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Greetings all, and welcome to the next instalment of AusAv. After a burst of excitement in February when we churned through these threads at quite a clip in the lead up the Qantas half-year results, things seem to have returned to a more sedate pace.
Australian Aviation Thread Part 92 (by allrite Mar 8 2014 in Civil Aviation)
In 92 we touched on the following:
*Allrite composed a little ditty
*Discussion of Qantas' Asian network
*Discussion of Qantas' LHR times/A380 network
*Discussion of Darwin as a potential northern hub
*New routes for QF and JQ (QF SYD-HVB, JQ MEL-AYQ etc)
*Rex launches SYD-ARM
*Rex seeks public assistance
*Qantas and Bangkok Airways launch codeshare, potential for same-same at CGK/MNL?
*ATSB report a doubling of turbulence events over this [very hot] summer
*Lionair v CASA, Round 2 ding-ding
*QF16 moves to TBIT, all LAX operations under one roof
*CAPA reckons that 10 more Asian LCCs are considering Australia
*JQ discontinues AKL-SIN
May your skies remain as clear as Virgin's ownership structure and your flying as smooth as Qantas' restructuring
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For this application, we are building racks of equipment that will then be transported by truck to another location. When a co-worker saw the 4948 in the rack mounted only by the ears, he questioned whether the mounting was robust enough for our transportation needs.
We actually have a number of switches to mount, and now I am wondering if mounting them only by the ears will survive transportation. Has anyone ever had problems with mounting switches only by the ears?
I have seen some types of support brackets available. Most of them seem to be for much heavier loads than just a switch. I can't seem to find any lighter duty support brackets. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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WHEELING - Linsly's Amika Ekanem kept her composure and never lost her smile.
During a 10-minute delay, when her opponent, Morgantown freshman Lexie Rosiello was taking a medical timeout with a blister and toe problem, Ekanem, a sophomore, stayed warm by having her family members toss balls from the other side of the net.
When Rosiello bravely came back and fought through her injury, Ekanem, while being compassionate, was able to close out the match 8-3, and win the OVAC No. 2 singles championship Thursday evening at the Wheeling Park tennis bubble.
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Photo by Dave Morrison/Linsly's Amika Ekanem returns the ball during the OVAC No. 2 singles championship Thursday at the Wheeling Park tennis bubble.
"I really feel like I accomplished something," Ekanem said. "I have won a USTA event, but to win the OVAC, I feel like I accomplished a lot. It's high school tennis. It really means a lot to me to be able to win a championship."
"I'm really happy for Amika because she worked so hard for this," Coach Dave Riethmiller said. "She went out and played the way she has been playing all season."
"I kept my eyes on the prize," Ekanem said. "I stayed focused and I always thought I was going to win. You never go into a match thinking you are going to lose."
She did, however, feel bad for her opponent, Rosiello.
"I don't think it's fair because it's hard to play when you are injured and you know they can't play their best. I had to play on a hurt knee once and it is hard. I felt bad for her."
There was little suspense as far as the team champions heading into the four singles finals.
Both Morgantown and Linsly had wrapped up titles by that time, and Morgantown had a player in all four finals, while Linsly had two.
The battle for No. 1 was an epic duel between Abby Rosiello of Morgantown and Linsly's Jackie McDermott.
Their opening game was a harbinger of things to come, as the two battled back-and-forth in a game that lasted nearly 30 minutes. Long volleys were showcased as the two went back-and-forth.
McDermott, a senior, went ahead 3-2, but steely junior Rosiello battled back to win the last six games and take the No. 1 singles title 8-3.
Even in the last game, the battles were long, one point took 22 shots and another took 14.
In the end, McDermott was candid about the match, and her season.
"I tried my hardest," the Cadet senior said. "I really love tennis and I am definitely proud of the career I had. I had a great team, great teammates and two great coaches."
"She played her hardest, and I'm proud of her," Riethmiller said. "She ends her career with the school record for most singles wins. She had a great career and we are going to miss her."
McDermott will head to Oberlin University to continue her tennis career this fall.
Abby Rosiello's victory was the only victory by a Mohigan in the finals, but Morgantown didn't need it.
Morgantown had 24 points to win the OVAC 5A team title. Crosstown rival University was second with 20 points. John Marshall finished third with eight points.
"We have a really good tennis program," Morgantown coach Ted Greenlee said. "I really don't have to do much coaching. I said probably 20 words to the kids all day. They know what to do."
All four singles players return next season and Greenlee said there are two promising rising freshmen on the horizon.
It was Morgantown's second title in three years.
University took the other two singles titles. Brooke Franklin took the No. 3 title beating Morgantown's Sydney Kacik 8-0 and Cassidy Seaman won the No. 4 title with an 8-6 victory against Morgantown's Lily McKnght.
Linsly is building a dynasty in the 1A to 4A classes.
The team title was the fourth in a row for the Cadets, who closed their season Thursday.
"I can't say enough about our team, they all battled hard," Riethmiller said. "Our No. 1 and No. 2 (McDermott and Ekanem) really carried us in this tournament. We won all four years Jackie was with us and that is something she can be proud of. This was our goal all year. I'm proud of this team."
"It feels good, being the fourth one in a row," Ekanem said. "We had a lot of new players this year but this is always our goal and it was nice to get the championship again."


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Shiprock Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for Federal Child Sex Abuse Conviction
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ALBUQUERQUE—Delbert Begaye, 56, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, New Mexico, was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Begaye will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
Begaye was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with child sex abuse offenses in February 2012 and has been in federal custody since that time. Begaye pleaded guilty in September 2012 to a felony information charging him with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.
As to the first count of the information, Begaye's plea agreement states that between March 1989 and October 1989, Begaye engaged in sexual acts with a child who was approximately 10 years of age on approximately six occasions. Begaye admitted that, on each of the six occasions, he forcibly grabbed and carried the child victim into her home where he sexually assaulted her. The child victim did not disclose the assaults because Begaye threatened to physically harm the victim's sibling. The assaults occurred in Hogsback, New Mexico, which is located within the Navajo Indian Reservation.
As to the second count, Begaye's plea agreement states that between January 1991 and December 1995, he engaged in sexual acts with a child who had not attained the age of 12. Begaye admitted that he sexually assaulted the child victim on multiple occasions during this five-year period. The assaults occurred in Indian Village, New Mexico, which is located within the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Begaye's criminal conduct first came to light in February 2012, when a 32-year-old Navajo woman reported to the FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety that Begaye had sexually assaulted her in 1989, when she was a child. Subsequent investigation revealed that Begaye also had sexually assaulted a second child victim referred to in the second count of the information.
The case was investigated by the Farmington Resident Agency of the FBI and the Shiprock Office of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, and it was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Niki Tapia-Brito as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and DOJ's Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit http://www.justice.gov/psc/.


