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I don't like being awake at 5am but I'm excited so it's OK. The reason? London fashion week and the suggestion that I go and soak up the atmosphere for the Vintage Years. I've never been, I've no idea what to expect and I have hardly any time to prepare. Passing through the gates of Somerset House, I take a deep breath and drop down into the rabbit hole.
The first thing is a bewildering sensory overload – snatches of sound, flashes of colour and tall (very tall) people. I feel Lilliputian, more than a bit middle-aged, and ever so slightly down-at-heel with my last season, self-customised Marc Jacobs bag, tartan frock and flat boots. But there is no dress code. Here are people who have dressed just to be snapped by the photographers circling in the courtyard: there's a blindingly beautiful girl dressed, apparently, as an extra from Call the Midwife. Another is wrapped from top to toe in trembling feathers and has draped herself around the railings. A man drifts by with a teddy bear over one arm – Sebastian Flyte in skinny jeans. There are Louboutins – the famous red instep is everywhere – but the new season court shoes and brothel creepers are also in evidence.
Offered coffee or champagne, I choose the former – an eyebrow is raised slightly. When I ask for milk in my coffee, it is raised further still. There are clearly unspoken rules: champagne before coffee, and coffee must be black.
But London fashion week, for all its glamour, is essentially a trade show. Next time someone takes issue with your style addiction and calls you frivolous, try pointing out that the UK fashion industry brings something in the region of £20bn to the economy. Not so lightweight now, eh? To me as an outsider, the hierarchy might best be described as one of those nastily difficult computer games – a circular arrangement of cogs and wheels constructed as a 3D maze, over a lake of molten lava. One false step and you're toast. Catwalk shows are for the invited, not beginners. I queued for 45 minutes in the hope of seeing the Bora Aksu show but the doors slammed shut with about 50 of us on the wrong side. Brutal.
So, what did I like? Well, I liked being treated like a grown-up very much indeed because, despite my worries, there is no age discrimination here – that was a fear I imposed on myself, and one that initially inhibited my enjoyment. Silly me. Watching, slightly panicked, from a quiet corner of the coffee bar I noticed that there were many "older" women (for want of a better word). These were the fashion editors and senior buyers; women with power and a wealth of experience; women who have earned respect. How interesting that, in a place where I had stupidly assumed my age would count against me, I found I was deferred to, listened to and treated with the utmost courtesy.
Apart from the many conversations I had, here are four things which I particularly enjoyed:
Negarin – a new label showing clever tailoring and "illusional" dressing in Italian silk jersey. The AW12 collection features intense colours and prints inspired by the Northern Lights.
Stephen Jones Millinery, who recognised a hat addict and encouraged me to try on almost everything except the ones that wouldn't suit me. And they are so good at knowing what will look right. Not a fascinator in sight.
I loved Les Nereides, Curieux Insectes: the Mosquito Bite for being unusual and slightly unsettling. Not in-store yet but soon.
And for beautiful, jewel-coloured scarves, I loved Jane Carr. These are pricey but if, like me, you use them to double up as dresses, skirts and everything else, these are generous enough in yardage to see you safely through.
For absurdity, I'll nominate the £2,500 python handbag. I don't give a fig that the poor snake was "blessed" before making the ultimate sacrifice – it was all explained with great seriousness while I struggled to keep a straight face. I wonder how much mark-up the "blessing" adds to the retail price?
How was my first London fashion week? Well, I woke up the next morning feeling mysteriously girlified and glitter-bombed. It was brilliant fun and brilliantly funny, mad, exhausting, intriguing and stimulating. When all else looks bleak, our fashion industry is a success story – we should celebrate that.
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Before heading out on vacation, here are some suggestions for those responsible for SOA systems to help make things run smoothly while you are on holiday.
There are seven words every IT professional dreads hearing during the summer: "Sorry to bother you on vacation...
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The idea of creating a pre-vacation checklist to help IT professionals make sure the service-oriented architecture (SOA) system they are responsible for is in good shape, is the brain child of Craig Marble, systems engineer at Micro Focus Ltd. He sees a parallel between the kind of checklist vacationers have traditionally made to be sure their car is ready for the road and the home they are leaving behind will be looked after.
"I'm thinking if you go on vacation, for instance if you're driving somewhere, you have a little checklist of things to do," he said. "Is your car tuned up? Is the oil okay? Who is going to take care of the house if something goes wrong? Maybe you have a relative or neighbor who is the go-to person in case of an emergency."
Carrying the vacation checklist over to IT is necessary because of SOA, in Marble's view. In the mainframe era, there was a lot less for the vacationing IT manager to worry about, he suggested.
"The way IT used to be it wasn't nearly as complex," he said. "Maybe you had a couple CICS applications running on a mainframe. And as long as CICS was running and the mainframes were fairly healthy, you could be fairly confident that you wouldn't have a meltdown while you were on vacation."
The complexity of SOA management
A checklist is needed with SOA applications composed of services from multiple sources located both inside and outside the firewall, he said, because vacation backup isn't so easy to plan for any more.
"Now, with an SOA infrastructure, you've got the whole idea of SOA bringing multiple sources to create a composite environment for people to do their work," Marble said. "You don't just have one environment, you have multiple environments. Some may be coming from partners through the Internet. Some may be packaged applications. Some may be homegrown distributed applications. And, of course, there are still mainframe applications."
He suggests the departing vacationer start with the people processes and then look at the services and applications.
"Some of the things you need to do are process oriented," Marble said. "One would be to make sure that people know who to go to if something goes wrong. If there's a system failure or an application failure, you need to communicate to everybody who is the person that will be your backup while you're out."
Paying attention to every detail means including mundane people processes, he said. Make sure someone is taking care of administrative daily tasks such as the day-to-day mundane things that come by your desk that still need to be dealt with in a timely fashion, he suggests.
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Once you've got the people processes covered, then focus on the technical environment.
