Step 5+ (Men) and Step 4+ (Women) standard or equivalent. You have representated at this level in the last 12 months or are currently competing at that standard. International athlete support will be dealt with on a case by case basis. All Sport Performance Scholarships provide performance support options worth up to £2000 per annum. Depending on your level of performance, you may benefit from financial support too. The performance support available to all scholarship holders are: Free use of Marjon Sport & Health Centre – this includes use of our state of the art gym, swimming pool, sports halls, tennis courts and astro pitches. Free use of Marjon Sport & Health Clinic - including exercise-based rehabilitation, injury prevention, electrotherapy, taping, sports massage and more. Free use of the Marjon Osteopathy Clinic- treatment for musculosketal problems athletes could incur throughout the year. Complimentary membership of Marjon Sports Federation and a Marjon Sports team – this covers the cost of your training and insurance. Your costs for entering BUCS championships and competitions will be paid for when you represent Marjon. One set of Marjon sports clothing – a sports tee-shirt, a hoodie and tracksuit trousers. Ongoing Sport Psychology support. Twice weekly sessions in our strength and conditioning suite plus your own customised strength and conditioning programme overseen by one of our coaches. Tier 1 and 2 athletes have access to 'academic flexibility', which means that when exams and assessments clash with competitions the University will work with you to do as much as we can to flex around those commitments. Also, if applicable, tier 1 and 2 athletes will have their entry fee to the University Games paid by the University. You'll be invited to a Welcome for Sport Performance Scholars at the start of the year. Here you'll meet both the staff who are there to support you and your fellow Sport Performance Scholars. Our athletes tell us the opportunity to connect with one another is very helpful, as they can support one another in pursuing both their sporting and studying ambitions. Students who are awarded a Sport Performance Scholarship may be eligible for financial support to put towards kit, equipment, travel, competition entries, nutrition etc. Financial support is worth up to £2,000 per year for Tier 1, up to £1000 per year for Tier 2 and up to £250 per year for tier 3 athletes. The level of financial support available to you will be confirmed when you are offered your scholarship to help you budget for the year ahead. Please note that you could be offered a scholarship without finanical support. The main round of applications for Sport Performance Scholarship is open from 3rd of October 2022 to 12th February 2023.

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Jack Bicknell (born February 20, 1938) is a retired American football coach, most recently known for his long involvement in NFL Europa and its predecessor, the World League of American Football (WLAF). He served as the head football coach at the University of Maine from 1976 to 1980 and at Boston College from 1981 to 1988, compiling a career college football record of 77–90–2. In 1984, Bicknell coached his Boston College Eagles team to a 10–2 mark including a victory in the Cotton Bowl Classic. His quarterback that season, Doug Flutie, was awarded the Heisman Trophy. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, Bicknell played quarterback at North Plainfield High School, graduating in 1955 and earning a scholarship to attend Rutgers University. Coaching career College Bicknell was the head football coach at the University of Maine from 1976 to 1980, earning an 18–35–1 record. After that, he went to coach at Boston College, where he stayed for ten years. At Boston College, he was 59–55–1, and was head coach in 1984 when Heisman Trophy-winner Doug Flutie completed his famous Hail Mary pass to Gerard Phelan to beat the Miami Hurricanes as time expired. Bicknell son, Jack Jr., was the center for BC at the time of Flutie's miracle pass. NFL Europe Bicknell was named the head coach of the Barcelona Dragons at their inception in 1991, and served there until October 2003, when he was named head coach of the Scottish Claymores. He has an overall record of 59–55 in his NFL Europe career. Bicknell made four World Bowl appearances, and had been to three title games in six years. In 1991, he led the Barcelona Dragons to an 8–2 mark and a berth in the first World Bowl. In 1997, his Dragons won the first half of the season and went on to win World Bowl '97 in Barcelona. In 1999, the Dragons posted a league-best 7–3 mark before losing to Frankfurt in the World Bowl. Also posted a league-best 8–2 record in 2001 before losing World Bowl IX to the Berlin Thunder in Amsterdam. On March 28, 2007, Bicknell stepped down as head coach of the Hamburg Sea Devils, citing health issues as the reason for his resignation. Personal life Bicknell is nicknamed "Cowboy Jack" because of his love for country music and horse riding. He and his wife, Lois, have three children, Jack, Jr., Wendy and Bob and five grandchildren. Both of his sons played for him at Boston College and are currently football coaches, Bob with the New Orleans Saints and Jack, Jr. with the North Carolina Tar Heels. Head coaching record College Professional References 1938 births Living people American football quarterbacks Barcelona Dragons coaches Boston College Eagles football coaches Hamburg Sea Devils coaches Maine Black Bears football coaches Montclair State Red Hawks football players Scottish Claymores coaches High school football coaches in New Jersey North Plainfield High School alumni People from North Plainfield, New Jersey Sportspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey Coaches of American football from New Jersey Players of American football from New Jersey American expatriate sportspeople in Spain American expatriate sportspeople in Germany American expatriate sportspeople in Scotland

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I admit it. I'm a Cappuccino Snob. The velvety drink first entered my world on an Italian visit 40 years ago. It compared favorably with café au lait and café con leche but the foam was unique and wonderful. Upon returning to the United States, I could only dream of that perfect breakfast drink. Until, that is, the coffee craze arrived from Europe in the 1980s. Starbucks rode the wave until all Americans were ordering cappuccinos and lattes with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But something wasn't right. Cappuccinos regularly arrived at the table with much more milk than the original formula of one-third espresso, one-third steamed milk, and one-third foam. Most barristas simply made a latte with thicker foam. A "real" cappuccino should be light in weight, but many came heavy with dairy. Much to my husband's chagrin, I tried for years to help craft a good cappuccino whenever I ordered. When trying to meet my requirements of the one-third, one-third, one-third recipe, several cashiers suggested a "dry" cappuccino. This does come with less milk but two-thirds of the cup was foam. Ordering an extra shot in a regular tall cappuccino provides a stronger coffee taste but the mojo is too much. It was time to get serious and a quest seemed in order. The perfect cappuccino was out there, just waiting to be discovered. There were three rules for the journey. One, Italy couldn't compete. Two, consistency was required - the second drink had to be as good as the first. Three, the cappuccino had to arrive in mint condition without coaching. On a side street deep in Hong Kong I was pleasantly surprised to be served a cappuccino of almost perfect proportions. When a second was ordered, there was a difference. The waitress had to admit that they ran out of whole milk and served the 2% substitution. It failed the consistency test. On a cappuccino crusade to Dallas, I had a very good one at the now defunct Gachet Coffee Lounge and Books, owned by three sisters who really knew coffee. The sister on duty that day was Heidi Beaumont. Their menu offered only one cappuccino drink called "true cappuccino". As Heidi explained, a cappuccino only comes in one size. There is no such thing as a large or grande or super cappuccino and she's right. We companionably shook our heads together as she recounted the strange orders customers have made - a foamless cappuccino or a coffee mocha without milk. "After years of Starbucks, people don't know what they're drinking", Heidi bemoaned. So, does the perfect cappuccino exist outside of Rome? Mine was discovered in the most unexpected of places - Oklahoma City. Coffee Slingers sits on a brick street several blocks from downtown. Owner, Melody Harwell, relocated from Hawaii and as a serious coffee drinker, she refuses to serve sweet, iced coffee drinks and doesn't even apologize for it. Minimal food is served and it's obvious you've found a fellow coffee aficionado upon entering and inhaling. I ordered a simple cappuccino and waited. When the mug was pushed my way, I looked upon a beautiful brown heart outlined with white foam. The first sip was pure heaven. The coffee was strong but not bitter with milk and foam mixed to a velvety texture, all in perfect proportions. I ordered a second. No difference. What is the secret then? "Micro bubble foam," says Melody. Well, that AND the following: whole milk (preferably organic), freshly ground espresso tamped properly, steamed milk brought to 145 degrees only, and weeks of training to get the right mix of milk and foam which should separate naturally. The art takes even longer. Now that I've learned some of the secrets of a perfect cappuccino, my husband is worried that I will add one more question at the coffee counter - "Do you make micro bubble foam?" I won't, but I will continue to search for and enjoy those who do know how to make a true cappuccino.

