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The game is nearing the end of the opening quarter Saturday when my old friend I.C. Green begins whispering to me.
Oregon is leading Washington State 8-0 thanks to a blocked punt returned for a touchdown by Boseko Lokombo — and is on its way to a 43-28 win.
But the No. 7-ranked Ducks are playing as they would for most of the game: A bit lackadaisical.
The crowd isn't doing much better.
"Told you this place isn't as loud and crazy as it used to be," says I.C. quietly.
I look around from our seats above the east end zone and nod. It is pretty subdued, at least by Autzen standards.
"I guess that's what happens when you win so much," I offer up meekly.
It's been that kind of season for I.C., who attended the first game ever at Autzen against Colorado in 1967 and has been traipsing back ever since. He's happy the Ducks have won 17 consecutive league games and have become a national power but believes the team has yet to reach last year's level of intensity and excellence. What really gets under his skin, though, is what's been seen and heard from the stands.
It all began with the Nevada game, when the noise in Autzen was about as annoying as an electric lawnmower buzzing from the neighbor's yard. The crowd's performance fell another notch for Missouri State, but picked up a bit for California. It wasn't until the night game against Arizona State that the decibel levels met I.C.'s standards.
And now this up-and-down performance — both off and on the field — that is the Washington State game.
For the first time all game, the Ducks fans get antsy — and noisy enough that whispers won't work anymore.
Almost on cue, with WSU facing 3-and-7 from the Oregon 21, Duck safety Eddie Pleasant picks off a Marshall Lobbestael pass. The fans rise to their feet.
Moments later, Darron Thomas hits Lavasier Tuinei on a 55-yard touchdown pass to extend Oregon's lead to 15-3. After the Cougars miss a chip-shot field goal, the Ducks are on the march again behind the running of Kenjon Barner. But WSU's Damante Horton intercepts Thomas and returns it 76 yards for a TD.
With halftime on hand, I go and grab us a couple dogs — all the trimmings for I.C. Green. He wolfs his down faster than it takes the Harley to do its pregame run over the artificial turf. And then he begins reminiscing.
"You know I can remember when the sound was so deafening in here that you literally couldn't speak to the person next to you," I.C. says. "Against UCLA back in 1990, when Bill Musgrave led a great comeback to get us in the Freedom Bowl, the fans took over the stadium and willed that team to victory. The Duck players said later you could read defeat in the Bruin players' eyes.
So much for the memories. When fans fail to return promptly for the start of the third quarter Saturday, I.C. can't hold back.
"Where are they?" he bellows, staring intently at the covered south stands.
What was ready and present — maybe 40,000 of the 59,126 who had tickets — goes bonkers three plays later when freshman De'Anthony Thomas takes a pass from redshirt freshman QB Bryan Bennett, puts on the jets and jukes his way for a 45-yard score.
I pick up the specks and spot Thomas standing on the sidelines.
The Cougars promptly embark on another drive that eats up clock and results in more points, this time a field goal to cut the lead to 22-13. Oregon responds with a march of its own, culminating in a Bennett to Tuinei strike for a score. WSU then cuts the cap to 29-20 when Lobbestael hits Jared Karstetter for a 24-yard TD pass.
It isn't until De'Anthony Thomas returns the ensuing kickoff 92 yards to paydirt that victory finally seems at hand.
Thunderous applause bounces about the place. Then dies down. The Oregon lead stands at 36-20.
When Barner stretches the lead to 43-20 on a nifty run early in the fourth quarter, the fans begin filing out.
"Come on Ducks, let's finish this off. I want to be home by 4," shouts a woman behind us.
I.C. elbows me a good hard one in the ribs.
For a diehard Duck, it is nearly too much to take.
I remind I.C. that it's hard to stay engaged when a team develops a reputation of routinely scoring in the 40s and 50s and winning with ease, as has become the custom since Kelly took the helms of the program.
I offer up the idea that winning breeds complacency.
I suggest that in the not-too distant past, fans realized the Ducks needed that little extra. Now, perhaps not so much so.
"I hear ya. But you know what?" he says.
A few minutes later, as we, too, saunter out of Autzen under overcast skies, a slight cheer emanates from a group of tailgaters having a good time on the far east end of the parking lot, in the vicinity of where the new soccer complex is being built.
A wry smile crosses his face.
"A win is a win," he says. "Sometimes you play down to your opponent. You can't blast the joint every time. Heck, I still can speak. You can make out my words. So I wasn't at the top of my game, not by a long shot.
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The best resorts in Bali. Enjoy your next vacation with us.
Karma Group is a collection of luxury hotels and villas that have locations on four continents and in 23 countries. The group of hotels offers a mix of private villas with award-winning service and unique boutique resorts with all of the modern luxuries you deserve on your vacation. Karma Group Bali Resorts offers their guests the utmost in customer satisfaction and comfort, delivered at a reasonable price.
Read on to discover just why Karma Resorts is the best Bali accommodation on the island!
What do the best Bali resorts offer?
Pool(s): The hot, tropical sun can leave guests sweaty and uncomfortable after a long day of sightseeing. Taking a dip in a private plunge pool or the resort's infinity pool relieves that heat stress and becomes a daily routine during most guests stay in Bali.
Amazing service: The Balinese people are known for being friendly, welcoming and hospitable, both in and outside of the resort grounds. Having service that is delivered efficiently and well is a key aspect of some of the best resorts in Bali. This includes fast service and service that is delivered with a smile.
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Comfortable Rooms: Of course, the nicest resort grounds can be overlooked if you are staying in a less-than-perfect room. Comfortable beds and bedding, a large bathroom with good water pressure, air conditioning and clean everything are some of the things to look for when searching for the ideal accommodation.
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East Bali: On mainland Bali's southern shore is Royal Karma Candidasa. This property is perfect for a group with a variety of interests; excursions such as diving and snorkeling are also offered, as are spa treatments and beach access. This is a great location for those that are returning to Bali, have only been to the most populated, touristy areas and are looking to see another side of the island!
What do Karma Group properties offer that other Bali beach resorts can't?
While there are plenty of Bali beach resorts that offer beach access and infinity pools, Karma Group is seeking to provide accommodation options that go above and beyond what other resorts offer.
Karma Group offers 5-star service and facilities at a reasonable, affordable price. There are many property options, so finding the right accommodation in your preferred location is never difficult! Karma Group also offers several membership options, such as a membership that gives you 25% off onsite food and spa services, Karma investment opportunities, Karma points and fractional membership options.
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Karma Group has won several awards from a variety of travel sites and companies. The awards range from great service, best overall accommodation, great staff, good timeshare options and many, many more. What other resorts in Bali can boast the same?
By taking care of each and every customer's needs, customizing your trip for you or your party, Karma Group has earned a spot as one of the best resorts in Bali. Karma Group has award-winning facilities and staff at each location around the world, particularly in Bali.
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Die spanische Organisation Asociación Nacional de Afectados por las Adopciones Irregulares (Nationalverband für die Betroffenen irregulärer Adoptionen, kurz ANADIR) wurde am 11. Februar 2010 von Antonio Barroso gegründet. Sie setzt sich für die Rechte von Adoptionskindern ein, die während der Franco-Diktatur (1936 bis 1975) und wahrscheinlich auch in den ersten Folgejahren von ihren leiblichen Eltern getrennt wurden. Viele Babys und Kinder wurden systematisch ihren meist als regimekritisch oder missliebig betrachteten Eltern durch staatliche Organe weggenommen, in – oft kirchliche – Einrichtungen gebracht und von dort gegen teilweise hohe Summen weiterverkauft, häufig an kinderlose, dem Regime nahestehende Paare. Den leiblichen Eltern wurde häufig der Tod des Babys bzw. Kindes vorgetäuscht und eine bereits erfolgte Beerdigung mitgeteilt. Schätzungen gehen von bis zu 300.000 Entführungsopfern aus.
Der Verein setzt sich unter anderem zum Ziel,
die Entführungsopfer darin zu unterstützen, ihre leiblichen Eltern oder Geschwister zu finden,
ihnen bei der Suche nach der eigenen Identität und der Aufarbeitung der psychischen Folgen zu helfen,
eine juristische Aufarbeitung der Entführungen zu erreichen.
ANADIR reichte eine erste Sammelklage im Auftrag von 261 Entführungsopfern am 27. Januar 2011 bei der spanischen General-Staatsanwaltschaft (Fiscalía General del Estado) in Madrid ein.
Weblinks
offizielle Website (span.)
Spaniens verkaufte Kinder – Informationen zur Sendung des Auslandsjournals des ZDF vom 17. Mai 2011, abgerufen am 3. Juni 2011
Die verkaufte Schwester – Bericht bei jetzt.de der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 1. Mai 2011, abgerufen am 3. Juni 2011
Die "geraubten Kinder" in Spanien fordern Aufklärung – Artikel im Onlinemagazin Telepolis bei heise.de vom 13. Februar 2011, abgerufen am 3. Juni 2011
Einzelnachweise
Organisation (Madrid)
Gegründet 2010
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Following a successful civil suit against Kelly, the Manitoba government attempted to have the money from "extras" returned to the province by Kelly. The Manitoba Board of Appeal in May 1917 set the amount owed by Kelly to the province at $1.2 million. Pending the recovery of the money, the government held a $1 million caveat against the construction company Thomas Kelly & Sons.
In the end, the province would collect only $30,000 of the total owed, mostly from the confiscation of properties, including the house at 88 Adelaide Ave. which is now slated to become the headquarters of Heritage Winnipeg.
The government was also successful in having Thomas Kelly and Sons' contract annulled in court. A new contract was signed with J. McDiarmid Company for the completion of the Manitoba Legislative Building, which would not be finished until 1920.
Kelly served only nine months of his 2 1/2-year sentence. On Saturday, August 25, 1917, the Free Press reported Kelly was released "on parole on Thursday on the grounds of ill-health." It was later said Kelly was released because of a "severe nervous breakdown." Ill-health was also given as the reason Kelly received special privileges while serving his sentence.
News of his parole was sent to the Kellys in Winnipeg by the prison warden. Soon after, Kelly's son Charles arrived in the family Packard and drove the parolee to his home at Carlton and Assiniboine.
While the trials had ended, the scandal irrevocably tarnished the reputations of many high-profile Manitoba politicians, including Roblin, who built one of the most successful political machines in the province's history. Ironically, the political machine Roblin had assembled used its might to thwart the Liberals under whose banner Roblin originally entered the political arena in 1888. Roblin resigned as a Liberal MLA as a result of a dispute over the party's abolition of the dual system of Catholic and Protestant schools as well as the erosion of French language rights in the courts and legislature. He sat as an independent until joining the Conservatives, succeeding Hugh John Macdonald as premier in 1900.
Essentially, the conclusion reached by historians is that Roblin was an otherwise good premier and honourable man caught up in the nasty web of political intrigue permeating the era.
The very partisanship of the political landscape made it ripe for abuse, and no party could claim to be unscathed while engaged in the pursuit of power.
Manitoba parties at first relied upon railways to fund their election campaigns, soliciting donations in exchange for favourable — although rather suspect — treatment. But by the early 1900s, this source of revenue was drying up and grand construction projects funded through the public purse offered another opportunity. Investigations of elections in three constituencies in 1913 and 1914 found that less than half the money earmarked for roads actually was used in their construction with the "left-over" funds ending up in party coffers.
But financial skullduggery was just one of many weapons employed by parties. At election time, politicians enlisted the aid of civil servants, sending them out to do their bidding in order to gain votes or secure the loyalty of party faithful.
The newspaper was right as Roblin called a provincial election for July 10, 1914.
In an era when the civil service was not immune from partisan politics, workers appointed or hired by one government could be fired with the election of another party. To avoid the unemployment line, workers willingly did the bidding of their political masters to whom they owed their patronage positions.
Parties in power tampered with voters' lists — voter registration was in the hands of government appointees who weren't averse to removing other parties' supporters from the list — and the redistribution of ridings to make it more likely they would be re-elected.
All parties bribed voters with liquor and cash. Liberal MLA Hart Green reported that an outhouse near Chatfield contained two barrels of beer and a number of whiskey bottles brought from Winnipeg by Conservative "heelers" to sway voters during a 1913 Gimli byelection .
Ballot boxes in key ridings went missing or were burned under suspicious circumstances or boxes were stuffed to "steal" elections. Elections were sometimes marred by violence with supporters of one party slugging it out with the opposition.
When candidates were unsuccessful, it was not uncommon for them to accuse successful candidates of some alleged wrong-doing in an attempt to have the courts overturn the election results. Newspapers of the day are filled with accounts of legal actions — "protests" or "petitions" by losers against their opponents.
A report indicated 120 "protests" were filed following elections between 1887 and 1915 against political opponents. In the 1914 election alone, 10 protests were filed against Liberal candidates while seven were filed against Conservatives. The number of protests were high, but only a couple resulted in a full investigation.
Partisan newspapers riled against the so-called misdeeds of the opposition, but failed to report on the abuses of the parties they supported. Even when a government did something good or a party proposed a measure that would benefit Manitobans, a partisan opposition newspaper would seize upon some relatively minor fault — real or imagined — that could be used to pen a vicious criticism.
Roblin's most dogged critic was Free Press editor John Dafoe, a partisan Liberal writing for a partisan Liberal newspaper. The Conservatives had their own editorial support in party organs such as the Winnipeg Telegram.
The Manitoba Legislative Building scandal was a turning point in provincial politics as it took what had previously been regarded as an accepted practice of the political game a step too far — the scale of the misappropriation of funds was so gargantuan that it couldn't be ignored. No longer were Manitobans exposed to a stretch of rural road construction going over budget and a few thousand dollars finding its way into party coffers; instead, they were confronted with a massive misappropriation of funds meant for the erection of the grand edifice slated to be a highly-visible symbol of Manitoba's progress.
While the Norris Liberal government initially benefited from the scandal, the mood of Manitobans had been soured against partisan politics. Out of the ashes of scandal, the United Farmers of Manitoba rose to prominence by promising to remove the ugly blight of party politics from the province.
Norris' Liberals only held onto power for a few years, despite implementing some of this province's most socially progressive legislation, including the vote for women, and running election campaigns as the "purity party." Regardless of how benevolently Norris ruled, the promise of non-partisan government made by the UFM resonated with voters. The political winds shifted into a bitter blast against old-style parties, resulting in the UFM making inroads in the 1920 provincial election and finally forming the government in 1922. In the latter election, the Conservatives only received 16 per cent of the popular vote, while Liberal support was slightly higher at 23 per cent and Labour's support was 16 per cent.
With just 33 per cent of the popular vote, the UFM won 50 per cent of the available seats as the movement benefited from the two-to-one ratio of rural to urban ridings. Despite UFM's limited success in Winnipeg (one candidate elected), it had the financial and political support of many of the city's most prominent and influential business leaders such as John Ashdown, who had drifted away from mainstream political parties in the wake of the scandal.
"The revelations of the moral obtuseness of party workers and even ministers of the Crown, of things which were done to raise funds to fight blindly partisan elections of the day, discredited the party system in Manitoba," wrote Morton.
The fact that numerous Royal Commissions and inquiries were appointed to investigate alleged Liberal and Conservative shenanigans did little to dispel public cynicism.
Deeply suspicious of party politics, voters also came to the conclusion that if the Liberals were given the same opportunity as the Conservatives, they too would have unapologetically raided the public treasury.
It wouldn't be until the election of Duff Roblin, the grandson of Sir Rodmond Roblin, and a Conservative government in 1958 that the by then worn-out "coalition" politics of Brackenism — named after the UFM's first leader John Bracken — ended and true party politics returned to Manitoba.
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Deep Cabaret is the culmination of bandleader Steve Lewis' life's work: to make a band that curates all the musics that fascinate him - jazz, improv, African, folk and leftfield pop. To use that music to set fragments of text taken from novels, journalism, spiritual and other texts that have interesting things to say about being human.
Deep Cabaret is a thing of riffs and drones. Hurdies, bagpipes, bass clarinets, cellos and the beguilingly unsettling harmonics of overtone singing. Desert blues improv and noir-drenched dronesongs; fulsomely romantic and coruscatingly edgy. Mashed-up lyrics lifted from neuroscience, slavery, fiction and Cole Porter covers all "pickled in the juices of the peat".
Deep Cabaret emerged fully-formed from the intertidal mudflats and cowbelly quicksands of Morecambe Bay creating an entrancement of riffs and drones. Desert blues improv and noir-drenched drone songs; hurdies, bagpipes, throat singing, cello, bass clarinet and drums make sparkling jazz, rooted folk and torching vocals. The music is fulsome and romantic one moment, edgy and disturbing the next. Lyrics sampled from literature, science, sitcoms, anything that has something interesting to say about being human.
Steve Lewis : vocals, guitar
Steve Lewis has been a vocalist, guitarist, percussionist, improviser, songwriter, community musician and bandleader for 30 + years. His 'Deep Cabaret' projects, from solo torch songs to African dance band to 15-piece improvised opera have in common a desire to explore the musics that most fascinate him. This most recent manifestation is the culmination of that work curating jazz, improv, African, folk and leftfield pop to set fragments of text taken from novels, journalism, spiritual and other texts that have important things to say about being human.
Maja Bugge : cello
Maja Bugge is a Norwegian cellist and composed who since 1998 has created a large body of work both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others for a number of organisations and companies that include Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Art (LICA), Oslo Moderne Teater, the National Theatre Oslo, Beaivvas Theater, NING, Katma Productions and Opera Omnia. She has a particular interest in devising work with and for children and young people, winning several prizes and scholarships, including The Cultural Rucksack Norway's best performance in 2010 for Usynlig. (www.majabugge.com)
Ben McCabe : drums, vocals
Ben McCabe is a drummer, French horn player and singer and has played high profile festivals and had national radio airplay with Paddy Garrigan and The Stroller Priests, Natural Causes, Kollega, as well as Deep Cabaret, to name a few. He is the musical director of Off The Rails creative jazz orchestra and plays drums with ceilidh band Striding Edge. Additionally, Ben is a Creative Producer at More Music, an internationally renowned Community Music charity based in the West End of Morecambe where he programmes and commissions gigs, festivals, workshops and more.
Matt Robinson : clarinets, baritone saxophone, alto flute
Matt is a manically busy jazz, recording and street musician who has amassed a vast knowledge of music practice and ambitious creative project working, built up from working internationally as a clarinettist and composer with hundreds of artistic creators from almost every discipline over the last 15 years. Matt has also worked extensively 'on the other side' of the business; managing, producing and promoting unique music events, strange performance arts pieces, contemporary jazz festivals, community music workshops. (www.mattrobinsonjazz.net)
Paul Sherwood : hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes
Paul is a multi-instrumentalist and has had a passion for drone-based music since he discovered the hurdy-gurdy about 16 years ago. As well as playing in Deep Cabaret Paul performs in Avant Deux, Quercus, and with Boom Bike Bourrée, a band that fuses medieval and folk music with hip hop beats through a mobile sound system. Paul has most recently taken on the bagpipes, playing various instruments ranging from the sonorous low D English Border pipe to the bright and powerful Galician gaita. (www.paulsherwood.net)
Jayson Stilwell : Overtone vocals, percussion
Jayson Stilwell is an overtone singer, drummer and percussionist and has appeared on BBC TV and ITV as well as Radio 1, Radio 6, XFM and Talksport in addition to numerous regional TV and radio stations in the UK, USA & Europe. As a drummer he worked with Emmy Award-winning Flight of the Conchords and the band Family Machine. Overtoning led Jayson to Tuva in Eastern Siberia to spend time with the local throat singers, shamen and nomads. His written work on the healing and meditative power of the voice has appeared in national publications and books.
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Want to say the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning? Click Here and tell me why and we could call on you to provide the pledge.
A native of Philadelphia, PA and graduate of Rutgers University with a masters degree from Gardner-Webb University, Ms. Walker worked for over 20 years in finance and accounting in the 'City of Brotherly Love' (Philadelphia), as well as, the 'Big Apple' (New York City). A decision to change careers to teaching came post 9/11. The experience, of being in NYC that day, really motivated and contributed to a change in world-view and a desire to impact positive change in the world through education.
My Mission is to leave a legacy of learning through laughter, that lifts the world to a little bit better and brighter place.
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Buy now or save later? Recent YouGov survey conduct by Post Office resulted in 39% of Brits would take out a Personal Loan instead of saving.
That's what came out of a new and exclusive YouGov poll for Post Office. They asked over 2,000 Brits about their buying and borrowing habits. The research found that we've become a nation of borrowers who take out personal loans for the things we really need, not the things we want. When we think about borrowing money, we ask ourselves more questions. Like 'are personal loans worth it?' And 'should I get a car loan?'. We're still borrowing. Just looking harder before we leap.
Prefer to save for the things you want and get them later? You're not alone. YouGov found that a huge 89% of us are not likely to take out a personal loan to pay for something we really want but isn't essential. Borrowing money to pay for a new kitchen is regarded as ok. We use our kitchens every day to feed our families. The same goes for cars. When the car fails its MOT, we need to fix or replace it so we can do the school run or get to work. The thing we're using the loan to pay for has to be critical. It all boils down to Britain being more responsible about borrowing.
In the noughties, we had a 'want it, get it now with a loan' attitude to borrowing money. But things have changed. Now we think of things like holidays and weddings as wants, not needs. Only 8% of us would borrow to pay for a wedding. There's a big difference between the number of us who would get a loan for a wedding, and those who would borrow to pay for cars and home repairs.
There's widespread support for the government to keep a closer eye on lenders. Brits want to borrow from a brand we know and trust. It turns out that 'are personal loans worth it?' and 'should I take out a car loan?' are really about deciding which brands we trust to lend us money on fair terms. We're also likely to ask ourselves more questions before we go ahead. Like which bank is best for personal loan interest rates and flexible repayment terms? Does refinancing a personal loan hurt your credit? We're becoming smarter about our borrowing.
Personal loans, interest rates and charges can be confusing. That's why it's important to borrow from a brand you can trust to talk you through the options. One that provides tools like calculators and checkers that help with budgeting and planning.
Post Office Personal Loans are provided by Bank of Ireland UK. You can borrow from £1,000-£25,000 over 1-7 years. Usually, you'd need to apply for a loan to find out whether or not you'd get it, which marks your credit file. Not anymore.
Use the Fast Checker to see if you're likely to get the loan before you apply for it – without affecting your credit score.
Get an instant online decision in most cases.
You could see the funds in your account the next day.
When you can afford to, you can choose to make penalty-free overpayments. That can help you reduce the balance, save interest and shorten the term of the loan.
Survey carried out online by YouGov plc, among 2,097 GB adults aged 18+. Data is weighted to be representative of the GB population. Fieldwork ran from 18th – 19th September 2018.
Post Office Money® credit cards, personal loans and overdrafts are provided exclusively by Bank of Ireland (UK) plc.
Post Office Limited is a credit broker and not a lender. Post Office Limited is an appointed representative of Bank of Ireland (UK) plc which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Post Office Limited is registered in England and Wales. Registered Number 2154540. Registered Office: Finsbury Dials, 20 Finsbury Street, London, EC2Y 9AQ. Post Office Money and the Post Office Money logo are registered trademarks of Post Office Limited. Our FCA Register number is 409080. You can confirm our registration on the FCA's website (www.the-fca.org.ukopens in new window).
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Yoka Berretty, artiestennaam van Johanna Ernstina Petrusa Meijeringh (Rotterdam, 8 mei 1928 – Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland), 28 november 2015), was een Nederlandse actrice en zangeres.
