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Meat Industry Act 1991
THE MEAT INDUSTRY ACT
No. 5 OF 1991
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
1. Interpretation
PART 2 - APPROVED ESTABLISHMENTS
2. Approval of establishments.
3. Limited number of approved slaughterhouses.
4. Responsibilities of approved slaughterhouses.
5. Establishments to provide assistance.
6. Operator to provide facilities, etc.
7. Notice.
8. Register.
PART 3 - EXPORT OF MEAT
9. Export of meat.
PART 4 - AUTHORIZED OFFICERS
10. Appointments.
11. Powers of authorized officers.
12. Weighing and grading.
13. Enforcement.
14. Report of offences and Attorney General's fiat.
PART 5 - EXEMPTIONS
15. Exemptions
PART 6 - OFFENCES
16. Offence to slaughter except under certain conditions.
17. Sale of meat.
18. Offences against Act.
19. Offences against Orders and Regulations.
20. Assaulting etc., authorized officers to be an offence.
21. Compounding of offences.
PART 7 - MISCELLANEOUS
22. Meat Advisory board.
23. Delegation of powers of the Minister.
24. Forfeiture of meat etc., not complying with requirements.
25. Costs of seizure and destruction.
26. Compensation not payable.
27. Suspension and revocation of approval.
28. Regulations by Minister.
29. Repeal.
30. Commencement.
An Act to make provisions for the regulation and control of the meat processing industry and for matters connected therewith.
BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows -
PART 1 PRELIMINARY
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"animal" means any animal of the bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine or equine species, and any domestic poultry;
"authorised officer" means a person appointed under section 10 for the purposes of this Act;
"approved establishment" means an establishment approved by the Minister under the provisions of section 2 of this Act;
"approved slaughterhouse" means any premises approved by the Minister under section 2 of this Act as a slaughterhouse for slaughtering animals, other than domestic poultry, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption, and includes any place available in connection therewith for the confinement of animals while awaiting slaughter there or for keeping, or subjecting to any treatment or process, products of the slaughtering of animals there; and in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the Business Licence Act [CAP. 173];
"bush-killed" refers to animals, or meat derived from animals, slaughtered or cut-up at any place other than an approved establishment;
"butchery" means any premises, other than premises only serving cooked or prepared meals, approved by the Minister under section 2 of this Act as a butchery serving cooked or prepared meals, where meat is prepared or made available for sale to the public for human consumption and in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the Business Licence Act [CAP. 173];
"cannery" means any premises approved by the Minister under section 2 of this Act as a cannery where meat is cut up, cooked, prepared and hermetically sealed in cans and in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the Business Licence Act [CAP. 173];
"carcass" means the whole body of a slaughtered animal after bleeding, evisceration and removal of the limbs at the carpus and tarsus, removal of the head, tail and udder, and in addition, in the case of bovine animals, sheep, goats and solipeds, after flaying;
"controlled area" means a defined geographical area, premises or type of premises prescribed as such by the Minister;
"cut-up" means cut meat into smaller cuts than half carcasses, cut into three wholesale cuts, or de-boned meat;
"edible offal" in relation to slaughtered animals, includes the brain, the thymus gland, the pancreas gland, the liver, the spleen, the kidney, the heart, the lung and the stomach;
"export cold store" means premises, not forming part of a slaughterhouse or cutting plant, used for the cold storage of meat intended for export for human consumption approved under section 2 of this Act as an export cold store and in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the Business Licence Act [CAP. 173];
"export cutting plant" means premises, approved under section 2 of this Act as export cutting plant, used for the purpose of cutting up meat intended for export for human consumption in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the Business Licence Act [CAP. 173] where such plant does not form part of a slaughterhouse;
"health mark" means a mark made by or under the supervision and responsibility of a veterinary officer;
"meat" means all parts of domestic bovine, porcine, caprine, ovine and equine animals suitable for human consumption but excludes poultry meat;
"meat inspector" means a person appointed as such under section 10 of this Act;
"Minister" means the minister for the time being responsible for animal productions;
"operator" means any person carrying on the business of a slaughterhouse, cutting plant, cold store, butchery, poultry plant or cannery, approved under section 2 of this Act, on his own or in association with others;
"poultry meat" means all parts of domestic poultry animals suitable for human consumption;
"poultry plant" means a place for slaughtering and, or processing domestic; poultry for human consumption approved under section 2 of this Act and in respect of which a licence is in force issued under the business Licence Act [CAP. 173];
"principal veterinary officer" means a qualified veterinarian appointed under section 10;
"region" means a local government region declared pursuant to the Decentralization Act [CAP. 127];
"sell" includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale;
"veterinary authority" means the veterinary service of the government department responsible for animal health;
"veterinary officer" means a qualified veterinarian appointed as such under section 10 of this Act.
APPROVED ESTABLISHMENTS
APPROVAL OF ESTABLISHMENTS
2. (1) The Minister, on application made to him under this section, may approve the premises to which the application relates as -
(a) a "slaughterhouse" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and of any order or regulation made under it pertaining to approved slaughterhouse;
(b) an "export cutting plant" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and of any order or regulation made under it pertaining to export cutting plants;
(c) an "export cold store" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and any order or regulation made under it pertaining to export cold stores;
(d) a "poultry plant" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and any order or regulation made under it pertaining to poultry plants;
(e) a "butchery" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and any order or regulation made under it pertaining to butcheries;
(f) a "cannery" if he is satisfied that the premises and method of operation of those premises comply with the requirements of this Act and any order or regulation made under it pertaining to canneries.
(2) An application for the approval of an establishment under this Act shall be made in writing to the Minister in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) Before the Minister considers and/or approves an application, he shall notify the principal veterinary officer of each such application and the principal veterinary officer shall direct a veterinary officer to inspect the establishment named in the application and to make a report on that establishment.
(4) Where the principal veterinary officer has been notified under subsection (3) of an application for the approval of an establishment, he may submit written representations relating to that application to the Minister within 21 days after the receipt of such notification and shall send a copy of any representations to the applicant.
(5) Within 21 days after the receipt of a copy of any representations submitted by the principal veterinary officer under subsection (4) the applicant may submit written observations on those representations to the Minister.
(6) In determining whether or not to approve an establishment under subsection (1) the Minister shall have regard to -
(a) the report made on the establishment by the principal veterinary officer or a veterinary officer, as the case may be, under subsection (3); and
(b) any further representations submitted by the applicant under subsection (5).
(7) The Minister shall notify the applicant in writing of his decision on each application for the approval of an establishment under this section and of the reasons for any refusal to approve such establishment.
(8) Any approval of an establishment under this Act shall, in the interest of maintaining a sufficient standard of hygiene, be subject to the condition that no alteration shall be made to -
(a) the premises or the equipment in the establishment otherwise than by way of repairs and maintenance, or
(b) the method of operation in that establishment,
without the prior agreement in writing of the Minister who shall have regard to any views expressed by the principal veterinary officer.
(9) In approving an establishment under this section, the Minister may stipulate such terms and conditions as to the services to be provided to the public by the establishment as he thinks fit.
(10) Following the approval of an establishment the Minister shall issue to the principal veterinary officer a unique used marking and approval number or code for that establishment to be by the veterinary authority in health certification thereafter if so required.
LIMITED NUMBER OF APPROVED SLAUGHTERHOUSES
3. (1) Subject to subsection 2, there shall be two slaughterhouses in Vanuatu, one situated on Efate and the other situated on Santo.
(2) The Minister may, with the prior approval of the Council of Ministers, approve additional slaughterhouses in a specified region of Vanuatu if he is satisfied that -
(a) the throughput of the existing approved slaughter-house in that region of Vanuatu exceeds two thousand tonnes carcass weight per annum in any two consecutive years; or
(b) adequate, reasonably priced and regular approved slaughtering facilities are not available on non-discriminatory terms and conditions for the benefit of livestock producers at all times in that region (other than during temporary closures and normal holiday periods).
RESPONSIBILITIES OF APPROVED SLAUGHTERHOUSES
4. Operators of approved slaughterhouses shall provide to the public on non-discriminatory terms adequate, reasonably priced and regular slaughtering services, and other such services as the Minister may prescribe at all times (other than during temporary closures and normal holiday periods).
ESTABLISHMENTS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE
5. Operators of approved establishments shall furnish the veterinary authority and any authorised officer with any assistance as may be required at any time for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, any order or regulation made under it.
OPERATOR TO PROVIDE FACILITIES, ETC.
6. Operators of approved establishments shall provide for the use of the veterinary authority and any authorised officer all such accommodation, facilities for inspection, equipment, protective clothing and safety-wear and other reasonable needs for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act or of any order or regulation made under it.
7. Every operator of any approved establishment shall provide reasonable notice to the veterinary authority of their intention to carry out any procedure which requires the presence of any authorised officer at that establishment.
8. (1) Every operator of any approved establishment shall keep at the establishment a record book in which shall be entered daily the following particulars -
(a) the number, species and sex of the animal entering and leaving the approved establishment;
(b) species of meat and meat products entering and leaving the approved establishment;
(c) origin;
(d) destination;
(e) quantity and weight;
(f) date animals, meat and meat products enter and leave the approved establishment;
(g) such other particulars as may be prescribed in respect of a specific type or class of approved establishment.
(2) The principal veterinary officer shall keep or cause to be kept and maintained a register in respect of each approved establishment and shall enter in that register -
(a) records of animals slaughtered and meat and meat products processed;
(b) their origin and destination;
(c) results of inspection, weighing or grading in respect of animal, meat or meat product,
and such other particulars as the principal veterinary officer shall consider proper or necessary.
(3) Any operator of an approved establishment who, without any lawful excuse fails on any day to make in the record book, referred to in subsection (1), any entry required to be made under this section or knowingly makes a false entry therein, commits an offence against this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding VT 1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(4) The record book shall at all times during working hours be open to inspection by any authorized officer.
EXPORT OF MEAT
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, no meat shall be exported from Vanuatu unless -
(a) it is derived from an approved establishment and prior to export was stored in an export cold store;
(b) it has been inspected by an authorized officer and has been passed by him as free from disease or defect and as suitable for export, and is branded in the prescribed manner;
(c) it has been properly preserved by freezing, chilling, salting, canning, drying, dehydrating, or other approved method;
(d) it is properly packed and is in good order and condition at the time when it is placed on board ship or aircraft for export;
(e) any conditions imposed in respect of the entry of the meat into the country to which it is proposed to export it, or in respect of its sale for human consumption in that country, have, so far as they can be complied with in Vanuatu, been complied with.
(2) Any meat which forms part of a travellers' personal luggage and is intended for their personal use shall be exempted from the provisions of subsection (1) where the quantity of the meat transported does not exceed 10 kilogrammes per person and that the meat comes from a butchery supervised by the veterinary authority and approved under section 2 of this Act.
(3) The minister, may by Order, exempt any person from the provisions of subsection (1) in respect of any meat being exported to specified countries with whom there exists bilateral agreements between veterinary authorities allowing cutting-up storage on supply in or from non approved establishments, subject to the conditions of such agreement.
(4) The Minister may by Order increase or reduce the quantity of meat allowable under subsection (2) to be transported as part of a traveller's personal luggage and may impose such conditions in respect of the transportation of such meat as he considers necessary.
AUTHORIZED OFFICERS
10. The Minister shall -
(a) appoint a public servant suitably qualified as a veterinarian to be principal veterinary officer for such period as shall be specified in the instrument of appointment;
(b) from time to time, appoint public servants who are suitably qualified veterinarians to be veterinary officers; or
(c) from time to time appoint public servants who are suitably qualified to be meat inspectors,
for the purposes of this Act.
POWERS OF AUTHORISED OFFICERS
11. (1) For the purposes of enforcing this Act or any order or regulation made under it, an authorised officer may -
(a) without any warrant, enter any premises (which phrase shall include non-approved establishments) where animals are being or have been slaughtered, or where meat is being or has been cut up, stored, sold or in any way processed;
(b) inspect, examine, sample or perform any kind of test or examination on any animal, animal product, meat or meat product in any form;
(c) cut, remove, detain, seize, recall, for destroy any meat or meat product not fit for human consumption;
(d) indelibly or otherwise mark, brand, dye or label any animal, carcass, meat, meat product or package containing any meat or meat product;
(e) make or impose any relevant order, instruction or condition;
(f) interrupt, suspend or prohibit actions or operations wherever animals are being slaughtered or meat is being cut-up, stored, sold or in any way processed.
(2) Any meat or meat product seized which is in the opinion of the authorised officer unfit for human consumption shall be destroyed.
WEIGHING AND GRADING
12. (1) Any weighing or grading of carcasses at approved slaughterhouses for the purposes of determining a value or calculating any fees or levies shall be performed by a meat inspector.
(2) Unless otherwise specified, carcass weight shall be the weight of the carcass as defined in section 1 of this Act, except for pigs where it shall include the head, measured on completion of all dressing, inspection and trimming procedures but before chilling.
13. The principal veterinary officer is charged with the enforcement of this Act and any order or regulation made thereunder.
REPORT OF OFFENCES AND ATTORNEY GENERAL'S FIAT
14. (1) The principal veterinary officer or an authorised officer authorized in that behalf by the principal veterinary officer may report an offence against this Act or any orders or any regulations made thereunder, directly to the Public Prosecutor.
(2) No prosecution for any offence against any of the provisions of this Act or orders or regulations made thereunder shall be commenced without the consent of the Attorney General.
15. (1) The principal veterinary officer or a veterinary officer authorized in that behalf by the principal veterinary officer may exempt any person from the provisions of sections 16 and 17 of this Act for the purposes of-
(a) facilitating the humane emergency slaughter of casualty animals;
(b) allowing for slaughter of wild or unmanageable animals and the processing and consumption of their products;
(c) allowing for customary or religious slaughter of animals and the processing and consumption of their products at times of community and family ceremonies, feasts and festivities;
(d) allowing for the sale and consumption in controlled areas of bush-killed meat and meat products, at times when approved slaughterhouse or poultry plant facilities are not available in the region;
(e) allowing for the sale and consumption in controlled areas of bush-killed meat and meat products, from species of animals for which no approved slaughter house or poultry plant facilities exist in the region.
(2) The principal veterinary officer or a veterinary officer authorized in that behalf by the, principal veterinary officer may, impose such conditions as he considers necessary in respect of any exemption made.
(3) Any meat or meat products the subject of an exemption referred to in subsection (1) shall not be exported.
OFFENCE TO SLAUGHTER EXCEPT UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS
16. Subject to section 15, no person shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered any animals in a place, other than an approved slaughterhouse or approved poultry plant, as the case may be, the meat or meat products, poultry meat or poultry meat products of which is intended to be -
(a) exported for human consumption;
(b) sold, supplied, cut-up or stored in any form in a controlled area for human consumption;
(c) canned or commercially processed into any product for human consumption.
SALE OF MEAT
17. (1) No person shall sell, supply meat, cut-up meat or store meat or meat products which is intended -
(a) for export for human consumption;
(b) to be re-sold or cut-up in any form in a controlled area for human consumption; or
(c) to be canned or commercially processed into any product for human consumption,
unless such meat or meat-product is derived from animals slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of this section, commits an offence against this Act.
OFFENCES AGAINST ACT
18. Any person who-
(a) contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Act; or
(b) refuses or wilfully omits to carry out any lawful, order, instruction or condition made, given or imposed by any authorised officer under the authority of this Act,
commits an offence against this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding VT1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
OFFENCES AGAINST ORDERS AND REGULATIONS
19. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of any orders or regulations made under the provisions of this Act commits an offence against such order or regulations, as the case may be, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding VT 1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
ASSAULTING ETC., AUTHORISED OFFICERS TO BE AN OFFENCE
20. Any person who assaults, obstructs or threatens any authorized officer in the exercise of his functions under this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding VT 1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
COMPOUNDING OF OFFENCES
21. (1) The principal veterinary officer upon consideration of the report sent to him or if he himself establishes the breach failure, omission or contravention in respect of any offence referred to in sections 18 and 19, may issue an offender with a compounding notice giving such offender the option of paying a fine on the scale prescribed by the Judicial Committee or appearing before the Court for a trial.
(2) the maximum fine to be levied by way of a compounding notice shall not exceed the maximum fines as shall be prescribe under subsection (1).
MEAT ADVISORY BOARD
22. (1) The Minister may, by order, appoint such persons as he thinks fit to constitute a Meat Advisory Board whose function is to advise the Minister on matters pertaining to the meat industry.
(2) In establishing a Board under subsection (1) the Minister shall, in that order, provide for tile chairmanship, tenure and vacation of office by members, quorum, proceedings, meetings of the Board, and determination of the Board.
(3) The Board shall submit to the Minister a report annually on the meat industry in Vanuatu.
DELEGATION OF POWERS OF THE MINISTER
23. (1) The Minister may by writing under his hand, delegate to the principal veterinary officer any of the powers or functions conferred on or assigned to the Minister by this Act. In the exercise of his powers the principal veterinary officer shall be subject to the directions of the Minister.
(2) Subject to any general or special directions given by the Minister, the principal veterinary officer may exercise those powers delegated in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been directly conferred on the principal veterinary officer by this Act and not by delegation.
(3) The principal veterinary officer purporting to act under any delegation under this section shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be acting within the terms of the delegation.
(4) Any such delegation may at any time be revoked by the Minister, in whole or in part, but that revocation shall not affect in any way anything done under the delegated authority.
(5) No such delegation shall prevent the exercise by the Minister himself of any of the powers and functions conferred on the Minister by this Act.
FORFEITURE OF MEAT ETC., NOT COMPLYING WITH REQUIREMENTS
24. Meat or meat products and poultry meat or poultry meat products failing to comply with the provisions of this Act or of any order or regulation made under it may be seized and forfeited to the state or destroyed or otherwise disposed of by, or by order of, an authorised officer together with any other meat or meat-products stored with them.
COSTS OF SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION
25. All costs and expenses of, and attendant upon, any inspection, examination, testing, seizure, treatment, detention, destruction, trimming, disposal or other dealings therewith of any animal, animal product, meat or meat product, poultry meat or poultry meat product ordered or required under the provisions of this Act shall be borne by the operator of the approved establishment or agent thereof and shall be recoverable by him as a debt due to the state.
COMPENSATION NOT PAYABLE
26. No compensation shall be payable in respect of-
(a) the slaughter, death, loss of production or earnings or devaluation of any animals, or the destruction, condemnation, deterioration or devaluation of any animal product,-meat or meat product, poultry meat or poultry meat product consequent to any detention, examination, test, treatment, suspension of operations or other action taken or ordered under the provisions of this Act or of any order or regulation made thereunder;
(b) trespass or damage to any property or premises caused by an authorised officer in carrying out his duties and obligations or in, exercising his powers under this Act or of any order or regulation made thereunder; provided that at all times due care was taken.
SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF APPROVAL
27. (1) The Minister may suspend or revoke his approval of any approved establishment if, after an inspection of, or an inquiry into, the method of operation of the approved establishment and a report by an authorized officer and, in the case of revocation of approval after consultation with the operator, he is satisfied in respect of that establishment that the requirements of this Act or of any order or regulation made under it are no longer complied with, or have not been complied with and no action has been taken to ensure that a similar breach does not occur in future, or that the conditions attached to the approval of that establishment in accordance with subsection (8) or subsection (9) of section 2 have not been observed.
(2) The Minister shall forthwith notify the operator of his decision under subsection (1) to suspend or revoke his approval of the approved establishment, of the date on which the suspension or revocation is to take effect and of the reasons for such suspension or revocation.
(3) Any notification under subsection (2) shall be given in writing in the case of any revocation of approval and may be given orally or in writing in the case at any suspension of approval, and where any such notification is given orally it shall be confirmed in writing.
(4) Where the Minister has suspended approval of an approved establishment, that establishment shall be treated throughout the period of suspension as if approval had not been granted under this Act.
(5) Where the suspension of approval of an approved establishment under this Act is not expressed to end on a specified date it may, if the Minister thinks fit, be ended by notice given by him to the operator.
REGULATIONS BY MINISTER
28. The Minister may make regulations not inconsistent, with this Act -
(a) prescribing general conditions for the approval of establishments;
(b) prescribing special conditions for the approval of slaughterhouses, export cutting plants and export cold stores and poultry plants, either together or separately;
(c) prescribing conditions for the construction and operation of approved establishments, either together or separately;
(d) prescribing minimum standards of hygiene of staff, premises and equipment;
(e) providing for compulsory ante- and post mortem health inspection;
(f) prescribing minimum standards for slaughter and cutting hygiene;
(g) prescribing requirements for meat and poultry meat intended for cutting;
(h) providing for health control of cut meat and stored meat, cut poultry meat and stored poultry meat;
(i) providing for health marking;
(j) prescribing conditions for the wrapping and packaging of fresh meat and poultry meat;
(k) providing for the issue of health certificates;
(l) prescribing conditions for the storage, transport and export of meat and poultry meat;
(m) prescribing conditions for the marking, storage, sale and supply of meat and poultry meat in controlled areas not for human consumption;
(n) prescribing minimum levels of service to be provided to the public by approved establishments;
(o) prescribing maximum fees to be charged for services provided to the public by approved establishments;
(p) prescribing fees payable for inspections, examinations and other services rendered and certificates issued and the persons by whom the fees are payable;
(q) declaring any part of Vanuatu, or any premises any type of premises to be controlled area for purposes of this Act or any order or regulation under it;
or the made
(r) regulating, controlling or banning the slaughter, cutting up, storage or sale of specified animals, types of animal, animal products, meat or meat products, poultry meat or poultry meat products considered to be infected with any disease, treated or exposed to any specified or unspecified drug, chemical, substance or ionizing radiation, or containing or considered to contain any residue of harmful substance;
(s) prescribing forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(t) prescribing recognised codes of practice to be adopted and for their provisions to be generally or partially applicable in Vanuatu;
(u) providing for the introduction and operation of grading schemes;
(v) prescribing all matters which are necessary or required to be prescribed for the carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
REPEAL
29. (1) The following legislations are repealed -
(a) Meat Supply Act [CAP. 51];
(b) Abattoirs Act [CAP. 99];
(c) Butcheries Act [CAP. 100].
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the legislations referred to in subsection (1) (repealed Acts)-
(a) any certificate or licence issued or written consent granted under or in accordance with the repealed Acts as is in force on the date of operation of this Act in so far as the condition of such certificate, licence or written consent is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall remain valid for a period of one year from the date of commencement of this Act;
(b) any regulation, or order made under the repealed Acts as is in force on the date of operation of this Act in so far as such regulation or order is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to be a regulation or order made under this Act and may be amended by regulations or orders made under this Act.
URL: http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/num_act/mia1991178 | {
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Q: Trouble with d3 force directed graph I'm rendering a force directed graph using d3js. The design is such that nodes are added to the graph at run time by querying a database. This works fine.
While the graph is being rendered, node-by-node, if I happen to click anywhere on the screen, at sometimes, the incoming node gets stuck at the top left of the div and the following error is displayed on debugging:
Error: Invalid value for <line> attribute x2="NaN"
Error: Invalid value for <g> attribute transform="translate(NaN,NaN)"
Sometimes, even an already formed link breaks and an old node gets stuck on the top left until the next refresh.