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The Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi has been arrested by Tokyo Metropolitan Police (TMP) for uploading a 3D model of her vagina, according to the Tokyo Reporter. The arrest stems specifically from an incident on March 20, when Igarashi sent a man a link providing data that, when processed by a 3D printer, could be used to produce a replica of the artist's genitals. This, according to the TMP, qualifies as "distribution of obscene material electronically," an allegation the artist firmly denies.
"I do not acknowledge that (the work) is an obscenity," she told the police, Tokyo Reporter says.
Igarashi, who works under the moniker Rokudenashi-ko (which translates to "Good-for-nothing girl"), has used the 3D model of her vagina to produce a line of sculptures and functional objects, from miniature landscape dioramas and figurines to iPhone cases and a structurally sound and sea-tested kayak. These and other applications for her vagina model are documented extensively on Igarashi's website, which boasts a Takashi Murakami-inspired wallpaper.
The artist raised about 1 million yen (nearly $10,000) through a crowd-funding campaign to build a full-fledged vagina-shaped boat.
On the campaign website, she frames her project as a feminist endeavor aimed at empowering women. "Manko, pussy, has been such a taboo in the Japanese society," she writes. "Penis, on the other hand, has been used in illustrations and signed as a part of pop culture. But pussy has never been so cute. Pussy has been thought to be obscene because it' been overly hidden although it is just a part of women's body."
Watch Megumi Igarashi's video for her project to turn a 3D model of her vagina into an ocean-going ship:
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With a dramatic increase in military operations in the urban terrain, the Army recognized the importance of being able to effectively operate in a variety of urban environments.
With the desire to better understand and characterize these environments, and the building types found in the urban environment, it led to the discovery that there is a need to better understand weapon effects against these building types.
But, how do you approach this huge characterization and weapon effects task?
That is where researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and other Department of Defense entities have focused their attention in characterizing the urban environment, and understanding weapon effects to allow soldiers a much improved situational awareness when entering urban combat operations.
"The first step was to establish the standard military operations in urban terrain target and testing board," said David Fordyce with ARL's Survivability/Lethality and Analysis Directorate and chairperson of the Standard MOUT Target and Testing Board.
"The board's primary goal is to establish DoD-wide standards for MOUT testing, target construction, test procedures, modeling and simulation and product guidebooks."
Fordyce added that researchers from ARL and other entities within the Army have played a key role in reaching the board's goals to include standardization of building target designs, improvement or development of standard lethality measures in urban environment, development of methodology and data for inclusion into models, and simulation and experimentation programs, "by feeding effort with basic research data (penetration and secondary debris) and develop 'best practices' test methods."
Prior to 2005, when a weapon system was under development and the targets were being accessed, there was no standard method of describing buildings as targets. Building types were generally not specified, and if they were, there was no linkage to real world structures.
That is when Fordyce identified voids in how urban terrains and building types were defined and characterized. He defined a path-forward to fill this analytical gap.
"With a goal of improving structural analyses and establishing standards for describing buildings and their urban environments, I, along with nationally recognized subject matter experts, used a multidisciplinary approach, which meant drawing upon mechanical engineering, civil and structural engineering, geography, architecture and satellite imagery analysis to blaze a path through this uncharted territory," explained Fordyce.
Resulting from their research and publication efforts, Fordyce and Ellefsen established the Urban Terrain Building Types (UTBT), second edition, which is the de-facto standard for establishing, describing and documenting urban terrain and building standards.
"This now well recognized publication is widely used by weaponeers, battle damage assessors, munition designers, munition evaluators, modeling and simulation analysts and by live-fire testers," said Greg Mannix, acting branch chief, SLAD's advanced systems and lethality branch.
The UTBT is managed through the SMTTB with the goal of supporting the Warfighter.
"It is oriented, first and foremost, to serve the needs of the Warfighter by aiding in the development of weapon system requirements against urban targets," said Fordyce. "Using a precise and comprehensive set of standard geotypical building descriptions as a baseline eliminates a significant variable in estimating weapon effects and enables the various user communities to establish a common ground for their efforts."
The UTBT contains 44 different structures, which are indexed using the urban terrain zone system.
"Usually, these structures are ubiquitous in the geographical area considered," said Fordyce. "Several factors were considered when selecting the 44 building types, such as making certain all major worldwide structure types were represented and that the selection met the SMTTB's purpose to present to the broader urban operations community building types that match the interests of a wide variety of users."
The document has propagated throughout the DoD, the Department of Energy, Homeland Security as well as internationally.
"The UTBT has been successful in fulfilling its purpose," said Fordyce. "In addition, the document is also being used as a go-to reference in the development of another DoD program, the joint urban test capability. The JUTC effort is developing an urban test range to support evaluation of radio frequency and other electronic propagation of systems under test."
Fordyce said the JUTC urban test range will eventually be used to support the semi-annual Network Integration Experiments and is expected to be available in fiscal 2017.
"With the increase in urban operations, UTBT standardization is a potential business-growth area," said Dan Plefka, SLAD's munitions effects team leader. "As the standards for describing UTBT progresses, the end result is more meaningful ballistic analyses against urban structures. This offers a great opportunity to support our soldiers by providing building, terrain and live-fire target documentation and standards."
According to Fordyce, the team is also planning to index weapon effects information to building types, based on results from tests that ARL and others have performed. The results will be available to appropriate organizations and listed as a separate annex in the Urban Terrain Building Types publication.
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"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." ~Lynn Hall
I started blogging because I was bored. Bored and working for Howard Dean which meant that I would have a million stories to tell and I wanted one spot to put those stories instead of repeating the story over and over again adding in great flourish with each telling. I wanted one spot for the typical ennui and uncertainty that comes from graduating from college and getting your first job. I read back on entries from August of 2005 and wonder who that girl was? Though, I suppose, that when it comes down to it, I remain pretty much the same. I look the same, save for a few gray hairs and an extra few pounds on my hips. But I'm no longer diving into the great unknown of adulthood. I'm here. Comfortably treading water. Of course I sputter a bit but doesn't everyone? For the most part it's floating, waves come, I sink a bit and then I bob right back to the surface.
In 2005 I would have told you everything with little care as to who might be reading. In 2005 I would have written five entries on the same topic just so you really understood that I was angry. I wouldn't internalize or think before typing. It would all just be out there for the world to see and if questioned, 21 year old me would have said, "I'm just telling my truth and how I feel" everyone else be damned. It's how 21 year olds think or actually they just don't. I would have wanted to be honest so that all 38 of my readers would like me. I wanted to use the word 'fuck' in every other sentence just to get a reaction and show you how 'real' I am.
Maybe I'm not 'real' anymore or honest. Or maybe I no longer need the attention or to do things for shock value. Perhaps I see myself as something more, and my life - singular as it may seem - as a thread of someone else's life. And so on and so forth. I can't vomit words anymore or tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth because - as it has taken me almost seven years to realize - nothing is just about me. Oh, it might feel like it at times. Especially as when I go through what feels like an eternity of utter loneliness. In 2005 at 21 I would have flopped on my bed claiming that my life is OVERRRRRRRR. In 2012 at 28 things right now are far from perfect. In fact the things are running circles around perfect, with tongues wagging screaming "YOU CAN'T CATCH ME!" And yet there is nothing in my head telling me to share. I am now more inclined to keep things close to the vest. No one needs to know everything at that very second. I feel inclined to think before I put something in words. Most importantly, I've realized that so much of my personal life is just that, personal.