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Surrounded by lush greenery, the stone-built Guesthouse Elaia is located in the scenic Rethi Village of Korinthia, within 4 km from Trikala. It offers self-catering units with fireplace, free Wi-Fi and a private or a shared balcony overlooking the village. Fitted with wooden floors and traditional furnishings, the studios and apartments of Elaia have a kitchenette with fridge and microwave. Each unit is equipped with air conditioning, an LCD TV and a safe. The private bathroom is stocked with a hairdryer and slippers. Some units are split level, while some have a spa bath or an hydromassage shower. Guests can prepare their own breakfast using products available at the studios and apartments. Traditional taverns can be found within a walking distance from the property. Guesthouse Elaia is situated 20 km from Ziria Ski Centre and 19 km from Xylokastro Beach. Derveni Village is at 39 km, while Korinthos Town is 56 km away. Free public parking is possible on site.

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Home » Glossary » Glossary B Glossary B Back Region: any area if social context in which, according to Erving Goffman (1969), a person is able to relax from the role playing and 'peformance' required by the front region, to create or preserve a particular impression. Goffman's concept of different roles in different regions fits with Robert Dilts' Neurological Levels model (1991), in which Identity and the Values & Beliefs which flow from Identity need to be matched to the Environment for someone to cope in a sustainable manner. Backcasting: sometimes seen as the opposite to forecasting, this involves identification of a particular future scenario and tracing its origins and lines of development back to the present. Balance Theory: based on Fritz Heider's (1946) assertion that people like to be consistent in their attitudes – ie: in a state of balance – this is the idea that people will experience cognitive dissonance if their attitudes, likings, dislikings, etc, are out of balance and so will attempt to resolve the conflict and get back in balance. For example, if people in relationships find they are out of balance with each other, then they will tend to either end the relationship or one or both will develop a different attitude. Base/Superstructure: the metaphor used by Karl Marx (1859) to express the relationship between the economy as the foundation and determining influence of society (base) and other parts of society (superstructure). The assumption is that, at each level of economic development, the form of the economy (specifically the sum total of productive relations) broadly determines the existence of the particular forms of the state, legal system, etc. Basil Ganglia: a group of subcortical structures located on either side of the thalamus, involved in aspects of memory and emotional expression as well as planning sequences of behaviour. Bateson Learning Levels: also known as Logical Levels of Learning, Gregory Bateson (1972) developed this concept from the logical typing of Bertrand Russell (1910). The levels are:- Level 0: Specificity of Response – habitual actions are repeated which require no learning – eg: the customer repeats an order to the supplier: same specification, same process, same workers, same delivery time, same price, same credit terms, etc – nothing new so need for any learning. Level 1: Change in Specificity of Response – basic learning which requires no fundamental change in thinking – eg: a company changes its level of inspection on incoming goods; a computer operator learns a new word processing programme. Learning at this level is associated with the neurological level of Skills & Knowledge. This level equates to 1st Order Change in the Gravesian approach. Level 2: Change in Learning 1 – 'learning how to learn'; a change in the process of learning; learning which challenges mindsets. Learning at this level is associated with the neurological level of Values & Beliefs. This level usually involves 2nd Order Change: Evolution in the Gravesian approach – in that new paradigms are created through the emergence of a different vMEME into dominance. Level 3: Change in Learning 2 – 'learning how to learn how to learn', changes at this level are often purely experiential, very difficult to stimulate artificially, can be unlangueable and are sometimes associated with the neurological level of Identity. This may involve what in Gravesian terms is 2nd Order: Revolution or even a Quantum Leap. See also 1st/2nd Order Change. and the Article The Process of Change. Behaviour: those activities of an organism which can be observed by another organism. This definition is sometimes extended to include activities which may not be observable in that sense but can be observed by instrumentation – eg: internal bodily processes. Behavioural Sciences: a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behaviour through controlled and naturalistic experiments and observations. The behavioural sciences essentially investigate the decision processes and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system. The term can be read to be inclusive of Sociology and Psychology but exclusive of other 'social sciences' such as History and Economics. However, the dividing line between what are behavioural sciences and what are social sciences is highly debatable. Behavioural Therapies: therapies which are derived from Behaviourism. Behaviourism: the overarching term coined by John B Watson (1913) for both the basic stimulus-response (Classical Conditioning) learning studied by the likes of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1902) and then applied to the more complex Operant Conditioning of Edward Thorndike (1905). (Behaviourism is also known as Learning Theory.) As a psychological paradigm Behaviourism reached its Operant Conditioning peak in the 1940s, with B F Skinner's (1945) Radical Behaviourism. This proposed that everything humans do should be considered 'behaviour', including 'private events' such as thinking and feeling. Moreover, such private events should be seen as subject to the same principles of learning and modification as had been discovered to exist for overt behaviour. While Behaviourism has taught us much about how humans learn to respond to situations and has some very powerful applications, as a theoretical standpoint it omits discussion of cognitive mental processes. This position proved untenable as Cognitive Psychology developed in the 1950s and 1960s to understand the mental processing Behaviourism ignored. There are now almost no psychologists who support pure Behaviourism – although a number of Behaviourist strategies are still widely used in treatment – especially as part of a Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy portfolio. Biological Determinism: the perspective that behaviour is determined by internal biological systems – eg: genetic or physiological systems. Bipolar Disorder: Blended Family (aka Reconstituted Family): a family formed by the remarriage of a divorced or widowed parent. It includes the new husband and wife, plus some or all of their children from previous marriages. The term is also used if the partners don't marry but cohabit. Body Language: the communication of feelings and emotions through non-verbal channels such as gestures, body posture, facial expressions, etc. See also Non-Verbal Communication. Bond Disruption: separation from the attachment figure which results in damage to or destruction/loss of the relationship. The concept is usually applied in Developmental Psychology to infant attachments but it can be applied to any emotionally-significant relationship at any stage of life. From the Integrated SocioPsychology perspective, disruption of the bond will undermine the PURPLE vMEME's need to belong, resulting in either emotional damage and/or attempts to restore or replace the bond. Bourgeoisie: in Marxism the term refers to the owners of property in Capitalist society. Brain Lateralisation: the extent to which brain functions are controlled by each hemisphere of the brain. Brain Scan: a technique used to examine brain functioning by taking images of the living brain. Such techniques make it possible to match regions of the brain to behaviour by asking research participants to carry out particular activities while the scan is done. Brain scans are also done to detect brain abnormalities such as tumours. The techniques are expensive and may be unpleasant – eg: claustrophobic. There are 4 main techniques:- CAT Scan (Computerised Axial Tomography) With this technique X-Rays are passed through the head while the participant engages in the activity. See graphic below. Graphic copyright © 2001 Psychology Press Ltd PET Scan (Positron Emission Tomography) In this technique the participant is injected with or imbibes a mildly-radioactive form of glucose. Active regions of the brain use the glucose and its radioactivity is detected by the scanner. This technique uses magnetic fields to produce images. fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) This works by detecting changes in blood oxygenation as active areas of the brain consume more oxygen, causing increased blood flow to those areas. fMRI produces 3-dimensional images (activation maps) of the active areas receiving increased blood flow. Brainstem: the part of the brain which sits at the top of the spinal cord and is left when both the cerebrum and the cerebellum are removed. It contains the medulla oblongata, the pons, the midbrain and some structures of the forebrain. The brainstem monitors vital life functions and is active even when someone is in a vegetative state. From an Integrated SocioPsychology perspective, it would be reasonable that the neural networks behind the BEIGE vMEME include at least some areas of the brainstem. Broca's Area: an area in the frontal lobe of the forebrain, usually in the left hemisphere of the cerebrum, related to speech production. Buffer: any aspect of a situation which protects people from having to confront the consequences of their actions Bureaucracy: a particular form of administration characterised by a set of clearly-defined rules and procedures and a hierarchy that emphasises efficiency and impersonality. The term was first used in this way by Max Weber (1922). It is usually perceived as typical of large-scale organisations in modern societies. Ichak Adizes (1987) sees it as a corresponding stage in the Organisation LifeCycle where form (how you do something) is more important than function (what you do). Bystander Effect: (aka: 'bystander apathy') the observation that there is an inverse relationship between the number of people present at an emergency situation and the willingness of those people to offer help. This relationship was first proposed by John Darley & Bibb Latané from their investigations into the notorious murder of Kitty Genovase in 1964 when something like 38 neighbours heard her screams and cries for help and/or actually saw part of the attack but did not call the police or otherwise intervene. Explanations put forward for the 'bystander effect' include evaluation apprehension and diffusion of responsibility.

