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Arin: Um, it's called Japan.
Arin: Um, it's called Japan.
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Navigation mesh
A navigation mesh, or navmesh, is a data structure which is used to model the traversable areas of a virtual map. It is primarily used by pathfinding algorithms in video games.[1]
A navigation mesh is a collection of two-dimensional convex polygons that define which areas of a virtual map are traversable by agents. Each polygon acts as a single node that links to other nodes it is adjacent to.[2] Due to the convex nature of these nodes, an agent can assume that any point in a node is reachable by travelling in a straight line from any other point in that node. Thus, because a straight line represents the shortest distance between any two points, a pathfinding algorithm will determine shorter and more natural paths when using a navigation mesh than it will with traditional waypoint-based systems.
Navigation meshes were invented in the early 2000s as a tool for producing shorter, more natural paths for intelligent agents in video games. At the time, most pathfinding implementations were based on either grids or waypoints due to their efficiency and ease of use. The navigation mesh became popular when the A* algorithm was adapted to it, allowing navigation mesh pathfinding to be calculated efficiently. This led to the widespread inclusion of navigation meshes in game engines.[2]
- Creates shorter and more natural paths than traditional grid and waypoint-based pathfinding systems.
- Allows pathfinding algorithms to ignore static obstacles. Some implementations also ignore dynamic obstacles by regularly updating the navigation mesh to exclude them.[3]
- A wide variety of pathfinding algorithms can be modified and optimized for using navigation meshes.
- Not as efficient as traditional grid and waypoint-based pathfinding systems.
- Procedural generation of a navigation mesh can yield sub-optimal solutions.
- Manual creation of navigation meshes can be time-consuming and yield flawed solutions (existence of a concave polygon, unconnected nodes, etc.).
- Brand, Sandy (2009). "Efficient obstacle avoidance using autonomously generated navigation meshes". Master thesis (Delft University of Technology).
- "UDK: Navigation Mesh Reference". Retrieved 2014-10-31.
- "Unity: Navigation Meshes". Retrieved 2014-11-09.
- "Steam: Navigation Meshes". Retrieved 2014-11-09.
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- ^ Eberhart, Russell; Yuhui, Shi (10 August 2007). Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. p. 118. ISBN 1558607595.
- ^ a b Bourg, David M; Seemann, Glenn (23 July 2004). AI for Game Developers. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 978-0-596-00555-9.
- ^ [1]van Toll, Wouter G.; Cook IV, Atlas F.; Geraerts, Roland. "A navigation mesh for dynamic environments" (PDF). Utrecht University. Retrieved 2014-10-26.

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In fact, that sense of something missing handicaps the entire enterprise. Maybe writer-director Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) deliberately tried to shape a movie as vacuous as the imaginary leading lady.
Simone (Rachel Roberts) is the fake name (a contraction of ''Simulation One'') given to a computer-generated babe designed by failed Hollywood director Viktor Taransky (Mr. Pacino), with software given him by a dying inventor (Elias Koteas).
Viktor has outlived his past as an upstart artist, and as a husband to ex-wife Elaine (Catherine Keener). She now runs the studio that dumps Viktor when his latest movie collapses without a spoiled superstar (Winona Ryder).
When he inserts Simone into the abandoned role to save his film, she becomes an instant sensation, and he can't resist the temptation to keep using her.
His subterfuges to explain her failure to appear in the flesh are, literally, transparent. Still, the fans and Viktor's Hollywood colleagues happily succumb to the frenzy around the mystery star, forcing him into more and more absurd tactics to protect his secret.
Mr. Niccol revisits much of the same ground he covered in The Truman Show (and that others have covered in EDtv and Wag the Dog, to name only two) about the ease of selling empty illusion. He also lays on unnecessary references to Pygmalion and its many offspring.
The action unwinds with energy and wit, so far as it goes, and Mr. Pacino's zest for his absurd role is amusing.
A fine supporting cast also contributes to the fun, including Jay Mohr as a selfish actor and Pruitt Taylor Vince as an obsessed tabloid journalist. Ms. Ryder also has a nice moment when she shows Viktor the true value of live actors.
But the movie only skims the surface of its potential, recycling overused notions about the shallowness of celebrity and the idiocy of the movie business. It never achieves any sense that Viktor — or any of the other humans on screen — have been touched or moved or frightened or inspired by their bizarre experience. Embarrassed, yes; inconvenienced, yes. But changed? Not hardly.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. ' The good news: Byron Bitz was back on the ice with the rest of the team practicing Friday morning after missing three games with a strained groin muscle. This also means that Bitz ' David Krejci's roommate on road trips ' hasn't succumbed to the H1N1 virus that felled the 23-year-old playmaking pivot earlier this week.