It's no secret that as my life has changed and almost seven years have past that this site would inevitably change along with everything else. Which brings me to this day - a new site, a new focus, a new source of inspiration. Other changes on the horizon. I'm happy to see what I was at 21 morph into what I am at 28. I have always said that if anything, I am happy to have a very detailed account of my 20's. My 20's are almost over but - and permission to be cliché - so much is just beginning. I hope you'll come with me to see what's next.
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The professionals are beginning to practice, but it is time for your team to come out and play. The Cosumnes Community Services District will be accepting registration until July 24 for the Adult Flag Football League.
Regular registration will be from July 9-20. For a team registration fee of $625, each team is guaranteed a minimum of seven games. Late registration is $645, July 21-24 and will be accepted depending on available space in the league.
Adult Flag Football will run July 31 through September 26. League play is 8 on 8 on Tuesday and/or 7 on 7 Passing League on Wednesday evenings. All games will take place at Bartholomew Sports Park on the artificial turf field.
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Heya. I was going to reply to this the other day but figured someone with more experience than I would get to it first. Our resident expert, if I may be so bold, is Chris West, a professional cartrographer whose credits include D20 Modern Critical Locations.
I've been trying to emulate his style to some degree in this thread (edit: to be clear, those aren't his maps, but they're similar to his style). The basics process I've come up with so far is:
1) Start with a base drawing as a reference. I used an existing map but a sketch or architectural drawing would work just as well. If you want realism you really will want to do your research here - missing a stairwell, bathroom, kitchen, or some other key piece of your building will lead to confusion even if they don't realize why "something feels off".
2) Create a new layer for each thing you're working on; you can flatten them later but, for now, it'll give you flexibility. This works whether you're using a raster app like GIMP or PS or a vector app like Illustrator or Inkscape.
3) Start laying down shapes and use textures, layer styles, and hand-painting to make them look like the surface you're trying to emulate. I started with the parking lot, which was just a big square. I drew the outline, filled it with an appropriate texture, then added some staining and so forth. On a layer above that I drew some line shapes, flattened them into a single layer, then I selected that layer (ctrl-click in PS) and stroked the selection with white until I got something that looked like parking lot markings; with that done I played with blending a bit so they showed some of the background and didn't look so stark white.
4) Repeat step 3 until you have added as much detail as you want.
For walls I used rectangular and oval marquee tools to define the areas and then stroked with black; had to try it a few times to get a line weight that looked good to me. I did this in stages, erasing out the bits I didn't need. You could also do it with line objects. The doors and windows are just rectangles and a stroke layer style. I created one of each size I needed and then dragged (alt-drag to copy a selected area) and rotated them to position. I believe I used a slight drop shadow on the wall layer to "anchor" the walls to the floor. You could get do this a little more precisely if you wanted but I was going for fast.
Creating furniture was a similar process to doing the doors, except that I drew a more complex object. Once I had that object though I could just drag them around to create new ones in different positions and rotations. I put a very simple layer style with a drop shadow in there. With furniture, I kept all items of a like kind on the same layer; and I positioned those layers logically...so table shadows fall on chairs, etc.
These were just experiments, though, and I'm no expert at this stuff. It could all be done more precisely or more roughly, depending on what you're going for. Hopefully some other folks will weigh in on this one. I know I'd love to see some Chris West tutorials some day (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Until then, hope this helps some.


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Process Optimization — Makereadies Mean Money
"We had maximized their makeready potential," says Jerry Keller, executive vice president. "We try to keep the minimum run to 12,000 full sheets because, on a 40? press, that's what you need to break even."
Clients Push for Digital
The company, which has 42 employees, serves a high-end customer base, so its standard output is four-plus colors with a 200 line screen, and it produces a lot of 300 line screen work. "We were being pushed by our clients for a digital offering," Keller notes, "but we did not have a demand for variable printing. We needed high-quality short-run capability."
A typical case is a customer that produces catalogs in longer runs throughout the year, but then needs just 1,000 or so additional copies for a special event. Telling the customer "no" was unacceptable, Keller says, so the company first tried covering those runs with its 40? presses, at a loss. Subsequent attempts to outsource the work for all-digital printing didn't meet Universal's quality standards.
The printer rejected the idea of installing a new half-size or even smaller sheetfed press with all the latest automation because of the cost compared to a new 40? model and the relatively large footprint. Ultimately, Universal's short-run search led it to install a Presstek 52DI digital offset press last summer, which is now producing runs from 500 to 15,000 sheets or more.
Critical to that decision is the ability to match the DI's output to the shop's 40? presses, including running a 300 line screen, PMS colors and metallics, Keller says. The company is taking that match to the point of getting G7 color control certification for both its MAN Roland 700s and the 52DI.
Nu Graphics' answer for the short-run market starts with its 28?, five-color Komori 528c press with aqueous coater, which features ink-key presetting and semi-automatic plate mounting. Nu Graphics extends the run length range over which it can be competitive even lower by running a Heidelberg DI Plus digital offset press and, for the shortest jobs, it relies on an HP Indigo all-digital platform. The 18-person shop currently is running an HP Indigo 5500 and 5000 to produce runs as small as 25 copies.


