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Puffell - a lifestyle based ecosystem
Puffell is an evidence-based solution to create and deliver a lifestyles-based ecosystem that offers a targeted and universalistic approach for building greater wellbeing and resilience for society.
Puffell supports people at their point of need by understanding what's important to each of us and building behaviourally-focused activation. Puffell then uses both technology and peers to maintain that choice until it is habit formed.
We leverage the evidence and disciplines from behavioural science, cutting edge digital solutions and strategy from the 9 wider social determinants of health. We empower people by engaging the power of the 5 ways to wellbeing - connect, get active, be positive, learn new things and enjoy the power of giving.
Why we do this is simple. At the heart of everything we do, we believe in making better happen. We want to build a society that is resilient, well and HAPPY; we do this by making what we do simple to use, beautifully designed and user friendly. Want to join us?
Before beginning on our journey, we conducted a piece of insight that told us 7 things:
People don't understand/recognise their health and implications of poor health long term
People want to do more for some themselves but don't know where to start
People feel 'frustrated' 'abandoned' – health system misses key opportunities to engage with the right tools
Want to be treated as the 'whole person'
A plea - use channels that we use
Lack of trust in government
They have great aspiration - they want better, although struggle to define what better is for themselves, yet can almost always describe it for others important to them.
By building Puffell based on insight, we are able to collect meaningful hard and soft data for individual areas:
Clinical measures - that evidence that a patient or citizen has made positive progress
People-centred outcome measures (PCOMs and PROMs) - a relatively new concept which involves putting patients, people, and their families and carers at the heart of deciding which goals are most valuable for individuals with a range of health conditions, rather than clinicians deciding what is best
The data we are collecting is now evidencing outcomes, including:
Increased patient self care
Better citizen self-management
Reduced and redirected service demand
Reduced health and social care costs
i. via prevention and better managed conditions
We strive to demonstrate positive behaviour change; over the last 12 months we can demonstrate the following outcomes on Puffell.
The above image demonstrates the behaviour change we are starting to see - over an average of 127 days, an average of 4.3 less units were consumed every day; over an average of 158 days, there has been an average reduction in cigarettes smoked per day by 7.4 and over an average of 168 days, an average reduction of 3.1kg (that's half a stone!) has been made.
Puffell doesn't just offer lifestyle support; we offer long-term condition management. Combining this with the lifestyle support means we can support reducing cost out of the system.
Asthma and Viral Wheeze:
We recently launched a number of new spaces on Puffell for you all to use. The first of these was the launch of the asthma and viral wheeze space for adults and the asthma and viral wheeze space for children. Both of the spaces contain information, advice and tips about asthma and viral wheeze. It is there to help you manage your asthma and viral wheeze, allowing you to do more of what you want, when you want to do it.
COPD:
The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) deck was our second addition in the last 12 months, offering a space for anyone with COPD to manage their long-term condition and to help keep it under control.
Both the asthma and viral wheeze and COPD spaces offer the ability to create a digital diary, as well as allowing for cross reference with air pollution and humidity levels. This means that you can recognise and keep track of any trends or patterns.
Our pilot for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is now live in the Slough region. This space has been developed because young people have been waiting for long periods of time to access support. Puffell is designed to support young people whom can self manage, and we are working with the CAMHS team to refer any young people who need service-based intervention.
We have also had a great opportunity through the development of our digital health checks space. We are in the process of launching a dedicated health checks space where you can get your heart age and then see the impact of your day-to-day life on your heart age. We have been involved in helping to map the national strategy for health checks with Public Health England (PHE), which Puffell will support by offering a digital platform for health checks.
Diabetes:
Our bespoke diabetes space is also in development and will be launched later this year. This is a great place for anyone with diabetes to track their condition, as well as writing down what their personal aspirations and goals to determine how best to achieve them.
To find out more about Puffell and how it can support you and your citizens, contact Richard Forshaw-Smith on 0151 647 4700 or at [email protected]
Tags: Puffell, COPD, Smoking Cessation, Healthy Lifestyle Service
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I have an ArcGIS Server in a live environment which has both a live and staging area for caching. Once data has been cached on the staging server, it is then replicated across into the live service. In theory anyways.
So the problem that I have is that I can create a Cached Map Service. I can publish the service but when I try to make the service a cached service this is the error I receive and is attached.
Because of the fact that it works perfectly within the live environment I have come to the conclusion that it can only be a file permissions/ user permissions or a file locking issue.
<Msg time="2016-04-19T15:50:51,213" type="DEBUG" code="9999" source="Admin" process="3112" thread="1" methodName="" machine="server.fqdn" user="" elapsed="">com.esri.arcgis.discovery.admin.AdminException: Uploaded content not found.
Looking at these logs makes me think that the Caching Tools cannot read the data within the published non-cached service and then made sure that the datastore where the data is coming from is registered within ArcGIS Server Manager. | {
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If your company is seeking access to new markets and capital Grosvenor can advise and assist you. Our advice is based upon hands-on corporate experience and tends to be more specialized and pragmatic than most other sources. Grosvenor provides assistance through an extensive understanding of all facets of domestic and International capital markets. This includes virtually every type of debt and equity financing. Grosvenor understands capital limitations and is able to structure transactions that are beneficial to all parties.
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Now is the time to establish your relationship with us! | {
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Saturday 15th of February saw the 22nd annual St Andrews Charity Fashion Show (known to us as FS) continue to combine the authority of well-known designers with the flair of the country's best student talent – both on the catwalk and throughout our campaign. FS is a highly innovative and creative organization that is deeply passionate about fashion and philanthropy. Having raised over £300,000 for worthwhile charities over 22 years, FS continues to push the boundaries of what guests expect from a fashion show.
This year's theme was 'Bright Young Things,' taking its inspiration from the 1920's set of the same name. The theme was mirrored in the clothes, with established designers such as Topman and Hackett gracing the catwalk, as well as vibrant collections from up and coming designers such as Rebecca Torres. There was a particular focus on Scottish designers, with collections from Mairi McDonald, Haley Scanlan and 21st Century Kilts who offered their modern take on the traditional Scottish dress.
The show also saw the winning collection of our annual Young Designer Award, with University of Derby BA Hons Fashion Studies undergraduate Jos Swinnerton crowned this year's winner. Creating his collection in accordance with the creative brief's theme 'Bright Young Things', Jos took inspiration from the classic gentlemen of 1920s London. Showcasing his technical expertise and passion for tailoring, Jos combined silhouettes typical of the era with intricate detailing to craft a beautifully pieced collection. A careful selection of fabrics, from wool to silk, and earthy colours helped to capture the mysterious air of his inspired Bright Young Gentleman, whilst also keeping the collection relevant to the modern man.
The event was held on St Andrews lower college lawn and saw over 1,400 guests enjoying their mini bottles of Nicolas Feuillatte champagne, music from DJ John Christian and an auction that was raising money for our chosen charity AICR. Overall it was a highly successful night of fashion, fun and fundraising and we look forward to an even better event from next years Bright Young Things. | {
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If you are experiencing chronic back or neck pain such as discomfort, tingling joints, or headaches an experienced Lewisville chiropractor can help you find relief. Chiropractic treatment involves the rebalancing of your body through structural realignment that removes interference in the nervous system. Even those not suffering from chronic pain can benefit from the health and wellness benefits of chiropractic adjustment.
If you're suffering from a sport- or fitness-related injury, or have a muscle, ligament, or joint disorder that causes you discomfort or pain, an expert Lewisville chiropractor can help you devise a pain management plan. At River Oaks Spine Center, our skilled specialists can create a personalized plan tailored to your unique situation. Give our office a call to schedule an appointment.
What is subluxation and what causes it?
Subluxation describes a vertebrae that has become misaligned or abnormally positioned. Many things can cause subluxations, including bodily trauma as a result of car accidents, falls, or contact sports. Certain behaviors, such as improperly lifting or carrying heavy objects like purses, walking in high heels, or poor posture can also lead to subluxation. Ongoing chiropractic treatment can help treat subluxation. At River Oaks Spine Center, our leading Lewisville pain management specialists can address subluxation, amongst other chiropractic and medical needs.
How can a chiropractic adjustment help me?
If you suffer from back or neck pain, including chronic issues and subluxation, chiropractic adjustment is a safe, painless way to treat the root of your symptoms. Non-invasive and drug-free, chiropractic treatment can offer immediate relief, as well as a better quality of life with continued treatment. If you're dealing with chronic pain, headaches, arthritis, a pinched nerve, or even fibromyalgia, chiropractic adjustment can help you find balance and reprieve. River Oaks Spine Center specializes in Lewisville spine decompression, pain management, medical massage, and more, and can provide you with the customized treatment plan you deserve.
Sometimes, small pockets of gas or air can become trapped between joints. During chiropractic adjustment, these air pockets are often released, resulting in a popping sound. This is perfectly normal and is only associated with minimal—if any—discomfort.
Why do I sometimes hear a popping sound during an adjustment?
Chiropractic treatment is covered by many health insurance companies. At River Oaks Spine Center, we accept most major health insurance, as well as many smaller independent insurance companies. To see a list of health insurance providers we accept, visit our health insurance page.
Is Chiropractic treatment covered by insurance?
While everyone's body is different, and therefore everyone experiences differing results after a chiropractic adjustment, many people find immediate or near-immediate pain relief after visiting a Lewisville chiropractor. Over time, you will likely see a reduction or complete elimination in back or neck pain, improved posture, a feeling of being more balanced, and a plan for pain management. Some soreness is to be expected after an adjustment, but this is typically minor. Ultimately, chiropractic treatment has been shown to greatly ease or eradicate chronic pain. | {
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First, the project box with the voltage divider circuit is built! It has two taps on the resistance, one at 3megs and the other at 6.25megs. That takes care of the low & high power issues of the Johnson Desk.
Rain has started here in the Pacific Northwest and the electronics of the pedestal will be on the dolly real soon. So while the beast is all out in the open, the coupling cap for audio sampling/trapezoidal display will be installed.
Question: Seems like a good time to mount some of the HV transformers on insulators. HV Plate, Modulation, HV Choke, HV Filament are the candidates. Did I miss anything?
In other discussions, the mention of fusing the center tap/ secondary of the HV Plate transformer could have issues??? The desk uses a full wave rectifier circuit, not a bridge. I've had others on the west coast 3870 group that were against insulators and suggested fusing the center tap. I don't quite agree with their logic.
Since the entire electronics are within an enclosure where fingers can't touch the transformer frames, insulators at first glance seems good enough?
First, congratulations on making good progress on the Desk and it is worth the effort. If you haven't already done so, make sure to oil the bearings on all 4 of the fans while they are accessible. After one of the pedestal fans went up in smoke I replaced both of them with externally mounted Rotron Patriot fans with a filter on the lower one. Without filtered air, you should check/clean the intake for the lower fan in the RF deck around once a year if you use it a lot; otherwise you may not have sufficient cooling for the base of the 4-250/400 finals.
As to mounting transformers off ground: I like saving parts and money but if a transformer or choke is defective to the point that it is leaking/shorting to the core or frame it is time for a rewind. Rest assured that at some point you (or a subsequent owner) are going to be doing some observation and troubleshooting with the works outside of the pedestal. Like most of us you have a long time in radio being used to big metal transformer cases being at ground potential and all it takes is one mental slip causing you to rest your hand on one of those conveniently placed pieces of iron and you or the next owner will be history. I value my life as being worth a whole lot more than the cost of a rewound or hypersil type replacement.
Disclaimer: most of my vintage collection was purchased using proceeds from my consulting work in enterprise risk management. You can interpret that as either I am well paid because I know a lot about risk management or I am overly concerned about risks because I spend a lot of time in the domain; your call.
The Desk is pretty ruggedly built and if you run it near the current legal limit (only half an S unit down from its full bore rating) it is going to last a long time. In the "low" power position you can easily load it to over 300 watts out and the power supply is running at the half voltage setting. Nothing is working very hard and it puts out a big signal. I added inrush limiters to all supplies on mine and run it through a properly fused source. Make sure that the modulation transformer gap is set properly and use a properly sequenced T/R relay. The only failures I have experienced in multiple years of use are one fan and one crimped connector in the power supply distribution that finally gave up after 50 years.
The only modifications I made to mine are the inrush limiters, a pair of SS relays to replace a bad plate transformer relay (these also help to "softly" key the plate transformer), a screen current meter in an external box, and the replacement fans which are much quieter and move more air than the originals.
Good luck on getting it back on the air soon!
Tnx's for the input. My desk, serial #100124 has been on the air at this QTH for about three years. Knock on wood, no real problems so far. There were a few bugs when I brought it home in many pieces. Someone had used an ignition points file on the HV relay and not much was left of the contacts. Low power was ok, but it spit arcs n' sparks on the high tap. Hard to believe, I had a new spare in the junk box. Several weeks were needed to go all over the beast before turning on the filaments. Found that someone with little or no soldering experience had been in the meter shielding box. Solder looked like rabbit droppings. The felts for the fan bearings received the 3 in 1 oil treatment. There is a NOS fan motor for either the 500 or the desk in the junk box if the occasion occurs. Relay sequencing hasn't been an issue, KW matchbox works fine with the 75 meter full wave loop. Got an extra delay relay on the R-390A to keep it quiet for a moment longer after the matchbox relay switches to receive.
The risk factor is a real bugger. I don't lean on anything with HV, but I'm getting older and might have a senior moment. Then there is the issue of fewer places to get big iron rewound or to purchase new iron.
What's a poor man to do in a big town?
You are welcome and as I understand the serial numbering yours is an early one as is mine. But unlike the early 500's the Desk really doesn't have a reputation for losing transformers or chokes. There isn't any common failure factor other than age (or abuse) that has shown up. If the insulation is breaking down on the HV or modulation transformer you would likely soon get one or more shorted turns rendering it useless anyway. Since the design intent was for the transformer and choke cases to be at ground potential if you raise it above ground and leakage occurs it is possible that a second failure would occur with the high potential case now breaking down to a low potential point in the winding and rendering the component useless anyway. I would use and enjoy your Desk as intended and if a failure occurs then "bite the bullet" and fix it the right way. But creating a safety risk in the process of trying to avoid a failure risk is just not a good path to take.
I have seen other relays where someone attacked the contacts with a file instead of a burnishing tool; the only result was a relay that was somewhat bad turned very bad. The contacts on my plate relay were burnt and I think a lot of this was due to some dirt buildup on the mechanism that caused excessive contact bounce. When I got the Desk, the 872 rectifiers had been replaced by the encapsulated cylindrical SS units that plug into the 872A socket. I removed the rectifier filament transformer and put it in one of the desk drawers and the space and existing holes allowed me to mount the new SS relays on their heat sink with no holes required. These relays switch on at the zero crossing point and have built in surge suppression and the only issue I had was they needed an RF choke in the AC control lead to prevent RF modulation of the relays (that created some interesting audio!).
I also use a full wave 80 meter loop with mine and tune it with a homebrew reversible L network for all band use. I use a vacuum relay with delay on break for antenna switching and an additional relay takes care of muting; currently I have an SX-88 paired with my Desk. I have been tempted several times by the KW matchbox but I don't want to modify one for 160 and I also use the same tuner with a couple of other operating positions that cover 160.
Keep an eye on your 500 and make sure the mechanical delay relay is still providing delay on break; otherwise you will hot switch your antenna with resulting arcing. I think the mechanical delay tends to go away with age and I added a small electrolytic capacitor in parallel with the relay coil along with an isolating diode which took care of the sudden appearance of arcing at the end of transmissions.
Hopefully we will have a Desk to Desk QSO soon. | {
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package com.ack.adventureandconquer.game.proficiency;
import com.ack.adventureandconquer.game.Proficiency;
/**
* Created by saskyrar on 02/03/15.
*/
public class SensingEvil extends Proficiency {
@Override
public String getName() {
return SENSING_EVIL;
}
@Override
public String getDescription() {
return "At will, the character can detect evil (as the spell) up to 60' away by " +
"concentrating. Each use takes a turn.";
}
}
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wise, daniel, 1813-1898 (2)
burnap, george washington, 1802-1859 (1)
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duties of young women [binding] (2)
the housewife's library : (many volumes in one) : furnishing the very best help in all the necessities, intricacies, emergencies, and vexations that puzzle a housekeeper in every department of her duties in the home : household management, domestic cookery (1)
the legal rights, liabilities and duties of women : with an introductory history of their legal condition in the hebrew, roman and feudal civil systems including the law of marriage and divorce, the social relations of husband and wife, parent and child, o (1)
the wedding ring : a series of sermons on the duties of the husband and wife, and on the domestic circle [binding] (1)
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Title: duties
Duties of young women [binding]
Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell), 1814-1880
Advice to young ladies on their duties and conduct of life [binding]
Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885
A few thoughts on the powers and duties of woman : two lectures [binding]
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
Earnest entreaties and appeals to the unconverted : with persuasions to religious duties [binding]
Alexander, Geo. W.
Chipman, Luzene, Mrs.
Lectures on the sphere and duties of woman : and other subjects [binding]
Wright, J.
Burnap, George Washington, 1802-1859
The legal rights, liabilities and duties of women : with an introductory history of their legal condition in the Hebrew, Roman and feudal civil systems including the law of marriage and divorce, the social relations of husband and wife, parent and...
Mansfield, Edward Deering, 1801-1880
The young lady's Sunday book : a practical manual of the Christian duties of piety, benevolence and self-government [binding]
The young wife's book : a manual of moral, religious, and domestic duties [binding]
The young lady's counsellor, or, Outlines and illustrations of the sphere, the duties, and the dangers of young women : designed to be a guide to true happiness in this life and to glory in the life which is to come [binding]
Wise, Daniel, 1813-1898
The wedding ring : a series of sermons on the duties of the husband and wife, and on the domestic circle [binding]
Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
The housewife's library : (many volumes in one) : furnishing the very best help in all the necessities, intricacies, emergencies, and vexations that puzzle a housekeeper in every department of her duties in the home : household management, domestic...
The young man's counsellor, or, Sketches and illustrations of the duties and dangers of young men : designed to be a guide to success in this life, and to happiness in the life which is to come [binding] | {
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(Reuters) - Trina Solar Ltd raised its forecast for panel shipments this year as the Chinese company sells more at home and in Japan, easing dependence on Europe where it faces restrictions on imports.
Trina Solar's shares rose as much as 10 percent in early trade, touching a 15-month high.
Rivals JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd and Canadian Solar have also gained from the push into newer, high-margin markets. While JinkoSolar swung to a profit after seven quarters of loss, Canadian Solar has forecast a profit for its full year.
Trina Solar, which reported a narrower quarterly loss, said it aims to turn profitable in the fourth quarter, but could post a profit in the current quarter depending on manufacturing costs and selling prices for panels.
" At least (we are) looking for operating margin profitability (in the third quarter)," Chief Executive Jifan Gao said on a conference call with analysts.
The company posted a negative operating margin of 5.4 percent in the second quarter, a significant drop from 22.7 percent a year earlier and 15.4 percent in the first quarter.
Operating margins at Chinese solar companies narrowed sharply in the last two years as they raked up debt to expand capacity. Trina Solar, however, is better positioned than its Chinese rivals with a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.01 as of March 31, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Trina Solar now expects to ship between 2.3 gigawatts (GW) and 2.4 GW of panels this year, above its previous forecast of 2-2.
Japan's share is expected to more than triple from a year earlier, while China could account for about 27 percent of the shipments, the company said in a post-earnings presentation.
Trina Solar expects to ship between 650 megawatts (MW) and 680 MW in the current quarter. The company shipped 647 MW in the second quarter.
Gross margins in the current quarter will be in low double digits in percentage terms with the company buying wafers and cells from third parties to make solar panels, as demand exceeds its capacity to make these building blocks.
Gross margins rose to 11.6 percent in the second quarter from 8.4 percent a year earlier.
Trina's net loss narrowed to $33.7 million, or 47 cents per American Depositary Share (ADS), in the quarter ended June 30, from $92.1 million, or $1.30 per ADS, a year earlier.
Revenue rose 27 percent to $440.7 million as the company sold more in newer markets and it also benefited from higher sales to Europe ahead of the cap on imports from China.
Chinese solar companies increased sales to Europe before restrictions that would limit solar shipments to 7 GW per year kick in. Demand in the EU market was about 15 GW in 2012.
Trina Solar shares were up 5.7 percent at $7.16 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The stock has risen about 56 percent so far this year to its Monday close. | {
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Q: Hibernate query by example (from Spring 3) I've made my entity classes Adress, Road and County. A Road is in a County and an Adress in on a Road. I would like to list all the Adresses in a County. Therefore, in my AdressService I say:
public List<Adress> AllAdresses(County county) {
Adress adress = new Adress();
Road road = new Road();
road.setCounty(county);
adress.setRoad(road);
Example example = Example.create(adress);
return (List<Adress>) adressDAO.query(Adress.class, example);
}
In my AdressDAO I have query():
public List query(Class<?> c, Example example) {
return getSession().createCriteria(c).add(example).setMaxResults(100).list();
}
This executes the following query on my database server:
select this_.AdressId as AdressId2_0_,
this_.Description as Descript3_2_0_,
this_.DescriptionShort as Descript4_2_0_,
this_.HouseLetter as HouseLetter2_0_,
this_.HouseNr as HouseNr2_0_,
this_.RoadId as RoadId2_0_
from tblAdress this_
where (this_.HouseNr=0)
limit 100
I had expected it to at least include SOME information about my entity County, and an inner join with tblRoad. tblRoad has a primary key roadId, so I expected this_.roadId to be joined with tblRoad.roadId, and I expected tblRoad.countyId to be set to the primary key of County, that is countyId.
Why is the query in this example not built correctly when I use my own entity types? If I only use integers and strings, they work fine, but not entities. How do I make joins like this work with my own entities?
A: From the Hibernate docs:
Version properties, identifiers and
associations are ignored
And that, as they say, is that.
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Our friends are Conley Buick GMC are proud sponsors of the Southern State Bull Riding Finals at Palmetto Fairgrounds. Southern State Bull Riding Finals consists of the top 30 bull riders of the SSBR will be competing for the 2010 Year Ending Championship & a chance to win thousands of dollars in prize money. Proceeds from the event will benefit Manatee County 4H Chapter.
Saturday will exhibit many events including, blue grass music, riders autograph signing, WCTQ Dr. Shane onsite remote, Many food and tack Vendors and more. Bring the family enjoy the day and watch the best Pro Bull Riding in the area.
Get your tickets at the Conley Buick GMC dealership! Tickets are 10.00 in advance and 15.00 at the gate. Get them before it sells out. Limited tickets will be sold. | {
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Peninah Nakabo, 25, is a young chess player of two complete inter-faces.