If I don't interfere, the rendering completes smoothly.
I really do not understand this behavior. Does anyone have any idea what must be going wrong here?
Find my code to compute the graph below:
var graph = { "nodes": [], "links": [] };
var nodeMap = [];
var timestamp;
var json_obj;
var newLogs = false;
$(document).ready(function () {
var count = 0;
doPoll();
function doPoll() {
json_obj = "some object";
var uri = 'api/values?id=' + json_obj;
newLogs = false;
$.getJSON(uri)
.done(function doPoll(data) {
$.each(data, function (key, item) {
newLogs = true;
timestamp = item.timestamp;
populateJson();
function populateJson() {
if (nameExistsInNodes(item.entityName) && item.state == "1") {
searchAndRemoveFromGraph(item.entityName);
}
if (item.entityId != null && !idExistsInNodes(item.entityId)) {
graph.nodes.push({
"eId": item.entityId,
"name": item.entityName,
"state": item.state
});
} else if (item.state == "0" && item.entityId == null) {
graph.nodes.push({
"eId": item.entityName,
"name": item.entityName,
"state": item.state
});
} else if (idExistsInNodes(item.entityId)) {
updateEntityInfo(item);
}
if (!existsInMap(item.entityId) && item.entityId != null) {
nodeMap.push({ "id": item.entityId, "index": count++ });
}
if (item.mapsTo != null && !existsInLinks(findIndexForId(item.entityId), findIndexForId(item.mapsTo))
&& findIndexForId(item.entityId) != null && findIndexForId(item.mapsTo) != null) {
graph.links.push({
"source": findIndexForId(item.entityId),
"target": findIndexForId(item.mapsTo)
});
}
}
});
if (newLogs) {
renderUsingD3(graph);
}
}) // end done
.always(function () { setTimeout(doPoll, 3000) })
} // end doPoll
});
Each item that comes in has an id, name and state and my logic plays around with these 3 to get the graph up.
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Download the fitBERNALfit, fitGLENfit & Sunporch Yoga App today to plan and schedule your classes! From this iPhone App you can view class schedules, sign-up for classes and workshops, view ongoing promotions and social media, as well as view fitLOCALfit locations and contact information. Optimize your time and maximize the convenience of signing up for classes from your Phone! | {
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Our treatment is customized to the individual and in a revolutionary way the treatment time itself is uplifting.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM) is an ancient form of medical therapy that treats the individual on all levels: body mind and spirit. It is an energetic form of medicine that emphasizes balance (Yin – Yang).
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2 Fold the peanuts in a blender and blend for a few minutes. Nuts will allocate its own oil. Obtain homogeneous peanut oil.
3 Add remaining ingredients and whisk the sauce for 30 seconds. The sauce should be fairly liquid. To taste.
5 Carrots and cucumbers cut into thin strips.
6 Avocado cut in half and divided into 12 slices.
7 Soak rice paper in warm water for 5-15 seconds and dry them on a paper towel.
8 Place the vegetables in the center horizontally, departing 1/4 from the bottom. Cover with rice noodles and greens. can be added for 1 hour. If desired, L. walnut sauce in the filling.
9 Wrap the side edges to the center and roll to roll, roll tightly pressed to the surface.
10 If necessary, cut the roll in half and lightly wrap the edge of the rice paper. | {
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The end of another financial year is fast approaching and you need to start planning your tax strategy now. Here, Chris Ridd shares tips on how to reduce your business tax bill by timing your income and expenses.
We all know that when you run your business, you want to maximise income and keep expenses as low as possible. But when it comes to tax time you should aim to do the opposite – minimise income and maximise expenses in order to reduce your assessable income and the amount of tax you have to pay.
Of course, you don't do this by turning away customers or needlessly spending money. Instead, it's all in the timing. In other words, you bring forward expenses into the current tax year, and defer income into the following tax year. While you might eventually have to pay tax on the money you save, in the meantime the extra money is yours to use as you see fit – to invest back into your business, to reduce your borrowings and hence your interest payments, or to leave in the bank earning interest.
Many SME business owners start out with cash accounting – that is, recognising the income and expenses in your business when they are physically paid. Timing strategies work best with accrual accounting so, if you haven't already, you might consider making the change.
Accrual accounting recognises income and expenses when you issue an invoice or receive a bill, not when you receive or pay money. This accounting method creates debtors and creditors, so it's a good idea to use online accounting software, which makes it easier for you to keep track of your business' cash flow and its true financial position.
First up, look at all of the regular expenses you have coming up and see if you can bring any forward to before June 30. These include costs like insurance, rent and professional association membership fees. If you calculate your tax using the accrual method, the good news is you don't have to actually spend the money before June 30 to get the deduction. However, what's important is that the invoice is issued to you before then. For example, if your business is getting an IT upgrade, you can ask your supplier to issue their invoice before the end of the tax year. Even if you don't pay it straight away, you can still get a tax deduction for the expense.
Likewise, think about any purchases you'll be making for your business in the new financial year. Is there anything you're thinking about buying in July that you might bring forward by a few days or weeks? Another reason to spend the money now and not later is that there are some generous small business tax concessions available for depreciation of assets that might not be available next year.
But don't go overboard. The whole point of this strategy is to maximise the cash you have on hand by increasing your tax deductions, so don't bring expenses forward by too much. There's little point in buying supplies you won't use for 11 months, say, because you'll be doing without all that cash for the sake of deducting only some of it.
Look at the invoices you have coming up, particular for major sales or projects. Can you hold back on issuing them until after June 30? If you do, you won't have to pay tax on the income until the following year, giving you more cash in hand. As with expenses, however, don't delay invoices too much for the sake of the 30c in the dollar tax saving.
The same applies with sales of assets, such as your business premises or goodwill. Any gains your business makes will be taxable, so think about deferring sales until the new tax year. Likewise, if you think you'll make a loss on the sale of an asset, see if you can bring forward the sale to the current tax year so you can offset it against your current income and pay less tax. It's worth knowing that there are tax concessions available to small business for the sale of some assets, so check with your accountant before you offload anything.
Once the calendar tips past June 30, you will have missed your chance to take advantage of accruals. So start planning now. Comb through your expenses to see what you can bring forward and look for any income that you can delay. Invest a bit of time in this groundwork now and you'll benefit from some useful tax savings come July.
Chris Ridd is Managing Director of Xero Australia. | {
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T.Rex Greatest Hits : Album Review
Album Reviews, T.Rex
Virginia Repka-Franco 7 years ago 1 Comment
Those who were teenagers in the 1970s remember the glam rock revolution. Rock artists wore feathered boas and mascara, tight pants and flowing sequined jackets. T-Rex, headed by the enigmatic Marc Bolan, were basically unknown to American audiences until "Get it On" hit the charts and everyone rushed out to buy the album "Electric Warrior, released in 1971.
T.Rex Greatest Hits is a must-have for any serious collector of classic rock. Containing all of their hits, the album is upbeat with screaming guitar riffs underscored by bongos as well as Bolan's smooth vocals, punctuated with sensuous sighs and yelps. Although Bolan was the undisputed attraction, the other members Bill Legend, Mickey Finn, Steve Currie and Steve Perigen Took expertly brought the cosmic fairy tale lyrics with a postmodern beat to life.
First up on the T.Rex Greatest Hits album is "20th Century Boy". Viewers of him performing that tune in concert or on TV will never forget Marc strutting across the stage. pouting and smiling as if making love to the world. When listening to the audio track of that single, that combination of mirth and sexuality the band oozed, comes through as fresh as it did when it was first released. The album continues with "Get it On" and the ethereally beautiful "Ride a White Swan." The listener is then presented with the romantic "Hot Love." The joyful "I Love to Boogie" brings back memories of the dance boogie times of the 1970's. The versatile tracks switch to "Children of the Revolution", which delivers a more sober message accompanying the slam/bang marching time rhythm of the guitars and drums. That is why many tracks on this album were chosen for the movie "Billy Elliot", a film about a boy from a tough working class world bucking gender stereotypes to become a dancer.
Photo: By ABC Television (eBay front back) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Overall, T.Rex Greatest Hits can be categorized as a feel good classic rock compilation that captures the best of the glam rock era in one fascinating phenomenon that was lightning in a bottle and magic on the turntable.
The lyrics of the band's poetic songs contained references as innocent as hand holding in "Hot Love" and as provocative as "ball like a hound" in "Jeepster". Marc Bolan was a mystical poet whose talents included playing kickass guitar and infusing timeless energy into his performances that ring clear and true nearly thirty years after his untimely death.
T.Rex Greatest Hits
Written by Virginia Repka-Franco
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Well written! You really captured the time period and feeling of the album! | {
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If want a French bread recipe to make at home here are a few that are truly delicious. Some are made by hand, although you could cheat and use your bread maker if you wish. It's not everyone's cup of tea I know, to spend hours in the kitchen making bread, although sometimes it is well worth it if you have the time and patience...not least because of the lovely aroma that fills the house.
The French baguette is a good example – it is an icon of France. But because the French are passionate about their bread they would be quick to say that no bread is as good as the bread in France. So to all Francophiles, I apologise and would simply say that the French bread recipe given here is far superior to any that is commercially made in any other country...other than France!
The main difference in a French bread recipe is the flour they use. The flour is from a particular type of wheat, unbleached, light flour, very fine and free flowing. If you cannot get French plain bread flour, then use a good quality strong bread flour instead. I just use a good quality bread flour and have no problems. However, there are some other factors to take into consideration.
I live in the United kingdom and okay, it's not the coldest place on earth, but it's not always the warmest either. So, basically what I am saying is that you will get better results in the summer than in the winter due to the temperature in the kitchen! The temperature affects the dough rising, so you need to have a warm room for the best results.
So delicious and the most well known of French breads. You can now make it at home and give your family and friends a real treat.
French brioche is one of the most classic breads from France and is most popular in the form of little brioche buns. Here is an easy version using your bread machine and giving you fantastic results.
A truly delicious French Croissant recipe for you to make this wonderful French classic breakfast. It is an easy recipe to make and will give you the most light and buttery croissants you have ever tasted. Heavenly!
This is one of the oldest and most popular breads in France, and made just about everywhere, each region having its own twist.
What better way to use up your stale bread than to make this truly tasty French toast! It is easy, everyone loves it and it costs very little. The French would never waste their bread, it's sacred, so keep this recipe in your kitchen and enjoy this wonderful toast for breakfast or for an 'anytime treat'.
For another treat, the classic French milk rolls are simply delicious and so easy to make. You may know them as Petit Pains au Lait, their French name of course.
A delicious gluten-free, vegetarian- and vegan-friendly chickpea flatbread that is so easy to make. | {
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Casey Family History
/ By / 1980
ISBN: WISC:89066096041
Abner Casey (b.ca.1700) and his Welsh wife immigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland to land near Roanoke, Virginia about 1750, and moved about 1760 to land near Spartanburg, South Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California and elsewhere.
The History of the County of Derby
/ By Stephen Glover / 1829
Author: Stephen Glover
ISBN: HARVARD:HXJFRG
History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire
Debyshire (England) / By T. Bulmer & Co / 1895
Author: T. Bulmer & Co
ISBN: STANFORD:36105041374468
Category: Debyshire (England)
Bradshaw Family History
/ By Charles Bradshaw / 2017-04-26
Author: Charles Bradshaw
This is the life history of Charles V. and Phyllis B. Bradshaw
Thomas Bradshaw (1733-1774)
Biography & Autobiography / By Richard Lee Bradshaw / 2011-08-12
Author: Richard Lee Bradshaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Richard Lee Bradshaws well-received first book, Gods Battleaxe, the Life of Lord President Bradshawe, told the little-known story of a 17th century Englishman who rebelled against his King in defense of liberty. In this second book Bradshaw tells the story of an 18th century English politician observing the day-to-day unraveling of Britains control over their North American Colonies. As his countrys policies fail his own life and fortune spins out of control leading ultimately to his suicide on the eve of the American War of Independence. Townshends colonial taxation policies are refused and once again Englishmen rebel against their King in defense of Liberty. Americans fourteenth Colony is proposed, chartered, and then lost, leaving behind the disappointed ambitions of The Lord Chamberlain of England, The Lord Chancellor, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Bradshaw the subject of this biography.
Tennessee Women
History / By Sarah Wilkerson Freeman / 2010-10-01
Author: Sarah Wilkerson Freeman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers, and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee history. Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times shifts the historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward), antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist Doris Bradshaw. Told against the backdrop of their times, these are the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a generator of phenomenal cultural life.
Jack Bradshaw's letters
/ By Jack Bradshaw (pseud.) / 1880
Author: Jack Bradshaw (pseud.)
ISBN: OXFORD:600079055
The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby
Derbyshire (England) / By Stephen Glover / 1833
Category: Derbyshire (England)
Her Life Historical
Literary Criticism / By Catherine Sanok / 2013-04-23
Author: Catherine Sanok
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Category: Literary Criticism
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity—the repeated injunction to imitate the saints—not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition.
Bradshaw's Journal
ISBN: HARVARD:HNWSJS
Summary of John Bradshaw's Healing the Shame That Binds You
Self-Help / By Everest Media, / 2022-05-26T22:59:00Z
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Category: Self-Help
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I wrote the first edition of Healing the Shame That Binds You in 1992. It has since sold more than 1. 5 million copies in the United States and more than one hundred thousand copies abroad. I was most amazed when the book hit the New York Times best-seller list. #2 Healthy shame is important in forming, directing, and fulfilling the sex drive. It is also important in forming mature and soulful sexuality. When I use the words affect, feeling, or emotion in this book, I will be referring to the complex combination of an affect with those memories that record their original occurrence, and with the affects that the affect may further trigger. #3 The nine innate affects are excitement, pleasure, startle, distress, fear, anger, shame, dissmell, and disgust. They are present in all human beings and help guide our decision and action. #4 The affect of shame is the most important aspect of our sense of self and our identity. It is also the source of most of the neurotic and character-disordered behaviors that we now understand.
The Shreve Family Genealogy
Thomas Sheriff/Shreve was born before 1620 in England and died in 1675 in Rhode Island. His wife, Martha died after 1691. One descendant, Thomas Curtis Shreve (1800-1878), was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and was married in 1828 in Stark County, Ohio to Ann Gilbert Coates. They moved to White Cloud, Kansas in 1857. Descendants lived in Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and elsewhere. | {
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Q: How to enable multiple logon remote desktop in Windows 7 In Vista you could copy the 2k8 server .dll for remote desktop and it would let you use remote desktop on the computer without logging off the active user.
Does this work for Windows 7? Has anyone tried?
A: To enable concurrent sessions you can use this patch or copy the files from Server 2k8 (the patch does the same thing, 32 and 64-bit DLLs are in the zip file). Then follow these directions:
*
*Once downloaded, extract the files into a directory (for the purposes of
this guide, it will be assumed that
the files have been extracted to the
folder C:\Win7RDP )
*Open Windows Explorer to the above folder
*Right Click on "install.cmd" and select "Run as Administrator"
*Wait for the script to run entirely. At the end, you should see
something similar to below:
source
A: The patch from Mission Guide (mentioned above) doesn't help me. But I've found RDP patcher where you can patch and unpatch it and enable/disable options whenever you want.
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When I think of fall, I feel leaves crunching under my boots, globules of rain sliding down the window, and our big tall apple tree. It stands proudly in our yard, brown bark slick with rain. By the time school starts, the tree is drooping under the weight of sweet red apples. We pick hundreds of apples, giving away loads to neighbors and friends. My mom cooks applesauce in the big red pot, and I help my dad juice some to make cider. I think food should look, as well as taste, amazing. But applesauce and cider don't showcase the beautiful crimson of apples.
So I decided to make these delicate apple rose tarts. Since apples are a universal fruit, I think that everyone will enjoy this recipe. The roses are actually fairly easy to make, just make sure to slice the apples thinly. These make a perfect sweet snack or dessert. Enjoy!
Slice the apples thinly, about 1/16 of an inch / 2mm. If they are a little thicker, that's alright. Toss sliced apples in big non-metallic bowl and add in cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, lemon juice, and brown sugar.
Roll the puff pastry into a 14 x 10" / 35 x 25.5 cm rectangle. Then, cut it into 1 x 10" / 2.5 x 25.5cm strips.
Microwave the apple slices for 35 seconds, so they are flexible enough to roll.
Lay the apple slices on top of the dough strips, overlapping the edges.
Carefully roll up the strips. Lay the tarts rose side up–the prettiest cut edge up–in a buttered muffin tin.
Bake at 350℉ / 180℃ for about 40 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, and carefully remove from the pan.
I like to serve these warm with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top. You could also try them with honey or powdered sugar. | {
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At the gold mine in Plastovskoy district of Chelyabinsk region was the collapse of the breed. 163 miners evacuated, the fate of three people is not yet known, reported the press service of EMERCOM of Russia in the region.
The collapse occurred at a depth of 700 meters. The specialists of the mountain rescue team, they were joined by fire rescue and ambulance crews. No other details were given.
March 2 in Lviv region of Ukraine at the mine "Steppe" there was an explosion of methane, which led to the collapse of rock. The victims of the accident were 11 people.
On December 18 in one of the Stopes zarechenskiy mine struck a rock, killing one miner.
25 Nov in the collapse at the mine in Yakutia the incident occurred, which resulted in the injury of several people, including Vice-President of company ALROSA. They received minor bruises and sprains, one officer had a broken leg. | {
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IntelliQuest Research Foresees Explosion in E-Commerce - InternetNews.
IntelliQuest Information Group released a study indicating that consumers' e-commerce activity, attitudes and plans indicate the potential for a tripling of e-commerce activity in the coming 12 months.
The study says there is a "horse race" among many existing and emerging brands across consumer and technology product categories, with no clear leaders yet emerging.
The report is the initial product of IntelliQuest's new Ebranding syndicated marketing research service, which will provide senior executives, marketing managers and investors with benchmarking and trending information of competitive e-commerce brand positioning.
The Ebranding survey represents responses from more than 10,000 randomly recruited Internet users, quantifying their online shopping and buying habits, preferences and brand perceptions. Awareness levels were measured for more than 400 different branded sites and products, with side-by-side comparisons completed for 80 brands within nine market categories.
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they intend to shop or buy online in the coming 12 months. Sixty-three percent have shopped, and 22 percent report buying online in the past 90 days.
IntelliQuest found in the study that "center of gravity" for category brand leadership varies greatly based on the maturity and complexity of the products and services. For instance, unaided awareness of places to shop for computers is greatest for hardware manufacturers such as Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard owing to the systems-centric nature of the marketplace and complexity of configuration options.
In book and music retailing, brand power is with the specialty distribution outlets such as Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. In the high-ticket and complex markets of automobiles and travel, online portals such as Yahoo! and America Online are the brands more frequently mentioned as the place where Internet users shop.
"Our Ebranding services will help our clients understand what models are working in building successful brands online," said Brian Sharples, president and CEO of IntelliQuest. "The data provide insights into the factors motivating consumers to buy, and what it takes to capture mind share and preference--critical success factors in the e-commerce brand wars."
Ebranding data from the initial survey in September/October 1998 are currently available on a subscription basis. Subsequent semi-annual research reports begin in February 1999. | {
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Samuel Franklin Etris
by Marquis Who's Who ModeratorPosted on August 13, 2019 September 11, 2019
Title: Trade Association Research Consultant
Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States
Samuel Franklin Etris, Trade Association Research Consultant, has been recognized by Marquis Who's Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in trade association research.
At the core of Mr. Etris' professional interests and his integrity as a consultant is his passion for gathering information and hard data to support and prove theses for research publications. Within his industry, he is an award winner and a top sought-after individual for his work. He is regarded for his ability to not only search for real facts for projects and actions, but for his commitment to digging deeper and taking nonconventional approaches to garner a unique perspective on the topic at hand. Now retired, Mr. Etris was successful in his career for more than 35 years. He first established himself professionally with Foote Mineral Research Laboratories in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947. From there, he joined the military and served to the first lieutenant of the U.S. Air Force in China for two years. He continued to serve in the military until 1957. Upon returning to civilian life, Mr. Etris held noteworthy roles including editor of the American Society for Testing and Materials, special assistant to the managing for national affairs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and consultant for the TL Silver Institute. Additionally, he was a senior consultant for Klein of Sake, Inc. and the Washington Managers Silver and Gold Institute, as well as a member of the numerical advisory board for the National Research Council.
Mr. Etris holds a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University, which he earned in 1947. He is also a graduate of Rutgers University, where he achieved a Master of Science in 1951. Over the years, he has maintained his standing as a leader in his field by contributing articles and editorials to professional publications. His noteworthy pieces of writing include "Standardization News" published by ASTM and "Pennsylvania Railroad Test Department, 1874-1968" published by the Philadelphia chapter of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. In recognition of his professional excellence, he was the recipient of a Scoutmaster's Key Award. Looking ahead, Mr. Etris intends to enjoy his retirement while advising on select projects in his industry.
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Centre awards nine GI tags to take total to 432
15th Dec, 2022
Adding to the present collection of Geographical Indications (GIs), nine new items, including gamocha of Assam, Tandur red gram of Telangana, Raktsey Karpo apricot of Ladakh, and Alibag white onion of Maharashtra, have been given the coveted GI tag. Kerala has been awarded five GI tags for its agricultural produce.
Total GI tags in India
With this, the total number of GI tags in India comes to 432.
The top five states holding the maximum number of GIs are Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala.
Of these, 401 are Indian-origin products, and 31 are foreign-origin.
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are the states with the highest number of GI tags, followed by Kerala(35), Uttar Pradesh (34), and Maharashtra (31).
What is GI Tag?
The Geographical Indication is recognised by the World Trade Organization.
It is used to denote the geographical territory from where a product--agricultural, natural or manufactured--originates, and also carries an assurance of quality and attributes unique to that specific geographic region.
India became a signatory to this convention, when, as a member of WTO, it enacted the Geographical Indications (Registration and Protection) Act, of 1999, which came into effect on September 15, 2003.
GI Registry
To protect the GI of goods, a GI registry has been established to administer the GI of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, under the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks.
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Q: Offline page should not point to the blog if there isn't anything to read Currently the offline page points users to the blog for more info about the outage, but there isn't actually anything posted about the maintenance.
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This is a bit misleading.
A: If it turns into an extended outage, we will post details on the blog.
If
What's bothering me is that it doesn't tell when the maintenance started. If I was a new user for all I knew the maintenance could have started 1 month ago or 1 minute ago; in the former case I won't come back, in the latter I'll come back in a few minutes.. If it says "it usually lasts an hour" but doesn't say when it started, I'm just confused.
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Right off the bat you'll land on the jeep. To the left side there is a lot of cover to behind rocks, they are extremely helpful to move up on Veteran mode as well. Once you reach the wall head off to the right immediately in a flanking pattern around the enemy. On Veteran mode myself I stayed on the right the whole way.