The bad news: the Bruins are still mired in an offensive funk without the services of Marc Savard and Milan Lucic.
Bitz skated on a right wing with Trent Whitfield and Shawn Thornton during practice at Ristuccia Arena, and rookie Mikko Lehtonen was also still with the team practicing as the 13th forward.
If Bitz is healthy enough to play Saturday against the NHL's stingiest defense in the Buffalo Sabres ' allowing a league-best 24 goals this season, six better than the next-best team ' then the emergency call-up will likely be returned to the Providence Bruins.
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guy segment. I tried it three times.
I had to start watching videos and guess which one it was to find it. (a title might have helped, but no biggie)
But, I found it anyhow, and it's embedded now, so it's a moot point.
the ORIGINAL link in the OP was NOT the specific link that is there now. It was the general link to the Judge's video page. (thus why it most likely went to the most current upload - aka the homeless segment). It seems since the video was embedded, the link in the OP was updated to be a specific direct link.
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As soon as you tack the word "sport" to it, it is. Sailing was my solution for an afforadable, rent free, long haul travel, life style. It was really the only way I could afford to live in my 20's. Calling it a sport indicates that it is an extracaricular activity done in the time of ones leisure. For me it has been a way of life, calling it a sport sums up someones attitude towards sailing.
Sport is a sport and that is about that we are talking about, not cruising or living in a boat as a life style.
Why expensive? You don't need to have a boat you can race in a sailing club with the boats owned by the sailing community. Most, regarding this discussion will be thinking in racing big boats but you can have as much fun racing a dingy, a kite surf or a windsurf board. That is all sailing and if you compete or take it in a sportive way, it is a sport and a demanding one.
If you are really good at club sailing you will make it to the major league championships and will find sponsors that will pay your sport sailing passion. If you are really good and if that is what you want, you will become a professional and will be paid to make the sport you like as a life style. If you become real good among the professionals there will be sponsors and teams that will be interested in paying you for racing big boats and if you are the cream of the cream they will pay you for skippering big boats, or race alone in them.
Why is this expensive?
It seems to me that you don't like sports, particularly sailing (as a sport) but that is another story
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By Ed BrockStealth and maneuverability are the latest weapons in the Riverdale Police Department's arsenal for fighting crime. The department has begun a new bicycle patrol. So far it has bought two mountain bikes and the cost of the program, about $1,100 with all the equipment for the officers, is well within the department's budget, interim Riverdale Police Chief Greg Barney said. "The Riverdale bike patrol will be effective in the city for several reasons. Stealth and mobility for undercover operations, ability to patrol congested areas with rapid response times, utility in special events and crowd control management, deployment in routine patrol and their role in community-oriented policing," Barney said in a statement. "The officers have the ability to conduct surveillance by affording easy access to unconventional locations, such as from behind trees, around corners and from wooded areas. By using a silent approach to crimes in progress it enhances officer safety and increases the element of surprise to perpetrators." On Friday the patrol officers made their first arrest. Bike patrol Officer Charles Catley said his partner Officer Kurt Stauffer and he caught a group of people by surprise and Wren's Crossing and when a man in the group ran they chased him into a nearby apartment. They got him out of the apartment and found that he had drugs in his possession. "They're great bikes," Stauffer said. "They're very comfortable and maneuverable."
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Reader Participation Day: What "Must Have" Article Do You Pack for a National Park Visit?
It never fails. Before heading out to a national park, my wife and I always remind each other to grab the birding guide. And we always forget it. Which raises a question: What item do you always make sure is in your duffel for your national park trips?
Is it a bird book? Plant identification guide? Pair of binoculars? Hiking sticks?
What indispensable item do you make sure to pack for your treks to national parks?
Of course that would be my digital camera with a 12 zoom (for all of the animal shots!), brand new memory cards, and extra batteries!! Even if it's the same park we've been to a few times before, I can't help taking tons of pictures. And one of these days I'll have them all scrapbooked!
Remember those binoculars we found? Always have them...
I never forget my Nat'l Parks Passport books. These books record our visits to 120+ NP units. We'll be visiting Theodore Roosevelt NP as well as other North Dakota sites next week.
I always try to bring a tree or wildflower guidebook. But like Kurt & his wife, I only sometimes remember it. So...I started to leave an extra one in my truck, although it may not always apply to the region I'm in at the time, it does often enough to make having it worth while. Now I have a tattered one I take with, and a less tattered one I refer to at home.
A compass !!