In her ordinary life, Kireka Chess club member remains as humbled as a cucumber.
Ironically, once settled on the chess board, she is as ruthless as an angry, hungry and wounded tiger in the wilderness seeking for prey.
At the moment, I am training well so that I play well during the international competitions which will help me improve my rating. When I won in Zambia at the African Junior Chess championships, I was accorded a title of FIDE Women Candidate Master which I have to work for to uphold.
Before attaining her current rating, Nakabo was rated 1488th by FIDE.
It was the heroics while in Zambia that shot her rating from 1488 to 1581.
But, Nakabo has the target of reaching the rating of 2000 which is the bare minimum required by FIDE to attain the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).
This weekend, Nakabo will be among the local chess players who will compete for slots on the team Uganda for the Olympiad championship.
After the Olympiad qualifiers, Nakabo that will be played until 1st July 2018, Nakabo will quickly switch attention towards the successful defence of her Africa Junior Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
My target is also to take part in the 2018 African Junior Chess Championship and narrow the gap which is less of 419 points. I will work hard for it and I know I can do it.
Nakabo won the month of March 2018 USPA best sports personality, a reward that comes forth with a glittering plaque and cash reward of Shs. 500,000.
In May 2018, she recently won the Uganda Chess Federation sponsored Rapid open held at Liquid Silk earning Shs 500,000 as IM Arthur Ssegwanyi pocketed Shs750,000. | {
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Cloud10 Racing was founded by Tony Rey, a world class tactician, coach and race team leader with years of experience on the winners podium in racing yachts from 15-200 feet. As a veteran of the Americas Cup, the Volvo Ocean Race, the Olympics and the highest levels of Grand Prix racing from TP52s to Maxis and Superyachts, Tony knows what it takes to build a winning team.
When on board with a team from Cloud10, even the neophyte racer can find success and excitement at the absolute highest levels of racing.
Tony Rey
Professional Sailor, Project Manager, Coach, Team Builder
1995 Match Racing World Champion tactician
3 U.S. Olympic campaigns:1992 (Star), 1996 (Soling), 2000 (Soling).
2004 Athens Olympic Games U.S.Team Coach
2000 Young America, tactician and test helmsman
2003 Stars and Stripes, strategist and test helmsman
2007 Desafio Español, tactician and coach
Raced in Sydney to Hobart, Fastnet, Newport-Bermuda, Chicago-Mac, Round Gotland,and legs of both the Whitbread and Volvo Round the World Races
2010 Wally Class Championship, 1st
2011 Melges 32 World Championships, 4th
2012 St. Barths Bucket superyachts, 1st
2012 St. Thomas Rolex Regatta, 1st
2011 & 2012 Etchells Midwinter Championships, 1st
2012 Maxi World Championships, 1st Wally class
2012 Les Voiles de St. Tropez, 1st
2013 Rolex Swan Cup, 1st
2014 St Barths Bucket superyachts, 1st
2014 Les Voiles de st Barths, 1st
2014 Palmavela, IRC 1st
2015 Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, 1st
2015 Palma Superyacht Cup, 1st
2016 Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta , 1st
Having started sailing at 7 years old, Tony raced sailboats throughout his youth and through college, turning what he loves to do into a career. He's been involved in four America's Cup teams through the years, participated in multiple Olympic campaigns, Volvo Ocean races and now runs his own company, Cloud10 Racing. Tony locates and manages boats and crews for regattas all over the world. His clients race in exciting places such as Sardinia, St. Tropez, Barcelona, Capri, Cowes, Antigua, BVI, St. Barths, Florida, San Francisco and more. For him, it's all about putting great people together and having memorable experiences on the water. | {
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Intellectual Property Office: Lambert tool-kit moves from BIS
As part of rearrangements in Government websites the Lambert tool-kit for collaborative research has now moved from the Dept Business, Innovation and Skills website to the Intellectual Property Office website.
The new web address is: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/lambert
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) hopes that you find the Lambert website in this new location easy to use - the content remains the same.
The IPO would also like feedback about your experience of the Lambert tool-kit and, in particular, the model agreements.
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BIS announces a package of £836 million worth of efficiency savings
The savings represent 3.9% of the department's total budget.
They are part of the wider £6 billion in savings across Government, as outlined by the Treasury.
BIS is protecting spending on Research, Innovation, Business and Enterprise and student numbers in Higher Education, which will see an increase of 10,000 places
Instead, the savings will be delivered by through specific efficiencies, such as RDA funding and programmes like SBRI and the SME Adjudicator, and refocusing Train to Gain funding into new apprenticeships and investment in FE.
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BIS: David Willetts delivers his first keynote speech
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New Council for Industry and Higher Education report
A new report from the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) sponsored by Research Councils UK explores how collaborations between university research and business have an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of the UK.
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International Chamber of Commerce: A Roadmap for Business and Policy Makers
ICC's flagship IP publication - "Current and Emerging Intellectual Property Issues for Business: A Roadmap for Business and Policy Makers" - provides a comprehensive and concise overview of key intellectual property policy issues today for businesses and policymakers.
This popular ICC report is widely read by business, policy, and legal professionals worldwide, both within and outside ICC's international membership.
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Research Fortnight: Drayson impact debate
Science minister Paul Drayson faced a hostile audience at a debate on the future of UK research at the Wellcome Trust in London last night. Surrounded by a panel of young researchers and science communicators, who at times seemed somewhat out of their depth, Drayson was interrogated by academics in the audience over impact assessment in research funding.
Full report here
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UK Science and Technology Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Experts from industry and academia are being invited by the Home Office to provide groundbreaking innovations to help combat the threat of terrorism as part of the government's science and technology counter terrorism strategy.
A new three-year science and technology counter terrorism strategy (new window) aims to:
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New charity law guidelines
The Charity Commission publishes new guidance (9 June 2009) explaining how the requirements of charity law apply to research carried out by Universities and other Higher Education Institutions, particularly research conducted in partnership with non-charitable organisations.
Unico has been working with HEFCE, the HMRC and the Charity Commission on developing this guidance. Session B2, Charity Law, Tax Law and Research - Implications for working with Industry on Thursday, 11 June (1330-1500hrs) outlines the problem, guidance and further implications.
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A champion for UK innovation awarded MBE
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 00:00
Lita Nelsen, Director of the Technology Licensing Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receives this award in recognition of her work in innovation and technology/knowledge transfer. Ms Nelsen has been instrumental in shaping the UK's technology transfer landscape.
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David Secher granted the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion 2007
Submitted by circleinteractive on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 08:49
Professor David Secher is the recipient of the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion 2007, as announced in the London Gazette on Saturday, 21 April 2007. The award recognises Secher's leadership role in advancing enterprise in the UK and improving the UK innovation and knowledge transfer sector. Most particularly, Secher has played in promoting a culture shift in enterprise and innovation amongst researchers and business managers.
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Garage doors have undergone a lot of modifications in the past few years. The materials, mechanism and even placement of garages have changed. Garages have changed from being independent entities to being part of the house structure. Innovations have led to the creation of a plethora of special features which offers better safety and also security.
Based on opening mechanism: In the past, there was only one type of garage doors, that is the hinged door, which would open towards the outside. These were manually operated and required a lot of space in front of the garage. Later came the following altered and space saving doors.
One piece up and over the door: These doors are a single piece and they swing upwards and rest parallel to the roof of the garage.
Overhead sectional door/Upwards sliding panels: These are made of individual panels and they slide upwards and also rest on the roof the garage. They are designed with features like no-pinch of fingers. Sliding doors allow parking up to the garage door.
Sideways sectional door/Sideways sliding panels: These are also made of individual panels and can be done automatic or manual. Sideways garage doors can be opened halfway or all the way as required. These open inwards parallel to the sides of the garage.
Roller doors: Roller doors are the most compact and space saving type of garage doors. They open upwards and roll into the set rollers. They don't take up space on the roof nor of the walls of the garage.
Folding doors: These doors fold inwards or outwards depending on the design. These are mostly manual but can be automatized too.
A garage door repair lincoln professional is one who knows all the parts and has been in the field for a long time. An experienced handyman can complete an installation in about five to six hours. They work diligently to ensure that the end product is perfect and without complaints. Here is a knowhow about the garage door materials.
Steel is a very popular material used for garage doors. They are secure, durable and can be modified into different styles. The disadvantages of steel are that it is very heavy and prone to rust. The anti-rust coating can help prevent rust formation for a long time. Steel is a bad insulator, so unless the steel has reinforced insulation, you will not be protected from the cold winters.
Very much similar in appearance to steel, aluminum is much lighter. But this causes a disadvantage for aluminum doors, they dent easily. Nowadays manufacturers are creating sturdier versions which do not dent so easily. Aluminum doors can be painted and modified to give it any finish.
A rather new entry to the garage door manufacture industry, fiberglass is also easily adaptable. Due to its property of being salt water resistant, it is used in plenty of seaside homes or around the coastal areas. The disadvantage of fiberglass is that it doesn't last long and most often does not provide adequate insulation. | {
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Take your Form 6 to the Voter Facilitation Centre (VFC) of your Assembly Constituency (AC). Even though your wards may have changed after delimitation, your constituency remains the same. Each AC has one VFC. You can get the address and contact number of your VFC here. Remember, even though there are new wards now, your VFC will remain the same since your AC has not changed.
Submit the Form 6 at the VFC with copies of address proof/ID proof.
The VFC officials will check if your form has been filled in correctly and then give you an acknowledgment receipt.
These forms are then sent to the concerned Revenue Inspector (RI) of that Ward. It is usually sent to him two days after the date of submission.
Submit Form 6 at your VFC with copies of address and age proof. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
Revenue Inspector/Assessor will make a house visit to verify the applicant's address. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
The applicant's details will then be entered into the manuscript. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
The manuscript will include serial number, full name, father's or spouse's name, age and gender. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
VFC officials will enter these details onto the computer. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
Your photograph will be taken for the EPIC. Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
Your EPIC is generated and you are all set to vote! Pic: Vaishnavi Vittal.
The next step at the ward level is usually divided between two officials of that ward – the RI and the Assessor.
Either of these officials will first check if the form comes under their jurisdiction. They will refer to the ward map for the same. New maps have been given to these officials to account for redestricted and expanded 198 wards of Bangalore. Then will check if the form has been filled in correctly, if the necessary documents have been attached, signature, age and previous place of residence (if any).
In case of the address proof if a lease agreement is attached, the copy will be checked more thoroughly since there is a scope to enclose fake documents. In case of any discrepancy the official will telephone the applicant and check with him/her, say these officers.
This is followed by a house visit to ensure that the applicant resides in the stated place of residence. The RI/Assessor will either do this check alone or will be accompanied by a Tax Inspector. If the applicant are not at home at the time, the official will speak to the family members or even neighbours to ensure that the information stated in the form is true and that the applicant has been residing there for at least six months (as per law).
The officer will make a maximum of two visits.
Once this is checked, the RI/Assessor will enter the applicant's details in the manuscript. This will include the serial number, full name, father's or spouse's name, age and gender.
The manuscripts of all the wards of a particular AC are collected and the VFC officials enter the details on to the computer.
This entire process takes about 15 days. At the time of submitting your Form 6, you will be asked to come back after 15-20 days.
Here is the complete list of candidates for BBMP election 2015, extracted from form 7 and compiled by Citizen Matters.
A good article written in a lucid article.
I like slide show with the set of procedures to follow. Thank you for such a useful information.
This is a good set of information. I was not aware of this at all. Thank you! | {
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Grilled rapini salad 💚 – Mums!
Rapini – or cima di rapa – is a signature ingredient of the southern Italian cuisin hitting its peak season in spring. Sightwise, rapini resembles turnip tops with small broccoli buds. Tastewise, it's nutty and somewhat bitter. Dishwise, this veggie transforms beautifully into a grilled salad.
Fry two peeled and quartered red onions in olive oil. Clean 500 g rapini. Remove hard stems, finely chop the rest of the stems, coarsely chop the leaves and half the buds. Add to the onion quarters. Season with fleur de sel, black pepper, chili, three chopped garlic cloves, five chopped sun-dried tomatoes, 2 tbsp sun-dried tomato oil and 50 g roasted almond slivers.
Decorate with slivers of Parmesan cheese and serve as is, with sour dough bread or orecchiette. | {
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Somatic mutations of immunoglobulin genes characterize older memory B cells, and intraclonal B-cell diversification is typically associated with expansion of B-cell clones with higher affinity for antigen (antigen drive). was associated with immunoglobulin amino acid changes that would have likely lessened antigen affinity. Taken together, these studies support the hypothesis that in some CLL instances intraclonal diversification is dependent on antigen relationships with immunoglobulin receptors. Intro Most lymphoid malignancies develop from B cells because B cells improve their genomic DNA throughout differentiation by V(D)J recombination, somatic mutation, and class switching.1,2 The analysis of immunoglobulin genes has been important to understanding the origins of B-cell malignancies.2 Acute lymphoid leukemias develop in less mature cells, whereas chronic leukemias tend to develop in more mature cells.1 Among leukemias and lymphomas that are derived from mature B Nilotinib cells, most have somatically mutated immunoglobulin chains; only mantle-zone lymphomas and some B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemias (CLLs) have unmutated immunoglobulins.2 Ongoing somatic mutation is seen in lymphoplasmacytoid lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, diffuse large-cell lymphoma, mucosa-associated lymphoid cells (MALT) lymphoma, and CLL.2,3 CLL can be either somatically mutated or unmutated1,4C6; therefore, the complete origin of the cells is under investigation still.4C10 Higher than 50% of CLL cases possess somatically mutated immunoglobulin heavy string genes, and these patients possess an improved prognosis than people that have unmutated immunoglobulin genes.4,6 One hypothesis about the difference in CLL-cell mutation position is that mutation position shows the maturation stage from the B cell during malignant change.4C7 This hypothesis postulates that unmutated CLL situations develop from pregerminal middle Mouse monoclonal to Cytokeratin 8 B cells and mutated CLL situations develop from postgerminal middle B cells. Another hypothesis postulates that unmutated CLL situations develop from B cells powered by T-independent antigens, whereas mutated CLL situations develop from B cells powered by T-dependent antigens.4C6 Finally, it's been recommended that CLL comes from a storage B-cell population irrespective of mutation position as the genetic information from the unmutated and mutated situations are similar.8,9 Earlier, CLL cells were regarded as static within their immunoglobulin adjustable gene mutation and expression insert.5,11 Proof for CLL-cell intraclonal diversification by ongoing somatic mutation,3,12C16 large chain receptor editing and enhancing,17 and course turning18 suggests CLL cells may continue steadily to differentiate. Prior research of CLL-cell intraclonal diversification had been performed using bulk CLL-cell populations and cloned large string immunoglobulin gene adjustable locations.3,19 A single-cell analysis of mutational Nilotinib diversification was performed in a single research and emphasized clonal analysis of immunoglobulin light chains.12 We used single-cell evaluation of immunoglobulin large and light Nilotinib chain genes to investigate the possibility that CLL cells can undergo intraclonal diversification. We found evidence that CLL-cell intraclonal diversification with progressive somatic mutation was associated with evidence of antigen drive in some but not all instances of CLL. Individuals, materials, and methods Individuals with CLL The analysis of CLL was founded according to National Tumor Institute (NCI) Working Group criteria.20 Informed consent was acquired as part of a protocol authorized by the Veterans Administration (VA) and Duke University or college Institutional Review Boards. We analyzed 6 individuals Nilotinib with CLL characterized by CLL cells with mutated ( 2% difference from your most related germ collection gene) variable region immunoglobulin weighty chains Nilotinib (VH) from our cohort of individuals from your Duke University or college and Durham VA Medical Centers. Individuals had white blood cell (WBC) counts of more than 15 109/L (15?000/L) and had not received CLL therapy in the past month. Patient characteristics are outlined in Table 1. Rai staging was performed as previously explained.20 Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of CLL-cell chromosomes was performed using fluorescent probes to. | {
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PR: MangaGamer to Sell Highschool Romance
By Chris Melchin / November 9th, 2015
MangaGamer has announced that they will be selling AJTilley's upcoming visual novel Highschool Romance on their website and on Steam when it releases on Friday, November 13. The game is available for pre-order from their website, and will include both the DRM-free version and a Steam key for the game. Their description for the game is as follows:
It's the start of your final year.
And due to a crazy mixup by your parents you are due to attend an all girls school. Fortunately the principal has a solution to this strange crisis.
What should have been a dream come true to many will now be a lot more complicated, can Shoji make friends or find love and survive in this very strange situation.
That is from the Steam store page description. The message we received from them contained one additional line that seems to provide more information about the story and themes of the game:
To avoid any confusing this is a story that involves Crossdressing
Believe it or not, this particular game about crossdressing is all-ages, and the Steam version is the same as the version available from the MangaGamer website.
About Chris Melchin
Chris is a computer science student who has been gaming ever since he knew what to do with a Super Nintendo controller. He's a fighting game player, with a focus on BlazBlue and Under Night In-Birth games. His favourite games include Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Persona 5, and Little Busters. He started watching anime in high school, and his favourite series is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. He also writes Vocaloid music for his personal YouTube channel, and has a (slight) obsession with Megurine Luka.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Lottery giant Gtech Corp. is finally close to owning all of slot maker Atronic Gaming.
The complicated transaction was first announced in December 2004.
Providence, R.I.-based Gtech, which operates more than two dozen U.S. state lotteries, spent almost $150 million to buy 50 percent of Atronic, a slot machine manufacturer that is the market leader in Europe, Russia and Latin America.
Atronic has made significant inroads over the past year to gain entry into the American casino market.
The privately held, Espelkamp, Germany-based Gauselman Group controlled the other 50 percent of Atronic.
Gtech announced last week it would acquire 50 percent of Gauselman's ownership stake on Thursday for almost $29.3 million. Gtech said in a statement that it expects to buy the rest of Gauselman's ownership in Atronic for $46.8 million sometime this year.
Gtech was taken private in August 2006 when it was acquired by Italian lottery company Lottomatica for $35 a share, or $4.7 billion.
Las Vegas Dealers Local 721 is launching Web sites aimed at dealers at The Mirage and Mandalay Bay. The sites aim to let dealers better communicate with organizers. But union organizer Joseph Carbon said the sites don't mean the casinos are the union's next targets.
"We've had a lot of interest at both locations," Carbon said. "So the Web site is for them to view and we'll see what happens."
The union, a chapter of the Transport Workers Union of America, used a similar tactic during a successful drive to organize dealers at Caesars Palace.
The stock price of Boyd Gaming Corp. has plunged in the past seven months from its 52-week high of $54.22 on July 16. On Friday, the company's stock price closed at $25.29 on the New York Stock Exchange.
But that fall hasn't deterred Macquarie Research Equities gaming analyst Joel Simkins. His report to investors last week was titled, "We're still buying Boyd."
Simkins said Wall Street has substantially discounted the value of Boyd, the $4.8 billion Echelon development and the company's land holdings. He said the company's Coast Casinos properties, which cater to locals, should carry the company's load.
The World Series of Poker has launched a weekly talk radio show that will air Mondays. The show will include interviews with poker players and discussion of upcoming events.
In Las Vegas, the show can be heard on KSHP-AM (1400) from 5 to 7 p.m. The program is being picked up in such markets as Dallas, Houston, Seattle, St. Louis and Honolulu. | {
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Nancy Langston (SS) will discuss her book "Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World" at noon today (July 30), at the Brainerd, Minnesota Public Library.
Her appearance was mentioned in "Entertainment Briefs" in the Brainerd Dispatch.
Angie Carter presented at the Rural Sociological Society annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on July 27 and July 28th.
Carter also presented "Photovoice and Community Development: Women in Agriculture and the Transformation of Rural Spaces," with her collaborator Claudia M. Prado-Meza (Universidad de Colima) and facilitated a panel "Putting the Sociological Imagination into Practice: Place, Power, and Praxis" with collaborators Ahna Kruzic (Pesticide Action Network North America,Oakland, California) and Gabrielle Roesch-McNally (USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon).
She also took part in a book reading and author talk about activism on July 30th at the Corvallis Public Library in Corvallis, Oregon with co-authors Kruzic and Roesch-McNally. Carter read her essay, "Homecoming," about Iowans' resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline, included in the recently published edited volume "We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women's Political Action" (McFarland 2018).
Lankton to Give Presentation on Quincy History
Alumni, Events
Local historian, educator and author Larry Lankton (Emeritus SS) will present the latest in the Quincy Mine Hoist Association's "History on the Hill" series at 7 p.m. Thursday (July 26) at the Quincy Mine 1894 Hoist House.
Lankton's presentation is titled, "The National Park Service Arrives on Quincy Hill, 1978." In the summer of 1978 a team from the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a part of the National Park Service, conducted a 10-week study of the social history of the Quincy Mining Company.
Lankton led the HAER team in 1978 and moved to the Keweenaw three years later to continue his research and write about the local copper industry. Find out more about Lankton's presentation.
History on the Hill presentations are free and open to the public. | {
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An emerging economic power house in Europe, Latvia presents an opportunity to receive a world class education at a European destination at probably the lowest educational cost. It has modern living facilities and a degree from Latvia opens a window of opportunity for employment throughout Europe in all 26 Schengen countries.
If you have chosen Latvia as your study destination, it is important that you get familiar with the overall costs associated with your educational plans.
Cost of living in Latvia is comparatively lower than other European countries. It is also comparatively cheaper than the US and Australia.
Average monthly expenses in Latvia are in the range of 450 to 700 Euros per month. This is inclusive of accommodation, food, utilities, transportation and other expenses.
As an emerging economy, salaries in Latvia are still comparatively better than most European countries which have far more developed economies. Current trends indicate an average salary between 1200 to 1500 Euros per month with individuals having English language skills gaining an added advantage over others in the job market. | {
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Putin Cannot Yet Clarify When EU Borders Will Be Opened to Russians
Russia grounded its fleet in late March. Oli Scarff / AFP / TASS
It is unclear when EU countries will reopen their borders to Russian tourists, President Vladimir Putin said Monday during a meeting with the head of Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot.
"It is not clear what our partners will do in many countries of the world, including in Europe, they cannot understand each other yet. And it is not clear when they will open their borders and territories to third-country citizens, including Russian citizens, even during the summer holidays," Putin was quoted as saying on the Kremlin's website.
In late March, the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak prompted Russia to ground most of its international fleet, keeping active only special evacuation flights to bring Russian tourists home from abroad, and some government jets. Aeroflot halted ticket sales for international routes until August 1.
Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Saveliev said during the meeting with Putin that a number of foreign airlines have lifted restrictions on international flights and that Aeroflot also expects to be able restore its flying capacities.
"If we manage to agree and start flying, then the real recovery to 80 percent of capacity will be by December, and by the end of the winter season, which is the end of March next year, we can reach the level of 2019 for international flights", Saveliev said.
Russia was not included in the European Commission's list of countries granted entry to the European Union from July 1.
Thousands of Russians Traveled Abroad in April Despite Border Closures, Canceled Flights – RBC
Despite the flight ban, Aeroflot has been operating flights to New York, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Seoul and Tel Aviv since at least early June, the Vedomosti business daily has reported, citing unnamed staffers from three airlines including Aeroflot.
Multiple reports have also said that Russians without clearance are making it into the EU and other countries via the land border with Belarus and through Serbian airports.
Last month, Moscow partially lifted travel restrictions for Russian citizens and foreigners. The authorities are allowing Russians to visit relatives abroad who need care, or to leave the country for treatment or to work or study. The same rules apply to foreigners who want to enter Russia.
The Russian Transport Ministry said in late June that the authorities are considering the possibility of resuming flights to former Soviet countries and Turkey.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the decision to open Russia's borders will be made by the government's coronavirus task force, which will look at input from epidemiologists and data from other countries. Peskov added that Moscow is, however, negotiating the opening of borders with certain countries.
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Russia's deputy health minister called the disease a biological threat to the country earlier this week. | {
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27 January 2019 - Montenegro has a large number of museums and galleries, all dotted around the country. This charming country has a rich history, so every region within the Montenegrin border has a museum with fascinating historical artefacts specific to the area.
The National Museum of Montenegro is a complex cultural institution which consists of different museums and many buildings, churches, and houses that comprise each museum, all of which are housed in buildings of utmost historical and cultural importance. This institution was officially founded in 1896, the year of enacting the Law on Royal Montenegrin Library and Museum.
The central "theme" within the National Museum is the material and spiritual history of the territory now known as Montenegro and the people that have lived there. This museum records the history of Montenegro chronologically starting with ancient ruins and findings and continuing through to the 18th century. Everything from war relics to furniture, artworks and historical documents are on display in the museums.
Located in Cetinje, Montenegrin Old Royal Capital, the National Museum is composed of four museums: Museum of History (composed of the King Nikola Museum, Museum of Petar II Petrovic Njegoš, Njegoš`s birthhouse, Njegoš`s Mausoleum on Lovćen, the court church Cipur, the Mausoleum of Bishop Danilo on Orlov krš and the the Raised-relief Map Pavillon), the Art Museum with the Modern art gallery Dado Đurić, the Ethnographic Museum and the newly founded Archaeological Museum with Lapidarium.
The buildings which represent segments of the National Museum are all located in central Cetinje, with the exception of Njegoš's house of birth, which is in the village of Njeguši towards Lovćen National Park.
National Museum of Montenegro performs various professional services (such as conservation, documentation, information collection and others) and it contains archival and library departments with approximately 50.000 bibliographical and 100.000 archival units.
Collection of museum exhibits on the territory of present-day Montenegro can be traced back to the ancient past. In a modern sense, however, it is possible to record the traces as of late fifteenth century, the time when Cetinje was established as a political and spiritual centre of Montenegro. The exhibition items include book collections, written and printed documents, issues related to church history - holy paintings - icons, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, installations; war relics, flags, weaponry, furniture and various types of ethnographic items covering the entire ethnographic subject matter of present-day Montenegro.
The museum departments dedicated to particular individuals that have left their marks within the history of Montenegro – Prince-Bishop and writer Petar II Petrovic Njegoš and the last Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrovic Njegoš - have special appeal to all visitors, local and foreign.
The tour to the National Museum of Montenegro often includes a brief history on Cetinje, Old Royal Capital of Montenegro, which is a wonderful testimony to the past times, the foundation of Montenegrin identity and spirituality. Cetinje is perhaps the smallest European capital, but it is the city of the great history and charm, which will certainly attract you.
If you are interested in learning about Montenegrin history, or want to find out more about Montenegrin artists, be sure to explore the country's cultural capital, and set aside part of your time for the National Museum complex. | {
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I have few pub crawls planned in coming months..
My second hometown, I intend to visit Brewery Tap (I have visited it in its previous life, Royal Standard) and new Wetherspoon (:notworthy:) outlet, Thomas Leper. Then visit Derby's traditional Back Street Boozers in California area Southwest Derby.
The Vine is the only pub I have visited in area but I want go back and explore West Brom's pubs. Unexplored area for me.
Any good pub crawls? Help me out!
Well apart from a bad pubs crawl in Liverpool last night and Dudley/Netherton/Brierley Hill on Monday night I have a lengthening list of crawls to do in addition to filling in local gaps in PG reviews.
haven't been for a while so the city centre wants looking at again.
still haven't done Dewsbury but I'll do the Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Dewsbury in one go and leave the other line for another time.
great city full of wonderful pubs and I say that as a weggie.
Would`nt bother with Ironbridge , most of the pubs are food orientated tourist traps , The Golden Ball is Ok as is the Horse And Jockey , the best pub is the Dirty Duck (Black Swan) over the river in Jackfield and the Boat ain`t bad when its not under water . If your in the area the best bet is Jackfield and then get stuck in the All Nations in Madley.
Would`nt bother with Ironbridge , then get stuck in the All Nations in Madley.
Salisbury is a fine drinking city and quite pretty, don't miss Deacons, the Village and the Wyndham Arms (home of Hopback brewery), plus any number of other good pubs including the famous mumified hand in the Haunch of Venison (expensive beer though).
Not really done much around Dudley, to be honest. I need to visit myself. I dont have much booked at moment - hoping to do Bridgnorth before the end of the year - its more at them moment, doing an odd couple of pubs as and when, or it will be a spur of the moment thing. A couple in Lichfield later, i hope. I visited several (2 closed) in Digbeth last night.
I went to this http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55475/ back in 2006.
Blue Bell is fine Edwardian pub but poor ales. It was cramped when I went to Blue Bell and landlord was very grumpy!
I'l guess I need research into Dudley pubs later. I actually visited The Crown in Bridgnorth earlier this year. Nice Marston's pub. I couldnt believe I missed Wetherspoon in Bridgnorth, I only found out by looking at Bridgnorth list on this website! :moremad: I must have walked past and not realising it is wetherspoon.
I am trembling with fear... which pubs?
The Yorkshire Terrier is class.
The other York brewery pubs are Last Drop (http://http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/53951/) and Three Legged Mare (http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/53953/). There's also the Brewery which does tours.
The Blue Bell does get busy but there are more rooms down the corridor or space in the drinking corridor itself. The beers are a fairly mainstream bunch but I've never had a bad 'un in there, the ladies behind the bar are very pleasant and polite, I've never knowingly met the landlord. Some landlords make grumpiness an artform.
The Golden Fleece Reportedly most haunted pub in York, Fine pub. Had pint of Black Sheep.
All good pubs, well it is York :D, The Snickleway also claims to be York's most haunted :confused: Don't know which mock tudor pub it could have been - there are a few in York and some genuine ones.
NOTE: Not recommended for wheelchair users and weak heart.. Very steep hill!!
Also went to Whitby, Scarborough and few Yorkshire towns. Yorkshire is haven for real ale drinkers. I always enjoyed go to Yorkshire.
Oggy, have you done Ludlow?
I noticed you did the Shakespeare in Scarboro' - it is legend!
Yep! I still have photo of me and my sister outside Shakespeare..
Yes , but not for years , its a bit like Shrewsbury lots of old buildings and the castle is one of the best anywhere . Its well worth a visit pub wise , the Church and the Globe being the pick in town , the Feathers is beautifull outside rubbish in , the Bull used to be good as well . The Charlton Arms on Ludford Bridge (which you should know all about in your proffesion) is good as well .
I tend to bypass Ludlow and head up the Clun Valley loads of cracking little pubs and glourious scenery .
Just been laughing at your review of the Catherine O'Donovan . I know exactly what you mean. I have tried to go in there 3 times now and each time it has been shut !! I have no idea of the opening hours - if there are any !!
The most annoying thing is that it is the only pub in the area I haven't been in !!
I have managed it twice - once sat outside in its small beer patio, drinking Banks's MILD, i think - it was a bog standard place - like Town Crier, but better than the now defunct Queens. The second time, it was selling cans of C*****g and Woodpecker Cider, as though it was about to close - i think i walked out, i cant remember!
It really does surprise me that Ludlow has so few reviews and photographs.During the summer this is one of the prettiest tourist traps around . It is renowned for good places to eat, specialized food shops , and good pubs. Some are impressive places on the main streets, others can be found in quaint little side streets.
Ludlow is situated on the Hereford > Shrewsbury rail line and country buses connect with local towns and villages. Reasonable priced accommodation if you ring around.
I fell in love with Shropshire when 12 years of age and it has never waned so you may think I am biased .
How did your Brum trip go - where did you end up going?
Strange but true , a couple of years ago Ludlow had the most Michelin Stared resturants in the country exept for London .
I thought that honour goes to Bray, Berkshire..
Hey leave my beloved :notworthy::notworthy::notworthy: alone..
They do cracking meals you know especially Farmhouse Breakfast..
:eek: 50p vouchers?? You must be desperate.. :D I dont do MILD which is flat beer, only Porters or Stouts, proper drink for hardened man like me..
Have you been in the Dog in Whittington since it re-opened?
Adnams Broadside is their permanent ale plus others. You will need load of wad to buy a pint as it is shockingly expensive, they do cracking meal BTW.
they do cracking meal BTW.
ooooh God, dont tell me it's a JDW now!
Dont think JDW would do one in village! Anyway it is free house and barmaid is bit of looker :cheers: but pleasant! I am sure they have :twigs: somewhere in Dog Inn..
Well dont try to pull her, you will have to give up half your crate of Hobgoblin for xmas - no can do!
:eek: you and OB having bit of spat?
Not at all, i am just jealous that he is where he is and i am where i am!
FILTH - does she work all week?
I remember I had huge spat with my late drinking pal (Bless him) in Atherstone.. My pal went into sulk and walked off into horizon. I went pub crawling on myself.. then one pub called White Bear (The Clock as local calls it) I found my pal drinking on his own.
We apologised for our bad behaviour and made a peace pact. Continued our pub crawling together.
He died of heart attack only one month later. He was 61 and I was 25. Odd couple I know!
Oh thats reilef! I was fearing the worst.
Iam heading to Lichfield and have a quick pint at DoY plus two pubs before heading back to Tamworth. 2 hours max.
See you later on forum later tonight!
Still in Lichfield :D Longer than I thought!
Then half of Reinbeer by Church End at Horse and Jockey. I must say it is very bland and no flavour.
Iam currently in Lichfield Library. Iam Overlooking Gatehouse Inn.. oh pardon me.. :notworthy::notworthy::notworthy: (bit of dig to Soupy!).. mmmm I'll think i'll go and have half..
Darn! I forgetten what i had at gatehouse. Never mind, i am drinking pint of abbots reserve, dangerously drinkable in the acorn inn. Not looking foward going hme but i have to!
I am no lager man thank you! Oh hope you realise dog open at 7pm? I am waiting 4 bus bring me back to beauitful Tamworth.
I think you have competition for your claim to be the PG Official JDW tester - Edmon has visited a fair few as well, mate. My apologies to him, i committed a faux pas:muppet: when i asked him to post some reviews - he has done a number - just uses a different name - Sorry Edmon!
perish the thought, but I just felt I ought to remind Soupy about what he was missing, purely as a public service you understand and in no way a wind up,....not at all.....no not me.....as if. I did mention the :twigs:twigs:twigs: in the Courthouse didn't I? :D More to the point Soupy did pass on some very useful pointers about what was the best beer where and to get a pork pie in the Vine (lovely incidentally). He didn't pass on the info about the barmaid in Whittington but I probably couldn't have got there, I got confused about bus stops in Brierley Hill and missed out on a pint or two in the Rose & Crown:moremad: I don't think pub crawls by proxy or virtual pub crawls will actually catch on.
No mate - i was hoping to, as footy team trains there, but i forgot, i had daughter's Xmas carol concert. Maybe doing the last two i need to do in Aldridge tonight, depends though.
No more pub crawls for me this year.. :mad: cos Xmas is rapidly coming up.
Looks like Iam confined to Tamworth pubs for now.
I know of it, just not got to it, yet!
After talking to Soup Dragon and Ale & Hearty we think our first crawl of 2010 will be the Valley of Beer in Sheffield, probably meeting at the new bar on the station (see this (http://petebrown.blogspot.com/2009/12/sheffield-gets-fantastic-new-pub-as-if.html) or this) (http://www.aswiftone.com/2009/12/more-choice-in-sheffield.html), warning it sells Thornbridge, then getting a tram up to the Hillsborough and staggering down the valley from there.
We haven't discussed dates yet but anyone who fancies this famous crawl please stick in your ideas and preferences. Remember Sheffield is only just over 2 hours from St Pancras, or an hour and a quarter from New Street.
It really does surprise me that Ludlow has so few reviews and photographs.
I was in Ludlow for a quick jaunt around town recently. I only went in the Church Inn for a pint but I did take a few pub snaps that have now been added to this site.
Sheffield is high on my list of beer cities to visit. I have done the Kelham Island, Fat Cat and Bath Hotel but little else. I'm not sure a day trip would do the place justice and �60 for a return train ticket is a bit beyond my budget. It is my intention to do Sheffield in one big binge over a long weekend at some time in the future, preferably with a bit of footy or a gig thrown in for good measure.
�60 ouch:eek: Let us northerners know when you are coming up, can't have you drinking alone.
Old Swan Brewery at the Old Swan (Ma Pardoes) in Netherton - not to be missed. Take a look around the inside.
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Beacon Hotel in Sedgley (558 bus runs 8 times per hour between Wolverhampton and Dudley via Sedgley taking around 20 minutes or catch the 223/224/229 from Bilston bus/metro station). Home of the Sarah Hughes Brewery. Characterful pub inside. Closes during the afternoon so probably better to start here before moving on.
Old Swan in Netherton. Home of the Old Swan Brewery. Pub also known as Ma Pardoes. Not to be missed, take a look around inside. Mighty fine pint of Entire.
The Vine in Brierley Hill (also known locally as the Bull 'n' Bladder). Home of Batham's Brewery but, ironically, the quality of the beer can be inconsistent. Unofficial best Batham's award goes to the Unicorn in Wollaston near Stourbridge.
The Windsor Castle in Lye. Home of the Windsor Castle Brewery making Sadlers Ales. 200 yards from Lye Railway Station with a direct link to Snow Hill and Moor Street stations in Birmingham city centre.
You might also want to pay a visit to The Crooked House in Himley (only recently started selling cask ales and you might feel drunk on the way in due to the lopsided nature of the building. Sadly not on a bus route); The Jolly Crispin in Upper Gornal and within walking distance of that the Britannia (another Batham's pub but worth seeing its back room); The Court House in Dudley town centre (next to the police station or 100 yards from the bus station).
Ah! There's my earlier post! So good I said it twice!
"When you have lost your inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England"
I have seen your 'local' work and it is nice to see you on the forum. I did Gornal again yesterday, so a few more reports to write!
Cheers. At the time of my initial look at Walsall on PuG there were quite a few gaps so I made it my mission to do my bit to put my hometown on the map and to show what it has to offer - with places like the Pretty Bricks, Walsall Arms and White Lion in mind in particular. I'd previously submitted photos to BitE but they were too slow in responding so I gave up on them. I actually enjoyed doing it and it was more rewarding to see instant results on PuG.
It's also amazing how we can take things for granted yet look back at photos from only 25 years ago to realise how things change in a relatively short space of time and are gone forever - rather like my taste for lager!
Although Walsall has some good pubs, I think that the Royal Borough of Dudley is in a different league, especially if you look at the places I listed above. I had to go back to Ma Pardoes yesterday and buy some of their real ale in a bottle, I couldn't resist.
Mrs B informs me that 2 of her work colleagues fancy a pub crawl of St Albans next Saturday (13th) which I am naturally happy to organise. She is even shelling out for a Travel Lodge so she is clearly expecting me to lead them on a good run. Luckily Spurs game is early k.o. so plenty of time to squeeze in a good 15 pubs at least. I hope they know what they have let themselves in for.
I hope they know what they have let themselves in for.
They have no idea! Who are these pretenders venturing forth & submitting to the RogerB endurance test?
I notice that connections from StA to London, & back out to Dartford, are still pretty frequent later in the evening, so the booking of a hotel sounds like even direr consequences for your tour group. I hope they've booked the Monday off too.
good 15 pubs at least.
My record stands at 18 pubs in single day.
Hehehe, tactics, old son, tactics!
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15 August 2017 By Jill Geoghegan
The debate over how to eradicate poor employment practices in some UK factories flared up again this week, prompting retailers and manufacturers to call for more support from the government.
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It comes after New Look chief executive Anders Kristiansen last week told Drapers he wanted to bring volume production back to these shores, but complained that many UK factories fail to meet ethical regulations.
His comments prompted a mixed reaction from industry stakeholders, some of which pointed out that most UK manufacturers operate ethically.
However, there was also acknowledgement that more needs to be done to stamp out illegal practices – particularly in Leicester, where low pay in some clothing factories was the focus of a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in January.
Asos chief executive Nick Beighton told Drapers he agreed that UK manufacturing, particularly in Leicester, needs more support from industry bodies and the government: "Someone has to change their thinking for others to follow. We'll put volume behind it but we'd like help to do it."
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"We've got a lot of very competent UK manufacturers," said Beighton. "I'd love to do more, as nothing can be quicker than producing in the UK."
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said it is in ongoing dialogue with the government to tackle labour exploitation and suggest "practical interventions".
Peter Andrews, BRC policy adviser for sustainability, said: "There are shortfalls in ethical labour standards in the UK fashion manufacturing industry that are deterring retailers from investing.
"We believe these problems can be overcome but that will require co-operation and resources from both government and industry including targeted, effective enforcement, to shut down illegal practices where they occur."
In July, the government vowed to impose tougher measures on large employers who allow exploitation to take place in their supply chains.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "The government is committed to building an economy that works for everyone and we are absolutely clear that employers must take their legal responsibilities seriously.
"We are engaging with the business community and workers across the country to understand their views on the review's recommendations, and will publish our response in due course."
However, Fashion Enter founder and chief executive Jenny Holloway argued that is not just about government intervention: other retailers need to step up to help factories.
"In Leicester there are 1,500 factories employing 9,500 people. Retailers need to work with them to raise their game and capitalise on that opportunity."
Kate Hills, founder of Make It British and trade show Meet the Manufacturer, agreed: "We need local government support in Leicester. However, the biggest issue is the relationship between the retailers and suppliers.
"Buyers are tasked with achieving a certain margin and, if they are sourcing locally, that can put them in a difficult position, as the two don't always align.
"The message that they won't work with unethical manufacturers and they are willing to pay more needs to come from the top, and make sure it is filtered through all parts of the business."
One Leicester factory caught up in the controversy over the Dispatches investigation in January was TS Knitwear. The supplier to New Look outsourced production to another factory, where an undercover investigator was allegedly paid £3.50/hour and a total of £110 for the week.
The factory has since stopped outsourcing, diversified into jersey to keep production more stable and improved transparency.
It has undergone a new Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit (SMETA) and remains compliant to the Fast Forward initiative, which promotes legal and ethical labour standards compliance in the supply chain.
Aman Biring, director at TS Knitwear, added to the calls for more collaboration between retailers and factories: "There is no consistency for our employees, no job security.
"We need support from retailers, we need orders to be staggered and we need collaboration to make it work. We are an ethical factory and there are more like us in Leicester, but we need support from the industry and the government."
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Anonymous16 August 2017 10:26 am
Low pay in Leicester is because a lot of workers are on benefits and want to be paid in cash or part cash.
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It was President Woodrow Wilson who called our judiciary "the balance wheel of our entire system." It is meant to maintain the nice adjustment between individual rights and government powers which constitutes political liberty. Harry Blackmun has been a steady and strong hand on that balance wheel.
In cases argued before him, he found the human dimension and struck the right balance -- in the struggle over how we might best overcome our legacy of racism; in protecting the women's reproductive rights; in providing poor people and sick people access to the lowest-priced prescription drugs; in opening the courthouse doors to the mentally ill; and upholding tough sentencing guidelines to keep hardened criminals confined in prison; in averting a constitutional crisis by voting with a united Court to tell the president who appointed him to obey the law.
Those of us who have studied the law can at times be lost in its abstractions. The habits, the procedures, the language of the law can separate lawyers from the people who look to the bar for justice. Justice Blackmun's identification was firmly and decisively with the ordinary people of this country, with their concerns. And his humanity was often given voice not only in majority opinions, but in his dissents.
When he stood apart from the Court and aligned himself with an abused son against a violent parent and an indifferent child welfare agency, he appealed to the Court, "What is required of us is moral ambition. Poor Joshua. It is a sad commentary upon American life and constitutional principles that Joshua and his mother are denied by this Court the opportunity to have their rights protected." As he promised, his opinions defied labels. Only the word "justice" applies. Justice has not only been his title, it has been his guiding light.
Consider the history of which he has been a part. His tenure on the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court extended through the terms of nine presidents. Fewer than 110 Americans have served on the Supreme Court, and Justice Blackmun served with 17 of them. Of the Judiciary Committee members who unanimously approved his nomination, including strong people in the Senate like John McClellan and Sam Ervin, Phil Hart, Hugh Scott, Mack Mathias, only three remain -- Senators Kennedy, Byrd and Thurman. He's been part of a very lively period in American history. And he has served us well.
Let me also say on a personal note, one of the most rewarding experiences of my public life and my personal life has been the opportunity that Hillary and I have had to get to know Harry Blackmun and his wonderful wife, Dotty, who is here with us today. I have seen his passion in a private way for the people of this country, for its history, for its leaders, for its institutions, for its laws, for holding us together and moving us forward.
JUSTICE BLACKMUN: Mr. President, you've been generous, far too generous in your remarks. There are those who don't agree with you, of course. (Laughter.) But I really wanted to say that it's been a great privilege to be on the federal bench for over 34 years, in 24 terms here, and to watch the country move along through those 24 years. It hasn't been much fun on most occasions, but it's a fantastic experience which few lawyers are privileged to have. And as Byron White put it a year ago, it's been a great ride. And I'm indebted to the nation and, Mr. President, to you and your predecessors, for putting up with the like of me.