"The best way to do that these days with so many different environments that are coming together in one arena supported by your SOA infrastructure is that you really need a good application management tool," Marble said. A management tool that automates the process is necessary because SOA is far more complicated to the point you could lose your whole vacation trying to figure out what is running where.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 912747, 12 pages
Optimal Vibration Control for Half-Car Suspension on In-Vehicle Networks in Delta Domain
1School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming 650500, China
2Key Laboratory in Software Engineering of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650091, China
3National Pilot School of Software, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
Received 3 January 2013; Accepted 18 February 2013
Academic Editor: Valery Y. Glizer
Copyright © 2013 Jing Lei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The paper explores the optimal vibration control design problem for a half-car suspension working on in-vehicle networks in delta domain. First, the original suspension system with ECU-actuator delay and sensor-ECU delay is modeled. By using delta operators, the original system is transformed into an associated sampled-data system with time delays in delta domain. After model transformation, the sampled-data system equation is reduced to one without actuator delays and convenient to calculate the states with nonintegral time delay. Therefore, the sampled-data optimal vibration control law can be easily obtained deriving from a Riccati equation and a Stein equation of delta domain. The feedforward control term and the control memory terms designed in the control law ensure the compensation for the effects produced by disturbance and actuator delay, respectively. Moreover, an observer is constructed to implement the physical realizability of the feedforward term and solve the immeasurability problem of some state variables. A half-car suspension model with delays is applied to simulate the responses through the designed controller. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller and the simplicity of the designing approach.
1. Introduction
In the past years, communication networks have been applied greatly and widely into the advanced vehicle systems, such as electronic control units (ECUs), sensors, and actuators which are all connected over the high-speed in-vehicle networks (IVNs), for example, Local Interconnect Network, Controller Area Network, Media Oriented Systems Transport [1–3], and so forth. However, in this kind of IVNs, two important issues emerge for the controller design problems. One is the network-induced delay issue. Over communication networks, the time delays generated between sensor-controller, controller-actuator, ECU computation delay, and so forth are unavoidably encountered. As well known, even a small time delay can make the systems disastrously unstable or generate oscillations [4–6]. So, this issue should be taken into account when we design a controller for a system over networks. The next issue is the system modeling problem. Actually, signals processed by microprocessors are digital, and most of those produced by sensors or put into actuators are analogs. Thus, the continuous-time plant is combined with a discrete-time controller, where and converts are used to combine these two different signals. Therefore, a sampled-data system is more appropriate for the reality of networked-control system. In previous studies, there are two main approaches to get the sampled-data systems, those are, indirect approach of continuous-time domain and direct approach of discrete-time domain. However, the former is only suitable for simple control algorithms, and the latter has two drawbacks: one is that the discrete-time model is unable to approach to its corresponding continuous-time one as the sampling frequency increases; and the other is that the discretized system can cause oscillations and unstable phenomenon as the sampling frequency increases.
Consequentially, we present two strategies to deal with these above-mentioned issues. First, we introduce the delta operator approach to build a sampled-data model for the networked-control system due to its accurate approximation to the continuous-time model under rapid sampling conditions [7–11]. This advantage can be demonstrated by citing an instance.
Consider a continuous-time system consisted of in the state-space representation. The associated discrete-time system can be got as with , , and the sampling period. Alternatively, the associated sampled-data system in delta domain is with , , and a unit matrix. Apparently, , and , while .
From this instance, it is clear that the discrete-time model cannot approximate to its original continuous-time one when sampling fast. On the contrary, the delta-domain sampled-data one enables approximating to the continuous accurately. See that this is our reason to apply the delta operators approach modeling a sampled-data system for an IVNs-based suspension.
The other contribution of this paper is developing the model transformation method [11–13] to solve optimal vibration control (OVC) design problem for sampled-data systems with time delays in delta domain. The model transformation method is based on the finite spectrum assignment methodology [14], and we have developed it solving the OVC design problems for time-delay systems in continuous-time domain or in discrete-time domain. It was proved able to transform the original time-delay system into a delay-free one such that the original solution problem is reduced from an infinite-dimension space to a finite-dimension space, and so that the controller design problem is greatly simplified [11–14].
In brief, as a result, the obtained control law in this paper consists of a feedforward term and some control memory terms which can be stored in memories beforehand. Hence, the persistent road excitation suffered by suspension can be reduced via the feedforward term, and the time-delay effect of the system can be compensated by the control memory terms. At last, we carry out some simulations to validate the effectiveness and the simplicity of the designed OVC comparing with the open-loop system (OLS).
The paper's organization displays as follows. After this introduction of Section 1, in Section 2, the system description and problem formulation have been done. In Section 3, the OVC is designed accompanied with the observer-based control law design. Numerical examples are simulated in Section 4. Concluding remarks are given in Section 5.
2. Problem Statement
2.1. System Modeling
Consider a four-degree-of-freedom half-car model (refered to in [15]) where the suspension motion is determined by the following dynamic equations: through Newton-Euler method. In this half-car suspension model, the sprung mass and unsprung one are separated by spring, damper, and actuator, which are placed in parallel. The tire of the vehicle is modeled as a spring. Vertical motion and pitch motion of the sprung mass are considered, as well as the vertical motion of the front unsprung mass and the rear one .
Consider it working on an IVNs-based environment, as depicted in Figure 1, where , , and denote the system state, control input, and measured output, respectively; is the road excitation input; , are constant ECU-actuator delay and sensor-ECU delay, respectively, (actuator delay and sensor delay for short) which are always assumed to be known and constant in such IVNs environment.
With the purpose of replacing (1) into the state-space representation, define the state, control, and disturbance vectors as the controlled output vector as and the measured output vector as Together with the associated dynamic equations and the definitions (2)–(4), the system (1) thus is rewritten in the state-space representation as with , , , and as the state vector, control output, measurement vector, and controlled output, respectively, , , , , , and as the real constant matrices of appropriate dimensions, and as the initial state vector.