My best walking shoes with a good pair of sox.
Binoculars and bird book for sure. We are like you, however, and seem to remember everything but.
If you forget, or decide not to take, your camera, you are absolutely guaranteed to see some once in a lifetime sight!
My National Park Pass.
Ditto on the Nat Park Passport book, worn and tattered tho it may be.
To me, the ONE essential is a camera, followed by, for most parks, binoculars. If you have forgotten anything else, for the most part, you can get it at the park. As for my passport book, if I have forgotten it, I just put the stamps on a plain sheet of paper and glue them in later.
Definitely my camera with wide angle and telephoto lenses!
In descending order of importance, or increasing order of times I've forgotten them:
0: Water bottles; frozen big gatorade bottles (half strength or just water) if its summer (the funny angles on the bottles prevent them from bursting when the water expands). OK, I'm often in Colorado Plateau and desert parks, but even mammoth Cave & Blue Ridge parkway.
1: GPS & map: not a fancy mapping GPS, but the best map and possibly DOQQ (aerial photograph rectified to a map) with UTM grid.
2: Binoculars. A very good ornithologist (& neurobehaviorist) recommended eagle optics. There may be better binoculars, but these are way brighter in low light than anything else I've owned.
3: Camera
10: Plant guides. The full Jepson manual is too big & heavy; so far I've purchased 3 copies of the Jepson Desert manual because I've needed it but left my copy at home and the visitor's center had a copy. The other floras almost never leave the shelf: I'm not a good enough botanist to take Weakley or Radford into GRSM and know where to begin with a plant, and don't need the dead weight, even in the car.
I'll be visiting the great parks of the southwest in a few weeks. I'll be sure to take my 10" Dobsonian telescope and tripod-mounted 10 X 50mm binoculars for night sky viewing, along with a green laser pointer to show anyone I meet just where in the sky they would be looking when observing through the eyepiece of the telescope.
For daytime viewing, a digital camera and tripod will be packed along with backpack, hiking poles, and boots.
I'm getting the urge for one last venture up Angel's Landing for a picture of the eastern wall and southern end of the mouth of Zion Canyon by late afternoon sun. I'll do Canyon Overlook for sunrise.
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Biodegradable toilet tissue if you are going hiking. I've used everything from snow to dirty socks!!
1. Map and compass. Invest in the best map u can find.
2. Water bottle frozen the night before. Make that two, to wash down your munchies.
3. Good pair of binoculars. Best if lightweight.
4. Bird guide and/or plant guide.
5. Camera.
6. Mini first aid kit, because ya never know.
7. Good sense.
8. Happy trails!
P.S. My captcha for today: "2 1/2 luminous". You betcha!
Depending on the park, running shoes or hiking boots and a good rain jacket.
Never leave home without the camera. I don't think it matters much if its a digital or on film, the pictures I've brought home never fail to bring back the beauty of our national parks (or our country for that matter).
Camera, binoculars, GPS. Not the latest and greatest of any of the three, but good enough to 1) Take documentary photos, 2) Identify birds 100 feet away or trees across a canyon, 3) Mark where I am so I can geotag the photos later.
As someone else mentioned, you can pick up most other items in the feeder town, if not the park itself. My wife and I have built a nature-travel checklist though, and rarely forget anything anymore. There are even items as obscure as "moss identification key" and "cash of local currency to tip guides/bribe locals".
Full water bottles, camera, gps, first aid kit, and even on short hikes, my very small backpacker stove... You never know...
In the Great Northwet, where snowbanks can last until Labor Day and damp vegetation often crowds the trail,
gaitors are a great comfort even on sunny days. Also, a light folding umbrella can make stops and
photography more enjoyable in the rain forest and may keep you drier than that expensive leak-tex.


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Theft sets back Girl Scout troop's fundraising efforts
It also chiseled away at youthful innocence.
Whoever broke into the State Avenue office building last weekend wasn't content just stealing computers from the company. They also plundered donations made to a Girl Scout troop.
Members of Troop 42047 for months were gathering donations in anticipation of a June garage sale. The proceeds were to help pay for a trip to Europe in 2014. The girls, ages 13 to 15, had been allowed to store their wares at the business, troop co-leader Lisa Samaniego said.
The cost of the trip is more than many of the girls' families can afford, so the garage sale donations are extremely important, Samaniego said.
"This was their biggest fundraiser," she said "It's a big setback."
The burglary was discovered Monday morning and quickly reported to the Marysville Police Department.
The thieves were selective, taking mainly high-end items, such as an Xbox 360, electronic games, tools, brand-name clothing, kitchen appliances and radios.