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Exerpts from Resource Links June 2003, V.8, No.5 Fiction Gr. 3-6/Fiction Gr.7-12/French Resources/Internet Resources/Nonfiction Gr. K-6/Nonfiction Gr. 7-12/Picture Books/Professional Resources Picture Books: GAY, Marie-Louise Gay Good Morning, Sam Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. 25p. Illus. Gr. Pre K- 2. 0-88899-528-8. Hdbk. $14.95 Marie-Louise Gay has given her legion of fans another book about the charming Stella, and her equally irresistible brother, Sam. The simple text presents a brother-sister dialogue early one morning, as Stella tries to help Sam get dressed for the day. She accepts his need for independence, but helps when needed -- for example, when Sam is sure that his pajama top won't come off because his "...head grew bigger in the night"! Upended in a bureau drawer to look for underpants, searching for a disappearing sock, or seeking suggestions about where the missing shoes might be, Sam demonstrates his need for a helping hand (or voice). But, the tables are turned when, going out the door, Sam is able to remind Stella about something she has forgotten to add to her apparel. Marie-Louise Gay is an award-winning illustrator whose spirited, colourful work has graced books written in both French and English. In 1984, Gay won the Canada Council Illustrator Price for a French-Canadian book (Drôle d'école) and the Canada Council Illustrator Prize for an English-Canadian book (Lizzy's Lion). She has also won the Amelia Howard-Gibbon Medal twice, and the Mr. Christie's Book Award for The Fabulous Song (1996). In the late seventies, she attended the Academy of Art College in San Franciso. The bright colours associated with this Pacific city continue to be evident in Gay's work, eye-catching and cheerful. Good Morning, Sam features watercolours and ink paintings which reflect Gay's cartoon-like approach. I enjoy Gay's books very much - Stella and Sam are interesting, lively characters to whom children can relate. As with all of the book's Gay has written and illustrated, Good Morning, Sam is an excellent selection for storytime in any environment designed for young children - preschool, early school years, library programs or after-school settings. Beginning readers could read to younger children or independently, and adults will enjoy the inherent humour of the book. Good Morning, Sam offers children an opportunity to think about self-help routines - sometimes we need help and support, sometimes we can provide that to others. While the back cover proclaims this as "a small Stella and Sam story", readers will see that Sam plays a key role - the power shifts from Stella knowing everything - Sam can help, too. Thematic Links: Sibling Relationships; Independence; Routines Kathryn McNaughton Fiction 3-6: CHARLES, Norma All the Way to Mexico Illustrated by Monika Melnychuk. Raincoast Books, 2003. 158p. Gr. 5-7. 1-55192-598-2. Pbk. $10.95 Jacob Armstrong, a twelve-year-old boy, along with his older rebellious sister, Minerva, has become part of a blended family. Their mother has just married a man named Fred Finkle. Fred has two sons of his own, Barney and Sam. Together the family of six has crammed into an old pale blue Mercury Montego station wagon and are on their way to Mexico for a honeymoon. The three Finkles and the three Armstrongs are in for an interesting road trip from Vancouver to Mexico. Jacob is obsessed with soccer and keeps his soccer ball with him at all times. He treasures the soccer ball because it was a gift given to him by his father before he was killed in a car accident. Minerva would rather be any place than with her family and is plugged into her CD player most of the time as a way of blocking them out. Barney tells non-stop jokes about cows, dreams of being a comedian and tends to annoy Jacob a lot. Sam plays with his action figures and also annoys Jacob. Jacob's mother and ne father act like "honeymooners" and this is an embarrassment to Jacob as well. As the trip progresses, Jacob wonders how he will ever cope during this trip. He dreams of being a famous soccer player some day and hopes to meet up with some children in Mexico to play a soccer game. Unfortunately Jacob's plans do not materialize, however, the family does have an interesting trip. The children learn to appreciate each other and deal with difficulties as they arise. This is an excellent story to read aloud in class. Students will easily identify with the issues of blended families and sibling rivalry. They will also recognize the importance of dreaming for the future and having plans. The story is humourous and keeps the reader wondering what will happen next to the children. The colourful over illustration done by Monika Melnychuk depicts many important aspects of the story such as firecrackers, a robot figure, the pale blue station wagon, a tent, headphones, a cow and of course, Jacob. This book would be an excellent addition to a youth library collection. Thematic Links: Blended Families; Soccer; Humour Elaine Rosepad Fiction 7-12: BORAKS-NEMETZ, Lillian & Irene N. Watts (compilers) Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writings for Young People Tundra Books, 2003. 237p. Gr. 7-12. 0-88776-638-2. Hdbk. $24.99 What is more heart breaking than the position of Jewish children in Europe during World War II? Confused and abandoned, often given into the hands of strangers or torn viciously from their parents' arms, these children, whether real or fictional, are living testaments to the human determination to survive. Editors Boraks-Nemetz and Watts have compiled a haunting collection of life stories in the form of plays, poetry and prose that will create a lightening rod of understanding for today's teenagers for whom World War II is ancient history. Tapestry of Hope has an evocative cover of an older child holding a bouquet of flowers. The background is blurred out and the reader can't distinguish any facial features of the child, who represents every child. The book is divided up into nine sections: Hiding, Loss and Exile, Selection, Ghetto, In Flames, The Camps, Resistance, Identity - Family Secrets, The Holocaust and After. The entries can be read one at a time, one section at a time, or in one horrifying, mesmerizing sitting. Kathy Lowinger, a Tundra editor, provides a thoughtful introduction in which she reminds the reader that no matter how dreadful the persecution of the Jews, there is hope for humanity if we light "matches" of hope that chase the night away. A simple but clear Timeline of the events leading up to the war and WWII itself (1933-45) is placed after the entries. An extensive list of Further Reading concludes the book. Some of the entries are excerpts from novels (The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, My Canary Yellow Star, A Time to Choose, Lisa) while others are excerpts from non-fiction (Tell No One Who You Are, Hana's Suitcase). These are chosen for their dramatic, heart-stopping moments when young children or teenagers dredge up their deepest bravery and face the madness of the Nazis. Most compelling, of course, are the true stories of Holocaust survivors, the pain of loss still a dark ache in their writing voice today. Readers will be touched by these victims' perfectly ordinary lives - how they were carefree and loved by their families until war separated them.. Particularly gripping are the stories of Robert Krell and Marion Kaufmann, who barely remember their parents when they are re-united after the war. Many of these Holocaust children were taken in by complete strangers who, at risk to their own lives, saved Jewish children who would otherwise have perished. Some children moved from orphanage to orphanage and it is important to remember that a vast network of determined, courageous people worked to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children. Often we see the loss that war creates directly through the eyes of the children as they stare hungrily at toy trains in shop windows and then fifty years later, safe in Canada, buy a similar toy train to play with grandchildren. They achingly re-read their mother's final letter. Or a careless Polish neighbour looks on the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto and remarks, "Look, the Yids are frying" as a girl whose parents are in the ghetto stands beside him but can say nothing because she is impersonating a gentile. The poetry chosen is not easy to read, nor is it superficial or trite. Symbolism (for example, in "The Ghost Town of Kasimierz" or "Shhh") may prove difficult for younger readers, but the spookiness and terror in the poetry are accessible by all. The most chilling sections are the survivor statements, short, true, accounts of individuals who escaped death but not the suffering of the loss of their childhood. Thematic Links: World War II; Holocaust; Jewish history Joan Marshall Non-Fiction K-6: COOK, Peter & Laura Suzuki Why Animals Show Off Illustrated by Ron Broda. Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2003. 28p. Illus. Gr. 1-3. 0-439-98861-6. Pbk. $7.99 Many animals blend in, subtle and subdued in their surroundings. Yet others are brightly coloured, can rapidly change shape and size and often make strange noises when disturbed. Science authors Peter Cook and Laura Suzuki call these animals the "showoffs". Why such a pronounced difference? There are many answers which are simply revealed. Colourful patterned fish, birds and insects show off in various ways for various reasons. Mammals often show off by their behaviour, for example by showing strength. And how about people, do we show off? The limited text is very informative yet simply written. Illustrator Ron Broda uses paper sculpture and watercolour to create a dynamic three-dimensional effect. Large vivid images on each page enhance the information provided, and the brightly coloured illustrations are very appealing. This book would be a valuable resource for animal studies in Gr. 1-3 especially, focusing on subjects such as camouflage, adaptation, poisonous animals and survival. The striking illustrations could also be an excellent reference for art projects. Thematic Links: Science- Animals; Art Carolyn Cutt Non-Fiction 7-12: GOODALL, Lian William Lyon Mackenzie King: Dreams and Shadows (The Quest Library) XYZ Publishing, 2003. 182p. Illus. Gr. 9 up. 1-894852-02-8. Pbk. $15.95 Goodall's biography of King joins the eighteen biographical titles already published under The Quest Library imprint of XYZ Publishing. This latest addition follows a pattern which is giving the series wide appeal for easy-to-read information together with high interest. With a smooth flowing, narrative prose, Goodall uses journal-type entries to relate the life of one of Canada's most famous prime ministers. With his family background and childhood years summarized in the prologue and first chapter, Goodall relates the story of Mackenzie King's life in more detail at age seventeen when he enters the University of Toronto. The novel-like style absorbs the reader into the life of a remarkable, if somewhat eccentric, person. King's political life spanned the two World Wars, history which still interests many young people today. The image of power politician becomes more rounded as the reader discovers the more ordinary man - his life shaped by a close family and affected by the grief of the early loss of his mother, father, sister and best friend. In the context of the whole person, his involvement with spiritual mediums and séances seems part of his brilliance rather than a bizarre oddity. For young adult audiences this book will be very useful for historical research projects. The index will guide the student to the needed passages. However, the student may then find themselves absorbed into the highly readable prose and fascinating story. Adult readers will enjoy this book for the same reasons. With its strong narrative, non-fiction style this series is telling the facts of Canada's history in a most absorbing and appealing manner - like a story. Thematic Links: William L. Mackenzie King; Prime Ministers; World War II; Politics and Government Linda Irvine Professional Resources: EASLEY, Shirley-Dale and Kay Mitchell Portfolios Matter: What, Where, When, Why and How to Use Them Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2003. 96p. 1-55138-151-6. Pbk. $18.95 The combined effort of two veteran educators, Shirley-Dale Easley and Kay Mitchell, produced Portfolios Matter. This is a comprehensive resource that examines the practical aspects of using portfolios and student led conferences as part of a balanced assessment approach. In six chapters, organized using a question and answer format and concrete examples, the authors lead teachers through a logical progression of information that, when followed, should provide a roadmap to successful implementation of this authentic form of assessment. In chapter one the reader is led to examine several very convincing examples that illustrate the need for concrete evidence to support report card marks if educators are to clearly represent what students know and are able to do. This is followed with suggestions about how to lay the groundwork for portfolio assessment. The important and often problematic issue of teaching students how to self-evaluate their work is addressed well. Chapter three discusses the common practice of keeping work files and suggests how this practice can be augmented to reach portfolio status through student participation in selection and self reflection. The student examples in this chapter clearly illustrate the depth of reflection that is possible when students are expected and shown how to participate in documenting their own learning. The final chapter provides a wealth of information on student-led conferences as a method of sharing portfolios. The practical management tips included throughout this recourse will enable teachers to avoid the many pitfalls that they would undoubtedly experience if trying to implement portfolios without guidance. When the range of information presented is examined, it is obvious that the suggestions in this resource are based on a thorough knowledge of what teachers need to know to successfully implement portfolios in the classroom. Teachers will be especially appreciative of the student examples, useful checklists, quick tips and "from the files" examples because they successfully bring portfolio implementation to life. I would recommend this as a valuable resource for any teacher considering a move to portfolio assessment. Thematic Links: Assessment; Portfolios Marg Ryall SALTMAN, Judith, Kathryn Shoemaker, and Gail Edwards Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English http://www.slais.ubc.ca/saltman/ccib/home.html Rating: G The Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English Internet site is intended to communicate the results of a three-year research project by a team working at the University of British Columbia. The central page in this site is "The Project", which is one of four links from the home page. A team of researchers is surveying both historical and contemporary works in order to examine - you guessed it - Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English - from the point of view of many scholarly disciplines, including children's literature, art history, publishing studies, the history of the book, and socio-cultural history. "The Project" page is a base from which you can explore the team's description and methodology of their research, as well as how they plan to disseminate their results. This site is interesting for scholars, and will no doubt become even more interesting as planned interviews with creators of Canadian illustrated books take place and are added to the site. A great feature for librarians and teachers right now is the "Resources" page, which is divided into several categories, including annotated bibliographies, relevant journals of criticism and review, and a selected reading list on international illustrated books. Overall this site is visually attractive and easy to navigate. Each page has plenty of white space around the text, with easy-to-read black text and red hypertext. The colour and black and white graphics on each page are well placed to break up the large amounts of text. Because the designers present only small parts of each illustration, which are then linked to the full illustration and title, each page loads much more quickly than if larger graphics were used. This also means less of an interruption for those who are reading the text on the pages. I found only one problem with this site. Recent studies have shown that Internet users are more likely to scan web pages for information rather than reading them as they would a traditional printed text. Bulleted lists, highlighted keywords, concise writing, and short paragraphs all help the user gain meaning quickly from the page. This site is very wordy and it can be difficult to scan for meaning from most of the pages - a fault of many scholarly web sites. Aside from this, however, the clean design and interesting nature of the subject make this site worth your valuable browsing time. Thematic Links: Canadian Children's Literature; Canadian Authors; Canadian Illustrators; Canadian Picture Books Grace Sheppard French Resources: O Canada! Notre hymne national Les Éditions Scholastic, 2003. 30p. Illus. Gr. All levels. 0-439-97446-1. Pbk. $7.99 Rating: Excellent This small paperback can be used by almost any student at any level. Young students could simply use it as a picture book and an aid to learning the words of our national anthem in French. Older students could study the design and graphics and how they fit with our national image. The words of O Canada are spread throughout the book in bold print and one can't help but hear the music while turning the pages! The beautiful colour photos, although they don't necessarily correspond with the words printed beside them, cover almost every aspect of Canadian life. We are treated to both urban and rural scenes, the faces of many Canadians (especially children) and panoramas from the north, south, east and west of this great country. The photos are unashamedly nationalistic and symbolic without seeming trite. Canadians (and those of other nationalities discovering Canada) are treated to images which include our flag, the RCMP, hockey, maple syrup, Parliament Hill, a Canada goose and.......of course.......a beaver! To this reader, paging through this book was like seeing a glorious slide show on Canada Day with the anthem playing in the background - all in one small volume. The very last pages include the music to our anthem as well as the story of the origins of the music, the French lyrics and the lyrics in English. Interesting facts that many of us don't know! The title sums up the book: O Canada! Thematic Links: Canada, National Anthem Ann Ketcheson