Once you reach the end of the street continue to stay to the right behind the enemy until you are told to take control of the gun on the tank. Keep your sights on the right side that is basically where all the enemies are going to be coming from. After doing this you'll head straight into the underground parking garage. There will be a few enemies in here with RPG's all you really gotta do is blow up all the cars inside and you'll be alright.
After you are finished you'll be dropped down further into the parking garage. At this point you'll go on foot from here on. There will be a few enemies as you make your way to the convoy. A sniper rifle will be outside on the street as well on an ammo crate..I believe right before the tank bashes thru the wall. Go ahead and get inside the building before hand it's a lot more safer in there than on the street itself.
Continue to follow the path you are directed until you reach the convoy. Head right into the building and proceed upstairs for breaching. MAKE SURE that you take out the enemy that is about to execute the Vice President. He'll be on the right, after that take out the remaining enemies around the room and you'll be finished.
It should be a fairly good guide for Veteran as well I just finished it today on this mission. It was extremely easy.
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When Variation In Customer Experience Is A Good Thing 0
Can you imagine a bank that's customer service agents create rapport with customers, so much so that they will learn intimate information about the customer and act on it? For example a customer service agent might talk with the customer about literature and then send them an actual book in the mail. This is not strange for ATB Financial, formerly known as Alberta Treasury Brand Financial—this bank is not your average contact center. Benchmarking itself with companies like Starbucks and Apple, ATB Financial decided to do something different when it comes to the freedom they give their contact center agents. This week's Modern Customer Podcast guest is ATB Financial's Dwayne Calder, director, customer care and operations. Leveraging call recording to replace "hand written customer signatures" with verbal consent, the company reduced customer effort and elevated the customer experience. With a focus on supporting its customer experience process design, ATB Financial employs speech analytics to translate voice of the customer data into actionable improvements by using customer conversations and frontline team members to identify root cause of customer challenges. ATB Financial is a unique bank with a compelling customer engagement story. Tune into this week's Modern Customer Podcast to hear more.
The Chief Customer Officer: Driving Customer Engagement At The Highest Levels 0
It's counter-intuitive to most business practices to bring your customer in at the highest levels of the company to improve the company. However the members of the Chief Customer Officer Council are familiar with not only how to do this, but the many benefits of creating a seat for the customer right next to the other c-suite executives. Curtis Bingham, Founder and Executive Director of the Chief Customer Officer Council knows this well. He's this week's guest on The Modern Customer Podcast.
In this podcast Bingham talks about how the Chief Customer Officer Council presents a collective crystal ball that tells where the customer is going and how can we chart a path to meet the customer there. Today customer experience is a known differentiator but it wasn't always that way. If we think about differentiators over time, it used to be who had the fastest cheapest product, then it was logistics such as who could deliver the product or service the fastest and most cost effective, then customer service became a known differentiator--though some companies still don't understand this concept. Now it's about moving beyond the experience to see who is willing to engage customers and co-design and co-develop products with them?
The Chief Customer Officer drives customer strategy at the highest levels of the company. The Chief Customer Officer is uniquely accountable for customers, like the CEO is uniquely accountable for shareholder value and the CFO is responsible for performance in financial markets. There's a handful of objectives shared by all chief customer officers. One objective is to drive profitable customer behavior. How do we aquire the most valuable customers? How do we drive customer engagement and loyalty? How do we create a customer-centric culture? The responsibilities of the chief customer officer varies by job-type. Some chief customer officers have line authority which is officially sanctioned authority to issue orders to subordinates (small and mid-size companies this is popular), large companies focus more on retention. At the larger companies they might own the call center or professional services if they have line authority, or in some cases they're a staff function. They're there to improve processes across all the business units. There are common accountabilities of chief customer officers such as how they're involved in customer issue escalation and resolutions. For the first year the chief customer officer is in the role they're dealing with customer issues. They're focused on gaps between desired customer experiences and actual customer experiences. The chief customer officer is focused on metrics and analyses. The chief customer officer unfortunately spends a lot of time proving their value which is a shame because they're not able to do as much for the customer. They're busy playing politics. During the recession the chief customer officer was the first high level officer to get cut--unfortunately for these companies. The chief customer officer is also focused on deriving value from every customer segment, and determining what type of relationship you want to have with your key customers, and what do they want from you. They spend a lot of time addressing customer needs, and balancing those customer needs with the requirements of the business. The average tenure of the chief customer officer is thirty months. However it can take three or even five years to clearly demonstrate the value of the company. Short-termism hurts customers and the business. Wall Street loves it, but it's hard to change customer attitudes in one quarter. It's important to define customer engagement.
Curtis Bingham says if you talk to marketing agencies, they define customer engagement as when you interrupt the customer's flow with a pop up on the customer's screen—the agency puts something in the way of the customer's workflow to post the company message. Customer engagement as Curtis Bingham and the chief customer officers of his council define it, it's the willingness of the customer to devote discretionary time to the company for mutual benefit. What is the number of activities the customer participates in?
To learn more about the collective crystal ball of the chief customer officer council--and other secrets about the CCO role, tune in to this podcast.
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Not every company's Chief Customer Officer has the same scope. For example at DoubleDutch, Chief Customer Officer Annie Tsai manages both the customer service and sales teams.
In this podcast Chief Customer Officer Annie Tsai talks about her secret sauce to leading customer engagement for such a fast growth company with a unique stakeholder audience. She's a great example of how to lead when you're clientele is both B2B and B2C. She talks about how brands are making an effort to engage with customers via social media, and how DoubleDutch is adding a personal touch to community engagement (for not just B2B clients).
Annie's work day starts around 5am. In our podcast she opens up to talk more about what it's like to have an exciting and demanding career and a young child at home. Annie is passionate about mentoring others and has solid advice on not only customer engagement but career advice for newbies to customer engagement.
More about Annie Tsai:
Annie is a customer experience focused executive with a "jack of all trades" mentality. She's known as a balanced strategic and operational leader that loves to roll up her sleeves and get down to business. She's also a published author and industry speaker. Prior to DoubleDutch she was Chief Customer Officer at Demandforce, an Intuit company where she oversaw customer success during DemandForce's fastest period of growth. While at Demandforce, Annie transformed the way their customers used technology and social tools, building trust and community around the Demandforce product. At DoubleDutch, she spearheads a similar paradigm shift, increasing not only application adoption and utilization, but event return on investment for customers as well.
DoubleDutch provides mobile applications and performance analytics for events, conferences, and trade shows for more than 1,000 customers including SAP, UBM, and Urban Land Institute. Founded in 2011, DoubleDutch was recently named to Inc. 5000's list of fastest growing private companies, AlwaysOn's Global 250 best-of-breed private companies in SaaS and Enterprise, and Forbes' list of 10 hot companies to work for in San Francisco. DoubleDutch is based in the Mission District of San Francisco with regional offices in Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong, and Portland. DoubleDutch has raised almost 80 million dollars since its inception in 2011.
Show note correction: Annie Tsai will be speaking at Frost & Sullivan this year but not Gartner
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Pioneering A New Era of Customer Engagement 0
Your brand is no longer defined by one marketing message but rather the daily interactions customers have with the brand. Brands today realize in an effort to differentiate with customer experience they need to go above and beyond with service.
You can't talk about customer service without talking about the technology that's driven customer service for the last thirty years. Namely, customer relationship management (CRM) technology. According to Davy Kestens, CEO of Sparkcentral and this week's podcast guest for The Modern Customer, there are multiple misconceptions about the CRM space.
CRM has become sales process optimization or automation software. Companies looking to leverage customer data for other reasons find themselves in a lurch. For many large enterprises CRM is the place where data gets dumped. With the repeated dumping of data, many large companies find their customer data unusable.
The CRM space has bloated itself with many players with varying use cases. According to Kestens today's CRM is not living up to its expectations. This is why it takes so long to get help with you contact the contact center of a company. While you are on hold the agent is flipping through 15 different tabs.
Kestens predicts in the future brands will be engaging in a battle of customer experience. But today's brands are a long way from there.
Podcast guest Davy Kestens was called the next Aaron Levie by Forbes Magazine. Today his company SparkCentral has a clientele featuring the world's largest brands including Delta, T-Mobile, Uber, Lyft, Lululemn, Dropbox, Arby's and Emirates. Listen to our podcast to learn more about what he is doing to pioneer a new era of customer engagement.
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After 10 years of episodic games, Telltale's time in the sun has come (interview)
Dean Takahashi@deantak June 19, 2014 7:00 AM
There are a few callbacks to Season One in All That Remains, including Clem's hat.
Telltale Games scored big with The Walking Dead, the post-apocalypse game that forced players to make tough choices about which friends to save from zombies.
It drew such an emotional response from players that it sold millions of episodes and won numerous Game of the Year awards.
Founded by former LucasArts game developers, the company made a bet early on that it could hook players with monthly episodes of its digital games. Clearly, that strategy is working.
Dan Connors, chief executive of Telltale, said that the company never strayed from its vision, and it has now a good idea what it means to create a Telltale experience. We caught up with Connors at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles last week.
Here's an edited transcript of our conversation.
GamesBeat: You guys have a long history, but this seems like a particularly good time for you.
Dan Connors: When we set out in 2004 to build a company based on digital distribution, using episodic content as a way to keep people engaged, we didn't realize that it would take so long, but it's finally here. Now we have digital distribution on all the major platforms. We're working with the biggest licenses in the world. We've been able to create a gameplay style that resonates with gamers and fans of licenses alike.
GamesBeat: I don't remember exactly when, but I remember IDG was part of funding you guys. When you raised money, did you understand what you were trying to do at the time?
Connors: Chris Hollenbeck led the round for Granite. That was 2007. 2007 and 2010 were when we did the two financing rounds. We had Sam and Max. We were working on the CSI games. I think we were attractive. We had a healthy business. It wasn't like we were going to take a bunch of investment money, drop it all in a product, and hope that product hit. We had the GameTap relationship. We had the Ubisoft relationship. We had Telltalegames.com, which was a fairly good channel at that time, generating revenue for us. We had multiple revenue streams. The investment was truly about scaling the business up.
GamesBeat: Did you remember much competition at the time? Episodic was something fairly new then.
Connors: Back in 2004, the excitement was mostly about mobile phones – JAMDAT-style, phone games. Then, around 2006 or 2007, there was a big fascination with user-generated content. Inevitably we would go in and it would always be about the last thing to take off. But we were always very much sticking to our guys and saying, "This is the way. This is going to take off. This is the right way to do this type of entertainment." We never stray from story. We never stray from small chunks of content released over time. Those are always the two keys.
GamesBeat: With The Walking Dead, what would you say came together to make that such a big game for you?
Connors: We built the company around episodic development of core-quality content, which was a non-trivial thing to do. We went out and continued to get a growing scale of licenses. We built out multiplatform distribution across six channels, I think, by the time Walking Dead came out. We set out to create a publishing infrastructure to enable the games we wanted to build.
Above: The Walking Dead
Image Credit: Telltale
By the time we took on the Amblin franchises, with Back to the Future and Jurassic Park, we'd started to experiment with interactive storytelling, drama, plot, and the right ways to execute them. Those two games were really transitional for us, in moving away from a traditional adventure-game model and to an interactive narrative model that could be enjoyed by people who were just fans of the franchise, just interested in experiencing a story.
GamesBeat: And then The Walking Dead show was a hit.
Connors: The show took off, yeah. The things the Walking Dead game did were so unique to it inside the interactive space that I think it probably could have succeeded, though, at least on a critical level, without the franchise. The franchise is great and brought a lot of people to it, but I think the gameplay evolutions of it were real enough and tangible enough that it would have been noticed.
GamesBeat: I played the whole first series there. I kept hearing so much about it that I wanted to experience what was so emotional there. There's more in the story. I'm curious about what you do that pulls people in.
Connors: It's a commitment to making sure the story feels playable. In Call of Duty, you could see a great cutscene that creates a lot of emotion around the characters that you're with, but then you go and play the mission, and by the time you come back to the story again, that emotional connection is gone. It's too big of a separation. You can try to carry it through the gameplay experience, but then it's to the detriment of that gameplay. It's a hard thing to get both.
With Telltale, we just decided to commit to making people care about the characters as much as we could, making the characters feel as real as they could, and then putting the player in compelling situations and making them make choices. We committed to that at the core of the product. That was what the product would be about. Call of Duty is still about being a great action game. It does that very well, but it's hard to coexist that with strong storytelling in that environment. Our games are for someone who wants to sit down and feel like they're immersed inside the story in a new and different way.
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The Met Office has issued a yellow 'be aware' weather of ice across Wales this evening as temperatures will fall away overnight.
The weather warning is in place across the country from 10pm this evening to 11am Thursday morning.
Icy patches are expected to develop and wintry showers will also affect some areas, particularly over the hills and mountains, however, most places will not see any snow setting.
The Met Office is warning people to take extra care whilst travelling overnight and tomorrow morning as there will be an increased risk of slips and falls on the icy surfaces, particularly on untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.
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SDEA will be holding its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') and the details are as below.
If you have not already, please confirm your attendance by filling in this online form http://bit.ly/xiSFpr now. RSVP by 19 March 2012, Monday.
If you are a member and would like to include an item to the agenda, please inform us in writing by 19 March 2012, Monday to [email protected].
The full agenda for the AGM will be posted on the SDEA website 21 March 2012, Wednesday. If you are not a member but would like to join us for dinner and catch up with what SDEA has been doing, please also fill in this online form http://bit.ly/xiSFpr. $10 will be collected at the door for dinner if you are a non member.
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Q: `moduleNameMapper` settings in jest.config.js doesn't work on CircleCI I have tested with my React-app in typescript, using ts-jest like below.
import * as React from "react";
import * as renderer from "react-test-renderer";
import { ChartTitle } from "Components/chart_title";
describe("Component: ChartTitle", () => {
it("will be rendered with no error", () => {
const chartTitle = "My Chart 1";
renderer.create(<ChartTitle title={chartTitle} />);
});
});
and it has passed in my local environment but failed in CircleCI.
FAIL __tests__/components/chart_title.tsx
● Test suite failed to run
TypeScript diagnostics (customize using `[jest-config].globals.ts-jest.diagnostics` option):
__tests__/components/chart_title.tsx:4:28 - error TS2307: Cannot find module 'Components/chart_title'.
4 import { ChartTitle } from "Components/chart_title";
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This Components/ is an alias expression by moduleNameMapper, and I think it doesn't work in only CircleCI.
jest --showConfig option tells me there is no difference between local and CI environment.
Is there any fault in my settings?
app/frontend/jest.config.js
module.exports = {
globals: {
"ts-jest": {
tsConfig: "tsconfig.json",
diagnostics: true
},
NODE_ENV: "test"
},
moduleNameMapper: {
"^Components/(.+)$": "<rootDir>/src/components/$1"
},
moduleDirectories: ["node_modules", 'src'],
moduleFileExtensions: ["ts", "tsx", "js", "jsx", "json"],
transform: {
"^.+\\.tsx?$": "ts-jest"
},
verbose: true
};
app/frontend/tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": "src",
"outDir": "dist",
"allowJs": true,
"checkJs": true,
"moduleResolution": "node",
"sourceMap": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"target": "esnext",
"module": "commonjs",
"lib": ["es6", "dom"],
"jsx": "react",
"strict": false,
"removeComments": true,
"types": ["jest"]
},
"typeRoots": ["node_modules/@types"],
"paths": {
"Components/*": ["src/components/*"]
},
"include": ["src/**/*"],
"exclude": ["node_modules", "__tests__"]
}
app/frontend/package.json
{
"scripts": {
"build": "webpack --mode development --watch",
"build-production": "node_modules/.bin/webpack --mode production",
"test": "jest",
"lint": "npx eslint src/**/* __tests__/**/* --ext \".ts, .tsx\"",
},
}
app/.circleci/.config.yml
version: 2
jobs:
build:
...
steps:
- run:
name: run tests for frontend
command: npm test -- -u
working_directory: frontend
A: I've finally found out its solution.
According to this issue, I use tsconfig-paths and tsconfig-paths-jest.
So my setting-files have changed like below.
tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": ".",
"outDir": "dist/",
"allowJs": true,
"checkJs": true,
"moduleResolution": "node",
"sourceMap": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"target": "es6",
"module": "commonjs",
"lib": ["es5", "es6", "dom"],
"jsx": "react",
"strict": false,
"removeComments": true,
"types": ["node", "jest"],
"paths": {
"Components/*": ["src/components/*"]
}
},
"typeRoots": ["node_modules/@types"],
"include": ["src/**/*"],
"exclude": ["node_modules", "__tests__"]
}
jest.config.js
/* eslint-disable import/order */
/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
const tsconfig = require("./tsconfig.json");
const moduleNameMapper = require("tsconfig-paths-jest")(tsconfig);
module.exports = {
globals: {
"ts-jest": {
tsConfig: "tsconfig.json",
diagnostics: true
},
NODE_ENV: "test"
},
setupFilesAfterEnv: [`${__dirname}/src/setupTests.ts`],
moduleDirectories: ["node_modules", 'src'],
moduleFileExtensions: ["ts", "tsx", "js", "jsx", "json"],
transform: {
"^.+\\.tsx?$": "ts-jest"
},
verbose: true,
moduleNameMapper
};
And my tests worked well in CircleCI, but I still have no idea why these tests
had worked in my local before this solution.
A: tsconfig-paths-jest is not usable in Jest >23. For current Jest 26 I got it working via: https://kulshekhar.github.io/ts-jest/docs/getting-started/paths-mapping/
jest.config.js
const { pathsToModuleNameMapper } = require('ts-jest');
const { compilerOptions } = require('./tsconfig');
module.exports = {
preset: 'ts-jest',
testEnvironment: 'node',
moduleNameMapper: pathsToModuleNameMapper(compilerOptions.paths, { prefix: '<rootDir>/src/' } )
};
tsconfig.json "compilerOptions"
"baseUrl": "./src",
"paths": {
"@models/*": [ "./models/*" ],
"@inputs/*": [ "./inputs/*" ],
"@tests/*": [ "./__tests__/*" ],
"@resolvers/*": [ "./resolvers/*" ],
"@seeds/*": [ "./seeds/*" ],
"@index": [ "./index.ts" ],
"@ormconfig":[ "../ormconfig.ts" ]
},
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Ilda Maria Bengue (Luanda, 30 de outubro de 1974) é uma ex-handebolista profissional angolana.
Ela representou seu país, Angola, em 2000, 2004 e 2008.
Andebolistas olímpicos de Angola
Handebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2000
Handebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2004
Handebolistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2008
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About MMS
About Pat Braden
Supporters of Musicians of the Midnight Sun
Louie Goose
Louie is a renowned Inuvialuit vocalist and guitar player from Inuvik, Northwest Territories. In 1961 at the age of 10, he began performing for Christmas celebrations with his friend Charlie Furlong. Louie went on to play music with many Delta musicians in the decades to come, in bands such as, "The Chordells" and "The Mackenzie Delta Band". He continues to be a large influence and champion of Beaufort Delta music and musicians. In his interview, Louie recounts his strong connection to his Inuit ancestry and heritage and the music scene in the Mackenzie Delta region through the 1960s and 70s. Louie Goose was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his lifelong contributions to Aboriginal arts and culture at the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards in Winnipeg on Nov. 2, 2012.
Louie Goose's
Interview Transcript
Inuvik Weblog – "Music Runs Deep"
Northern Journal article – "Delta musician handed Lifetime achievement award
Robert C. McLeod on Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Mr. Louie Goose
Cafe Talk Winnipeg, APCMAs Announce Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Videos/Music:
Western Canadian Arctic Legend Louie Goose and his band perform "6 Days on the Road" during the "End of the Road Music Festival," 2008
"The Chordells" Live at CBC
NWT Archives:
Louie Goose media content from the NWT Archives Collection:
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The Close ParentPop-in newborn nappy is an affordable way to bridge the gap between tiny babyand birth to potty sizing. Unlike our standard one size Pop-in it is speciallydesigned to be used on a tiny or prem baby straight from birth.
The CloseParent Pop-in newborn nappy is an affordable way to bridge the gap between tinybaby and birth to potty sizing. Unlike our standard one size Pop-in it is speciallydesigned to be used on a tiny or prem baby straight from birth.
The frontsection is contoured to sit below the umbilical cord rather than over it andthe nappy itself is much slimmer and intended for the lower wetting, highfrequency changing those first few weeks bring, with up to 10 changes a day.
It is still100% Pop-in with all the same trust and reliability, but with some newmaterials and new ideas! Unlike its older sibling, the outerwrap can be easilybe wiped clean and re-used if not soiled, leaving you to just switch the soakerover come change time...easy! The cleverdouble sided design means you can choose, 100% soya… known as vegetablecashmere or stay dry suede cloth against baby's delicate skin…We think it isjust Close common sense!
We love colourco-ordinating our pop-in soakers and boosters with their outer shells, butplease be aware that many factors can affect the colours of the inserts once inuse, including detergents and of course the content of the nappies, variable asthey are. We therefore cannot guarantee that the colours will retain theirintegrity and in some circumstances may become stained or lose their colour.Please be assured that this does not affect the functionality of the product inany way so we cannot indemnify against this and it is not covered by thewarranty. Please wash dark colours separately. | {
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David Kling was a past JCC president, founding member of Temple Shalom
David Kling
David Kling, a founding member of Temple Shalom and a lifelong Louisville Jewish activist, died Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at Baptist Health.
Born December 11, 1922, to the late Arthur and Selma Marcus Kling, David served in the Army Corp of Engineers during World War II and received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. He became a co-owner of the Kling Company
Jewishly active, Kling served as president of Temple Shalom and was a member Men's Club. A skilled wood worker, he built most of the furnishings on the bima of the synagogue, including the ark doors.
He also was president of the Jewish Family & Career Services and of the JCC, where he also was a life member.
Kling loved to fly. He was a private pilot, a captain with the Civil Air Patrol and was a member of KIPKUG.
He also taught scuba diving at the JCC and was passionate about photography in addition to woodworking.
He was a Scout Master with Troop #30 and served on the Old Kentucky Home Council.
In addition to his parents, Kling was preceded in death by his son, Allan Ben Kling.
He is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Margot Preis Kling; his daughter, Ruth "Cookie" Honigberg; two granddaughters, Cari Hatch (Robert) and Shana Honigberg; and two great-grandchildren, Chloe and Cooper.
Funeral services will be held Friday, December 22, noon, at Herman Meyer & Son, Inc., 1338 Ellison Ave. Burial followed in Keneseth Israel Cemetery, Temple Shalom Section. Expressions of sympathy may be made to Temple Shalom or the JCC.
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Between label-issued releases and the massive influx of self-released Bandcamp jams, there's entirely too much new music to take in at once. Occasionally, we'd rather just settle down to some familiar sounds. Splitting the difference is the covers racket, which can freshen up an old favourite. Whether framed as faithful renditions, or blowing up the spot with an unorthodox interpretation, these are a few of the redos we kept on repeat this year.