The loss is estimated at more than $500.
On top of that, the troop will need to find a safe place to store the rest of their garage sale goods, and whatever else they are able to collect between now and June. That means renting a secure storage unit at a cost of $70 a month.
"I was really disappointed," said Girl Scout Shannon Davidson, 14, a Marysville Getchell High School freshman. "We worked so hard to get the donations and now we'll all have to work harder."
Also stolen were boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
"They even left open a half roll of Thin Mints," Davidson said.
The Thin Mints were found just outside the business, Marysville police Cmdr. Robb Lamoureux said.
Over the years, the girls of Troop 42047 have given their time to food drives, cleaned up streams and worked with the elderly living in senior housing.
Davidson and fellow Girl Scout Kaitlyn Samaniego, 13, predicted they will bounce back from the theft.
"I think we can recover," Samaniego said. "I feel like it's going to be a lot harder now."
The girls are determined to make the best of a bad situation.
"This brings us a lot closer," Davidson said. "We all have shared this experience. We all know we can come together in the end. It's just a bump in the road."
Samaniego agreed the experience will bring the troop closer.
"I would say they are not my best friends," she said. "They are my sisters."
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Navajo dropped a 4-3 decision to Leedey on Tuesday. After trailing early 2-0, Navajo managed a run in the 4th inning on some aggressive David Gilbstad base running and a Leedey throwing error.
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At this time, it is uncertain where Navajo's 8-4 record will land them in the rankings. It really is irrelevant. With all 4 losses coming to teams who played in the state tournament in the spring, rankings wouldn't help the Indians feel any better. This is the difference between competitive teams and elite teams. Elite teams remain loose and are totally confident that they will secure the win in close games. Especially games they are leading late.
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Well, i just finished the second week of my Phera cycle and I only gained 1/2 lb. I gained 5 lbs in the first week. I weigh 243lbs and i'm 24yo. I've done a good amount of cycles in the past. My calories have been over 5K a day. I've been getting all the sides like acne, lethargy, hyperextension, etc., I was wondering if I should finish out the 4 weeks bc I haven't gained anything the second week. Are my gains most likely done, or have I not got to the sweet spot in my cycle after the second week like people have told me? can i expect more gains(in mass)?
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Did you always eat 5k a week? cause that might be where 5lbs came from. Usually gains are seen after week 2 (anecdotal and varuiouls logs noted this). Not sure who told you the "sweet spot" was stop after the first week 1.
Not to be a jerk but it is hyperetension, not "hyperextension" and if you are feeling headaches and stuff I would venture to say you have not been taking your ancillaries. What is your PCT gonna consist of?
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The signing gives the team depth behind Forte, who has voiced frustrations over not receiving a long-term contract from the Bears.
The 26-year-old quickly took to Twitter Thursday to criticize the team's decision.
"There's only so many times a man that has done everything he's been asked to do can be disrespected! Guess the GOOD GUYS do finish last....," Forte wrote.
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It seems unpardonable to me today that I had blocked off the investigation of my most distant past for so many years, not on principle, to be sure, but still of my own accord, and that now it is too late for me to seek out Adler, who had lived in London until his death in the summer of 1988, and talk to him about that extra-territorial place where at the time, as I think I have mentioned before, said Austerlitz, some sixty thousand people were crammed together in an area little more than a square kilometer in size—industrialists and manufacturers, lawyers and doctors, rabbis and university professors, singers and composers, bank managers, businessmen, shorthand typists, housewives, farmers, labourers and millionaires, people from Prague and the rest of the Protectorate, from Slovakia, from Denmark and Holland, from Vienna and Munich, Cologne and Berlin, from the Palatinate, from Lower Franconia and Westphalia—each of whom had to make do with about two square meters of space in which to 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said Austerlitz, offering them, against deposits of up to eighty thousand Reichsmarks, the right of residence in what was described to them as a most salubrious place, these people, Austerlitz continued, had come to Theresienstadt, completely misled by the illusions implanted in their minds, carrying in their luggage all manner of personal items and mementoes which could be of no conceivable use in the life that awaited them in the ghetto, often arriving already ravaged in body and spirit, no longer in their right minds, delirious, frequently unable to remember their own names, surviving the procedure of being sluiced in, as it was termed, either not at all or only by a few days, in which latter case, on account of the extreme psychopathic personality changes which they had undergone and which generally resulted in a kind of infantilism divorcing them from reality and entailing an almost total