Q Mr. President, these are such large shoes to fill. Have you thought about the kind of person you would want? And if we could take you back to politics and the practical nature of politics, would it be possible, for instance, to elevate someone from the Senate, such as George Mitchell, without jeopardizing your program, such as health care?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, today I'd like to make just one statement about that because I think today should be Justice Blackmun's day. We'll have a lot of time in the days ahead to discuss this.
The shoes are large. The role that he has filled on this Court is terribly important. I will attempt to appoint someone of genuine stature and a largeness of ability and spirit to the Court. I will try to do it in a timely fashion, in an appropriate and timely fashion. That is, within a reasonable amount of time. But I want to make sure that we have reviewed the appropriate options, and I will do that.
And I think you'll -- we'll have lots of time to talk about it in the days ahead. But I just don't think I should say much more today. I think this should be Justice Blackmun's day.
Q Mr. President, Justice Blackmun has been known for his commitment to the decision in Roe versus Wade that legalizes abortion. How important is it for the Supreme Court to keep that philosophy toward the right to abortion?
And I wondered if Justice Blackmun might say a few words about where he thinks the Court might be headed on that issue.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I don't know if he wants to talk about it. You know, of course, that I agree with the decision, and I think it's an important one in a very difficult and complex area of our nation's life. But again, I don't want to talk about the appointment of a new justice today.
Q: Justice Blackmun, could you say a few words about Roe versus Wade, what it's meant and why you think that it has been an important decision for our country?
JUSTICE BLACKMUN: I didn't hear that. Can you repeat it?
Q: I'm sorry. Could you say a few words about the decision in Roe versus Wade and about why you think it's been important for women in this country, your continued commitment to it, and where you think the Court might be headed on it?
JUSTICE BLACKMUN: Well, I didn't come in here to indulge in a question and answer session, but I'll try to answer that. Roe against Wade hit me early in my tenure on the Supreme Court. And people forget that it was a 7-to-2 decision. They always typify it as a Blackmun opinion. But I'll say what I've said many times publicly -- I think it was right in 1973, and I think it was right today. It's a step that had to be taken as we go down the road toward the full emancipation of women.
Q Mr. President, I take it you've had some advance warning that this might be coming. Could you give us some sense of how much opportunity you've had to get your process started and how far along it might be?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I spoke a little this morning with our staff about it. We will have, I think, a good process that will involve Mr. Cutler, the White House Counsel; the Attorney General; Mr. McLarty; and Mr. Lader, who's been overseeing our personnel operations. And I think it will proceed in a very deliberate way. Justice Blackmun referred in his letter to a conversation we had several months ago indicating that he might -- or that he intended to leave at sometime during this year, or announce his intention. I, frankly, kept hoping he would change his mind. But I think we are prepared and I think we proceed forthwith.
JUSTICE BLACKMUN: I missed the punch line.
Q Mr. President, it took you three months the last time. Will it take you that long this time? | {
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function sp=orthpoly(n,opfamily,alpha,beta)
% orthpoly: generate an n'th order (symbolic) orthogonal polynomial
% usage: sp=orthpoly(n,opfamily,alpha,beta);
%
% arguments: (input)
% n - order of polynomial requested
%
% opfamily - (OPTIONAL) character string - specifies the
% type of orthogonal polynomial to be generated.
% Legal polytypes are: {'legendre', 'hermite',
% '1cheby', '2cheby', 'laguerre', 'jacoby'}
%
% Default == 'legendre'
%
% Note: 1cheby refers to first kind
% chebychev polynomials (Tn(x)),
% and 2cheby refers to second kind
% chebychev polynomials (Un(x))
%
% The domain of support is [-1,1] for the polynomial
% families 'legendre', '1cheby', '2cheby', 'jacoby'.
% It is [0,inf] for 'laguerre', and [-inf,inf] for
% the 'hermite' family.
%
% See Abramowitz & Stegun for in-depth information
% on all of these polynomial families.
%
% alpha,beta - scalar - orthogonal family parameters -
% See Abramowitz & Stegun for more information.
%
% These parameters are ignored for 'legendre',
% 'hermite', '1cheby' and '2cheby' polys.
%
% arguments: (output)
% p - sympoly object containing the polynomial
% Copyright 2006-2010 John D'Errico
% defaults
if (nargin<2)|isempty(opfamily)
% default is legendre
opfamily = 'legendre';
else
if ~ischar(opfamily)
error 'Opfamily must be a character string'
end
valtypes = {'legendre', 'hermite', 'cheby1', '1chebychev' ...
'cheby2', '2chebychev', 'laguerre', 'jacobi'};
ptind = strmatch(opfamily,valtypes);
if isempty(ptind)
% no match
error 'Invalid opfamily'
elseif length(ptind)>1
% match more than one
error 'Ambiguous opfamily'
else
% there was exactly one match
opfamily = valtypes{ptind};
end
end
if nargin<1
error 'Polynomial order must be supplied. No default for n.'
end
if (nargin<3) || isempty(alpha)
% default is 0
alpha = 0;
end
if (nargin<4) || isempty(beta)
% default is 0
beta = 0;
end
% initialize (-1)'th and zero'th order sympolys
% for the three term recurrence relation.
pnm1=sympoly(0);
pn=sympoly(1);
x=sympoly('x');
if n==0
% p0 is easy to get
sp=pn;
return
elseif n<0
error 'Polynomial order must not be negative'
end
% iterate to get polynomial
for i=0:(n-1)
switch opfamily
case 'legendre'
pnp1=((2*i+1)*x*pn - i*pnm1)./(i+1);
% normalize so that Tn(1)=1
pnp1=pnp1./double(subs(pnp1,'x',1));
case 'hermite'
% neither alpha nor beta is meaningful
pnp1=2*pn*x - 2*i*pnm1;
case 'laguerre'
% only alpha is meaningful here
pnp1=((2*i+alpha+1)*pn - pn*x - (i+alpha)*pnm1)./(i+1);
case {'cheby1' '1chebychev'}
% first kind chebychev
% neither alpha nor beta is meaningful
pnp1=(2*pn*x - pnm1);
% normalize so that Tn(1)=1
pnp1=pnp1/double(subs(pnp1,'x',1));
case {'cheby2' '2chebychev'}
% second kind chebychev
% neither alpha nor beta is meaningful
pnp1=(2*pn*x - pnm1);
case 'jacobi'
% both alpha and beta are needed
if (alpha~=0) | (beta~=0)
a1n=2*(i+1)*(i+alpha+beta+1)*(2*i+alpha+beta);
a2n=(2*i+alpha+beta+1)*(alpha^2-beta^2);
if (2*i+alpha+beta)<=150
a3n=gamma(2*i+alpha+beta+3)./gamma(2*i+alpha+beta);
else
a3n=exp(gammaln(2*i+alpha+beta+3)-gammaln(2*i+alpha+beta));
end
a4n=2*(i+alpha)*(i+beta)*(2*i+alpha+beta+2);
pnp1=(a2n*pn + a3n*pn*x - a4n*pnm1)/a1n;
else
pnp1=((2*i+1)*pn*x - i*pnm1)/(i+1);
end
end
pnm1=pn;
pn=pnp1;
end
% return the generated sympoly
sp=pnp1;
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La bandera de la República Socialista Soviética de Armenia fue adoptada el 17 de diciembre de 1952 por el gobierno de la RSS de Armenia. Es una modificación de la bandera nacional de la URSS.
Descripción
La bandera de la República Socialista Soviética de Armenia se presenta como un paño rectangular de color rojo con una franja azul marino en el centro (la cual representa el cielo), con el martillo y la hoz dorados, y la estrella con bordes dorados en la parte superior del cantón.
Historia
La primera bandera de la RSS de Armenia fue introducida en la constitución, adoptada el 2 de febrero de 1922 por el primer Congreso de Sóviets de la RSS de Armenia. Aquella bandera existió solo un mes, porque el 12 de marzo se unió con la RSS de Georgia y la RSS de Azerbaiyán bajo la RSFS de Transcaucasia, la cual se volvió a dividir en tres repúblicas en 1936.
Entre 1936 y 1952, la bandera era roja con la hoz y el martillo de oro en la esquina superior izquierda. Los caracteres armenios HSSR (por Haykakan Sovetakan Sotsialistakan Respublika) en oro aparecen debajo del martillo y la hoz.
En 1922, la bandera era la mismo de 1936 y 1952, pero sin el martillo y hoz, y con los caracteres cirílicos ССРА (RASS) en su sitio.
La bandera de 1952 se basó en la tricolor de 1918, bandera de la Primera República de Armenia.
Banderas históricas
Véase también
Escudo de la República Socialista Soviética de Armenia
Bandera de Armenia
Referencias
Armenia
República Socialista Soviética de Armenia
Símbolos Nacionales de Armenia
Armenia en el siglo XX
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Vibrant Blues, Pinks and Greens constructed finely into Paisley Patterns float amongst a Magenta Pink backdrop. This paisley pattern is sure to stand out against the rest of your wardrobe. The colors of this pocket square are true to the picture!
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Our bow ties have fully adjustable neck slides to ensure they fit neck sizes up to 19" and down to 14." Unless specificied otherwise, all of our bow ties are the standard 2.75" width at the bow. You have the option between tying your bow tie yourself or getting a Pre Tied one, that can be easily clipped on and off. Custom sizes and designs available upon request.
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The USP is a heavy duty saddle plate which is designed to replace the factory clamps on equatorial mounts with a more rigid and precise alternative for imaging or visual use with heavier telescopes. It's not only easier to use, it's also safer and stronger than the factory clamps you get with your mount. The Altair USP is compatible with both the Vixen/Synta-format telescope mounting bars, or the Losmandy-format wider mounting plates. This all-in-one design means you don't have to change clamps for different telescopes, making your mount more compatible.
The USP fits most medium sized equatorial mounts on the market including the iOptron iEQ45, Losmandy G11 and the Skywatcher EQ6, Orion USA Atlas or Skywatcher HEQ5. The Universal Saddle Plate or "USP" is also compatible with the rest of the Altair TMS Telescope Mounting System accessory range.
This is the black anodized version of the Altair USP, and it goes very well with any colour of mounting hardware, including silver and blue.
Compatible with Losmandy-wide-format dovetail plates, and Vixen-narrow-format doevtail bars. Very precisely machined.
Safe and easy "tip in" saddle lets you place your telescope quickly and easily from the side, while tightening up the clamps with your other hand. This avoids that awkward struggle in the dark, while you try to hold onto a damp slippery telescope, while carefully lining up a saddle plate which will only slide in from the very end. This design feature is now much-copied and is based on feedback and requests from several customers who have nearly dropped their telescopes!
Chamfered and rounded edges make it even easier to get a heavy telescope placed securely, before tightening the clamps with your other hand.
Heavy duty hard anodised star knobs, custom-machined for a positive grip with or without gloves.
The clamp has machined guides for a positive lock.
No sharp edges or poor machining.
The heavy duty spring loaded Stainless Steel M8 threads do not corrode.
Looks great in hard anodised "Altair Blue" to match the rest of the TMS range.
Readily available, and made locally in the UK at our machine shop on HAAS 4 axis CNC milling machines. That means we have complete control over quality.
The Altair TMS will fit the iOptron iEQ45 directly using the existing hex screws.
The Altair USP bolts directly to the Losmandy G11, replacing the factory saddle plate, a very popular upgrade.
To fit the Altair USP to the Synta Skywatcher EQ6 or Orion USA Atlas mounts, you will need an adapter puck (see the two options below).
Likewise you can fit the USP to the Skywatcher HEQ5 or equivalent Orion Atlas EQ-G - choose the correct adapter puck below.
The Altair USP also has a pair of standard M8 "Takahashi" style holes on the base with 35mm separation, enabling the Universal Saddle Plate to be mounted on the William Optics Easytouch, AYO and numerous other mounts, including Takahashi - with the appropriate Takahashi adapter puck.
Please note: If you have an EQ6 mount and require a puck please choose from the options list below. There are two types of puck. Post Sept 08 mounts have the "N" version new puck (USP-C-NEW-EQ6-PUCK) with a conical hourglass profile. Pre Sept 08 mounts require the older puck (USP-C-OLD-EQ6-PUCK) with a straight profile, and side indentations for the mount grub screws. By removing the 3x grub screws surrounding the clamp on your mount and having a look at base of the factory clamp you have, you should be able to tell which you require. Please note: The colour of the adapter pucks is blue or silver. Please specify your preference in your order notes. Seeing they are barely visible when installed, this will not change the look of your setup significantly.
Io Astronomy Please note: IO Astronomy voluntarily ceased trading with large unpaid debts affecting the entire UK astronomy industry. You may contact us for problems / issues with Altair or iOptron products ONLY - or try Darkframe Optics / Dave Woods. Unfortunately, we will not be able to support undeclared products bought from the ex-directors after the company ceased trading.
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Crumlin on the double
CRUMLIN Boxing Club's drive for the IABA 'Club of the Year' Award moved up a gear after they made it a double at National Junior Two Finals in the National Stadium on Saturday.
While Karl Sheridan beat Ratoath's Kieran McPartland 4-1 in the 50kg class decider, his Crumlin clubmate William Hayden chalked up no less that his 10th national title when he saw off the challenge of Shane O'Gorman of St Malachy's in the 66kg final.
Crumlin's Karl Sheridan Senior and Junior with William and Paul Hayden
A former European Schoolboy gold medallist, Hayden has mopped up everything on the domestic scene so far in his young career.
Delighted with his performance at the weekend, Crumlin Coach Bra Brady told The Echo "William won the first round on all the judges card, but his opponent came forward more in the second and that was a lot tighter, but William still won that.
"In the third round, his opponent came on really strong and Willo actually lost that, but he had done enough to win the title.
"He's never been beaten on homesoil and he won gold in the European Schoolboys. He has only two defeats on his record and they came on the international stage" he said.
Sheridan, meanwhile, had to battle back from a slow start to land his title against McPartland.
A winner of the National Cadets two years ago, Sheridan was competing for a first All-Ireland in his own age division, but found himself playing catch-up after the opening round.
"Karl actually lost the first round 3-2 even though I thought he boxed very well" said Brady
"Usually he likes to press, but it was his oppon-ent who was coming on strong in the second round, trying to swamp him, and Karl had to use his jab.
"He used it well, turning and coming back in and catching him a few times. He won the second round 3-2 so it was all even heading into the final round.
"One thing about Karl is, he gives it 100 percent in training and so doesn't run out of steam. He really opened up in the third round and caught him about half a dozen times with the jab, and that's something the judges could clearly see" he added.
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Q: How to test for difference in variance in count data? My biological question is the following: is the variance in behaviour similar in all regions studied, and if not, how does it change?
The variable 'behaviour' is a poisson-distributed count data, the experiment was reproduced in 4 different regions and the glmm I ran on the data gave a significant effect of region.
My first approach was to perform a single Fligner-killen test on the whole data set (fligner.test() in R) and then a series of post-hoc pairwise comparisons among regions with the same test. I used Bonferroni-adjusted signifificance threshold (alpha = 0.05/6 for six pairwise tests = 0.00833) but that looks really low to me, and probably too conservative.
I was also looking a bit over the coefficient of variation, but did not find any sound statistics to do with these.
Is there a better way to answer my question?
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Mitchell Marcus has a developmental disability, but he far surpasses all the other students in his El Paso high school when it comes to his love for basketball.
He has served as team manager for the Thunderbirds and all the players and fans love his spirit.
On the last game of the regular season, the coach told Mitchell to suit up.
Just wearing a jersey was enough for Mitchell, but secretly the coach planned to let him play with the team at the end of the game, no matter what the score.
They didn't end up winning the game but the surprise outcome led to an explosion of cheering and support — from both teams. | {
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Former Bakkt CEO Under Fire for Selling Millions in Stock Ahead of Market Crash
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Senator Kelly Loeffler, former CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange's cryptocurrency-venture Bakkt, has been under fire for selling millions of dollars worth of stock ahead of the recent market crash induced by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
According to a report published by The Daily Beast, based on disclosures from Loeffler, the first sale of stock was on January 24, the same day her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private meeting on the coronavirus outbreak, which included the CDC director and the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States.
The first transaction was a sale of Resideo Technologies, of between $50,001 and $100,000 worth of stock. The company's stock price has since fallen my more than half, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about one-third of its value over the COVID-19 pandemic.
In total, Loeffler reportedly made 29 stock transactions through mid-February, with only two being purchases. One of these purchases, The Daily Beast points out, was for stock worth between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, a tech firm offering teleworking software.
In total, Loeffler's sales totaled between $1.27 million and $3.1 million. The senator initially reported the sales in the name of her husband – Jeffrey Sprecher, founder and CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. The report was amended last week, on March 12.
The former Bakkt CEO has also been accused of downplaying the public health and financial threats the coronavirus poses, after selling her holdings. In separate tweets, Loefflerp claimed "Democrats have dangerously and intentionally misled the American people on #Coronavirus readiness," and that President Donald Trump and his administration were "doing a great job working to keep Americans healthy & safe.
Responding to the accusation Loeffler tweeted out on social media she was informed of the transactions on February 16, three weeks after they were made by "multiple-third party advisors" without her knowledge.
As confirmed in the periodic transaction report to Senate Ethics, I was informed of these purchases and sales on February 16, 2020 — three weeks after they were made.
— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) March 20, 2020
The former CEO of Bakkt was appointed as a U.S. Senator to serve Georgia in January, but has been facing scrutiny over possible conflicts of interest, as her committee oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates her husband's Intercontinental Exchange.
A report from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that Senator Richard burr, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has also sold stock in February, shortly before markets tanked. Burr sold between $500,000 and $1.5 million in stock.
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Q: collectionMissingSeparator(0) Freddy JSON Swift So ...
1. JSON file :
{
"image_id": "xDGMLGg3GCf5Ioiaf/OZJQ==",
"request_id": "1509290346,180b0386-08cb-4332-9687-99009fb076c8",
"time_used": 344,
"faces": [
{
"landmark": {
"mouth_upper_lip_left_contour2": {
"y": 370,
"x": 237
},
"mouth_upper_lip_top": {
"y": 367,
"x": 254
},
"mouth_upper_lip_left_contour1": {
"y": 366,
"x": 248
}, ...
2. Code for Freddy Usage:
var testx : String
var testy : String
init?(data: Data)
{
do
{
let json = try JSON(data: data)
testx = try json.getString(at: "faces", "landmark", "mouth_upper_lip_left_contour2", "x")
testy = try json.getString(at: "faces", "landmark", "mouth_upper_lip_left_contour2", "y")
print("X= ",testx," and Y= ",testy,"inside of Freddy")
}
catch
{
print(error)
return nil
}
}
It seems like i did well , all is compiling, but ... when i'm trying to print it ... result is: "collectionMissingSeparator(0)"
Did from tutorial
As i understood there should be some "id" for "at" parameter in my code ... however, landmarks are not collected by ID, so how to parse it correctly? Does anybody know?
A: As i figured out the problem was: not enough brackets "}" in JSON query.
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The 2014 RMAC Golf Championship took place this past week in Goodyear, Arizona and the Orediggers finished eighth out of nine teams. After the first day of competition, the Orediggers were sitting in sixth place after two rounds of play, but in the final round of play on day two, Mines went +13 for the round to fall to eighth. The number seven team in the nation, Western New Mexico, lead from start to finish and captured the RMAC championship.
What drives plate tectonics? Heat flow, of course. Or energy transfer…it is all the same. It is the act of sketching poorly-drawn Mohr's circles that tires the mind and the hours upon hours scanning for the missing parenthesis that drains the eyes. Is there is even time to eat dinner? Lunch? Breakfast? Forget second breakfast and supper, right? But the physical laws of the universe remain: heat flows, dinner plates subduct, spread, or slip past each other from a lapse in friction, and fall onto the floor in a pile of entropic ceramic pieces.
In March, Rose Red Elk visited Mines to help campus celebrate Women's History Month.Rose Red Elk, also known as Red Feather Woman, came in traditional dress and shared songs and stories with the audience. She is a member of the Sioux/Assiniboine Tribes, hailing from the Fort Peck Reservation in northeast Montana. She described how she grew up listening to tribal folk stories but began her career in science and technology. While at Texas A&M, she started that college's first Native American science and engineering group. She had a promising career at IBM, but decided that her true calling was the arts. She has now been a professional singer and storyteller for over twenty years; she has put out four award-winning albums and is currently working on a comic book for the Department of the Interior.
Ilulissat, Greenland – A study led by Shfaqat Khan from the Technical University of Denmark has revealed that the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest body of ice in the world, is melting at a much faster rate than previously thought. A portion of the before unnoticed melting comes from the Northeastern Greenland, which was thought to be the last stable part of Greenland in terms of melting ice and glacial break-away. Because of warmer summers due to climate change, one of the glaciers in the South, Jakobshavn Isbrae, is retreating at four times the rate it had been in 1997.
On March 19th, the Schultz Family Leadership in Humanitarian Engineering Speaker Series kicked off with Dr. Michael L. Dougherty, from Illinois State University. Funded by the CEO of Dauntless Energy, the series will continue twice a semester for the next two years, highlighting social and corporate responsibility.
What Happened to the Ancient Martian Atmosphere?
On Tuesday, April 22nd, David Brain gave a lecture all about Mars. There has been much discussion about whether or not Mars had water on its surface and what happened to that water. David Brain works at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics as well as the Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Science at CU Boulder. He has spent a lot of time studying the surface of Mars, and examining the differences between Mars and Earth that would cause such different environments, when the ancient Martian surface was likely similar to Earth's modern environment.
Penny Pettigrew has the coolest job in the world—she provides live support for astronauts living on the International Space Station. Pettigrew, who graduated from Colorado School of Mines with a BS in Chemistry in 1992, works for NASA in the Payload Operations Integration Center at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Though Pettigrew has never been to space herself, providing live support to astronauts on the ISS allows her to fulfill that childhood dream.
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Biostatistics expert Zeger set for next Discovery Lecture
Apr. 11, 2019—Scott Zeger, PhD, professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and a leading expert on the application of biostatistics to improve health around the world, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 18.
Analyzing single-cell landscapes
Nov. 29, 2018—Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new tool for quantifying data from single-cell studies.
Smoking rate at VUMC falls to 3.5 percent
Nov. 13, 2018—by Wayne Wood The rate of smoking at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has dropped significantly in the past 15 years, to only 3.5 percent, down from 12.1 percent in 2003. That means that the rate of smoking at VUMC is below the Tennessee rate of 22 percent and the U.S. rate of 16 percent. The...