Consequently, the sampled-data system form of the system (6) can be got by applying the sampled-data controller where there is a zero-order holder with as the sampling times, as the state on time of , and as a constant data controller gain, denoting the actuator delay and the sensor delay with and . Notice that the delays are expressed in either integers or nonintegers. Then, the sampled-data system of (1) can be described by where and . Here, the triple is assumed to be completely controllable and observable.
Further, the sampled-data system (8) will be converted to delta domain and without actuator delays. There are two situations that should be considered concerning the nonintegral part of the time delay: and . However, the derivation procedures of these two situations are similar. So, for the sake of simplicity, the derivation procedure of the former situation will be presented in what follows.
Introducing the delta operator as and letting and discretize the sampled-data system (8) in the delta-domain form Noting that the system (10) is the delta-domain sampled-data system with actuator delays, for the convenience of calculation, it will be transformed without actuator delays using the model transformation approach. From the first difference equation in (10), it follows the analytical expression of state response where Consequently, define a new state vector as Equation (10) yields the analytical expression of state response for the transformed system which produces its state equation in delta-domain form Through the same way, defining the new measured and controlled outputs with , the output equations of the transformed system are got as follows Then, the state equation (15) and the output equation (17) consist the transformed equivalent sampled-data system in delta domain without actuator delays:
Furthermore, the road excitation should be described by an exosystem in delta domain in order to employ the state-space representation designing the OVC.
2.2. Road Disturbance Modeling
According to ISO 2631 standards, the road displacement power spectral density (PSD) is usually approximately represented in the formulation of with as the spatial frequency, as the road roughness constant, and as the sort of the road as shown in Table 1.
Due to the low-pass-filter characteristic of vehicle tires and suspension, the road displacement can be approximately simulated by a finite Fourier series sum where are the amplitudes, are the frequencies with the time frequency internal , are the random phases which follow a uniform distribution in , is a constant horizontal velocity, is the given road segment length, and positive integer limits the considered frequency band.
Letting the disturbance state vector the road velocity then is described by the exosystem with in which and represent the zero matrix and the -order identity matrix, respectively. Using delta operator (9), exosystem (22) is transformed into the delta-domain form where .
Hence, both the original system and the exosystem are transformed into the delta-domain sampled-data systems so that we would design the OVC for them.
2.3. Problem Formulation
The principal variables for the evaluation of the suspension system are sprung mass acceleration and determining the ride comfort, suspension deflection indicating the limit of vehicle body motion, and tire deflection ensuring the road holding ability. The purpose is to reduce the acceleration of vehicle body and decrease the dynamic tire forces for improving the road holding ability and the stability of vehicles facing road excitation.
In practice, control and controlled output are unable synchronously zero so that the general infinite-horizon performance index is not convergent. In this case, an average infinite-horizon performance index could be chosen as with , as positive semidefinite matrices and as a positive definite matrix, assuming that with an arbitrary matrix and the triple completely controllable and observable.
Remark 1. When , the delta-domain sampled-data system is described by with The derivation procedure of this situation is similar to that of . It is omitted for the simplification reason.
3. Optimal Vibration Controller Design
3.1. Sampled-Data OVC Design
Theorem 2. Consider the optimal vibration control problem described by the time-delay sampled-data system (10) under disturbance (24) respecting the average performance index (25). The optimal vibration control law is existent and unique and given by where is the unique positive definite solution of Riccati equation: is the unique solution of Stein equation:
Proof. According to Pontryagin's minimum principle, the optimal control problem combined by the system (18) and the performance index (25) results in the two-point boundary value problem in delta-operator form:
which yieldswith the optimal control law
From (31) or (32a) and (32b) it is clear that and are the linear relationship, so denote the costate vector
Consequently, on one hand, together with (34) and (32a), it gives
On the other hand, from (34) and (32b), the following equation holds:
Substituting (35) into (36) yields
Due to and arbitrarily satisfying (37), it results in Riccati equation (29) and Stein equation (30).
Further, the uniqueness is to be proved. According to linear optimal regulator theory, there exists a unique positive definite solution for Riccati equation (26) and the closed-loop system of (18) is asymptotically stable, which implies that matrix is Hurwitz, that is, for . Moreover, since road disturbances are persistent and not asymptotically stable, this means that for . Therefore, from (39) and (40), the following inequality holds: As a result, Stein equation (30) has the unique solution matrix [16]. The uniqueness of and leads to the uniqueness of OVC (28). This ends the proof.
3.2. Physical Realization of OVC
The optimal control law (28) contains the physically unrealizable disturbance state and some unmeasurable variables in for economical or practical reasons. In this case, a reduced-order observer can be constructed to reconstruct theses states. Defining the augmented vector and yields the following augmented system in delta domain combined by (18) and (24): with The pair can be proved to be completely observable.
Choosing an arbitrary matrix such that is nonsingular and defining give . Let the nonsingular transformation be as follows: where . The new state equations follow in the delta-domain form: Defining a new variable with the gain matrix to be selected, (46) and (45) give Noting that and substituting (47) into (48) yield Corresponding to (49), the reduced-order observer is constructed: where and are the state and output of the observer, respectively. Denoting observer errors and , from (50) and (49), the error state equation is got: Hence, the error equation gain should be regulated to make (51) asymptotically stable, such that .
The observable pair results in the observable pair . Consequentially, the gain is enabled to make the eigenvalues of assigned in the left-half complex plane, which means that error equation (51) is asymptotically stable. Therefore, the reconstructed states can replace the unavailable ones. Through this mean, states in OVC (28) are replaced by the augmented state which gives the dynamical control law with in which is defined in (16).