loss of the ability to speak and act, they were immediately sectioned in the casemate of the Cavalier Barracks, which served as a psychiatric ward and where they usually perished within a week under the dreadful conditions prevailing there, so that although there was no shortage of doctors and surgeons in Theresienstadt who cared for their fellow prisoners as well as they could, and in spite of the steam disinfection boiler installed in the malting kiln of the former brewery, the hydrogen cyanide chamber, and other hygienic measures introduced by the Kommandantur in an all-out campaign against infestation with lice, the number of the dead—entirely in line, said Austerlitz, with the intentions of the masters of the ghetto—rose to well above twenty thousand in the ten months between August 1942 and May 1943 alone, as a result of which the joiner's workshop in the former riding school could no longer make enough deal coffins, there were sometimes more than five hundred dead bodies stacked in layers on top of each other in the central morgue in the casemate by the gateway to the Bohusevice road, and the four naphtha-fired incinerators of the crematorium, kept going day and night in cycles of forty minutes at a time, were stretched to the utmost limits of their capacity, said Austerlitz, and this comprehensive system of internment and forced labor which, in Theresienstadt as elsewhere, was ultimately directed, so he continued, solely at the extinction of life and was built on an organizational plan regulating all functions and responsibilities, as Adler's reconstruction shows, with a crazed administrative zeal—from the use of whole troops of workers in building the branch railway line from Bohusevice to the fort, to the one man whose job it was to keep the clock mechanism in the closed Catholic church in order—this system had to be constantly supervised and statistically accounted for, particularly with respect to the total number of inmates of the ghetto, an uncommonly time-consuming business going far beyond civilian requirements when you remember that new transports were arriving all the time, and people were regularly weeded out to be sent elsewhere with their files marked R.n.e. for Ruckkehr nicht erwunscht, Return Not Desired, a purpose for which the SS men responsible, who regarded numerical accuracy as one of their highest principles, had a census taken several times, on one occasion, if I remember correctly, said Austerlitz, on 10 November 1943 outside the gates in the open fields of the Bohusevice basin, when the entire population of the ghetto—children, old people, and any of the sick at all able to walk not excepted—was marched out after assembling in the barracks yards at dawn to be drawn up in block formation behind numbered wooden boards, and there, through the whole of this cold and damp day, as the fog drifted over the fields, they were forced to wait, guarded by armed police, and not permitted to step out of line even for a minute, for the SS men to arrive, as they eventually did on their motorbikes at three o'clock, to carry out the count of heads and then repeat it twice before they could feel convinced that the final result, including those few still within the walls, did in fact tally with the expected number of forty thousand one hundred and forty-five, whereupon they rode away again in some haste, entirely forgetting to give any orders for the inmates' return, so that this great crowd of many thousands stood out in the Bohusevice basin on that gray tenth of November drenched to the skin and increasingly distressed until well after dark, bowed and swaying like reeds in the showers that now swept over the countryside, before finally, driven to it by a wave of panic, they poured back into the town from which most of them had never emerged except for this one time since their transfer to Theresienstadt, where soon after the beginning of the new year, said Austerlitz, what was described as a Verschonerungsaktion or general improvement campaign was undertaken, with an eye to the imminent visit in the early summer of 1944 of a Red Cross commission, an event regarded by those authorities of the Reich responsible as a good opportunity to dissimulate the true nature of their deportation policy, and consequently it was decided to organize the ghetto inmates under the command of the SS for the purpose of a vast cleaning-up program: pathways and a grove with a columbarium were laid out, park benches and signposts were set up, the latter adorned in the German fashion with jolly carvings and floral decoration, over a thousand rosebushes were planted, a children's nursery and creche or Kriechlingskrippe, as it was termed, said Austerlitz, in one of those perverse formulations, were adorned with pretty fairy-tale friezes and equipped with sandboxes, paddling pools, and merry-go-rounds, whilst the former OREL cinema, which until now had served as a dumping ground for the oldest inmates of the ghetto and where a huge chandelier still hung from the ceiling in the dark space inside, was converted within a few weeks into a concert hall and theater, and elsewhere shops stocked with goods from the SS storehouses were opened for the sale of food and household utensils, ladies' and gentlemen's clothing, shoes, underwear, travel requisites, and suitcases; there were also a convalescent home, a chapel, a lending library, a gymnasium, a post office, a bank where the manager's office was furnished with a sort of field marshal's desk and a suite of easy chairs, not to mention a coffeehouse with sun umbrellas and folding chairs outside it to suggest the agreeable atmosphere of a resort inviting all