Matheny elected to American College of Medical Informatics
Nov. 1, 2018—Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medicine, is one of 18 fellows recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
Malin elected to National Academy of Medicine
Oct. 15, 2018—Bradley Malin, PhD, professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science, is among 85 newly elected members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the organization announced this week.
Study finds acetaminophen helps reduce acute kidney injury risk in children following cardiac surgery
May. 14, 2018—Children who underwent cardiac surgery were less likely to develop acute kidney injury if they had been treated with acetaminophen in the first 48 hours after their procedures, according to a Vanderbilt study just published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Disparities in influenza outcomes
Oct. 30, 2017—Neighborhood determinants – represented by census tract data – contribute to the risk of influenza hospitalization and could be used to guide interventions such as vaccinations to high-risk areas.
Goal of new tissue-chip research is to assess efficacy of novel epilepsy drugs
Sep. 20, 2017—An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop an "organ-on-chip" model for two genetic forms of epilepsy.
Study seeks to streamline validation of EHR data
Aug. 31, 2017—Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for a $1 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study more efficient and feasible ways to validate electronic health records (EHR) and incorporate this information into medical studies.
Shyr named chair of Department of Biostatistics
Jul. 20, 2017—Yu Shyr, Ph.D., Harold L. Moses Professor of Cancer Research and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences, has been named chair of Vanderbilt's Department of Biostatistics. He will assume the post Sept. 1.
Lindsell named to key VICTR, IMPH and Biostatistics leadership roles
Jul. 13, 2017—Christopher Lindsell, Ph.D., nationally known for building clinical, translational and emergency medicine research programs at the University of Cincinnati, has been named director of the Research Methods Program in the Vanderbilt Institute of Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR).
Automation speeds clinical safety surveillance: study
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2020 elections usher in a wave of 'firsts' for NM
By Susan Dunlap | November 10, 2020
New Mexico voters embraced candidates in the 2020 elections that have historically been underrepresented, including women, in elected office. The state saw a slew of "firsts" this year.
For the first time in the state's history, New Mexico's three seats in the U.S. House of Representatives will be held by women of color. And both Yvette Herrell, who will represent the state's 2nd Congressional District, and Deb Haaland, who won reelection to the state's 1st Congressional District, are enrolled members of Indigenous nations. Haaland is a member of Laguna Pueblo, and Herrell is a member of the Cherokee Nation, making New Mexico the first state in the U.S. to have two Indigenous Representatives.
Teresa Leger Fernandez, who won New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District, is Latina.
Terrelene Massey, Diné (Navajo) and the executive director of Southwest Women's Law Center, said she's really excited to see more representation from women, especially women of color and Native American women. "I think they'll provide different perspectives on the different issues they'll be working on," Massey said.
Candidate Neomi Martinez-Parra tells her personal story about abortion
By Susan Dunlap | October 19, 2020
When Neomi Martinez-Parra heard her doctor tell her she needed an abortion about 14 years ago, she went numb. Martinez-Parra, 51, talked to NM Political Report this week about the story of her pregnancy and her abortion because she feels it is important for her to talk about her experience. "I was so embarrassed and ashamed to talk about it," she said. "Now I'm running for office and I'm talking to lots of women and victims and realize how important it is for women to speak out and speak up."
Martinez-Parra beat long-time Democratic state Senator and Senate Finance Committee Chair John Arthur Smith in the Democratic primary this June. Smith has held state Senate District 35 for 31 years.
Governor signs revised budget, vetoes items
By Jens Gould, Santa Fe New Mexican | July 1, 2020
Governors don't usually sign a budget twice in one year. But this is no normal year. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gave her blessing to New Mexico's revised budget legislation Tuesday, but she also used her veto power to cancel some of the cuts legislators approved during the special session. "We must recalibrate our state's budget to meet these challenging times," Lujan Grisham wrote in a letter to the state House of Representatives upon signing House Bill 1. "However, we should not lose sight of the important work that is still needed to create lasting opportunities for all New Mexicans."
The budget plan uses a combination of spending cuts, reserves and federal funding to deal with a projected $2 billion drop in state revenue for the next fiscal year, which begins Wednesday.
2020 Special Session
Senate sends budget to governor, adjourns
By Jens Gould, Santa Fe New Mexican | June 21, 2020
The New Mexico Legislature finished its main task of mending the state's huge fiscal shortfall Saturday, but the special session wasn't over as the House of Representatives still had work to do.
The Senate approved 30-12 a modified budget planthat uses a combination of spending cuts, reserves and federal funding to deal with a projected $2 billion drop in state revenue for the next fiscal year. "It's certainly not the perfect response, but it darn well may be the only response we can give right now," Sen. John Arthur Smith, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told his fellow legislators. After approving the budget, senators adjourned "sine die" and promptly left the Capitol, with several members eager to hit the road home. But the special session continued on. A long debate and dramatic revote on an election reform bill delayed the House's proceedings, and representatives said they would need to return Monday to finish up.
Committees start talks on budget fix, with lots of debate to come
By Santa Fe New Mexican | June 18, 2020
State workers would see a drop in their pay raises for fiscal year 2021 and spending for most agencies would be cut significantly under the draft budget overhaul lawmakers began debating Wednesday. Whittling a record $7.6 billion budget to $7.34 billion — and filling wide spending gaps with cash reserves, pandemic-related aid from the federal government and other measures — is no small task for the New Mexico Legislature as it convenes Thursday for a special session to address a steep decline in projected revenues. Members of the state House and Senate finance committees met Wednesday to review the plan, which would slash higher education spending by 6 percent — the biggest cut for any single agency — and reduce the 4 percent pay raises for state workers, approved earlier this year, to 1.5 percent for those who earn less than $40,000 a year and 0.5 percent for higher earners. Funding for the new Early Childhood Education and Care Department, set to take over all services for young children July 1, would be cut by $3.3 million; the spaceport would lose $600,000; and $17 million would be slashed from the Medicaid program. Lawmakers, however, hope to shift money from the Tobacco Settlement Permanent Fund to fill the Medicaid gap.
budget crisis
Superintendents: Proposed cuts to education will worsen racial and economic inequity
By Susan Dunlap | June 18, 2020
Proposed education budget cuts could worsen racial and economic inequities in the state, according to some school superintendents. Veronica Garcia, the superintendent of Santa Fe Public Schools, said that if the Legislative Finance Committee's proposed budget cuts in education are passed, she expects to be looking at a $10.3 million hole in her district's budget. She is starting with a $7 million deficit in her school budget and if the LFC's proposed cuts go through, she expects to see another $3.3 million loss. Like the state, Garcia has to balance her budget annually. She says that situation will leave her with no choice but to make cuts that will enlarge classroom size, reduce programming and shrink ancillary roles such as social workers, librarians, nurse aides and nurses.
The New Mexico Senate's conservative-leaning Democrats long have been the gatekeepers — the ones who ultimately decide if legislation backed by the governor and the House of Representatives can become law. Of course, the control they wield has an expiration date after a number of their most influential members lost primary elections this month to more progressive challengers. Those lawmakers will be leaving the Legislature at the end of the year. Even so, they'll have one last hurrah to exercise their power — the upcoming special session — and they could use it again to block bills backed by their colleagues. This time, they might do that by leaving town.
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State Senators John Arthur Smith, Mary Kay Papen lose in primary
By Susan Dunlap and Matthew Reichbach | June 3, 2020
In a historic defeat, Neomi Martinez-Parra won Senate District 35, defeating state Senator Sen. John Arthur Smith who has held the seat for 32 years. Martinez-Parra's win did not come as a surprise Wednesday. She pulled ahead of Smith in the Democratic primary late Tuesday night and appeared to be the presumptive winner. She won by 500 votes. She received 2,793 votes to Smith's 2,293 in unofficial results.
Progressive Democrats defeat incumbents, with some races still pending
Tuesday night proved to be a night of historic upsets against state Senators who have long held onto their seats. Much of the action was on the Democratic side, though it appears two Republican incumbents also lost their primaries. State Sen. John Arthur Smith, after 32 years in the state Senate and the most powerful legislator as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is extremely likely to lose to grassroots challenger Neomi Martinez-Parra. Smith represents SD 35. He more than doubled Martinez-Parra in donations.
How much did state Senate candidates raise and where did they spend it?
By Susan Dunlap | May 30, 2020
Planned Parenthood, through its various PACs, is spending $390,000 on the New Mexico primary, and the bulk of that on three races. Sarah Taylor-Nanista, executive director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Action Fund, said the nonprofit organization is "laser focused" on the progressives running against the seven Democratic incumbents who voted against HB 51 last year. HB 51 would have repealed a 1969 abortion law that abortion rights supporters worry will become law again if Roe v. Wade is overturned. But of the seven, there are three races in particular where Planned Parenthood is spending the bulk of its money. Those are Neomi Martinez-Parra's race against state Sen. John Arthur Smith for Senate District 35; Siah Correa Hemphill's fight to unseat state Sen. Gabriel "Gabe" Ramos for Senate District 28; and Pam Cordova's challenge against state Sen. Clemente Sanchez for Senate District 30.
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Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy
The Official Star Wars Knitting Pattern Book
Written By: Tanis Gray
Bring the power of the Force to your needles with the first official Star Wars knitting pattern book. Featuring 28 knits pictured in gorgeous full-color photography, Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy includes patterns for toys, apparel, and home decor inspired by your favorite movie moments, characters (both human and alien), droids, ships, and more. Projects range from simple patterns like the Ewok Hood (sized for both children and adults!) to more complex projects like the Darth Vader Pullover. It even includes patterns for knitted replicas of a few iconic costume pieces. With projects for knitters at all levels and a variety of techniques to practice—including stranded colorwork, double-knitting, and lace knitting—Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy is the perfect book for knitting fans across the galaxy.
Trim Size: 8 x 10
Tanis Gray, Author: Tanis Gray is the author of 11 knitting books including the international bestseller Harry Potter: Knitting Magic and Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy. She has over 500 published knitting patterns, has worked for Vogue Knitting, Martha Stewart, and HBO, was a regularly featured guest on Knitting Daily TV, has multiple stranded colorwork classes on Bluprint, and teaches knitting worldwide.
"Fulfill all your Star Wars knitting dreams." -- io9
"The new book to add fuel to our hobby-seeking fires." -- Nerdist
"There's something in this book for every fan and every kind of knitter." --Apartment Therapy
"Loaded with photos and quotes from the first six movies which really gives the book a feeling of a fun adventure." --Knitty.com
"A Star Wars fan will have no problem falling in love with these projects." -- Inside the Magic
"An incredibly impressive collection... Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy will prove an invaluable resource and many hours of crafting fun." -- LaughingPlace
"Whether you're a Padawan or a Jedi (beginner or advanced), you'll find patterns in here to match your skill level." --Marly Bird
"Worthy of being a coffee table book; it's that lovely… done. It would make an excellent gift for any Star Wars-loving friend (or yourself!)" -- The Knitting Guild of America
"Sure to delight both knitting enthusiasts and Star Wars fans alike." -- DisneyGeek
Harry Potter: Knitting Magic: More Patterns From Hogwarts and Beyond
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This is the place for literature and drama fans to see Shakepeare's plays in performance: it's a recreation of a traditional Elizabethan playhouse complete with thatched roof. For the full effect, pay £5 to watch a play standing up as they did in the 16th century.
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Quadrilateral Cowboy Hands-On - Well, This Was Amazing
Joey Davidson
Imagine a game where players are tasked with running virtual heists from a hacker's headquarters. Within those virtual heists, players will drop portable computers and fire up, stay with me, a legitimate version of DOS to hack security cameras, open locked doors and shut off floor lasers.
I'm describing a game that exists, and it's called Quadrilateral Cowboy.
If you're even remotely familiar with the small world of indie games, then you've likely heard of something made by the studio responsible for this wonderful new title. Blendo Games, founded and run by Brendon Chung, created 30 Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone. These were both exceptionally simple, experimental and unique games.
Quadrilateral Cowboy meets those qualifications as well.
I had a really odd moment of clarity while playing Quadrilateral Cowboy this weekend at PAX East with Chung coaching from over my shoulder. I realized that I was playing a game that featured a fully working DOS and Telnet system. I was actually punching in strings of commands in order to move from room to room in a virtual space.
Think about "hacking" in other games? It normally involves weird mini-games and quick puzzles that are exceptionally easy and turn into annoyances instead of actually good mechanics. In Quadrilateral Cowboy? Things feel more realistic.
So, you'll walk into a room with a locked door sitting in front of an alarm rigged to a laser grid. The game's world shows that the door is labelled "door1" and the lasers might be called "laser8." Here's how the game would have players approach that moment.
You'd throw down your portable computer, known as a "deck," and fire up DOS. You'd type in "telnet" and then enter these commands:
laser8.off(3);door1.open(3)
Those commands switch the lasers off and open the door for three seconds. You'd run through the door and bang into another set of puzzles that evolve in difficulty.
I've been playing games for as long as I can remember. I also grew up using DOS as my main way to launch software. I can tell you that there is something incredibly charming about interacting in a heist themed world with DOS and Telnet.
And Chung loved that I was so delighted by these things. I chuckled and sighed every few minutes during play, and Chung laughed at these every single time. At one point, he told me that it was really awesome that I was freaking out so much about playing.
I was freaking out, too. Quadrilateral Cowboy is easily one of the strangest games I've played. Yet, here I am, exceptionally excited about this new indie project that I've never even heard of.
Chung said that they're trying to hit 2013 for launch, but that's definitely still a major question mark. Whenever it launches, we'll be all over this one. We're already trying to set up some post-conference discussions with Chung in the near future.
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Cookies for Kids' Cancer was founded by two OXOnians, Gretchen and Larry Witt, who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with cancer. They were shocked to learn that childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease of kids in the US. The reason: lack of funding for new, improved, and less toxic therapies for cancers specific to children. The Witts knew they had to do something to make a difference for the more than 40,000 children in the US battling cancer each day.
OXOnians were among the first to sign up to help when Larry and Gretchen had the crazy idea to bake 96,000 cookies back in 2007. And when Cookies for Kids' Cancer launched in 2008, OXOnians hosted one of the first bake sales – an annual tradition that alone has funded more than one research project.
Since 2011, OXO's support has inspired more than 3,000 grassroots events in 700 cities and has helped to raise over $2.3 million for vitally important childhood cancer research. This year, OXO will continue to spread awareness of Cookies' mission and donate up to $100k through a variety of fundraising efforts.
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Jan Gehl receives the Bertha-and-Carl-Benz-Prize 2015
In 2015 the Bertha-and-Carl-Benz-Prize will be awarded for the third time. The jury, lead by senior mayor Dr. Peter Kurz, suggested the Danish city planner Prof. Jan Gehl as recipient. The city council agreed to this proposal unanimously in a closed meeting on 24 November.
Jan Gehl has had an enormous influence on improving the quality of mobility. He has especially worked towards a mobility that is more ecological, more social or easier to use. With this work he fulfills all criteria to receive the Bertha-and-Carl-Benz-Prize.
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IAKS All Time Award
for the Berlin Olympic Stadium
On 27 October the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) awarded an All Time Award for the Berlin Olympic Stadium at Koelnmesse's Congress Centre North. The award was given in honor of both the operating company, Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH, and the designers of the extensive conversion (2000 to 2004), gmp – Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Berlin.
In preparation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the demanding task facing gmp – Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners was to carefully refurbish the building, which was listed as a historic monument, while also modernizing it into a multi-functional arena in accordance with modern requirements. The construction and design of the roof constituted a key element in the overall design. In order to be able to keep open the historic opening of the listed monument (with all its political implications) towards the adjoining Maifeld sports ground to the west, with its bell tower and Langemarckhalle (a National Socialist reference to the idea of a burial temple which, since 2006, has been used as a documentation center with a permanent exhibition entitled "Olympic Park – Historic Site" and designed by gmp Architects), the designers decided against a closed ring construction. Instead, a steel tube space frame structure with a span of 68 meters and bearing on 20 very slender tree columns around the upper spectator ring covers all of the nearly 75,000 seats. With its delicate construction and choice of material – the skin of the roof is formed by a translucent membrane – the roof is in deliberate contrast to the solid structure of the historic building.
Since then, the architects have demonstrated their competence in the design of this type of building with numerous additional stadium projects such as those for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the UEFA 2012 European Championship (in Poland and Ukraine). In China they completed the Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre and the Universiade Sports Center amongst other projects, and construction on the SIP Sports Center in Suzhou has just started.
Exhibition at MoMA: Endless House
Intersections of Art and Architecture
The MoMA exhibition Endless House considers the single-family home and archetypes of dwelling as themes for the creative endeavors of architects and artists. Through drawings, photographs, video, installations, and architectural models drawn from MoMA's collection, the exhibition highlights how artists have used the house as a means to explore universal topics, and how architects have tackled the design of residences to expand their discipline in new ways.
Works from architects and artists created over a period of seven decades are shown, among them material of Endless House, a project designed by Freidrich Kiesler, which was never realized. Intriguing house designs—ranging from historical projects by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, and Rem Koolhaas, to new acquisitions from Smiljan Radić and Asymptote Architecture—are juxtaposed with visions from artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Mario Merz, Rachel Whiteread, and a recently purchased work of Annett Zinsmeister. Together these works demonstrate how the dwelling occupies a central place in a cultural exchange that crosses generations and disciplines.
MAKE CITY Festival
JOVIS is founding partner of MAKE CITY—Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives, which takes place in Berlin from June 11 to June 28. The Festival is addressing the current discourse on urban resources and urban planning in a time when investors take over large parts of Berlin, and hence its free spaces— its urban commons—become increasingly precious resources.
The Festival will embed itself throughout the city in diverse ways: it rethinks the back yard, climbs on roofs and asks, if high-rises of the future will be made out of wood. It looks back on the concept of "Electropolis" and envisions new forms of living. Over 100 founding partners are sponsors of the festival and took part in developing the program, which is available on www.makecity.berlin.
During the time of the festival over 30 curated studio talks and 40 uniquely devised city tours take place. The Czech Centre in the Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin Mitte, will be the place where the international discourse and exchange comes together. The festival invites partners to contribute to a variety of formats. MAKE CITY is decentralized; a city-wide conversation; one that forms cross-links between the architecture, art, and design scenes and makes new connections with the public. The formats will reflect the scales of urban design and engagement from the micro to the macro.
Park am Gleisdreieck, Berlin © Julien Lanoo
Expo Milano—Japan Pavilion
Atsushi Kitagawara Architects have designed the Japan pavilion for the Expo Milano 2015. The Expo will take place from May 1 to October 31, 2015 in Milan under the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". Titled "Harmonious Diversity" the exhibition at Japan pavilion represents Japan's knowledge, experience, and techniques within the produce and food culture. The pavilion architecture fuses Japan's traditional culture and materials with modern technologies, such as systems for energy conservation. More about the pavilion and its architecture can be found here.
Reframing the Urban: Cities and their global impact
Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory and Director of Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at Harvard Graduate School of Design, talks with Peter Mares, University of Melbourne, about the phenomenon of "urbanization". The talk is available as a podcast on urbantheorylab.net.
As more and more people move into cities, we live in an urban age—this is a common assumption. Brenner opposes this definition of the "urban age", which is based on a binary opposition between city and countryside. He argues instead that it is necessary to look beyond this notion of the rural/urban divide, since it cannot encompass the differences in processes of urbanization. He proposes a redefinition of the concept of "urbanization", which acknowledges that rural territories—the so-called hinterland—play a fundamental part in supplying cities with resources and are thus essential to the process. Urbanization has already reached the whole planet, not only so-called "urban" regions: "I do believe that we live in an urban world and in an urbanised planet, but in order to understand the way in which that's the case we oftentimes have to look far beyond the city limits in order to see the ways in which landscapes, environments, territories are being transformed to support the current form of urbanisation."—Read more at: upclose.unimelb.edu.au
The book Implosions / Explosions, edited by Neil Brenner, looks at processes of urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents, and oceans up to the planetary scale.
New Series: gmp FOCUS
Our new series gmp FOCUS documents an exemplary selection of buildings by architecture firm gmp—von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. Each volume presents one building by means of detailed texts and photo galleries by renowned culture journalists, architecture critics, and photographers. Among others, the publications focus on the Hanoi Museum of Vietnam, the Chongqing Grand Theater in China, the State Ballet School in Berlin, and the Hans-Sachs-Haus in Gelsenkirchen.
The architecture partnership gmp was founded in 1965 by Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg. gmp became known especially on account of its airport architecture: in 1975, Berlin-Tegel was opened as a drive-in airport. It is not only their projects such as the exhibition center Neue Messe Leipzig, the reconstruction and roofing of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, or the Berlin Central Station that have gained international acclaim. In China, they have realized the trade fair and congress centers in Nanning and Shenzhen, as well as the Universiade Sports Center and the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai. Further buildings include the opera houses in Chongqing, Qingdao, and Tianjin, as well as the National Museum of China in Beijing and the new West Railway Station in Tianjin. gmp has been awarded more than 590 prizes in national and international competitions, of which more than 310 first prizes, and numerous distinctions for exemplary architecture. They have realized more than 370 buildings up until today.
Tianjin Grand Theater in China © Christian Gahl
How Do We Create Cities Together?
"How do we create cities together?"—Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science, Regula Lüscher, State Senate Department Director of Berlin, Marcos Rosa, architect, Sao Paolo, and Stefan Horn, urban dialogues, Berlin, discussed this question together with Kristien Ring, architect and founder of AA Projects, Berlin.
Richard Sennett's keynote and the following discussion focused on the relation between top down planning and bottom up initiatives: How can citizens be integrated in processes of urban development? What are the advantages of bottom up projects and what are their limits? How can community projects have an impact on the city beyond the confines of the particular neighborhood?
The lecture and discussion took place at March 31, 2015. The book Handmade Urbanism. From Community Initiatives to Participatory Models, edited by Marcos L. Rosa and Ute Weiland, also focuses on the role of participatory methods in urban development. It presents 15 exemplary projects realized mostly in less favored areas of five major cities in emerging countries, examining the potential of urban transformation embedded in community initiatives.
Design Award Wüstenrot Foundation
The architecture firm Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei received the design award of the national competition of the Wüstenrot foundation "Building culture in Germany" (Baukultur in Deutschland) for the Hospitalhof in Stuttgart—a center used by the evangelical church in Stuttgart for culture, art, spirituality, and education. Among other things, the new building convinced the jury because of its harmonious relation with the existing layout and buildings of the neighborhood. You can find a detailed description and images of the Hospitalhof on LRO's website.
The Wüstenrot foundation awarded 14 projects in the competition, which will be exhibited between February 24 and March 27, 2015 at BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten), Zeppelin Carré, Friedrichstraße 5, 70174 Stuttgart.