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Q: extract all values from response complex json in java I am trying to extract all values from http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=dic&q=keyword&sl=en&tl=en&restrict=pr%2Cde&client=te and I want to use GSON, but I cant figure out what to do with it. Is there anything that is similar to jericohtml parser which can just simply extract all values? also, i need to use java. i can retrieve json, but it's not regularly formated( i mean line by line written) thanks URL u=new URL(url); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/atom+xml"); conn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0"); BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); String temp=br.readLine(); String strJson=temp.substring("dic(".length(),temp.length()-",200,null)".length()); System.out.println(strJson); A: you can you gson to extract your jsonobject and set you your user defined object click here for example Gson gson = new Gson(); try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new FileReader("c:\\file.json")); //convert the json string back to object DataObject obj = gson.fromJson(br, DataObject.class); System.out.println(obj); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

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<?php namespace tests\QATools\QATools\HtmlElements\Element; use QATools\QATools\HtmlElements\Element\FileInput; use Mockery as m; class FileInputTest extends AbstractTypifiedElementTest { /** * @before */ protected function setUpTest() { if ( is_null($this->elementClass) ) { $this->elementClass = '\\QATools\\QATools\\HtmlElements\\Element\\FileInput'; } $this->expectedAttributes = array('type' => 'file'); parent::setUpTest(); } /** * @dataProvider isMultipleDataProvider */ public function testIsMultiple($attribute_value, $multiple) { $this->webElement->shouldReceive('hasAttribute')->with('multiple')->once()->andReturn($attribute_value); $this->assertSame($multiple, $this->getElement()->isMultiple()); } public function isMultipleDataProvider() { return array( array(false, false), array(true, true), ); } public function testSetNonExistingFileToUpload() { $this->expectException('\QATools\QATools\HtmlElements\Exception\FileInputException'); $this->expectExceptionCode(\QATools\QATools\HtmlElements\Exception\FileInputException::TYPE_FILE_NOT_FOUND); $this->expectExceptionMessage('File "/non-existing-file.txt" doesn\'t exist'); $this->getElement()->setFileToUpload('/non-existing-file.txt'); } public function testSetExistingFileToUpload() { $element = $this->getElement(); $this->webElement->shouldReceive('attachFile')->with(__FILE__)->once(); $this->assertSame($element, $element->setFileToUpload(__FILE__)); } public function testSetValue() { /* @var $element FileInput */ $element = $this->mockElement(array('setFileToUpload')); $element->shouldReceive('setFileToUpload')->with('file')->once()->andReturn($element); $this->assertSame($element, $element->setValue('file')); } /** * Returns existing element. * * @return FileInput */ protected function getElement() { return $this->typifiedElement; } }