passersby to linger for a while, and indeed there was no end to the improvements and embellishments, with much sawing, hammering, and painting until the time of the visit itself approached and Theresienstadt, after another seven and a half thousand of the less presentable inmates had been sent east amidst all this busy activity, to thin out the population, so to speak, became a Potemkin village or sham Eldorado which may have dazzled even some of the inhabitants themselves and where, when the appointed day came, the commission of two Danes and one Swiss official, having been guided, in conformity with a precise plan and a timetable drawn up by the Kommandant's office, through the streets and over the spotless pavements, scrubbed with soap early that morning, could see for themselves the friendly, happy folk who had been spared the horrors of war and were looking out of the windows, could see how smartly they were all dressed, how well the few sick people were cared for, how they were given proper meals served on plates, how the bread ration was handed out by people in white drill gloves, how posters advertising sporting events, cabarets, theatrical performances, and concerts were being put up on every corner and how, when the day's work was over, the residents of the town flocked out in their thousands on the ramparts and bastions to take the air, almost as if they were passengers enjoying an evening stroll on the deck of an oceangoing steamer, a most reassuring spectacle, all things considered, which the Germans, whether for propaganda purposes or in order to justify their actions and conduct to themselves, thought fit after the end of the Red Cross visit to record in a film, which Adler tells us, said Austerlitz, was given a sound track of Jewish folk music in March 1945, when a considerable number of the people who had appeared in it were no longer alive, and a copy of which, again according to Adler, had apparently turned up in the British-occupied zone after the war, although he, Adler himself, said Austerlitz, never saw it, and thought it was now lost without trace.


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Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
|Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
Arrivals hall at Winnipeg International Airport
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|Time zone
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|Elevation AMSL
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|49°54′36″N 097°14′24″W / 49.91000°N 97.24000°WCoordinates: 49°54′36″N 097°14′24″W / 49.91000°N 97.24000°W
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Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (also known as Winnipeg International Airport or simply Winnipeg Airport) (IATA: YWG, ICAO: CYWG) is an international airport located at 2000 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the seventh busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic, serving 3.7 million passengers in 2014,[5] and the 11th busiest airport by aircraft movements.[4] It is a hub for passenger airlines Calm Air and Perimeter Airlines, and cargo airline Cargojet.
An important transportation hub for the province of Manitoba, Winnipeg International Airport is the only commercial international airport within the province as the other airports of entry serve domestic flights and general aviation only.[2] The airport is operated by the Winnipeg Airport Authority as part of Transport Canada's National Airports System[6] and is one of eight Canadian airports that has US Border Pre-clearance facilities. The airport is co-located with CFB Winnipeg, and its primary lodger unit is 17 Wing. The base is home to 402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron, 435 "Chinthe" Transport and Rescue Squadron and the Yellowknife based 440 "Vampire" Transport & Rescue Squadron.
Winnipeg's relatively isolated geographical location in relation to other major population centres[7] makes Winnipeg International Airport the primary international airport for a very large area. As such, it is used as a gateway to the entire Province of Manitoba and large parts of neighbouring Provinces and Territories.[8] Daily non-stop flights are operated from Winnipeg International Airport to major cities across Canada, the USA, the Caribbean, and Mexico. In addition, regularly scheduled flights to numerous small remote communities in the northern regions of Canada, specifically Northern Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, and Nunavut, are also served from the airport.[9]
- 1 History
- 2 Terminals
- 3 Passenger services
- 4 CentrePort Canada
- 5 Airlines and destinations
- 6 Ground transportation
- 7 Firefighting
- 8 Incidents and accidents
- 9 References
- 10 External links
The airport opened in 1928 as Stevenson Aerodrome in honour of the noted Manitoba aviator and pioneer bush pilot, Captain Fred J. Stevenson. Stevenson Aerodrome, also known as Stevenson Field, was Canada's first international airport. In 1958, at the request of the Canadian Department of Transport, Stevenson Field was officially renamed Winnipeg International Airport.
The original main terminal building was built in 1964, and was designed by the architectural firm of Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (subsequently GBR Associates and Stantec Limited). It was expanded and renovated in 1984 by the architectural firm of IKOY, and a hotel was built across from the terminal in 1998. The original main terminal building, which was closed on Sunday October 30, 2011 and has since been demolished, was an example of modernist international style architecture.