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text: Cal Athletics Brazinski Passing Every Test At Cal Offensive Lineman Has Embraced Intellectual Side Of College By Cal Athletics on Wed, October 02, 2013 Related Links Follow the Cal Bear Blog on Twitter By Jonathan Okanes Cal Bear Blog Some people wake up in the morning and decide they are going to work out, go shopping or maybe socialize with friends. One Tuesday morning last spring, Cal offensive lineman Mark Brazinski woke up and decided he wanted to be a genius. Brazinski, the Bears' unique and academically accomplished fifth-year senior, got the idea to put his intelligence to the test – literally. He decided to try to become a member of Mensa, the international organization open to those who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized IQ test. Brazinski, who earned degrees in business administration and media studies in three years and now is in graduate school, turned his early-morning idea into reality this summer when he reached the 99th percentile on an IQ test. "I woke up one morning and was like, 'I should try for Mensa just because'," Brazinski said. "It wasn't a thing I wanted to do since childhood. I just thought I should just do this. I was admitted and I was very grateful." Brazinski didn't really need a standardized test to let him know that he is rather bright. In addition to his aggressive academic pursuits, he also is a semifinalist for the 2013 Campbell Trophy, given to the top scholar-athlete in the country. Brazinski also became the youngest person ever at age 20 to be admitted to the Cal's Master of Information Management and Systems program. "All of the professors make references to Star Trek from the 90s. I was 2 when that came out," Brazinski said. "I don't know what they are talking about. And there are people in the back of the room who are laughing hysterically." None of Brazinski's intellectual accomplishments should come as a surprise. After all, he had all of this planned out while he was still attending Immaculata High School in Somerville, New Jersey. Brazinski wanted to still be on scholarship while attending graduate school at Cal, so he figured he had to get both of his bachelor's degrees in three years to allow time for the master's program while he was still in Berkeley. Brazinski arrived on campus in 2009 equipped with a spreadsheet that mapped out every class he would take during each semester for the three years it would take him to earn his degrees. Former Cal kicker David Seawright, who ended up becoming close friends with Brazinski, learned about the spreadsheet first-hand during the summer before Brazinski's freshman year at Cal. "We were doing summer conditioning and running next to one another, and even though we were running sprints, he insisted on talking to me the entire time," said Seawright, who is now a political media consultant in Washington, D.C. "He was asking me about what I was studying, what I was doing in school. Then he proceeded to tell me his entire plan. We went into the locker room after that conditioning session and he pulled out his hand-written spreadshseet. He had already scheduled all of the classes he was going to take every semester and every summer school in order to accomplish getting two degrees in three years." To simply say Brazinski is intelligent doesn't fully grasp his unique personality. Brazinski uses his intellect to try different things and employ different approaches to various aspects of life. For instance, Brazinski says when in a group setting in class, he will intentionally make thoroughly outlandish suggestions just so others don't think their ideas are so far-fetched. Brazinski also doesn't tell his instructors he plays on the football team during the early portion of each semester because he believes it comes with a stereotype. "Football players have a stigma attached to them," Brazinski said. "As much as you don't to admit that, it's true. I would not wear anything with football on it for about the first five weeks of the semester, and then I'd show up to their office hours and ambush them with it. Every professor that I have done that for has found a way to respect me as a student." Brazinski also isn't afraid to initiate a conversation with the strangest of strangers. He said one of the traits he especially loves about Cal is the potential to strike up a debate with anyone at anytime. "Mark will throw out the most ridiculous idea and start debating it, whether he believes it or not," said former Cal offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, who now is a starting tackle with the Cleveland Browns and a good friend of Brazinski's. "He as a lot of viewpoints on a lot of things, and loves to learn about any topic." Brazinski did a reading at Seawright's wedding last year, and then changed into a tuxedo T-shirt for the reception. He also took a break from the dance floor to ice his knee right in the middle of the reception as he was recovering from an injury. "That was pretty Mark-esque," Seawright said. "This is saying something considering it's Mark, but his personality is even bigger than his body. That's not exactly an easy thing to accomplish. It's part of what makes Mark so unique as an individual. He has so many friends because of his ability to interact with just about anybody." Brazinski will finish up his master's program in the spring and then hopes to get a look from the NFL. No matter where he winds up after he is done in Berkeley, there is no question he will have left a unique impact on Cal. "If you can't fit in at Berkeley, you can't fit in anywhere," Brazinski said. "If you like archery, if you like dressing up as a warlock and going to fight in the middle of a field, if you want to learn how to make pizza, if you want to protest Syria – if you want anything, it's all here. I'm just glad to be a part of it. I'm glad that I can go find things that I enjoy intellectually, physically, spiritually - it's something that I will forever be grateful for." 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text: Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed Academy Award winning American actress. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in the mid-1920s and played in small parts. By the end of the '20s, as her popularity grew, she became famous as a youthful flapper. At the beginning of the 1930s, her fame rivaled that of fellow MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. She was often cast in movies in which she played hardworking young women who eventually found romance and success. These "rags to riches" stories were well-received by Depression era audiences; women, particularly, seemed to identify with her struggles. By the end of the decade she remained one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars, and one of the highest paid women in the U.S. Moving to Warner Bros. in the early 1940s, Crawford won an Academy Award for her performance in Mildred Pierce, and achieved some of the best reviews of her career in the following years. In 1955, she became involved with PepsiCo, the company run by her last husband. She was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors after his death in 1959, but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting regularly into the 1960s, when her performances became fewer, and retired from the screen in 1970. By the mid-1970s, she became a recluse due to illness. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958). Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Her father, who was born in Tennessee, was of French Huguenot extraction, and her mother was of Irish and Scandinavian descent. Tom LeSueur's ancestors immigrated from London, England, in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations. LeSueur was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; Crawford later said she had been only a few months old when her father left. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin (1867-after 1919). The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Cassin ran a movie theater. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, shows Henry and Anna living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Lucille was then 5 years of age. For most of her life, Crawford maintained that she was born in 1908. It has been generally accepted, however, that she was born earlier. As birth records for San Antonio are not available for years earlier than 1908, and in the absence of a birth certificate, her year of birth has been estimated to be 1905 based on the April 1910 census when she was 5. Lucille preferred the nickname "Billie," and she loved watching vaudeville acts perform on the stage of her stepfather's theater. Her ambition was to be a dancer. Unfortunately, she cut her foot deeply on a broken milk bottle when she leapt from the front porch of her home in an attempt to escape piano lessons and run and play with friends. A neighbor, Don Blanding, who became a poet, carried her into the house and phoned the doctor. She was unable to attend elementary school for a year and a half and eventually had three operations on her foot. Demonstrating the steely determination that would serve her for the rest of her life, she overcame the injury and returned not only to walking normally, but to dancing as well. Around 1916, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Henry Cassin was first listed in the City Directory in 1917, living at 403 East Ninth Street. While still in elementary school, she was placed in St. Agnes Academy, a Catholic school in Kansas City. Later, after her mother and stepfather broke up, she stayed on at St. Agnes as a work student. She then went to Rockingham Academy as a work student. In 1922, she registered at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and