4. Simulation Examples
In this section, a half-car suspension model will be employed to carry out the simulations. We will take two cases of the simulations: firstly, to demonstrate the closed-loop matrices of the continues time, discrete time, and the delta domain taking different sampling period in order to verify the delta-domain matrix enables approximating to the continues-time one as decreases; secondly, to apply the designed OVC to the half-car suspension model with delays comparing with the OLS in order to verify that the OVC guarantees the system stability and the desired suspension performance. The parameter values are shown in Table 2 (refer to in [15]).
To generate D Grade road profile, select and . Setting , , and in (20) takes the frequency band from 0.05 Hz to 20 Hz. Take the performance index (24) with , , , , and delays , .
Case 1. Taking different sampling periods , , , the relative closed-loop matrices of continues-time , discrete-time , and delta-domain are listed from (54) to (56c); respectively.
(i) is the continuous-time closed-loop matrix:
(ii) is the discrete-time closed-loop matrix setting , , :
(iii) is the delta-domain closed-loop matrix setting , , :
Comparing with the continuous-time closed-loop matrix (54), from (55a) to (55c) we can see the discretized matrices approach to the unit matrix as the sampling period decreases; from (56a) to (56c) we can see that the delta-domain matrices approach to the original continuous-time matrix (54) as decreases. Evidently, the delta-domain approach is more appropriate for the high-sampling IVNs system.
Case 2. Setting sampling period and comparing with the responses of the accelerations, deflections of suspension and tire, and control input of OLS shown in Figures 2, 3, and 4, the suspension responses controlled by OVC are shown in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8.
System responses in Figures 2–4 show that they diverged when without control (of OLS). On the contrary, in Figures 5–8, when the suspension was controlled under OVC, the suspension responses were stabilized. Moreover, they achieved relatively low magnitude and satisfied the desired requirement.
5. Conclusions
This paper has presented the OVC design for sampled-data system with time delays with its application to a half-car suspension using delta-domain approach. Through this approach, the built model provides more realistic and appropriate property. The delay compensators guarantee the closed-loop stability and requested performance. The simulation has demonstrated that the designed controller can efficiently make the system performance achieve the desired goal and the design approach proposed in this study is effective and feasible.
This work was supported in part by the China Scholarship Council Foundation (201208535084), the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (2011FZ169), and the Open Fund of Key Laboratory in Software Engineering of Yunnan Province (2011SE15).
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Cary, N.C. — A person running in south Raleigh was bit by a fox Wednesday, and on Saturday Wake County authorities issued a rabies warning after the animal was tested and found to have the disease.
"We don't want to alarm residents in south Raleigh, but they should be aware of this case and of the potential for exposure to themselves, family members and their pets," said Sue Lynn Ledford, community health director for Wake County. "If you see wildlife acting unusually, including coming close to human areas, keep your distance and contact animal control."
The attack happened in the 2100 block of Harrison Avenue.
County health officials urge people to follow these safety precautions:
- Do not approach animals you do not know.
- Ensure that pets have a current rabies vaccination. If a pet is allowed outside, a booster vaccine is recommended. Outdoor pets should be kept inside until they receive booster vaccines.
- Do not feed stray or unknown animals, including cats and dogs.
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Fall 2011, Number 3
Events | Faculty Activities | Trustees | Faculty | Students | Career Corner | History Corner | Getting to Know You | Around Campus | Essays & Scholarships | Calendar
Southwestern Welcomes New Adjunct Faculty
A number of practitioners and experts in a variety of fields have joined Southwestern's adjunct faculty for the remainder of the 2011-2012 academic year. Read more.
|A selection of scholarships and essay contests are available on the portal, in the Financial Aid Office (W102), and posted on the bulletin board in the Westmoreland basement.
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20 Final Exams end; 2011 Fall Semester ends
3 SCALE II Period 7 Begins; 2012 January Intersession begins
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9 2012 Spring Semester begins
10 Summer Options and Opportunities, 12:30 p.m., W311
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19 Southwestern/MLRC Conference - Angels and Demons: Navigating Tricky Entertainment and Media Issues to Reach Legal Nirvana, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m., Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
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31 SBA Alumni/Student Networking Reception
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EL MONTE >> City leaders say they got a real vote of confidence Tuesday night.
Not only did voters return all three incumbents to the council dais, they also voted to extend the city's half-cent sales tax, which was set to expire in March.
"It is a real simple message: They felt, more than in year's past, really positive about the direction we are going in," Councilman Juventino Gomez said.
Gomez and his colleague Norma Macias both defeated a challenge from teacher Frank Amezcua. Gomez and Macias won 33 percent and 40 percent of the vote, respectively, to Amezcua's 27 percent.
Mayor Andre Quintero's victory over challenger Art Barrios was even more convincing — 64 percent to 36 percent.
"There was a clear message that the direction that this council is taking is a good one," Quintero said.
The mayor said residents support the council's top priorities: bringing economic development to the city, building a sustainable budget and maintaining public safety.
Amezcua and Barrios both criticized the incumbents for not producing enough results on their first priority. Long-promised projects such as retail around the El Monte bus station and a Norms restaurant have yet to come to fruition.
Quintero responded that the state's dissolution of redevelopment agencies in 2011 has slowed the process by taking away tools to attract investment and adding additional legal complexities.
And residents are going to start seeing results soon, he added.
City officials are finalizing contracts for the Gateway development around the bus station this month, and next they will focus on advancing the Norms restaurant project.
"I know what people want to see here, real economic development, and we are going to bring that," Macias said.
Voters gave the city a helping hand in achieving the goals when they supported, by a huge margin, the extension of the half-cent sales tax Measure GG, Quintero said.
The sales tax produces about $4 million in revenue annually, and without it, the city would have been forced to make cuts to every department, according to a staff report on the issue.
"Hopefully, now that we have the $4 million assured, we can have more people working on development," Quintero said.
The revenue will also help prevent the closure of a fire station.
Seventy-one percent of voters supported the measure, which extends the sales tax for five years.