Biografie
Berretty studeerde aanvankelijk piano aan het conservatorium maar moest door een peesontsteking stoppen. Daarna volgde ze schildersles op de Rijksacademie te Amsterdam. Ze trouwde met de fotograaf Dominique Berretty met wie ze een dochter kreeg. Het huwelijk duurde niet lang.
Berretty volgde een opleiding aan de Actors Studio in New York en kreeg mimelessen van Marcel Marceau en Étienne Decroux in Parijs. Ze begon haar carrière als actrice in Italiaanse speelfilms als Angela (1955, Edoardo Anton, Dennis O'Keefe) de hitfilm Pane, amore e... (1955, Dino Risi), La banda degli onesti (1956, Camillo Mastrocinque) en Gli occhi senza luce (1956, Flavio Calzavara), en speelde in internationale producties als The Last Blitzkrieg (1959, Arthur Dreifuss) en Das letzte Kapitel (1961, Wolfgang Liebeneiner). Een rol in Il bidone (1955) van Fellini sloeg ze af.
In 1959 presenteerde Berretty het eerste Nederlandse goededoelenprogramma op televisie, Redt een Kind.
Begin jaren zestig was ze een van de hoofdpersonen in de satirische televisieserie Zo is het toevallig ook nog eens een keer en had ze een rol in de Nederlandse speelfilm De Overval.
In 1985 speelde ze de rol van moeder in de film De Prooi, waarin ook Rijk de Gooijer een kleine rol speelde. In 1994 speelde zij een rol in de film Eva van Theo van Gogh.
Berretty was later gehuwd met Andreas Landshoff, zoon van de uitgever Fritz Helmut Landshoff en de Duitse actrice Ruth Hellberg, en is de moeder van regisseur Benjamin Landshoff.
Ze overleed 28 november 2015 op 87-jarige leeftijd in een ziekenhuis, nadat ze een week eerder van een trap was gevallen.
Filmografie
Pane, amore e... (1955) - speelt Zweedse toeriste in een film van Dino Risi
Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas (1960) - mevrouw Lomijn
Stemmen (1972), eenakter van Wim T. Schippers
Rufus (1975) - Theresa
Charlotte (film) (1981) - Frau Morgan
De Dageraad (tv serie) (1991) - Josephine Taylor
Eindeloos leven (tv serie) (1994) - Eva
Advocaat van de Hanen (1996) - moeder Quispel
In het belang van de staat (1997) - mevrouw Den Dulk
Baantjer (tv serie) aflevering: De Cock en de moord op ome Arie (2000) - Leentje
Nederlands acteur
Nederlands zanger
Pseudoniem
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Key cabinet with electronic locking device adds higher security to protect important keys. 30-key capacity cabinet is made of welded heavy-gauge steel with full piano hinges. Interior holds numbered, writable white key tags with chrome-plated steel hooks. Use the included key control chart to record lock and/or key location for better organization. A supply of yellow key loaned tags is included to identify your current users of secured keys. The door handle features an easy-open lock. Electronic locks provide up to eight number keypad codes for enhanced security. Three wrong entries result in an alarm and automatic lockout. The key cabinet offers two manual override keys for emergency opening. Handsome two-tone design also features a low-battery indicator and rich scratch-resistant, Silver Vein powder-coat enamel. Electronic key cabinet includes four AA batteries for operation.
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Season 5, Episode 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier
LIVE 11/27/17 5PM EASTERN: I can't wait to talk with award-winning writer Amina Gautier about her latest book of stories that has been scooping up a ton of prizes. This will be Amina's second visit to the podcast and she is always inspiring. Don't miss it! -Heidi Durrow
I can't wait to talk with Amina Gautier about her book The Loss of All Lost Things. #multiracial
Amina Gautier, Ph.D., is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award, The First Horizon Award, and the Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Award, a National Silver Medal IPPY Award and was a Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize. The Loss of All Lost Things was awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award, the Royal Palm Literary Award, the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award, the International Latino Book Award, a National Silver Medal IPPY Award, and was also shortlisted for the SFC Literary Prize, and was a Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. More than ninety-five of her stories have been published, appearing in African American Review, Agni, Callaloo, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Quarterly West. Gautier has won the Crazyhorse Prize, Danahy Fiction Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the William Richey Prize, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction and received fellowships, residencies, and scholarships from Breadloaf Writer's Conference, The Carmago Foundation, The Château de Lavigny, Dora Maar/Brown Foundation, Disquiet International, Hawthornden, Kimbilio, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, Sewanee Writer's Conference, Ucross Foundation, VCCA, and Vermont Studio Center.
Filed Under: Books, Episodes
Host Heidi Durrow
Heidi Durrow is the New York Times best-selling writer of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky and the founder of the original mixed roots film and book festival and now the founder of Mixed Remixed Festival , an annual film, book and performance festival, which will be held next on June 10-11, 2016 at … [Read More]
Season 5, Episode 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier November 14, 2017
Season 5, Episode 2: New York Times Bestselling Writer Julie Lythcott-Haims October 12, 2017
Season 4, Episode 19: Writer/Literary Critic Janet Savage July 3, 2017
Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Paula Gunn Allen, writer and scholar May 17, 2017
Mixed Experience History Month 2017: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Educator & Activist May 16, 2017
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"""
Example Airflow DAG for Google Cloud Storage GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator operator.
"""
import os
from datetime import datetime
from pathlib import Path
from airflow import models
from airflow.models.baseoperator import chain
from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs import (
GCSCreateBucketOperator,
GCSDeleteBucketOperator,
GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator,
)
from airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.local_to_gcs import LocalFilesystemToGCSOperator
from airflow.utils.trigger_rule import TriggerRule
ENV_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_ENV_ID")
PROJECT_ID = os.environ.get("SYSTEM_TESTS_GCP_PROJECT")
DAG_ID = "gcs_transform_timespan"
BUCKET_NAME_SRC = f"bucket_{DAG_ID}_{ENV_ID}"
BUCKET_NAME_DST = f"bucket_dst_{DAG_ID}_{ENV_ID}"
SOURCE_GCP_CONN_ID = DESTINATION_GCP_CONN_ID = "google_cloud_default"
FILE_NAME = "example_upload.txt"
SOURCE_PREFIX = "timespan_source"
DESTINATION_PREFIX = "timespan_destination"
UPLOAD_FILE_PATH = str(Path(__file__).parent / "resources" / FILE_NAME)
TRANSFORM_SCRIPT_PATH = str(Path(__file__).parent / "resources" / "transform_timespan.py")
with models.DAG(
DAG_ID,
schedule_interval='@once',
start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
catchup=False,
tags=["gcs", "example"],
) as dag:
create_bucket_src = GCSCreateBucketOperator(
task_id="create_bucket_src",
bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME_SRC,
project_id=PROJECT_ID,
)
create_bucket_dst = GCSCreateBucketOperator(
task_id="create_bucket_dst",
bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME_DST,
project_id=PROJECT_ID,
)
upload_file = LocalFilesystemToGCSOperator(
task_id="upload_file",
src=UPLOAD_FILE_PATH,
dst=f"{SOURCE_PREFIX}/{FILE_NAME}",
bucket=BUCKET_NAME_SRC,
)
# [START howto_operator_gcs_timespan_file_transform_operator_Task]
gcs_timespan_transform_files_task = GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator(
task_id="gcs_timespan_transform_files",
source_bucket=BUCKET_NAME_SRC,
source_prefix=SOURCE_PREFIX,
source_gcp_conn_id=SOURCE_GCP_CONN_ID,
destination_bucket=BUCKET_NAME_DST,
destination_prefix=DESTINATION_PREFIX,
destination_gcp_conn_id=DESTINATION_GCP_CONN_ID,
transform_script=["python", TRANSFORM_SCRIPT_PATH],
)
# [END howto_operator_gcs_timespan_file_transform_operator_Task]
delete_bucket_src = GCSDeleteBucketOperator(
task_id="delete_bucket_src", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME_SRC, trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE
)
delete_bucket_dst = GCSDeleteBucketOperator(
task_id="delete_bucket_dst", bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME_DST, trigger_rule=TriggerRule.ALL_DONE
)
chain(
# TEST SETUP
[create_bucket_src, create_bucket_dst],
upload_file,
# TEST BODY
gcs_timespan_transform_files_task,
# TEST TEARDOWN
[delete_bucket_src, delete_bucket_dst],
)
from tests.system.utils.watcher import watcher
# This test needs watcher in order to properly mark success/failure
# when "tearDown" task with trigger rule is part of the DAG
list(dag.tasks) >> watcher()
from tests.system.utils import get_test_run # noqa: E402
# Needed to run the example DAG with pytest (see: tests/system/README.md#run_via_pytest)
test_run = get_test_run(dag)
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Temperature difference along 30° S (longitude vs. depth) in February for simulations with the new model development and World Ocean Atlas 2013 version 2 climatology.
Numerical forecasts for ocean, weather, and climate play an important role in our daily life as accurate predictions help us plan day‐to‐day activities. However, our prediction ability so far has been much lower than expected. For example, some ocean models simulate a warmer sea surface temperature and cooler subsurface (30–100 m deep) temperature in subtropical oceans, especially in summer, which can lead to errors in the weather and climate forecasting. This is usually alleviated by distributing solar radiation in the upper ocean rather than only heating up the ocean surface. Although shortwave penetration makes some improvement on ocean model performance, it is still far from solving the common simulated temperature bias in the upper ocean.
In a joint collaboration between Chinese scientists from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences in Qingdao and German partners at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, the simulated temperature has considerably improved by incorporating the mixing induced by nonbreaking surface waves into the new generation ocean model FESOM. The multi-resolution Finite Element Sea ice‐Ocean Model (FESOM) has shown great capability in reconstructing the ocean and sea ice in both standalone and coupled simulations at a relatively low computational cost. Parameterisations of some important processes, including the vertical mixing induced by surface waves, however, were still missing, contributing to temperature biases in the upper ocean. This new model development will help climate scientists to better simulate the ocean surface and therefore also some important processes such as the South Asian summer monsoon system.
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Jackie Greene joins the 5th Annual Nolafunk Jazzfest Series: Dead Feat & Voodoo Dead II
NEW ORLEANS, LA (January 28, 2015) – Nolafunk is proud to present the initial lineup for its 5th Annual Nolafunk Jazzfest Series. This year features a number of incredibly special performances from musicians inside and out of the New Orleans cultural sphere; however they all embrace the spirit and essence of the city. The series has kept to its tradition of unique lineup pairings, combining older musicians with younger ones, as well as national acts with local ones.
Jackie Greene will be performing with Dead Feat, a band that performs Grateful Dead and Little Feat, and comprised of Anders Osborne, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat, Jackie Greene, John Gros, Brady Blade, and Carl Dufrene.
Jackie will also be joining this year's Voodoo Dead II line-up along with Steve Kimock, Jeff Chimenti, Jackie Greene, George Porter Jr., JM Kimock, and special guests to be announced. Full announced lineup below.
Under the Nolafunk moniker, Manhattan-based CEG honors the musical heroes and spirit of New Orleans in New York City all year round, producing concerts in the Big Apple featuring many of the Big Easy's finest musicians, such as Dr. John & the Nite Trippers, Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, Eric Lindell, Jon Cleary, Marc Broussard and many more. In addition, CEG amasses all-star Nola-centric lineups for both the annual Nolafunk Mardi Gras Ball and the annual Nolafunk Summer Jazzfest. CEG & Nolafunk have had a long history producing shows in New Orleans since 2007.
Fans can sign up for the Nolafunk email list at www.nolafunk.com/nola for exclusive access to purchase tickets weeks before anyone else and at a discount. Shows go on sale to the general public Wednesday February 10 at 12pm EST / 11am CST. Tickets are available through Ticketweb.com, Nolafunk.com/nola, and (866) 777- 8932.
Dead Feat featuring Anders Osborne, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat, Jackie Greene, Brady Blade, Carl Dufrene, John Gros Saturday April 23, 2016 9pm Doors 10pm Show
Howlin' Wolf $47.50 Advance GET TICKETS
Dead Feat featuring Anders Osborne, Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett of Little Feat, Jackie Greene, Brady Blade, Carl Dufrene & more Sunday April 24, 2016 9pm Doors 10pm Show
Voodoo Dead II featuring Steve Kimock, Jackie Greene, Jeff Chimenti, George Porter Jr., JM Kimock + special guests 2 Shows! Late Nite Saturday at 2AM (technicallySunday May 1, 2016) and Sunday May 1 at 10PM
Republic New Orleans $47.50 Advance GET TICKETS
Source: http://www.jackiegreene.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/JazzFest-2016-Voodoo-Dead-II-and-Dead-Feat--e1461098043438.jpg
Tagged: Anders Osborne, Dead Feat, Fred Tackett, JazzFest, Jeff Chimenti, Little Feat, Nolafunk Paul Barrere, Steve Kimock, Voodoo Dead
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Ideal for hosting. Savor the juicy grape flavor that makes this Grape Fizz cocktail so unique. A splash of ginger ale provides just the right amount of bubbly.
Pour ingredients over ice in a highball glass. Top with ginger ale.
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Biden administration backs Hezbollah supporters in Bangladesh
Myanmar-backed ARSA terrorists entering India
Fresher conspiracy against Bangladesh
Tajul Islam
Biden administration is continuing support and patronization to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is on record a diehard supporter of Lebanese terrorist entity Hezbollah. According to media reports, leaders of BNP consider Hezbollah as a heroic organization while back in 2006, it had named a bridge as 'Hezbollah Bridge', while a senior leader of BNP told AFP: "I named the bridge Hezbollah because of our love for the Lebanese resistance group.
"Hezbollah is the only group which is fighting Israel and the bridge is named after the group as a mark of honor", he added.
According to media reports, in 2006 then coalition government of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami named a bridge as 'Hezbollah Bridge' honoring Lebanese terrorist group. The bridge is located in the southern part of the South Asian country, spanning the Batakhali River in an area known as Cox's Bazaar. Junior communications minister Salahuddin Ahmed named the bridge after the Lebanese group at the height of Hezbollah's war with Israel.
The bridge was renamed in 2013 by Awami League government.
Bangladesh's former Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan and a senior leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) issued several strong statements on the war, calling Israel's actions "state terrorism" and "religious terrorism" and accusing the United States of sponsoring it.
Although the United States has identified Hezbollah as a terrorist group, and the Bangladesh government has been trying to convince US lawmakers that it is a "moderate" Muslim country, the government has taken no action to revoke the honor. During Hezbollah's recent war with Israel, several Arab and Muslim countries were muted in their condemnations of the Jewish state and equivocal about supporting Hezbollah.
Also read There's nothing sort of good terrorism and the bad terrorism – John Bolton
For the past several years, Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its political and ideological ally Jamaat-e-Islami have been spending millions of dollars towards lobbyist activities in Washington and London with the ulterior motive of defaming Awami League led secularist government in Bangladesh. Former US diplomat William B Milam is leading this anti-Bangladesh and pro-Islamist agendas of BNP and Jamaat in the US.
William Bryant Milam is an American diplomat, and is Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Milam was a career diplomat. He retired from the United States Foreign Service at the end of July 2001 but was recalled after September 11, and spent nine months helping to set up the multilateral mechanism for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. He was also recalled to serve as interim Charge d'Affairs at the United States Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, prior to the re-establishment of a permanent American ambassadorial post to Libya. His last post before retirement was as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan where he served from August 1998 to July 2001.
Willaim B Milam was US Ambassador to Bangladesh from August 1990 to October 1993.
According to information, Milam also is the president of an entity named 'Right to Freedom' in the United States. This entity is funded by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and works as a lobbyist for this pro-Islamist party.
Related Topics:Bangladesh, Biden, BNP, Hezbollah
Tajul Islam is a Special Correspondent of Blitz.
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Remember June's special sale on greetings!
No limits and get them on any order type (workshop, customer, or online).
I have been meaning to share this card for awhile, but it just kept getting pushed back in the "queue". A friend came over awhile ago for a stamping day, and she had this idea for using the Paper Doily Sizzlits L Die on a gate fold card.
I happened to have one of the doilies already cut out using Tangerine Tango card stock, so I got working with what would go with that and came up with this card using the International Bazaar DSP from the recently retired catalog. The other card stock colors used are Whisper White, Pool Party, and Pacific Point (or was it Island Indigo?). Well, one of those blues anyway. The ribbon is from Sale-a-Bration.
What do you think? The doily is attached on the outside edges, but the ribbon is threaded through a couple of the openings at the center so the card can be tied closed.
I added some butterflies punched with the Elegant Butterfly punch and the Bitty Butterfly punch, and the Beautiful Wings Embosslits (still one of my favorites), and accented them with Basic Pearls. I was pleased with the end result.
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A Fel Crystal at Magisters' Terrace.
Not to be confused with Burning Crystal or Mana crystal.
Fel crystals, also known as demonic crystals, are floating crystals that are used to imprison and store demonic energies or entities.
The blood elves notably enslaved the fel by imprisoning demons, which they used to maintain their architectural structures. As of the Invasion of Pandaria, the fel crystals of Quel'Thalas seem to be gone or depleted of their imprisoned demons, as Grand Magister Rommath states that the crystals were "once" used to enslave demonic energy.
The Burning Legion makes extensive use of fel crystals as power batteries and anchors for their various structures and defenses such as the spires of woe.
When the blood elves in Quel'Thalas suffered from lack of magic, they sucked it from small crystals called mana crystals. At least one crystal, which Lor'themar Theron sent through Halduron Brightwing to Lady Liadrin when she was living in the Ghostlands, was described as green. Whether this means that the crystal was fel is unclear. Rommath too wore a green-colored amulet, yet its power was described to be arcane in nature. The relation, if any, between the novella's crystals and these is unclear.
A cluster of Burning Crystals.
Manga depiction of Dath'Remar and the crystals that resemble the current fel crystals in Silvermoon City.
The blood elves use demonic energy to maintain their architectural structures.
Blue crystals in ancient Quel'Thalas from World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1.
The crystals of Sunstrider Isle, called Burning Crystals, may be fel crystals.
The Sunwell Trilogy manga's depiction of crystals that look like fel crystals of current day existing since before the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas may be not canon, as the blood elves did not turn to using demonic energy until long after Arthas' attack. The crystals powering Silvermoon City's magics were depicted as blue in World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1 and it is possible that the blood elves substituted the powering of these crystals with demonic fel energy, a fact not made clear in the game, while the crystals themselves were already there long before. This would make sense on several levels, as while the blood elves did not know that they were using demonic energy, they acquired their glowing green eyes just by living in proximity to it - the fel crystals strewn around Quel'Thalas were likely the source of the power mentioned to be upholding the blood elves' structures in place of the Sunwell, which did the same before its destruction. The blood elves, of course, were living around these crystals during this time.
Similar red crystals called Bloodgem Crystals, primarily used by the blood elves in Outland, are used in similar ways. They can be siphoned by players if they have a [Bloodgem Shard]. Blood elf mages suggest that the crystals are blue in their natural state, and that crimson was simply a cosmetic choice.
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Vedsheree steps in witch circle. Guru Maa says I am sorry, we have to save devik at this time as only she can kill a witch, she leaves.
Piya is stuck in Mohana's casket and Vedsheree ges influenced by Mohana.
Priest comes to Vedsheree and says I have brought a weapon that can kill witch. Priest asks to bring Ruby somewhere alone, nobody should know and doubt. Vedsheree turns and smirks. Mohana asks Vedsheree to get Ansh and Ruby married. Vedsheree says to Shekhar that we cant delay their wedding, lets start pheras. Priest is stunned and calls Sushant. Chitali says we should do aarti first. Priest thinks that Ruby will go away in aarti and I will get a chance to finish her.
be tired, Vedsheree says I will take her to room. She takes her from there. Ruby thinks why Vedsheree is delaying marriage?
Neha says to Ansh that wedding keeps getting delayed, its a sign, stop this wedding.
In room, Vedsheree asks Ruby to come inside. Ruby see her foot marks and thinks that Vedsheree got to know about my truth?
Priest opens power trishul box and holds it. He recalls how Sushant that when you attack witch with it, attack on her heart only then she will die.
Ruby goes towards Vedsheree and locks door. She smirks.
Officer comes to wedding, he comes to Avi and says I want to discuss it.
Mohana makes Vedsheree talk to Ruby. Vedsheree says wedding is delayed but we have to do it fast. Ruby takes off her dupatta and shows her long hair.
Officer shows his daughter's diary and says she used to study in Dehradun, he shows her picture of college in which Ruby is there too, he says Ruby in Dehradun? Officer says if she did graduation in 2016 in Dehradun then why she is in Ansh's college? something is fishy.
Ruby grabs Vedsheree by hair. Mohana is stunned and says what is Ruby doing? Vedsheree is struggling and says to Ruby that I am with you, I am here to help you. Ruby says you know my truth so I have to close your mouth forever. Mohana tries to stop Ruby. Ruby eats away Vedsheree's age.
Priest comes in Ruby's room and is shocked to see Ruby eating away Vedsheree's age and attacking her. He takes some pious water and throws it on Ruby. Ruby leaves Vedsheree before she can die. Ruby says to priest that you are still alive? you wont be safe now. She jumps to attack him but priest throws trishul at her, it hits in her heart, Ruby becomes stone statue and falls down on floor. Vedsheree is stunned. Mohana sees it and says no this cant happen, I have been waiting for my freedom for 18 years, this cant happen. Vedsheree says to priest that what happened? Priest says she has become a statue, soon it will blacken and we will be free from her. Vedsheree says all must be waiting for bride, what to do? we have to do something. Ansh is coming to their room with parsad. Priest says to Vedsheree that I will prepare to hide her statue. He opens door and sees Ansh there.
Avi says to Ruby's fake parents that Ruby used to study in Dehradun, are you hiding something from us? Avi calls Shekhar and says I have to tell you something.
Ansh tries to go in room but Vedsheree comes to door and says I called priest to take evil eye away from Ruby. Ansh asks where is Ruby? Vedsheree has hidden statue behind cupboard. She is in washroom, I will bring her down, you leave with priest. Priest whispers to Vedsheree that soon she will blacken and we will be free from her, we just have to wait a little, he leaves. Vedsheree smirks.
Mohana says everything is finished, I wont be able to free myself now.
PRECAP- Mohana says soon Ruby will be alive again and then nobody can stop me from getting freed from this room, not even devik. Suddenly Piya rises from casket, her energy and light starts burning Mohana, Mohana screams. Piya looks on.
Oho…Promo is super..i didn't see the episode..i understand it only from this update..That means the characters have some kind of perfectism..😃Well waiting for next episode.
Which promo did you see? Can you sent me the link?
Eye-catching promo, great episode, today.
I saw a pic of ansh n ruby actors, where ruby is wearing magalsutra. If they get married, i am not going to watch this show on tv anymore.
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The challenge is on for pairs of year five and year six school pupils to grate, slice, cook, create and plate a vegetable-based meal from 'root to tip', and there's still time to enter a team!
Root to Tip Competition 2018, run by Garden to Table, with the support of RaboDirect, has students all around the country, putting their tastiest kitchen creations to the test, using as much of the fruit or vegetable as possible, and leaving little or no waste.
Entries for the competition are still open and will now close on June 12, giving teams extra time to enter from the original closing date of June 1.
Children must source their produce locally from family, community or school gardens, and turn it into a creative, delicious two-course meal, which will be judged by an expert panel for taste and minimising the amount of food wasted.