Beach Fossils didn't exactly make their take on '80s English outfit the Wake's "Plastic Flowers" their own (it pretty well follows the jangly guitars and watery bass template of its predecessor). However, if anything, the buzz-worthy Brooklyn band's faithful remake likely had more than a few new jacks checking out the relatively unsung back catalogue of their British post-punk heroes.
Considering the Flaming Lips prepped a mammoth 24-hour number of their own this year, it's not entirely shocking that they tacked another couple of minutes onto their take of this Bee Thousand-era Guided By Voices cut. It never drags, though, with Wayne Coyne and co. stylishly stepping away from the distortion of the garagey original to craft this swirling, though slightly out-of-tune, psychedelic lullaby.
If you consider Neil Young's unique warble way too off the wall for the tastes, you might want to skip out on West Coast folk experimentalists Siskiyou's take on his "Revolution Blues." The stunningly minimalist and rootsy version strays from the song's country-funk origins, and Colin Huebert trumps Shakey's awkward vibrato, coming off like a croaky backwoods lush. Fantastic, but an acquired taste, for sure. | {
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Q: How to use the XML result of SolrNet in my ASP.NET code behind I found http://code.google.com/p/solrnet/wiki/Stats link. But I cannot understand it properly. I want to use a (min,max) kind of function with a Solr query.
My query (display min, max and average price of Round shape and color D and clarity FL and caratweight. (This query will be generated based on user's selection dynamically.)
(Shape:"Round") AND (Color:"D") AND (Clarity:"FL") AND (CaratWeight:[1 TO 10])
But how can I use such kind of function and select specific column?
Now I am somewhat nearer...
By using the following URL, I am getting min, max, count and mean.. Things like those I want. But it's in XML format. Now I want to customize. I want to use this result in my ASP.NET code behind and want to do further computation.
http://localhost:8983/solr/coreMikisa/select/?q=%3A&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on&stats=true&stats.field=Price
What should I do?
A: Load the XML result into XML document and use XPath to access get the value of desired elements.
var xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.Load(solrXmlResult);
var mean = double.Parse(xmlDocument.DocumentElement.GetElementByTagName("//mean")[0].InnerText);
...
or based on your XML
var mean = double.Parse(
xmlDocument.DocumentElement.GetElementByTagName(
"//lst[@name=\"tag\"]/double[@name=\"min\"]"
)[0].InnerText);
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Who's Performing at the Biden-Harris Inauguration?
01/13/2021 Music Comments Off on Who's Performing at the Biden-Harris Inauguration?
Four years ago, Donald Trump was struggling to land big-name musical acts for his presidential inauguration. Celine Dion, Elton John, Kiss, and other artists reportedly turned him down, but, hey, he did book the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, country singer Toby Keith, and rock band 3 Doors Down for the festivities. This time around, for Joe Biden's swearing-in, the musical lineup is looking a little more promising. Here's what we know so far.
The performers at the January 20 swearing-in are still unknown, but they are expected to be announced in the coming days. For reference, those who performed at Barack Obama's inaugurations included Aretha Franklin, who sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" in 2009, and Beyoncé, who sang the national anthem in 2013.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee assures that, even though the event will be pared down for health and safety reasons, the programming will feature "musical acts, local bands, poets, dance troupes, and more paying homage to America's heroes on the frontlines of the pandemic."
Celebrating America
Everyone's favorite guy, Tom Hanks, will host a prime-time special called Celebrating America on the night of the Biden–Harris inauguration, broadcasting at 8:30 p.m. ET on multiple networks. Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato, singer-songwriter Ant Clemons, and Jon Bon Jovi (who performed at Obama's 2009 inauguration) will all perform.
Timberlake announced on Instagram that he and Clemons will perform their recent collab, "Better Days," for the celebration. The song, which they wrote together during lockdown, reflects Biden's inaugural theme of unity. (JT said he even recorded his vocals on election night.)
"This past year brought a lot of frustration, grief, anger—and there were times when it was easy to feel powerless," Timberlake shared. "This song was our way of doing what little we could to encourage everyone to stay hopeful… and keep working towards a better, more equal future."
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_LvXaBSYr/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
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Lovato's set list remains unknown, but she enthusiastically announced the news of her involvement on Instagram. "I was left speechless when I was asked to perform!" she shared of the upcoming special.
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You can set up secure HTTPS communication using a custom server certificate with your DC/OS cluster by [setting up a proxy](/docs/1.9/networking/tls-ssl/haproxy-adminrouter/) between the Admin Router and user agent requests coming in from outside of the cluster.
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Matija Sarkic's spell at Birmingham cut short due to injury
(Image credit: Bradley Collyer)
Birmingham's on-loan goalkeeper Matija Sarkic has returned to parent club Wolves after being ruled out for the season through injury.
The 24-year-old dislocated his shoulder in the Blues' 2-1 Sky Bet Championship loss to QPR and scans later revealed that the shot-stopper would require surgery.
Sarkic kept an impressive 10 clean sheets in 23 appearances for Birmingham before his injury.
Birmingham boss Lee Bowyer told the club website: "Matty dislocated his shoulder on Sunday, he was in a bad way.
"He will have to have an operation. He will miss the rest of the season, which is a massive disappointment."
Matija Sarkic | {
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You may remember being asked as a child by one of your parents, "If your friend Jimmy jumped off a roof, would you have to jump off too?" While this question wasn't meant to be answered, it should make us realize the effect of those around us who have an influence on us. Many look at themselves as merely followers and in no way a leader. Upon further investigation of what constitutes a leader, we find that anyone who sets an example which someone else adopts, makes that person a leader. They have "shown the way," or "marked out the path." If we are honest with ourselves we will realize that we can lead by our actions and words, even if we don't intend to. We also need to realize that our actions as such make us accountable or responsible. We looked at several passages in which the Apostle Paul was very clear on what his actions would be if something he did would be a stumbling block for another. He would never let himself put a block before another of God's precious souls. Jesus taught this principle in the Gospels, primarily in dealing with children. Jesus' answer was that it would be better for that person to have a "millstone around their neck and be cast into the sea" rather than to cause one little one to stumble. A person's death would prevent that source of stumbling to occur and Jesus said that would be better! What does that tell us? We need to continuously evaluate our lives, our words and deeds to insure that what we do leads one closer to Christ rather than away. We need to realize that leadership carries with it responsibility. Won't you lead someone closer to God today? | {
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Surrey, BC -- A vigil prayer for the victims of Quebec Islamic Cultural Center took place on Friday, February 3rd from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 pm at Holland Park in Surrey, B.C. The purpose of this event was to show solidarity with the victims' families and to bring together generations of people from different faiths to promote peace and understanding in a world faced with extremism and violence.
Linda Hepner, Mayor or Surrey, Councillor Mike Starchuck and a myriad of MPs and MLAs condemned the savage attack in the strongest terms possible. A strong presence of faith-based and non-profit organizations made it clear that we will conquer hate with compassion, love, understanding and justice. We overwhelmingly reject the politics of racism and exclusion, and standing together, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and welcoming society that promotes respect for all, regardless of faith, race or ethnicity.
The directors reflected on why the Amazing Tutors Children's Foundation organized the vigil: "Our sincere hope is to protect and help communities cope and build resilience in a rapidly changing world characterized with high levels of extremism. We feel that no one has the right to take away a person's spiritual free will and self-determination, nor their underlying strength, and we are doing everything within our power to fight for peace and condemn this horrific attack. We need to be engaged in a process of healing that is collaborative, enhancing, inclusive, practical, pro-active and responsible. We must stand united together to create a society of love and justice. These horrific attacks on innocent civilians are really meant to divide us, however, with love and justice as our common shield, we can recognize our differences and strive to be the best human being."
Any savage attacks on innocent civilians, whether they occur in Canada, Syria, Paris, Beirut, Brussels, Pakistan, USA, New Zealand or in any other city or country, are heinous and without justification. We stand in solidarity and condemn these demonic, horrific acts in the strongest terms possible. Today, our thoughts are with the loved ones of those killed and injured.
As a foundation advocating for children everywhere, The Amazing Tutors Children's Foundation condemns violence against children regardless of the form it takes. The children at the Mosque in the Islamic Cultural Center attended with their families to pray and worship. A threat to their lives should raise concerns for everyone about religiously motivated violence. These innocent lives must be protected, for within them are the seeds of the world we want to build. If we hope to create a society of tolerance, freedom and compassion, then we must secure the safety of all children and their families regardless of race, religion, or gender.
Children represent the future of our society and community. Violence against them will only continue the cycle of intolerance and hate that divides us as people. By standing together in condemnation against violence, we can help break the cycle, and create communities of understanding, caring, and compassion. The children attended prayers with their families, making the mosque populated while the attack ensued.
The timing of the attack only raises concerns about intolerance and violence within our communities. At a time when communication and diplomacy are needed more than ever, acts such as this only exacerbate and inflate tensions between religious communities here in Canada. If we hope to create greater understanding between people, we must take steps to end violence that fosters intolerance and hatred.
We call everyone to help end violence, especially when it threatens the lives of children. As a community, we should strive to create a space for children to live that is safe, tolerant, and compassionate. Acts of violence threaten us all, even when directed at specific groups," advocate the directors of the Amazing Tutors Children's Foundation.
The event was organized by the student volunteers of the Amazing Tutors Children's Foundation. We are grateful for everyone's support and encouragement in helping us build peace together. We extend our gratitude to our community members for attending the vigil for the fallen family members of the New Zealand Shooting. We seek to build communities by supporting youth and children through educational and volunteer opportunities in Surrey, BC. We involve our students and tutors in various programs, such as the leadership youth program. We need more people to join us. For more information about this event or about our programs, please contact us today at 604-765-4099 or send us an email using the contact form.
Although the third annual Surrey Interfaith Pilgrimage was officially cancelled due to heavy snowfall, there were many participants who moved with integrity to bring compassion, peace, understanding and solidarity to the forefront. The purpose of the event was to bring people from diverse backgrounds and worldviews together to affirm our collective commitment to building peace and understanding in our community.
The first pilgrimage was in response to the November 12, 2015 bombing attacks in southern Beirut and Paris. This year we aimed to build solidarity with the victims and their families who had recently lost their loved ones in the Quebec shooting in Canada. We began with an exchange of blessings for peace and understanding a the Thien Ton Buddhist Temple and went past six other houses of worship: Northwood United Church, Laximi Narayan Hindu Mandir, Gurdwara Sikh Sahib Brookside, Surrey Jamia Muslim Masjid and the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. A small ceremony was hosted at each site to cultivate in people a deeper sense of their own religious identity, while also building relationship with people who come from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
Arriving at the Thien Ton Budhdist Temple, the blossom trees were covered with a thick blanket of snow. Icicles glistened and caught the gleaming rays of sunshine. David Dalley, who organized the walk, and Gordon Leslie, one of the volunteers, went there early in the morning to make sure that no one was stranded. Their safety was paramount. To their surprise, Robert, Andrea and their daughter, Sophia showed up. They had heard about the pilgrimage on the radio and they just could not miss out on the opportunity to explore the possibility of exploring the different houses of worship, build friendship with people from diverse backgrounds, share a meal and build solidarity with Canadians. This would also be an inclusive study field trip for Sophia.
A generous lunch was served to everyone at the Laxmi Narayan Hindu Mandir. Vinay introduced our team to their congregation and we participated in the spiritual offering ceremony. In keeping with Hindu practices and traditions, the society operates a Vivek Hindi School, which teaches classes every Sunday. Meditation, yoga, and ESL classes are offered every week. The largest annual Hindu festivals are organized by their directors. Trekking through the snow, Scott Reynolds' contemplative words came to mind. A former event organizer and Minister of Youth form the United Churches of Langley, he said that: "When we are confronted with deep loss, fear often emerges in our thoughts. Walking and sharing a warm meal together is a tangible, bodily demonstration of unity that reminds us to let go of fear and move forward in love."
We made our way to the Gurdwara Sahib Brookside in the snowy blizzard. This is a place of worship for the Sikhs in the Brookside and Bear Creek area. They gather to hear their spiritual leaders speak and to listen to holy hymns. Surinder, our host, received us graciously in the community kitchen. We drank a warm cup of tea infused with the sweet aroma of cardamons, ate gelabee sweets and the social conversation blossomed over jobs, families, children and our travels in the world. We all share the same hopes and dreams for our children. He guided us upstairs to the prayer hall and informed us of the services offered during the week.
Heading to the Surrey Jamia Muslim Mosque, an air of sadness brought us back to a closer reality. I reflected on why I chose to lend a hand. David, the Surrey Interfaith Council team and I truly believe that the goal of the pilgrimage was to develop a sense of mutual trust, respect, and understanding across religious traditions, and to reduce religiously motivated violence, stereotyping, bigotry, or hatred. Uniting people across faith and ideological lines creates an environment of interfaith harmony.
We were received by the Muslim congregants with appreciation, compassion, dignity, and respect. We stated clearly that the voice of a terrorist is not the overarching voice of Canadians. The true voice of Canadians embraces the fruits of the spirit: compassion, gentleness, goodness, grace, forbearance, fortitude, mercy, kindness, patience, self-control and understanding. David had gathered a dozen of messages of solidarity from the Surrey Interfaith Council and we were ready to share them all.
We shared their sadness and mourned for the victims and their families. We were engaged in a process of healing that was collaborative laden with compassion, grace, mercy and kindness. We prayed with them, shared a cup of warm tea and had muffins and sweets. We were actively promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation to end politically and religiously motivated violence. We aspired to build cultures of compassion, peace and healing in a fragmented world.
We left an hour later and walked to the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara to meet the congregants. We were served a warm dinner, went upstairs to the music and prayer hall and reflected on the blessings of the day. Connie Waterman's words rang so true right in the moment. An event organizer from the Baha'i community, she reflected on the role of religious values in creating peace: "Each one of us has the ability, individually and collectively, to be compassionate, selfless and loving. These attributes are strengthened by religious values taught by all the world's great religions. Together we can create a better world by concentrating all the thoughts of our heart on love and unity, then aligning our actions to reflect that thought."
The Amazing Tutors's Children's Foundation appreciates David Dalley, Gordon Leslie, Dr. Das and Connie Waterman, Scott Reynolds and our amazing directors and the entire Surrey Interfaith Council for pursuing interfaith harmony, peace and non-violence within our city. Thank you, Surrey Interfaith Council, for providing the opportunity for all of us to participate in a giving and caring community. With permission from the kind and thoughtful members, we would like to share these heart-felt and powerful messages of solidarity with the media, so everyone will have the opportunity to feel the power of solidarity and unity: We are one and we are Canadians fighting for compassion, peace and understanding. The pilgrimage was a surprisingly a snowy walk in beauty, compassion, grace and mercy. May we walk together very soon when spring knocks on our doors with the intention that everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Like a bird singing in the snow, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
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I consider myself lucky to meet the people I do through my garden writing. Gardeners are an interesting lot, and Larry Cross is no exception. My latest column is out and on the streets, but you can read it online here. It's about my visit to Larry's garden in Southeast Portland.
Alas, no photos are online, so I put them up here in a slideshow. Check out Larry's rain pavilion: while it wasn't raining the day I was visiting, he put the sprinkler on top of the pavilion and turned that baby on high so that we could chat in the rain pavilion with water falling all around us. Love that.
See the photos here in Flickr.
Hey - I just read your comment on my blog - guess you didn't get my email earlier? I'm from Hiawatha - bet you know where that is. Anyways, try ilovelawrence@gmail if you want to trade KK recipes.
Carla, I'm pretty sure the "metal art" came from a salvage yard somewhere in Portland. It's actually what's left of a sheet of metal after something else has been cut out of it. Used to be just scrap until someone saw its sculptural value.
Love, love, love this garden! He has a great eye for making beauty in places that most would see as mere backdrops (amazing fence!).
Renee-You should definitely stop by and visit with Larry. You're right around the corner!
Carla-bemused is right about the metal scrap. I've put in a message to Larry to see if he'd share his source on those and will update here.
Carla-Larry inherited his steel pieces from the home's previous owner, but he suggests contacting East Side Steel. They're at 9948 SE Powell, 503/760-6787.
I just read the print article this weekend ... I could spend a lot of time there! You do a great job of making me feel like I'm there looking over your shoulder as you describe Larry and his rain pavillion.
A quote observation, though ... the sidebar in the print article mentions chestnut mulch, which sounds heavenly, except that I learned from my vet that chestnuts are toxic to dogs. I don't know if the shells have the same effect as the nuts, but probably best avoided for our four-legged friends.
Thanks for your comment. Was your conversation with your vet about Hazelnuts (which I wrote about and are in Larry's garden) or Chestnuts (which you commented about)? I hadn't thought about dogs eating a mulch like that, and while I have read about mulches made from cocoa shells, which are popular around chocolate factories (!), are dangerous for dogs, I hadn't heard about hazelnut or filbert shells being problematic. I'll talk to my vet!
Okay, okay ... so I chatted again with my vet who (politely) indicated that whatever I remembered, it surely wasn't about hazelnuts OR chestnuts. Seems that there's nothing too harmful about either of those. Perhaps there's something I ate that completely impaired my memory ... I'll work on figuring that out instead! | {
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package org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.widget.tooltip;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.constants.Placement;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.utils.JqueryUtils;
import com.google.gwt.dom.client.BrowserEvents;
import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Document;
import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Element;
import com.google.gwt.dom.client.NativeEvent;
import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Node;
import com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtml;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.DOM;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.Timer;
/**
*
* Set of static methods used by tooltip-capable Cells to group the tooltip logic in one place.
*
* TODO When we have Java 8 mixins, consider using those in place of this class.
*
* There is currently some GWT or ovirt bug causing duplicate mouseover and mouseout events.
* It doesn't affect the logic, but be aware of it when working on this code.
*
*/
public class TooltipMixin {
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TooltipMixin.class.getName());
/**
* Add events that tooltips care about (over, down, out) to a cell's Set of sunk events.
*/
public static void addTooltipsEvents(Set<String> set) {
set.add(BrowserEvents.MOUSEOVER);
set.add(BrowserEvents.MOUSEOUT);
set.add(BrowserEvents.MOUSEDOWN);
}
/**
* Hijack mouseover event and use it to create the tooltip. This is done the first time a Cell is moused-over
* because that's the only place GWT gives us access to the actual Element.
*
* Once the tooltip is configured, we need to fire a new mouseenter event at the cell so jQuery can pick it
* up and show the tooltip.
*/
public static void configureTooltip(final Element parent, SafeHtml tooltipContent, final NativeEvent event) {
if (tooltipContent == null || tooltipContent.asString().trim().isEmpty()) {
// there is no tooltip for this render. no-op.
logger.finer("null or empty tooltip content"); //$NON-NLS-1$
}
else if (isTooltipConfigured(parent)) {
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TRILLION ENERGY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES ACCELERATION OF WARRANT EXPIRY DATE FOR 2021 WARRANTS
By: Trillion Energy International Inc. via Globe NewsWire
October 21, 2022 at 17:00 PM EDT
Vancouver, B.C. , Oct. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trillion Energy International Inc. ("Trillion" or the "Company"") (CSE: TCF) (OTCQB: TRLEF) (Frankfurt: Z62) announces that it has elected to exercise its right under the terms of the warrant certificates governing the common share purchase warrants of the Company issued during March, 2021 (the "March 2021 Warrants") to accelerate the term of the March 2021 Warrants.
Pursuant to the 2021 March Warrants, in the event the Company's share price closes at a price of CAD$0.15 per share for a period of 10 consecutive trading days on the Canadian Securities Exchange, the Company may accelerate the term of the March 2021 Warrants to a period of 30 days following notice by providing notice to the warrant holders in writing or by news release.
As of October 21, 2022, the closing price of the Company's common shares has traded in excess of CAD$0.15 for at least 10 consecutive trading days. Accordingly, the expiry date of the 2021 is accelerated to November 21, 2022 (the "Accelerated Expiry Date").
Any March 2021 Warrants that remain unexercised by 5:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the Accelerated Expiry Date will expire and be cancelled.
As of October 21, 2022, an aggregate of 12,025,997 of the March 2021 Warrants have yet to be exercised, of which 4,007,917 are exercisable at CAD$0.10 per share, 4,660,000 are exercisable at CAD$0.12 per share, 2,358,080 are exercisable at US$0.08 per share and 1,000,000 are exercisable at US$0.16 per share. Each March 2021 Warrants is exercisable to acquire one common share of the Company.
Trillion is an oil and gas producing company with multiple assets throughout Turkey and Bulgaria. The Company is 49% owner of the SASB natural gas field, one of the Black Sea's first and largest-scale natural gas development projects; a 19.6% (except three wells with 9.8%) interest in the Cendere oil field; and in Bulgaria, the Vranino 1-11 block, a prospective unconventional natural gas property. More information may be found on www.sedar.com, and our website.
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Katy Siegel November 1, 2012 November 21, 2019 From Art Journal
From Art Journal 71, no. 2 (Summer 2012)
This issue of Art Journal comes after two issues that tightly revolved around a single concept: the medium of print (Winter 2011) and the Pacific Standard Time initiative (Spring 2012). Most of the essays, reviews, and artists' projects in those two issues were commissioned; all were handpicked for the ways in which they worked together to survey a field and also to bring out its varied and perhaps conflicting aspects. It was something of a relief, then, to revert to the more usual Art Journal editorial mode: selecting articles submitted to the journal, most often by younger scholars and artists, that then make it through peer review. I did solicit a few of these authors directly, but not for work on a particular topic, just for whatever they were thinking on currently.
There are certainly rewards to seeing a conceptually integrated project come together, as built and voiced by many participants working toward a single goal, one that you hope makes a lasting statement of broad interest. Putting together this emphatically heterogeneous issue is a reminder of the advantages of a lighter editorial hand, of letting the individuals concerned be themselves, as it were. I'm reminded of how many things I don't know about, couldn't anticipate as subjects, much less conceive as a special issue or focus. Beyond editorial duties, it was simply a pleasure to read about Paolozzi and Khakhar—and also Adams and Magritte, artists whose work we think we know and perhaps too quickly pass over. Other essays attempt to undo the reductive grip that theoretical and historical generalizations have on artists, undoing their specificities or obscuring their real importance. Lorraine O'Grady's beautiful writing is primary material on that subject.
Cover: Ansel Adams, Class Change, Berkeley, ca. 1965 (photograph © 1967 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved). Back cover: Fatima Sbeih and Geoffrey Wildanger, Rally, UC Davis, November 21, 2011, 2011 (photograph © Fatima Sbeih and Geoffrey Wildanger).
I won't attempt to extract a postmortem theme or generality; again, the value here is in the independence and specificity of artists, ideas, and authors. But the very diversity of the work in these pages reminds me of what is positive about the institutions of higher learning that serve as platforms for much of this production, for many of these producers—it's easy to see only the faults, the clichés, the citations that genuflect before the powerful, the conservative dressed as radical aspects of academic work. Grant Kester and Julia Bryan-Wilson's focus on the current threatened state of these institutions, this system, particularly as seen in the microcosm of the University of California, makes me curious about the effect of these wrenching changes on scholarship. Will serious research and creative work simply fade from the academic scene, unsupported as inefficient and un-"excellent," or will the attacks on the system inspire more imaginative and resonant writing and art, inside it and out?