"What it says is the community time and time again shows that they value public safety and they have confidence in our public safety," Macias said. "Nevertheless, I don't think we should just sit back and get comfortable. We really need to go in there and look at our budget critically and evaluate programs and how we fund things."
Likewise, Quintero said that will the tax extension provides reprieve, the city should slowly wean itself off it.
Quintero said the city should try to use only 80 percent of the revenues this year and put the remaining 20 percent into reserves. Next year, it should use only 60 percent and save 40 percent and so on.
Two other ballot initiatives to change the structure of the mayor's office were defeated. Measure RM, which would have changed the mayor's post from an elected position to a seat rotated among five elected council members, failed 59 percent to 41 percent. And Measure EM, which would have changed the elected mayor's term from two years to four years, failed 58 percent to 42 percent.
"I think it's important to keep the two-year term. Any longer and it allows more of a chance for corruption," said resident Christian Escobar, 24, after voting at Twin Lakes Elementary School.
Quintero said he wasn't surprised voters rejected a rotating mayor.
"Historically people have liked being able to elect the mayor," he said.
But he was disappointed that the mayor's term wasn't extended. Because two of the council seats are up every two years, it means that every two years, three seats on the dais are up for election.
Quintero, Macias, 42, and Gomez, 68, all supported one another's campaigns and had the support of city employee unions.
The council members said the city has turned over a new leaf in its cooperation with one another and with stakeholders in the city.
"Labor unions are working hand in hand with us, our Police Department, too. We are working closer with city staff. It is a new and positive day in El Monte," Gomez said.
In the race for city clerk, community affairs commissioner Jonathan Hawes was victorious, winning 39 percent of votes, over community advocate Irma Zamorano, who won 33 percent of votes, and small business owner Luis Aguilar, who earned 28 percent of votes.


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Sydney Festival 2016 review: La Verita entertains rather than transports
La Verita
Riverside Theatre, January 8
When Salvador Dali thundered onto the world stage in the 1920s he confronted us with images neither seen nor dreamed of before. The singularity of his grotesques, his placid beauty, his demented sexuality and his classicism set him apart from his surrealist peers. So one might have expected more of those qualities to illuminate a show taking a Dali painting, Tristan et Iseult, as its impetus.
Painted for a 1944 ballet called Tristan Fou (Mad Tristan), this tempera and oil scrim (measuring 9x15 metres) was hiding in a box in the Metropolitan Opera. Writer/director Daniele Finzi Pasca gratefully accepted it to create La Verita (Truth) for his Swiss-based Compagnia Finzi Pasca, in which it is deployed regularly enough for us to become conversant with the biggest Dali we'll ever see.
The show combines circus, dance, music and theatre, and while Dali motifs recur in the costumes, props and tableaux, and moments are flecked with a profound beauty, a greater proportion has little to do with his work. This does not make it bad: the acrobatic, aerial and juggling routines are of the highest order, the clowning is amusing and an appealing irreverence sets it all apart from much of its ilk.
Yet here was an opportunity to trim the applause-drawing, gravity-defying twirling and whirling in favour of genuinely dreamlike images to leave us open-mouthed in wonder. It happens when two performers wearing rhinoceros heads are at a grand piano, atop which a third performs acrobatics, and again in a dazzling routine with hoops. But seldom does the show bring our imaginations into play as opposed to our ability to be awed. Perhaps this is unsurprising when "surreal" has become so debased as an adjective as to be almost interchangeable with "amazing".
Nonetheless the company will not disappoint with its extraordinary skill and improbable routines, and the music (both recorded and live) is a joy. Don't sit too close, however: the panorama is more important than the faces.
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5 lbs. Red skin potatoes (leave skins on and boil until just barely tender)
½ Pound bacon (diced and fried until crisp save some of the grease )
¼ - ½ cup apple cider vinegar
1 small white or yellow onion (diced)
1 bunch scallions , including the green part (sliced)
6 eggs hard boiled and diced
Salt & pepper to taste
The only difficult thing about this recipe is it must be made just before serving. Boil potatoes until just tender, if they are too soft, it turns into mashed potatoes. Slice hot potatoes with the skins on into thick chunks . Add the onion and vinegar, mix well. Add the hot bacon along with some of the hot grease (wish there was a better word for this, but it certainly adds flavor). I use a lot of vinegar the potatoes seem to absorb it as long as it is put on before the bacon grease. Add the diced eggs and scallion, season with salt & pepper , mix well, and serve as warm as possible. The first taste should make you pucker!
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Edoardo Mortara has admitted he is in almost disbelief after clinching his maiden DTM victory for Audi earlier today at Spielberg's Red Bull Ring.
Mortara, who started from a career best pole position, led home BMW's Martin Tomczyk and Mercedes' Gary Paffett following an enthralling race long battle.
The Italian's opening victory was also the first for Audi in 2012, placing the four rings right back in the title fight after a turbulent start to the campaign.
The 25-year old, naturally, places this weekend's honours very highly in his young but already successful motorsport career.
"This is a great day for myself and for Audi," said a jubilant Mortara. "Pole position yesterday and victory today. It is almost unbelievable.
"I have already had some nice moments in motorsport, but this one is very special."
Mortara's victory moves him up into joint sixth in the championship alongside Audi team-mate Mike Rockenfeller while Britain's Gary Paffett continues to lead the chase for Mercedes.
"Winning such a thrilling race is a particular joy. This was first-class promotion for the DTM, for the Red Bull Ring and for Audi. Here, our A5 DTM was the benchmark. We were on top in every practice session and Edo did a perfect job turning his maiden pole position into his first-ever race win," commented Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, Audi's head of motorsport.
"He had to work hard for this success, which was very important for all of us. The entire crew has been working in the last couple of weeks to be back on top again in the DTM."
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OK, husbands, here's the key to gaining your spouse's approval and affirmation, as well as possibly even "You're so great! I thank God I married you!"