gave her year of birth as 1906. She attended Stephens for less than a year, however, as she recognized that she was not academically prepared for college. Her career spanned over four decades, with numerous highs and lows. She passed through a variety of stages in movies: dewy ingenue, high-spirited flapper, determined working girl, sophisticated leading lady, heroine of noir-inflected melodramas, and finally a scream-queen in a number of horror movies. She began as a dancer in a chorus line under the name Lucille LeSueur, eventually making her way to New York. In 1924, she signed a contract with MGM, and arrived in Culver City, California, in January, 1925. Starting out in silent movies, she worked hard to ensure that her contract with the studio would be renewed. Studio chief Louis B. Mayer was unhappy with her name, however, reportedly saying that "LeSueur" sounded too much like "sewer." A contest in the fan magazine, Movie Weekly, became the source of her well-known stage name. The female contestant who entered the name Joan Crawford was awarded $500. Though Crawford reportedly detested the name at first, saying it sounded like "crawfish," and called herself JoAnne for some time, she eventually became used to it. Crawford first made an impression on audiences in Sally, Irene and Mary (1925), in which she played Irene, a struggling chorus girl who meets a tragic end. The following year, she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. For the next two years, she consolidated on these gains, appearing in increasingly important movies as the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them Ramon Novarro, William Haines and John Gilbert. Her most unusual movie from this period was The Unknown (1927), with Lon Chaney, Sr. as a carnival knife thrower with no arms and Crawford as the skimpily clad young carnival assistant, Estellita, he hopes to marry. Directed by Tod Browning, who also directed Dracula and Freaks, the movie features a famous performance by Chaney. Crawford would always insist that she learned more about acting from watching Chaney work in this movie than from anything else in her long career. Crawford's role as Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) catapulted her to stardom and established her as a symbol of modern 1920s-style femininity that rivalled the image of Clara Bow, who was then Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters, including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans, mostly female, an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl. She tirelessly studied diction and elocution to rid herself of her Southwestern accent. Her first talkie was Untamed (1929) opposite Robert Montgomery, which was a box-office success. The movie proved to be an important milestone for the durable star, as she made an effective transition to sound movies. One critic wrote, "Miss Crawford sings appealingly and dances thrillingly as usual; her voice is alluring and her dramatic efforts in the difficult role she portrays are at all times convincing." During the early 1930s, Crawford modified her image to better fit the hard-scrabble conditions of Depression-era America. In this new role, she played a glamorized version of the working girl who relied on her intelligence, looks, and sheer determination to get ahead in life. On the strength of this new star persona she became known as the "Queen of the MGM Lot." One indication of her lofty status was the studio's decision to cast Crawford in its most important movie of 1932, the all-star extravaganza Grand Hotel. Although billed third behind Greta Garbo and John Barrymore, but ahead of Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore, Crawford was lauded for her touching performance as a stenographer on the make, all but stealing the picture from her more experienced co-stars. Around this same time, she achieved special success in a series of steamy pairings opposite Clark Gable, in which they established themselves as the most formidable romantic duo of the 1930s. Their rollicking smash hit Dancing Lady (1933), in which Crawford received top billing over Gable, was the only movie to feature Robert Benchley, Nelson Eddy, Fred Astaire and the Three Stooges all together in one movie. Her next two movies with Gable, Chained (1934) and Foresaking All Others (also 1934), were both big hits, being among the top money makers of the mid-1930s, and marked Crawford's peak at MGM as a popular star at the box-office. By the end of the decade, Crawford had adopted a more sophisticated image in which her characters seemed to be defined as much by their glamorous clothing, beautiful accessories, and carefully styled hair and make-up as by any meaningful character trait. Fans soon tired of this remote "clothes horse" persona and eventually her movies began to lose money. In 1938, she was one of the unfortunate stars to be labeled "box-office poison," along with Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and Fred Astaire. Crawford somewhat rectified her position at MGM through a fruitful collaboration with the director George Cukor. Starting with her role as the bitchy home-wreaker Crystal Allen in Cukor's comedic masterpiece The Women (1939), then capitalizing on this success in two more movies under his direction, Susan and God (1940) and A Woman's Face (1941), Crawford demonstrated that in the right role she could be a first-rate actress. Aside from The Women, however, these movies underperformed at the box-office. Eager to promote their new generation of female stars, among them Greer Garson, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and the resurgent Katharine Hepburn, who joined the studio from RKO, the management at MGM began to view Crawford as a bad investment. After 18 years at the studio, Crawford's contract was terminated by mutual consent on June 29, 1943. In lieu of one more movie owed under her contract, she paid the studio $100,000. That same day, she drove herself to the studio and personally cleaned out her dressing room. Upon leaving MGM, Crawford signed with Warner Bros. for $500,000 for three movies and was placed on the payroll July 1, 1943. She appeared as herself in the star-studded production Hollywood Canteen (1944) and was cast in the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945), in which she played opposite a stellar cast, including Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Butterfly McQueen. Director Michael Curtiz and producer Jerry Wald developed the property specifically for Crawford from the popular James M. Cain novel, which was adapted for the screen by Ranald MacDougall. The final product was a commercial and artistic triumph. It epitomized the lush visual style and the hard-boiled film noir sensibility that defined Warner Bros. movies of the late 1940s. Mildred Pierce served as a first-rate vehicle for Crawford, highlighting her skills as an actress and allowing her to inhabit a new persona as the tortured heroine of glossy melodrama. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. On the strength of this movie, she established herself as the chief leading lady at Warner Bros., effectively stealing the limelight from the former queen of the studio, Bette Davis, and sowing the seeds for their future conflict. For the next few years, she reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such memorable roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque (1946), as Louise Howell Graham in Possessed (1947) opposite Van Heflin and Raymond Massey, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar as Best Actress, and the title role in Daisy Kenyon (also 1947). Crawford's other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road (1949), her powerful performance in the title role in the excellent Harriet Craig (1950) at Columbia Pictures and Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952) at RKO, the movie that introduced her co-star, Jack Palance, to the screen and earned her a third and final Oscar nomination as Best Actress. Besides acting in motion pictures, Crawford also worked in radio and television. She appeared a number of times in episodes of anthology TV shows in the 1950s and, in 1959, made a pilot for her own series, The Joan Crawford Show, but it was not picked up by a network. In 1929, at the time she wed her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford bought a mansion at 426 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood, midway between Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean, which was her primary dwelling for the next 26 years. Over the years she had her home decorated and redecorated by William Haines, her former silent movie co-star and lifelong friend, who was much in demand as an interior designer after receiving Crawford's recommendation. Crawford had four husbands: actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (married June 3, 1929 in New York-divorced 1933); Franchot Tone (married October 11, 1935 in New Jersey-divorced 1939); Phillip Terry (married July 21, 1942 at Hidden Valley Ranch in Ventura County, California-divorced 1946); and Pepsi-Cola president Alfred N. Steele (married May 10, 1955 in Las Vegas, Nevada-his death 1959). She moved to a lavish apartment, number 22-G in the Imperial House, in New York with her last husband, Alfred Steele. He died there on April 19, 1959. She then sold her Brentwood mansion and stayed on in New York, although she kept a small apartment in Los Angeles for her frequent trips there. Crawford adopted six children, according to L.A. Times articles from the time, though she kept and raised only four. The first was Christina (born June 11, 1939), whom Crawford adopted in 1940 while a single, divorced woman. The second was a boy she