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In a competitive environment, all organizations, sick and healthy, seek performance improvement. Improving the performance of organizations usually begins with an appraisal of performance (i.e. finding out what was achieved against plan and the reasons behind it). It may also involve changing the company's organizational structure, adopting cost control measures, introducing productivity improvement strategies or changing the culture of the company. At the higher levels, it may involve the adoption of quality as a business philosophy in order to be able to meet the standards of Multinational Corporation (MNCs) and foreign associates. This is in the area of Total Quality Management (TQM). On the other hand, a company may need to restructure its business processes in order to reduce waste and cost and create a "new" organization that is customer focused. This is referred to as Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). | {
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Texas Medical Center Orchestra was founded in 2000, and is one of the few community orchestras in the United States to be based in the medical community.
Each year, TMCO performs concerts in the Crain Garden Lobby of Houston Methodist Hospital and various locations within the Texas Medical Center as well as in premier concert halls in Houston. In addition, TMCO contributes to the community and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the MS Society and has performed free concerts for tens of thousands of Houstonians.
The Texas Medical Center Orchestra has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Ernst Bacon Award in both the American Music Performance and Overall Performance categories.
For the American Music Performance, TMCO submitted our performance of the Merry Mount Suite by Howard Hanson. For the Overall American Prize category, TMCO submitted two performances including The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas and the Der Rosenkavalier Suite by Richard Strauss. Read more here.
TMCO performs Romantic Masterpieces at Hobby Center.
Thank you Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co. for helping to make our on-stage reception a hit! Pictured: Andy Roseborrough, Libi Lebel, Thomas Strauch, Ashley Espinosa.
Several TMCO performers relax at the on-stage reception following Romantic Masterpieces: Peter Lee, Austin Wang, Alberto Tovar, Alex Commanday, Shu-Hong Lin, Harish Eswaran, Warren Lau.
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Q: Unable to extend temp segment by 16 in tablespace PSTEMP The query that gives me this error was running for 6 months now and it was working fine. Today for some reason gave me this error:
Error in running query because of SQL Error, Code=1652, Message=ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by 16 in tablespace PSTEMP (50,380).
I don't want to extend "PSTEMP" file. The query shouldn't be the problem as I mentioned it worked fine until now.
I don't know if that will help but the query has prompt value and if I enter a wrong value it works fine but when I enter the value from last week I know it should return 16 rows but instead I get the above error.
A: You can check your temp space with
SELECT * FROM dba_temp_free_space;
but it might not necessarily be temp despite the error message.
Check your tablespace free space with:
select a.tablespace_name,sum(a.tots/1048576) Tot_Size,
sum(a.sumb/1048576) Tot_Free,
round(sum(a.sumb)*100/sum(a.tots),2) Pct_Free,
sum(a.largest/1024) Max_Free,sum(a.chunks) Chunks_Free
from
(
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max(bytes) largest,count(*) chunks
from dba_free_space a
group by tablespace_name
union
select tablespace_name,sum(bytes) tots,0,0,0 from
dba_data_files
group by tablespace_name) a
group by a.tablespace_name
order by pct_free;
A: Most likely, your SQL became too heavy as the underlying data grew. You can try optimizing the SQL or if that's not an option, ask the DBAs to increase the undo tablespace (PSTEMP).
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Home/Spoken Word CD Review: This That And The Other Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead
Listening to Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead is to be brought back to the direct immediacy of art.
Spoken Word CD Review: This That And The Other Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead
Richard Marcus March 20, 2007 1 Comment 130 Views
When I read poetry I'll occasionally try to listen for the voice of the poet in my head. Trying to visualize — or whatever the equivalent for hearing something that you can't hear is — someone's voice is a fun proposition, but in the end your no closer to knowing what the person sounds like than you were when you opened the book.
Hearing the inflections and the nuances that an author gives a piece sometimes makes a world of difference in how you interpret a person's work, and it can help you understand a little of how he or she sees the world. The closest analogy I can think of is watching a play versus reading a script off the page. You might think you've got the meaning of the words, but then you hear the actors speaking the lines and gain new understanding and depths of perception.
Now, there are some poems and poets where the meaning isn't that far below the surface. It doesn't take a post doctorate in English literature to figure out the meaning of a Hallmark card or the equivalent that passes for emotional truths in most of today's world. But there are still writers and work out there where hearing a reading does add another layer of meaning.
It's recently been my good fortune to receive a number of books from Perceval Press of the work of poet/painter/photographer/actor Viggo Mortensen. Leaving aside his work as an actor, although a case could be made for that as well, Mr. Mortensen's work is that of an observer of those things that most of us would walk by and not give a second thought to.
Specifically in his photographs and poetry, the impression that comes across is that the scene under observation, or the object on view through his lens, was simply waiting for him to wander by with pen and paper or camera. What it is that attracts his eye or his ear is what he is attempting to communicate to us through his work.
Dennis Hopper says in his introduction to Viggo's book, Recent Forgeries, that art in the twenty-first century has hopefully reached the point where we are beyond fascination with technique and are content with allowing it to inspire reflection. In other words we should be able to sit, listen, look, hear, and feel without having to particularly understand what the artist has done to achieve an affect.
Now that's all very well and good of course for the visual arts, but for poetry and writing of any kind, concessions have to made for intelligibility. If no one can understand a word of what you've written you might as well have not wasted paper and ink. So the object for the poet is to be able to express the emotions he or she wants to convey by putting together words that may or may not have anything to do with the end result individually, but together generate or convey a feeling.
Of course, what I've written could also be a load of crap posing as an intellectual dissertation on the nature of art, or it could actually stem from an effort to communicate an idea to you. How did it make you feel? Did it piss you off? Did it make you feel like I was a jerk off? Or did it strike a chord of recognition?
You don't know if I'm sitting here typing this with a self-satisfied smirk on my face thinking, "Doesn't that sound great, aren't I brilliant, and nobody is going to understand a word of this so I'll sound even smarter." Or maybe I'm sincerely trying to communicate an idea that I find really important. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hear me saying the words so you had an idea of whether or not I'm sincere?
Which is the point I'm trying to make about Viggo Mortensen and listening to him read his poetry as opposed to just reading it on the pages of a book. If we go by the thesis proposed above about the reader or the viewer just reacting, then you can argue both for and against hearing him read as opposed to reading it yourself.
There are people who would make the argument that after an artist finishes with a creation, he/she surrenders it to the interpretation of others and they should have no say in the matter, let alone offer spoken renditions to cloud the observer's ability to form an impression.
I personally think the argument that listening to the writer read his work is erecting a barrier of interpretation between the audience and the work is a load of crap.
This That And The Other is a compilation of tracks assembled from four amazing discs that Viggo and Buckethead (the musical genius with the KFC headgear and mask preserving his secret identity, and the mind behind Bucketheadland) have produced over the years combining Viggo reading his poetry over musical compositions that their two minds, plus some friends, have come up with.
Listening to Mr. Mortensen read his work, as far as I'm concerned, brings words that were dormant to life. What I get from hearing him speak the words is a deepening of appreciation for what he has to offer as an artist.
Mr. Mortensen's poetry is not your typical verse and rhyming couplet-type thing, or even the more acceptable modern version of free verse. He creates something more along the lines of prose pictures, imagery forged in words that seek to define, in the words of Joyce that he quotes so appropriately in one of his books, the conciseness of his race.
That could encompass an observation on relationships, love lost, and our reactions to those incidences. How we react to the day to day of existence says more about who we are as a people then any grand statement by politicians making patriotic proclamations of pride and prejudice. Listening to the words of Viggo Mortensen one might be tempted to dismiss them as mundane or convoluted, but if listened to closely they have more to say to the heart than is comfortable for most people to hear.
It is easy, as I've shown in this article, to get caught up in intellectualizing art and what it should and shouldn't do. Listening to Viggo Mortensen and Buckethead's renditions of Viggo's works on This That And The Other is to be brought back to the direct immediacy of art and to be given the opportunity to experience a creation firsthand from its creator.
(Image to right is a thumbnail click with mouse to see full size – "Contemplating Viggo": Original photo R. Marcus, Digital treatments and graphic design, E. Marcus)
In my opinion there can be no finer gift that an artist can offer his audience. No matter what your opinions of art and its role or how best to appreciate it if you can't accept that simple truth when listening to This That And The Other, then I think you've missed point of art altogether.
So, sit back, put the disc in the machine, put on your headphones, crank the volume, and go for a trip with Viggo and Buckethead.
Tags books Comedy and Spoken Word Poetry
About Richard Marcus
Richard Marcus is the author of two books commissioned by Ulysses Press, "What Will Happen In Eragon IV?" (2009) and "The Unofficial Heroes Of Olympus Companion". Aside from Blogcritics his work has appeared around the world in publications like the German edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and the multilingual web site Qantara.de. He has been writing for Blogcritics.org since 2005 and has published around 1900 articles at the site.
Comic Review: 'Revenge of the Librarians' by Tom Gauld from Drawn+Quarterly
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Rocket Pass 2 By The Numbers: Infographic
April 5, 2019 Max Parker Community News
Now that Rocket Pass 2 is officially in the rearview mirror, we wanted to take a look back at some of the more impressive numbers achieved throughout its lifespan. It ran just over the three-month mark at 99 days. During that time, players rocketed to new heights and surpassed many of the records set by the original Rocket Pass.
More players made it farther in Rocket Pass 2 when compared to Rocket Pass 1, and the total number of XP earned by the community was in the trillions! A select few players even made it to Tier 1000 and beyond. When it came to items, players expanded their garages with millions of Painted and (NEW!) Special Edition drops that came from the Pro Tiers.
Check out the incredible stats in the infographic below. Thank you to all who participated in Rocket Pass 2. We hope you enjoyed the unique items that were included in the Pass, along with the extra XP, and we'd love for you to let us know what your favorite items were on Twitter, Discord, and Facebook. We're excited to share more info about the future of Rocket Pass and Rocket Pass 3 next week.
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Granville Sharp, né en Angleterre à Durham le , mort le à Fulham, est un savant britannique converti au christianisme évangélique et l'un des pionniers de la lutte pour l'abolition de l'esclavage, « premier héros anglais de l'abolition ».
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Greffier de justice diplômé de droit, Granville Sharp engage sa lutte pour l'abolition de l'esclavage par la rédaction et la publication d'une réfutation détaillée de la doctrine des officiers de justice York et Talbot, doctrine qui justifie la chasse aux esclaves fugitifs en Grande-Bretagne : ils avaient établi en 1729 que des esclaves baptisés ou débarquant sur le sol britannique ne pouvaient en arguer pour réclamer leur libération, dans la mesure où cela ne suffisait pas à faire d'eux des hommes libres. Trois ans plus tard, en 1772, Sharp prolonge cet effort théorique par une action judiciaire. Il s'engage en effet dans la défense d'un esclave américain baptisé en Angleterre qui a fui son maître et qui réclame sa libération, James Somerset. Granville Sharp obtient à cette occasion que le Lord Chief of Justice, Lord Mansfield, reconnaisse que rien dans le droit positif anglais ne permet de maintenir en servitude un esclave fugitif sur le sol britannique, et que dès lors tous les esclaves posant le pied sur le sol de la Grande-Bretagne peuvent être proclamés libres s'ils échappent à leur maître.
La lutte n'est cependant pas toujours couronnée de succès. Ainsi, avec l'aide d'un esclave affranchi devenu une figure de la cause abolitionniste, Olaudah Equiano, Granville Sharp cherche en 1783 à faire avancer la cause abolitionniste en faisant valoir qu'un esclave n'est pas, sur un navire, une « marchandise » comme les autres. En effet, le propriétaire du navire négrier Zong, dont le capitaine a été « contraint » en 1781 de jeter à la mer sa cargaison de 132 esclaves touchée par une épidémie afin d'éviter la contagion, s'adresse aux tribunaux britanniques pour déterminer s'il est légitime qu'il soit indemnisé par son assurance comme on pouvait l'être en pareil cas quand il s'agissait d'animaux. Malgré les efforts de Sharp, le Lord Chief Justice Mansfield conclut que, « si choquant que ce fût, le cas des esclaves était exactement assimilable à celui des chevaux ».
Sharp fonde par ailleurs la Société pour la conversion des Juifs au christianisme et la British and Foreign Bible Society (« Société biblique britannique et internationale »), qui existe toujours en 2008, membre de l'Alliance biblique universelle.
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Naissance en novembre 1735
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Maharani Jind Kaur (महारानी जिन्द कौर) (1817 – 1 August 1863), also known as "Maharani Zinda" was the youngest wife of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and the mother of the last Maharaja Duleep Singh. She was renowned for her beauty, energy and strength of purpose and was popularly known as Rani Jindan, but her fame is derived chiefly from the fear she engendered in the British in India, who described her as "the Messalina of the Punjab".
1 Jind Kaur as Regent
2 Born at Chachar, Gujranwala
3 Mother of Maharaja Dalip Singh
4 ठाकुर देशराज लिखते हैं
Jind Kaur as Regent
After the assassinations of Ranjit Singh's first three successors, Duleep Singh came to power in September 1843 at the age of 5 and Jind Kaur became Regent on her son's behalf. After the Sikhs lost the First Anglo-Sikh War she was replaced in December 1846 by a Council of Regency, under the control of a British Resident. However, her power and influence continued and, to counter this, the British imprisoned and exiled her. Over thirteen years passed before she was again permitted to see her son, who had been taken away from India to England.
Born at Chachar, Gujranwala
Jind Kaur was born in Chachar, Gujranwala, the daughter of Manna Singh Aulakh, the overseer of the royal kennels. She had an elder brother, Jawahar Singh and an elder sister, who married Sardar Jawala Singh Padhania, the Chief of Padhana in the Lahore District. Manna Singh extolled Jind Kaur's beauty and virtues to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who summoned and married her in 1835 by sending his 'arrow and sword' to the village.
Mother of Maharaja Dalip Singh
On 6 September 1838 she gave birth to her only child, Duleep Singh. On the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839, she did not commit sati with the senior wives as she needed to care for her 10 month old infant. After confiscation of Punjab in 1849, British Government gave her life-long pension.
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महारानी जिन्दा - महाराज रणजीतसिंह की अन्तिम रानी जिन्दा थीं। ये सरदार मल्लसिंह की सुपुत्री थीं। महाराज दिलीप इन्हीं से पैदा हुए थे। पंजाब-हरण के बाद सरकार ने इनकी बड़ी भारी पेन्शन करके इन्हें काशी भेज दिया था। वहां से यह नेपाल को इसलिए भाग गई कि वहां के राजा की मदद से अपने पंजाब को वापस ले लें।[1]
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The Bitter Southerner with Chuck Reece
By Kenji KuramotoJune 12, 2018 No Comments
The Bitter Southerner is a publication dedicated to sharing real stories about the real south. They have been an Acuity customer for almost two years. We sat down with the Founder and Editor-in-Chief Chuck Reece to discuss The Bitter Southerner's story and how they have evolved over the past few years.
What inspired you to start The Bitter Southerner?
It was in late 2011. I was with my then-fiancée (now wife) in New Orleans. We've always had an appreciation for craft cocktails, so we spent a good portion of the trip trying the best that NOLA had to offer. We were so impressed with the bars, bartenders, and cocktails. There was this rich blend of cultures and flavors, and you could tell these people had really mastered their craft.
A few weeks later I came across an article about the fifty best cocktail bars in the world. It was by Drinks International which is essentially the global Bible of the bar business. I was shocked to see that none of the New Orleans bars that we'd visited had made the list. And beyond that – there wasn't even a venue in the entire American South represented.
It got me thinking. So much of the world – and even the rest of the country – knows so little about the south. And what they do know or what they think they know comes from stereotypes from movies and TV shows. But the south has so much more to offer than that.
That's where the idea came in. Let's start a publication to show people the south that I know and love. We started brainstorming ideas for the name. The light bulb moment was when we thought of "bitter," because it represented our feelings on the way the south is perceived, but it also ties back to cocktails which inspired this whole concept in the first place.
I had a background in Journalism. My buddy Dave had experience in design, and together we started drafting up the first idea. We were both working full-time jobs, so this became a side project. There were a lot of long nights, but our passion paid off. Our goal was to publish one feature story every Tuesday for an entire year, and I'm so proud to say that we published fifty-two really good long-form feature stories all on our own.
Have there been any memorable milestones along the way?
On our 1 year anniversary, we did a membership drive, very much like public radio. That was really memorable. A couple of years later, we formed a partnership with Community Newspapers Inc. in Athens, and that was the first time that we had a partner that could bring the business discipline and processes that we needed to take us to the next level. Along the way, we also started our General Store. There's some pretty cool merchandise in there, and all of it funds the creatives who work on our projects. Last fall our first print publication came out, which is exciting in itself, but we were even more thrilled when it sold out! And along the way, we've created a passionate community. That has been the best part.
What has been your favorite story to-date?
Phew! That is tough. We have had some great pieces come out over the years. We work with some really talented folks. But I do have one that comes to mind. One of my favorite parts of this job is having the opportunity to develop young talent and giving them a place to shine. I used to serve on the board of directors for The Red & Black – the University of Georgia student newspaper. I specifically recall after one meeting, the managing editor of the paper approached me and said that he had a story idea for me. It's called A Carolina Dog, and it's been one of the most widely read stories on our site for the last four years.
How did you come across Acuity?
When we started working with Community Newspapers Inc. and tightening up our processes, we realized that we needed to outsource our back office tasks. We searched around and considered a handful of companies, but ultimately Acuity was the best fit for us.
What about Acuity makes it a good fit for The Bitter Southerner?
Up until the print publication last fall, our entire business had existed online. Our site is on Squarespace, and our General Store is on Shopify. We were pulling financial data from a handful of different sources, but Acuity made this easy. Their ability to streamline the process was really the deciding factor for me. They also got us set up with tools like Bill.com to help with payments and other tasks.
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On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned, killing 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers.
The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English, working 12 hours a day, every day. In 1911, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances.
Did you know? Exactly 79 years to the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, another tragic fire occurred in New York City. The blaze, at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, killed 87 people, the most deadly fire in the city since 1911.
The danger of fire in factories like the Triangle Shirtwaist was well-known, but high levels of corruption in both the garment industry and city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires. Blanck and Harris already had a suspicious history of factory fires. The Triangle factory was twice scorched in 1902, while their Diamond Waist Company factory burned twice, in 1907 and in 1910. It seems that Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large fire-insurance policies they purchased, a not uncommon practice in the early 20th century. While this was not the cause of the 1911 fire, it contributed to the tragedy, as Blanck and Harris refused to install sprinkler systems and take other safety measures in case they needed to burn down their shops again.
On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire began in a rag bin. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but was unsuccessful, as the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. As the fire grew, panic ensued. The young workers tried to exit the building by the elevator but it could hold only 12 people and the operator was able to make just four trips back and forth before it broke down amid the heat and flames. In a desperate attempt to escape the fire, the girls left behind waiting for the elevator plunged down the shaft to their deaths. The girls who fled via the stairwells also met awful demises–when they found a locked door at the bottom of the stairs, many were burned alive.
Those workers who were on floors above the fire, including the owners, escaped to the roof and then to adjoining buildings. As firefighters arrived, they witnessed a horrible scene. The girls who did not make it to the stairwells or the elevator were trapped by the fire inside the factory and began to jump from the windows to escape it. The bodies of the jumpers fell on the fire hoses, making it difficult to begin fighting the fire. Also, the firefighters ladders reached only seven floors high and the fire was on the eighth floor. In one case, a life net was unfurled to catch jumpers, but three girls jumped at the same time, ripping the net. The nets turned out to be mostly ineffectual.
Within 18 minutes, it was all over. Forty-nine workers had burned to death or been suffocated by smoke, 36 were dead in the elevator shaft and 58 died from jumping to the sidewalks. With two more dying later from their injuries, a total of 145 people were killed by the fire. The workers union set up a march on April 5 on New York's Fifth Avenue to protest the conditions that had led to the fire; it was attended by 80,000 people.
Despite a good deal of evidence that the owners and management had been horribly negligent in the fire, a grand jury failed to indict them on manslaughter charges. Still, the massacre for which they were responsible did finally compel the city to enact reform. In addition to the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law passed that October, the New York Democratic set took up the cause of the worker and became known as a reform party. Both were crucial in preventing similar disasters in the future. | {
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West Coast Region, originally the Western Division, also known as Foni or Fonyi, was one of the five administrative divisions of the Gambia. Its capital was Brikama. It was subsequently reorganised as the Brikama Local Government Area (LGA), without any change in the area covered.
Per 2013 census, the region had a population of 699,704 with a population density of 397. The total number of households was 45,396 as of 2003. As of 2003, the total area of the region is 1764.3 km2. The infant mortality rate was 71 for every thousand births and the under-five mortality was 93 per every thousand births. The poverty gap ratio was 22.4 per cent and literacy rate was 69.7 per cent as of 2003.
Geography
The Gambia is the smallest country in Africa and the width of the strip-like structure never exceeds . It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and otherwise surrounded by Senegal. The Gambia River flows throughout the country and is the principal source of water and a transport route. The banks of the river have swampy beaches, while it has alluvial soil in all other parts, which is conducive for the growth of rice. Peanuts are the major cash crop. The weather is usually warm and dry. The elevation of the country reaches to a maximum of above the mean sea level. There are vast segments of sedimentary sandstone and claystone in the valleys of the rivers and the regions surrounding it. The river flows from Guinea and has an east–west axis. The shallow water in the coastline are important sources of fishing. They are mangrove and banto forests along the coastline. Over the river segment of , there are numerous creeks, which are locally called boloons. The months from June to September experience a wet season, while the remaining seven months are dry. The average annual rainfall is around in the south east, while it is in the northwest. Experts have assessed that the overall rainfall during the century period between 1886 and 1992, there has been a reduction in rainfall of around 15-20 per cent and the wet season has been shortened.
Demographics
Per 2013 census, the region had a population of 699,704 with a population density of 397. The total number of households was 45,396 as of 2003. As of 2003, the total area of the region is 1764.3 km2. The infant mortality rate was 71 for every thousand births and the under-five mortality was 93 per every thousand births. The poverty gap ratio was 22.4 per cent as of 2003. The literacy rate of the province was 69.7 compared to a national average of 62.9 per cent. The net enrollment ratio in primary education was 70 per cent, children entering first grade of primary school reaching last grade of primary education was 99.5 per cent and the ratios of boys against girls in primary, secondary and tertiary education was 1.03 as of 2007.