After the competition's success in Christchurch last year, Root to Tip has now been extended nationwide, giving Kiwi kids from all over the country the chance to be crowned the ultimate Root to Tip winners.
Dynamic duos from schools all around New Zealand have been steadily entering their dishes for this year's competition, and for many it is their first time entering.
Al Brown, Head Judge of the Competition, says there's been a huge amount of interest in this competition with a twist, which tackles the serious issue of food wastage too.
When asked what his piece of advice is for those going head to head in the regional heats, he says it's all in the competition's name.
Regional heats will take place on the 22-24th June, where entries from each region (Northland, Auckland, Waikato, BOP, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki, Manawatu, Wellington, Nelson/Marlborough, Christchurch, Otago, Southland) go head-to-head in front of specially selected local judges for a chance to be part of the finals later in the year.
Building on the success of last year's Root to Tip competition, with the help of RaboDirect, Garden to Table has taken the competition to all primary schools nationwide with the aim of stimulating creativity in the kitchen, but also building knowledge and awareness among Kiwi kids about the important issue of food wastage, and how to minimise this.
Head of RaboDirect, Hamish McKegg, says Root to Tip gives children the skills to tackle food wastage in New Zealand in a fun and interactive way.
The pupils will be asked to put their best foot forward in the regional heats. The judges will be looking for how well they incorporate the Root to Tip theme of using as much of the fruit and vegetable as possible, their use of seasonal produce, creative use of ingredients to prepare a dish in under two hours and producing minimum waste (all waste will be weighed).
Last year's competition-winners were Otis Swallow and Noah Cobby from Diamond Harbour School. Their winning dish consisted of an entrée of roasted baby carrots with carrot top, walnut and parsley pesto, and a potato and basil pizza with pumpkin base served with fresh ricotta cheese and ground pumpkin seeds for the main.
Following the regional heats, the national final will be held in early August in Wellington where the Root to Tip competition winning pair will be announced. The winning pupils will each receive a $1,000 NoticeSaver account with RaboDirect, plus one-year free membership to the Garden to Table programme for their school and a range of other kitchen items.
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"Bang It Out" is the second track on Breathe Carolina's fourth studio album, Savages. So far, the band has released a music video for two of their singles, and now they've revealed a third video. The newest music video is for the aforementioned track, which features guest vocals by Karmin. You can watch that video by checking below the break.
The video consists of a healthy mix of live video and animation to make it a vibrant, funky experience. It's certainly the more energetic of the videos the band has released so far, and it's entertaining to watch.
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Creator: Unknown. January 23, 1914.
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and two others and was provided by Taft Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 36 times . More information about this issue can be viewed below.
San Patricio County News (Sinton, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, January 23, 1914, newspaper, January 23, 1914; Sinton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth716874/: accessed April 25, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.
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The arena has change into a world village on legend of nations are now interconnected, more folk are traveling and trade is expanding in more than one nations. All of these devices are happening at an ever rising tempo and to defend aggressive on the arena stage today our infrastructure wants to retain up. With out a as a lot as date, stable infrastructure our ports would possibly well no longer be in a discipline to address the recent deep water cargo ship, items would possibly well no longer be transported from factories to shipyards in a effectively timed diagram and folk will likely be continuously slack for work. As of late more than ever, progress and construction is never any longer possible if the nations infrastructure lags at the inspire of.
Within the nineteenth and Twentieth century, The united states targeted totally on expanding its transportation network by constructing roads, bridges and other concerned constructions. Nevertheless the inspection and maintenance of these constructions have no longer saved tempo. Numerous these constructions entered the live of their favorable life years previously. Web enlighten traffic loads are 10 conditions what they were when all these constructions were built. Because they now aid more traffic, the loads train further set on on them. In addition, as a outcome of antiquated inspection suggestions the corrosion and deterioration has outpairs repairs. On account of this deterioration we want to to find alternatives to merely changing or re-constructing these constructions. There would possibly be merely no longer adequate money in the machine to change all of the bridges as an example which will likely be in a train of disrepair.
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Using neatly-liked abilities and robotics will serve to create utmost security to public and group one day of bridge and street inspection and present horny condition evaluate describe to the Department of transportation and bridge owners. By offering the quantitative data the DOT wants to effectively allocate assets we are able to serve prolong the carrier life of our serious infrastructure assets and save billions in premature replacements.
It's serious to point to that the abilities by itself is never any longer adequate. Experienced licensed bridge inspectors along with robotics will serve to offer the asset managers a a lot greater deliverable then they've ever received earlier than. Conducting bridge inspections on this style will decrease no longer easiest decrease the cost of bridge inspection or inspection of every other construction tremendously, but present the quantitative data the department of transportation wants to allocate assets.
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Q: Remove json from another json I have two JSON, with different structure and I need to remove one of them from the other.
for example:
users JSON:
{
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
admin JSON:
{
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
}
after deleting admin from users list, the result should be like this:
{
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
I tried to use _.pullAllBy(array, values, [iteratee=_.identity]) but it's not work with me!
A: You can do it like this
let user = {
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
};
let admin = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
};
for(key in user){
if(user[key].id === admin.id){
delete user[key];
}
}
A: You probably mean object literal, and not JSON. You can use Object.keys and reduce to achieve this:
const data = {
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
};
const admin = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
};
const result = Object.keys(data).reduce((acc, currentKey) => {
if (data[currentKey].id !== admin.id) acc[currentKey] = data[currentKey];
return acc;
}, {});
console.log(result);
A: First of all, this is not a JSON, it's just a JavaScript Object.
İf you want to delete an object inside another object by its id field, you can use for ... in method like this.
var o = {
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
for (var baseKey in o) {
if (o[baseKey].id == "user093") {
delete o[baseKey];
console.log(o);
}
}
A: let user = {
{ id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
{ id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
{ id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
{ id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
};
let admin = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
};
let new_user=user.map(u=>{
if(u.id!=admin.id){
return u;
}
});
A: You can use
Object.values()
The Object.values() method returns an array of a given object's own enumerable property values, in the same order as that provided by a for...in loop (the difference being that a for-in loop enumerates properties in the prototype chain as well).
Array.prototype.forEach()
The forEach() method executes a provided function once for each array element.
delete operator
The JavaScript delete operator removes a property from an object; if no more references to the same property are held, it is eventually released automatically.
JSON.stringify()
The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified.
var obj = {
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
var obj2 = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
}
Object.values(obj).forEach(function(o,i){
if(JSON.stringify(obj2) == JSON.stringify(o))
delete obj[i];
});
console.log(obj);
OR: If you want to check by individual key
var obj = {
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
var obj2 = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
}
Object.values(obj).forEach(function(o,i){
if(obj2.id == o.id && obj2.avatar == o.avatar)
delete obj[i];
});
console.log(obj)
A:
let mainObject ={
0: { id: 'user134', avatar: 'user222.gif' },
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
}
let filterObject = {
id: 'user093',
avatar: 'user357.gif'
}
Object.values(mainObject).forEach(({id, avatar},index)=> {
if(id === filterObject.id) delete mainObject[index];
})
console.log(mainObject)
A: Ok, so what you are showing are just javascript objects, not JSON. But presuming that's what you mean you can do this:
let users = {
1: { id: 'user043', avatar: 'user242.gif' },
2: { id: 'user093', avatar: 'user357.gif' },
3: { id: 'user193', avatar: 'user543.gif' }
};
delete users['2'];
users will now include the objects at keys 1 and 3.
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For fans of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and keyboards in general, Once Upon a Time in South America is a real treat. The 4-CD (also available on vinyl) collection features live performances in South America by the legendary progressive rock band Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
The majority of the concerts took place in 1993 in Chile and Argentina. Even though most of the pieces that appear on Once Upon a Time in South America are familiar compositions by the band, there is a lot to discover.
One of the great qualities about Keith Emerson was that he used a wide range of keyboards and his variations and improvisations on familiar melodies made his music highly enjoyable and refreshing.
This album features two versions of Pictures at an Exhibition, one of their most iconic works that has rarely appeared on other recordings.
Throughout the album, Keith Emerson delivers stellar keyboard performances. As I mentioned earlier, he liked to modify familiar melodies with new solos and other variations, switching keyboards and sometimes embedding familiar melodies from movies and other sources.
Carl Palmer is an impressive rhythm machine. He is renowned for his creative, varied and powerful drumming style.
Greg Lake also delivered masterful performances, although his voice suffered a little throughout the tour. In addition to his unmistakable vocals, he also played guitars and some great bass lines.
The tracks selected cover the band's entire musical history, from their early hits Lucky Man and From the Beginning to Hoedown, Pictures at an Exhibition, Tarkus, Karn Evil 9 and Fanfare for the Common Man.
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Why Choose Smith Lewis over other Melbourne Companies with Warehouse and Distribution Services?
Our extensive warehousing services provide you a cost effective storage solution. We have a flexible approach and provide scalable storage costs depending on your business growth or seasonality.
Through our extensive network, we offer facilitation of warehousing in all capital and some regional cities in Australia. Feel free to contact us for your specific storage needs.
Our warehousing team are speedy and efficient when receiving your freight. Our trained and experienced staff carefully unload, wrap and position your goods quickly and safely within the warehouse.
We offer you the option to have us scan, barcode and pick and pack your goods. See our 3PL service to learn more about what we can provide.
Who do we contact for your warehousing and distribution services?
Peter North supervises our Warehousing and Distribution Services.
How long does it take for you to deliver goods to our clients?
We deliver goods in the time frame that you require. Contact us to learn more about our speedy process.
Can I find out about the Delivery Status?
We send the scanned Proof of Delivery to your email, immediately upon the delivery of your goods. However, you are welcome to call us if you wish to learn more about the delivery status of your goods prior to delivery.
Do you provide short term storage?
We can store your product for a week, month or year. We offer flexible options to meet your warehousing requirements.
Do I have to take a standard package?
Yes, we are happy to warehouse small volumes of goods.
Do you warehouse dangerous goods and chemicals?
No, but please feel free to contact us as we are happy to direct you to an appropriate service provider.
A 77G depot is a customs licensed warehouse facility that allows importers to have uncleared goods moved away from the wharf or airport for short-term storage and unpacking or deconsolidation. These depots are required to be electronically linked to the ICS for the efficient reporting of cargo.
What is a DAFF(AQIS) Quarantine Approved Premises?
Why Choose Smith Lewis over other Melbourne Companies with Warehousing and Distribution Services?
We are a long established and trusted warehousing and distribution provider that tailors solutions to your business needs. Major reasons why our clients choose us over our competitors is due to our personalised service, commitment to reliability and cost effectiveness.
Our warehousing service covers both sides of Melbourne. We have two modern depots located in Tullamarine and Dandenong.
We provide a single point of contact, Peter North, for managing your warehousing and distribution requirements.
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This is a small demo board with a PIC18F45K20 device on board and a small, surface-mount prototype area. Use it with a PICkit 3 In-Circuit Debugger to program your code via a 6-pin ICSP header on the board. This 44-Pin Demo Board also comes bundled with the PICkit 3 Debug Express if you order the LPPK3-DV164131.
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The earliest aircraft were constructed of wood (a natural composite material) and canvas (linen fibres doped with a polymer lacquer). Composite materials have therefore been at the heart of aviation since its very beginning. As speeds and loads increased, metals became the material of choice throughout much of the last century.
However since the advent of carbon fibre and high performance polymer matrices, composites have been making a comeback and now carbon fibre reinforced polymers are the materials that offer the highest possible performance in strength, weight and stiffness. Modern aircraft (both civil and military) are now typically over 50% composite.
However greater uptake of composites (both within aerospace and more widely) has been largely limited by cost, particularly cost of manufacture. Manufacturing processes for composite components are conventionally slow and laborious with high levels of automation only recently becoming possible.
This lecture will provide an introduction to composite materials and their history before going into the current state of the art in modern manufacturing processes, including case studies of aerostructures from airliners to hang gliders!
This entry was posted in Lecture on November 27, 2018 by Jin-Hyun Yu.
Location: Lecture Theatre '1', Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.
The P-8A Poseidon is a Maritime Patrol Aircraft based on the Boeing 737-800 and designed to hunt submarines and ships. It can also carry out long range rescue missions. It is fitted with the latest generation of sensors and can carry anti-submarine warfare torpedoes and anti-ship missiles.
The aircraft is being introduced into the US Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Norwegian Air Force as well as the Royal Air Force. It has also been ordered for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
The RAF's nine MRA1 aircraft will be based at RAF Lossiemouth in Northern Scotland and operated by Nos 120 and 201 Squadrons.
This entry was posted in Lecture on October 23, 2018 by Jin-Hyun Yu.
The lecture will first address and review how global aviation impacts on the atmosphere and, especially, how it contributes to global warming.
Whilst the issue of CO2 emissions is well known, less well known are the effects of NOX and contrail-induced cirrus. The magnitude of the problem, the timescales and possible mitigation methods will be assessed and discussed. In this context, contrail-induced cirrus is of particular interest, since new research is suggesting that this may well be aviation's largest single contribution to global warming.
Having outlined the challenge, attention will turn to aircraft design and, specifically, the extent to which the manufacturer has control over fuel efficiency and the propensity for contrail formation. This is a new and comprehensive, physics-based model of the civil transport aircraft. The impact of currently proposed, high-risk technologies will be assessed and their likely impact on aviation's impact on climate change estimated.
This entry was posted in Lecture on October 11, 2018 by Jin-Hyun Yu.
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CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism is a SASL Authentication Method that provides a way for users to authenticate to the server using a password in a manner that does not expose the password itself.
CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism is similar to, but weaker than the DIGEST-MD5 SASL Mechanism and doesn't provide any way for ensuring connection integrity or confidentiality.
The CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism that provides a way for clients to Authentication to the Directory Server with a username and Password in a manner that does not expose the clear-text password, so it is significantly safer than Simple Authentication or the PLAIN SASL Mechanism when the connection between the client and the server is not secure.
The client sends an LDAP Message to the server with a bind request protocol op type using an authentication type of SASL with a mechanism name of "CRAM-MD5" and no credentials.
The server sends a bind response message back to the client with a LDAP Result Code of 14 (SASL bind in progress) and a server SASL credentials element including randomly-generated data (the challenge).
The client responds with a second SASL bind request message to the server with a mechanism name of "CRAM-M5", and this time provides SASL credentials containing the Authentication ID used to identify the user and an MD5 digest that is computed by combining the server-provided challenge with the clear-text password.
The server uses the authentication ID to identify the user, and then retrieves the clear-text password for that user (if the clear-text password cannot be obtained, then authentication will fail) and uses it to determine whether the provided digest is valid. The server will then send an appropriate response to the client (usually with a result of either "success" or "invalid credentials") indicating whether the authentication was successful.
The CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism is very similar to DIGEST-MD5 SASL Mechanism, but it is somewhat weaker because CRAM-MD5 only includes random data from the server whereas DIGEST-MD5 includes random data from both the client and the server. DIGEST-MD5 also provides a provision for ensuring connection integrity and/or confidentiality, which CRAM-MD5 does not offer.
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Episode 274 of the AFB Podcast is live at iTunes and is now available for direct download! Download and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes now!
This week, Eddie gets some alone time with everyone's favourite Amazon, as he runs through a Wonder Woman Toy History.
If you don't use iTunes, you can download Episode 274 here now! Click on the link to listen, or right click to save the file! The podcast will always be available from the "Podcast" tab here - but if you can subscribe and give us positive ratings at iTunes, that will help us greatly!
Episode 273 of the AFB Podcast is live at iTunes and is now available for direct download! Download and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes now!
If you don't use iTunes, you can download Episode 273 here now! Click on the link to listen, or right click to save the file! The podcast will always be available from the "Podcast" tab here - but if you can subscribe and give us positive ratings at iTunes, that will help us greatly!
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If there were four people in a room that firmly believed vaccines were necessary and risk-free, it would be a safe bet to assume there would also be eight others, in the same room, who would call them crazy. Yet, in another room, there could be 16 other people that would call the eight naysayers misinformed, uneducated, or would simply label them fanatics.
But whether or not there is any truth to be found in a common belief that vaccines are linked to serious, and at times debilitating, health issues take a back seat to a larger, more pressing issue.
People seem to have an innate distrust of the scientific method, trained medical professionals, and seemingly all forms of government. If it was just here in Wyoming, it would be one thing; people of the Cowboy State are notorious for their firm, unshakeable beliefs in small government.
A phenomenon, however, appears to have staked a claim in countries all over the modern world; the thinking that vaccines are not safe, especially for children. Campbell County is no exception.
In September 2018, County Public Health Officer Dr. Kirtikumar Patel said the sheer number of child vaccine exemptions that have come across his desk is staggering. At the time, he claimed to have signed around 50 to 80 vaccination exemptions within six weeks; the highest number of vaccinations that he has ever seen.
Last year, according to the Wyoming Department of Health, there were a total 744 vaccination exemptions signed in the entire state, with 83 of those specifically for Campbell County.
Now, there are only two reasons in accordance with Wyoming law that a parent may exempt their child from receiving otherwise required vaccinations: medical issues (such as a history of experiencing adverse reactions) or religious objection.
For a religious objection, a parent is not allowed to simply say, "I don't want to have my child vaccinated" and viola, their children are exempt. No, the parent needs to have an affiliation with a religion in order to successfully submit the waiver of exemption to the state. Interestingly enough, the state is not permitted to say whether or not a particular religion truly objects to vaccinations, and is required to take people at their word, according to Kim Deti, WDH public information officer.
Because of the way the law is written, and the state government's inability to assess the authenticity of religious objections, "most people just claim religion," Patel explained. But, why is there such a strong movement against vaccines? Perhaps it's best to start with a little history.
Jenner's story began in Berkeley, England, when he heard milkmaids, infected with cowpox, were somehow immune to the debilitating effects of smallpox.
Utilizing the scientific method, Jenner carried out a series of tests, the first of which was to infect a six-year-old boy with cowpox followed by smallpox. Jenner reportedly saw, first-hand, that the boy remained unaffected by smallpox, and repeated the experiment twelve times on twelve different subjects. He published his findings titled "Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccine." In a nutshell, he established that cowpox prevented smallpox from infecting the human body.
Following Jenner's revolutionary discovery and subsequent implementation of his findings, the number of smallpox cases significantly decreased. Regardless, the anti-vaccination movement emerged, some of whom cited woes that compulsory vaccination laws in England, first passed in 1821, were an intrusion on their privacy.
In more recent years, the anti-vaccination movement cites another, more controversial source that purposely misled the public into believing vaccines are linked to autism; the authors of which reportedly faced severe consequences for what would become one of the greatest falsehoods of all time.
When researching vaccines, it's nearly impossible to avoid running across the name of Dr. Andrew Wakefield who shook the world with a groundbreaking series of studies that linked vaccines to autism. Antivaxxers across the globe read the information and used the controversial studies, along with Wakefield's potentially more controversial documentary "Vaxxed," as grounds to rebel against vaccines.
The studies gained global attention, and MMR vaccination rates dropped significantly, reportedly due to parent's concerns over the risks of autism after vaccination.
As is often the way in the scientific community, the study inspired other epidemiological studies. But there was a slight problem. The separate studies refuted the possibility that the MMR vaccine and autism were linked at all.
Following the discovery, 10 of the 12 co-authors issued retractions on their interpretation of the data compiled in the original studies. In the retractions, statements were made that a causal link between autism and the MMR vaccine was never established.
In February 2010, Wakefield's studies were completely retracted by the Lancet following admissions that certain focuses in the paper and statements were not correct.
Investigations revealed that Wakefield and his associates had failed to obtain the necessary ethical clearances for a series of reportedly invasive investigations on the children involved.
Wakefield and co-author John Walker-Smith were discredited. To date, Wakefield alleges in his documentary that he was made an example of by the pharmaceutical industry and continues to stand by his work and his "findings." Which brings us to the final pieces in the vaccination history puzzle: the facts vs. the conspiracy.
Wakefield's studies were completely retracted and proven to be false time and time again; yet there is still a movement against vaccines that firmly believe the government covered up his findings and believe that vaccines are, in fact, related to autism. Why? Perhaps social media is to blame; a single post with terrifying vaccination statistics, often unproven and false, can go viral and spread across the internet like wildfire. Local public health officials remain astounded at the number of statements made on social media that are taken as truth. There is some truth to be had in the statistics that are pushed upon others by antivaxxers, but it is blown far out of proportion.
For example, the adenovirus vaccine does carry the potential for serious, severe side effects; however, many other medications carry the same, if not an even greater, risk. Tylenol, one of the more commonly used medications, is widely viewed as one of the most dangerous drugs ever made.4 National databases reportedly show that acetaminophen overdoses are responsible for around 50,000 emergency room visits and is responsible for nearly 450 deaths every year. Acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States.
On the contrary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that the risk of a vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is minute.
Antivaxxers have also made another, more extreme, claim based on pseudoscience that the HPV vaccine, particularly Gardasil, is killing teenage girls. Reportedly, there are hundreds of documented deaths attributed to the HPV vaccine; however, the link between the two has never been fully proven and is anecdotal at best.5 One could make the same kind of connection between a man eating a cheeseburger and subsequently dying of a heart-attack two or three weeks later.
In the cheeseburger case, medical experts would most likely attribute the man's death to high cholesterol, poor diet, and not exercising. If the same pseudoscience-based logic utilized by antivaxxers in vaccine cases were to be applied to the cheeseburger case, then a different conclusion would come to light.
Pseudoscience would draw a correlation between the cheeseburger and the man's death; the cheeseburger killed the man.
The CDC does state that some deaths among people who received an HPV vaccine have been reported; yet, the CDC has only been able to determine that the deaths occurred after the person received the vaccine.
But, consider this: from the millions upon millions of HPV vaccine doses that have been administered in recent years, approximately 124 deaths have been reported to the CDC. Of those reported deaths, only 53 deaths were able to be verified and none of the cases have been positively connected to the HPV vaccine.
The rest of the cases and reported deaths are considered hearsay by the CDC.
Just as antivaxxers implore others to "research the truth," so do I. Everything you could ever wish to know about vaccines is publicly available in medical journals, scientific studies, and within the CDC. There are thousands of articles and sources out there that claim to have utilized the scientific method to prove vaccines are inherently dangerous, but consider the provided information (and the information in this article) critically.
Pseudoscience is defined as a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
Just because everybody you know believes in something, doesn't necessarily make it true.
1. Stern, Alexendra M., Markel, Howard. The History of Vaccines and Immunization: Familiar Patterns, New Challenges. Health Affairs. 2005.
3. Godlee, Fiona. "The fraud behind the MMR scare".
5. Gorski, David. "Death by Gardasil? Not so fast there…".
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Kremlin confirms 5 Russians killed in U.S. strike in Syria
Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces stand guard in Raqqa. Photo: Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Images
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed on Thursday that five Russians were killed in last week's strike from U.S. and Syrian Democratic Forces, NBC reports.
Why it matters: This is the first public acknowledgement from Moscow about Russian casualties in Syria at the hands of U.S. forces. The five killed are paramilitary contractors, not Russian military personnel. Per the Financial Times, this furthers the idea that "the Kremlin is using hired guns to mask its official involvement."
Notable: Russia's resistance to announcing deaths could stem from Putin's re-election attempts as he nears voting in March; per U.S. News and World Report: "Any reports of large numbers of Russian deaths in Syria could create a public relations problem for him."