named Christopher Crawford (born April 1941), whom she adopted in June of that year. In 1942, his biological mother found out where he was and managed to get him back. The third child was an 8-year-old that Crawford named Phillip Terry, Jr. (born 1935). She and then husband, Phillip Terry, adopted him in April 1943, but did not keep him either. The fourth child was Christopher (born October 15, 1943). She and Terry adopted him that same year, and he remained her son after she and Terry divorced. (According to Christina, Joan changed this second Christopher's birth date to October 15 because she was afraid he would also be taken away.) The fifth and sixth children were twin girls Cynthia "Cindy" Crawford and Cathy Crawford (both born January 13, 1947). Crawford adopted them in June of that year, while she was a single, divorced woman. (According to Christina, Joan called the two girls twins but they were not. Cindy and Cathy both dispute that claim. According to them, they are twins born in Dyersburg, Tennessee, to an unwed mother who died seven days after their birth. They said that Crawford was afraid their biological parents might try and get them back, and would therefore say they were not twins. Their version is consistent with newspaper reports at the time of their adoption.) Crawford was raised Catholic; her stepfather, Henry Cassin, was Catholic, although he and Anna were ultimately divorced, and Crawford insisted on marrying her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in a Roman Catholic church. She later became a Christian Scientist. Besides her work as an actress, from 1955 to 1973, Crawford traveled extensively on behalf of husband Al Steele's company, PepsiCo. Two days after Steele's death in 1959, she was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors. Crawford was the recipient of the Sixth Annual "Pally Award," which was in the shape of a bronze Pepsi bottle. It was awarded to the employee making the most significant contribution to company sales. In 1973, she was forcibly retired from the company at the behest of company executive Don Kendall, whom Crawford had referred to for years as "Fang." By the early 1960s, Crawford's status in motion pictures had diminished significantly. She managed to reverse this trend one last time when she accepted the role of Blanche Hudson in the low-budget, but highly successful, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), directed by Robert Aldrich. She played the part of a physically disabled woman, a former A-list movie star in conflict with her demented sister. Despite their earlier tensions on the Warners lot, Crawford suggested Bette Davis for the role of Jane. Davis immediately started taking over the set and throwing her weight around, as if she was the producer, director and the big boss. Crawford naturally opposed her authority and that started it. The actresses reportedly mutually detested each other, although Davis, who was also famous for her feuds and rivalries with dissenting performers, was the more aggressive in her contempt. The movie was completed and became a blockbuster. Crawford went on to play Lucretia Terry in the United Artists movie The Caretakers (1963). Davis was nominated for an Academy Award that year for her performance as Jane Hudson and Crawford reportedly campaigned against her. She then accepted the Oscar at the awards for Anne Bancroft, to whom Davis had lost, to Davis's fury. Crawford then starred in the role as Lucy Harbin in William Castle's horror/mystery Strait-Jacket (1964). When Aldrich cast the rivals in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) Davis proved to be even more of an overbearing bitch. Crawford then entered a hospital with an illness that was reportedly feigned in order to get out of the commitment. After a prolonged absence, Aldrich replaced her with Olivia de Havilland. Upon her release from the hospital, Crawford played the role as Amy Nelson in I Saw What You Did (1965), another William Castle vehicle. She next starred as Monica Rivers in Herman Cohen's horror/thriller Berserk! (1968). In October, 1968, her 29-year-old daughter, Christina, who was then acting in New York on the TV soap opera The Secret Storm, fell ill and needed immediate medical attention. Crawford offered to fill in for her and play Christina's role until she was well enough to return, which the producer readily agreed to. The implausibility of Crawford playing a 28 year old woman on the soap, however, was coupled by her apparent intoxication on the live telecast. Christina held it against her, blaming her because she was fired from the role the following year. Crawford's appearance as the blind, but ruthless, Claudia Menlo on a 1969 TV episode of Night Gallery, titled Eyes, marked one of Steven Spielberg's earliest directing jobs. She starred on the big screen one final time, playing Dr. Brockton in Herman Cohen's sci-fi/horror Trog (1970), rounding out a career spanning more than 40 years and over 80 motion pictures. Crawford made three more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian (1970) titled The Nightmare, as a board member in an episode of The Name of the Game (1971) titled Los Angeles, and as Allison Hayes in the made-for-TV movie Beyond the Water's Edge (1972). In 1970, she was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award by John Wayne on the Golden Globes, which was telecast from the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. She also spoke at her "alma mater," Stephens College, from which she never graduated. Her book, My Way of Life, was published in 1971 by Simon and Schuster. In September 1973, she moved from apartment 22-G to the smaller apartment 22-H in the Imperial House. Her last public appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her friend Rosalind Russell at New York's Rainbow Room. On May 8, 1977, Crawford gave away her Shih Tzu dog named Princess Lotus Blossom. Joan Crawford died two days later at her New York apartment of a heart attack, while also ill with pancreatic cancer. A funeral was held at Campbell Funeral Home, New York, at 10 a.m. on May 13, 1977. All four of her adopted children attended, as did her niece, Joan Crawford LeSueur (aka Joan Lowe), the daughter of her late brother, Hal LeSueur, who had died in 1963. Crawford's Last Will and Testament was read to the family that evening. In the will, which was signed February 28, 1976, she bequeathed to her two youngest children, Cindy and Cathy, $77,500 each from her $2,000,000 estate. However, she explicitly disinherited the two eldest, Christina and Christopher, with the phrase "...for reasons which should be well known to them." A memorial service was held for Crawford at All Souls' Unitarian Church on Lexington Avenue in New York on May 16, 1977, and was attended by, among others, her old Hollywood friend Myrna Loy. Another memorial service, organized by George Cukor, was held on June 24 in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California. She was cremated and her ashes placed in a crypt with her last husband, Al Steele, in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York. Joan Crawford's hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street. Shortly after her death, the eldest of her four children, Christina, published an exposé that became a bestseller containing allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to her and her brother, Christopher. Though many of Crawford's friends harshly criticized and disputed the book's claims, other friends did not, and her reputation was severely tarnished. The book was later made into a movie of the same title starring Faye Dunaway (whom Crawford had praised in the past). For further detail and comment, see: Mommie Dearest (book) and/or Mommie Dearest (motion picture). In 2005, alleged transcripts from Marilyn Monroe's sessions with her psychologist claimed that she had a one-night stand with Crawford. According to Monroe, Crawford enjoyed the sexual encounter and wanted to have another. Monroe claimed to have declined Crawford's offer, which made the older actress "spiteful." In 1981, Blue Öyster Cult released the song "Joan Crawford" (Lyrics), on the album Fire of Unknown Origin.


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STANFORD, Calif. – Ed Reynolds was selected in the fifth round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. Reynolds was the 22nd pick of the round and 162nd overall.
The All-American from Stoneville, N.C., is completing work toward his degree in political science.
Reynolds played 14 games at free safety as a senior. He finished with 87 tackles (56 solo), 1.0 tackle for loss, one interception and four pass breakups.
The Lott IMPACT Award semifinalist earned recognition on the CBSSports.com and Athlon Sports All-America first team, Sporting News, Athlon Sports and Phil Steele All-Pac-12 first team, Phil Steele All-America second team, and SI.com All-America honorable mention.
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He was also named to the All-Pac-12 first team and Pac-12 All-Academic second team. He started the season on the Bronko Nagurski and Jim Thorpe watch lists. ESPN.com called him the Pac-12's 11th-best player in the Pac-12 in preseason top-25 player rankings.
Reynolds registered 12 tackles at Utah and 10 tackles (seven solo) against Michigan State in the 2013 Rose Bowl.
As a junior, Reynolds played in 14 games, posting 47 tackles (28 solo) and 11 pass breakups. He also recorded a team-high six interceptions - the most by a Stanford player since Jim Kaffen's seven in 1973. He set a school record returning three interceptions for touchdowns and ranked first nationally with 301 interception return yards, falling one yard short of the NCAA single-season record for interception return yards.