On December 10, 2006, the Minister of Transport, Lawrence Cannon, announced Winnipeg International Airport was to be renamed Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in honour of the influential businessman and pioneer of Canadian commercial aviation from Winnipeg.[10]
Main Terminal[edit]
Winnipeg's main airport terminal was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and Stantec.[11] The terminal's design was inspired by the City of Winnipeg's distinctive landscape and the province of Manitoba's vast prairies and sky.[12] It is the first airport terminal in Canada to be LEED-certified for its environmentally friendly concept, design, construction and operation.[13] The terminal was constructed in two phases, with construction beginning in 2007 and ending on October 30, 2011 when it was officially opened to the public.[14][15] Prior to the opening of the current main terminal building, a multi-level access road and four-level, 1,559 stall parkade were both opened in November 2006. All airlines serving Winnipeg International Airport operate at the main terminal building, with the exception of Perimeter Aviation and Kivalliq Air.
The Winnipeg Bus Terminal was opened beside the main terminal building on August 15, 2009,[16] and a Canada Post mail processing facility was opened at the airport site on June 4, 2010.[17] Two luxury hotels as well as an office building are located on site, adjacent to the main airport terminal.
Other terminal buildings[edit]
Perimeter Aviation is a regional airline that operates its own small, exclusive terminal building at Winnipeg International Airport to facilitate its passenger, cargo and charter services. Perimeter Aviation does not use the main terminal building due to its varied operations to small remote communities throughout Northern Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario using small propeller aircraft, with which regular airport terminal services (jet bridge, catering, etc.) are unnecessary and can actually be a hindrance to day-to-day operations.
The Perimeter Aviation terminal building is located 2.6 km south of the main terminal building.
Passenger services[edit]
Winnipeg Airport's main terminal building features several food and retail outlets. Salisbury House, Gondola Pizza, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Bentley, Toad Hall Toys, PGA Tour shop, Metalsmiths Sterling, CNBC News, Red River News, Starbucks, Upper Crust, Fuel Bar and Red Wok are all located post security in the departures area. Stella's Cafe and Bakery, and Red River News are both located pre-security next the check-in area. Harvey's fast food restaurant and a Liquor Mart Express are both located pre-security in the arrivals area. T.G.I. Friday's has been replaced by Prairie Bistro in the domestic departures area, and by Urban Crave in the USA departures area.[18] Other restaurants are to be added. Tim Horton's coffee shops are located pre-security in the arrivals area, as well as post security in both the domestic and USA departures area.
The airport is served by two duty-free stores, both located post security. ATMs and foreign currency exchange booths are located throughout the airport. A valet parking service is provided curbside at the main terminal building.
Air Canada operates a Maple Leaf Lounge located in the domestic/international departures area.
Free WiFi is provided by the Winnipeg Airports Authority throughout the entire terminal building.
CentrePort Canada[edit]
Richardson International Airport is included in a new 20,000-acre (81 km2) inland port area created by provincial legislation – CentrePort Canada Act, C.C.S.M. c. C44 – that will offer investment opportunities for distribution centres, warehousing and manufacturing.[19] CentrePort Canada will allow companies to take advantage of the cargo capabilities of Richardson International Airport, as well as serviced land, a mid-continent location and highway and rail transport.
On April 14, 2009, Prime Minister Stephen Harper with Premier Gary Doer announced at James Richardson that both the Federal and Provincial governments will contribute $212.5 million towards a divided four lane expressway to be called CentrePort Canada Way. It will link Inkster Boulevard to the Perimeter Highway on the north side of the CP Rail Glenboro subdivision parallel to Saskatchewan Avenue to attract new transportation logistics associated development to the city area west and Rosser Municipality northwest of the airport.
Airlines and destinations[edit]
Passenger airlines and destinations[edit]
Cargo airlines and destinations[edit]
Ground transportation[edit]
Winnipeg Transit runs bus routes 15 and 20 that serve the airport. A taxi and limousine stand is located just outside the main terminal building. The Winnipeg Bus Terminal, used as a hub by Greyhound and other inter-city bus lines, is located beside the main terminal building. The Brandon Air Shuttle, providing transportation between Winnipeg Airport and Manitoba's second largest city, Brandon, is located just outside of the main terminal building. All major car rental agencies can be found on the arrivals level inside the parkade across from the main terminal.
Winnipeg International Airport has a single station with 3 crash tenders providing fire and rescue services at the airport.[20]
Incidents and accidents[edit]
- On July 23, 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 (now known as the Gimli Glider), a Boeing 767 trying to reach Winnipeg, as an alternate was forced to make an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba after running out of fuel. No one was injured. This incident was the subject of the book, Freefall, by William Hoffer and the subsequent TV movie, Falling from the Sky: Flight 174, starring William Devane.