Local administration
The Gambia along with modern-day Senegal were colonies of French and British until 1894 when it became a British colony. Both the countries got independence in 1965 and operated in a federation called Senegambia from 1982.Senegal gained independence in 1960 not 1965. During 1989, the confederation collapsed. In a bloodless coup, Lieutenant Yahya Jamme in 1994 and went on to win multi party elections in three subsequent elections. He has also defeated coups successfully and unlike the West African countries, the Gambia has a relative stable governance. The Local Govemment Act passed in 2002 superseded the previous local government acts like Local Government Act (Amended 1984), Local
Government (City of Banjul) Act (Amended 1988), The Kanifing Municipal Council Act 1991 and the Provinces Act. There were seven local governments defined each subdivided into districts and wards. The Mayor who is the chairperson of the council and the council members of each council is elected by people of the area. The legislations indicating the roles were not clearly defined, but the council is responsible for finance, services and planning for each sector under it. Around 25 per cent of the budget is provisioned by the central government. The council also has a Alkalo or Seyfo representative, a Chief representative, a youth nominee, a woman nominee and other nominated members of local interest groups.
West Coast Region, now the Brikama LGA, is divided into nine districts, namely, Foni Bintang-Karenai, Foni Bondali, Foni Brefet, Foni Jarrol, Foni Kansala, Kombo Central, Kombo East, Kombo North/Saint Mary and Kombo South. The city and area council elections were held during April 2002, when Ahmed Gibril Jassy, an APRC candidate became the Mayor, winning unopposed. The council was led by Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC), which won 22 out of the 24 seats, with the other two seats won by independents.
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
December 4th, 2017 9:46 AM
by Ken Gagne Filed under Game trail;
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I subscribe to only two monthly magazines, one of which is Game Informer. While it's not my only source for video game news, I enjoy its in-depth features on game development, previews of upcoming titles, and reviews of games I might never play.
One of those games is Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, a first-person shooter and the eighth in the Wolfenstein series, released just this past October. The game follows protagonist William "B.J." Blazkowicz, introduced in 1992 in the series' original first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D, as he sets about to free an alternate-history modern America of its Nazi rule.
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I haven't played any Wolfenstein games since that 1992 title, but I was struck by this passage in Game Informer's review of the latest game:
The New Colossus does not shy away from tough themes but, on the contrary, aggressively pursues them. The 14-hour campaign tackles racism, being complicit in cruelty, executions, child abuse, despair, patricide, the holocaust, white supremacy, and terrorism. While these themes are dark, the game handles them well, giving a proper amount of drama and emotional depth to each while also refusing to offer easy answers to the questions that plague the characters' hearts. However, this parade of tragedy is never too much to bear, because the game takes the time to throw in wacky humor, like when machines are zapping Nazis into a fine red goop while Set Roth explains to B.J. just how broken his body is. You also see heartfelt moments of romance and friendship among the crew; amongst all the murder and sorrow, The New Colossus makes room for love and hope. Where these brands of tragedy and comedy might mix as well as water and oil in other games, here they are necessary parts to making this experience work as a cohesive whole.
My first reaction was to be impressed that the game had such a strong narrative. I'm a big fan of narrative-driven games, from Life Is Strange to Gone Home, and while first-person shooters often have story, they're hardly the reason gamers play them. But it seems developer MachineGames and publisher Bethesda Softworks have nonetheless taken Wolfenstein's plot seriously. For the first time in 25 years, I find myself wanting to play a Wolfenstein game.
My second reaction was to laugh at the absurdity of the juxtaposition of such a strong narrative with incredibly violent gameplay. The New Colossus is rated 'M' by the Entertainment Software Rating Board for reasons that include plot and narrative but which focus primarily on the action: "Combat is frenetic, with realistic gunfire, explosions, screams of pain, and large blood-splatter effects. Some weapons allow players to blow off enemies' heads or cut off their limbs; cutscenes sometimes show decapitations and/or acts of disembowelment." It is no doubt this gratuitous violence, not the "heartfelt moments of romance and friendship", that will attract most gamers.
My third reaction was disbelief at how far the Wolfenstein franchise has come. Although it may have achieved mainstream popularity with its 3D incarnation in 1992, the series was founded in 1981 by Silas Warner's Castle Wolfenstein, a 2D, top-down stealth game. Did Warner ever expect that his humble program would evolve to "make room for love and hope"? Would he see any of his genetic code embedded in this descendant? What would he think of The New Colossus?
It's impossible to say: the first and latest Wolfenstein games are so far removed from each other at this point as to share only a name and general anti-Nazi theme, such that Warner may see only a passing resemblance. But as a gamer, I'm heartened that the Apple II has made possible such a prominent, highly anticipated, and well-received entry in the modern gaming landscape. Whether or not most gamers realize it, our lineage persists.
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Microdosing vs Placebo
Is microdosing real, or is it all a placebo effect?
Microdosing is when you take a sub-pharmacological dose of a substance. Often a psychedelic like psilocybin mushrooms or Lysergamides.
Advocates for microdosing say it helps boost productivity, aids creativity, and gives you that extra focus you might need for school.
Microdosing has all kinds of advantages. But how much of it is real versus perceived? Are people who are microdosing experiencing the placebo effect?
Let's get to the bottom of this!
Microdosing is the practice of taking small, sub-therapeutic doses of a psychedelic drug, such as LSD or psilocybin, to improve mood, creativity, and cognitive function.
The idea behind microdosing is that taking a tiny amount of a psychedelic drug can produce subtle changes in a person's mental state. These changes can be beneficial without causing the intense, sometimes unsettling effects that can occur at higher doses.
Microdosing is still a relatively new practice, and we always welcome more research. But so far, our studies indicate that microdosing isn't entirely a placebo.
What is a Placebo?
A placebo is a substance that looks like a medication but contains no active ingredients. It is typically used in medical research as a control substance to help researchers understand the effects of a real medication.
In a clinical trial, for example, one group of participants might be given the medication. While another group, known as the control group, would be given a placebo.
The participants in the study would not know which group they were in, and the researchers would compare the effects of the medication and the placebo on the participants to determine if the drug was effective.
Placebos are commonly used in medical research because they can help control for the psychological effects of taking a medication, such as the expectation of improvement or the desire to please the researchers.
Researchers believe placebos work through the power of suggestion and the psychological effects of taking a medication. When a person takes a placebo, they may expect to feel better or to experience some other benefit, and this expectation can sometimes produce fundamental physical or psychological changes.
For example, if a person believes that a placebo pill will help them relax, they may feel more relaxed after taking it. This phenomenon is known as the placebo effect.
While placebos do not contain any active ingredients, the psychological effects of taking one can sometimes produce measurable changes in a person's symptoms or behaviour. This is why scientists use placebos in their research. They can control for the psychological effects of taking medication. And they help determine whether a real medication is effective.
With that said, are the results of microdosing merely a placebo or an actual phenomenon?
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If you want to know if microdosing produces tangible benefits vs a placebo effect, you'll have to look at placebo-controlled studies.
In placebo-controlled studies, researchers give one group of participants a small dose of the psychedelic. While another group, known as the control group, is given a placebo.
The participants in the study would not know which group they were in. And the researchers would compare the drug's and the placebo's effects on the participants to see if the drug has any measurable benefits.
Microdosing studies are still relatively new, and more research is needed to fully understand the benefits and potential risks of this practice. But fortunately, we have some solid microdosing studies we can reference.
One study published in Addiction Biology found that microdosing with low doses of LSD for two weeks produced results that weren't in the placebo-controlled group.
Participants reported feeling less fearful, isolated, and prone to flight-or-fight responses. They also felt more enthusiastic and energetic.
That said, the lead researcher said the effect wasn't "robust" but admitted the size and scope of the study were limited.
Does Science Support Microdosing vs. Placebo?
Another placebo-controlled study looking at microdosing came to less-than-optimal conclusions. The researchers of this study concluded that "expectation underlies at least some of the anecdotal benefits attributed to microdosing."
But notice the phrase, at least some. Meaning they couldn't attribute everything to the placebo effect.
The researchers measured brain changes in the microdosing participants. They had altered EEG rhythms. EEG rhythms are patterns of brain activity that researchers record using an electroencephalography (EEG) machine.
EEG measures the brain's electrical activity by recording the voltage changes that occur in the brain's cells as they communicate. When these voltage changes are plotted over time, they form an EEG trace, which researchers can analyze to identify specific patterns or rhythms.
EEG rhythms can provide insight into the brain's function. And researchers can use it to diagnose and monitor various brain disorders. They are also of interest to researchers studying brain function and the effects of multiple interventions on brain activity.
The researchers of our microdosing study couldn't pinpoint how these EEG rhythm changes correlated to certain behaviours. But it's clear microdosing is doing something beyond a mere placebo effect.
The Science behind Microdosing vs. Placebo
In partnership with the Maastricht Programme, the UK-based Beckley Foundation conducted a study on microdosing in a laboratory.
The first of its kind, researchers had participants microdose LSD or a placebo. Researchers took blood samples every hour and detected changes using an ELISA test. (ELISA stands for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, a type of diagnostic test that researchers use to detect the presence of a specific substance).
The result? Researchers found changes in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).
BDNF plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining the nervous system. We know it has several other essential functions in the body.
For example, researchers believe it regulates mood, learning, and memory. It may also have a role in developing some mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety.
Researchers did not find these changes in the BDNF in the placebo-control group.
While we always welcome more collaborating research, this Beckley study is fundamental in understanding how microdosing goes beyond mere placebo. (This study also found pain-killing properties, further proving that microdosing is not a placebo.)
Are you looking for a way to boost your focus and memory? Microdosing may be the answer you're looking for!
It's clear that microdosing produces brain changes, but do these changes translate into greater focus or lesser anxiety? By influencing the part of the brain that regulates our mood, learning, and memory, microdosing can play a positive role.
Overall, microdosing protocols set the foundation for positive brain changes. And once we think and feel these brain changes, we can change our behaviour to be more productive or less anxious.
In other words, research indicates that when it comes to microdosing vs placebo, microdosing wins.
Start your microdosing journey today.
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When choosing an investment manager, Gene Sulzberger believes there's no substitute for visiting a financial professional in the firm's office. "You can learn a lot about a company from seeing behind the scenes and meeting the people who work there," said Sulzberger, senior vice president and chief research officer for PRS Investment Advisory in Miami.
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To make it easier to compare prospective wealth managers, Sulzberger recommends asking a series of questions about the firm's investment philosophy and processes, such as:
• How does the firm make investment decisions?
• What are the differences between a discretionary or non-discretionary account?
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Sulzberger also points to the importance of staying focused on long-term objectives, rather than responding to the daily ups and downs of the markets.
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Gene C. Sulzberger is senior vice president and chief research officer, PRS Investment Advisory, in Miami. He is member of The Florida Bar, a Certified Financial Planner and a Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner who works with U.S. and international high net worth clients. Sulzberger, who has more than 20 years of trust and investment experience, joined the registered investment advisory firm in 2008. PRS is wholly owned by EFG International of Switzerland, with offices and affiliates in 30 countries.
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Andy Flower says the England Lions players in the UAE – a squad including Worcestershire duo Joe Clarke and Ross Whiteley – have the chance to "put themselves at the front of the minds of the national selectors."
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PyCellChemistry Online Documentation
About PyCellChemistry: introduction, motivation
Getting started: requirements, download, installation
Warming up: some tutorials
Writing your own AC
About PyCellChemistry
PyCellChemistry is a software package for the design and development of Artificial Chemistries (ACs) and for the exploration of their behavior. It is intended to facilitate people to program their own artificial chemistries in Python, a programming language that is especially accessible and easy to learn. The package illustrates how to implement artificial chemistries through simple examples.
Beware that in contrast with related AC packages, PyCellChemistry does not focus on the usage a specific chemistry, but on the implementation of a variety of chemistries. Therefore the user of PyCellChemistry must have at least some notions of programming, especially object-oriented programming. Some guidelines for beginners are available here.
The package has been designed with a minimalistic philosophy in mind. Our main concerns were an easy installation and programming, enabling a quick start for new users. Therefore we have tried to reduce the amount of external libraries and packages required to a minimum. Hence the basic package does not offer fancy graphics and user interfaces, in order to avoid dependency on elaborated graphics support.
However, since graphics and visualization are also important in artificial chemistries, they are being integrated into the system in an incremental way: first of all, a few optional shell scripts are included in the package, that visualize various results using gnuplot and python matplotlib. Version 2.0 includes examples of reaction-diffusion chemstries that can be visualized interactively on top of VPython.
Disclaimer: The package is provided as is, without any guarantees. Although we have done our best to offer a functional package, it is still possible that bugs persist to date. Beware that the package has been designed for maximum ease of use and didactic content, and not necessarily for maximum efficiency. We believe that the main usage of this package is as a rapid prototyping tool to test and compare a variety of ACs.
PyCellChemistry has been tested under Python 2.6 and 2.7, on MacOS and Linux. The software is designed to be as platform independent as possible, so we expect that it should run on other platforms as well, although we had no opportunity for extensive testing so far.
The core of PyCellChemistry depends only on numpy. Most of the examples generate tab-separated output files that can be plotted with your favorite plotting tool (R, Matlab, Excel, ...)
Optional shell scripts are provided in the src/scripts folder, for convenience. These scripts run the various artificial chemistry examples and plot the results. Many of them rely on gnuplot for plotting, some on python matplotlib.
Version 2.0 includes Reaction-Diffusion examples that can be visualized interactively with VPython.
Alternatively, snapshots in PNG format can be generated at regular intervals. These snapshots can be later combined into animations or movies. Thanks to stackoverflow bloggers and the Blender team, these PNG files can be generated from python+numpy without any extra library requirements.
Downloading the package:
Source code in zip format:
pycellchem-2.0.zip, September 2015: latest version
pycellchem-1.0.zip, July 2015: first public release
Source code in compressed tar format:
pycellchem-2.0.tgz, September 2015: latest version
pycellchem-1.0.tgz, July 2015: first public release
Installing and running the latest version (click here for earlier versions):
Unpack the file pycellchem-2.0.tar.gz or pycellchem-2.0.zip at your favorite location.
Go to the pycellchem-2.0/src folder and execute the desired example from the command line:
cd pycellchem-2.0/src
python Chameleons.py > chameleons.gr
python MatrixChem.py > matchem.gr
Reaction-diffusion examples can be found in the pycellchem-2.0/src/RD folder
cd pycellchem-2.0/src/RD
python GrayScott.py
by default these examples require VPython to run
See the documentation below for more examples and more detailed information about each example.
Some introductory slides can also be found in [Yamamoto2015].
An introductory video is also available.
The first step to build an artificial chemistry is to decide whether it should be constructive or not:
A constructive chemistry enables new molecule species to be created which had not been "pre-programmed" in the system beforehand. The creation of such novel species opens up the possibilities for new reaction pathways too. AlChemy [Fontana1994], autocatalytic sets of proteins [Kauffman1986], and the matrix chemistry [Banzhaf1993] are examples of constructive chemistries.
A nonconstructive chemistry, on the other hand, presents a fixed set of molecular species and their reactions, well-known by design time. This is the case of designed molecular circuits such as the repressilator [Elowitz2000] or the Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction [Field1974].
Building a nonconstructive chemistry:
The Chameleons example: with a discussion about Winkler's puzzle
The Dimer example
A constructive chemistry:
The Number Chemistry example
Adding the notion of space:
The examples above showed well-mixed chemistries, but these have limited applicability. Most of the more realisitc chemistries live in a two- or three-dimensional space, or in networks of interconnected computers. In PyCellChemistry version 2.0 we have included a few examples of reaction-diffusion systems, that extend upon the basic reaction system of PyCellChemistry with a two-dimensional grid where chemicals can diffuse and react, forming various patterns.
A very well-known example of reaction-diffusion is the Gray-Scott system, where various patterns may form, including self-replicating spots, stripes, and spirals [Pearson1993] [Mazin1996]:
The Gray-Scott example
Delving deeper into the chemistries:
More details about the other chemistries in the package will appear in this section soon...
Meanwhile a reference page for each module is available in the manual below.
Reference Manuals
Reference Manual for PyCellChemistry-2.0
The tutorials and examples provided are intended to provide some basic concepts and initial ideas about ways to program new ACs. One of the best ways to learn is via examples, hence we suggest that after playing with the examples, you start your own chemistry by modifying or extending some of these examples. We believe that once the core elements of your chemistry operate well in Python, it will be easier for you to move on to a computationally more efficient implementation in C, C++, Java or other programming languages.
We welcome any ideas and contributions. PyCellChemistry is free software, under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It has primarily an educational goal. We hope that it will foster a community of developers around common methods and best-practice procedures to program ACs, to learn how to program ACs, and to improve their accessibility, such that new and relevant applications can be more easily constructed based on the AC concept.
In the future we should set up a repository for collaborative software development, for instance from github or sourceforge. For now however, please send any bug reports or other remarks concerning the software or the web site to Lidia Yamamoto.
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[Yamamoto2015a] Lidia Yamamoto and Wolfgang Banzhaf, Emergence in Artificial Chemistries, talk at the 4th Conference on Emergence in Chemical Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2015.
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For a while now we have been mocking the fruity cargo cult Apple for being unable to upgrade its Macbook Pro. Now it seems that Jobs Mob has suddenly woken up to the fact that you can't claim you are cutting edge while peddling four-year-old stock.
Part of the issue was religions. Steve Jobs (peace be upon him) claimed that tablets marked the end of the PC era. Now that tablets have nearly died out, some in Apple are having to face the whole that means "Steve was wrong" issue. Normally that issue is resolved by being burnt at the stake outside the Cappuccino headquarters, but with tablets failing Jobs' vision is looking equally fallible.
In fact, word on the street is that the Apple board are quietly hoping that going back to the company's PC roots might help stave off the mounting losses as its iPhone cash cow dies.
The rumours are that the updated notebooks will be thinner, include a touch screen strip for function keys, and will be offered with more powerful and efficient graphics processors for expert users such as video gamers.
The new MacBook Pros have a smaller footprint than current models and the casing has shallower curves around the edges. The pressure-sensitive trackpad is also slightly wider, the person added.
It is also rumoured that the Pro will get AMDs new "Polaris" graphics chips because the design offers the power efficiency and thinness necessary to fit inside the slimmer Apple notebook. AMD wins because it is slightly thinner.
Apparently these machines have been in "advanced testing" since earlier this year. We can't see how that works. Firstly, Polaris is fairly recent and secondly knocking out a laptop does not take that long. Lastly what is there to test? The only thing which makes it different from most other laptops is the design and once you have knocked out there is nothing really more than put in all the hardware make sure it goes and that nothing catches fire.
If the rumour is correct Apple did all that and spent nine months in "advanced testing" while all the earlier work became out of date and required new bits. It is more likely that a couple of weeks ago someone saw the bad press coverage Apple is starting to get and decided to knock one out to shut us all up. If it follows the normal laptop development line it will be out by Christmas.This will coincidently make it possible to be one of the first to get a Zen chip.
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Q: What will happen if there is large amounts (massive) of electrons in a region? For large amount of hydrogen, they will be bound by gravitation force, start fushion and become a star, how about electrons? Will they also "fuse"?
A: See this recent entertaining What If article from XKCD creator Randall Munroe describing the results of having our Moon being replaced by an equivalent mass of electrons. The force of the electrons' mutual repulsion would be twenty orders of magnitude larger than that of their mutual gravity pulling them together. The best quote:
The amount of energy in our electron Moon, it turns out, is about equal to the total mass and energy of the entire visible universe.
It does not end well.
A: Electrons aren't made up of constituent parts, they are elementary particles. Thus, they will not fuse.
It's also worth noting that the region that fusion occurs at the heart of stars is not only to do with the amount of a particular element, but the heat in the star. The protons have to move with enough energy such that they overcome the repulsion between them due to them having the same charge, and collide.
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Prestigious recognition: NM wineries bring home awards from San Francisco International Wine Competition
By Rozanna M. Martinez / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 at 4:46pm
Updated: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 at 4:47pm
Some New Mexico wineries recently cleaned up at several prestigious national and international competitions.
Vara Wines & Distillery recently won a number of medals at the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition and other competitions. (Courtesy of Vara Wines & Distillery)
The San Francisco International Wine Competition is one of the largest and most influential wine competitions in the world. Founded in 1980, the competition uses a blind tasting that allows every entry to be judged fairly. This year, more than 8,000 wines were judged from all over the world, according to a Vara Winery & Distillery news release.
Wines from New Mexico's Gruet Winery, La Chiripada Winery, Luna Rossa Winery, Jaramillo Vineyards and Vara Winery & Distillery received awards at the 2020 San Francisco International Wine Competition.
Luna Rossa once again took Double Gold in the competition. This year for its 2016 Nini Red Blend. Last year, it received Double Gold for its 2018 New Mexico Pinot Grigio. Luna Rossa received silver medals for its 2014 Barbera, 2016 Negroamaro, 2019 Chenin Blanc; and bronze medals for its 2019 Pinot Grigio, 2019 Riesling and 2019 Gewürztraminer.
Luna Rossa Winery took Double Gold for its 2016 Nini Red Blend at the 2020 San Francisco International Wine Competition. (Courtesy of Luna Rossa Winery)
"(We) are happy to say we did receive medals in this year's competition," said Marco D'Andrea, Luna Rossa enologist. "Especially receiving a Double Gold for our flagship wine Nini."
Vara Winery & Distillery brought home gold medals for its Vara Garnacha 2018, Vara Tempranillo 2017 USA and its Vara Silverhead Brut Reserva. Silver medals were awarded to its Vara Viura 2018, Vara Albariño 2018, Vara Tempranillo 2018 ESP and Vara Silverhead Brut. Its Vara Garnacha Rosado 2018 and Vara Silverhead Brut Rosado earned bronze medals.
Gruet Winery won a gold medal for its Blanc de Noirs NV. (Courtesy of Gruet Winery)
Gruet won gold for its Blanc de Noirs NV and silver for its Blanc de Blancs NV. Jaramillo Vineyards' 2017 Norton won a silver medal.
Jaramillo Vineyards' 2017 Norton recently won a silver medal at the 2020 San Francisco International Wine Competition. (Courtesy of Jaramillo Winery)
"The Norton grape is a native grape of Virginia and it's the only North American native grape to win medals in Europe," said Jaramillo Vineyards owner Barbara Jaramillo. "It took best new world wine in Vienna in the 1800s. We are the only winery growing it this far south. It's mainly grown in Virginia and Missouri."
La Chiripada Winery took gold for its Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 and silver for its Vintners Reserve 2018. La Chiripada also recently received a silver medal at the Finger Lakes International for its Tempranillo Limited Edition 2018, and bronze medals for its Winemakers Select Red 2017, Rio Embudo Red 2018, Special Reserve Riesling 2018 and Dolcetto 2018.
The accolades did not end in San Francisco. Some of the wineries also were recognized at the New York International Wine Competition 2020 and Rodeo Uncorked! 2021 International Wine Competition at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Vara was awarded the Double Gold medal for its Vara Albariño 2018 at the New York International Wine Competition 2020. It also received gold medals for its Vara Tempranillo 2017 and Vara Silverhead Brut Rosado; silver medals for its Vara Silverhead Brut Reserva, Vara Silverhead Brut Cava, and Vara Viura 2018; and bronze medals for its Vara Garnacha Rosado 2018 and Vara Garnacha 2018.