Reynolds was tabbed All-Pac-12 first team, SI.com All-America second team, Associated Press, Phil Steele and CBSSports.com All-America third team.
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Doctors are again facing steep Medicare cuts that could undermine health care for millions of seniors and disabled people, unless Congress acts by Jan. 1 to stave them off.
The cuts have become a recurring symbol of the government's budget woes.
This time it's a 27.4 percent cut. Last year, it was about 20 percent.
It's all a consequence of a 1990s budget law that failed to control spending but never got repealed. Congress passes a temporary fix each time, only to grow the size of reductions required next time around.
Last week's supercommittee breakdown leaves the problem unresolved with time running out. Congress is looking at options that include one-year and two-year fixes. But there's no consensus on how to pay for the billions of dollars that would cost.


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The Sysadmin's Daily Grind: Zsync
Zsync handles a special case: large volume download files that change frequently but not drastically. Charly shows how this handy file fetcher can save you time and bandwidth.
Zsync – the name is reminiscent of Rsync, the Swiss Army knife of file transfers. The Rsync algorithm is at Zsync's core, but Zsync has a different purpose. Whereas Rsync synchronizes whole filesystem trees, Zsync focuses on downloading single, bulk files. Imagine a company has tailored a Linux distribution to suit its own needs. They upload an ISO file of the distribution to their Intranet server. Whenever an administrator needs to set up a new PC, they just download the distribution from the server. This is something that occurs quite regularly, as the distribution is updated continually.
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Estudios Aloe Fenals
- Free WiFi in lobby
Main amenities
- 10 smoke-free apartments
- Near the beach
- Outdoor pool
- Self parking
- Air conditioning
- Garden
- Laundry service
- Multilingual staff
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- Lloret de Mar Beach (0.9 mi / 1.4 km)
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Cash deposit: EUR 100.00 per stay
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Late check-in between 7 PM and 10 PM can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 30
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Parking is available nearby and costs EUR 25 per night
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Is there an easy way to round a Time down to the nearest 15 minutes?
This is what I'm currently doing. Is there an easier way to do it?
t = Time.new
rounded_t = Time.local(t.year, t.month, t.day, t.hour, t.min/15*15)
Is there an easy way to round a Time down to the nearest 15 minutes?
This is what I'm currently doing. Is there an easier way to do it?
You said "round down", so I'm not sure if you're actually looking for the round or the floor, but here's the code to do both. I think something like this reads really well if you add
Note: ActiveSupport was only necessary for the pretty
I thought I would post another solution that provides rounding up and down to the nearest number of seconds given. Oh, and this does not change the time zone like some of the other solutions.
ActiveSupport was used in the examples for the x.minutes feature. You can use 15 * 60 instead.
Methods floor and ceil can be easily implemented based on this solution.
I am not very familiar with the syntax of ruby but you can round down to the nearest 15 minutes using modulo. (i.e. x - (x modulo 15)). I would guess the syntax would be something like
This will make your set of possible values 0, 15, 30, and 45. Assuming 0 <= t.min <= 59.
Since Ruby allows arithmetic (in seconds) on Times, you can just do this:
You could do:
I found a very readable solution;
This will round your time to the last rounded 15 minutes. You can change the 15.minutes to every timescale possible.
There's quite a few solutions here and I began to wonder about their efficiency (thou efficiency is probably not the most important aspect in this problem). I took some from here and threw in a couple of my own. (N.B. though the OP asked about rounding down to closest 15 minutes, I've done my comparitions and samples with just 1 minute / 60s for the sake of more simple samples).
Analysing the results
What to make of it? Well thing's might work faster or slower on your hardware, so don't take my computers word for it. As you can see, another thing is that, unless we do these operations on the scale of millions operations it's not going to make much difference which method you use as far as processing power goes (though, do note that for instance most cloud computing solutions provide very little processing power and thus the millions might be hundreds or tens of thousands in such environments).
Slowest, but probably the most readable solution
In that sense using clearly the slowest of them
Not so slow and almost as readable solution
However, since it's actually not needed at all and makes the operation over twice as expensive as without it I have to say that my choice is the
Awkward and not particularly slow or fast
The most voted solution on this page
For those in need for speed
The tied (the differences are so insignificant that you can't really declare a winner) top two performers in the test where two to_i variants that use slightly different combination of operations and then convert integer back to Time object. If your in a hurry these are the ones you should use:
Setup for rounding up / ceil benchmarks
Results for rounding up / ceil benchmarks
Chuck's answer, while elegant, will run you into trouble if you try to compare values derived in this way; the usecs are not zeroed out.
Shalmanese' answer takes care of that, or Chuck's can be modified as:
Ryan McGeary's solution didn't work for time zones that were not on the half hour. For example, Kathmandu is +5:45, so rounding to 30.minutes was getting the wrong results. This should work:
And tests:
I wrote the Rounding gem to handle these sort of cases.
Rounding down a time becomes as simple as calling
The time zone of the original time is preserved (UTC in this case). You don't need ActiveSupport loaded—you can write
I wrote a blog post that explains more. Hope you find it helpful.
Your current evaluation using
is only truncating the min, so
Which is not 'rounding'.
You can approximate rounding in a bad-way with
Or, using internals:


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How To: Dress a Dresser
From Eddie Ross
Stylist Eddie Ross, of Top Design fame, has a wonderful blog post this week describing how he helped a friend accessorize her dresser. We might've made slightly different choices, but his step-by-step photos, accompanied by tips and explanations, are incredibly helpful…
It's fun to watch the dresser really come together as the series of photos progresses. We learned a lot from reading Eddie's explanations of each design choice. Maybe the finished "dresser-scape" looks a little bit cluttered—and we're not sure why the flowers should be so large (though Eddie claims in his comments section that from most angles, the framed print behind the flowers is still visible). But overall, we think it's a huge improvement. Love that pink candle!
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Tri-state artists 'Paint Historic Wheeling'
August 3, 2013
Painting "in the open air," or "en plein air" as the French put it, seems popular with dozens of artists from Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania who are participating in "Paint Historic Wheeling"......
Maybe the Wheeling Symphony can benefit from our experience with "plein air" week in Richmond, VA the past two years. On the last night the paintings are judged and then offered for sale at a cocktail party with proceeds divided among the artists and the symphony.
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PR # 43 September 25, 2008
The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) in North Branch will stage Theatre Terra?s production of Frog in the Clouds , Sunday, October 19, at 1 and 3:30 p.m.
The performance is part of the Theatre?s Sampler Series . The series, recommended for youngsters age four and older, features events for children and their families.
Max has moved to a new city and hasn?t yet made any friends. He overcomes his nervousness with help from Grandpa and good friends Frog, Duck, Pig and Hare.
Tickets cost $10 and $12 each. Subscription discounts are available.
For the fifth year in a row, Courier News readers voted The Theatre at RVCC as the ?Best of the Best? in 2008 in the ?Playhouse/Theater? category.