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Check if Java is installed and is present at the location mentioned below. If yes then fine, if not then you need to google install java n ubuntu sudo gedit ~/.bashrc Add following lines in the end to .bashrc export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6 export HIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hive export PIG_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/pig export SQOOP_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/sqoop export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop export HADOOP_YARN_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop/etc/hadoop export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$HADOOP_HOME/bin::$PIG_HOME/bin:$HIVE_HOME/bin:$SQOOP_HOME/bin *Save this file and close it. Now you may wanna run it so that updates are reflected. source ~/.bashrc 6.Create two dirctories namenode and datanode cd /usr/lib sudo mkdir hdfs cd hdfs sudo mkdir namenode sudo mkdir datanode sudo chmod 777 -R namenode sudo chmod 777 -R datanode *Go to $HADOOP_HOME and edit some files. cd $HADOOP_HOME cd etc/hadoop/ A. sudo gedit yarn-site.xml : Add these lines inside < configuration> < /configuration> <property> <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name> <value>mapreduce_shuffle</value> </property> <property> <name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services.mapreduce.shuffle.class</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ShuffleHandler</value> </property> * *Save File and Close B. sudo gedit core-site.xml : Add these lines inside < configuration> < /configuration> <property> <name>fs.default.name</name> <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value> </property> * *Save File and Close. C. sudo gedit hdfs-site.xml : Add these lines inside <~configuration> <~/configuration> <property> <name>dfs.replication</name> <value>1</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name> <value>file:/usr/lib/hdfs/namenode</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name> <value>file:/usr/lib/hdfs/datanode</value> </property> * *Save File and Close D. sudo gedit mapred-site.xml :Add these lines <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <property> <name>mapreduce.framework.name</name> <value>yarn</value> </property> </configuration> Note : This will be a new file. - Save it and Close. *Format namenode hdfs namenode -format *Go to /usr/lib/hdfs and create start and stop scripts cd /usr/lib/hdfs sudo mkdir scripts sudo chmod 777 -R scripts cd scripts sudo gedit hadoopstart.sh Write these lines /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh start namenode /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh start datanode /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start resourcemanager /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start nodemanager /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh start historyserver * *Save it and close. sudo gedit hadoopstop.sh Write these lines /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh stop namenode /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh stop datanode /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh stop resourcemanager /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh stop nodemanager /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-2.6/sbin/mr-jobhistory-daemon.sh stop historyserver -Save it and close it. *Run these files to start and stop hadoop in local mode To start sh /usr/lib/hdfs/scripts/hadoopstart.sh To stop sh /usr/lib/hdfs/scripts/hadoopstop.sh *Check if hadoop is running : After running start script hadoop version hadoopp fs -ls / Open http://localhost:50070 to see if name node is running. *Run Various Serives using : On Terminal Pig sqoop hive

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An all female line-up on this The Western Skyline podcast. Easing into 2019 with our featured artist Joni Mitchell: Tracks include Carey, Amelia, Come in from the Cold, Both Sides Now. With a bit of news from the Arts, and songs from Marianne Faithful, Suzanne Vega, Marlene Diertrich, Edith Piaf, The McGarrigle sisters, Kirsty McColl, Madeleine Peyroux, and the Dixie Chicks. It was a pleasure to put this set together. Hope you enjoy it!

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Learn how to finish a seam the neat way – This is an easy sewing tip how to secure and hide your thread ends. It's for when you'd like your project look clean and polished from both sides, without any visible thread tails. Do you want your topstitching to look neat? Check out this easy sewing tutorial now!

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CP Auction Service hosts auctions on the Western Slope. The site claims to have been in business since 1983 and lists farm, business, equipment, and estate auctions. The video below shows a person holding a gun as the auctioneer takes bids. That's one way to do it.

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The majority of MPs voted to elect mayors via the supplementary vote system rather than the simple majority system. This would have taken effect on clause 9HL titled "Voting at elections of elected mayors" within a New Part 1A of the Local Government Act 2000 which Schedule 2 to the Localism Bill would have inserted. The supplementary vote system gives electors the opportunity to indicate a second preference in elections where there are more than two candidates, and if no candidate gets over half of the first preference votes the rules set out in Schedule 2, Paragraph 3, of the Local Government Act 2000 take effect and the two candidates with most first preference votes (and any others with tied with them on the same number of votes) stay in the contest; and the second preferences of those who gave their first preferences to the other candidates are allocated to them.

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OPEN HOUSE "WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER" Now is an excellent time to consider becoming a Pharmacy Technician. Healthcare is a fast growing industry and with it there is a demand for qualified pharmacy technicians who can keep up with all the new advancements in the drug industry. Visit us during this special open house to see how this career opportunity could work in your future. To attend, contact us directly to RSVP or stop by our Brooklyn Campus this Saturday!

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In fact, many presidents have taken issue with the Supreme Court. Donald Trump has a history of expressing his displeasure with federal judges who take a dim view of various administration policies. The president's latest salvo even earned a retort from the highest jurist in the land. Chief Justice Roberts was responding to a presidential tweet in the aftermath of a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar that temporarily barred the Trump administration from demanding that asylum applications be made at ports of entry. Mr. Trump derided Judge Tigar as "an Obama judge" and proceeded to lambaste the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which would handle the appeal. Many on the left have criticized the president for his shots at the judiciary. Fine. It's hardly going out on a limb to argue that Mr. Trump's hyperbole and social media obsession are often less than presidential. But let's remember that most of those same detractors applauded in 2010 when Barack Obama took an unprecedented swipe at the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address. In fact, many presidents have taken issue with the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt even tried to pack the court by floating a scheme to expand the number of justices after the majority blocked a handful of his New Deal initiatives. Such frustration is common, given the Constitution ensures that both the judiciary and Congress provide a healthy check on executive power. What we are witnessing is the separation of powers at work. As for the chief justice, his response is an understandable exercise in defending the integrity of the judicial branch. No doubt the great majority of federal judges do their utmost to ensure those appearing before them are treated fairly and with respect. But to imply that a judge's political philosophy has no bearing on how he or she will interpret a vast array of complicated and often impenetrable federal statutes is to occupy Fantasyland. Yes, it's sometimes difficult to predict how a judge will evolve on the federal bench. But just as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton may have different viewpoints on a host of constitutional issues, the same is certainly true for the men and women — the "Obama judges," "Trump judges" and the like — they nominated to fill seats on the federal judiciary. And there's nothing wrong with that — as long as philosophy doesn't trump (pun intended) the law and the Constitution.