What they're saying: The U.S. was in contact with Russia before, during, and after the attack last week. Per CNN, Defense Secretary James Mattis said: "The Russians professed that they were not aware when we called them about the force that had crossed [the Euphrates]."
Go deeper: The rare strike from the U.S. in Syria.
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RCSB PDB - 1D3L: D1D2-ICAM-1 FULLY GLYCOSYLATED, VARIATION OF D1-D2 INTERDOMAIN ANGLE IN DIFFERENT CRYSTAL STRUCTURES.
Deposition Author(s): Bella, J., Kolatkar, P.R., Rossmann, M.G.
Kolatkar, P.R.,Oliveira, M.A.,Rossmann, M.G.,Robbins, A.H.,Katti, S.,Hoover-Litty, H.,Forte, C.,Greve, J.M.,Mcclelland, A.,Olson, N.H.
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Friday night after work Pat and I just had dinner and lounged around the house with the Shih Tzu.
On Saturday Pat had a class to attend for 1/2 the day. He is a CPA and needs to take a certain amount of CPE credits every year to maintain his license. I took Bosco for a walk (a FREEEEZING cold walk, might I add) and then went food shopping after Pat left for the morning. After food shopping, I took a shower, had breakfast, read some blogs while sipping my coffee, did some laundry, and then headed to Target for a few things.
While I was at Target, I spotted this and decided to give it a try since my skin is super dry right now from the cold.
Even if it doesn't do much for my skin, I think it smells awesome. I will let you guys know what I think after I have used it for a few days.
I also picked up some of my favorite protein bars since they were on sale for $5.00 / box.
I started a new book while Pat was at class.
After Pat got home, we hung out for a bit and then went to the movies to see Taken 3.
We both liked the movie and thought it was action packed.
When we got home from the movies, we decided to get take-out for dinner. We got an order of homemade pretzel sticks with cheese dip and some pizza.
I had a S'mores hot chocolate and cornbread french toast. Both were very, very delicious.
When we got home from breakfast, I took a shower and did some laundry while Pat went to the gym.
Most of the afternoon was spent just lounging around the house and I got a bit further in my new book. We had the rest of the pizza that we still had left from dinner last night, as well as quite a few snacks (oops!).
We went out to dinner to a restaurant near our house. I had onion soup and a grilled chicken salad.
Now we are on the couch watching TV. I am already tired but am going to try to stay up for Revenge later tonight.
This post has some serious yum factor! 😋 Looks like a great weekend!
So excited for Revenge!!! 🙂 Also, I need to pick up that winter soap. My hands are crazy dry right now! I hate when they start to crack. Ouch!
wow – I am speechless by your variety of post and images – you bring such positive energy and dynamics!
Yum, omg that pizza and those pretzel sticks look amazing!!
lucky pup!!! I ventured out with my pup and also went for a long, frigid walk. My poor fingers and toes were numb!!!
what genre is the book you are currently reading?
The book is suspense. I have read a few other books by the author recently (The Perfect Husband and The Next Accident) and really like her books.
Welcome back from the weekend – have a wonderful week ahead!
Those pretzel sticks look amazing!
That hot chocolate looks awesome!!
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Man 'left in limbo' after he was not told child abuse allegations inquiry had ended
The man, known as Mr X, made a complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman
By Ollie Sirrell
Wokingham Borough Council apologised after the complaint. Credit:getreading
An apology has been issued to a man accused of child abuse who wasn't told he had been cleared.
Wokingham Borough Council carried out an investigation into the man, known as Mr X,
after he was accused of abuse by the daughter of a friend he was living with.
No wrongdoing was found, but the council did not tell the man the inquiry had ended, which led to him suffering "significant stress and anxiety".
The allegations came at the start of last year after the girl told her teacher of the supposed abused.
Mr X denied the allegations but had to leave the home.
Wokingham Borough Council leader to go after losing vote of no confidence
Council officers claimed they would provide him with an update on the allegations but he said he did not hear from them again.
The case was closed in February 2017, but he was not told, which led to him chasing the council over "where he stood".
The council claimed it could not give him information about the girl because it was confidential and he did not have parental responsibility.
This led to him making a legal complaint over being "left in limbo".
The council pointed him towards the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) and Mr X made a further complaint, this time to the Department for Education, setting out a detailed report of his complaints.
His complaints included a lack of contact with the council, concerns about inaccuracies and a complaint about social workers not showing their identification when they visited his house.
The LGO investigated the complaint in January 2018 and found fault with the council's response, claiming the authority should have considered his complaint as a corporate matter, not under children's complaints procedure.
Man claims he's been 'unfairly targeted' by Reading council in bus lane fine row
The investigation found communication between the council and the family involved had been positive, but the council should have kept the man in the loop that the case had been closed.
An apology was issued, and repeated at a meeting with the council, which said he was not told because he was not the girl's parent.
The LGO determined that an apology was a suitable response to the stress caused by the events, as "it is likely that some of this stress was caused by the allegations, the council's investigation and moving out" of his friend's house.
The LGO's decision was made in August, and has recently been published on its website.
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This species is widely distributed through northern San Martin and Loreto in Peru. Though most widely distributed in the lowlands, many montane forms exist and can be found up to 950 m elevation.
These frogs are strict phytotelm specialists, breeding in Heliconia, Dieffenbachia, and Xanthosoma. Host-plant choice seems to be a function of availability rather than preference. Eggs are normally laid in pairs among the bracts of the host plant. Upon hatching, tadpole transport is carried out by the male, who will later help the female locate tadpoles so she can provide the developing tadpoles with unfertilized food eggs. Males are highly territorial and will defend breeding resources vigorously.
There are several morphs of R. imitator that are a conservation concern simply due to their tiny range sizes. For example, a certain 'intermedius' morph in the Huallaga canyon may only have a range size of a few square kilometers, most of which has been or will soon be converted to cattle pastures, banana fields, or coffee farms. Furthermore, many imitator morphs, particularly those near Chazuta, have been devastated by smugglers for the past 10 years.
Member of the vanzolinii group. Appears to be sister to Ranitomeya vanzolinii + R. flavovittata.
This morph is the most widely distributed imitator morph, occuring broadly throughout the lower Huallaga drainage. This morph is a mimic of the local striped R. variabilis. Behaviorally, it similar to the highland imitator, although this morph seems to be more frequently found breeding in Dieffenbachia and Xanthosoma.
This morph occurs in the highlands of northern San Martin department. It is highly variable, although typically contains more blue-green colors than other imitator. Some populations of this morph are more yellow, for example, those living near the city of Tarapoto. This morph is a Muellerian mimic of the highland spotted R. variabilis.
This is another lowland form of imitator, first discovered in 2004 by Craig Greenhalgh on a lowland trek across part of Peru. This frog is strange in that it occurs in close proximity to the yellow-striped lowland imitator with no major barriers separating the two morphs. And as is apparent, the two morphs look nothing alike. This suggests that the frog has undergone strong local adaptation, either due to mimicry, sexual selection, or a combination of the two. In 2005 we were able to find this frog in very high densities in old secondary/young primary forest breeding in some sort of Heliconia, as well as in tree-holes. This morph was heavily smuggled from 2006 to present, although it is now legally available through imports from Understory Enterprises. This morph appears to be a mimic of the varadero fantastica morph.
This morph occurs in the middle Huallaga and tends to inhabit areas that are somewhat drier than many imitator habitats. Most frequently these frogs are found in Dieffenbachia and Heliconia plants. This morph is a mimic of Ranitomeya summersi.
The Huallaga Canyon is an approximately 40-km stretch of river running from the town of Chazuta downriver to the Amazonian lowlands. Within this area, R. imitator is highly polymorphic. In the upper areas, closer to Chazuta, most frogs are the typical banded morph, mimetic with R. summersi. In the lower parts of the canyon, the frogs are striped and resemble the lowland morph of R. variabilis. The middle regions of the Huallaga Canyon are a natural "hybrid zone" between the banded and striped morphs. In certain localities in the center of the hybrid zone, one can find practically any morph imaginable, including the "pure" mimetic morphs. Along the north bank of the Huallaga, for example near Chazuta, frogs often appear somewhat spotted, perhaps due to gene flow from the spotted morph in the neighboring highlands.
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Kivelstadt Cellars was founded for our love of amazing California vineyards. After leaving a career in consulting in his early twenties, Jordan Kivelstadt traveled the world making wine in California, Australia, Chile and Argentina. In 2007, Jordan made 125 cases of Estate Syrah. He drew inspiration both from his winemaking experiences in the new world and his family's passion for European cuisine, art and wine culture. Hence our focus became exploring the product of incredible California vineyards, with a nod toward the rich history and balance of the old world wines that came before us. Since the inaugural 2007 vintage, our production has grown to 3,500 cases annually. We strive to create wines of intrigue that maintain a fun and approachable style and challenge the status quo of conventional California wines.
Wine on tap is going big.
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Die Ponte Corvo, selten Ponte Corbo, ist eine römische Segmentbogenbrücke über den Bacchiglione in Padua (Italien). Die drei erhaltenen Bögen der kaiserzeitlichen Brücke führen über einen Seitenarm des Flusses und sind teilweise verschüttet bzw. zugemauert. Das Pfeilverhältnis schwankt zwischen 2,8 und 3,4 zu 1; das Verhältnis von lichter Weite zu Pfeilerstärke reicht von 4,9 bis 6,9 zu 1.
Neben der Ponte Corvo stehen in Padua noch vier weitere antike Flachbogenbrücken, die Ponte San Lorenzo, die Ponte Altinate, die Ponte Molino und die Ponte San Matteo.
Siehe auch
Liste römischer Brücken
Römische Architektur
Römische Bautechnik
Einzelnachweise
Literatur
Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale. Bd. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, ISBN 88-85066-66-6, S. 205–207 (Nr. 434)
Römische Brücke in Italien
Römische Segmentbogenbrücke
Bogenbrücke
Steinbrücke
Ponte Corvo
Brücke in Venetien
Brücke in Europa
Straßenbrücke in Italien
Verkehr (Padua)
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Construction of a new multi-purpose hall and gymnasium.
Total Construction was awarded the contract for construction management of the redevelopment of the school gymnasium. The specification required additional area to the existing facility to accommodate 2 basketball courts and tiered retractable seating for 600 people. The facility will cater for whole school assemblies and as a performance hall capable of seating 1,500 on such occasions.
The site is on a flood plain of the Yarra River so the building is elevated above the adjacent playing fields. This elevation resulted in an enhanced aspect to the design and offered the architects the opportunity to create a very interesting building design.
A design attribute includes for the western wall featuring full-width glazing of variable height that will afford a panoramic vista of the city beyond the sports fields. The floor structure will ensure a surface satisfactory to the highest accreditation levels for basketball and other indoor sports associations.
This project was awarded 'Excellence in Construction' (Commercial Building under $5m) by the Master Builders Association of Victoria.
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package com.evan.test.concurrencyUtilities;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
public class HelloLock {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();
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new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
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System.out.println("I got the lock, " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
try {
System.out.println("begin to do the work..." + Thread.currentThread().getId());
Thread.sleep(1000 * 5);
System.out.println("work is done." + Thread.currentThread().getId());
System.out.println("release lock..." + Thread.currentThread().getId());
lock.unlock();
System.out.println("lock released." + Thread.currentThread().getId());
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
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}
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Rickie Lee Lambert, né le , est un footballeur anglais qui évolue au poste d'attaquant.
Il commence sa carrière pro en 1999 à Blackpool puis enchaine plusieurs saisons dans les divisions inférieures de la Premier League. En 2009, l'attaquant est recruté par Southampton où il devient un joueur emblématique de 2009 à 2014, équipe avec laquelle il marque 117 buts, la faisant remonter en Premier League et obtient sa première sélection en équipe nationale Anglaise.
Après une saison réussie, il rejoint Liverpool, un des meilleurs clubs anglais pour la saison 2014-2015, afin d'apporter de l'expérience mais son passage tourne court malgré plusieurs apparitions. Il ne marque que 4 buts en 36 matchs toutes compétitions confondues.
La saison suivante Rickie Lambert est transféré à West Bromwich puis à Cardiff City pour sa dernière saison en tant que professionnel.
Biographie
En club
Rickie Lambert est un avant-centre au parcours atypique. Bien que puissant, fort sur ses jambes, son passage au centre de formation de Liverpool est un échec, il lui est rapidement annoncé qu'il n'a pas le niveau pour devenir professionnel.
Pourtant en août 1998, à l'âge de seize ans, Lambert signe un contrat avec le club de Blackpool. Mais il lui faut attendre la saison 1999-2000 pour participer à un match de championnat de . Il dispute trois matchs en tant que remplaçant. En novembre 2000, son contrat n'est pas renouvelé et il reste environ quatre mois sans club.
C'est alors qu'il va inscrire but sur but à Manchester. En mars 2001, il est contacté par Macclesfield Town, club de . Lors de sa première saison avec le club de Macclesfield, il ne joue que neuf matchs mais dès la saison suivante (2001-2002), il joue plus régulièrement, et inscrit dix buts en quarante matchs. Gagnant seulement deux cent cinquante euros par semaine, il travaille dans une usine de conditionnement de betteraves, pour vingt-trois euros la journée, afin de compléter ses revenus. En avril 2002, il signe un contrat pour Stockport County (). Il reste avec le club de Stockport jusqu'en février 2005, date à laquelle il rejoint Rochdale, club de . Lors de la saison 2005-2006, il marque vingt-deux buts en quarante-six matchs.
Le , il signe pour Bristol Rovers, alors en . À la fin de la saison 2006-2007, le club est promu et accède à la , le troisième niveau anglais. En championnat, en trois saisons, il marque cinquante-et-un buts pour son club de Bristol. La dernière année, avec vingt-neuf buts marqués, il est sacré meilleur buteur du championnat. C'est à cette période qu'il peut quitter son job d'appoint.
Le , Lambert signe pour Southampton, qui végète à l'époque en . Pour la première fois, il s'astreint à avoir un comportement de professionnel et devient, alors, un redoutable buteur. Il participe grandement au retour parmi l'élite du Southampton FC. Pas très rapide mais très prolifique dans la surface, durant la saison 2009-2010, il est le meilleur buteur de la division, pour la seconde année consécutive, avec trente buts en quarante-cinq matchs. La saison suivante, il est le meilleur buteur de son club, avec vingt et un buts en quarante-cinq matchs (terminant troisième du classement des buteurs). Deuxième du championnat, le club est promu en , le deuxième niveau national, grâce aux buts qu'il inscrit avec son partenaire en attaque .
La saison 2011-2012, le succès est toujours là. Il marque pour son club de Southampton en , vingt-sept buts, devenant le meilleur buteur du championnat, dès sa première année à ce niveau. Il réalise, par exemple, quatre coups du chapeau : le premier le lors d'un match contre Nottingham Forest, le deuxième le 19 novembre contre Brighton, le troisième le lors d'un match contre Watford et le quatrième le contre Millwall. Sa progression est remarquable et remarqué puisque le , il est nommé du . Le Southampton FC termine deuxième à l'issue de la saison et Rickie Lambert accède à la avec sa formation.
À trente ans, il découvre l'élite des championnats anglais. Son acclimatation est rapide puisqu'il inscrit quinze buts.
Le , Lambert signe à Liverpool pour deux saisons, et fait son retour dans son club formateur mais il ne réussit pas à s'imposer dans l'équipe de Brendan Rodgers qui réalise une mauvaise saison avec une avec trois buts de Rickie Lambert durant cette saison.
Le , Il rejoint le club de West Bromwich Albion.
Le , il rejoint Cardiff City. Il inscrit quatre buts en dix-neuf rencontres avant de rompre son contrat à l'amiable avec le club gallois le .
Le , Rickie Lambert annonce qu'il met un terme à sa carrière sportive.
En équipe nationale
Le , à trente et un ans, il honore sa première sélection à l'occasion d'un match amical entre l'Angleterre et l'Écosse (3-2). À la , il remplace l'attaquant Wayne Rooney. Deux minutes plus tard, sur son premier ballon, il reprend, de la tête, un corner de Leighton Baines et inscrit le troisième but, celui de la victoire pour sa sélection. Il inscrit à nouveau un but de la tête lors de sa deuxième sélection en équipe nationale, le face à la Moldavie.
Il est sélectionné par Roy Hodgson, pour faire partie de l'effectif anglais pour la Coupe du monde 2014 au Brésil.
Statistiques
Palmarès
En club
Southampton FC
Vice-champion d'Angleterre de D2 en 2012.
Distinctions personnelles
Meilleur buteur de Championship en 2012 (27 buts)
Meilleur buteur de League One en 2009 (29 buts, ex-aequo avec Simon Cox) et 2010 (30 buts)
Meilleur joueur de la saison de Championship en 2012
Membre de l'équipe-type de Championship en 2012
Membre de l'équipe-type de League One en 2009 et 2010.
Notes et références
Liens externes
Naissance en février 1982
Naissance à Kirkby (Merseyside)
Footballeur international anglais
Joueur du Blackpool FC
Joueur du Macclesfield Town FC
Joueur du Stockport County FC
Joueur du Rochdale AFC
Joueur du Bristol Rovers FC
Joueur du Southampton FC
Joueur du Liverpool FC
Joueur du West Bromwich Albion FC
Joueur du Cardiff City FC
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In a previous article on the onboarding of employees into your company, I stated that one of the main goals of onboarding, in addition to accelerating the training process and maximizing productivity, is connecting new hires with their colleagues. This is an ongoing process that doesn't just happen on the first day during orientations and introductions, but carries on throughout their acclimation to their new job and the company. As new hires learn about the resources the company provides for them and where they can access them, they become more productive. And, since a company is comprised of people who work in it, new hires must learn how to effectively communicate with their colleagues as well as understand their strengths. This understanding will be integral to their success in their new job. A better understanding of their strengths can be accomplished through identifying each employee's talents with an assessment such as the StrengthsFinder, from the Gallup group.
The StrengthsFinder assessment quantifies "personal themes" for each person who takes it, and defines traits out of a selection of 34 discrete attributes, such as adaptability, command, consistency, empathy, and strategic traits. By using this assessment, employees can discover what they are best at, and managers can discover what their employees are able to offer the company as a whole. Using this approach, leaders can build strong bonds among their team as well.
How can this be achieved? If employees are encouraged to develop the skills where they have identified strengths, they will go from natural talent to well-honed ability. As observed by Lisa Shoreland, "As compared to focusing on and improving areas of weakness, focusing on strengths provides more motivation to employees. " This should be no surprise—who wouldn't want to spend time on what they're good at rather than their personal shortcomings? Instead of wasting time building up the areas where they are lacking, employees can turn to a colleague who has known skills in that particular area, and collaborate with them to complete a project or accomplish a goal. As each employee learns to utilize the skill resources their coworkers provide, they will grow closer with each member of their team, learning to trust them more and putting aside some of the issues of ego and anxiety that can put stumbling blocks in front of an employee working alone.
Recently I worked with a client who would place a list of each team member's identified strengths at each employee's workspace. By providing this information, new hires would not only be aware of the names and positions but their strengths. The list would take the guesswork out of deciding who would be a project leader by finding the person whose skill was discipline, and could impose order on a group of people coming up with creative ideas that needed organization. With this list, not only would work be accomplished more efficiently, but new hires would feel comfortable in their new jobs faster as they developed unique relationships with each individual around them.
Learning your new hires' strengths can turn your company from a group of people working in the same building into a successful team, where the whole, as its inside workings cooperate with each other more efficiently, is far more than the sum of its parts.
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Jennerstown Speedway is a racetrack in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania, United States.
The track is a 0.522 mile asphalt oval. The straightaways are banked 6º, and turns are banked 9º.
The track features weekly Saturday night races from May to September. The track also features annual national races from the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the USAR Hooters Pro Cup. The track held an annual American Speed Association event until the series dissolved.
The track began as Jenners Fairgrounds in the late 1920s as a flat half mile dirt track. A dirt quarter mile track was built in the infield in 1953, and the half mile was abandoned. The half mile was restored and briefly used in the mid-1960s. The half mile track was again rebuilt in 1967, and the half mile was used. The track was paved in 1987. The oval was repaved with a $350,000 polymer-based racing surface ( history.html) in 2004.
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By davehunter62
assault, EDL, English Defence League, Racial Conviction, racially aggravated assault, Suspended sentence
Dad launched vicious racist attack
A father-of-three has been spared jail after assaulting a man and his teenage son with a paving slab as they walked to their mosque.
Shaun Wilkinson, 25, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault after unleashing a barrage of vile racist abuse at the men as they walked down Thompson Street, Preston.
Preston Crown Court heard Wilkinson, of Slaidburn Road, Ribbleton, saw the father and his 14-year-old son approaching and said "watch this" to his girlfriend. As they walked past, Wilkinson punched the father in his face.
The son stepped in to try and help his father, grappling Wilkinson to the ground. However, Wilkinson got up and threw a piece of paving stone, hitting the youngster in the forehead.
Rachel Faux, prosecuting, told the court: "(The father) asked what the problem was and received a barrage of verbal abuse.
"As the father waited for the police to be called there was further abuse from females on the street."
The police arrived and arrested Wilkinson he continued making racist comments.
During the attack the father's diabetes flared up and he was taken to hospital with his son.
In a victim impact statement, he said: "The incident has affected me and my son and all our family very badly.
"Before this incident I always used to walk to mosque by walking the same way but now I go to mosque by car."
Daniel Prowse, defending Wilkinson, said: "This was an extremely ugly incident of gratuitous violence and racist language – something Shaun Wilkinson finds it difficult to comprehend he would even do."
Shaun Wilkinson – EDL. Courtesy of Islamophobiawatch.co.uk
He said Wilkinson worked with a number of Asian people and felt a sense of "deep shame" about his behaviour.
Wilkinson has a criminal record but Mr Prowse said he has tried very hard to put the past behind him and had stayed out of trouble for four years before the attack.
Wilkinson was handed a 14 month sentence suspended for 18 months with a curfew between 9pm and 8am for six months.
He must also carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and pay his victims £500 compensation each.
Lancashire Evening Post
Not racist because
Racial Conviction
racially aggravated assault
Ribbleton
Shaun Wilkinson
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Our campers always have something to do and somewhere to go!
Our boys tried a different version of soccer…perhaps a new Olympics in the future??
Canoe and Kayak in the lake!
Monday morning reflection: New friends, old friends….and the space in between.
Ready for the Magic of Camp 2016!
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Robert Williams (born 1955 in Boston) is a drummer and solo artist who has worked with Captain Beefheart, Hugh Cornwell, John Lydon, the Spo-it's, Tex and the Horseheads, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and Zoogz Rift, and also performed on recordings for the Pee-wee Herman Show original cast recording.
His albums include:
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band:
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Doc At The Radar Station
Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams:
Nosferatu
Robert Williams:
Buy My Record
Late One Night
Date With The Devil's Daughter - The first song, "Hello Robert", consists of messages that Larry "Wild Man" Fischer left on Robert Williams phone
Temporary Immortal (as Beefheart Jr.)
The Spo-it's
Free Sex (AVT00)
Zoogz Rift
Five Billion Pinheads Can't Be Wrong (AVT001)
Television
In 1997, Robert Williams filed a lawsuit against former Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) for assault and lost wages that was broadcast as an installment on Judge Judy; Williams lost the case due to a lack of evidence.