In addition to the Sampler Series , the Theatre will present this season the Major Artists Series ; the 17th annual Merck Series , made possible by a generous grant from The Merck Company Foundation; and School-Time Performances , a series for teachers and students grades pre-K to 12. The 2008-2009 season also will offer a new series, Tuesdays with Stories , which features great American literature performed by solo actors from The American Place Theatre.
A variety of subscribers? packages are available. To purchase tickets or for more information, call the Box Office, 908-725-3420, or order online at www.rvccArts.org . Senior citizen, student and group discounts are also available for a variety of performances.
The Theatre offers birthday parties for both the Family and Sampler Series . For further information, call 908-725-3420.
RVCC, located on Route 28 and Lamington Road in North Branch, NJ, and serving Somerset and Hunterdon County residents for 40 years, offers more than 90 associate degrees and certificates. The College is committed to offering a quality and affordable education through effective teaching, liaisons with the community?s businesses and state-of-the-art technology. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu .
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For those of you who enjoyed the mega-hit film Sinister this past fall, you will be happy to know that the folks behind the original already have a sequel in the works, like who didn't know that was coming? All of the creative team behind the first film are working on a second film and hope to turn the Mr. Boogie character into a franchise.
According to Deadline, Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions is moving forward on its third micro-budget franchise with Sinister 2, the sequel to last year's horror pic that grossed more than $87M worldwide off of a $3M budget. The move to build the Sinister franchise follows in the footsteps of Blumhouse's successes with the Paranormal Activity and Insidious series of ultra-low-budget genre hits.
I understand that all of the major behind-the-scenes players are back for Sinister 2, including creators Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. They wrote the original, which Derrickson also directed. Thinking is that they'll write the sequel, and I hear director conversations are in the works.
I thoroughly enjoyed Sinister, but Hollywood has a way of running a good thing straight into the ground, here's to hoping that doesn't happen with Sinister 2.
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Volkswagen, the glorious German automaker has gained the stature of manufacturing supremely luxuriant and performance oriented cars throughout the entire India. This peerless reputation is the outcome of its effortless vehicles which are graced by some extra-ordinary craftsmanship. And, as far as innovation and strategy is considered, Volkswagen turned out to be a trendsetter for the whole auto industry, courtesy its audacious vision and optimistic approach. (CarDekho)
Indeed, it was not so-easy step as the other market leaders were introducing new vehicles and variants in order to garner more and more numbers from people. But, this out-of-the-box thinking reaped some incredible rewards for Volkswagen as immense appreciation began to pour in from everywhere for Cross Polo. Volkswagen did nothing extraordinary in its development, what it actually did was, just gave Polo a far more rugged stance followed by some more upmarket interiors, and termed it as a completely new vehicle, 'Cross Polo'. It helped the German automaker in several ways; like it saved the manufacturing cost of an entire new vehicle, secondly Volkswagen's name again popped out in the auto industry and thirdly, its arsenal of vehicles got expansion as Cross Polo further graced it by its presence.
Now it seems as if Fiat and Toyota have decided to follow the footsteps of Volkswagen, as they are also planning to introduce their cross vehicles in form of Punto Adventure and Toyota Etios Cross, respectively. Toyota Etios hasn't been a fruitful product for Toyota and same goes for Fiat Punto as they haven't drawn the expected attention from people, which had ultimately resulted in deteriorating sales graphs. Therefore, both Toyota and Fiat are trying this special move, having seen the success of Volkswagen. Furthermore, it would also extend their respective arsenals of vehicles and provide more options to a customer.
Toyota would present the Etios' cross in both petrol and diesel fuel trims, while retaining the same 1.2-litre petrol and 1.4-litre diesel engines that are currently doing duties to the company's another hatch back, Liva. Taking a leaf out of Volkswagen's book, Toyota has made slight modifications in the exteriors of the car like redesigned front bumper, inclusion of alloy wheels along with silver roof rails. All these advancements would extensively distinguish it from Etios Liva and would provide it a completely unique identity which is quite essential for a vehicle..On the other hand, Fiat has also chalked out its plans and rumor mill is abuzz that Fiat would roll out the crossover Punto Adventure by mid 2014, inspired heavily by its Punto hatchback. The vehicle, it is believed, would have several technological advancements as compared to the existing Punto which would help it comprehensively in lining-up against the likes of Volkswagen CrossPolo and Toyota Etios Cross. Recently, some spy shots of the vehicle further revealed that Fiat had incorporated an all new rear bumper along with a spare wheel with handle attached to its boot. The rear wheel also carries the 'Adventure' badge in the center.
Both these unprecedented vehicles would certainly get a warm welcome amidst the reigning market leader of the segment, CrossPolo. It is very likely that both the vehicles would crave to a special niche of audience and would also play a crucial role in company's growth. Stakes are pretty high this time around, as both Toyota and Fiat are not going through the best of time in the Indian auto sector and failure of any single vehicle certainly means curtains for the company. Hence, expectations are immensely high from both the vehicles. One more thing that would decide the fate of these vehicles and plays a prominent role in their run at the Indian auto-sector, is the pricing. It would be quite enthralling to see how the respective companies, Toyota and Fiat, price these vehicles in accordance with their existing vehicle lineup. The pricing would be an impacting factor which would possess the capability of influencing the final decision of any individual. Hence, Totoya and Fiat must price Etios Cross and Punto Adventure cautiously as far as reaping rich dividends is concerned, similar to the Volkswagen CrossPolo.
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Book your room at Sunnyside Tavern
Get an overview of this hotelSuburban hotel with free area shuttle and restaurant
Situated in the entertainment district, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Newcastle Showground and EnergyAustralia Stadium. Newcastle International Hockey Centre and University of Newcastle are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Free WiFi in public areas is provided, as well as free self parking, a free area shuttle, and a free shopping center shuttle. Additionally, an arcade/game room, express check-in, and express check-out are onsite.
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All 12 individually furnished rooms feature free WiFi and espresso makers. Guests can appreciate conveniences like kitchenettes and coffee makers, and other amenities include patios and cable TV.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Opens in a new window
Sunnyside Tavern20 Broadmeadow Road Broadmeadow NSW 2292
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. An area shuttle within 10 km, a shopping center shuttle, and a train station pick-up service are complimentary for guests. This Broadmeadow hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, an arcade/game room, and coffee/tea in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Sunnyside Tavern has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 12
- Number of floors - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
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- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-in
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- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Designated smoking areas
- Billiards or pool table
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free area shuttle
- Free train station pickup
- Television in common areas
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Kitchenette
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Arcade/game room
- Microwave (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Air conditioning
- Patio
- Ceiling fan
- Access via exterior corridors
- Kitchenette
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Individually furnished
- Espresso maker
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
Sunnyside Restaurant - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 10 PM
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Check-out time is 10 AM
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- No pets or service animals allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No pets or service animals allowed
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- Fee for continental breakfast: AUD 10 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: AUD 50 per person
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 20 per night
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- Sunnyside Tavern Broadmeadow
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This property offers transfers from the train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.