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Detalis The Situation of the Palestinian Women on the Eve of the International Women's Day, 08/03/2021 H.E. Dr. Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), on Sunday 07/03/2021, highlighted the situation of the Palestinian women on the eve of the International Women's Day, 08/03/2021 Women represent half of the Palestinian society The estimated population in Palestine is 5.23 million for mid-2021, of which 2.66 million males (51%) and 2.57 million females (49%), whereas the sex ratio stood at 103.4; meaning that there are 103 males for every 100 females. Both Sexes More than one-tenth of the Palestinian households are headed by women The percentage of households headed by women in Palestine in 2020 was 11% (12% in the West Bank and 9% in Gaza Strip). Significant decrease in the percentage of early marriage in Palestine There is a decline in the percentage of early marriage (for those under the age of 18) for both sexes, where it reached 19.3% of the females' registered marriages in 2019 (19.0% in the West Bank and 19.9% in Gaza Strip) out of total number of females registered marriages in the same year compared with 24% in 2010, while the percentage was 0.9% of males' registered marriages of out of total number of males registered marriages in the same year, compared to 2% in 2010. The median age at first marriage in Palestine was 20.7 years for females and 25.3 years for males in 2019. An Increase in Life Expectancy at Birth The life expectancy at birth for individuals has increased to 74.1 years: 73.0 for males and 75.3 for females in 2020. Yet, there is a variation in life expectancy at birth between the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It reached 74.4 years in the West Bank: 73.3 years for males and 75.6 for females. While life expectancy at birth in Gaza Strip was 73.7 years: 72.6 years for males and 74.8 for females. Reasons for such increase in life expectancy at birth includes the improvements in healthcare and the gradual decrease of mortality rates among infants and children. Life Expectancy at Birth in the State of Palestine by Region and Sex, 2020 Decrease in fertility rates in Palestine Total fertility rates decreased in Palestine from 4.1 births per woman in 2014 to 3.8 births per woman in 2019; of which 3.8 births in the West Bank and 3.9 births in Gaza Strip. The adolescent fertility rate (age 15-19 years) in Palestine was 43 births per 1000 women in 2019, comperison with 48 births per 1000 women in 2014. Reproductive Health among women in the age group of (15-49) years About 95% of women aged 15-49 years received antenatal health care at least four times by a health care provider during pregnancy; and about 73% of women in the same age received health care eight times or more during pregnancy. And Most births in Palestine occur in health institutions, where about 99% of births took place. Of all live births about 100% were attended by skilled health staff. High enrollment rates of females in secondary stage and higher education The scholastic year 2019/2020 showed that male enrollment in secondary stage[1] was 73%, compared to female enrollment, which was 92%. As for the percentage of female students enrolled in the Palestinian higher education institutions reached 61% out of the total number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. Decreased in the participation rate in the labour force among women and men The participation rate for both women's and men's decreased in 2020 as a result of the lockdown that were implemented following the Corona pandemic compared to previous years, as the percentage of women's participation in the labour force was 16% of all working-age women's in 2020, after it was 18% in 2019, Knowing that the rate of male's participation in the labour force reached 65% in 2020, compared to 70% in 2019. Labour force participation rate of women and men (15 years and above) in Palestine, 2015- 2020 The gap in labour force participation between women and men (15 years and above) with disabilities is deepening According to the Labour Force Survey 2020 data, participation rate of women with disabilities in labour force in Palestine was only 2% of the total women with disabilities compared to 23% of the total men with disabilities. Labour force participation rate of women and men with disabilities (15 years and above) by region, 2020 Youth in the age group (19–29 years) who hold Intermediate diploma and Above, suffer the most from unemployment Unemployment rate among youth graduates of those who hold Intermediate diploma and above reached 54% (69% of females compared with 39% of males). The unemployment rate among participated women in the labour force was 40% compared to 23% among men in 2020. Fourth of employees in the private sector get paid less than the minimum average wages (1,450 NIS) per month in Palestine. Data in 2020 indicated that about 28% of wages employed workers in the private sector earn a monthly wage less than the minimum average wages (1,450 NIS), as the percentage was 29% for men, compared to 25% for women. About fourth of female employees in the private sector work without an employment contract 23% of the female employees hired in the private sector work without an employment contract, and 62% of them get a contribution in financing retirement/end of service package. However, more than half of female employees in the private sector (60%) get a paid maternity leave for year 2020. Females and males have shared infections and deaths COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Palestine[2] The percentage of infection cases with COVID-19 among females in Palestine up to 02/03/2021 reached 50.2% of the total infected compared to 49.8% among males, the percentage of males who died to COVID-19 is 58.6% compared to 41.4% among females out of the total number of deaths due to Covid 19 in Palestine. The total number of infected as of 02/03/2021 is 185,338, and the total deaths is 1,525 deaths. Percentage Distribution Individual of Infected and deceased s with COVID-19 by Sex and Region,up to 02/03/2021 Israeli violations against women 3 women were martyred, 128 women were arrested in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip borders in 2020, and there are 40 women still in the Israeli prisons as at the end of 2020. A humble participation of women in decision making positions According to 2020 data, the participation of women in decision making positions is still limited comparing to men's. These data showed that 5% of the Palestinian Central Council members, 11% of the Palestinian National Council members and 13% of the Council of Ministers members are women. Also, 11% is the percentage of the women ambassadors in the Diplomatic Service. Moreover, there is one woman holds the position governor out of 16 governors. According to the General Personnel Council data up to February 2021, the percentage of women's participation in the civil sector reached 45% of the total employees in the public sector. The gap is reflected when talking about those who hold the rank of Director General and higher, where this percentage reached 14% of women compared with 86% of men. [1]: From the scholastic year 2017/2018, the basic stage includes grades from one to 9th while secondary stage includes grades 10th,11th and 12th, based on the new education law issued by the Ministry of Education that consider the tenth grade in secondary stage. 2: Data excluded those parts of Jerusalem which were annexed by Israeli Occuoation in 1967 #Women #Palestinian Women #International Women's Day Social Developmental Forum - Job Vacancy PNGO delivers a letter to the EU calling the Netherlands to reverse its decision of ending funding of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) - Job Vacancy Palestinian National Agriculture Sector Policy Paper Situation Analysis Report COVID-19: Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic in Palestine and Implications for Policy and Programming Gender Alert: Needs of Women, Girls, Boys and Men in Humanitarian Action in Palestine Vedio Gallery

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Altar servers have the great honor of assisting in the most sacred event that takes place on earth: the celebration of the Holy Mass. It is right and just, therefore, that altar servers prepare themselves in mind, heart, and body in order to worthily serve our Lord. You can do this by arriving at church early enough to spend a few minutes in prayer. This will put you in the correct spiritual state of mind to prepare the altar and assist the priest during Mass. ​to a possible vocation to the priesthood. If you are interested in becoming an altar boy, please speak to Fr. Charles.

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Normally, travel to Japan for business meetings or tourism can be done on a visa waiver, when for a limited number of days. Pay attention to your driver's license; as is in many countries, a foreign driver's license needs to be accompanied by an International Driver's License (ILD). Which is not always sufficient, e.g. in the case of Belgian driver's licenses. A Japanese language translation of the driver's license, issued by the Japanese Automobile Federation needs to be attached to the Belgian license. A Belgian government issued International Driver's License is not acceptable for driving a car in Japan.

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DWI LUNGGUH PURNOMO PUTRO, 151210408 (2019) ANALISA PREHEATING PADA HASIL PENGELASAN GAS ARGON TERHADAP SIFAT FISIS DAN MEKANIK. Other thesis, UNSPECIFIED. This list was generated on Thu Apr 25 22:43:50 2019 WIB.

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Iceland – Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Ice. The classical Greeks thought all but the last of these as the elements that made up all matter. Perhaps if they had lived in the northern climates they would have included Ice. These elements are also the essence of Iceland. The earth, providing the soil and the green growing grass, the sod for a people with no forests, to build habitats. Earth that provides the foundation for the Vikings who settled the land. The shores from which they ventured into the sea. The Air blowing in, driving storms from the south, which the birds use to take flight, or to get to the steep cliffs, or fly across oceans to resting refuges on flat waters. To fly down and hide, blended into grass, the end point to the breeding grounds of countless species. Fire from the bowels of the earth, welling up from the ocean floor, building blocks of the land. Ash emitting in explosive power blocking the sun and blackening the surface with cinder. Fire giving birth to earth. Water, powerful, carving, spraying, dampening, cascading, caressing, thundering. Water that finds its way into crevices and cracks. Rushing pulled by gravity, then calm when it pools. Water that feeds life. Ice – that stilling of the water into a solid – exerting forces as one of the few compounds that expands, under its own weight it still flows. Under it's weight it compresses and squeezes out the colors to become deep blue. Ice that holds the centuries of the past in its grasp, trapped until it yields again in the oceans or melts from fires beneath. Iceland is anything but frozen. It is moving apart, split by the great plates of the earth moving towards the west and the east. It basks in the warm currents of the gulf stream and freezes from the arctic blasts. It sees the midnight sun and the near darkness of winter. These photographs are but nothing more than a thin slice of Iceland and its elements.

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CBOB is a common grade of gasoline produced by refiners in the US. It gets its name from being a conventional grade of gasoline ("C") as opposed to a reformulated grade (such as RBOB) that has tighter environmental specifications. CBOB is a "BOB" (before oxygenate blending) because it is formulated for subsequent blending with 10% ethanol to form the final gasoline blend that is marketed to end users.

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A solid silver bracelet with semi-precious stones. Semi-precious stones in a gilded, round or teardrop-shaped gallery have been set on a broad silver band with embossing the gives the impression of handiwork. A bold Oriental style and an unusual combination of various coloured enamel. It goes with ethnic-style clothes or a bulky knitted dress.

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This will be the first collabo between the legendary Femi Kuti and famed R&B Nigerian musician 2 face idibia. The song is being produced by Chocolate city imprint -- and will be released soon. Femi Kuti is an award winning singer and song writer known for his upbeat Afro-fusion style and suggestive music style. He is the son of the late famed Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Femi Kuti's last album 'My Dream' was released in 2013. It will be interesting to hear what a collaboration between these big artistes and socio-political commentators sounds like.