References
External links
Discography at United Mutations
1955 births
20th-century American drummers
American male drummers
Living people
Musicians from Boston
The Magic Band members
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What It Is: A handheld vibrating massage tool, the Hypervolt looks like an impact driver and functions much the same way. Four attachments, ranging from a firm foam sphere to a two-pronged plastic fork, oscillate back and forth at speeds up to 3200 RPM to help you loosen tight muscles and reduce soreness from hard training sessions.
Why We Like It: We've recently become converts to the handheld vibrating massager, thanks to the TheraGun G2 Pro. But, it's just so damn loud that we can't really use it in any normal setting—the office is a no-no, as is our small apartment when the baby is sleeping. That device's steep price ($599) is also a drawback. But, the Hypervolt alleviates those issues. It's whisper-quiet, by comparison: Sure, it's noisier than a foam roller, but doesn't sound like an industrial power tool, and definitely won't wake up the neighbors.
Strangely, there are two power switches on Hypervolt—a switch on the battery, plus a power button on the unit itself, which you repeatedly press to cycle through the three different speeds and a stand-by mode. Fire it up and hit those tight spots. We started on the lowest speed to work out a hamstring and glute that got painfully tight after a week of fast running, but quickly went up a notch for a deeper massage. You can control the intensity of the massage by how hard you press the massager into your muscles.
But, for our needs, we stuck with the two-inch foam ball attachment. It's firm enough to work into large muscles, but wasn't too intense when we used it on a tight soleus (calf). If you have trouble spots you need to get at, it also comes with three other attachments: a double-pronged fork, a pointed one-inch plastic barrel, and a blunt plastic disk a little larger than a half-dollar.
The battery will last up to three hours on a single charge—we didn't drain it in our light testing over a long weekend—but it can be quickly topped off by plugging it into a wall outlet. An LED ring around the base of the battery lights up any time the power is on to indicate how much battery life remains. Best of all, you don't have to remove the battery to recharge it, but you can if you wish.
Nitpick: It's still expensive: $349 will buy you a truckload of the standard foam rollers.
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This New Year's episode is packed with fresh energy and perspective!
We welcome the Legal Genealogist Judy Russell to the podcast. Judy takes on a Genealogy Gems listener's fantastic question about the bounty land his War of 1812 ancestor never claimed.
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45 year-old Howard Webb was born in Rotherham and is one of the best Premier League referees ever and he plied his trade in England's top league from 2003 until he retired just two years ago.
And from 1998 he was a referee in the Football league and in total in the final 14 years of his career he refereed a total of 534 games for what was a stellar career for the former Sergeant in the South Yorkshire Police.
He was a top International referee who refereed the World Cup final in South Africa between Spain and the Netherlands in 2010 which Spain won 1-0 after extra time with a goal from Andrés Iniesta.
He also refereed the Champions League Final that same year in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium between Inter-Milan and Bayern Munich which the Italian side won 2-0 with two goals from Diego Milito.
Howard was very good at controlling players on the field and keeping discipline, but in the Daily Mirror today he has admitted the one player who gave him most grief during his career was former Newcastle striker Craig Bellamy.
Bellamy was quite a handful not only for referees, but also for managers and Sir Bobby Robson was the man who brought Craig to Newcastle back in 2001, when he was just 21 years old from Coventry City for £6.5M.
Craig went on to play for the Magpies until Graeme Souness had enough of his antics and shipped him off on loan to Celtic in January of 2005 and then in the summer he left Newcastle and signed for Blackburn Rovers and manager Mark Hughes.
Michael Owen was famously signed in August of 2005 for £17M from Real Madrid to replace Bellamy.
Craig played 114 games for Newcastle with 38 goals during Sir Bobby's Robson's last three seasons at the club when we were 4th, 3rd and 5th in successive seasons in the Premier League.
How Will Newcastle Fare Against Ipswich Town?
Nasty piece of work if the rumours are to be believed.
I'm not entirely sure why this is a headline story mind.
Telegraph saying Ashley has turned down some offer for NUFC….could a change of owners be on the cards?
I bet his mate Ferguson got a free signed copy.
This is from his book he has out.
I hear salty baths are recommended for this operation Jail.
I'm actually sore even thinking about it.
Is your real name Harold Shipman Belfast?
Hehe Yep I sailed to Belfast in a canoo after all that businesses and faked my own death.
Seems to be a lot of Chinese consortiums desperate to buy football clubs in England at the moment. There's something definitely a miss.
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The Committees held the last hearing of the candidates for the Ministries
Monday, 22 February 2021 14:01
At the joint sitting, the Human Rights and Civil Integration, the Legal Issues, the Defense and Security, and the Procedural Issues and Rules Committees discussed the vote of confidence for the Cabinet of Ministers.
At the sitting, the Committees heard the candidates for the Ministers, Juansher Burchuladze, Gocha Lortkipanidze, Tea Akhvlediani and Vakhtang Gomelauri.
The candidate for the Defense Minister, J. Burchuladze reported about the reforms and NATO inter-operability programs, defense capacity of the country and military cooperation with the partner states.
He stressed two documents developed by the Ministry – the 10-year plan of development of the defense capacity, and the 4-year plan of defense strategic overview. Speaking about the plans, he dwelt on the importance of local military production and modernization of the aviation park. "Modernization of the air forces is a very important direction which will result in completely restored and rehabilitated airpark. At this stage, defense forces have already received the French air surveillance radars, mobile command point and "Mistal-3" rackets. We also actively implement the agreement signed with the largest Israeli military industry envisaging the modernization of air defense systems".
He dwelt on the NATO inter-operability program and security of the country noting that Georgia is ready to take final steps for accession to the EU and NATO and end Russian aggression in the country. "I am glad and honored to enjoy the opportunity to contribute in this process and make it irreversible".
The candidate for the Justice Minister, G. Lortkipanidze congratulated the attendees on the 100th jubilee of the Constitution and informed MPs about the Ministry priorities and activity. He dwelt on the enforcement of the ECHR decision and informed the Committees about the bills developed by the Ministry.
As of the plans, he stressed the construction of the Public Service Halls and Public Centers for simplification and accessibility to public services.
The candidate for the State Minister, T. Akhvlediani introduced the part of the Governmental program based on the peacekeeping initiative and stability. She stressed the gross human rights violations in the occupied regions, humanitarian and social crisis and importance of the peaceful resolution of the challenges. "We set as the priority to enhance the non-recognition policy at the international theatre, full de-occupation and human-oriented reconciliation and engagement policy envisaging the approximation of conflict-divided societies, facilitation of restoration of dialogue and creation of dignified conditions for these people".
The candidate for the Interior Minister, Vakhtang Gomelauri reported on the reforms, engagement of the Ministry in countering the pandemic, and types and statistics of the registered crimes.
He stressed the importance of the reforms and mentioned reforming of the criminal policy and updated armament for the police, qualification of the personnel, stricter drug policy etc. "Within the reform of the criminal police, we have set up the Main Office for Juveniles in Tbilisi Police Department to respond to the administrative offenses and crimes committed by the juveniles in the Capital. The Ministry keeps the creation of the environment adjusted to the juveniles, updating the armament of the police personnel and implementing the stricter drug policy. In 2020, 71 drug dealers have been punished by criminal responsibility for the sale of the drugs. The key challenge in this direction was the internet sale of drugs, which is an increasing tendency in the world. In response, we have set up the specialized division in the Central Criminal Police Department".
He dwelt on the patrol and border police, rescue service, and new services by Service Agency.
The candidates answered the questions concerning their spheres of activity.
After the report, the Committees approved the vote of confidence.
Source: http://www.parliament.ge/en/media/axali-ambebi/sakomiteto-formatshi-ministrobis-kandidatebis-bolo-mosmena-gaimarta.page
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Parliament Speaker Kakha Kuchava resigns
Parliament Speaker Kakha Kuchava stepped down from his post, Georgian Dream Chairman Irakli Kobakhidze announced on Friday. The Education, Science and Culture Committee Chair, MP Shalva Papuashvili, will be nominated as the new speaker of the state legislature.
Giorgi Amilakhvari, first deputy of the Education, Science and Culture Committee, will replace Sh. Papuashvili, I. Kobakhidze noted. GD Chair also said that MPs Anri Okhanashvili and Irakli Chikovani would join the party's political council.
"A sitting of the party's political council was held today, where several important personnel issues were discussed. Kakha Kuchava, the Speaker of the Parliament, made a decision to resign. Kakha himself will explain the reason for the decision. On behalf of the Georgian Dream political team, I thank him for his proper service as the Speaker of the Parliament during very difficult period. Kakha's decision is, of course, disappointing for the whole team, but we respect this decision. Therefore, the decision was taken into account by the party's political council. Kakha will remain one of the leaders of our political team, a member of the party's political council, and he will work on a state-important project, about which we will share detailed information later. According to the decision of the political council of the party and the parliamentary majority, Shalva Papuashvili will be nominated for the position of the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia. Shalva does not need a special presentation. I remind you that he is a doctor of law, he has defended his dissertation in Germany. For years he worked in international organizations, as a professor at universities. To date, Shalva has been a successful chair of the Education and Science Committee," said I. Kobakhidze.
The 410th room of the Parliament's B building was named after Maro Makashvili on the initiative of Nino Tsilosani
The 410th room of the Parliament's B building was named after Maro Makashvili on the initiative of Nino Tsilosani, Chair of the Permanent Parliamentary Council for Gender Equality.
"Briefing Room" is named after the national hero of Georgia from today.
"Naming Maro Makashvili for one of the halls of the Parliament once again underscores the importance of women in Georgia's history and in gaining the country's independence. Many thanks to everyone who supported the issue, especially those from the opposition", - Nino Tsilosani said.
The First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, Giorgi Volski, described the national hero Maro Makashvili as a worthy woman in our history at an important stage for the country.
The Bureau supplemented the Plenary Agenda with sundry issues.
The members of the Bureau approved the quotas set for the various councils and commissions in the conclusions of the Rules and Procedural Issues Committee.
THE IMPORTANT STEPS OF TURKMENISTAN IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATE CHANGE WERE UNDERLINED
Speaking at the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, emphasized that after the adoption of the global Sustainable Development Goals, Turkmenistan is actively working to achieve them at the national and international levels.
The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of Turkmenistan is essentially a confirmation of country's ambitious goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in key sectors of the economy. "By introducing modern technologies in all spheres of the state's economy, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced," S.Berdimuhamedov said.
In order to achieve the goals of the climate agenda, Turkmenistan at the national level pays special attention to the reduction of methane emissions. "In this regard, we welcome the new initiative on the Global Methane Commitment and express interest in studying it in detail with a view to possible substantive participation," added the Vice Prime Minister.
By improving the national legal framework, Turkmenistan is making a significant contribution to achieving climate neutrality. Thus, the National Strategy on Climate Change, the National Strategy for the Development of Renewable Energy until 2030 and the new Law of Turkmenistan "On Renewable Energy Sources" were adopted.
In this regard, S.Berdimuhamedov noted that Turkmenistan, both at the expense of its own financial resources and with the technical and financial support from international organizations and financial institutions, in the medium term plans to achieve zero growth of greenhouse emissions, starting in 2030, and in the long term - annual significant reductions in emissions.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF TURKMENISTAN S.G. BERDIMUHAMEDOV HAD A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN A.U. MAMIN
Today, on May 20, a telephone conversation took place between Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Chairman of the Supreme Control Chamber of Turkmenistan S.G. Berdimuhamedov with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan A.U. Mamin, during which issues of bilateral cooperation in trade-economic and humanitarian fields were discussed.
At the same time, special attention was paid to the implementation of the agreements reached by the Presidents of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to further strengthen the partnership between the two states in a wide range of areas.
In this context, the parties, in particular, discussed specific ways and forms of expanding trade ties and agreed on mutual visits of delegations of the two countries to hold negotiations on specific projects of Turkmen-Kazakh cooperation in the economic sphere.
In conclusion of the telephone conversation, the parties stressed the importance of contacts at the intergovernmental level and expressed their readiness to continue them on a regular basis.
СОСТОЯЛСЯ ТЕЛЕФОННЫЙ РАЗГОВОР ЗАМЕСТИТЕЛЯ ПРЕДСЕДАТЕЛЯ КАБИНЕТА МИНИСТРОВ ТУРКМЕНИСТАНА С.Г.БЕРДЫМУХАМЕДОВА С ПРЕМЬЕР-МИНИСТРОМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ КАЗАХСТАН А.У.МАМИНЫМ
Сегодня 20 мая состоялся телефонный разговор Заместителя Председателя Кабинета Министров, Председателя Высшей контрольной палаты Туркменистана С.Г.Бердымухамедова с Премьер-министром Республики Казахстан А.У.Маминым, в ходе которого были рассмотрены вопросы двухстороннего сотрудничества в торгово-экономическом и гуманитарных областях.
При этом особое внимание было обращено на выполнение договоренностей, достигнутых Президентами Туркменистана и Казахстана по дальнейшему укреплению партнерского взаимодействия между двумя государствами по широкому спектру направлений.
В этом контексте Стороны, в частности, обсудили конкретные пути и формы расширения торговых связей и договорились о взаимных визитах делегаций двух стран для проведения переговоров по конкретным проектам туркмено-казахстанского сотрудничества в экономической сфере.
В заключение телефонного разговора Стороны подчеркнули значимость контактов на межправительственном уровне и выразили готовность к их продолжению на регулярной основе.
Members of Parliament Vaccinated with China's Sinopharm
Members of Parliament got COVID-19 vaccinated publically. 20 MP were inoculated with chinese Sinopharm vaccine at the N. Kipshidze Central University Clinic. This info reported by the administration of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.
Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, Ekaterine Tikaradze got familiarized with the process of immunization in Tbilisi Republican Hospital.
Ekaterine Tikaradze extended her gratitude towards MPs for involvement in the process of vaccination and noted that participation of a legislative body and MPs will further intensify the process.
"The process of vaccination has significantly improved in Georgia. The readiness and trust for public side is increasing. Both work-related and business sector involvement are significant, since social and public responsibility of our citizens are manifested through wearing face masks, observing the rule of social distancing, active engagement on vaccination process. The Government decided to serve as a role model for the society. Active involvement of the ministers in the vaccination process has been observed recently; without any doubts, involvement of a legislative body and Members of Parliament is very important", - stated Ekaterine Tikaradze.
Registration for Chinese Sinopharm vaccine has started in Georgia from April 27.
To book the vaccination please visit: booking.moh.gov.ge or call 15 22.
WHO, Public Health Institutions, and qualified doctors recommend COVID-19 vaccination!
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The MODERNISM became especially popular in the Soviet esthetics and criticism about the 2nd a floor. 1950th. In this concept the negative assessment directing attention to such features of avant-gardism, as refusal of classical tradition, subjectivity, destruction of mimetichesky figurativeness and logic of a form, a tendency of an absurdizm, cultivation of accidents, washing out of borders between art and reality was usually put. Often the MODERNISM was considered in the Soviet esthetics as direct charlatanism. That caused row response эстетиков and the critics considering avant-gardism (or a part it) as special option of realism of 20 century.
in the first decades of 20 century. The modernism is connected with emergence of a number of the directions approving its principles (a fauvism, a cubism, constructivism, pointless art etc.); after the Second World War relay race of modernist searches was accepted by an abstract expressionism and pop art.
Art the MODERNISM has programmno anti-authoritative, anti-traditional character. Important line the MODERNISM is hobby for formal and plastic, composite and coloristic problems of the art creativity which purpose creation of essentially original works bearing internal freedom and novelty of means of expression of graphic language admits. Each work is sovereign: it is an embodiment of special vision and understanding of world around the author.
Since the end of the 1950th and especially in the 1960-1980th in western, and later and in domestic art culture there are the tendencies, resisting a MODERNISM, rejecting his program statement of novelty, the present and originality of the statement. See. Postmodernism.
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Our favourite chat apps, Whatsapp and WeChat, can be used against us.
The adoption of easy to use instant messaging and mobile apps has made the job of filtering SPAM, viruses and malware a lot more challenging. Cyber hackers are taking advantage as the general public seems to continue to have a sense of 'trust' for anything that can be accessed or downloaded. The more recent WeChat Trojan virus along with the Whatsapp malware has caused an increase in alarm, along with some planned major changes to the applications.
WeChat has become a very popular messaging application that offers multiple features for their users. Created in China, WeChat brings the ability for the users to make payments via their bank accounts. This is a high level attraction for cyber hackers who have created a series of Trojan bankers to emulate the application. When a user fills in their personal banking information, including account number and PIN, it transmits, shares and gives access to the hackers. It also opens the ability to send copies of any communications and actions so the cyber criminals can follow any and all actions that are occurring. The fact that the application is encrypted has made this one of the most difficult to track.
Whatsapp is another messaging service that has increased in popularity as an easy and quick way to replace standard SMS services. This is the very reason that it has become an attractive lure for cyberattacks via mobile phones. Whatsapp (parent company, Facebook), has planned a new end-to-end encryption process that will allow the send and receive information, but not the contents of the message.
As South African companies join others around the globe with the increased number of employees working remotely, company email and messaging is another opportunity for unsuspecting staff to be open for malware and viruses. DaVinci Forensics examines all aspects of potential risk from an internal and external bearing, working to keep company data secured from malware and viruses.
The concept of a single source attack from cyber criminals has made a dramatic shift to any device that has internet access as well as SMS and email. The objectives of the hacking community has been escalated to every increasing levels of sophistication as they pursue both personal and company information and data. Internet and software providers are scrambling to address this newer face of attack in the cyber world as well as trying to prepare for the next phases. An important factor on this layer of the playing field will be to educate the individuals and corporate environments as a coordinated effort of awareness for their security protection. As the 'internet of everything' continues to escalate, there is a need to alter the approach to one of higher caution on all vertical fronts.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kole Calhoun's reemergence from a dreadful start continued for the Los Angeles on Friday with a game-ending home run on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning.
Calhoun had three RBIs on the night, while helping the Angels to a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners in the opener of a three-game series.
Calhoun's 12th of the season came off Mariners reliever Juan Nicasio (1-5). It also gave him a .386 batting average, 15 runs scored, seven home runs and 15 RBI over his last 12 games.
In 32 games since returning from the disabled list on June 18, he has 11 home runs and 23 RBIs. Over the first two month of the season, he was batting .145 with a .179 slugging percentage and just one home run in 50 games.
"It's been a really good month, but it's just about going out and helping the team to win," Calhoun said. "I know it sounds cliché, but definitely April and May, I wasn't doing that. I'm going out and having fun and not really caring what the numbers are, just trying to come to the ballpark every day to compete."
The Mariners were unsuccessful in trying to take the lead in the top of 10th, when Dee Gordon attempted to steal home on the back end of a double-steal with Jean Segura.
Segura broke for second base on a pitch from Angels reliever Jim Johnson (3-2). Gordon then broke for home with Angels second baseman Ian Kinsler firing a return throw to catcher Jose Briceno. Gordon was initially ruled safe by home plate umpire Kerwin Danley, but the call was overturned via replay.
Gordon said the plan to steal home was relayed to him by third-base coach Scott Brosius.
"I think you've seen that play since Little League to be honest with you," Gordon said. "Everybody runs that play. It was just that they have a Gold Glove second baseman, a Gold Glove shortstop and they made a good play."
The Mariners also had a prime scoring chance in the ninth inning after Nelson Cruz singled and Kyle Seager walked with no outs. But right-hander Hansel Robles struck out Ryon Healy and left-hander Jose Alvarez got a groundout and a strikeout of Ben Gamel to end the threat.
Albert Pujols made a diving stop in the ninth inning on a ground ball down the first-base line from Chris Herrmann to prevent at least two Mariners runs.
Angels starter Andrew Heaney continued his solid pitching at home, giving up three runs on seven hits over eight innings. He has a 1.60 ERA over nine home starts this season. He threw just 81 pitches in his outing and had 64 pitches after seven innings.
"That was wild," Heaney said. "They obviously made a point that they were going to swing the bat. They were going to swing it early and they were going to swing it often. They hit some balls hard."
Not only did the Angels get some solid defense on the Mariners' attempted steal of home in the 10th, and from Pujols on his diving stop in the ninth inning, they were holding the Mariners in check all game.
Seager was robbed twice, first on a play by shortstop Andrelton Simmons in the fifth inning and again in the seventh when Mike Trout made a catch on the run up against the center field fence.
It was more bad luck for a Mariners team that has scored 3.16 runs per game in July after scoring 4.74 runs per game in March/April, 4.07 runs in May and 4.50 in June.
"You know, it's one of those stretches when you try to put together good at-bats as a team and you come out in a funk and hit balls right at guys," Zunino said. "I think it's something where we have to barrel balls up and trust it and sooner or later they will all fall for us."
Angels LHP John Lamb, who has been out since June 27 with left shoulder inflammation, was transferred to the 60-day disabled list. . Angels RHP Matt Shoemaker, who has missed all but one start with a right forearm strain, played catch from 120 feet this week, but is not expected to return in the foreseeable future.
Mariners RHP Erasmo Ramirez, on the DL with a should strain, pitched three scoreless innings for Triple-A Tacoma this week, with a fastball in the low 90-mph range, and is expected to get another rehab start, likely on Monday for Tacoma.
The Mariners made a move to bolster their bullpen, acquiring right-hander Sam Tuivailala from the St. Louis Cardinals for minor-league pitcher Seth Elledge. Tuivailala, 25, was 3-3 with a 3.69 ERA in 31 appearances for the Cardinals this season. Elledge was the Mariners' No. 10 ranked prospect, according to mlb.com.
The Angels added outfielder Eric Young Jr. to the major league roster for the first time this season, selecting his contract from Triple-A Salt Lake. Outfielder Jabari Blash was optioned to Salt Lake. Young was batting .300 with seven home runs and 34 RBIs in 84 games at Triple-A.
Mariners: RHP Felix Hernandez (8-8, 5.14 ERA) has allowed three or fewer runs in each of his last six starts and on Friday he will be making his second outing since coming off the disabled list because lower back stiffness.
Angels: RHP Jamie Barria (5-7, 3.80) has lost each of his last six decisions after opening the year 5-1, and will try for his first victory in four tries against the Mariners when he takes the mound Friday.
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Media Advisory: State Climate Experts Assemble at Scripps April 20
Robert Monroe
What: Media are invited to a special public science meeting of the California Climate Action Team (CAT) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Experts on wildfires, drought, sea-level rise, public health and economic effects of climate change will deliver brief presentations and invite feedback. A live Webinar of the event will also take place. (Please see below for access instructions.)
When: Monday, April 20, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Where: Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment (Scripps Seaside Forum), 8610 Kennel Way (formerly Discovery Way) in La Jolla, Calif. (For media only: Take I-5, exit La Jolla Village Drive, west one mile. Make left on La Jolla Shores Drive, then right on El Paseo Grande and immediate right into parking lots on right-hand side. Please obtain media parking passes from the Scripps Communications Office staff attendant upon arrival.)
Who: Authors of several of the reports included in the latest CAT assessment will deliver brief presentations, followed by question-and-answer sessions. Scripps Communications Office representatives will be on hand to facilitate one-on-one media interviews throughout the event.
California Energy Commission Vice Chair James Boyd will preside over the science meeting, which will include a wide range of presentations:
Climate and Socio-economic Scenarios Overview: Dan Cayan, climate scientist at Scripps Oceanography and Alan Sanstad, researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; both are members of the CAT science steering team.