Do something your wife believes is absolutely necessary, but also dangerous, and preferably gross. Just don't cross over the line and do something she thinks is unnecessary, but also dangerous and possibly stupid.
Let's take the latter first. (Getting the bad stuff out of the way as quickly as possible usually constitutes the better part of achievable wisdom.)
On the very day this column is distributed in the Baptist Standard, Joanna and I will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. Across three and a half decades, I've done my share of deeds Jo deemed dangerous, unnecessary and stupid. They were not endearing.
Dangerous and stupid are close cousins
From her perspective, if dangerous and stupid are not twins, they're at least close cousins. She believes—and in my semi-sane moments, I see her viewpoint—most actions that court danger are stupid unless they involve saving small children, keeping the car operational and … well, I'm sure there's a third reason, but it doesn't come to me.
Items of danger typically involve (a) electricity, (b) ladders, and in my particular case, (c) sporting equipment and sometimes (d) food.
So, no matter how grand, noble, excellent or heroic the completion of said tasks may seem to me, they're categorically incapable of rising above dangerous and stupid.
I could elaborate, but if I cry into my keyboard, it will short out, and I'll never get around to telling you how to become your wife's hero. And for a shining moment several nights ago, I was Jo's hero. Really.
It all started after dinner, while I did the dishes and she cleaned out the fridge.
To my consternation, she sat a Tupperware thingy of pinto beans and ham by the sink and told me to run them down the disposal. She read my forlorn look like the headline on that day's Dallas Morning News. "They're too old. You didn't eat them fast enough," she explained. "They may have germs. Eating them would be dangerous and stupid."
So, I turned on the water, flipped on the disposal, and started dumping beans and ham.
About three seconds later, Jo hollers, "No, no, no!"
An unusual grinding sound
She's the one with the good ears, not to mention uncommon common sense. She reflexively picked up on the slightest unusual grinding sound.
"A bone," she interpreted. "A ham bone must've been in the beans. I'm so sorry."
She handed me the flashlight, and I traced the arc of light around the outside rim of the disposal. Sure enough, a partial ring of ham bone, down in the darkness.
We looked at each other.
I shoved my hand down through the rubber flange-grommet dohicky, into the disposal. Meanwhile, I kept my eye on the switch on the wall beside the sink. Jo stood across the room, and I kept my free hand in my pocket. But when you've got your hand down a garbage disposal, it's impossible not to think about queasy possibilities. Even if nobody can touch the switch.
I wrenched my elbow backward and fished around blindly with my second finger, following the edge of the disposal. In case you've never stuck your hand in a disposal, it feels like the inside of a can, but with sharp, spinnable cleats on the bottom. After a few seconds, I felt a slender slice of a ham bone.
When I yanked my hand out of the disposal, I held up the bone like an Olympic gold medal. Except I didn't kiss it, because my hand was slimy. Gross stuff clings to the bottom of rubber flange-grommet dohickies.
"Lucky for us, I've got small hands," I said. She smiled.
Then I turned on the water and flipped the switch. Same bone-grinding-on-metal sound.
Water off, switch off, hand back down in the disposal. Three more times.
Finally, water on, smooth grind, beans gone.
"You're so great. I thank God I married you," Jo told me—from across the room. Because even if you're a hero, if your hand's slimy and you stink, you stand alone.
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1. Qi Ultralounge Opens in SOMA: After two years of renovations, this new cocktail lounge and dance club (pictured above) has opened in the former Annie's Social Club space at 5th and Folsom. The new theme is aquatic, with white sofas, sexy murals of underwater damsels, purple lighting, and even a custom ocean-breeze scent. Cocktails are themed around the four elements, with Methane (reposado tequila, peach, lime, simple syrup, black salt rim; $12) representing fire, Reservoir (cachaca, creme de cassis, vanilla syrup, mint, lemon; $12) representing water, and Granite (cognac, Cointreau, sour, Black Mission fig, ground cinnamon; $13) representing earth. (Tuesday-Wednesday, 6 pm-12 am, Thursday-Saturday, 9 pm-2 am; 917 Folsom St., SOMA.)
2. Boozy Events at SF Chefs: SF Chefs, the city's big food and wine festival, is coming up this weekend, and if you haven't gotten tickets, now's your chance. In addition to the copious amounts of beer, wine, and spirits available in the four Grand Tasting Tents, other events drinkers should consider are Friday's cocktail-centric Steamed, Fried, and Shanghai'd afterparty at E&O Asian Kitchen; Sunday's Prime Your Palate seminar on aperitifs, with Camper English, Neyah White, and Brooke Arthur; and Sunday's Portuguese wine seminar with Eugenio Jardim and Tom Pizzica. (Friday, August 3-Sunday, August 5, various locations, Union Square.)
3. Jasper's Negroni Pimp Cup Contest: Have a well-decorated chalice that you've been dying to show off? Bring it by Jasper's on Sunday afternoon for their unofficial SF Chefs afterparty, and for $20, they'll fill it with all the Negronis you can drink. In honor of the restaurant's first anniversary, the holder of the best cup will win a free daily Negroni for the next year. Those who need to go light on the Campari can also enjoy $2 bottles of Miller High Life, sliders, and orders of fries. (Sunday, August 5, 4:30-7:30 pm, at Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen, 401 Taylor St., Union Square.)
4. Suds & Slider Party at Solstice Lounge: For those whose tastes run less to Negronis and more to burgers and beer, consider swinging by Solstice Lounge on Thursday, where they'll gladly stuff you with all-you-can-eat portions of four kinds of sliders (Kobe beef, carnitas, fish, and chicken) while you sip three Anderson Valley beers (Boont Amber, Summer Solstice, and imperial IPA). Tickets are only $15, including food and drink. Can't make the event? Solstice is also offering a $12 slider trio or $15 slider trio and Summer Solstice beer combo every Sunday. (Thursday, August 2, 7-9 pm, at Solstice Lounge, 2801 California St., Lower Pacific Heights.)