"In a year full of trials and tribulations and uncertainty, it is incredibly gratifying to be recognized by two very prestigious wine competitions," said Jessie McKeon, sales & distribution manager at Vara Winery & Distillery. "The San Francisco International Wine Competition is judged by true leaders and professionals in the industry. To see our wines appreciated on a world stage is a huge honor. The judging panel for The New York International Wine Competition are industry leaders, the people that choose what goes on a wine list or in a specialty bottle shop. We are thrilled that they collectively rated our lineup of wines so highly."
Down in Houston at the Rodeo Uncorked! 2021 International Wine Competition, Noisy Water Winery made some noise bringing home a number of medals. It won silver medals for its Proprietor Grown Zia Chardonnay, New Mexico, 2019. It also took silver for its Tighty Whitey White, Forbidden Desert Vineyard, New Mexico, 2019, which is a dry chenin blanc, and silver for its Vintner's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, New Mexico, 2018. The winery's bronze medal winners are its Demigod Cabernet Sauvignon, New Mexico, 2018, Jo Mamma's Sweet Red, and Jo Mamma's Sweet White. Also medaling at the Houston competition was Gruet. It was awarded gold for its Gruet Brut Rose NV, and silver for its Gruet Blanc de Noirs NV and Gruet Blanc de Blancs NV. In addition to the San Francisco and Houston competitions, Gruet has other feathers in its hat, including several Smart Buy, Top 100 Wines recognition by Wine Spectator for its Gruet Brut NV, Gruet Blanc de Noirs NV and Gruet Sauvage NV. It also received accolades at the Texsom International with a bronze for its Sparkling Pinot Meunier and Gruet Sauvage, as well as gold medals for its Gruet Sauvage and Gruet Brut Rose NV at the Sunset International Wine Competition 2020.
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Conference Format
WCB & FAB
Conference Theme & Tracks
On behalf of the planning committee of the 15th World Congress of Bioethics, we invite you to join us virtually on June 19-21, 2020 to immerse yourself in three days of cutting-edge bioethics research, networking, and fun in a physically distanced but socially connected setting.
The conference theme is Autonomy and Solidarity: Bridging the Tensions. We describe here the ways in which this timely theme weaves together important strands in bioethics and offers a major unifying thread for the virtual conference.
Reflection on the nature of autonomy and solidarity is critical in bioethics and has also recently become of increasing political importance around the world. Recognizing these developments, our planning group has a two-fold aim for this Congress. First, as all previous Congresses, we want to showcase the best in bioethics research from both established and new scholars. Second, we want to facilitate networking and the unique exchange of ideas that emerge when people from different disciplines, cultures, mindsets, and methodological approaches engage with one another. Needless to say, this second objective is also one shared by all previous Congresses aiming to foster inter- and transdisciplinary bioethics—but its urgency has perhaps never been greater.
At every step in planning the Congress, we were clear that solidarity must be reflected throughout the program design. We highlight just three core elements here. To enable the widest range of participants to join us, before going live with the conference website, we raised $50,000 for bursaries for participants from low- and middle-income countries and for early career researchers. Through a novel conference support fund, we hope to allow participants who are able to contribute to show solidarity with those who need assistance to attend the conference. For the initial in-person format, we worked closely with Penn's International Student and Scholar Services, and established the visa buddy initiative assisted with challenges in the visa process. (These elements are no longer relevant at the time we switched to the virtual format, but hopefully will be of use to future WCB hosts.) These efforts have helped us to deeply discount the virtual registration rate to allow more colleagues from around the world to participate. The bursary funding secured will be provided to applicants who applied previously to reimburse canceled travel plans and provide them with free registration to participate in the now virtual conference.
Please browse the other sections of the website for other ways in which we aim, before and during the Congress, to practice and encourage solidarity.
We realize that you may have plenty of other priorities such as the health of your family, work, and volunteer obligations to focus. We understand all of this, first-hand, not just from working on the new virtual format. But we'd also put this in consideration: Your colleagues, especially junior researchers, need you. We provide a range of feedback and networking opportunities, and your interaction is as valuable, if not more, than in an in-person setting. Your fees, likewise, help colleagues from around the world to engage with the global bioethics community. The technological hurdle is very similar to submitting your abstract in the first place. You can do it. It helps others, and it will be fun—wherever you are.
We hope that you will help us make the 2020 World Congress a success by participating and meeting global colleagues in this new virtual format!
Jonathan D. Moreno, Co-Chair
Harald Schmidt, Co-Chair
World Congress of Bioethics (WCB)
The International Association of Bioethics (IAB) awarded the 15th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) to the University of Pennsylvania, taking place June 19-21, 2020. The WCB aims to be truly international, linking all those working in bioethics and related fields, facilitating mutual contact, and encouraging the discussion of cross-cultural aspects in bioethics. Past Congresses have been held in Bangalore (2018), Edinburgh (2016), Mexico City (2014), Rotterdam (2012), Singapore (2010), Croatia (2008), China (2006), Australia (2004), Brazil (2002), the United Kingdom (2000), Japan (1998), the United States of America (1996), Argentina (1994), and Amsterdam (1992).
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB)
The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) is a network of activists and scholars working in the field of feminist bioethics and is affiliated with the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). The FAB is the IAB's largest sub-network. The FAB pre-conference convenes a 1-day meeting virtually immediately prior to the WCB on June 18, 2020. The final event of FAB 2020 will be a plenary session run jointly with IAB 2020.
Virtual Proceedings
On behalf of the 2020 World Congress of Bioethics Planning Committee and the International Association of Bioethics, we are pleased to inform you that the Congress is moving to a virtual platform over the original meeting dates of June 19-21, 2020 and being proceeded by the FAB pre-conference on June 18, 2020.
Please see the separate Format page on how the virtual meeting works, which combines live and pre-recorded sessions with a range of ways of interacting before, during, and 90 days after the Congress.
Autonomy and Solidarity: Bridging the Tensions
From the inception of bioethics, debates within bioethics have been focused on—some might say, obsessed with— defining the scope and limitations of individual freedom, typically within the rubric of autonomy. The concept remains central. But recent decades have broadened the overall focus of debate in two important ways.
First, bioethics has expanded beyond clinical and medical ethics to public health ethics. That is, in addition to individual-centered issues arising in medical practice or research, scholars have considered the population-level. They have addressed what individuals are owed—and what they owe—in contexts such as healthcare resource allocation, preparing for and responding to pandemics, or enabling healthy living and work environments.
Second, in parallel to economic globalization and a world brought closer together through the internet, there has been broader debate about how to respond to dramatic differences in life expectancy and quality of life across countries. News and social media inform us about the consequences of poor health policy or research practices, natural disasters, or political turmoil occurring thousands of miles away. International governance structures seek to assist those in need, and many of the world's more privileged individuals support those worse off outside of these formal arrangements—but the persistent inequality remains shocking.
The concept of solidarity cuts across both recent trends in bioethics, revealing the limitations of a bioethics narrowly focused on individual autonomy. Solidarity with vulnerable and non-vulnerable groups enables autonomy at the local and global level. But its exact meaning, including what obligations people have to act in a solidaristic way, remains far from clear.
This conference, as all previous World Congresses, is open to the diverse conceptual and methodological approaches as well as disparate fields of inquiry that bioethics comprises. We nonetheless hope that a major unifying theme that will run through the conference will be new perspectives on the boundaries of solidarity with those we identify with—or should identify with—as equally deserving of assistance, rights or respect.
VIRTUAL TRACKS & THEMES
There are four formats available on-demand: individual papers, posters, symposia, and workshops.
All types are organized in 10 tracks:
1) Clinical and health care ethics
2) Research ethics
3) Public health ethics
4) Ethics of new technologies
5) Environmental and non-human animal ethics
6) Justice, human rights, law, health policy
7) Underrepresented minorities: emerging issues
8) Philosophy, history, religion studies
9) Arts and ethics
10) Other topics in bioethics
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE TIMELINE
May 18, 2020 Speaker Reaffirmation of Presentation Due
June 1, 2020 Presentation Upload and Recordings Due
June 1, 2020 Final Date for Presenters to Register
June 16, 2020 Virtual Platform & Mobile App Launches
WCB is awarding 18 regional prizes for the highest scoring abstracts from the following regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/Oceania. Six prizes each are available in the following three categories:
Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize – Papers Awards
Medard Hilhorst Prize – Posters Awards
Early Career Researcher Prize, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust – Any Format
All abstracts meeting the review criteria will be eligible for consideration of the available prizes. Your presentation affirmation must be received by May 18 to be considered.
IAB Board of Directors
WCB 2020 Planning Committee
University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Ezekiel Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives
Chris Feudtner
Steve Joffe
Interim Chair, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Jonathan D. Moreno
Primary Faculty, WCB Co-Chair
Harald Schmidt
Pamela Sankar
Connie Ulrich
Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff
Amy Ashbridge
Angela Golub
Executive assistant to Zeke Emanuel
Mary Pham
Emily Walters
Assistant to Steven Joffe, M.D., MPH
WCB 2020 International Advisory Committee
Pamela Andanda, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sunita Bandewar, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and FMES' Health, Ethics, and Law Institute, India
Mohamed Salah Ben Ammar, Health of Tunisia, Tunisia
Alena Buyx, Technical University Munich, Germany
Alex Capron, University of Southern California, United States of America
Sarah Chan, Mason Institute, Scotland
Dafna Feinholz, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Samia Hurst-Majno, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Florencia Luna, FLACSO Argentina, Argentina
John McMillan, University of Otago, New Zealand
Signe Mezinska, University of Latvia, Latvia
Laura Palazzani, Lumsa University, Italy
Vardit Ravitsky, University of Montreal, Canada
Annette Rid, National Institutes of Health, United States of America
Andreas Reis, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Carla Saenz, Pan American Health Organization, United States of America
Delia M. Sánchez Varela, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Michael Selgelid, Monash University, Australia
Nayha Sethi, Mason Institute, Scotland
Daniel Strech, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Anta Tal-Dia, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Henk ten Have, Duquesne University, Netherlands
Renzong Qiu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Calvin Wai-Loon Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore
For questions about how the virtual format works, please click here. For all other FAQs see below or contact the Conference Management Team at [email protected]
What if I previously registered for the Congress?
Existing registrants received an email from [email protected] about their registration payment and new options for the virtual conference. Participants who registered prior to the virtual relaunch may select one of the following options: adjustment to current registration pricing and refund of the difference in cost, maintain existing registration payment and receive a code to invite one colleague to participate (a two for one deal), maintain existing registration payment and donate the difference in costs to WCB to put toward bursary applicant registration, or request a full refund. If you did not receive this communication, please reach out to our Conference Management Team (at [email protected]) for more information.
I have made a donation to the colleague support fund?
Thank you for your support! Donations to the colleague support are still welcome. As before, they help to a) discount fees for colleagues from low- and middle-income countries, which is still needed in the virtual format, and b) to assist with bursaries. On the latter, while bursary applicants no longer incur cost associated with attending in-person, we have refunded for all confirmed and waitlisted bursary applicants all reasonable and documented costs associated with attending the in-person conference that was incurred before the announcement of the switch (such as visa cost, or cancellation fees). All remaining funds will be used to cover the registration fees for all eligible (as opposed to those selected via the priority scores combined with lottery) bursary applicants. Note that any possible surplus will not be kept by Penn but be passed on to the IAB for future WCBs.
I have not yet registered: should I register now?
Details about the new format can be found by clicking here and the virtual conference registration rates are now published.
The website says that the early bird ends March 30: should I still register?
Registration is currently closed and will reopen the week of May 6. Email [email protected] to join the mailing list.
I have received a bursary: what happens now?
The planning committee will be providing new guidance to bursary recipients and will work to reimburse reasonable expenses incurred prior to the announcement of the switch to the virtual format that cannot be canceled or refunded. Proper documentation and receipts are required for WCB to issue a reimbursement. Please email [email protected] if you have not yet heard from us about this, or have further specific questions.
Does the new virtual format change anything about Prizes?
All prizes will be awarded as planned, and there will be a ceremony on each day of the conference for paper, poster, and early career researcher prizes. To be considered for a prize, it is essential to confirm your participation by May 18, 2020.
Online video conferencing can be problematic, and connection can vary – how are you planning to negate this?
We all have shared this pain at one point or another. And the fact that people will now join the WCB across the globe, with wifi and download speeds varying widely across and within countries, creates further challenges. However, there are several ways in which we can work around commonly encountered frustrating experiences. The responses are in roughly equal parts to do with the choice of technology, adequate programming and support, and being clear about capabilities and expectations. We are working to provide the best experience possible based on the circumstances we are all now facing. Please see the Format section for the virtual conference for more detail.
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It's been years since I thought I've been living on a fast lane. I hit on a pause. Started to live again, this time, real slow. The work that I've been doing was great. Its a routine that I do everyday. Nothing new. I guess what adds value to the work that we do is being able to contribute largely not only to ourselves, but to our colleagues and largely to the society. I work as an employee to a 9-5 job. And on weekends as a hotel nurse. Its been sufficient but there still something missing every time I do the best on an activity, may it be on my job, my health– doing exercise, getting more sleep or getting some rest.
I've been living at my dormitory not as far to my house to get me to my work as fast as I can. Whenever I get the chance to have a vacation leave or the worst, a sick leave, that's when I get to say to myself 'this is the real life'. I get to meet my best friend on a leave. Right then we get to examine how far we've done to reach the life that we want, my friend is also a nurse working overseas. We get to catch up on almost every topic that we want. From our friends getting married, from them having their first child. Or getting the most prestigious job abroad or them going on a medical school. We can talk about it as much as we want, but at the end of our conversations, we realized that what we want was having a real conversation with such an adult wisdom and a real heart to heart one. The feeling was like we've been onto a retreat where there is an exploration of feelings, hopes & dreams, regret, aspirations, from loss & grief, from getting back up and starting all over again, from failed relationships that we've been to and from the new ones that appeared even if we don't want them anymore.
We can get as much experience that we want, or as long as we tolerate, but I think what matters in the end was the strong bond that we have. I've known my friend since junior high and up until now, we realized, not much had changed. We're still the same persons since then-too young but incredibly has an old-age adult wisdom.
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When the pastor asked me to use this verse for this week's bulletin cover, I have to say that I didn't really know who A.W. Tozer was, so I did a little research and discovered the he was a prolific Christian writer and pastor living in Ohio. He became a pastor in 1919, at the age of 22 and along the he became a prominent leader in The Christian and Missionary Alliance. His message was for us to have a deeper walk. I think this will just be the beginning of my research and reading more of A.W.Tozer. In the meantime, I take a moment to pause when I read this quote to renew my commitment share the Good News wherever and whenever I can.
Ps 139: 15-16 You are not a Mistake!
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Choose a schedule based on the number of letters that will be taught each week.
Print 2 sheets of the same file.
Cut each one in half dividing the upper case from the lower case.
Teach and then assign one of the half-sheets.
Review last week's letter(s) using a printable, Blank Ruled Paper, or the white board/chalk board.
Teach and practice a number.
Decorate a hollow letter choosing "this week's letter"
Have no penmanship lesson today.
Print 1 worksheet for each of the 2 different letters that you are teaching this week.
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Teach and then assign one of the worksheets.
Since this is a fast moving class, use a printable from K-1 Colors.
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*t can be taught with a hook or without a hook.
Blank Ruled Paper - coordinates with Set One.
The next two files coordinate with Sets 2 and 3.
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SIBY JEYYA December 14, 2018 16:30 IST Telugu Ammayi bags another movie!
Telugu babe Anjali has been known for her intense performances in movies like Engeyum Eppothum/ Journey, Angadi Theru, Katrathu Thamizh and many other movies in Tamil, besides also oozing oomph with her sensuous hot and glam appearances in Kalakalappu and Sakalakala Vallavan Appatakkar.
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Robert Oulton's last gamble did not pay off as well as he hoped it would.
Hours after Oulton took the stand Wednesday to admit he killed his wife, Yvonne, in the couple's minivan on Easter Sunday 2010, a Broward jury convicted him of second-degree murder, rejecting his argument that the crime he committed was manslaughter.
From the start of the trial Monday, Oulton's defense consisted of a confession and an argument about the definition of legal terminology. Manslaughter, under Florida law, is a killing without intent.
In convicting Oulton of second-degree murder, the jury determined that Oulton intended to kill his wife, though the crime may not have been premeditated. Premeditation would have resulted in a first-degree murder conviction, which the jury rejected.
The distinctions will come into play when Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey R. Levenson sentences Oulton, 68, on Sept. 24. The maximum penalty for second-degree murder is life in prison, but Levenson can decide to be more lenient.
Robert Oulton demonstrates how he swung a mallet back and forth to strike his wife as he killed her on April 4, 2010.
A first-degree conviction would have made the life sentence mandatory. A manslaughter conviction in this case would have resulted in a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
Oulton's lawyer, Michael Heise, told the jury during opening statements Monday that an acquittal is "not an option" because Oulton admitted he killed his wife. On Wednesday morning, the jury heard the admission directly from Oulton.
Oulton said he killed his wife, 62, because she kept talking about interfering with their grown son's poker tour business in a way that, he said, would have alienated the son from his parents. His description of the killing appeared to resemble a post-traumatic stress flashback to the loss of his comrades in the Vietnam War, although the defense did not raise a mental health argument.
The son of a Pompano Beach man on trial for murder took the stand for the prosecution Tuesday, telling a Broward jury how his father led him straight to his slain mother's body.
"At that point, all I saw was … I didn't see Yvonne anymore," Oulton said. "I saw somebody trying to take away my son. They already took away all my friends. Yvonne was my only friend. They were going to take it away from me again. I couldn't let that happen!"
Oulton said he and his wife had a "dream" marriage, free of domestic violence, separations and infidelity. The day he killed her, April 4, 2010, started with an Easter celebration with their two young grandchildren. He and his wife later spent some time at Isle Casino & Racing. Then it was dinner at Big Louie's, a nearby pizzeria.
When they got home, he said, there was an argument. The Oultons were investors in their son's burgeoning poker business, and Yvonne Oulton had business ideas. According to Oulton, their son wanted him to help keep her from interfering.
But as they were cleaning out the minivan, Oulton said his wife would not stop talking about the business, and their argument grew heated. At one point she threw a canvas bag of tools at him, he said. He pulled a mallet out of the bag and struck her in the face.
"It wasn't Yvonne anymore. She wasn't the one in front of me anymore," he said. "It was an enemy. They were coming to take my son away. No! I wasn't going to let that happen."
Oulton insisted he did not plan to kill her and didn't realize the extent of her injuries until she spoke.
"She said 'Robert!' She said my name," he said, sobbing. "I killed her… I just held her. I don't know how long I held her. I knew she was dead."
During the trial on Tuesday, Bryan Oulton testified that his father led him to his mother's body in a van in a warehouse parking area.
It wasn't until two days later, when Robert Oulton was being questioned by police, that Bryan Oulton knew his father was a suspect. Their meeting was captured on a police interrogation video, which showed the son sobbing, trying to come to grips with what happened, and pledging his love for his father.
"I still love you dad," he said in the video. "I don't know what happened. I still love you."
In court, he said he was distraught because he had just lost his mother and it appeared he was about to lose his father as well.
Family members, including Bryan Oulton, declined to comment Wednesday after the verdict. During the trial, Bryan Oulton could not sit in the courtroom because he was a witness. Other family members sat as far from the defendant as they could and did not speak to him during breaks. | {
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In a state where unemployment is so high, employers are looking for workers with an understanding of the job they are looking to fill, the latest job-tracking data shows.
It also highlights the need for people to learn the ins and outs of the business and the job-hunting process in an era when technology has opened up jobs to all but the most talented.
The job-creation rate for the U.S. in the second quarter was 8.9 percent, up from 7.3 percent the first quarter, according to the Labor Department's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
The job creation rate in the same period in 2017 was 7.2 percent, down from 7 percent the previous year.
But it's not just the number of jobs that are on the upswing.
Some of the fastest-growing occupations are now full-time positions.
In the second half of 2017, the number and type of jobs added to the workforce jumped nearly 14 percent, the Labor Dept. said on Tuesday.
The numbers are even more impressive when you take into account the number that are part-time and casual workers, which jumped nearly 6 percent.
In all, more than 100 million people were employed in the United States in the first half of 2018, a rise of roughly 18 million from the same time last year.
"In terms of total employment, it is really quite incredible," said Paul Blumberg, a labor economist at The Heritage Foundation.
"This is what we're seeing all over the country.
And the trend line is clear."
Blumberg noted that the growth in part-timers and casuals has been fueled in part by technology.
The U.K. and France are among the most tech-savvy countries, and the number working part- or full-timed jobs in those countries has more than doubled since the recession.
For people who want to become more technologically savvy, Blum.
said, "there are many jobs available.
But for most people, it will be in their home office."
The trend is especially important for people who need flexible hours to find full- time work, such as those who work part- time, such the millennials, he said.
While jobs growth in the U,D.C., and other parts of the country has slowed down since the Great Recession, the trend is expected to pick up as technology evolves.
A recent study by the Federal Reserve found that employers are using automation to reduce payrolls.
"Automation has been a big factor in the overall slowdown in hiring and job creation," Blumbeg said.
"The jobs created are not being replaced by people who can do the job better."
He said the growing demand for technology has allowed employers to create jobs that previously would have been out of reach.
And it's likely to accelerate if tech giants like Google and Facebook continue to grow rapidly.
With their massive platforms, Google, Facebook, and Amazon have built a huge base of expertise in helping businesses to grow and adapt to changing business conditions, Blomberg said.
"When the tech industry expands, we can expect to see an explosion of new companies and opportunities," he said, adding that it's also a time when companies are looking at hiring and training people in areas where they are most needed.
Blomberg expects the trend to continue for the foreseeable future.
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County Fines Asphalt Plant
By Jane Futcher on November 5, 2015
The Mendocino County Air Quality Management District has served Grist Creek Aggregates in Longvale with a Notice of Violation for: operating without a permit; fugitive emissions, and a diesel airborne toxic control measure violation. The county fined the company $21,953.
The most serious violation, operating without a permit, refers to the fact that the Grist Creek/Mercer-Fraser was manufacturing rubberized asphalt with a Crumb Rubber Heating and Blending Unit that was not permitted.
Neighbors say the smell of burning rubber fills the Longvale Valley with noxious fumes every day the plant makes asphalt.
County Air Quality Management District Air Pollution Control Officer Bob Scaglione was out of the office this week and was not available for comment on the Grist Creek Aggregates violations.
Brian Hurt, owner of Grist Creek Aggregates, said he had no comment on the complaints against his company.
Third District Supervisor Tom Woodhouse, who in March urged the board to fast track the plant without requiring a full environmental review, said the county would shut the plant down if the owners cannot "make their product and keep the environment clean."
Woodhouse believes the system is working.
"I think our air quality and Bob in particular have done a very good job of being responsive to the community and their complaints. And that's what we had hoped," Woodhouse said. "When you approve any project like this, it is subject to people obeying all the county and state laws that are applicable."