Climate Effects on Forests and Wildfire Prevalence: Anthony Westerling, former Scripps Oceanography climate scientist, current assistant professor of environmental engineering and geography, UC Merced
Water and Overall Economic Impacts: Michael Hanemann, Chancellor's professor and professor of environmental and resource economics, UC Berkeley
Agricultural Sector Impacts: Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural and resource economics and department chair, UC Davis
Sea-level Rise Scenarios: Heather Cooley, senior research
associate, Pacific Institute
Public Health: Rupa Basu, research scientist/epidemiologist, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Air Quality Implications: Dev Millstein, researcher, UC Berkeley
Energy Impacts: Maximillian Auffhammer, assistant professor in the departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and International Studies, UC Berkeley
Background: The state Climate Action Team draft assessment report, released April 1, uses updated, comprehensive scientific research to outline environmental and societal climate impacts. The team's second biennial report to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger includes new assessments of impacts from warming, precipitation changes and sea-level rise as well as the additional societal factors such as land-use changes and demographic shifts and the possible economic consequences of these potential changes. Impacts of climate change to California's coast, agriculture, forest and communities have been known and studied for years; however the studies that support the CAT report suggest that actual greenhouse gas emissions are outstripping 2006 projections. Of particular interest are the several papers focusing on the impacts of a rise in sea levels to coastal communities and increased potential of wildfires to residential areas.
<p>California Energy Commission Contact:<br /> Adam Gottlieb<br /> 916-654-4989 or 916-747-3800 (cell)</p> <h2 class="headers"> </h2>
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Q: Python: Object Oriented Programming How do you declare an empty list as a member of the constructor function in a python class ?
Eg:
class House:
def __init__(self):
self.genome = []
for i in range(0, 4):
self.genome.append(1)
s = House
print s.genome()
I keep getting the error: class home has no attribute 'genome' ?
Thank You.
A: Your class is ok. You just have a problem with how you call it:
>>> class House:
... def __init__(self):
... self.genome = []
... for i in range(0, 4):
... self.genome.append(1)
...
>>> s=House()
>>> s.genome
[1, 1, 1, 1]
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Keep the look and feel of the new iPhone XS with 360° defense. Lightweight with daily scratch defense, Thin Fit 360™ offers a slim but rigid coverage with a custom-fit glass protector to handle any unwanted screen contact. All features are left open for quick access and button response. Enjoy full coverage in a minimal frame with Thin Fit 360™.
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Q: Should predictive accuracy or, alternatively, minimizing the MSE, be reconsidered? Ever since Breiman, maximizing predictive accuracy has become a predictive modeling gold standard, of sorts. That it has evolved to this status is understandable: it can be "optimized," is easily calibrated across k-fold samples and, for the most part, is a consistent statistic for internal model validation. However, all too often it is the sole criterion for model value -- a mechanistic and rigidly applied metric -- despite its being prone to p-hacking, gaming, and analyst fraud as well as little or no thought being given to its wider business and/or strategic impact and meaning.
Is it time to re-evaluate this metric's relative importance in the statistical, machine learning and predictive modeling industries?
A: This is a nice and thoughtful post, and in my working life I have observed the things you outline to be correct - the successful statisticians and scientists at my workplace are those that can step back from raw predictive accuracy and deliver a model or analysis that is holistically appropriate for the problem at hand. Sometimes this is raw predictive power, but often it is not.
I explicitly look for this when interviewing, my favorite initial answer to a modeling question is
Well, it depends...
I'll add some examples to your list.
Implementation Costs
Many businesses run core systems on outdated technology, cobol or fortran codebases running on ancient mainframe architectures. They are often reluctant to replace them because of the high fixed costs for doing so (even though the variable costs of maintaining them are high). This can have drastic consequences for model implementation. It may be possible to get a predictive boost from a random forest or gradient booster, but implementing a model of that complexity in a production environment can be completely infeasible.
Shelf Life
Related to implementation costs, a model, once implemented, may have a very long shelf life, and be expected to deliver reasonable predictions for a long time. A model with maximum supportable complexity fit very hard to the data is less robust to distribution shifts in the population and predictive relativity changes between segments.
Tinkering
Business people have a tendency to tinker with production models, and we as modelers sometimes have to assist with hot fixes in production systems. Complex models are more sensitive to this, it is harder to accurately asses how they will react to a production adjustment (talk to a mechanic about whether its easier to get under the hood of a car manufactured in 1980 vs. 2010).
Robustness to New Information
A categorical predictor may obtain new categories in the future, and is often desirable to have principled way to deal with these without refitting a model and pushing it to production.
Model Componentization
A model may be part of a larger system optimization, which imposes environmental constraints on its form and properties. One common source of this is when a model is a component of a larger mathematical optimization scheme, with some causal predictor in the model being manipulated as a lever to enhance business results. This can impose smoothness or differentiability constraints on the predictors that are very important to consider.
Locality Constraints
Some models have better locality properties than others. For example, if I wish to estimate the price elasticity of a customer for small adjustments, then a highly local model (i.e. a density smoother with small bandwidth, a regularized spline with small parameter, or a gradient tree booster with lots of cuts) will invariably use less of the data to support inferences even on a local scale. This can be undesirable when these inferences are used to make important decisions, and should be supported by as much data as possible.
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On day 4 in the Andes, I hiked with Avishai* and two fellow travelers to the pre-Incan tombs that I could see from a trail near the farmhouse. From the distance, the round holes that punctuated the reddish swath of rock reminded me of the red cliff homes of the ancient Anasazi people of the U.S. Southwest. Our climb to the pre-Incan tombs was very steep, particular the last ascent, which was like scaling a cliff. As I pulled myself up by handfuls of thorny bushes, I told myself to not look down because I suddenly remembered I was afraid of heights.
When the four of us finally reached the rock shelf housing the three tombs, which were round and open-mouthed like red clay ovens, we sat in silence for a long while. There, next to the ancestors' tombs and the cliff's perilous edge, I reflected on fear and the need to befriend it.
As I rose to face the precipitous edge, Avishai counseled that faith and practice come from the same root word in Hebrew. Faith and practice cannot be separated. To have faith is to act on it, to walk. He encouraged me to trust my body and its intuitive ability to select the right footholds. And so I descended, trusting my body and befriending the gaping expanse.
Facing the edge, I now realize, was the best experience of the day. Too often the unknown is muddied by apprehension simply because we lack the ability to imagine it any other way.
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The purpose of this Notice is to inform you of how Highland Homes protects and uses your non-public personal information during the course of your home buying experience. Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) requires that we provide you with a notice of our privacy policies and practices which informs you of the types of information that we collect from you and the persons or entities to whom your personal information may be disclosed.
In the course of your home buying experience with Highland Homes, you may share non-public personal information about yourself with us in a number of ways. You may provide personal information to us on applications or other forms when communicating or transacting with us in writing, electronically, or by phone, and through requests for forms or literature in connection with your purchase of a Highland home. Information may come from consumer reporting agencies and those companies providing services to us incident to your home purchase, such as property appraisers.
All information is treated as confidential and we recognize the importance of protecting access to it. We do not disclose nonpublic personal information about you with third parties unless necessary to complete your purchase of your home, and any mortgage, title, insurance and escrow transactions incident to your home purchase, or as otherwise permitted by law.
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Skin Treatments, Body Treatments, and Waxing..oh my!
We offer facials, eyelash extensions, waxing, spray tanning, brow and lash tinting and more!
The Skincare and Beauty Lounge at Simply Beautiful Artistry offers you the opportunity to look and feel your best from head to toe. See the price list below for treatments like facials, waxing, spray tanning, lash extensions, brow and lash tinting and more! If you have a question about treatments please navigate to the contact us page and call, text or e-mail the skincare studio!
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Uttini Gaetano Gaspare
2 Novembre 1737 - 12 Gennaio 1817
Gaetano Gaspare Uttini (1737 – 1817), Bolognese, graduated in Philosophy and Medicine in 1763, honorary professor in 1767, in 1772 he became (waged lector) and, in 1789, he has been registered in the Collegio medico. Though pensioned off in 1799, in November 1800 he was asked to accept the chair of Pathology, Criminology and Forensic medicine and was confirmed professor by the Napoleonic decree of November 25, 1802. The same year he was also Chancellor. Definitively retired in 1806, he died on January 12, 1817, «uomo religioso, autorevole, obbligante, benefico ed eccellente non meno nell'insegnare che nel curare» (Mazzetti, Repertorio, p. 312; Gasnault, p. 233) («a man of religion, authoritative, obliging, beneficent and excellent both in teaching and curing»). He lived in via Saragozza, at the former n. 138 (now 6), by via Altaseta's corner, in a house formerly of the Garganelli family (Guidicini, Cose Not., V, p. 11). The funeral service was held in his parish church delle Muratelle. (Id., Diario, IV, p. 41).
Uttini Gaetano monument
Bologna during the napoleonic age
Third Cloister
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Touristic flyer of the Certosa Cemetery
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Wood's Powr-Grip, Inc., "the original and trusted name in glass handling™," has announced a new development for vacuum lifters, a computer-operated control system called Intelli-Grip™.
Intelli-Grip features proprietary software, a color display screen, and ergonomic controls. This system is designed to add a substantially greater margin of safety to vacuum lifters, while also improving ease-of-use and efficiency.
Intelli-Grip does this by helping prevent human error, warning of vacuum leaks and low battery before they become dangers, managing power to extend lifter run time, and auto-testing the vacuum system.
As technology works its way into an ever-increasing array of industries and consumer goods, Wood's Powr-Grip believes that Intelli-Grip represents the future of vacuum lifting and glass handling.
Intelli-Grip technology will eventually become standard on most Powr-Grip vacuum lifters, beginning with their best-selling battery-powered lifters for glass and cladding installation, with load capacities from 700 lbs (320 kg) to 1400 lbs (635 kg). These lifters will be in full production and available by January 2017.
National glazing contractor, GG Glass, has taken delivery of a 7.5 tonne Isuzu A-frame vehicle at the firm's Birmingham depot.
On 2-5 April a Gimav group stand at International Glass Industry show in Moscow.
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Loveland settles with political activist over mannequin buttocks sign
Loveland police detained the 80-year-old resident in June for holding the sign.
Loveland settles with political activist over mannequin buttocks sign Loveland police detained the 80-year-old resident in June for holding the sign. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/colorado/2019/04/26/loveland-settles-butt-sign-political-activist/3590529002/
The Associated Press Published 1:37 p.m. MT April 26, 2019
LOVELAND, Colo. – A Colorado city has settled a lawsuit with a man who criticized a gubernatorial candidate using a sign featuring mannequin buttocks clothed in lingerie.
The Reporter-Herald reports that insurers for Loveland have settled the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Bob Cluster for $70,000.
The city admits no wrongdoing in the April 15 settlement, and its attorney says no police policy changes or training are required.
Loveland police detained the 80-year-old resident in June for holding the sign that Cluster said was intended to satirize the political motives of candidate Jared Polis.
One side of Cluster's sign said Polis "will be breaking old taboos & barriers" while the other side displayed the mannequin body part and a Polis slogan regarding "bold vision."
Read or Share this story: https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/colorado/2019/04/26/loveland-settles-butt-sign-political-activist/3590529002/
Assessor's top staffer resigns, cites 'toxic situation'
Severe thunderstorm warning issued in Northern Colorado
Repaving project to close Timberline Road starting Wednesday
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We had Robert install light fixtures in a condo that did not have any existing lights in the bedroom, LR, or DR. We also had some plugs moved and programmable thermostats installed. Robert was very easy to deal with and gave us prompt and professional service. He pays attention to all the small details of the job.
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Right from the start Robert was punctual. Provided us a quote that was right in the middle of all quotes received. Gave my wife and I lots of information and samples for how to decide on lighting choices for a full kitchen renovation. Was always on time and was able to show up on short notice. Robert and George did a great job and the end result is a phenomenal kitchen.
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We had French doors installed and the installer didn't properly remove an electrical outlet. Robert responded to my quote request on this site quickly and was onsite the next afternoon. It was a fairly quick job as he's clearly very experienced. Also, I found pricing to be fair. Overall, I'm a happy customer and wouldn't hesitate to use him again.
I wanted to replace 3 old and ugly track lights with 4 pot lights and pendants I contacted several companies. choosing from the best rated on homestars. Robert was the only one that said the job could be done with minimal damage, and his quote was easily the best.
As he is in high demand , you might have to wait a bit for his services, but he fit me in when he had a cancellation. He is worth waiting for. Laid back, a good listener and highly skilled, the lights look fabulous and even though he needed to install a new box in the ceiling for the pendants, the only repair needed is 6 screw holes that held the tracks. A very happy customer!
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We are a Licenced, Bonded and an Insured company ensuring a standard of excellence to our customers.
At Robert Redford Electrical Services we only have Certified Journeyman Electricians showing up at your door. Our electricians are specific to your needs, should you require an electrician for commercial applications we have electricians that work and specialize in that field; the same for our residential customers, we will send our electricians with years of experience in residential wiring.
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Keto Tone New Zealand :—-released (which is the chemical that is released under stressful situations), an increase of dopamine in the brain (due to exercising), and of course, a better outlook on life.
When trying to lose weight, there are 3 things you want to make sure you do. Using herbal cure to treat weight gain problems reduces the risk of side effects on user. Dance is a form which is a very popular option with the young and the old. If you wish to get rid of belly fat, then you should consider regularly performing those exercises that focus on intervals.
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We know you like eating something different every day and once you've got passed the usual recipes, you will want to try some different things. So today let's make a delicious and flavorful recipe: Arab rice! Start by boiling water into a bowl, then add saffron threads, a very luxurious and flavorful spice, cashew nuts, cinnamon, cloves, onion, raisins, turmeric powder and salt. It will already start smelling incredible. Now it is time to add the rice and a bit of oil so it doesn't stick to the pot. Then you can sauté some onions in a pan with oil and add it on top of your rice and some fresh chopped coriander for both flavor and decoration purposes. Your dish is ready and it looks absolutely incredible! Make sure to enjoy it with your family! Have a great time playing Arab Rice Recipe!
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On the way to the Battle Pike, Ash and his friends spot some strange and stormy weather nearby. What's more, an irritable Elekid is busy zapping all the local Pokémon! Pikachu and Phanpy try to stop Elekid, but in the confusion, May's Pokémon Egg lands on Elekid's head and Elekid gets away. Team Rocket finds Elekid—and the Egg—but Elekid zaps them too and now Mime Jr. is lost as well!
Ash and his friends find Mime Jr., who tags along as they search for May's Pokémon Egg. Meanwhile, Elekid continues to use its Electric-type moves on everyone who crosses its path. Lightning from that nearby storm has overcharged it, so now it has to release the excess energy. When Ash realizes what's going on, he has Pikachu charge up the same way. Now Pikachu is ready to battle with Elekid, which should drain enough energy to restore it to normal!
Team Rocket shows up with their latest robot, but James calls time-out so he can swap the Pokémon Egg for Mime Jr. Now it's back to stealing Pokémon! The robot is shielded against electricity and too tough for Phanpy to defeat, but Elekid and Pikachu team up for a super-powerful Thunder move that releases their extra charges and overloads the robot. Then Phanpy evolves into Donphan and sends Team Rocket on their way. With everything finally back to normal, our friends can continue their journey to the Battle Pike!
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A plea to Galera Council?
There's a little road that leads up to where our caves are – and at the top of the hill the council have built a new road – unfortunately in the process – their lorries have broken up the road we use every day which was originally paid for by a chap who died some time ago and hence is no longer here to gripe. As my Spanish is still rubbish – if anyone in the area would care to gripe to the council to come fix the road – that would be much appreciated.
If anyone wants to copy these photos please feel free.
Here's the new bit who's construction has caused all the problems..
As you can see the left side of the road is totally shot – half way down that actually comes to a point where you can't help driving over it.
Maureen and I have repaired that small section only – the repair is just too big for someone with a few bags of cement and needs doing properly.
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AB VOLVO is paying the price of staying independent, slashing 5,300 jobs in an urgent effort to cut costs.
The job cuts, representing about 7 percent of the worldwide workforce, take effect by the middle of 1999. Volvo estimates the job cuts will lower costs around $370 million a year, at the present exchange rate.
Most of the job losses involve white-collar staff. About half are in Sweden. In North America, about 1,000 positions will be eliminated, or about 10 percent of the total workforce.
'We felt that we were too slow in reducing costs,' said Leif Johansson, president and chief executive of AB Volvo, in a conference call last week with reporters and stock market analysts.
The staff cuts will also hit suppliers. Swedish supplier group spokesman Lars Holmqvist said 10 of his 150 member companies will reduce job levels.
Sources in Sweden said short-term profit demands from investors have put pressure on the company to become more efficient. AB Volvo made profits of Skr 7.78 billion ($963.9 million) in the first nine months of the year.
Johansson said it will take several weeks to sort out how the positions will be cut, whether through attrition, or termination. Besides the 5,300 full-time employees, Volvo will also drop about 700 people hired on a consulting basis. Hiring expensive consultants has traditionally been unpopular with Volvo's powerful unions in Sweden.
A reporter asked Johansson last week whether he will also use the economic crises in Asia and Latin America as leverage against the unions. 'What I say to the unions is between me and them,' he replied.
In Volvo's third-quarter report, the company blamed a fall-off in profits on new product investment, and sharp declines in Asia and Latin America.
'If the turbulence and crises continue and result in a declining total market, measures will have to be taken to adapt the group's level of costs to smaller volumes,' Johansson warned in the October report. The lay-offs were announced 30 November.
In the long run, the downsizing has its roots in Volvo's decision to go it alone, when it killed a would-be merger with Renault in late 1993. Under its new business plan, Volvo has sworn off cross-ownership with other auto companies, and sold off non-core subsidiaries in areas like food and pharmaceuticals.
Johansson said Volvo has targets for higher sales volumes, faster and cheaper product development, and higher profits. He said product development and sales volume growth are on track, but profits are not sufficiently keeping up. For the first nine months, AB Volvo's operating margin was 4.2 percent - down from 4.4 percent in the equivalent period in 1997. That figure does not include subsidiaries sold or acquired in that time frame.
'We cannot continue (just) to develop wonderful products, and grow. We also have to do the normal rationalization any manufacturer does,' he said.
Volvo's financial targets include a 10 percent annual increase in revenues, and operating income of 5 to 7 percent of revenues.
Johansson also announced earlier this year that he wants a 5 percent annual increase in productivity. He wants the costs of purchased materials to go down by 15 percent by 2000, and he wants every new model to cost 15 percent less to develop than the model it replaces.
Higher revenues and profits are needed, so Volvo can afford its desired targets on capital spending, and research and development. Volvo believes it needs to spend 5 percent of revenues on each, but it is not hitting that target, Johansson said. For the first nine months, capital spending was 4.8 percent of revenues, for instance.
'We were not self-financing at those levels,' Johansson said.
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D Faktion Nyne and Mumsigo Tribe Bands
D Faktion Nyne and Mumsigo Tribe Bands are Arizona based multi-generational bands with popular dance music of the Natives of Southern Arizona. Popularly known as "Chicken Scratch", Waila is the energetic dance music of the Native peoples of southern Arizona. Waila features the intertwining melodies of saxophone and accordion propelled by the rhythms of guitar, bass and drums. Playing the Polkas and Two-Steps that are hallmarks of the Scratch sound, these multi-generational bands exemplify the confluence of music from Tohono O'odham and European culture. In June 2012, D Faktion 9 Band won the first prize in the Chicken Scratch Battles of the Band. Mumsigo Tribe Band's first CD, Lesson 1, was nominated for the Native American Music Awards in the Best Waila Recording. Listen to the bands: Listen 1 Listen 2 Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 7-9:30pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
Rachel Bowditch
Rachel Bowditch is a performer, theatre director, performance studies scholar, and an assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Film in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Bowditch will bring three atmospheric site-specific performances Transfix, Spectrum, and Chrome to the EMERGE festival. These performances will surprise and delight audiences, transforming the street into a stage and revealing the poetry and the beauty of the mundane. Performance schedule: Friday, March 1st, 6-8pm, Combine Studios, Phoenix | Saturday, March 2nd, 5-7pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
James O'Halloran
James O'Halloran is an award winning songwriter, a bluesman, and a flamenco guitarist with 25 years combined experience teaching, playing, and mentoring youth. O'Halloran is also a founder and a director of the SongCatcher, an integrated language and fine arts program using songwriting, performance, and recording. At EMERGE, O'Halloran will perform a special program called "Migration Roots" which showcases three different type of guitars — Spanish, steel string, and resonator — where each guitar takes a journey through places and times. This impressionistic program exemplifies the evolution of harmonic truths reflecting various routes of travels, techniques, and tunes. Performance schedule: Thursday, Feb 28th, 9am, Stauffer B | Saturday, March 2nd, 7pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
Lance Gharavi, Eileen Standley, and Jake Pinholster
Lance Gharavi is an actor, director, performance artist, technologist, and an Associate Professor of the ASU School of Theatre and Film. Eileen Standley is an artist and a Clinical Professor at the ASU School of Dance. Jake Pinholster is the director and an associate professor of the ASU School of Theatre and Film and the interim director of the ASU School of Dance in the Herberger Institute. Gharavi, Sandley and Pinholster will present Twitter Verses. An iterative time-based performative sculpture, Twitter Verses offers a kinetic meditation on the ancient problem of the one and the many. It is an encrypted parable of of our fantasies and anxieties surrounding narrative and truth in the digital age.
Twitter Verses
We hear you. We see you.
On Feb. 28 – March 2, you will be part of a larger story.
Emerge 2013
Tweet us a fragment of a story.
The story must be true.
Send as many fragments as you can.
Tweet these at #emergeTV
Performance schedule: Friday, March 1st, 8:30pm, "The Lot: What Should Go There?" 1005 N 2nd Street, Phoenix 85004., First Friday, Downtown Phoenix I Saturday, March 2nd, 6:45-7:10pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
David Tinapple & "Media Installations 494/598" students
David Tinapple is part artist part engineer and Assistant Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. For Emerge2013, students in Tinnaple's new class, "Media Installations 494/598", will perform an experimental media installation by geometrically mapping video projection onto structural objects and forms. The "Media Installations 494/598" is a new class and a core Digital Culture undergrad/graduate split course. In this class students "will investigate historical and contemporary instances of the media installation, not only as a form of art but as a cultural artifact that appears in a variety of contexts… and will learn to design and build our own media installations by learning to gather, manipulate, and present many different kinds of media using a variety of high and low-tech tools and techniques." Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 7-9:30pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
Michael Krzyzaniak
Michael Krzyzaniak is a composer of cutting edge art music and a computer programmer. At Emerge, Krzyzaniak and AME dancers will perform Separation: short range repulsion
Separation: short range repulsion uses dance, reactive electronic noise, and visual elements to explore the dichotomous gradient between society's encouragement and rejection of social deviation. Dancers improvise synchronized flocking behaviour on stage. Because the dance is improvised, and there is no established leader, the dancers must continually examine each other for behavioural cues in order to maintain synchronicity. A camera and computer vision software are used to analyze the flock's behavior, and measure its performance in real time. This information is used to control electronic noises and projected graphics.
The title is a reference to Craig Reynolds' original 'rules' of flocking behaviour.
Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 6:20-6:40pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
Boyd Branch
Boyd Branch is a digital media designer,writer, director, actor, and teacher. His interactive installation for Emerge, Neuro, is a cocktail lounge featuring projection and actors in costume. Using projectors and movable screens, the piece explores the brain as a physiological entity that is governed more by chemicals and genes than any autonomous metaphysical spirit or essence. Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 5:00-9:30pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
ASU X Square
X-Square is a transdisciplinary initiative of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University that aims to transform an otherwise unremarkable brick courtyard on the northern edge of ASU's Tempe campus into a vital gathering place for students, faculty and visitors. The square resides between the Art Building and the Design South Building. X-Act is a cross disciplinary project of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts that focuses on activating its sister project, X-Square. X-Act challenges student teams to integrate the designed space into their music, dance, film, or other performances. This year, X-Act participants will perform at Emerge2012. Performance schedule: March 1st-2nd, 7:10-7:25pm, Neeb Plaza, ASU Tempe Campus
Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State
Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State (LOrkAS) is an experimental sonic art performance collective exploring the use of the laptop as an ensemble instrument for musical expression. LOrkAS uses this medium to develop new possibilities and skills in listening, improvisation, performance, composition, coding, and teaching, as well as adapting contemporary classical repertoire and 'classic' laptop orchestra works. LOrkAS is a project under urbanSTEW , in cooperation with the LOrkAS @ ASU Club on the Arizona State University campus. Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 5-5:45pm, Stauffer B, ASU Tempe Campus
Phonic Vibrations, Caleb Kilian + Justin Boord-Balash
Phonic Vibrations is a capstone project by Justin Boord-Balash and Caleb Killian for the Digital Culture BA program. Phonic Vibrations a piece driven by the self creation and discovery of sound, science, and emotions by using the energy presented by the dancer. This is an experience that allows the dancer to take control of composition, structure, movement, all while creating a storylined soundscape. Using this piece of technology, the dancer is turned into the musician, conductor, and choreographer. How she moves, the speed of movement, as well as where she moves in the space all impact the timbre and parameters of the sounds created. Upon completion, Phonic Vibrations will facilitate a creation of a piece that binds sound and movement into an interactive production in which no two performances would ever be the same.
Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 6:00-6:15pm, Stauffer B, ASU Tempe Campus
Genesis, Caleb Kilian + Justin Boord-Balash
Genesis is a dance performance with reactive music that depicts the concept of the empowerment in self-realization. A single dancer is bedizened with sensors that detect her movement and muscle activity. Music is synthesized in real-time, and data from the sensors is used to control various aspects of the sound. The dancer's movement represents a metaphorical birth, which analogizes her realization that she has the power to control her musical environment.
Performance schedule: Saturday, March 2nd, 12-1pm, Stauffer B, ASU Tempe Campus
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With the New Year right around the corner, staying fit tops the resolution list for many. Yet, it's so easy to find an excuse to skip the gym because it's inconvenient or you don't have time. Here are 3 apps that make for great workouts from the comfort of your home.
Doctor recommended Zwift allows competing cyclists to race in real time against other cyclists around the world. Don't let bad weather prevent the competition! Become a competitive and social cyclist from your own living room.
For the beginners and the pros, Yoga Studio offers prepared video classes, poses, and detailed instruction and advice. Whether you have 10 minutes or 2 hours, this yoga app allows you to carry around a personalized yoga studio with you wherever you go.
Looking to track your own progress, race against yourself or others, or plan and train for a marathon? Download Runmeter GPS! Whether you are a beginner or avid runner, this app will help you keep up with and customize your training goals and progress.
With the convenience of these apps, the start of a healthy lifestyle is right at your fingertips. Why wait until the New Year? Jumpstart those resolutions and enjoy these full-fledged workouts without dealing with the hassle of a gym.
Ho ho ho! How well do you think Santa Claus makes out on his annual physical? Would he get a thumbs-up from his doctor, or a scolding for munching on cookies while he delivers toys?
Making presents and tinkering in his workshop is probably pretty good exercise - as constant motion and staying active is always a good thing. Find out what other healthy habits Santa has that may be surprising.
Take this fun quiz, and see if you can follow his lead this holiday season!
In Central Texas, when temperatures drop, it's time to head outside. The cooler temps are a refreshing change from our usual heat, and it's great to enjoy sports and activities outdoors. At the same time, it is a good idea to be aware of how the cold weather can affect your body.
Even when exercising in the cold, your body temperature drops, requiring additional energy to warm up the cold air you breathe in. In fact, up to 23% of calories burned in cold weather exercise go toward warming the air you inhale. This means you may need to take in a greater amount of calories.
Another option for keeping your body warm is to heat up your food. Studies show that eating warm foods can help contribute to your body's heat preservation. Foods like soup, chili, pasta, oatmeal and baked potatoes are all smart options.
Here are 3 tips to keep you fueled up and warmed up out in the cold.
Stay hydrated, and try wearing your water bottle tucked inside your clothing and close to your body to keep it warm.
Have a snack every 30-45 minutes such as an energy bar/gels, trail mix, nuts or fruit.
Minimize caffeine and alcohol consumption prior to outdoor activities as they can both be dehydrating.
Also remember to bundle up properly in several light layers and to use sunscreen on exposed areas to protect your skin.
Texas Orthopedics has a long tradition of giving back to the community. Children's causes have always been dear to our hearts, especially during the holidays. Along with our standing commitment to Partnerships for Children, we are proud to announce a new relationship with the Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center.
This year we are collecting toys, clothes and other necessities for families aided by the organization.
The Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center offers a child friendly, safe place to disclose child abuse while reducing the emotional trauma for children and non-offending family members. The group is a member of the larger family of Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, an association representing all local children's advocacy centers throughout the state.
We are proud to have such a generous staff who believes whole-heartedly in the importance of giving back, not just during the holidays, but all year long.
For the past three years, Texas Orthopedics staff and their family members have collected toys, clothes and other important items for local families in need. It is part of our annual charitable giving to Partnerships for Children, a local nonprofit that provides Child Protective Services' caseworkers with items to better serve the kids in our community.
Items collected will help spread cheer among the youngest and most vulnerable members of our Central Texas community - neglected and abused children.
'Tis the season for giving and our staff did not disappoint! Our offices are brimming with donations.
Thank you, Texas Orthopedics staff, for your thoughtfulness.
The holidays have arrived along with an endless parade of festive party platters and potlucks. It can be easy to overindulge at this time of year. Here are 5 tips for making healthy food choices. (And, yes, being healthy still means you can have holiday cookies once in a while).
Don't leave for a party hungry. Eat a healthy snack before beading out the door such as nuts, yogurt or a piece of fruit.
Use small plates to serve yourself. This helps to control portion size.
Limit your liquid calories. Margaritas, punches and eggnog are filled with sugar. Enjoy your holiday drink, but sip it slowly, and also stay hydrated. Hunger is often mistaken for thirst, so down a glass of water before piling up your plate.
Start with the low-calorie options. Cut-up veggies and salads are a healthy way to fill up before you hit the cheese table.
Socialize away from the food. You'll be less tempted to grab that extra cookie if your conversation is out of sigh from the buffet.
This is not the time of year to diet. Instead, focus on maintaining your normal weight during this busy season by being mindful of what you're eating. Your body will thank you for it long after the holidays are over.
Congrats to our Super Doctors!
Congrats to the seven Texas Orthopedics' physicians recognized as Super Doctors by Texas Monthly. The list was published in the December issue of the magazine.
A rigorous process was used to identify physicians who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Learn more about the selection process here.
Arthritis patients may not seem the most obvious candidates for adopting a strength-training or weightlifting regimen. But evidence shows that strength-training is highly beneficial to those suffering from osteoporosis and other forms of the disease.
Alleviate pain. A recent study in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine found that men with rheumatoid arthritis who strength-trained three times a week over eight weeks reported a 23 percent reduction in pain (in the knees).
Improve range of motion. Patients who practiced resistance training three days a week for five weeks, with equipment such as a band or by using their own body weight, exhibited similar flexibility to those not affected by arthritis who performed regular stretching routines (Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research).
Build muscle. Strength-training builds up muscle, which burns calories. Burning calories helps to shed fat and maintain a healthy weight. Arthritis patients who are overweight often experience more painful and severe symptoms than others due to the excess pressure put on their already stressed joints.
Increase bone density. Women are robbed of nearly 50% of their bone tissue at or around the time they reached menopause. Men follow closely behind losing bone mass at a rapid once they hit 65 or 70 (National Institutes of Health). Decreased bone mass, or density, is a leading cause of arthritis. Lifting weights on a regular basis slow down this bone density loss.
The stronger and leaner the body is, the better armed it is to fight against arthritis.
Over one million people visited urgent care centers or emergency rooms with trampoline-related injuries from 2002 to 2011 (Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics). The majority of these injuries occurred in small children.
With more and more commercial trampoline "parks" popping up, this number could continue to skyrocket.
Neck and spinal cord injuries are the most serious, and often suffered from a bad landing when attempting somersaults or flips. Other injuries include sprains and fractures to the lower extremities, with more than 60% affecting the ankle. Bumps, bruises, and minor cuts and scrapes are also common.
Many injuries result from too many people jumping close together, as they often end up bumping into each other. This can be especially hard to avoid if visiting a trampoline park during a busy weekend or special event packed with lots of kiddos.
Whether heading to one of these parks, or jumping on a home trampoline, the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) urges extreme caution, especially for young children.
Make sure all visible equipment is in good working condition - no tears on the trampoline surface, and no exposed springs.
Check that there are no toys or foreign objects anywhere on the trampoline.
Supervise children at all times. Do no rely on the park's staff to monitor your child's safety.
Do not allow kids to do somersaults or flips.
Verify that the facility follows proper AAP and industry guidelines regarding trampoline use and maintenance.
The purpose of the "respect" series of blog is to remind my followers and patients of the many destructive forces out there which can result in the slow or acute decline of our musculoskeletal system. Of course, there are commonly seen, major forces, like doing squats and gaining a lot of weight. But, there are also many minor forces, injury-producing activities, which I see over and over in my practice. I don't see them as often as others, but I see them enough that I write them down on little pieces of note paper, along with the word "BLOG," in order to remind myself to write about them later.
Many of them are things in which, if you knew about them, or even considered them briefly, you might be able to make some simple changes before the damage is done. For example, check out my previous blog, Respect the Stairs.
It goes without saying that we need to wear bras. The first bra was a corset, and it was put on by someone else... from behind! So when bras evolved, they did so with the opening in the back. Why didn't someone early on consider an opening in the front? I wonder how many rotator cuffs that would have spared?
I often treat women complaining of the onset of shoulder pain whilst trying to fasten the hooks from behind. It's tricky. You have to have your wrists, elbows and shoulders all in good health to do it. And it is so ingrained into our physical memory that it sometimes takes a doctor saying, "Have you considered wearing a front opening bra or putting it on backwards and turning it around,?" before my patients realize that it's a viable, if not preferable, option.
So, why don't we start converting to front-opening bras? While we're slowly exchanging out our inventory, why don't we also start doing them in the front and turning them around? I promise it will save some of your shoulders.
Calling all bra companies! Heed my request to make more stylish, front-opening bras, and change our back-clasping bra culture!
To read more of Dr. Bergin's "respect" series, check out her blog.
Flu season is upon us, and while it's a good idea for everyone to get a flu shot, the Infections Diseases Society of America suggests that those with arthritis, and other inflammatory diseases, can particularly benefit from it.
Conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lups, psoriatic arthritis, and other forms of arthritis, can weaken the immune system. The medications typically prescribed to treat these illnesses also suppress the immune system. This makes the sufferers vulnerable to the flu and pneumonia.
For these individuals, the CDC recommends both the flu shot and pneumonia vaccine. The ideal time to get vaccinated is in October when the first signs of the virus usually appear. The flu season typically starts in October and continue through to May of the following year.
Other precautions to avoid the flu include frequent hand washing, and steering clear of those already infected with it. Check with your physician about scheduling your flu shot today.
Football players' injuries are regularly splashed across the sports pages at this time of year. Concussions, pulled hamstrings and torn ACL's are all pretty common. Recently, ankle injuries, such as fractures and sprains, have also made front page news.
Eddie Lacy, of the NFL's Green Bay Packers, and Malik Zaire, start quarterback of the University of Notre Dame, suffered serious season-ending ankle injuries. While there is no controlling what happens on the field, for a professional or recreational athlete, you can condition your ankles so that they are at their strongest to prevent an injury.
Strengthening ankle joints and surrounding tissues help to decrease the severity of an injury and also help prevent painful conditions such as shin splints and Achilles tendonitis.
Use a resistance band by placing it around the top of the foot, then curl toes at the end of the movement. Complete three sets of 20 in each direction.
Perform simple calf raises, in both sitting and standing positions. Aim for three sets of 20.
Try plyometric drills with swift, jumping type movements and rapid recoveries, such as "scissor hops" and standing/jumping squats. Do each exercise 10 to 15 times.
Learning how to balance well on your ankles keeps them strong and allows you to control your feet and body more effectively. Practice standing on one foot for several second, working up to one full minute, then switch, and repeat.
Physician assistants work tirelessly on behalf of the physicians they assist as well as the patients whom they treat. Their role in our office is invaluable.
For this reason, Texas Orthopedics salutes our amazing physician assistants and all PA professionals during National PA Week October 6-12.
There are currently more than 100,000 certified PAs across the country, and it is considered one of the fastest-growing professions today (American Academy of Physician Assistants). Physician assistants are highly trained individuals able to prescribe medications and perform many of the same tasks as a regular doctor. They are instrumental in providing more patients high-quality, cost-effective medical care once only available from a doctor.
National Physician Assistants Week has grown from just a single day celebrated historically on October 6 since 1987 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first graduating class of PAs from the Duke University PA program. October 6 is also the birthday of the PA field's pioneer and founder, Dr. Eugene A. Stead, Jr.
We are fortunate to have such a great group of PAs supporting our patients.
Texas Orthopedics is excited to sponsor Run for the Water, one of Austin's largest and most popular charity-produced races. And many of our employees are going to put on their running shoes to participate in the 10 mile and 5K run. We are so pleased that we're able to contribute to such an important cause and fun local event!
Now in its ninth year, Run for the Water is produced and benefits the Gazelle Foundation, an Austin-based non-profit improving the lives of citizens of Burundi, Africa, through the building of water systems.
Learn more about Run for the Water and find out how you can participate.
And keep up with Texas Orthopedics news by following us on Facebook and Twitter (@TexasOrthopedic).
In Austin, it's not uncommon to see cyclists whizzing past you on any given road at any given time of day. While biking is a great form of exercise, there are some risks associated with this popular pastime, especially for adults.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that injuries among adult cyclists have risen steadily since 1998, with the largest increase among adults over 45 years old.
This rise in injuries is due to a few reasons: More cyclists on the road and more are traveling in urban areas, which tend to have traffic congestion and other road dangers.
Ride with a partner or cycling group - there are safety in numbers.
Obey all traffic signals and weather warnings, and plan your travel route before hitting the road.
Wear a properly fitting helmet and shoes, as well as reflective gear in the early morning or evening hours.
Can you touch your toes? Really touch them? Proper form dictates that you bend all the way at the waist/hips and fold over similar to closing an old-fashioned flip phone.
So why is this such a challenging, physical task for so many? For one thing, our flexibility wants as we age. Another factor is likely the amount of time we spent sitting at a desk or in a car these days.
Sitting for long periods of time causes your hip flexors to actually shorten. The hip flexors attach to the mid and lower back and are instrumental in bending, along with your abdominals and glutes.
If the hip flexors are shortened or tightened, flexibility can decrease in your core, and ultimately throughout your entire body.
To keep hip flexors surrounding tissues limber, here are just a few exercises to try a couple of times a week, and you will be touching your toes in no time!
Use two balls together (lacrosse balls work well), and lay your stomach with balls placed just below hip bone.
Swing leg side to side for several reps repeat.
Lay on one end of a foam roller so that the tip of foam roller is flush against center of pelvis.
Raise both legs up with knees straight and repeat.
Place feet shoulder width apart with toes out at a 45-degree angle.
Squat as you bring hips back like you are sitting in a chair that is too far behind you.
Extend knees outward, and lower yourself as much as possible while keeping balance, then repeat.
If you experience severe pain with these, or any new exercise or workout, you may want to give us a call.
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Happy PI day! Dr. Stephen Hawking passed away early today. Many have marked his passing, although I always thought one of best traits that I always admired was his penchant for life. Never give up no matter what happens, the possibilities are always up to you.
Many great UX posts to share this week covering 404 pages, Cognitive Load, Daylight Savings Time, Cryptography, Car Subscription Models, and how making simple verbal changes at work can be successful.
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The entire service TEAM at Keystone Ford is committed to quality and customer service. Our goal is to constantly meet or exceed the quality and service expectations of our customers. ALL employees are responsible for "Taking Care of the Customer". We understand how busy your personal lives can be so we are available for all your service and parts needs with a quick turnaround to get your commercial vehicle back on the road with very little downtime.
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Die Marktstraße 4 ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Anwesen in der Stadt Quedlinburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.
Lage
Sie befindet sich in der historischen Quedlinburger Altstadt nördlich des Marktplatzes der Stadt. Das Haus gehört zum UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe und ist im Quedlinburger Denkmalverzeichnis als Kaufmannshof eingetragen. Südlich grenzt das gleichfalls denkmalgeschützte Haus Marktstraße 3 an.
Architektur und Geschichte
Bemerkenswert am Anwesen ist die erhaltene hofseitige Fachwerkbebauung. Sie zieht sich nach Westen in Richtung der Straße Weingarten. Möglicherweise markiert die Bebauung den Verlauf einer ehemaligen Gasse.
Der älteste Bau grenzt westlich an das straßenseitige Wohnhaus und stammt aus der Zeit um 1550. Die Fassade ist mit walzenförmigen Balkenköpfen, Schiffskehlen und Fächerrosetten verziert. Das Gebäude wurde jedoch in Teilen umgestaltet, das Erdgeschoss ist in massiver Bauweise ausgeführt. Westlich schließt sich ein Anbau aus gleicher Zeit an. Es folgen zwei Gebäude aus der Zeit um 1800 und der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Auf der Südseite des Hofs befindet sich ein weiteres Fachwerkhaus. Es entstand im 18. Jahrhundert und enthält eine Schmiede.
Literatur
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Denkmalverzeichnis Sachsen-Anhalt. Band 7: Falko Grubitzsch, unter Mitwirkung von Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried und Mario Titze: Landkreis Quedlinburg. Teilband 1: Stadt Quedlinburg. Fliegenkopf, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4, Seite 178.
Kulturdenkmal in Quedlinburg
Fachwerkhaus in Quedlinburg
Erbaut im 16. Jahrhundert
Marktstraße (Quedlinburg)
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PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ("MMK") announces that an Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders ("the EGM") was held on 28 September 2018 with absentee voting.
Shareholders approved by majority vote a dividend on MMK's issued ordinary registered shares of RUB 1.589 (incl. tax) per share for the second quarter of 2018.
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Suu's been kidnapped! Kimihito and his houseful of monster girls set out to find her, but what starts as a simple search and rescue mission turns dangerous when Suu is forced to face off against a giant slime. A plus-sized water battle ensues and Kimihito is once again caught in the middle–literally! Which slime will reign supreme?
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Yahoo Axes Music Unlimited, Leads Customers To Rhapsody
Yahoo's Music Unlimited service is to become history in the near future. The company announced that all current subscribers will have their accounts transferred to RealNetworks' Rhapsody service.
Music Unlimited was launched in 2005 and, until present, failed to match the expectations in terms of growth. As Yahoo's program was changed to focusing on the consolidation of some its most promising operations, it was only a matter of time before the music project was terminated.
"Relatively speaking, a small percentage of those use Yahoo! Music Unlimited, yet an large portion of our resources were being poured into this service. It was clear to us that we needed to make a major strategic shift," wrote Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo Music, in a company blog.
"As a result, we're pleased to announce Rhapsody as our exclusive partner for on-demand music. Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers will have a chance to easily take their music catalogs and migrate to Rhapsody. Later this year we will be integrating Rhapsody into music.yahoo.com, so you can continue to use Yahoo! Music for music discovery, news, videos, lyrics, radio, concerts, blogs, and more"
According to Rogers, the company intends to focus more on Launchcast radio, music video and music.yahoo.com services. Also, he announced the acquisition of FoxyTunes toolbar, a plug-in working both for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Categories: Business Tags: axes, customers, leads, music, rhapsody, unlimited, yahoo
Sun-Times COO Becomes CBC News Chief
Nokia Announces Layoffs Plan
YouTube Makes Peace With UK
Beijing Telecom Soon To Be Part Of China Telecom
Twitter Raises $35 Million In Funding
Microsoft Rumored To Trim Xbox 360 Prices…Again
Motorola Settles With Icahn
Microsoft Fires Seinfeld From Vista Ad Campaign
The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Is Officially Dead
AVG Developer Acquires Exploit Prevention Labs, Aims For Further Web Expansion
Verizon Acquires Alltel Corporation
INSTAL BIZ is preparing a huge surprise for installation addicts
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Berenice Bejo to host Cannes ceremonies
PARIS - Agence France-Presse
Berenice Bejo owes her international breakthrough to the film 'The Artist.'
Berenice Bejo, co-star of the hit French silent movie "The Artist," is to host the Cannes Film Festival's opening and closing ceremonies next month, the event's chairman told AFP on Wednesday.
Gilles Jacob confirmed reports that the 35-year-old actress, who won a Cesar award at home as well as an Oscar nomination for her part in the black-and-white movie, will be mistress of ceremonies in the Riviera city on May 16 and 27.
Cannes organizers are to announce the 20-odd films in the official competition at a press conference in Paris today, with just under a month to go before the world's top movie showcase.
Jacob had planned to announce Bejo's role today, but Twitter had been abuzz since the French newspaper Le Parisien reported she could host the event.
"This kind of announcement would normally be made by institutions, rather than by agents," he told AFP. "But her smile is sure to win everyone over," he said, insisting he was not upset by the leak.
The French actress, who was born in Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish as well as English, is married to "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius, who swept this year's Oscars with five awards including Best Picture.
Turkish, Azerbaijani leaders discuss latest developments in Nagorno-Karabakh after Moscow meeting
Hotel-museum presents artifacts from 5 periods
Two storks, surprise guests of Patara
A journey to civilizations at Alanya Museum
Lake Salda hosts over 800,000 visitors in 2020
Netflix announces 70 star-packed 2021 films
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Welcome to Connecticut Post's home on GametimeCT, our source for high school sports. This page is dedicated to news, games, stats and stories about the student athletes from schools in Fairfield County. Explore the site through the menus to filter by sport, school and our Top 10 state polls. Bookmark this page and we'll see you soon!
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One breezy fall Sunday, Jessica Staros found herself face-to-face with an institution she didn't know still existed: a local bookstore.
The last brick-and-mortar store on the east coast, Barton's Readery has been in business for over 75 years, started by husband-and-wife team George and Linda Barton. Nestled between a bank and another bank, Barton's has been a permanent fixture among the ever-changing storefronts on Salisbury Avenue.
During her visit, Jessica took a selfie holding a copy of Rachael Ray's new cookbook and posted it on Instagram, with the caption, "Finally, a chance to hold a real book again!" After copying down her favorite recipes and putting the book back on the shelf, she noticed her post was flooded with comments of support for this mom-and-pop mainstay, mostly from people who don't live in the area.
Jessica made sure to visit the coffee shop connected to the bookstore and sat at a table for over two hours browsing magazines, none of which she ended up purchasing. Long-time resident Carol Lafferty, who currently mans Barton's customer service desk, sees Jessica's visit as a positive sign.
Ms. Lafferty hasn't received a paycheck in almost five months but is confident that sales will turn around.