- On March 3, 2007, British Airways Flight BA289, a Boeing 747 flying from London Heathrow Airport to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, made an unscheduled landing at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport after a passenger became unruly when he was refused alcohol. The passenger was charged with mischief, causing a disturbance and failing to comply with instructions from the flight crew. The aircraft sat on the tarmac for two hours before resuming its trip to Phoenix.[21]
- On June 19, 2007, a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 cargo plane en route from Wilmington, Ohio to Anchorage, Alaska made an emergency landing at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport after reporting a fire inside the airplane. No one was injured. After cleanup, an unrelated engine problem forced the 747 to remain in Winnipeg, leaving a week later on three engines.[22]
- On October 9, 2009, United Airlines Flight 6648 from Denver landed and was taxiing when it skidded off into the grass due to blowing snow at the airport which caused poor visibility. All 35 passengers and crew were safe but the airport had to close one of two runways due to the incident. It took 18 hours to remove the airliner from the snow. In a separate incident the same evening, an Air Canada Jazz aircraft reported hitting a number of birds shortly after takeoff. The crew turned back to Winnipeg and landed safely. An initial investigation found minor damage on the Air Canada aircraft.[23]
- On October 25, 2010, a United Airlines Boeing 777 made a successful emergency landing in the afternoon after the pilots reported smoke in the cockpit. The flight was from Chicago en route to Shanghai. Everyone on board was fine.[24]
- On May 9, 2013, a Boeing 777-300ER, Cathay Pacific Flight 806 from Hong Kong to Chicago, made an emergency landing at Winnipeg due to a possible cargo hold fire. The plane landed safely, and ultimately no fire was found on board.[25]
- ^ "Airport Divestiture Status Report." Transport Canada. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
- ^ a b Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 24 July 2014 to 0901Z 18 September 2014
- ^ "Synoptic/Metstat Station Information." weatheroffice.gc.ca. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
- ^ a b "Total aircraft movements by class of operation – NAV CANADA towers." Stats Canada. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ^ a b 2005–2014 "Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson Passenger Statistics." Winnipeg Airports Authority. Retrieved: February 25, 2015.
- ^ "National Airports Policy." Transport Canada. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
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- ^ Schlesinger, Joel. "Port on the Prairies: Supply-chain economics key to becoming international trade hub." Winnipeg Free Press, May 17, 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ^ "Airlines>" Winnipeg Airports Authorities. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ "Canada's New Government Renames Winnipeg International Airport in Honour of James Armstrong Richardson." Winnipeg Airport Authorities, Press release. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ http://www.dcnonl.com/article/id47493/--canadarsquos-first-leed-certified-airport-terminal-opens-in-winnipeg
- ^ http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/867989/pelli-clarke-pelli-architects-airport-terminal-opens-in-winnipeg
- ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/04/03/mb-airport-terminal-iconic-winnipeg.html
- ^ "Winnipeg's new airport terminal opens." CBC News, October 30, 2011. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ Carl, Julie. "Airport sneak peek delights." Winnipeg Free Press, October 9, 2011. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ "SkyscraperPage Forum." SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
- ^ "Canada Post announces new state-of-the-art plant to be built at the airport." Winnipeg Airports Authority. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
- ^ http://www.waa.ca/media/news/read,article/702/new-restaurants-coming-to-winnipeg-richardson-international-airport
- ^ http://www.centreportcanada.ca/
- ^ http://www.waa.ca/waa/firedepartment
- ^ "Aircraft diverted." Winnipeg Sun, March 5, 2007.
- ^ "Warning signal forces cargo plane to land." Winnipeg Free Press Online Edition, June 19, 2007.
- ^ "Airplane runway delays." cbc.ca. Retrieved November 23, 2009.
- ^ "Plane makes emergency landing in Winnipeg after pilot reports smoke in cockpit." CTV. Retrieved: April 1, 2012.
- ^ "Passengers from diverted flight to leave Winnipeg Thursday night" Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved: May 10, 2013.
- Canada's Airports: Reinvention & Success. Ottawa-Macdonald-Cartier: Insight Media commissioned by the Canadian Airports Council (CAC), 2005.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport.
- Winnipeg International Airport
- Past three hours METARs, SPECI and current TAFs for Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport from Nav Canada as available.


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Here's what CNBC's "Fast Money" traders had to say about some of the market's biggest movers on their "Pops and Drops" segment Thursday.
PetroChina (PTR - Get Report) was a pop today. Joe Terranova said that it is a great play without having to touch oil futures.
Carnival (CCL - Get Report) made investors happy today as it popped 5%. Jeff Macke said that it recently released its largest cruise liner and that the recent airline cutbacks have provided aid for the cruise industry.
Casella Waste Systems (CWST) was another pop today. Terranova said that it was raised to overweight by JPMorgan.