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A Shannon Rapid Rise Fire Blanket covers a valve actuator located at a refinery. Shannon Enterprises of W.N.Y., Inc., the world leading designer and maker of reusable thermal and acoustic insulation, has designed a new self-contained, removable protective enclosure called the Shannon Rapid Rise Fire Blanket to protect petrochemical, oil & gas, power generation, marine and military equipment from extreme temperatures. Shannon custom fits its Rapid Rise Fire Blankets to match a wide variety of equipment surface geometry. Customers can easily install, remove and reuse the flexible blanket enclosures. Shannon can design the new blanket to fit components ranging from actuators to valves. The Shannon Rapid Rise Fire Blanket (model number: HT2000MSiTSiM) exceeds the UL1709 Rapid Rise Fire Test method, which is a rapid-rise fire reaching 2000 degrees Fahrenheit within five minutes and maintaining this temperature until failure. Rapid Rise Fire Blankets have not only withstood the test's minimum requirement of 30 minutes but have also lasted for more than three hours. Industry professionals consider the UL1709 test procedure as the benchmark standard for many applications including: structural columns, valve actuators, cable trays, instrumentation, valve bodies and more. Each Shannon Rapid Rise Fire Blanket comes with a 10-year warranty. Shannon developed the fire blanket's durable outer jacketing to match harsh operating conditions found, for example, at processing plants and onboard marine vessels and oil platforms. Shannon initially produced its CAD-designed, CNC-produced fire blanket to protect shutoff valves in oil refineries. Shannon expanded on this initial design with a range of fire blankets that now protect wafer, butterfly, knife-gate and motor-operated valves as well as actuators. Call or email us today to request a quote or learn how the Rapid Rise Fire Blanket can lower your insurance premiums!

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to IAS 18, during the time period arising in the course of normal activities of an entity, all the gross inflow of the economic benefits is revenue, and there should be an increase in equity with the help of those inflows, these inflows also result in contributing in equity participants (Tysiac, 2013). We recognize a revenue when there is a chance of getting the future benefits by the entity and the organization can reliably measure these revenues. In IAS 18, there is an identification of the circumstances in which these criterias will be met. For each and every transaction, the implication of this standard is different. When two or more transactions are different but there is a relation between these transactions then the recognition criteria is applied to all of them. Fair value of a consideration should be used for the recognition of revenue. Fair value is the price of a product by which an asset can be exchanged between two parties. Before deducting the costs of sales, revenue should be stated. For example if the company sold the goods for $100 and the cost that was incurred to manufacture is $60, then the revenue will be $100, it was not taken as $40 that is after deducting the cost. All that activities that are related to the ordinary activities are recognized for revenue. All the proceeds of disposal of any disposed plant and equipment, property at the end of useful life are not the revenue. The profit and loss that is incurred on disposal of those assets are deducted from operating expenses. Sales taxes that the customers pay and that are remitted to the related authorities are not the part of revenue. For example, If the goods are sold to the customers for $110 and 10% is the amount of tax that is collected from them then the revenue will only be $100. If the seller is not the principal, he is only the agent of a company or agent of the seller, and then the revenue for him will only be the amount of commission that he will collect not the full amount that is collected by customer. For example, if the agent gave the product of $100 to the customer and collected $110 including commission, then the revenue will only be $10 not $11. There is a boutique in which the sale of the exclusive garment is done with the condition that it can be returned within one week of selling. In this case, the boutique owner can recognize the revenue after one week of the sale of the item. Construction contracts: In IAS 18; there was no addressing of issue of recognition of revenue on a construction contract. However, basic principles that we already identified to the contracts are applied by IAS 11 are as follows (Opperman, 2009). 'Contracts are negotiated to construct an asset or assets that are interlinked or independent with respect to their design, technology and function or their objective or use'. Most of the construction contracts are 'fixed price contracts'. In these contracts, a fixed contract price is agreed by the seller, or a constant rate per unit of output, which in some cases related to change in cost clauses (IAS 19 Revised , 2004). While the supply of goods is related to construction contract, to determine the timing of recognition of revenue earned on supplying the goods is not really suitable, the 'critical event basis' used in IAS 18. The reason is that the 'supply' done by the seller in case of contract of construction takes place slowly over the term of contract. So, there is a need that where the productivity of construction contract can be recognized reliably, on such contracts the revenue should be recognized according to the time of completion of contract. According to IAS 11, the conditions are imposed that are very similar to the conditions that are included in IAS 18 for the provision of services that are needed to be satisfied before the recognition of the outcome of a construction contract (Ammendmend to IAS 19, 2004). The revenue of total contract can be measured reliably. There is a probability that the economic benefits that are linked with the contract will move to the seller. Both the cost of seller in order to complete the contract and at the end of reporting period the stage of contract completion can be measured reliably. The cost of seller to the date of attribute to the contract can be identified clearly and measured reliably so that the actual costs and prior estimates can be compared with each other. One single method for computing the stage of completing the construction contract is not prescribed in the case with service revenue recognition in IAS 18, IAS 11. Following examples of procedures are provided in IAS 11 that might be suitable (Terrell, 2012). (a) All the risks and rewards of ownership of products has been transferred by the seller to the buyer. (b) The seller does not retain control over the goods or managerial involvement with them to the degree usually associated with ownership. (e) the costs incurred or to be incurred by the seller in respect of the transaction can be measured reliably. There is a probabilty that economic benefits will be given to the buyer after the sale. The total cost that is incurred during transaction can be measured reliably. There is a probability of flowing of economic benefits that are associated with the transaction to the entity. Revenue can be measured reliably. When the right of shareholder to receive payment is established then dividends shall be recognized. With the help of effective interest method, interest should be recognized. According to the substance of relevant agreement, royalties shall be recognized on accrual basis. Conditions (a) and (b) are related to interpretation so, there is no surety that whether we can recognize that revenue or not. All the conditions are like that they can be satisfied at a specific point and so there is a difficult point where all the revenue would be recognized that is earned by the sale of goods. This approach is different to the approach that is taken to the revenue recognition from the services provision. As described above, from the provision of services there are various approaches that is taken for recognizing the revenue. According to IAS 18, associated revenue should be recognized with reference to the time of completion of the transaction where the productivity of the transaction along with the rendering of services can be estimated completely in the last of the reporting period. We can also say that, we slowly recognize the revenue, rather can recognizing at a single point in time. It is also stated that when all the following conditions are satisfied then we can easily estimate the outcome of a transaction (Burgard, 2008). (a) We can measure the amount of revenue reliably. (b)There is a probability that the economic benefits that are linked with the transaction will move to the seller. (c) The time of completing the transaction at the last of the reporting period can be measured correctly. (d) Both the costs; incurred at the date when transaction was made and the costs incurred at the completion can be measured reliably. IAS 18 does not describe one single method that should be used to determine the stage of completing the service transaction. However, some examples of proper methods are also provided by the standard (Needles, 2013). (a) Examination of work performed. (b) Services that are performed to date as a percentage of whole service to be performed. Revenue should be recognized to the extent of costs that are incurred by the seller, if it is impossible to measure the outcome of transaction correctly that are involved in the provision of services, by assuming that we can recover these costs from the buyer (IAS 19 Revised , 2002). According to IAS 18, the measurement of revenue shall be done at the fair value of the consideration that is received or receivable. Any trade discounts or volume rebates granted by the seller should be taken for the determination of fair value. (a) The amount that is to be received for supplying the goods. This is calculated when the future cash which is receivable by the seller is discounted. (b) The amount that is receivable for the supply of finance to the buyer. A retail entity supplies products to the public on three year deferred payment terms. On 1 January 2013 the entity supplies a product for a total price of $13,310, payable on 1 January 2016. The credit rating of the customer is such that a relevant imputed annual rate of interest is 10%. The entity's year end is 31 December. Revenue from the sale of goods of $10,000 ($13,310/(1.10) (3). This is recognised immediately by crediting revenue and debiting receivables. On 1 January 2016, the cash is received and the receivable derecognized. Similar principles are used for the measurement of revenue by IAS 11 from construction contracts. As mentioned earlier, these examples are not the part of IAS 18. But, they are useful for the application and have worth in reviewing. It was assumed that the revenue and costs can be measured and it was also assumed that all the economic benefits will be flown to the seller. Where products are sold to the buyer under the condition that either there is a requirement of seller to repurchase them in future or there are choices to repurchase that can be exercised then the sale is actually the provision of finance. An example stated by Mirza et al. (2010) is that suppose entity A 'sells' goods to entity B on 1 January 2013 for $400,000. The goods are inventories that need to mature for five years before being ready for sale. Their market value on 1 January 2013 was $800,000 and entity A has the option to repurchase the goods from entity B on 1 January 2018 for $600,000. The market value of the goods is expected to rise by 5% per annum from 2013 to 2017 inclusive. Entity A's credit rating is such that it would have to pay interest at 8.447% per annum on borrowings. The goods are expected to remain at the premises of entity A throughout the five year period beginning on 1 January 2013 and entity A is responsible for their safe custody. Entity A did not transfer the rewards of ownership to B, despite the fact that ownership should be transferred to B. so, the entity A should recognize the revenue when the goods are sold in 1 January, 2013. The almost certain 're-purchase' on 1 January 2013 will eliminate the borrowing. As it is already stated, for the assessment of financial performance and position of an entity revenue is a difficult number to the users of financial statements. However, the accounting principles used by GAAP are different from used in IFRSs. As said by Opperman (2009) there is a need of improvement in both the sets. There are different broad revenue recognition concepts and small requirements for specific industries in US GAAP. There are also mentioned transactions that can form different accounting for the transactions that are economically different. Although, there is a need of some requirements on recognizing the revenue in IFRSs, It can be difficult to understand IAS 18, Revenue, IAS 11, and Construction Contract. In addition, there is very less assistance on important topics like revenue recognition for more than two element arrangements (Institute, 2013). Remove the negative points from resisting revenue requirements. Improve the comparability of recognizing practices of revenue across different entities, industries and capital markets. With the help of improved disclosure requirement, provide more information that is useful to users for financial statement. Provide simple method of preparing the financial statements by decreasing the number of requirements. From the IFRS concepts, the new standard from the projects is better than the existing standard. This should help in future convergence between IFRS and US GAAP. Ammendmend to IAS 19. 2004. IASB. Burgard, W. 2008. IAS-10. UK: IOS press. Epstein, B. J., & Jermakowicz, E.K. 2010. WILEY Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. New Jersey: John Willey & Sons. Christian, D., & Lüdenbach, N. 2013. IFRS Essentials, UK: John Willey & Sons. IAS 19 Revised . 2002. IASB. Official journal of Europeon union. IAS 19 Revised . 2004. IASB. Institute, J. 2013. IAS prelims magic 2013. New Delhi: JTS institute. Mirza, A.A., Holt., L. & Knorr, L., 2010. Wiley IFRS: Practical Implementation Guide and Workbook, New Jersey: John Willey & Sons. Needles, B. E., 2013. Principles of financial accounting. New York: Cengage learning. Opperman, 2009. Accounting Standards, 13th edition, Lansdowne: Juta & Co. Terrell, E. 2012. Accounting and Auditing . Library of Congress.