5. The Bold Italic's Pop-Up Shop Opens: The Bold Italic folks are teaming up with Voyager on Valencia to run a two-month pop-up shop of locally made goods, from jewelry to notecards to hats. [Full disclosure: Your Drink Here Now correspondent has written for the site.] In honor of their opening day on Friday, they're throwing a party with free beer and the opportunity to mingle with the designers featured in the shop. Be sure to RSVP so they can have enough brew on hand. (Friday, August 3, 6-9 pm, at Voyager, 365 Valencia St., Mission.)


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Police: Burglars Caught With Construction Crew Help
FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) —
A southwest Fresno homeowner is grateful a construction crew remodeling a local church took time out of their busy day to help police nap three burglars.
Just before 11 Tuesday morning, an alarm went off at the home near the corner of Kearney and Fresno street.
When police arrived, two of three crooks took off running.
After a short chase officers say they caught one of them, 36-year-old Sly Batten.
While checking the home police found another, a woman, 36-year-old Ronda Mohammad hiding under the bed.
Homeowner Renea Singleton says, "Behind my bed I saw some shoes, and I was thinking did I leave some shoes behind there. I didn't think anything of it, and then I saw some ankles."
However, police say the third crook, 35-year-old Roland Jason didn't go as easily.
Police say Jason ran across the street to a church under construction and hid his loot under a trailer.
Workers at the church say the man then tried to pretend he was helping. However the builders helped police grab him.
Construction worker Daniel Carrasco says, "He tried to run inside the bathroom, but when it was locked, he just started cleaning up, but I knew he was the guy police were looking for. So we called over the officers."
Construction worker Tony Reyes says, "Practically all of us here, we are part of this community from this church we are working on the church and doing all kind of stuff, making a better place here."
Homeowner Renea Singleton says, "It's great that the community involvement is there, and I'm so thankful that they were able to help."
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I'd go with an Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess style adventure game or a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest (Warrior) style RPG.
Imagine if Mattel tried video games. Imagine if He-Man were to transcend toys and become a legitimate video game character?
1) I think He-Man should be a Zelda type game. It could really put him over if done well. Imagine going through Eternia fighting King Hiss, Hordak, Skeletor and others? Link has Epona? He-Man would have BattleCat! And imagine all the mystical weapons and MAA made equipment he could use during his quest. The Sorceress could give him power-ups.
2) A God of War/Heavenly Sword type action game could work too.
3) We could also have a MOTU MMO. I was thinking of WOW's He-Man references. Imagine creating characters like Mattel does, but with character creation parts that come from all of the figures.
4) MOTU weapons based fighting game. (Maybe if MOTUC really takes off then He-Man might make Soul Calibur 5--maybe!)
5) A Man-At-Arms FPS.
I'd go with an Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess style adventure game or a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest (Warrior) style RPG.
Uncle Montork has returned from Trolla!
Planescape: Torment - styled story-driven isometric rpg would be a dream come true.
"The most difficult thing is trying not to forget who you really want to be." - Nong Toom
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I'd go with a Zelda/Prince of Persia style game, or with something like Diablo3 and Baldurs Gate, rpg.
What I really don't think fits, is an FPS or RTS style game.
Orko running around eating dots...and when he reaches the edges of Eternia...he turns into Super Orko and can eat Trap Jaw, Beast Man, and Mer-Man.
Do you remember the "old" games for PC Might and Magic/Ultima/Dungeon Master or Lands of lore ??
Like those games must look a Masters of the Universe game.
You are He-man and must pick up a lot of friends-Manatrams/Teela/Stratos.....
You have to do a mission applied by Randor, During this mission always come monster fighters of the bad one and want killing He-man and his friends......
D@D type of game.
Those are the best type of games.
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God of War or Zelda (the more recent games) style
Prince of Persia or Jedi Knight type of genre. I like to see MMORPG type like WoW, where you can choose the good side or bad side like Horde and Alliance.
besides a 3rd person action adventure game, i'd have to go with a fighting game. i haven't been a fan of fighting games for a while, but Mortal Kombat vs. DC is shaping up pretty nicely, so I'd like to see a MOTU fighting game with that look and gameplay. i think the characters of MOTU would work really well with a fighting game since they each have their own unique powers, weapons, etc.
Generic Hack n Slash I think. The Conan game with less blood.
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It would be fun with the Wii.
Having a swordfight...and to transform you have to hold it above your head...while the Wiimote shakes...and the "I HAVE THE POWER" could come from the Wiimote speaker. It could come with a "Power Sword" attachment.
Either a RPG or a 2D fighting game. What other types of games are there?
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Double Dragon style beat'em up game
People who say certain characters should never be remade is stupid. Throw rocks at them.
I support Filmation characters for MOTUC! Let Mattel know it's worth their while to get the rights to those characters!
I think that MOTU would lend itself to a RTS game. You could have structures that generated some form of generic soldier with different attacks, you could have structures that generated vehicles/beasts. Different maps could have different heroes and villians with special abilities. Basically you could start on one side of Eternia and try to conquer or liberate the whole planet. If you played the heroic side you could defend Grayskull or the palace. If you played the evil side you could defend Snake Mountain, etc.
Have a thread that got swept into the MYP forums for some reasons that asked for people's thoughts on an RPG game done similarly to Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Justice League Heroes. If you wish to take a look, I put it in my signature and I'm positive none of you will have trouble figuring out which one it is.
I'm doing research on how it could work by comparing the way Marvel's games and JLH were executed and looking at some key Filmation episodes for script ideas. I've already taken a look at Double-Edged Sword and I think the elements I've talked about in my thread could translate well to utilizing Pig Boy a lot better than as Skeletor's Havoc Staff Keeper.
Whatever direction a video game version of MOTU goes... Nathan Bitner armed with his Fearless Photog prototype Polaroid needs to be an unlockable character!