In the future, Jessica plans to bring her 4-year-old twins to the children's section to play with the vast array of toys and dolls on display. She also wants to take advantage of some of the store's programming designed to bring in new customers.
When asked if she thinks the bookstore will survive in today's climate, Jessica seems uncertain.
Ali Solomon is a teacher and cartoonist living in Queens, New York with her husband, two daughters, and an insane amount of comic books. Her work can be seen on McSweeney's, Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, and Belladonna, among others. Find more of her nonsense at Wiggle Room, on Facebook, or on Twitter at @Alicoaster.
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FESTIVAL FEATURE: Top 10 Acts to see at Slam Dunk Festival 2016!
We're not entirely sure where the past year has gone, but somehow Slam Dunk Festival has crept right up on us this year! Celebrating their tenth anniversary means one hell of a party and this year they've pulled out the mother of all line-ups. To try and help you choose between your band clashes, we've picked ten acts you 100% have to see over the weekend.
New Jersey punk legends Every Time I Die will be bringing their high tempo brand of hardcore over to close the day on the Impericon stage. If you want to end your festival with something heavy this is the band for you. Expect huge anthemic sing-alongs to older songs such as We'rewolf and Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space alongside some brutal riffs from the bands most recent record From Parts Unknown. Every Time I Die have developed a reputation for always delivering at festivals and we don't expect their Slam Dunk set's to break this trend.
Capdown
Over on the Desperados stage at 6 are Skacore legends Capdown. Having not released an album since 2007 and having only played a handful of shows since their reformation in 2010, some younger attendees might not know the Milton Keynes based quartet but they really should as both live and on record they are one of the most energetic and high quality bands to come from 21st century British punk rock. Expect a fusion of some excellent ska, some surprisingly high tempo heavy moments and some of the best lyrics at the festival. Capdown are easily one of the most fun bands you can see at Slam Dunk and Ska Wars is an absolute festival anthem that should not be missed!
You've heard of Moose Blood by now, surely? Their debut album put their flag on the emo map and sent ripples through the entire alternative scene. Their ascent to academy level has felt so natural, and now that they've recently signed to Hopeless Records things can only go up, especially with the sophomore album Blush being released in August. Never have a room full of people had such an affinity for the band on stage than at a Moose Blood gig, and it's something you definitely need to experience if you're heading to Slam Dunk. The thing about Moose Blood is that they're impossible to be passive about; if you like them, you REALLY like them. Emo is a gang, come and join us.
If you really need a reason to go and watch Cancer Bats, we'll give you three. First off, frontman Liam Cormier is a human whirlwind that has to be seen to be believed. Secondly, they consistently thrash out their hardcore cover of the Beastie Boys' Sabotage which is always fun. Last but not least, the Canadian four piece don't take themselves too seriously, which means they know how to have a laugh with the crowd. If you're at Slam Dunk North, you might even be treated to Liam's impersonation of a Yorkshire accent, which trust us, is pure gold.
It seems like we can't get away from Creeper at the moment, and that's not a bad thing. Since they burst on to the scene with their upbeat, gothic punk – all catchy choruses and old school melodies – they've showed no signs of stopping as they dominate the small venue gig circuit. With more and more festival appearances being named left, right and centre, and a recent support slot at Funeral For A Friend's last ever show, we want to make sure we catch them before they hit the big time (and they definitely will).
Slam Dunk wouldn't be the same without a visit from an old, nostalgic favourite, and Yellowcard's performance of Ocean Avenue in full is gonna tick all our sentimental boxes. The album that made violins cool, with hits like View From Heaven and Only One, they'll bring a little bit of California to a (probably) rainy UK. We won't judge you if you shed a little tear or two during the performance, but get ready to bounce up and down to some sunny, pop punk tunes as the genre's veterans show the new guys how it's done.
The Starting Line have only just returned to our shores after a pretty sporadic hiatus, but after they released their EP Anyways in February we couldn't wait to see them again. Think of early noughties pop punk anthems and you're bound to think of their eponymous single Best Of Me, and here's hoping we're treated to a rendition when they grace the stage this weekend. Sometimes the old songs really are the best and, nestled between other established names they're sharing a stage with, they're a must see for anyone who wants to hear something different to the main headliners.
The Rocket Summer
If you're a fan of mind-blowing acoustic sets then Bryce Avery of The Rocket Summer could be the set for you at Slam Dunk. With his down to earth and emotive personality shining through via his music, we can expect a heartfelt sing-a-long session during his headlining slot. We're looking forward to our day being brightened especially if the British weather hits us, as Bryce's optimism is infectious live. Be sure to swot up on lyrics from The Rocket's Summer's latest album Zoetic to be part of the indie alt-rock party during the set.
With Set Your Goals making one of their rare UK appearances at Slam Dunk this year it's no wonder this looks set to be one of the hottest and most anticipated sets of the day. Following on from their hiatus we're expecting a set of pop-punk goodness and energy in the bucketloads from both onstage and within the crowd. Basically expect sweat, circle pits and a rousing singalong to Mutiny! and Goonies Never Say Die!. If this sounds like your thing get there early since the Key Club stage won't take long to reach capacity for this set, trust us.
Emo pop-punk quartet Real Friends are definitely ones to watch, not just at Slam Dunk but in 2016. Second album The Home Inside My Head is due for release just before the festival weekend so you can no doubt expect new tracks performed live and a celebratory atmosphere in honour of its release. What isn't to love from the sound of that? We love that there's such a sense of community spirit both within Real Friends fanbases but also their lyrics and performance with vocalist Dan Lambton being no stranger to an onstage motivational speech. It'll make your day a little bit brighter if the British weather lets us down, which is more than likely!
Fancy getting yourselves in the mood for Slam Dunk? Check out the playlist below to listen to every single act playing the weekend:
Written By: Kathryn Black, Nicola Craig, Alice Hudson, Jo Howarth and Cameron Law
Tags : Cancer BatsCapdownCreeperEvery Time I DieMoose BloodReal FriendsSet Your GoalsThe Rocket SummerThe Starting LineYellowcard
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Cavan Man jailed for 3 and a half years for sexually abusing nephew and niece
The parents of two young children, who were sexually abused by their uncle while he was raising them, have described the attacks as "a parent's worst nightmare".
The 26-year-old Cavan man, who cannot be named to protect the anonymity of child victims, pleaded guilty in the Central Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and raping her older brother during the summer of 2014. ordained. His home in the county.
The respondent is the half-brother of the children's mother and was 19 years old when she was abandoned on several occasions with children in her arms.
Justice Paul McDermott said the crime was a profound betrayal of the trust placed in the defendant by the children and their mother. He said the disparity in age, the fact that the crime took place in his own home and the fact that he told the victims to keep it a secret were all serious factors.
He notes that mitigating factors included the person's actual expressions of remorse, his initial pleas of guilt, difficulties in his childhood, and his continuing difficulties.
Justice McDermott sentenced the sentence to four-and-a-half years and suspended the previous year for three years, provided that the defendant does not commit another offense and engages in future assessments for sex offender treatment programs.
'Concerned'
He also ordered that he would not be in the company of any child unless another adult was present and that he would not have any contact with the victims in the matter.
Detective Sharon Walsh told prosecutor Dominic McGinn SC that in August 2014 the youngest told her mother that she was worried about telling something if her mother got angry. He then told her that the man had sexually assaulted her.
The boy's mother approached his father and he confronted the respondent who said that he had watched porn with the girl. The child's mother agreed not to go to the authorities after the respondent agreed to go for medical attention, and she terminated the child's sitting access.
In 2018, the woman's son was 11 years old when he told his mother that his uncle had also sexually assaulted him four years ago. The court heard that the boy had somehow suppressed the memory and realized only in later years that what his uncle had done was unfair.
He said that his uncle had asked him to sit on his bed and then took off his clothes and came to bed with the child. She said that her uncle then verbally raped her.
He said that he felt silly and humiliated and felt that he had let himself down.
Gardai was called and child specialist interviewers spoke to both children. The young child tells Gardai that his uncle asked him to touch his penis and to keep it a secret.
The court heard that the trial in the case was delayed because the defendant had gone to the UK but returned to Ireland in March 2020 and was arrested. He told Gardai that he had poor mental health at the time and that "I was not wise enough to have mental health".
'Astonished'
In a victim impact report, the older child said he was shocked at the age of 11 when he suddenly remembered the attack.
He said it took him a long time to move on from the attack and added that he was in a much better place now.
The children's mother told the court that the abuse was "a parent's worst nightmare".
"As parents we try to protect our children. We trusted [the named defendant] To protect and take care of children. He did the exact opposite," she said.
She said her son found it very difficult to cope for some time and added that "it is very disturbing to see my child suffer".
Defending Roisin Lacey SC, her client's mother was an alcoholic and was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, which caused her considerable physical and cognitive deficits.
She said her early childhood was marked by violence, including an incident of her mother chasing her with a knife and banging her head against a wall.
The counsel said that the respondent had written a letter to the court expressing regret for his pain and loss.
"Every time I think about what I did, I feel sick. I break the hearts of those who trusted me," I said.
In one testimonial his father described him as "a loving and caring son".
The court heard that the man had a working history including employment in a factory operator and a supermarket and was a volunteer with some donations.
Ms. Lacey outlined a psychological report that described her late childhood with excessive sexual thoughts, anxiety and confusion over her sexual orientation, and the feeling that she was unable to develop intimate relationships.
The lawyer said the report also detailed that her client's childhood abuse had left her with fear and trauma and that she had suicidal thoughts. She said that her client is highly motivated to admit her guilt and deal with her issues.
She said her client was "immediately excommunicated" from her family members after incidents of abuse came to light.
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Home > News > Cerebra Plans To Start Its Chain Of About 100 Plus Stores Across India
Cerebra Plans To Start Its Chain Of About 100 Plus Stores Across India
2019-04-11 Diversification Electronic & Telecom Equipment National
Cerebra Integrated Technologies Limited, endeavours to start its chain of about 100 plus stores across India, for display and sale of Refurbished products. The stores shall be opened and operated by the Company and their Franchisee Partners. The First two showrooms are scheduled to be opened in Bangalore.
CEREBRA's Refurbished products is dedicated to supplying reliable, durable and low cost refurbished products to the Indian market.
The remanufactured products on display and sale passes through stringent refurbishment specifications, processes and procedures including extensive functional test ensuring factory specifications are met. Any minor imperfections that maybe there will not affect the performance of the systems.
Each product shall be covered with a product wise limited warranty that covers defects in materials and workmanship in the hardware products sold by CEREBRA on a part-by-part basis. Customers may also obtain an Extended Limited Warranty by paying a small add-on price on the product or on a part-by-part basis as per the policy of the company.
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Q: KeyBoard Navigation for menu using jquery I am trying to add keyboard navigation to Menu(ul li based
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the handler function used is given below
KeyDown: function(e) {
var toFocus = false;
if (e.keyCode == 38) {
toFocus = $((e.target/* li */).next()[0]);
}
if (e.keyCode == 40) {
toFocus = $((e.target).next()[1]);
}
if (toFocus) {
$(e.target).attr('tabIndex', '-1');
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toFocus.focus();
return false;
}
}
here i get e.target as html instead of li ?
can u suggest any other way to add keyboard navigation ?
A: I just wonder if, instead of doing this by your self, why not using an already existing plugin?
jQuery Keyboard Navigation
demo page here
my demo: just to add a demo page of an example
A: Try to use custom attribute to hold the tabid for up and down.
...KeyDown: function(e) {
var Direction;
if (e.keyCode == 38)
Direction = "toUp";
else Direction = "toDown";
var Focus = $("li[tabid=\""$(e.target.id).attr(Direction)"\"]");
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<li ... tabid="2" toUp= "1" toDown= "3" />
<li ... tabid="3" toUp= "2" toDown= "4" />
<li ... tabid="4" toUp= "3" toDown="-1" />
The above code is just to show the idea, it is late now and I didn't have time to test it. So please don't vote me down for not working.
Hope that helps
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<ul class="list">
<li class="selected">Hello</li>
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The company Investor Borik d.d. from Zadar engaged LSG Building Solutions d.o.o. for the reconstruction of electric and mechanical installations of 146 rooms in the Hotel Funimation. Reconstruction includes reception, bar, lobby and restaurant. Coordination of all the works in a short time and designing the execution details is a new challenge for our team, and we thank the investor for the trust.
The commencement of the works is 27.12.2017 and the planned completion by the 15.5.2018.
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The outfit of the statue is made with faux fur, leather, and plastic to represent the rich details seen in the movie. Bone necklaces consist of separated bone parts linked with a leather strap, the wolf claw on Orgrim's shoulder is made up of built-in bones set in faux fur.
Oversize Item, shiping cost 50 Euro.
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We have the privilege of seeing this powerful Scripture verse lived out at The Rock. This ministry aptly named "the Second Floor" helps the younger children of our neighborhood. Boys and girls ages 6-14 can come for help with school work, or to play games and do arts and crafts. We even offer field trips for our kids, such as horseback riding and picnics in area parks.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:30 pm.
All activities are free, and end with a short Bible study or worship time.
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Does Your Seasonal Cottage Need a New Water Heater? Try Tankless and Save!
For seasonal cottage owners, late May to early June each year is an exciting time. This is the moment you've been waiting for all winter—the warm season has finally returned!
Of course, along with seasonal cottage ownership comes seasonal cottage upkeep. Sometimes, this means doing a light dusting before the family arrives. And sometimes, this means selecting and installing a new water heater.
Thankfully, the latter doesn't need to be done that frequently, but when your water heater goes, cottage life becomes a lot chillier around shower time! Most people find it at least somewhat stressful to pick out a new water heater, especially when time is of the essence.
If this describes you, we hope you will find this post helpful and informative! We've put together some of our favorite water heater selection tips to help you narrow down your search and choose the best water heater for your seasonal cottage.
There are two basic types of water heaters: tank and tankless.
As their names suggest, the first type of water heater has a storage tank for holding pre-heated water while the second type has no storage tank.
And as you might imagine, there are pros and cons associated with each type of water heater. In general, there is no better one over the other; instead, there are different situations in which one type of water heater might be a better choice.
So first let's look at the pros and cons of each type.
A tank water heater can come in different sizes: 20-gallon, 40-gallon and 50-gallon tanks are common.
A tank water heater can also run on electric power, propane or natural gas power.
The number one benefit associated with tank water heaters is the on-demand feature—just turn on the hot water spigot and you have all the hot water you need.
This is especially beneficial if you need hot water in more than one place at once (for example, if one family member is showering and another is running the dishwasher).
The tank requires more storage space.
You are paying to pre-heat hot water before you need it.
For a seasonal cottage, you have to drain the tank periodically and seasonally to clean it.
The smaller tank sizes can take longer to preheat the water, causing a lag.
A tankless water heater comes in one size and can run on electric power, propane or natural gas power.
They don't require much storage space.
You don't pay to pre-heat water you don't need right away.
They don't need to be drained for cleaning or seasonal cottage closing.
They are low maintenance and only typically need one annual cleaning.
The major con to a tankless water heater is that they are less well-equipped to handle on-demand hot water requests, especially if those requests are made simultaneously (such as showering and running the dishwasher at the same time).
Also, if you are installing an electric tankless water heater, you need to verify in advance that your electrical panel is sufficiently robust to handle the demand; otherwise, choose a propane or natural gas unit.
After reading through the major pros and cons for the tank hot water versus the tankless hot water heater, you may already have a sense of which type of water heater might be a better fit for your cottage lifestyle.
If you have a busy, active family with lots of kids and simultaneous hot water demands, a large tank unit is likely going to be the optimal choice for your cottage.
Conversely, if you have minimal storage space for a tank unit, only a few people occupying your cottage at any given time and reasonable hot water demands, a tankless water heater might be the best choice.
The choice between electric power and propane or natural gas power can be challenging to make in a hurry. This is especially the case when you are trying to decide whether to change to a more economical power source.
Unless you have a fairly robust cottage electrical panel, taking the plunge to install a propane tank and run your water heater from that can be a surprisingly economical move.
If you are using a tank water heater, the burden on your cottage electrical system lessens because your water heater has time to heat up your water in advance. However, the smaller tank water heater systems can take longer to preheat because they only have one element, and they will run out of hot water much more quickly than the larger tank units.
And if you want to install a tankless water heater, the on-demand aspect of heating the water can at times place an unreasonably high demand on your cottage electrical system.
For this reason, it can make sense on multiple levels to consider installing a propane or natural gas tankless water heater at your seasonal cottage.
Here at Shipton's Heating & Cooling, we have nearly a century of expertise helping homeowners, businesses and seasonal cottage owners choose and install the right appliances for their needs.
We are happy to work with you to select and install the perfect hot water heater for your seasonal residence! We can even help you do a cost comparison using power rates in your area to make sure you get the most affordable, efficient unit!
Contact us online or give us a call at 905-549-4616 to schedule a time for your free consultation!
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Bhutan opens borders to tourists
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan Friday finally opened its borders to international tourists, including those from India, after being closed for two and a half years due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Bhutan's Ambassador to India, Major General Vetsop Namgyel said fully-vaccinated travellers are now welcome and tourists would no longer be required to be quarantined upon arrival.
Namgyel said the strict measures adopted by the Bhutanese government during the pandemic helped the country save lives.
We took two and a half years to open our international borders, as our priority during the pandemic was to prevent the loss of lives. So we took very stringent measures. This was very effective as Bhutan hardly had any fatalities from Covid-19," the Bhutanese Ambassador stated.
"As of today, there will be no more quarantine for people coming to Bhutan. There will be no test on arrival. Only vaccine certificate needs to be shown," he added.
The envoy said there will be a daily fee for tourists to enter Bhutan. Namgyel said the Bhutanese government's tourism council has fixed a fee of Rs 1,200 per day for Indians. For other international tourists, the fee is USD 200 per day.
"The tourism council did a review of policies to find out if we have to keep Bhutan as a high or low volume tourist destination. For Indian tourists, Rs 1,200 per day will be charged by the Bhutanese government as Sustainable Development Fee (SDF)," the ambassador said.
"I don't think that (Doklam issue) has anything to do with the tourism industry. The tourism industry functions away from the border. Tourists go for trekking routes and that will not be affected," Namgyel said, discounting any effect of the border dispute with China on tourism.
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Maintenance is possibly the long term solution and this is no better exemplified than within the roofing and cladding industry. A lack of maintenance to roofing and cladding can lead to catastrophic financial consequences if left unattended.
Damage caused to personnel, IT systems, plant and machinery may not be covered by insurance if the damage has been deemed to be caused by neglect.
Southern Industrial Roofing Limited are able to offer advice on maintenance for the complete envelope of your building also to give guidance on the Health and Safety aspects of carrying out any such works that may be required.
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The fiber optic industry is one of the fastest growing in today's infrastructure. The demand for bandwidth expansion is driving fiber optic deployments all over the world. The fiber optic industry is expected to reach $23.5 billion by 2022 (Global Industry Analysts, Inc.). Independent contractors and technicians can expect to see tremendous growth in fiber optic installation, deployment, testing and networking opportunities. Having the knowledge, skills, and certification necessary to perform fiber optic work will provide an advantage when applying for fiber optic opportunities. FiberOptic.com provides online training to help prepare you for the influx of fiber optic jobs.
Online, instructor-led training provides the student-teacher relationship one would receive in a classroom setting while allowing the student to reduce the amount of time required to be out of the field. Alleviate hotel and transportation fees by learning in the comfort of your own home or office. Unlike our online-only training which uses testing modules, our live, instructor-led training provides a one-on-one participation, matched with convenience, to provide you with a successful learning experience.
We offer several courses with this flexible and cost-saving delivery method. Our content combines exceptional courseware taught by our instructors who bring their real-world and relevant experience to life in the classroom.
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For an in-depth look at what has changed in the 11.3.4898 release please review the SmarterMail Release Notes page.
For an in-depth look at what has changed in the 8.2.4898 release, please review the SmarterStats Release Notes page.
Our TeamSpeak 3 VoIP services have been successfully updated to the latest available TeamSpeak server version, v3.0.7.2.
We've only had 2 complaints filed regarding the latest update of SmarterMail causing issues with Windows Phones. The issue has been reported that emails are downloaded and received by the phone's email client, but there is no message body, it is essentially a blank email with a subject. We see that others have reported this issue on the SmarterMail forums so we expect this to be resolved soon, we will file a bug report as well to make sure this issue is looked over with our system as well as others who report this issue to make sure the cause is ironed out.
This issue now has been verified to affect Android as well as Windows Phone using the IMAP protocol.
As soon as an update is available to resolve this issue we will apply it, due to the nature of this issue we may not be able to announce a scheduled upgrade time as this may be affecting more customers and they have not realized it yet.
If you are experiencing this issue, please avoid contacting support about this as we are aware of it, do not remove the account from your phone at this time as it will make no difference and you will lose the content of previously downloaded emails.
Thank you again for your patience and understanding while we wait for a fix!
UPDATE: SmarterTools has released a fix for this issue and we have applied it to our installations. We would like to thank everyone for their patience during this time!
For an in-depth look at what has changed in the 11.2.4870 release please review the SmarterMail Release Notes page.
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A brand new industrial estate is planned for green fields near Cheltenham.
Chancerygate (Red Lion No 2) Ltd has submitted a planning application to Tewkesbury Borough Council.
It seeks to build 11 industrial units on two fields next to Cleeve Business Park, which is south of the Bishop's Cleeve Bypass on the outskirts of the village.
They would be single-storey factory/warehouse units available for light industrial, general industrial or storage and distribution uses.
Two of them would be large units of about 2,000 sq m and they would be joined by terraces of smaller units, ranging from 300 sq m to 800 sq m.
To the east of the site is an industrial unit occupied by Ontic and to the north, south and west are fields. To the south east is Cleeve Business Park.
The site previously had outline planning permission for the development of a police headquarters but this lapsed in 2010.
An application for police operational accommodation, including a custody centre, was made in 2010 but was withdrawn in the same year.
If the development is allowed, an access road would be built to serve the 11 units and would connect to the existing access road for the business park.
There would be parking spaces for 91 cars.
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El Rally de Tierra de Madrid de 2021 fue la segunda edición y la novena ronda de la temporada 2021 del Súper Campeonato de España de Rally. Se celebró del 8 al 9 de octubre y contó con un itinerario de ocho tramos que sumaban un total de 90,26 km cronometrados. Fue también puntuable para la Copa de España de Rallyes de Tierra, el campeonato de Madrid de tierra, la Copa Kobe Motor y la Copa 2RM Proto.
José Antonio Suárez lideró la prueba de principio a fin adjudicándose la victoria y además el título del Súper Campeonato. Iván Ares fue segundo y Nil Solans tercero que se vio perjudicado al penalizar dos minutos por sustituir la válvula pop-off del turbo en una asistencia. El podio de Ares, el quinto de la temporad y el séptimo puesto de Pernía permitió a Hyundai aumentar la ventaja en el campeonato de marcas.
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Jebel Ali Hills is a an off plan land development project by Meraas, a well-established city developer. It is by far one of the cheapest area in Dubai to purchase freehold plots. It offers Ground + 1 floor residential villas that are located near theme parks that are being built. The available plot sizes are in a minimum of 10,000 sq. ft.
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The alleged Rozlyn Papa Tape is hot, hot, hot and the Rozlyn Papa tape has been leaked all over the internet, but is it REAL? From what I have seen, the Rozlyn Papa leaked tape doesn't look like her just like Phil says in this video. So before you get all worked up about the Rozlyn Papa tape...think again.
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