Jan Gehl—Cities for People
On February 18 the Danish architect and city planner Jan Gehl talked about his principles in urban planning, which focus on the human scale. He presented numerous international projects that have integrated these principles—among others his hometown Copenhagen.
The event was organized in collaboration with the Alfred-Herrhausen-Society to present the first German edition of Gehl's international bestseller Cities for People (Städte für Menschen).
For more than 40 years, the architect and city planner Jan Gehl has been involved in redesigning or creating new designs for squares, streets, even entire city districts, for the benefit of the residents. He bases himself on insights that he has gained through many years of studying city situations in various countries. By observing megacities in detail himself, Gehl develops methods and strategies for bringing significant positive change to dysfunctional and inhospitable urban landscapes. The most important principle behind Jan Gehl's urban planning on a human scale is that the urban space has to be experienced at the speed of a pedestrian, instead of from a vehicle. This is the only way to succeed in making both traditional metropolises and rapidly growing cities in developing and emerging countries into "cities for people". | {
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While police officers become more involved in the daily routines of local schools, many questions arise when student misconduct becomes the responsibility of law enforcement rather than school staff, as well as the roles officers play on campus. When these roles are unaddressed, issues emerge, such as unnecessary criminalization of students, and privacy concerns, among others.
Increasingly, schools and police enter into written agreements, often referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU), to formalize their partnerships, clarify expectations, and address concerns before they develop. This should be a collaborative, data-driven process that responds to local needs and includes input from a variety of community stakeholders, school staff, students, parents, and law enforcement.
There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to MOUs. Because the needs and cultures of school districts vary, the elements of an effective MOU will also vary. For example, a school district dealing with issues of gangs and guns will have different needs than a district dealing with truant and disruptive students.
This brief reviews the eight key elements of MOUs identified by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and The Council of State Governments in their collaborative report, The School Discipline Consensus Report, published in 2014. The following analysis incorporates relevant examples from four large California school districts—Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, and San Francisco—of which has adopted MOUs or similar agreements with police. | {
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Why today could be the day for my first Prime Day projector purchase
By Oliver Haslam
Anker Nebula Apollo projector (Image credit: Anker)
You can put a pretty big TV on your wall in the year 2022, but there's something about a projected image that just hits different. I've wanted a projector since I was a kid which was, well, a while ago. And three new Anker projector deals, including the popular Nebula Cosmos Max 4K projector (opens in new tab), could well be enough to make me jump at one. Finally.
Projectors are a great way to take pretty much any type of content and slap it onto a wall or dedicated screen. If you've a white wall you're probably good to go without too much work and, generally, you can get all set up without spending anything close to huge TV prices. Two of the projectors on offer as part of the Prime Day extravaganza are good for images of to 100 inches and one goes all the way to 150 inches with 4K support thrown in for good measure. Good luck buying a TV that big, let alone hanging it on your wall.
Those looking for the biggest screen will want that Anker Nebula Cosmos Max I mentioned at the top of this post. That's the one that gets you a 4K image and Golby Digital Plus, as well as HDR10 and HLG. There's more, too, but get the idea. It'd normally sell for around $1,600 but Amazon is now offering with $480 skimmed off the top. Well worth checking out if you've ever wanted to get your Netflix or Apple TV+ fix via display of huge proportions!
And with that said, let's dive into the three Anker Nebula deals that could wind up getting me my first ever projector. And maybe yours, too.
The best sound you've ever heard for less
Anker Nebula Cosmos Max 4K Projector | %30 off at Amazon
$1,120 at Amazon (opens in new tab)
This projector is currently 30% off and can be installed in your home by the end of the week. Just think, 150 inches of Stranger Things is just one Amazon order away — so long as you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, that is.
Anker Nebula Capsule II Smart Mini Projector | $180 off at Amazon
$400 at Amazon (opens in new tab)
A more portable option for those who like to watch content anywhere, this 720p projector is now available with $180 off the OG price. But act soon, you've less than a day to get those orders in before the price goes back to normal.
Anker Nebula Apollo Projector | $105 off at Amazon
This mini projector is good for a 100-inch image and has built-in speakers as well as support for streaming apps from the likes of Netflix and YouTube — and it's just $245 this Prime Day
We might be edging ever closer to the end of this year's first two Amazon Prime days, but that doesn't mean that there aren't deals to be had. Check out our collection the very best Apple Prime Day deals before the end of the day to make sure you aren't missing out.
Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.
Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.
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Michael Zwack, Fisherman, 2001, oil on panel, 35—66 inches. All photos courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Michael Zwack (b. 1949) moved to Manhattan from his hometown of Buffalo in 1977, settling into the loft on Kenmare Street where he lives today. Trained as a sculptor, he taught himself drawing and painting, inventing his technique as he went along. Though he is known for cofounding Hallwalls in Buffalo (in 1974, along with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo. Charles Clough and Nancy Dwyer) and for being a ground-floor artist of Metro Pictures (he is currently represented by Paul Kasmin), his arresting and strongly personal work was never part of any easily locatable style or movement.
Zwack had indeed been painting the whole world. His images are drawn from the widest possible panorama of geography and culture. He made a series of portraits of faces from all over the globe, their ethnic diversity reinforced by symbols from their corresponding cultures. He painted landscapes peopled not by human figures but by alphabets. "My work is some kind of subliminal intellectual process," he told me. Intuitive, created directly in the language of images, the pictures propose enigmas for the viewer to solve. Zwack composes in layers, painting partly or entirely over images and sanding others away. In Heaven and Earth , 1994, he erased the central figure from a drawing, leaving a white space in the middle of the picture. Deep-perspective surfaces vie with flat ones; meticulous tracings underlie impulsive actions as though space and time were disputing who had control of the picture. Techniques of abstract art play against the emotional power of representation. It is something you can't do with a camera or with pixels; it has to be seen in its original texture and size to be appreciated, because it isn't conceived in terms of how it would be mechanically reproduced. It is painting that believes in magic.
This is not necessarily something you went people to know about. It's hard to think of anything more widely ridiculed than vodou. But vodou has much to offer an artist. We speak of it as religion, but vodou is, in the words of Harold Courlander, "a highly formalized and sophisticated attitude toward life." It took shape in the French agricultural colony of Saint Dominique, which became known as Haiti after a long, bloody revolution in which vodou played a central role. Its most prominent influences were Dahomeyan and Congo culture, but it appeared in a place where hundreds of thousands of arrivals direct from distinct regions of Africa were mixed together, and it grew in an independent nation of its own for two hundred years. Highly metaphorical, vodou requires each practitioner to be inventive, investing mundane objects with unexpected powers and meanings. Its rituals and ceremonies, endlessly complicated, are a sort of sacred theater, sometimes frightening and malodorous, but no less beautiful for that. There is a complete artistic system in its magical traditions of painting, flag making, altar decorating, the pictographic writing of veve, the complicated repertoire of the drums and the melodies sung to them, the inexhaustible literature of songs, stories, and procedures.
After years of intensive study, Zwack is now houngan asagwe—the highest level of houngan—able to initiate new practitioners, conduct ceremonies and do "work." Minokan Vodou, the societé to which he belongs has a peristyle (adjacent to the landing strip of the Port-au-Prince airport) whose construction was financed by the sale in New York of dwapo, hand-sewn ceremonial flags. He has hundreds of hours of videos of ceremonies whose analysis will one day be the work of anthropologists.
"The peristyle is just a concrete building with a huge center post, and the floor is just a dirt floor," Zwack says, "but when you come for one of our ceremonies, you are walking into a palace." These ceremonies can last seven days or more, entailing the energetic participation of the entire congregation, with careful attention to every detail—from the preparation of food to the clothes people wear to the intricate veves traced in cornmeal or coffee on the floor. They are and are not works of art in the same way as they are and are not religion—that is, art and religion are words for aspects of something that in Africa has never been separate.
Though there is now a before and after in Zwack's work, the continuity is stronger than the change. His art didn't take a sudden left turn; it's recognizably the product of the same hand and eye, on its way to something new and as yet undefined. And his older work can now be reread: from one of the two djevo (impermanent altars) in his loft peer babies' heads in cast bronze and concrete, Zwack sculptures given a new home and a new meaning.
Despite the unavoidable influence of vodou's visual and symbolic vocabulary. Zwack is not doing the obvious things. He's not making portraits of the lwa, or painting veve, though he will surely do that when he feels like it. And his work doesn't look like that of any Haitian painter I know.
But he's also painting that whole other world, the one on the other side of the water.
I met Verne Dawson while sitting beside him at Table 23 at the celebration for Dream Machine: Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. Dawson revealed a cosmic process previously unsuspected by me: the genii of the 22 paths of the Kabbalah and their correspondence to the 22 major cards of the Tarot.
Artist Tina Girouard spent several years traveling to Haiti to work with Vodou sequin artists. Along the way, she became a "Mambo of Art," inducted into the Vodou ceremony. Excerpts from her journal. | {
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/**
* File Name: try-003.js
* ECMA Section:
* Description: The try statement
*
* This test has a try with no catch, and a finally.
*
* Author: [email protected]
* Date: 11 August 1998
*/
var SECTION = "try-003";
var VERSION = "ECMA_2";
var TITLE = "The try statement";
var BUGNUMBER="http://scopus.mcom.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=313585";
startTest();
writeHeaderToLog( SECTION + " "+ TITLE);
// Tests start here.
TrySomething( "x = \"hi\"", false );
TrySomething( "throw \"boo\"", true );
TrySomething( "throw 3", true );
test();
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* This function contains a try block with no catch block,
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* that do and do not throw exceptions.
*/
function TrySomething( expression, throwing ) {
innerFinally = "FAIL: DID NOT HIT INNER FINALLY BLOCK";
if (throwing) {
outerCatch = "FAILED: NO EXCEPTION CAUGHT";
} else {
outerCatch = "PASS";
}
outerFinally = "FAIL: DID NOT HIT OUTER FINALLY BLOCK";
try {
try {
eval( expression );
} finally {
innerFinally = "PASS";
}
} catch ( e ) {
if (throwing) {
outerCatch = "PASS";
} else {
outerCatch = "FAIL: HIT OUTER CATCH BLOCK";
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Flashes and breaks into rainbow patterns.
Marking the distance between us.
See their otherwise vacant eyes questioning.
Their tiny bearing calls riding the thin wind.
For now the grass is near cropped out.
Within the fence I can only push against.
Marking the difference between us.
On a high plain far from Yorkshire's hills.
With the stench of fetid wool and grassy breath.
We hear but do not see or know the circling birds.
We must like ourselves enough to remember everything.
the boat sank, the sentry was a traitor.
We have to go on anyway.
We must know what we did then was the best we could.
is even then glowing like wild isotopes.
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Q: convert string to time_t and then convert time_t back to string I want to save a date time string to time_t and then convert it back to exactly original string.
But the code below will output "2016-04-25_10:10:05"
And the hour in the output will be incorrect by changing the date_str.
If you change the code to std::string date_str = "1470-04-25_09:10:05";,
the result will correct.
Here is the code:
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <iomanip>
int main()
{
// try changing year, hour will be incorrect
std::string date_str = "2016-04-25_09:10:05";
std::tm tm{};
std::istringstream str_stream(date_str);
str_stream >> std::get_time(&tm, "%Y-%m-%d_%T");
std::time_t time = std::mktime(&tm);
std::stringstream stream;
stream << std::put_time(std::localtime(&time), "%F_%T");
std::cout << stream.str() << std::endl;
}
A:
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy and make better use
of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada.
This explains why any year that you pass prior to 1908 (or prior to the year your timezone adopted DST) will affect the hour.
Also, answering to the one hour gap on the "2016-04-25_10:10:05" case, this is because you're not setting tm.tm_isdst prior to mktime() call:
/* Assuming that all tm memory is set to 0 prior to this */
tm.tm_isdst = -1; /* mktime() will figure out the DST */
std::time_t time = std::mktime(&tm);
According to POSIX-1003.1-2001:
A positive or 0 value for tm_isdst shall cause mktime() to presume
initially that Daylight Savings Time, respectively, is or is not in
effect for the specified time. A negative value for tm_isdst shall
cause mktime() to attempt to determine whether Daylight Savings Time
is in effect for the specified time.
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Students' Dickensian hunger and poverty are everyday features and concerns for educator Wick Sloane at his community college – and by extension, in many places like it. He proposes paying students to study, cash incentives for going to the library.
This year, before I can address critical thinking and workforce skills, my students need to eat. I have a plan.
For Pell-eligible students, (poor), flip the $978 million Federal Work-Study Program (FWS) into the Study-Work Program (FSW). Pay students $10 an hour, ten hours a week to study in designated, supervised places at the community college or in a public library. The students swipe a card on the way in and out. They are paid electronically each week for their study time the previous week. Cap payments at $1,200 per semester.
Students have been crying in my office at Bunker Hill Community College every week since September and, some weeks, every day. Hungry. Often homeless. Often jobless.
One who was hungry and nearly homeless had an A in calculus. "Have you eaten today?" is a question I use more often than "Do you need help with your homework?" She wouldn't say. As the student cried in my office and spoke with a gentle colleague, I bought a sandwich, some fruit, and a bottle of orange juice from the cafeteria. The student drank the juice and put the food in her bag to take home. The student had a class and said she'd return later in the afternoon to finish the conversation. With $25 from my colleague in my pocket, I walked to Johnnie's Foodmaster in Charlestown and bought a $50 food card that we gave to the student later. She cried again.
Some days, I have vouchers for a meal in the cafeteria. If you want to feel helpless or hopeless or just plain stupid, you can't beat seeing a human being cry because you just gave them a meal in a cafeteria.
Need more evidence that hunger is a problem in U.S. higher education today? A few weeks ago, two of the finest professors I know who are teaching the community college population and I had lunch with a thoughtful, innovative state official. Talking education? Nope. The three of us were learning how to open and operate a food bank on the campus.
Even more evidence? In January, I participated in (the excellent) "Improving Performance: Infusing Technology into Higher Education," a discussion the Center for American Progress and Educause convened in Washington. I reported that the top technological innovation I've infused into higher education this year is the new Massachusetts website, Getting SNAP.
That's "Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program" -- food stamps. I've helped more students with food stamps this year than with College Writing 1.
A bid for the $978 million in Federal Work Study funding requires some evidence, I know. Here's mine. I put myself into these community college classrooms five years ago because I was weary from senior-level higher ed meetings about access to college for the poor. I mean the meetings with white tablecloths, free coffee, all-you-can-eat trays of sandwiches, and those sweaty pitchers of ice water on every table. No one had a clue about the actual needs of these students, as customers. Including me. Red Bull and T-Mobile must know more about these students, this market, than either I or anyone in higher ed did.
Hundreds of students have since passed through my windowless basement classrooms, most at 7 a.m., some at midnight. One student was shot and killed, and I testified at the third trial of his killers. Another will graduate from Dartmouth College in June. One wrote an essay Bedford-St. Martins published in a textbook. He vanished in 2008, because he had to work. A few weeks ago, I found his 2008 cell phone number on a card buried in a desk drawer. Infusing technology into higher education, I texted, "Why aren't you back in school?" An instant reply, "Who is this????" We corresponded, and he has enrolled for the fall.
He's been working as a tutor in a South Boston child-care center. He's now angry about how little math these elementary school children are learning. He wants to be a math teacher.
Senator Kerry, Senator Scott Brown, Senator Sherrod Brown (we met, remember?), Congressman Mike Capuano, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx and your Education and the Worksforce Committee staffer Amy Jones. Attention all U.S. senators and members of Congress concerned about the U.S. economy and global competitiveness: I have a dedicated African-American male from Dorchester who has published a story in a textbook and who wants to become a math teacher. Will we, the people, let his need to earn money for food stall his education? Help!
All I know for certain is that as of this morning, my Federal Study-Work proposition is as politically hopeless as it is technically and fiscally simple. Hunger and poverty are topics too squeamish for the high tables of policy and higher education. Everyone with a keyboard or podium loves to hammer community colleges for low graduation rates. I'm sure I've missed something, but grinding Dickensian hunger and poverty never arises as a cause for stopping school. Up here, the $750 million Boston Foundation has joined the mob with a skimpy report bereft of evidence for either its conclusions or its solution.
Hunger and poverty remain too squeamish for my lobby, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The AACC doesn't know how many of its campuses have food banks. (I've visited the one at Kingsborough Community College in New York City.) The agenda for the annual meeting next month (Orlando, where else?) has no events addressing hunger or poverty. (Note to AACC President Walter Bumphus: Would you ship my students any leftover food from the April 22 Poolside Reception? Thanks.) Remember, the Republicans have begun yet another offensive against Pell Grants, the key aid my students use for tuition and, as possible, food.
I know all with a grant and a window office can out-data me. I do pray most days for ideas better than mine. However, I have taught hundreds of students now and talked with incredible colleagues beside me in the trenches. The tradeoff for many able students is cash from hours at work vs. unpaid hours in class and studying. Who knows the exact number, but my colleagues agree that even three or four more hours to study a week for these students could make the difference between completing their degree or not.
Why Study-Work? In five years of observations, nothing impedes my students more than lack of time and a quiet place to study. An hour studying can create human capital, a building block toward a career and a robust economy. An hour working at McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts creates burgers or doughnuts. My most experienced colleagues agree that as little as four or five extra study hours a week per student would change the outcome for at least thousands of students on our campus. I'll settle for $100 million of the $978 FWS budget for a pilot starting this fall paying students to study ten hours a week.
Next question. Is my Federal Study-Work proposal, in a word, deranged?
I took the question to my favorite, "Yes, we can fix this crazy world" Jedi knights, Yale professors Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres. (The two are authors of, among other works, Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small.) They showed me that helping the poor invest in human capital to outwit the vicious cycles of poverty is an alive-and-well practice. Ayres directed me to Oportunidas, the principle anti-poverty program in Mexico. See for yourself. More than 4.5 million families benefit from the program which focuses on education, health and nutrition. In Ayres new book, Carrots and Sticks, I discovered "Dollars for Scholars" from Edlabs at Harvard.
For now, the benefits of keeping my College Writing 1 class in a classroom with computers and printers, no food allowed, outweighs using another classroom where I could bring food. Last week was spring break. I continued my practice of offering class during spring break. My students don't go to Daytona. With computers down for maintenance, we met in the lobby. Each morning at 7 a.m., students were waiting for me. When the cafeteria opened at 7:30 a.m., I bought them all breakfast.
This essay first appeared in Inside Higher Ed.
Wick Sloane writes a column, "The Devil's Workshop," for InsideHigherEd.com.
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Q: Insert into deep embedded document with Mongoose/Node.js? I have the following Schemas in Mongoose/Node.js:
var ItemsSchema = new Schema({
itemname: String,
quantity: String
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listname: String,
items: [ItemsSchema]
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How can i insert new item to a specific list?
Using User.findOne({"owned._id" : listid} ... will give me the user that own the specific list but i can't figure it out how to proceed to get the single list.
Thanks in advice!
A: you can try to do this.
User.findById(id, function(err, doc){
doc.owned[n].items.push(item);
}
Any user has an independent list, you must access to a userlist and push an item to a specific list.
The users don't share the list, of course the items neither with this structure.
Sorry about my english.
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Part I of this series dealt with the impact of finding out your partner cheated as it relates to your self-esteem. Part II focuses on trust within the marriage.
From the moment you find out that your husband has cheated on you, you question everything. Trust is shattered like a broken window. You not only question what he tells you about his affair, but everything he has ever told you—and everything he tells you for some time after. For example, he could tell you he is going to the store and you may wonder, "Is he really going to the store, or is he going to see her again?" You may think this whether the affair was two days, two weeks, two months, or two years ago.
Building that trust back after the affair is difficult, but possible. Why is it so difficult? For starters, some women can't get over the fact that their own husband could lie to them repeatedly. "How could he lie to me so easily?" Then you start wondering if your entire marriage was built on a lie, and if you even know him at all. You start beating yourself up for trusting him, to the point where you do not even trust yourself anymore.
Rebuilding trust takes time and hard work. First, your husband has to be open, meaning nothing is in hiding anymore, email accounts, phones should all be accessible and not hidden. This is a difficult concept for some cheaters but an important step in rebuilding trust. As a couple, you should talk about the actions that he has to take in order to start to build the foundation again. Communication and openness is important in rebuilding trust. Last but definitely not least, you have to work on trusting yourself again.
Part III will explore the final part of the impact an affair has on a marriage.
This past year has been really hard on me. I learned that my husband was secretly texting and meeting a woman whom I had met. I confronted him and he said we're just friends. I found his password after he stopped texting her and he started emailing her. My life has went downhill from that moment, then he has started texting other women and even looking up women online. No matter when I try to talk to him, or express my feelings I'm told I just don't trust him or its all in my head. We have been married 23 years now and I can't get over it or when I look into his eyes no matter what he is saying to me, I DON'T TRUST ANY THING COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH.. He tells me his PTSD has changed him, but what is going on with him last year is different. I am suffering from depression and have closed myself in, lost large amount of weight and can not seem to pull my self out. I used to be happy on life, very sociable and full of dreams. Now, I don't wont anyone to be around me.
Betrayed – you have had a rough year, full of hurt and pain. But I want to remember something that took me a long time to learn, but once I did, everything changed, and that is this – You are not defined by your husband's actions. I did the same thing, All I wanted was for my husband to treat me right, and I defined my happiness by his actions, because that is all I had. I did not have enough self-esteem to gain happiness from within. And you know what happened? He kept rejecting what I wanted, over and over again, the lies continued, the cheating continued, and I felt miserable. He was not helping me at all. I was really low, so low that I started having health issues. And that was a turning point for me. I was holding on to all of the pain and misery from my husband's actions and I had to let it go – because it was not mine to hold onto, that was my husband's actions, not mine. And once I did, I started to live again, and you will as well my friend. You have dedicated and had 23 wonderful years of marriage, and no one can take that away.But now it is time for you to focus on you and start really living. You have dedicated your life to marriage, now it is time to dedicate your life to you. There are exciting things in store for you, it is just a matter of shifting your thoughts away from your husband and back to you, back home. Also, if you are in a position to see a therapist, I think that will help you in your journey as well, take care!