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Samsung debuts Smartphone GamePad Samsung recently debuted an official gamepad for its flagship lineup of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. Designed to work with with screens ranging from 4 to 6.3 inches, the GamePad will initially be available in Europe before hitting other markets. According to Brad Linder of Liliputing, Samsung's GamePad will work with at least 35 popular titles straight out of the box including Asphalt 8: Airborne, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Modern Combat 4, and Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame. Key features? Bluetooth and NFC capabilities, rechargeable battery, an 8-way D-pad, two analog sticks, four action buttons, two shoulder buttons, start, select and play buttons. "Samsung says the system should support any device running Android 4.1 and later, but the Smartphone GamePad is optimized for Samsung devices running Android 4.3 or later," Linder explained. "Among other reasons, that's because Samsung's phones and tablets include 'AllShare' screen mirroring software which lets you stream content from your phone to your TV without wires, which means you can use the GamePad to turn your phone into a living room game console." NASA engineers crush fuel tank to build better rockets Massive stars mark out Milky Way's 'missing' arms

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Consumer food needs are evolving with protein now playing a bigger role in purchasing decisions (Glanbia Nutritionals, 2020). While soy and dairy lead the global supply of protein fortification ingredients (refer figure 1), pea protein is gaining momentum with its strong appeal in certain applications as a non-GM and allergy free alternative to soy (Glanbia Nutritionals, 2020). Global supply of protein fortification ingredients The new "go-to" protein Soy protein remains the go-to plant protein in meat and dairy alternatives, however issues with GM crop contamination and allergens are driving a shift towards non-soy alternatives (Glanbia Nutritionals, 2020). Pea protein is an up-and-coming plant protein for food manufacturers who wish to sidestep the issues surrounding soy (Glanbia Nutritionals, 2020). Pea protein can be derived from legume extraction and fractionation technologies, which have been developed mainly to extract proteins from legume seeds (Sherasia, Garg, & Bhanderi, 2017). This pea protein can be used as a fortification ingredient in plant-based foods. Alternatively, by-products (flour and husks) from legume harvesting and processing can be used as ingredients for plant-based foods given their high nutritional levels (20% protein, 40% fibre, 4% fat). In addition, pea pollard is highly cost effective, readily available and easily processed. Lentil and pea have been grown and harvested for more than 8500 years (Sherasia, Garg, & Bhanderi, 2017), yet the application of its by-product has been limited. Processing of legumes in Australia is conducted in food grade certified (HACCAP, ISO etc) facilities. It seems unthinkable that the by-products from legume processing are not used for food grade products, especially given the current consumer trends towards protein and plant-based foods. Food grade applications There has been a growing interest in the food industry towards the potential utilisation of legume by-products (Sherasia, Garg, & Bhanderi, 2017). High levels of protein can be utilised to create plant-based foods. Proteins enhance the feeling of satiety, lower blood sugar and improve metabolism. Legume flour can be used to produce high protein plant-based pasta, crisps, patties, nuggets, beverages, baby food, plant-based milk & cheeses and baked products (biscuits and snacks) (Sherasia, Garg, & Bhanderi, 2017). Despite the enormous potential the opportunity still remains open to improve the sustainability of these by-products and service the growing consumer demand for more plant-based (high protein) food alternatives. GrainOut is currently looking to partner with passionate and innovative starts up who are interested in developing plant-based food products. Please contact us on 0437 965 270, if would like to know more information. By admin|2020-12-17T06:35:09+00:00December 17th, 2020|Architecture|

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FLAT BELT DRIVES EBOOK » Pauls PDF. Find your flat belt pulley easily amongst the 16 products from the leading brands (Lovejoy, Baldor, ) on DirectIndustry, the industry specialist for your. Flat belts Open belt, Cross belt, Quarter turn, Compound, with idler pulleys, Stepped or cone pulley, Fast and loose pulley. Types of Flat Belt Drives. Velocity Ratio of a Belt. Drive. Slip of the Belt. Creep of Belt. Length of an Open Belt. Drive. Length of a Cross Belt. Idler pulleys are pressed against the belt and guide them. They change direction and increase the angle of contact. It can provide a high-velocity ratio. Idler pulleys can also reduce the vibration in the belt. Stepped or cone pulley drive They are used to get different velocity ratio during the power transfer. The driver shaft rotates flat belt drives constant speed, driven shaft flat belt drives run at a different speed as the belt shifting from one cone pulley to another. Advantage of the flat belt drive The flat belts are very simple in design and cheaper. Smooth running and quiet running. Narrow V-belts, flat belt drives a given width, offer higher power ratings than conventional V-belts. They have a greater depth-to-width ratio, placing more of the sheave under the reinforcing cord. These belts are suited for severe duty applications, including shock and high starting loads. Banded V-belts solve problems conventional multiple V-belt flat belt drives have with pulsating loads. The intermittent forces can induce a whipping action in multiple-belt systems, sometimes causing belts to turn over. The joined configuration avoids the need to order multiple belts as matched sets. Banded V-belts should not be mounted on deep-groove sheaves, which flat belt drives used to avoid turnover in standard V-belts. Such sheaves have the potential for cutting the band of joined belts. Extremely worn sheaves produce the same result. V-ribbed belts combine some of the best features of flat belts and V-belts. The thin belt operates efficiently and can run at high speeds. The ribs ensure the flat belt drives tracks flat belt drives, making alignment less critical than it is for flat belts. Synchronous belts Synchronous belts have a toothed profile that mates with corresponding grooves in the pulleys, providing the same positive engagement as gears or chains. They are used in applications where indexing, positioning, or a constant speed ratio is required. The first tooth profile used on synchronous belts was the trapezoidal shape Fig. It is still recognized as standard. Recent modifications to tooth profiles have improved on the original shape.

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