One neighbor, Lyn Talkovsky, a member of Friends of Outlet Creek, a neighborhood group that opposed the asphalt plant from the start, said she isn't sure the system is working. She is skeptical about the county's commitment to residents, many of whose lives have been profoundly impacted by the plant's fumes since Grist Creek/Mercer-Fraser begin making rubberized asphalt in September.
She thinks Caltrans should be held accountable for contracting with a company that is in violation of its permit.
"For six weeks Grist Creek has been producing rubberized asphalt, and now the project for Caltrans is done. Is it okay with Caltrans that the company that got the contract with them has been in violation the whole time? Is that the way Caltrans does business? I'm very, very skeptical."
Talkovsky said Friends of Outlet Creek will continue to fight the plant in court but that the pressure placed on residents near the plant is enormous.
"The system isn't working," Talkovsky said. "The level of pollution that people are experiencing is unbelievable. There still hasn't been a visit by the county air district or a supervisor to a neighbor's home. We have pictures and videos of dense clouds of emissions in the valley, and it's all been given to the county and the state and the supervisors. What does it take?"
Kirk Lumpkin is also active in the fight to stop the plant and questioned the value to the neighbors of the $21,953 fine.
"Where does the money go?" Lumpkin said. "It is not going to compensate the neighbors or test the water in the creek or further enhance the environment. It will go to the county which allowed this in the first place."
Friends of Outlet Creek member and neighboring property owner to the asphalt plant, Glen Colwell, who recently retired from the Bay Area Air Quality District in San Francisco, noted that it is sometimes possible for industry attorneys to negotiate with regulators and request that penalties such as this one be decreased.
"In my opinion, if the county attorneys allow any negotiations to lower penalty costs for Grist Creek Aggregates, which may have willfully violated their permit conditions, it would be inexcusable and add additional insult to the injury already perpetrated on the asphalt plant's neighbors." Colwell said.
Another neighbor, Douglas Kerseg, said an attorney advised him that using equipment that is not permitted is fraud.
"We were disturbed that when they were given a notice of violation that they continued to operate," Kerseg said, referring to the fact that the violation was issued Oct. 21 and the plant continued making rubberized asphalt until Oct. 31. "I tried to get Mr. Scaglione to say why, and he told me they were powerless to stop him. It's amazing to me that they can have a process that uses equipment that's not on their permit and they can continue to do so."
Kerseg said neighbors will continue to fight on despite the high legal fees Friends of Outlet Creek is paying.
"One of our very significant problems is that we have raised and spent huge amounts of money which has gone to legal work, and we have significant liabilities to continue that effort. The toughest part of the equation is not just to spread the word but to be able to continue our legal battle to stop these people from operation."
Friends of Outlet Creek will hold a community meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m., to get to know neighbors and discuss what can be done to stop the negative impacts of the asphalt plant. Location is the large pullout off Highway 162 just east of Highway 101.
Jane Futcher lives in Longvale and is a member of Friends of Outlet Creek.
Lazarus November 5, 2015
The system works, complaints equaled inspections, which equaled fines, which could equal a shut down…
All this aside, I've really had it with a these aging hippies who have systemically stymied almost every business wanting to come here…yet when confronted about the scourge, the pollutants and thievery of MaryJane, the got nothing to say…
Jim Updegraff November 5, 2015
See my comment re: Stupidvisor woodhouse in my comment in Mendocino County Today November 5, 2015
Jim…Really…?
Woodhouse aside, the system allowed the place to open. The permits were in place, the reviews had been done, and the rules allowed the plant to open. It was a 5 to zero vote no matter who brought it forward. If they fail the state's test, regulations and inspections shut the place down until they fix the issues, or not…
You and others are disappointingly showing your lack of understanding of how the system works. Blaming the messengers is so 1960s, you really need to get out of the County a little more. Maybe Redwood Valley, I hear their going to have a really nice new store, and good prices too.
Eric Sunswheat November 6, 2015
Friends of Outlet Creek seem to have good evidence for a case file to sue Grist Creek Aggregates in court for nuisance damages. Businesses that lost out in the Caltrans bidding for the job, may also have standing to sue, because of unfair business competition without a valid permit. Cold Creek Compost's Martin Mileck learned the hard way that insurance would not cover the penalty against his company for nuisance exposure of noise and smells to the neighbors in Potter Valley. Now Grist Creek Aggregates appears to be ripe for civil court justice.
Laz, you missed my point. It was his total lack of concern about the health of the people who lived within range of the asphalt plant.
I think many are missing the realities of the law. Grist has or had the right to conduct business as the county prescribes on their property. Several of those folks played it to the hilt when the media showed up on their properties wearing mask and such, bet they don't wear a mask 24/7. And some guy said he contemplated suicide? Let the sheriff give him a 72 hour crazy lockup, see how them smells get him.
I have trouble being in the vicinity of marijuana grows, raises hell with my breathing, sinus issues, to name a few, but I've been threatened by so called guardians of the environment with trouble for complaining to the authorities.
And the idea that Woodhouse doesn't care is total bull shit, you obviously never met the guy…
As they say Jim, " It all depends on whose ox is being gored".
Oh well. if there is a lawsuit filed it all will come out in the wash. Mr. Woodhouse will then an ample opportunity to explain his actions.
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EA and DICE have dropped a teaser trailer for Battlefield V on social media! Pundits have poured over the eighteen-second clip to see what it reveals about the new game and there's a flash of what looks a paratrooper wearing goggles. It appears that Battlefield V is a return to form for the series: set in World War II when beating up Nazis wasn't a problem.
This is what we know so far! Battlefield V will be released by EA and powered by the Frosbite engine. We're particularly thrilled that the new game is going to have a single-player campaign—in a pointed jab at Call of Duty—and a dedicated co-op mode. It will be available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Battlefield V will be released in October 2018.
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The exhibition "The Artist-Sorcerer", organized by the Tretyakov Gallery to mark the 160th anniversary of Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1850-1923), featured works from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and Otar Margania (Moscow). The dates of the exhibition, initially scheduled to run from March 2 to November 28, were twice extended due to the great public interest in Pokhitonov's oeuvre. Visitors to the show in their comments talked not only about gratitude for "the feeling of joy and harmony of life" they experienced viewing Pokhitonov's works and admiration for the artist's consummate workmanship, but also about his painting techniques, which were described as "spellbinding" and appearing "a miracle". As if echoing Ilya Repin's opinion about Pokhitonov - "this is an artist-sorcerer", which gave the title to the exhibition - viewers wrote that they visited the show several times to engage with this "miracle" again and again.
Two of Pokhitonov's paintings, reviewed in this article, help to partially illuminate the secrets of his creative methods and the origins of the ideas for some of his pictures. One is "A View of Bougival", which was submitted for authentication to experts from the Tretyakov Independent Art Authentication insititution after the opening of the anniversary show. Until recently the piece had been held by the artist's family — descendants of his younger daughter Zoya Pokhitonova-Markevich (1888-1972) — and was then bought by a Moscow collector at an auction in Paris.
The investigation of its stylistic and technical details, and the comparison of "A View of Bougival" with Pokhitonov's classic works held at the Tretyakov Gallery — in particular, his picture "Early Spring. Pau. Laundrywomen on a Bank of the Gave de Pau" (1885) — confirmed Pokhitonov's authorship, revealing resemblances in composition, palette and brushwork. The research findings suggested that "A View of Bougival" was created in the late 1870s-early 1880s. Such a tentative dating does not conflict with the results of the chemical analysis of paint pigments made at the research laboratory of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
This scientific analysis revealed the complex structure of the layers of paint, which lack the homogeneity usual for an artist in the process of work on a single painting. In Pokhitonov's picture, each of the planes was created using different techniques — the artist re-fashioned the planes at different periods, using different methods for each. At the start, he outlined the composition of the landscape with quill and ink over the priming. Then the outlines were mostly painted over but remained in some places — in the delineation of the river and the roofs of the houses. The paint layer in the foreground was scraped away almost down to the priming, then the lines of the fencing were traced, with a tool akin to a comb, over fresh, still wet paint; then the artist used tools with pointed tips to scratch on paint, also wet, the lineaments of grass-blades in the foreground. The structure of paints in the background is different. The lines of the aqueduct were pencilled over the upper layer of paint. This detail of the landscape was re-worked several times. In the meantime, the painting techniques used in this segment of the picture are not markedly different from those found in other of the artist's main works — in other words, "A View of Bougival" was reworked by the artist himself. The tests by the BS microscope showed that the artist worked in several stages in crafting the sky as well — the lower layer contains darker grey-and-blue tints, the upper layer, lighter tones of soft turquoise.
Eventually it became obvious that "A View of Bougival" was a unique piece revealing Pokhitonov's method in detail, about which Baksheev said: "he daubs away, he scrapes off, then daubs again". But the question remains as to why others of Pokhitonov's works, including the pieces acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, cannot serve as models too? How did it happen that the painter's method remained so secret? The reason may be this: "A View of Bougival" is one of Pokhitonov's earliest works, created in the late 1870s-early 1880s, when, after moving to Paris in 1877 he started his artistic apprenticeship under Alexei Bogolyubov and eagerly began to study works of the Barbizon artists. At that time he was also earnestly working to develop his individual style. This explains why the Bougival picture reveals so plainly all of his painting techniques, in contrast to his later pieces, in which the techniques were hidden behind later intricate refinements.
Ivan Pokhitonov's grandson Igor Markevich described his grandfather's manner of working: "The love with which Ivan Pavlovich chose panels of lemon wood or mahogany, secured horizontal planks on the back to prevent warping, and then thickly coated the panels with a dark mastic and kept them like this for up to several years before beginning work on them — such love can serve as a model of devotion to one's craft. Finally, when the paints had dried, Ivan Pavlovich did not spare any effort to bring the painting to perfection — he polished it with fishbone, turned it over again and again in his beautiful brawny arms and caressed it, as if to lend it the warmth of his breath. We owe the unfading freshness and endurance of paints on Ivan Pavlovich's paintings to the fact that he took such good care of the technical aspects of art."3 Indeed, Pokhitonov's images, into which he put so much time and painstaking effort, seem marvellously light and elegant. "How elegant, how poetic they are, how light and airy is the artful touch of the notable painter,"4 wrote the young journalist Kornei Chukovsky about Pokhitonov's oeuvre when, in 1902, he visited a show of the South Russian Union of Artists featuring his works.
For "A View of Bougival" the artist employed an unusual material — a hardwood plank two centimetres thick, dyed on the reverse side. As already noted, the artist painted most of his pictures on carefully prepared polished mahogany or lemon tree panels, sometimes on a cardboard of golden hue, which was often brought into play in the colour design of a particular picture. Judging by two holes on the back of the panel, one on each side, the landscape reviewed could have been used as a decoration in the artist's studio or residence, in the manner of images painted on the furniture and walls of an inn in Ganne, in Barbizon, where the Barbizon artists stayed when they came there to work. Visiting Barbizon from the late 1870s onwards, Pokhitonov could have seen their landscapes, still-lifes, and genre scenes on the doors of wardrobes, cupboards and rooms. Such images include still-lifes by Antoine Vollon (1833-1900) painted over the doors of a sideboard in the inn in Ganne (Barbizon School Museum, Barbizon). They remind us that the Barbizon artists in developing their visual language relied, among other things, on the legacy of 17th-century Dutch art. It may have been that, impressed by these pictures, Pokhitonov created the still-life "Pheasants" (1879, Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov) that is very unusual both in style and size, as well as the landscape "A View of Bougival" on a hardwood panel. Perhaps the interior of the artist's house featured more than one household object with images painted by him. One of the exhibits at the "The Artist-Sorcerer" show, the landscape "Alley" (1898, private collection, Moscow), on the lid of a lacquered box, indirectly confirms such a guess.
Bougival, a picturesque Parisian suburb by the Seine, was very important for Pokhitonov. Living in Paris, he went there often, visiting in the late 1870s and early 1880s Ivan Turgenev at his Yaseni estate and attending soirees in Pauline Viardot's home, where he met prominent French cultural figures. In Bougival the artist assiduously worked on sketches and landscapes. Turgenev's journal has an entry from the end of 1882: "Besides, Pokhitonov is working on a portrait — it comes out very well and indeed resembles me. Here is a real master! He brought and showed me and Viardot paintings he made last summer — charming."5 This statement refers to an unfinished portrait of Turgenev on which Pokhitonov worked in the autumn of 1882 (now held at the Tretyakov Gallery); among the paintings he showed to Turgenev may well have been the Bougival landscape.
Preparing the "The Artist-Sorcerer" show, the researchers looked again at the records from the Tretyakov Gallery's department of manuscripts, which shed light on the origin of the idea for another of Pokhitonov's pictures, "Road by the Sea", which has two signatures: "I. Pokhitonov" in Russian, with a flourish, and "I Pokitonow" in Latin. The artist usually signed his works in this fashion when he intended to exhibit them and offer them for sale both in Europe and in Russia. The painting "Road by the Sea" was analyzed at the Tretyakov Gallery several years ago, and the stylistic comparison, scientific analysis and the data from the art authentication department confirmed Pokhitonov's authorship as well as the authenticity of his signatures. The picture has that nacreous brilliance of colours which makes it possible to call Pokhitonov a master of "tender, opalescent placidity of colour design", in the words of Chukovsky: the tenderly blue and azure hues of the sea, with pink shots, that morph at the skyline into a mauve-and-rosy and blue film over the sky with milky-white feathery clouds, casting mauve-and-rosy reflexes on the fresh green of the grass and on the goldish-ocherous surface of the distant steep shore.
Thus, the reviewed work may have been one of the pictures the artist accomplished because he wished "to try something like this", but also in conjunction with the same offer from the Tsar. We do not know how Pokhitonov and Tretyakov proceeded with their negotiations about the artist's intent to execute a series of images of historical and ethnographical character. In August of the same year Pokhitonov sent to Moscow five boxes with "20 small murals", among which only the sketches "Basque Women from an Area near the French-Spanish Border" (Pokhitonov called them "studies"9) recall the preparation for the planned paintings. All of the pieces he sent were acquired by Tretyakov in the same year and now are held at the Tretyakov Gallery. Thus, "Road by the Sea", as far as we are presently aware, is the only evidence of the artist's unfulfilled plans. Since in the 1880s Pokhitonov lived mostly in France, and from 1893 in Belgium, the "ethnographically interesting", "distinctive local type" was identified by subjects wearing the national costumes of those countries.
It should be added that the catalogue of the third exhibition of sketches, drafts and drawings organized in Petrograd in December 1916 lists under No. 325 Pokhitonov's piece "On a Narrow Road". Unfortunately, the catalogue neither contains a print of the piece nor references its size, but we can only think that it was the painting under review here, which, fortunately, remained in Russia. But that is a matter for a different investigation altogether.
Baksheev, Vasily. A memoir. Moscow, 1961. P. 71.
Markevich, Igor. "Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov". In: Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov. 1850-1923. A Catalogue. Moscow, 1963. P. 12.
Chukovsky, Kornei. "Exhibition of paintings of the South Russian Association". Odesskie Novosti. 1902. October 14. In: The Association of South Russian Artists. Odessa, 2000. P. 189.
Grebeniuk, Valentin. Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov. Leningrad, 1973. P. 22.
Department of Manuscripts, Tretyakov Gallery. Fund 1. Item 2745. Sheet 1.
According to information provided by Valentin Grebeniuk. In: Grebeniuk, Valentin. Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov. Moscow, 1973. P. 20.
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The Uighur issue in perspective
By James Fallows
The NYT online has a very nice graphic just now showing the parts of China with significant "minority" population. Minority, in this sense, means one of the 55 recognized groups other than Han Chinese that together make up about 8 percent of the country's population. The screen shot below is not the default version of the graphic, which shows all counties in China with at least 10 percent minority population. Instead it's the version that shows counties where at least half the people are something other than Han.
In a sense the map is misleading, in the same way "Red State / Blue State" electoral maps are misleading about real division of opinion within the United States. The big western areas marked as Tibetan or Uighur are rugged territory that is very lightly populated (think Alaska, Nevada), compared with the dense, mainly-Han areas of the east. For instance, the ethnic Tibetan areas are shown as covering not just Tibet proper but also parts of the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu (in all of which places I have been to Tibetan villages). But the total ethnic-Tibetan proportion of China's population is something under one percent. Still, the graph gives an idea of the control issues China has with some of its minority groups.
After the jump, three responses on the 愤青 -- fenqing, "angry youth" -- tone of response to outside criticism I mentioned earlier.
First, from Jeremiah Jenne, a Beijing-based academic and author of the Granite Studio site:
I just read the latest post with a smile on my face. I saw the job ad post earlier and mused out loud, "I wonder how long it will take before [your] email is inundated by the fenqing/no race problem HERE/You don't GET China" crowd.
I might suggest that this exchange also highlights another aspect of the China/US dissonance on postings/articles critical of Chinese policies or society: The nit-picking of small, relatively minor or unintentional inaccuracies and the celebration of such discoveries as PROOF that even the most well-reasoned and supported critiques are 100% off-base.
Whether this sign has anything to do with pork or other cooking products is less important than that job ads there routinely have requirements based on race and that these attitudes do little to reduce tensions between Han and Uighur.*
*That said, as you know, job ads all over China contain demands and requirements not found in the US: height requirements for receptionists, age limits, preferred races, attractive appearance, etc.
Next, a reader who identifies himself as a Uighur gives quotes from two job-recruitment sites for operations in Xinjiang, here and here. The sites are in Chinese, but they are seeking applicants for academic jobs -- and in most cases they ist "Race: Han" as one of the qualifications for applicants. I can't vouch for the original authenticity of the sites being quoted (and they are shown on a Uighur-support site), but to me it's clear that they're spelling out a Han racial requirement. The reader says:
Especially, the second one is very intersting. Being a dean of a college has nothing to with the "pork" !!! [the alleged reason for the "Han only" listing in the Chinese-restaurant ad.]
Finally, from a US-based analyst who is ethnically Chinese:
The parallels of the Xinjiang violence to US race riots are salient, and I've been thinking whether China, if it doesn't recognize the insufficiencies of its minority policies, will soon enter a period that resembles the 1960s in America. This problem clearly isn't going away soon, and could very well escalate with each recurring incident, possibly enlarging in scope.
But the biggest difference is of course the limited public sphere in China compared to what existed in the 1960s in US. You just can't have the equivalent of a "One Million Uighur March" into Beijing. Also, in the 1960s US, you had a critical mass of the majority White population (White) aligning with the minority (African American civil rights leaders) on a substantial political cause that allowed a movement to blossom to unimaginable proportions. Han Chinese (even the more liberal-minded ones) and Uighur alliance? Highly unlikely.
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Abstract In 1970 Carroll A. Campbell, Jr, was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he represented Greenville County until 1974, when he ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor. He was elected to the state Senate in 1976. In 1978 he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving South Carolina's Fourth District (Greenville-Spartanburg). He served four terms in Congress before returning to South Carolina in 1986 to seek the state's highest office, which he won to...
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In 1974, Charles D. Ravenel, a political newcomer, became the Democratic Party's nominee for governor, but a dispute over residency qualifications kept him off the general election ballot. Campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1978 and for Congress in 1980 were also unsuccessful. However, Ravenel's innovative style and charismatic manner reinvigorated the political system, and his method of using the media as a campaign tool was a first for South Carolina and changed politics within the state.
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New TMNT Movie: Ticket Sales, Sequel, and Rundown
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Welcome to Hollywood, boys..
It's safe to say that the Turtles have officially made it to the big time. Okay, so the Ninja Turtles have been popular for the past 30 years, but this is the first time we can officially say that they've had one of those tent pole, big budget blockbusters centered around them, and it's nice to see that kind of respect given to everyone's favorite heroes in a half shell.
That being said, Hollywood flicks come with their own set of rules, so it's not like you can expect them to give the fans everything that they want. When it comes to a movie like this, the studio's main goal is to attract and please as many viewers as possible, which means that they are going to go with whatever sells well to major audiences. In other words, chances are you're not going to get everything you wanted out of this movie.
This isn't like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies you grew up watching as a kid – those were made on a considerably lower budget. In fact, the budget for this film was almost $100 million more than any other Ninja Turtles movie that has ever been made before. Paramount Studios spent more money on this movie than Golden Harvest spent on all of the previous four TMNT movies combined. Keep that in mind as you wonder why they didn't give you exactly what you wanted, and hopefully it will be easier to understand the decisions they made.
The thing is, even though some fans will undoubtedly be disappointed, we here at TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.com think that this is actually a really good movie.
Yes, it is your prototypical summer blockbuster, filled with a lot of action and humor to keep everyone having fun, but Paramount, Michael Bay, and Director Jonathan Liebesman actually did a great job with the turtles in this movie. Although a lot Turtles fans were unhappy with how the turtles looked at first, when you actually get to see them in action on the big screen, these new Turtles just work.
The origin story is altered, as has been discussed quite a bit on various Turtles forums across the internet, but it wasn't that badly altered, and in fact, has most of its roots in tact from many of the TMNT stories we have come to know and love over the years.
There are nods to the 2003 series, the new IDW comic, the original Laird/Eastman comics, the 90's movies and the 1987 animated series placed (perhaps sparingly) throughout. These characters definitely don't feel the same as the Ninja Turtles that many of us grew up with, but they retain enough of the core elements here that it is difficult to be disappointed here.
There will always be shellheads unhappy with some changes to the Laird/Eastman Turtles universe, and with that being said — are the changes made here in the 2014 really that atrocious? As Turtles fans, we've all seen this before, and furthermore, as Turtles fans shouldn't we be instead celebriting the fact that the Turtles are back up on the screen? Bringing the Turtles back to theaters in 2014 is going to do nothing but introduce to them to the next generation, who like us are coming to them in a key moment in their adolescence. This will no doubt continue the Turtles legacy.
With some of the critics that have attacked the film:
What doesn't work for the film is the lack of attention paid to developing the main characters. In the original 1990s film, we were treated to some genuinely memorable moments in those movies that the turtles shared amongst each other and with other characters. Unfortunately, the same really cannot be said for this latest iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In fact, just as we are starting to learn about them and their characters start to develop, the movie jumps right into some action before anyone can even say "Cowabunga!" Yet, we are also living in a comic book world too, and in this age of sequels and reboots, perhaps this is nothing but the first chapter in an on-going new franchise, well, they have announced their plans for a sequel already know, haven't they?
Maybe the 2014 Ninja Turtles movie is supposed to be for people not familiar with the Ninja Turtles universe. Maybe it's supposed to act as an introduction to the boys? The movie is set to debut at #1 at the box office for its first weekend in theaters, raking in an estimated $65 million dollars after all. Doesn't that say something about how much we needed the Turtles tor return to the big screen?
The studios were pleased enough with the numbers that it looks like they will be going forward with their plans for a sequel, which means that we can expect even more turtley awesome action on the big screen soon. It's a good thing, too, because we really want to see some more characters and their development in these movies. Fans came out in droves to see the new movie and most of the people that we've spoken to have really loved it. Maybe this isn't the perfect Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, but it's a lot of fun and it definitely brings us some pretty awesome TMNT action. What did you guys think? Let us know in the comments below or sound off in our forums!
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