Hello, since the beginning of my relationship and now marriage I have been lied to abused physically and mentally many times while I was pregnant. We now have a 4 year old and a 3 year old. My husband cheated, lied, stolen and put his hands on me. I will not make any excuses for him he was a prescription drug user because of a bad back surgery and mixed with alcohol all this brought a different creature. Last year in May I put him out and actually obtained a permanent restraining order and the state had enough documentation to enforce it. He has since went to rehab and has literally done a complete change no pills, church and is an awesome to the boys and has been back in my home for about 3 months the boys are happy but I am empty. I have forgiven him, but wow it is all still there and so fresh that I don't even know where to start. He has cried and is sincere but a part of me is waiting on that animal to resurface, and I am lost as to what I need to do to heel. I honestly do not know if I can say I love him, I do know my boys are much happier but what about me do I just walk a way with out even trying because honestly right now we are just room mates, he literally has a bed in the boys room and is happy in there because he missed them so much. He tried to hug me yesterday I did let him but did not reciprocate because I feel dead inside. I need help and I know this . I know all my trust issues and insecurities are not from him alone I had a horrible childhood. That is a book in itself. I have two older children that are 26 and 18 so this is not my first rodeo with relationships my first husband passed away so I am very aware of how I should be treated, I am just not sure the lesson GOD is wanting me to learn. I am willing to do what ever it takes however my happiness and self worth can not be altered anymore.
You are in a tough position. Your husband has done some mental damage to you from his past that has left you empty inside, and probably scared because of the past abuse. I know your kids love daddy around but at the same time they don't want to see mommy miserable. You mentioned something very key, and that is that you are not sure if you are learning the lesson that God has in store for you. The fact that you are even searching for a lesson is wonderful news. Don't try to find the lesson, it will come to you. Don't try to figure out what to do, just be right now. No one is forcing you to make a decision, which is great. I would focus on YOU at this time and trying to heal. Once you are in a better position after focusing on YOU, then you can look to see what to do about the marriage, especially if he is not disrespecting you and the kids. Physical and mental abuse is very traumatizing, especially if you had a rough upbringing, abuse has a sick way of re-affirming what should not be re-affirmed. I would strongly consider looking into therapy, even if it is only a couple of sessions to help you heal. If your husband is willing to watch the kids, I would also look into having some 'YOU' time at least once a week where the focus is solely on doing activities that you enjoy. It's ok to be in pain, and it is ok to not know what to do, surrender to the belief that you have to decide right now, and use that energy to focus on you first, then the marriage. Hugs to you! | {
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Children like vegetables. There, I've said it. In fact, I believe that children like vegetables a lot. Adults, less so, and I think it's probably because we have eaten our fair share of poorly prepared and not so celebrated vegetables. They are a sidekick, and rarely the lead act. Overcooked and soggy. Out of season, watery and flavourless. Children like their peas, corn, broccoli, carrot, potato, sweet potato and if you ask Baby Green he'd happily add spinach, avocado, tomato, zucchini, kale, red peppers and olives. Children are more forgiving when it comes to veg, but you have to introduce them while they are young. Like languages, flavours and tastes are best practiced as early as possible. If you are fortunate enough to be pregnant, introduce the flavours to them then. Taste is acquired, not inherent.
I realise that not all of the foods just mentioned are strictly speaking vegetables, but in my common parlance all plant-based foods can be used as vegetables (for more on that, please see the Get Cooking post). I am going to add legumes to the veg spectrum because I like to add a whole grain, seed, or pseudo grain to make them more filling, satisfying and nutritious.
Vegetables are cheap and when frozen are nutritious, easy to store, access and prepare. From the simple purees when weaning a baby onto solids to the heartier and more textured stews, sauces and finger foods, vegetables are a staple, and a must for children and adults alike. Put effort and love into preparing your child's meals and you too will begin to rekindle your love affair with the humble and delicious.
Food is sensual and when introducing your child to food, it should also be exciting to look at, and what can be more exciting than the vibrant colours of vegetables. Unfortunately overcooking veg dulls their vitality, and alters their taste and texture. What we eat and why has many dimensions, among them are pigments, flavour and health. The social dimension is one that should evolve from the things we love, and not from external presumptions and acceptances, but more on that another time.
Take care when preparing your veg, be thoughtful with the temperature and duration of cooking. Some foods are better left as they are, others benefit from a little heat, blending, fermenting and/or grating. | {
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we saw how to split strings using LEFT, RIGHT and MID.
These functions work very well as long as the data follows a set pattern.
But not all data is that clean and simple.
combining functions and learning how to use the FIND function.
we used the MID function in order to extract the Wing information.
But there is a complication.
the start number and the number of characters.
We successfully supplied the first two arguments.
So, K4 holds the text from which we want to extract something.
four and then we specified that our text is four characters long.
But this is where the formula broke down.
Not all of the words in column K are four characters long.
FIND to help define this number better.
We will have to find the pattern in the data.
One that is noticeable is that there is always a space after the Wing.
If we can find where the space is in the text then our problem is solved.
And that's exactly what the FIND function will do.
We will need some workspace for this.
First we need the text we want to find.
So type quotation mark space quotation mark.
which must go in quotation marks.
Comma to specify the next argument - within what text.
indicated by the square brackets.
It allows us to specify a start point.
The answer has come back as eight which means that the space is the eighth character.
the space might appear as the ninth character.
Well, that's a good start.
Actually, the Wing is not eight or nine characters long.
minus two characters for the Floor number and minus one for the dash.
Which is minus four, all up.
So let's make a slight adjustment to our calculation.
want Excel to perform the FIND function first.
in cell O4 to perform that for all employees.
using Control+C. Now press Escape because we don't want to do anything else to that cell.
Now double click on cell N4 to get the formula.
replace that with the formula that we just copied across from cell O4.
So Control+V to replace that four and now Enter.
Double click on the Fill Handle in cell N4.
Now we have the Wing for all employees.
Notice that North has now correctly been extracted.
I'm now going to delete my workings in column O because I no longer need it.
This lesson was a bit more challenging.
But you have now seen how you can enhance the power of functions by combining them.
And you know about the FIND function should you ever need it. | {
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By Jeff Bacon on July 17, 2012 Broadside moments
I had a minor surgery last week, and the doctor told me to keep my leg up. I kind of liked that. It gave me an official, watertight excuse to do nothing.
It was awesome. I laid on the sofa, watched TV, and even had my food delivered to me. I didn't even have to take a shower, at least not for the first couple of days (fear of infection). My entire house had become a man cave.
But after a while, the TV got boring, and there was nothing new on the internet. Reclining on the sofa with my leg up on a pillow began to get uncomfortable. The outside began calling me (not to mention the lawn that needed a mow). My family went bike riding and all I could do was watch them go. Doing nothing was turning out to be less than it was cracked up to be.
Then a buddy (retired Warrant Officer) stopped by with donuts, coffee and worms. I had a decision to make. Follow a strict regimen of ice and elevation, or go fishing with a good buddy.
The nurse told me to stay off the leg for a couple of days. She had given me pain killers to last at least a week. She told me stories of people who had tried to do too much too early.
But my buddy had worms! And there is a waterway right behind my house with fish in it. It was a dilemma. But if two Sailors put their heads together, there is usually a solution.
So I fished from a chair with my leg resting on a log.
Technically, I followed the doctors orders, and no one was worse off for the experience.
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Best Time to Visit Vanuatu
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Best time to visit Vanuatu: Located in the South Pacific, Vanuatu is good choice for families, couples and an easy cruise destination from Australia and New Zealand. If you're wondering when the best time to visit Vanuatu is, read on about Vanuatu seasons, weather and more.
Best months to visit Vanuatu
The two seasons Vanuatu has – Summer and Winter
Vanuatu has two distinct seasons, with a relatively cool dry period of winter and a warm wet season of summer.
The dry winter season in Vanuatu stretches from the months of May through October when the nighttime weather gets chilly. During these middle months of the year there are dry and sunny days with some possibilities of higher winds. At this chilly time of the year, you can expect to see the locals wearing a warm cardigan or beanie.
The wet summer season in Vanuatu stretches from the months of November to April when the days are pleasantly warm. During this warm season, brief showers are common in the afternoons so be sure to pack a raincoat or umbrella.
Visiting Vanuatu in June, July, August
Days are pleasantly mild with minimal humidity, and when it rains it is mostly brief showers rather than the heavier downpours. When the sun disappears, day temperatures fall to around 20 degrees Celsius and locals can be spotted wearing warm cardigans.
In July, all of Vanuatu moves deep into the dry season with lower temperatures that are conducive for sleep. At this hotter time of the year, the main islands get busier as masses of tourist flock in from Europe. The month of August experiences colder temperatures during the late evenings and nights, with the least rain across the islands.
Visiting Vanuatu in September, October, November
During the month of September in Vanuatu, the weather is ideal with dry, mild and cool days across the islands. Marking the gradual end of the dry months and the fast approaching wet season, October in Vanuatu is largely unpredictable. As the month progresses, you can expect more rain although this shouldn't affect your travel plans too much.
November marks the start of the wet season, or summer as the locals call it, which lasts through to April. Temperatures begin to steadily rise, the increased humidity is tempered by the ocean breezes and the official cyclone season commences.
Visiting Vanuatu in December, January, February
December marks the beginning of the wettest season of the year, with almost double the rain experienced in November. Your outdoor activities and travel plans are likely to be affected by the strong winds, rains and waves. During the middle of the wet season in January, heavy rains are definite and cyclones are possible.
Temperatures are at their highest ranging from around 28 degrees Celsius up to 35 degrees Celsius. In February, downpours are often short but heavy, often preceded by humidity and usually followed by bright sunshine.
Visiting Vanuatu in March, April, May
The month of March accounts for the rainiest month in Port Villa, with frequent downpours in the northern islands. Roads are impassable, trips to far-flung islands on planes and boats can get uncomfortable and cyclones are most prevalent. April marks the imminent end of the wet season as the rains begin to reduce and the cyclone season ends.
That said, you should continue to remain alert about cyclones and hang on to your umbrella or wet-weather gear. The dry season or winter in Vanuatu officially kicks off during the month of May with temperatures starting to fall.
Best Time to Visit Vanuatu by Type of Trip
The wet season in Vanuatu is also its low season which stretches from November to mid-December and February to April. Outside the peak vacation time you can enjoy packaged deals and negotiable hotel rates due to many empty rooms.
Off peak Season
May, September and October make up the shoulder season which is a perfect time to visit Vanuatu. The weather is pleasant, tourists are fewer, hotels are cheaper and less busy, while boats and planes are readily available.
The peak time in Vanuatu stretches from mid-December to late January, and from June through August when room rates rise. High season is the major school holidays in Australia and New Zealand, and the main vacation period for European tourists.
Best months for a honeymoon
The months of May, June and September are the best time for going to Vanuatu Island to celebrate your honeymoon. This is the off peak season when the weather is pleasant and tourists are fewer thereby giving you more privacy.
Best weather
The best weather in Vanuatu can be enjoyed during the months of May to September away from the wet season. At this time, visitors to the island can enjoy a range of outdoor activities including swimming, kayaking, sailing and trekking.
Best month to save money
If possible, avoid traveling to Vanuatu during the peak seasons from mid-December to late January, and from July through August. These seasons make up the major school holidays in Australia and New Zealand, and prime time for European visitors respectively.
Best months to go diving or snorkeling
The best time to dive, snorkel and explore Vanuatu's legendary underwater world is during the months of May through October. At this time, the waters are calm and provide great clarity for seeing the colorful reefs and abundant marine life.
How to get to Vanuatu
Getting to Vanuatu from Australia is affordable and easy thanks to the wide range of cheap flights available. It takes about 4 hours to reach Vanuatu from the east coast of Australia via Air Vanuatu or Virgin Australia. Direct flights to Port Villa are available from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, while connecting flights are available from other cities.
International flights are available to Vanuatu from New Zealand, UK and USA arriving at the Bauerfield International Airport on Efate. Upon landing, shuttle transfers and taxis are available at the airport to take you to nearby resorts around the island.
How to get around Vanuatu
Due to the undeveloped road systems on the island mostly consisting of dirt tracks, transportation around Vanuatu is pretty basic. As a result, 4WD vehicles, mini-buses and vans make up the most common means of transportation in the Vanuatu islands.
Every island features small airstrips for light planes and small ports or wharfs where boats and small ships can dock. In Vanuatu, privately owned mini-buses provide transportation around the various islands and can simply be hailed from the road side. At Port Villa, you can find several rental companies that offer cars, vans, scooters, motorcycles and other vehicles for hire.
Tips & Facts for Travel in Vanuatu
Flights are cheap from Australia and New Zealand, so consider spending some time in either of these countries as well.
Vatu is the official currency, although Australian dollars are accepted at some hotels, restaurants and resorts in Port Villa.
Like Australia, electrical plugs and voltage in Vanuatu come in the 3-pin, 220-240 volt range.
When speaking English to the locals, be sure to speak clearly so they can understand you.
Whenever you are outdoors during the summer months, be sure to always use sunscreen even when it's mild or cloudy.
If visiting during the wet seasons always remain alert for cyclone warnings.
Be sure to take out comprehensive travel insurance before you leave that will cover you in case of an emergency.
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An earlier version of this tasting note claimed (as I'd been told) that the wine was made using carbonic maceration. Turns out that's wrong. Here's the technical low-down, straight from the winemaker: "10 year old vines from Biodynamically-farmed Xynomavro (Trilofo and Fitia vineyards). Grapes are hand picked and brought to the winery in small cases. 80 % de-stemmed, 20% whole cluster pressed. Very gentle pressing. No pumping over to avoid extracting harsh tannins. Fermented with wild yeasts, maceration takes place for about one week…then aged in stainless steel tanks for about 9 months…bottled unfiltered." 13.5% ABV. | {
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Q: Material UI nested theme providers breaks withStyles HOC I have a React application created with Create React App and I use the @material-ui/core npm package for theming.
To customize components I use the withStyles higher-order component provided by MaterialUI.
According to documentation it supports nested ThemeProviders https://material-ui.com/customization/theming/#nesting-the-theme.
But inside the child ThemeProvider withStyles won't apply classes.
Here is a basic application demonstrating the issue -> https://codesandbox.io/s/vibrant-tree-eh83d
ExampleComponent.tsx
import React, { FunctionComponent } from "react";
import {
WithStyles,
withStyles,
createStyles,
StepButton,
Step,
Stepper,
Box
} from "@material-ui/core";
const styles = createStyles({
button: {
"& .MuiStepIcon-root.MuiStepIcon-active": {
fill: "red"
}
}
});
interface Props extends WithStyles<typeof styles> {
title: string;
}
const ExampleComponent: FunctionComponent<Props> = ({ title, classes }) => {
console.log(title, classes);
return (
<Box display="flex" alignItems="center">
<span>{title}</span>
<Stepper activeStep={0}>
<Step>
<StepButton className={classes.button}>Test</StepButton>;
</Step>
</Stepper>
</Box>
);
};
export default withStyles(styles)(ExampleComponent);
App.tsx
import * as React from "react";
import { ThemeProvider, createMuiTheme } from "@material-ui/core";
import ExampleComponent from "./ExampleComponent";
const theme = createMuiTheme();
function App() {
return (
<ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
<ExampleComponent title="Root" />
<ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
<ExampleComponent title="Nested" />
</ThemeProvider>
</ThemeProvider>
);
}
export default App;
Inside the ExampleComponent I console.log the generated classes object.
I want to use nested ThemeProviders and override classes inside components regardless of the ThemeProvider.
Am I missing something or is this not possible?
A: When you are using nested themes, you cannot reliably use Material-UI's global class names (e.g. .MuiStepIcon-root.MuiStepIcon-active). Within a nested theme, the "Mui..." class names have to be different to avoid conflicting with the CSS classes for the top-level theme since the nested theme will cause some of the CSS for the "Mui..." classes to be different.
You can use the following syntax in order to successfully match the suffixed versions of the Mui class names that occur within nested themes:
const styles = createStyles({
button: {
'& [class*="MuiStepIcon-root"][class*="MuiStepIcon-active"]': {
fill: "red"
}
}
});
Related answer:
*
*How reliable are MUI Global Class names in JSS?
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The Reds left Goodyear, Ariz. for Atlanta with one spot to decide in the bullpen.
Following the game with the Indians on Saturday, the Reds sent relievers pitchers Anthony Bass and Matt Bowman to the minor leagues. Bass was a non-roster player. Bowman was on the 40-man roster.
»MCCOY: Reds will be better, but will it make a difference in NL Central?
Bass pitched in the Major Leagues with Houston, San Diego, Texas and last season with the Chicago Cubs, where he pitched 16 games.
"With Matt it was a matter of proving that he is healthy," said Bell, who was the St. Louis Cardinals bench coach for three seasons while Bowman was there. Bowman gave up a two-run home run to Kevin Plawicki on Saturday against the Indians . "Actually, that was the best he's looked. I had to assure him the home run wasn't the reason.".
"We believe in both of those guys. We knew they could help us," Bell said.
Those moves mean that 26 players will go to Atlanta with three players poised to win the two remaining spots in the bullpen. Wandy Peralta has options but is left-handed. He pitched nine scoreless innings this spring, allowing six hits and a walk. Matt Wisler and Robert Stephenson, both right-handers, are out of options. They would be exposed to waivers if they fail to make the Opening Day roster.
The Reds will have two left-handed pitchers in the bullpen, Zach Duke and Amir Garrett. Peralta would be the third.
Bell is looking for some options to back up Scott Schebler in center. Jesse Winker relieved Schebler in center on Saturday and started Sunday's Cactus League finale in center vs. the Rockies. Matt Kemp has played some center in his career.
Yasiel Puig played 162 games in center over six seasons in Los Angeles, including 95 in 2016.
"Puig is potentially an option. He's comfortable in right field. For now we want him to stay in one spot," Bell said.
Jose Iglesias was brought to camp to fill a bench role but ended up in the starting lineup with Scooter Gennett out for 8 to 12 weeks.
Iglesias hit two home runs against the Indians on Saturday.
The Reds will play exhibition games vs. the Braves on Monday and Tuesday. Cincinnati opens the season Thursday at home vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates. | {
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Similar to astrological matching, Chinese people traditionally used Chinese zodiac compatibility for marriage or romantic relationships. The Chinese zodiac is a cycle of 12 animal signs. Your birth year sign's attributes are believed to determine compatibility with other signs.
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POPE CLEMENT III AND THE THIRD CRUSADE
Debra Booton McCoy | 10/20/2022
Photo by Henry Hustava on Unsplash
Born around 1130, Paolo Scolari, a Roman citizen, was an older man when he took the throne of Peter December 17, 1187. Pope Gregory VIII died after only two months as he began preparations for the Third Crusade. Taking the name of Clement, the new Pope had much energy for his age and was able to step in. The unusual thing about this papacy was that Cardinal Scolari was rejected as a papal candidate due to his poor health. The first choice was Theobald of Ostia, who refused the honor.
Like many of his immediate predecessors, Paolo Scolari was trained in politics and the curia. In 1176, he was named a subdeacon at Sancta Maria Maggiore, where he had been trained. Within a few years, Scolari was the archpriest of the Liberian Basilica. Within a year he was cardinal-deacon of Sergio e Bacco and by the end of 1180, cardinal bishop of Palestrina.
In October 1187, Jerusalem fell to Saladin. Western Europe did not hear about it until just before Christmas. Cardinal Scolari was with the current pope at Pisa when Gregory died. Within a short period, Scolari was consecrated. Spending the Holy Days in Pisa, Clement entered Rome in early February, 1188.
The Roman citizens were happy to have a Roman back on the throne. Clement was known to be mild-mannered and peaceable. And they welcomed him. In addition, Clement knew the stand-off between popes and Romans needed to end. By May, he had his treaty with the Romans, including annual benefices in exchange for oaths of loyalty from the citizens. The effort must have sickened him greatly, for Theobald of Ostia was again asked to place himself as candidate. But Pope Clement recovered.
Sitting at the Lateran, Clement organized the new crusade. He sent legates to King Henry II of England, King Philip of France and Emperor Frederick of the Holy Roman Empire, who had recently been excommunicated. He dispatched legates to the different courts, who laboured to restore harmony among the belligerent monarchs and princes, and to divert their energy towards the reconquest of the Holy Sepulchre.
Before he could get very far, Clement had to settle the controversy between Scotland and England regarding the archbishop of St. Andrews. Up until this time, the Scottish Church was led by the archbishop of York. Clement separated the jurisdictions and Scotland answered to no one but the pope.
At the same time, death of William II of Sicily, the pope's chief vassal, led to another difficulty between the papacy and the family ruling the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenstaufens. Frederick Barbarossa's son, Henry VI, was in line to be crowned emperor at his father's death. Henry married Constance, William's aunt who had been incarcerated in a convent since childhood. This would guarantee that the Hohenstufens would claim Sicily, which was not to the liking of the Normans.
Clement, in order to not be surrounded by the Germans, gave Sicily to Tancred, son of Roger III of Apulia, a Norman. Even though Clement claimed he would crown Henry when the time came, the emperor was furious and went to the Holy Land still fuming. There he drowned in 1190.
To further push the Saracens, Clement called for embargos on trade with them. He added more and more items to the list of banned products.
On April 1191, Pope Clement III died. Within days, he was buried and replaced by the eighty-five year old Celestine III. It was up to the new pope to end the Crusade.
Pope St. Anicetus
WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ST. THOMAS, THE APOSTLE?
POPE PASCAL II AND CONTINUED TROUBLES
Popes Benedict VII and John XIV
ANTIPOPE BENEDICT X
A Memorable Church In An Unexpected Place
Pope Alexander I
Using the Holy Spirit's Gifts
Debra Booton McCoy
Debra Booton McCoy is a cradle Catholic and is a native of central New York. She works in the health care field and spends her spare time writing and enjoying her family, two grown children, and husband Bob. Growing up through the Vatican II era, she remembers the traditional teaching of the Church and was witness to the changes. For many years Debra was a Catholic on the sidelines, going to Mass every week, but not living the Faith. When she decided to homeschool her son, she found that she had to teach herself what she had forgotten or never learned. That is when she realized her role.
Debra is a published author, having written a column for a women's monthly newspaper in the mid-1990s. In addition, she published her first book in 2014, an edited version of a French book from the 1800s, "A Catholic Mother Speaks to Her Children" by Marie, Countess de Flavigny. This is an advice book for children. She is also in the midst of editing four more Catholic advice books in a series for different ages. Debra started a Catholic publishing company in 2013, Lanternarius Press, with the purpose of adding another moral compass to print media.
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Picaroon Jack
And the Brothers Slack
I've wrapped up a semester long game of Mage (20th Anniversary ed) that was successful, now I'm planning something with Colonial Gothic and Lex Occultum. Both are new to me, but CG looks like it uses a more streamlined, lite system (which I am a fan of these days).
I say that then start reading Traveller threads here and now I'm torn!