Sorry, I got introduced to the megatread about him at x-entertainment.com just yesterday afternoon.
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Bethseda the makes of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion should make the MOTU game. It would be a masterpiece! No other type would work for me but an RPG version!
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Something along the lines of The Elder Scrolls would be awesome. But MOTU would have to become hugely popular to warrant such a venture.
I think a game either in the spirit of God Of War or the recent iterations of Zelda would have more mass appeal, and for gamers who just want a great pick up and play game, a better choice. I dont have much time for games anymore, but I can imagine finishing something like this.
A fighter could be really fun, but it wouldnt have anywhere near the depth as the other genres. It would also lose appeal quickly, if one were not to play it against like minded opponents.
Regardless, if the movie gets the go ahead a game will most probably be made . . . we can only hope it will live up to expectations.
I would have to say God of War style but he would be able to use battle cat. Kind of like the new Golden Axe Beast Rider Game but with He-Man in it.
We have the POWER!!!
I'd definitely want a fighting game! I just love fighting games and since MOTU is composed of different warriors with unique talents. A fighting game that incorporate each charcater's fighting style would be most welcome!
By the Power... and For the Honor of GRAYSKULL!!!
HE-MAN and SHE-RA Rules!!!
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I think a game in the style of "X-Men Legends" or "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance" (not identical, but the basic idea) would be an ideal video game format for Masters of the Universe.


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The Featured Celebrities Who Became Even More 'Famous' In Kanye West's Latest Music Video
Kanye West unveiled his latest NSFW music video of his hit single "Famous" (featuring Rihanna and Swizz Beatz) at The Forum in LA last Friday. The song refers to Yeezy's stardom status and how others have profited from his fame — or at the very least attempted to. The recording artist chose to accompany his lyrics with some very naked visuals, suggesting a massive celebrity orgy.
The song had already been introduced to fans in his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, which was released on February 14, 2016 by Roc-A-Fella Records, GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings. The track unleashed much controversy upon its introduction and the accompanying music video is no different.
The clip features multiple public figures laying naked in a massive bed, while sleeping next to an equally-naked Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West. Alongside them, you'll recognize Rihanna, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour.
This set was inspired by Sleep, a large mural painting by American realist Vincent Desiderio, which portrays 12 naked bodies laying asleep on a bed. In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Kanye also gave a shout-out to the artist best-known for his use of living sculptures: "Matthew Barney is my Jesus."
The bodies in his music video lay motionless (although some appear to be breathing) and are a combination of real people and wax figures. West basically created his own X-rated Madame Tussauds with the seemingly implicit message that celebrities are basically regular people at their core.
It is unclear as to whether Kanye sought approval from the celebrities featured in the video. However, he did attribute a "special thanks" in the credits "for being famous." In his interview, Yeezy clarified the inclusion of certain figures:
"It's not in support or anti any of [the people in the video]. It's a comment on fame."
In fact, there is some he-said-she-said controversy relating to Taylor Swift's inclusion, which followed the original feud that came with the song's original release. Below are the lyrics to a verse of "Famous" in which Kanye explicitly takes credit for Swift's fame:
"For all my Southside [email protected] that know me best
I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex
Why? I made that b*tch famous (God damn)
I made that bitch famous
For all the girls that got d*ck from Kanye West
If you see 'em in the streets give 'em Kanye's best
Why? They mad they ain't famous (God damn)
They mad they're still nameless (Talk that talk, man)
Her man in the store tryna try his best
But he just can't seem to get Kanye fresh
But we still hood famous (God damn)
Yeah we still hood famous"
In an interview with GQ, shedding light on the juicy details (keep her bias in mind). Kim insisted that regardless of Taylor's surprised follow-up at the , that she was most certainly in on it.
"She totally approved that. She totally knew that that was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much sh*t for things [when] he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved. What rapper would call a girl that he was rapping a line about to get approval?"
Kim continued by claiming that record producer Rick Rubin, along with "many respected people in the music business" overheard the phone conversation. She also asserted that the entire thing was recorded since Kanye keeps footage of his productions for documentary purposes. Taylor apparently joked that the world would think she was against it, which would be funny when they found out the truth.
There may have been a misunderstanding in which , but that the exact lyrics were never disclosed. Unless the footage is ever released, the world may simply never know the truth. It is still unclear as to whether Kanye solely approached Swift or extended the courtesy to the others featured in the video.
The music video is exclusively available on Tidal, which you can view .
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There are few animals on earth as strong as the mountain gorilla, or as fragile.
Mountain gorillas, numbering approximately 880 total individuals, are found in only two locations on earth- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda and the Virunga Massif (comprised of Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda, and Parc National de Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo).
In 1991, Fauna & Flora International, in solidarity with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), founded the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP).
The mission of IGCP is to conserve mountain gorillas and their transboundary habitat through partnering with key stakeholders while significantly contributing to sustainable livelihood development. IGCP focuses its efforts in four key areas:
The successes have been many. IGCP has initiated and continues to guide the Greater Virunga Transboundary Secretariat in their coordination of efforts not only to conserve the transboundary habitat of the mountain gorillas, but also to improve livelihoods surrounding the protected areas. Communities are starting to take the lead on development projects.
However, the threats to mountain gorillas still exist. Human-wildlife conflict still occurs both within the park as people look for resources including water or construction materials and outside the park as mountain gorillas and other wildlife browse fields that people rely on. Population density and poverty continues to put extreme pressure on the parks and climate change is a menacing threat.
FFI was a founding force behind the International Gorilla Conservation Programme. In the 1980s, FFI Vice President Sir David Attenborough helped raise £500 to plant the seed which eventually grew into a world renowned, multi-partner conservation programme. See the video below for more information.
"I am grateful to know that the world cares about saving the mountain gorillas. With about 720 left in the world, it is crucial that we raise awareness about their plight"
Former Director, International Gorilla Conservation Programme