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Picaroon Jack said:
Ruuun Traveeellerrrr....youu knooow you waaant toooo !
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Okay, it's official. LOL Traveller it is.
zweihander
views are my own
The cat's out of the bag.
Andrews McMeel Publishing is entering the RPG market, and I am leading the effort as Executive Creative Director of Games! I'll be tasked to acquire new RPGs, and to grow the games division. So excited to be embarking on their expansion into a new category for AMU. This also means ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG will be getting a massive boost in business structure, team and scope.
Here's the official announcement: https://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/rpg-expert-forges-new-path-at-amu/
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Wow congrats, Daniel! That's a hell of an accomplishment!
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Black Vulmea
No. Appearing: 30-500
So, since our face-to-face Boot Hill campaign ended, the only things I reffed were 5e D&D and Mothership, but none of my usual sweeping historical campaigns. I won't say I needed a break, but my creative fire was damped down.
But for the past several weeks, I've been catching up on gangster movies - Public Enemies, Road to Perdition, and especially Last Man Standing, Walter Hill's re-make of Yojimbo set in a border town during Prohibition - re-watching Boardwalk Empire, and reading a couple of books, the novel Moonshiner's Gold set in Twenties Panhandle Texas and Cowboys and Gangsters, a history of Prohibition on the US-Mexico border.
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Black Vulmea said:
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zweihander said:
Congrats, hopefully you can bring other talented designers more attention.
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Doc Sammy
Camilla Lives Forever!
I really need to get back into role-playing soon.
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Reading a bunch of old Marvel G.I. Joe comics to get ideas for running a mercenary/G.I. Joe sort of game, sort of along the lines of Arnold Schwarzenegger's team in Predator, likely set in the 1980s, with everyone taking a cool codename like Snake-Eyes, Stalker, Gung-Ho, and Scarlett. Toss in a little Expendables vibe as well. An international team of mercenaries taking on jobs where a country doesn't want to dirty its hands and wants plausible deniability, more or less. Not really sure what game to use yet. Current options are these:
Recon might be too gritty. For Merc I may have to let players roll multiple sets of stats as it's a game where you can roll poorly enough that you don't qualify for anything. Dogs of War I haven't read yet. Rolling 2d6 and trying to get 9+ to succeed is easy enough to grasp, but I haven't learned the rest to see if it's something we'd like. Ideally the PCs will be competent and maybe just a tiny bit over-the-top in a 1980s action movie way, but not so much that it becomes stupid.
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My guess is Dogs of W*A*R will do the job.
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There's also a new version of DoW coming out soon for Everywhen.
Chronicler of Untold Worlds
Today I finished reading RuneQuest Glorantha, and I have to say, It's completely out of my comfort zone.
I don't remember reading a RPG that got me that mesmerized before... At first I was like, "cool, square earth, myth style, nice" but the more I read the less sense it made. So I read more, and than It started making sense again. Runes are awesome, cults concept are cool, spirit World literally is Mononoke style, I have never before been introduced to so many concepts in so little time. It truly felt magical.
It's been a while since I have this feeling of having no idea what my first scenario will be about.
I was thinking about letting the PC's deal with some raiders, but than I remembered It's like the quickstart adventure already starts. So maybe a spirit killing the harvest set by someone on a rival tribe might be a better start point...
At the end of the book we have the between adventure session, and I really liked It. Folks on the web have told me It comes from Pendragon, if Pendragon is more focused on this I will probably give it a chance in the future. Now I see that Crusader and Kings might have some influence from TTRPG's...
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Mankcam
RQ is a great old system, lots of crunchy bits for combat scenes.
Glorantha as a setting can be totally immersive, it is up there with the great fantasy settings of literature.
The new edition of RQ is pretty good, a few new rules bolted onto the classic RQ rules. I wish that the classic rules could have been streamlined more, but at least the current edition is reasonably compatible with all the old classic resources.
Glorantha is presented beautifully in this edition; it's great to see RQ is back, and done so well
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So, my group is gearing up for my red hand of doom game. I told them very specifically this was a good guy campaign.
Currently we have
a minotaur fighter/cleric of Kartikeya, Hindu god of war
a changeling paladin of Ganesha, Hindu god of knowledge
a edit:human /edit cavalier of an undetermined race
a changeling monk
for the love of all that is holy. wow.
i really altered the tone of the game when the paladin said hey I wanna do Ganesha. I decided that Hindu gods were quite prevalent and put in several. then i made a calendar (thank you donjon) and made the days of the week and the months according to several of the Baha'i months. then I put in two moons and used a couple of names for the Hindu god of the moon. Now I think the Empire (they are in the hinterlands, and not a part of it) is China-that-never-was
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Besides my free rpg day one shot, I'm going to run last year's one shot for some people on Discord 2 weeks before Free RPG Day. Never got to finish it on Free RPG Day due to time constraints, so looking forward to running the whole scenario this time
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Shipyard Locked
Sorry I haven't been posting much, I keep going outside to enjoy nice weather. I'll probably start talking about Ravenloft soon.
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Trying Dogs of War tomorrow. A few rough edges need sanding down but the basic scenario is the start of Predator: the PCs are to be dropped off in the jungle by chopper and are tasked with rescuing some State Department staff (subject to change) from a terrorist group that has kidnapped them, etc. Everybody's doubling up on PCs and selecting one to use for the mission once I give the parameters. Codenames (subject to change) are:
Shake-n-Bake
Greaseball
(I don't know if any of those have been used for G.I. Joe dolls but I like most of them.)
Came across this while looking for inspiration:
That is some serious effort. I'd probably enjoy a G.I. Joe movie if it looked more like that than low-rent sci fi nonsense.
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Faylar
Prepping a 5e home brew. Set in a new island in the sea of swords and part of the moonshaes... Sort of.
It was a simple thing that grew into a 150 page setting document that is growing. Lol
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Faylar said:
My setting efforts don't tend to go nearly as quickly. Kudos for taking the time to type it out !
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Kudos for taking the time to type it out !
Psychologically, I can't take my own work seriously until I've typed it and have it saved in at least two places. The possibility of losing handwritten notes blocks my ability to run anything from them (unless we're talking about a total throwaway).
I think of when guillermo del Toro lost his hand-written/drawn notes for Pan's Labyrinth in the back of a cab and immediately decided the project was over. It only resumed when the cab driver went the extra mile to track him down and return the book to him.
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Shipyard Locked said:
I've had to restart some projects several times due to losing the notes !
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Found a nifty G.I. Joe card generator. Made a few just for fun. Resizing the images is a pain. Poor Jalapeño...the card generator erases the Ñ and makes it "JALAPEO" because it rejects the tilde. (These are not the actual PCs; I'm just seeing how it works with dummy information.)
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JackOfAllTirades
This weekend my "new" gaming group is celebrating one year of (mostly) consistent weekly D&D sessions! Our party is adventuring in Critical Role's Tal'Dorei setting, and currently our characters range anywhere from 7th to 9th level. I just ordered the special edition of Art & Arcana as a gift for our DM from our group, to show our appreciation for running an awesome game AND hosting every week for a year.
Still working on a rules set for my space opera noir setting, writing a novel based on it as well. The epic fantasy setting is on the back burner; two big projects at once is enough.
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Rifts Grognard
JackOfAllTirades said:
Our party is adventuring in Critical Role's Tal'Dorei setting,
How do you like it? It looks very plain to me.
the card generator erases the Ñ
Mexico's last president's name being misspelled as Enrique Pena Nieto always made me chuckle.
One of the interesting things about Larry Hama and G.I.Joe is that he based every character off a real person, usually always friends and acquaintances.
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The Butcher said:
Tal'Dorei has a lot of adventure hooks to work with, and our DM is making good use of them. He's running a sandbox campaign and we've *always* got a full plate. We've got more quests and side quests than we can finish at the moment, and deciding which ones to handle first has sometimes been difficult. All of them are challenging; some of them are definitely in the "wait until we're higher level" category" but we can't put them off too long.
One thing this campaign isn't: dull. Not for a moment.
G.I. Joe cards have just enough space to serve as character sheets for Dogs of War. They helped everyone picture the PCs and get in character and making them was a ton of fun:
Spoiler: Meet the Action Force
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Been running a Manimals adventure using Everywhen and my Manimals supplement. It's been a blast and felt very original TMNT.
Also, now I am actively writing again, I am finishing up Alien Empires for ION Guard and converting it all to Supers RED.
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Oddly enough, it allows accent marks in the fields for real names while rejecting them in codenames. Poor Omertà and Jalapeño feel a bit discriminated against.
Spoiler: The rest of the Action Force
Everyone had two PCs...creating faux-Joes was a blast so we'll probably enlist additional team members just for fun even though all the bases are pretty well covered.
and converting it all to Supers RED
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Friday game went off without a hitch. Everyone is playing counter type
my heterosexual life partner/edgelord is playing the minotaur flighter/cleric. he's better at using a shield than a spear, though he's the best in the party at any weapon. he's a cleric of Surya, Hindu god of light and protection, and has taken it upon himself to defend the...
elven evoker, being played by the berserker or rogue player. he's not tooooooo far out, since evoker is still big numbers, and I know he loves that, but playing a wizard is way out of his space. he managed to get off a lightning bolt and not hit the...
changeling monk, who was caught by a member of the monestary and told "join or punishment". we are doing some tuning on his character because I'm not super happy with the monk rules. Still, not any more tuning than is being done than on the...
changeling paladin of Ganesha. he's very excited for his character i think. very out of place for him as he's normally the bard/scoundrel sort of player, and frequently likes to hide. He did his job and stood in front, unlike the...
dragonborn thief/acrobat, being played by my resident "i should be playing paladins but I keep resisting it" guy.
the super "i swear i didn't read dragonlance, but I certainly did" guy playing a heavily mustachioed cavalier couldn't show due to a family thing (how dare you leave early the next morning to go to vegas with your wife without the 3 kids under 5).
They got ambushed by some hobgoblins, who frankly had trouble with their armor. however, a few got away, and will be reporting back that they need to bring arbalests.
One of the highlights was a thing I made up - you get 2 rolls on the "rank 1" magic item table and 1 roll on the "rank 2" magic item table. every person. they could trade after, and a result of "cursed item" was treated as a null (i'm not that mean, though maybe I should be). it turned out to be pretty fun, though a little long due to potions and scrolls. but someone did pull a necklace of adaptation (way more useful than they think, the first dragon is a green one), a peltast shield +2 (i got a frowny face for it being "merely" a peltast shield, but then they saw it was quite a bit better and were happy, and it went to the F/C), and a ball and chain of giant slaying (there are giants coming, so handy) that went to the guy who went off with his "ball and chain".
other than a little tuning, I think it went very well. the Ganeshan's horse is a meaty clydesdale sized thing that moves like an arabian.
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I just met IRL a player from another city. Amusingly, I met her* at an English language forum, though we're both native Bulgarian speakers.
She had never used a system in her life, and in fact had some issues imagining how the whole "offline playing" worked .
So I took it upon me to show her how to play RPGs offline, and what those number things were for
So, she wants to play urban fantasy? Have no fear, m'lady! I've got just the game** for it...accidentally, it's on my phone***, too!
So of course we rolled her a character, or rather I rolled her and gave her the numbers, so she started with an urban witch (her choice) fashioned after one of her favourite characters***** in a NY-based series. And off we went, with her getting her first random event******: "You share the drink of a character from a non-human race, and learn that race's magic".
In this case, I decided to give her not a new kind of magic, but +1 Magic and the ability of Fey Sight.
And off we went...first scene: the spirit of a murdered guy comes to her and asks her for help finding his body. Why? So he could pass Beyond, of course!
He'd lost conscience when being knocked out, and so lost track of his body. Which was dumped somewhere after he dropped out of it, because it was no longer alive.
I think she was intrigued. We'll see if I can teach her to run RPGs The Right Way over the Internet, so I could direct people from her city to her...
If not, I'd have to find her a group. Shouldn't be too hard, there were quite a few groups from the same city last I checked!
Admittedly, that was a couple years ago, but still. The only reason I'd rather have her run games is because I think she might be a better Referee that way !
*She PMed me upon noticing a post where I mentioned where I live.
**"Now forget those numbers until I say we need them! The essence of playing is thus: I tell you what the situation is. You tell me what your character does. I tell you what happens, and if I've got any doubts, we roll. That's where the numbers come into play: the higher, the better your odds of pulling it successfully in a tight situation."
***Cepheus Modern, if anyone doubted me !
****Believe it or not, it was an accident. Of course, I've got Cepheus Engine, Cepheus Light, Cepheus Faster Than Light, Adventurer1-3, Worlds Apart, Classic Traveller, and a few supplements for those two (like Fast Magic, Low Tech Weapons, and the fantasy, pulp and nor supplements)...so NOT having Cepheus Modern would have been weird!
*****The main character from Sex and the City. I don't judge...but I'd note that nobody has mentioned Sex and the City in the "things you like" thread, yet !
******Rolled using the Worlds Apart table.
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Rich Harkrader
Bearded Dagon
We wrapped up Masks of Nyarlathotep yesterday. It took about 10 months, playing mostly weekly. Lauren did a great job running it, with lots of great props and roleplaying. Definitely, the best Cthulhu Mythos game I've ever played. My character hit 0 sanity right at the end as we were facing down M'Weru and Nyny. It's going to be hard to follow something that epic. Either I'm going to be running Beyond the Wall or Matt will be running Deadlands.
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Update to the above: it seems she liked it and would like to learn the rules. Sent her a link to Cepheus Modern.
We'll see how it goes and work from there !
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Did I just read right, @AsenRG thst you did up a sex in the city witch using Cepheus Modern for a local? Impressive
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Black Leaf
Chilling a bit at the moment. LARP games still running but we're down on numbers (combination of it being high LARP season here and the fact that the students are starting to go home for the summer).
Doing some boardgaming over the summer, running Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor next acadmmic year.
Had to cancel two ongoing campaigns. Too busy with rapid preparation for a job application that will change my life.
I decided that I greatly dislike running games via Roll20 + Discord. I just... too many complications, surprisingly. I prefer in-person. Hence Monday nights are done, sadly. Very good group. I will miss them.
The other group was great, been playing for about 2 years with them at a local shop. But I'm just tired of all the effort with little in return. Plus not sure if they like me very much outside of the game. That's fine, but it's getting awkward knowing these guys for 2 years, seeing every week, and still getting excluded from their "extracurricular" get togethers. Especially when they're talking about it in front of me. Like, I get the hint: you don't really like me outside of gaming, I get it, don't worry, I won't follow you to the bar afterwards. I'm not obtuse, I just haven't figured out WHY they don't really like me...
On the horizon: hacked Labyrinth Lord/Beyond the Wall for my son and some other kids. Very excited about that!
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If applying a supernatural template to your favorite TV series character is wrong, I don't want to be right! ("OMG Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99 is such a Malkavian.")
Also, congratulations on bringing in new blood into the fold! One of us, one of us...
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Video Game Logic
Thread: Video Game Logic
TheDarkOne
A Cryptic Wizard
California (when not in Storybrooke, ME)
I was just playing a game the other day and it occurred to me to wonder about the logic here. Consider this: in the Konquest Mode of Mortal Kombat Armageddon, there are two game modes. There is the walking/fighting mode that is most of the game, which plays sort of like a 3D beat-em-up style. In this mode, you have a few standard punch and kick moves, and a few special moves once you unlock them. So far, so good. However, in this mode you have no actual weapons except temporary ones given to you in a specific areas. Now, then, at certain points there is a second mode that plays like the standard Mortal Kombat style one-on-one battles. In this mode, you can wield a sword if you choose, but that sword does not seem to exist in the other mode. This is what I like to call "Video Game Logic" or simply "VGL."
So, let's discuss our favorite (or least favorite) VGL experiences!
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Here's one of my favorites: Chrono Trigger. When you first battle Magus in his castle, near the end of the battle he uses the spell Dark Matter. Later in the game, Magus can optionally join your group, but DOES NOT have this spell yet! So how the blazing frack was he able to cast it before!? That is more VGL that makes no sense.
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Explained in-game. Remember when Magus (fruitlessly) attacked Lavos in the Ocean Palace? Lavos drains his power here. Magus even says so. Leveling him up is a road to recovery.
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I was under the impression that Lavos "draining his power" meant his MP, not his actual magic abilities. I suppose that does make sense when you put it that way. I never thought of that.
But here's a major one from the same game: Lavos lays waste to their world when it awakens in 1999 AD. Crono and co find this out during a visit to 2300 AD. But, no matter what method you use to get to it, the final battle always takes place in 1999 AD. So by destroying Lavos in that time period, the version of 2300 AD they visited never would have happened and they would never have known about Lavos, so never would have battled it. Time paradox.
I think they touch upon that in Chrono Cross, but I could be wrong (I haven't played it for almost a decade). I do remember that one of the main plot points is that Crono and friends' meddling with time to defeat Lavos caused alternate time-lines/dimensions/whatever (ie: a time-line where the reptites won). Heck I think the Dead Sea or whatever its called in the game is where you learn about it from little "ghosts" (for lack of a better term) of Crono, Marle and Lucca as kids.
But then again, I haven't played the game in almost a decade and my memory is spotty at best. (and to get back on topic...)
In the first Ninja Turtles game on the NES, when one of your turtles "dies", he demutates into his normal turtle form/whatever. However, its possible to find them, fully mutated, and tied up in certain areas that the Foot controls and save them. My question is, if they demutate when defeated, why would the foot remutate them instead of leaving them be or simply killing them, their worst enemy, in a weakened state?
Relating to Chrono Cross, I don't play that game because the battle system is too weird and confusing for my taste, and I don't think it count as a "true" sequel to Chrono Trigger anyway. Originally the game was titled Radical Dreamers and did not contain any reference to Chrono Trigger.
About TMNT, that always confused me, too. The game does this so you can regain a captured Turtle. But the only explanation I can come up with is that the "demutation" is temporary and the Turtle "remutates" shortly afterward. As for not killing them outright, perhaps they are under orders from Shredder to leave them alive so he can execute them himself later.
Another one is common in many platform games, but especially in the Mario series. Almost all Mario games contain underwater levels which Mario can swim through (and does not appear to have any need for air, but let's not go there just yet). In other levels there is only surface water, which will instantly kill Mario if he falls into it. Why can he swim in some levels and not in others?
I never had a problem with Cross's battle system, but then again, I'm fairly adaptable to control schemes it seems. On another note, Radical Dreamers does exists, but its a "novel adventure" (ie: zork, with less dark loving flesh eating beasties) for the super famicom (there is an english translation patch).
On Mario, the first game had you enter warp pipes between levels so maybe they granted water-related abilities?
I didn't know much about Radical Dreamers, just that it was original game that became Chrono Cross. I like text-based adventure games, even programmed some myself, so if I can somehow get my hands on the English version, I'll give it a try.
Let's talk about Final Fantasy for a moment: the first one, in fact. These four people show up out of nowhere with these orbs, just when things are getting bad? Awfully convenient, no? And they just happen to be there right on time to rescue the kidnapped princess. How nice.
Chrono Cross is weird and confusing. Basically since Lavos exists in all times at once (or something), being killed in 1999 convinced it to simply assimilate Schala during the fall of Zeal in 12,000 BC and feed on her desire to either cease existing or make everything else cease to exist. Before it took her over though, she heard Serge in distress in 1010-ish AD and figuratively raised hell to interfere through time and save him. This cause a huge storm and error in 2400 AD which sent a Time research station into the stone age and created a reptite version of it, and uh... beyond that I"m not sure. Also kid works into Schala trying to save Serge somehow and is like an avatar of Schala or something. I don't know even the ending is ambiguous.
Anyways
One thing I've always waxed heavily on in games is the volatility of the dead, or thoroughly defeated. Being dead in games is like being a witch splashed with water: seconds later, there's nothing but a few puffs of steam. This makes sense purely from a game's standpoint since bodies add up, get taxing on the system, and generally are a little disturbing to all see laying around, but... if you were Mario, and you really were in the mushroom kingdom, would every flattened goomba's flesh start to rapidly evaporate in a matter of seconds?? Would there be tall wisps of steam everywhere you go from all the enemies you killed? Or are there just smeared corpses all over the place and some poor mushroom guy with a mop saying how much he hates his job?
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An In Depth Interview with JW Jones
JUNO Award Nominee, Canadian singer/guitarist JW-Jones tours constantly, and is known for his high-energy show that keeps getting hotter! Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, referred to this Maple Blues Award winner as "one of this country's top blues guitar stars."
JW's new release 'High Temperature' was named the Hot Shot Debut on the Billboard Top 10, and is the follow up to the JUNO Award nominated 'Belmont Boulevard'. From the liner notes: "Acclaimed Nashville producer Colin Linden takes Jones into new territory with warm, analog-driven tones, and a wide-range of material. His evolution as a musician and vocalist shine through on this record like never before. Real songs, real playing by real people, and JW is the real deal." – Chuck Leavell (The Rolling Stones)
In early 2016, Jones was requested directly from George Thorogood & The Destroyers' management to open for several of their spring tour dates, including Massey Hall in Toronto. The band received a standing ovation at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
The same year, Jones toured the UK for the first time, creating a buzz that resulted in glowing endorsements from members of the band Vintage Trouble, and Joe Bonamassa's UK publicist, Peter Noble. In 2015/2016, JW played over 100 high-energy shows per year, including being invited five times to perform alongside Buddy Guy, and twice with Woodstock legends, Canned Heat.
Guitar World Magazine featured a CD called 'Guitar Masters Vol. 2' that put Jones alongside guitar stars B.B. King, Jimmy Page, and Carlos Santana among others, which led him to an endorsement deal with Gibson guitars. Hollywood actor Dan Aykroyd, known for his Blues Brothers persona "Elwood Blues", says "this is an amazing blues band."
American magazine Blues Revue stated that "Jones' style is a fluid amalgam of T-Bone Walker's big, bright chords, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson's slashing leads, and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown's jazzy sting."
JW was born in Ottawa, Ontario and started playing drums at 13, at that time into Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and classic rock. A few years later, after witnessing a B.B. King performance, he fell in love with the blues and decided to take up the guitar. Soon he was absorbing the influences of artists such as Albert King, Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Jimmie Vaughan, and later, West Coast guitarists Junior Watson and Little Charlie Baty.
In 1998 he won a "Battle of the Bands" contest, and the following year he won a "Best Guitar Riff-Off" competition and used the studio time prize to record his debut album, Defibrillatin'. Jones was the first artist signed to Toronto-based label Northern Blues Music, which released the album in 2000, as well as his next five CDs.
JW's "epiphany moment" came shortly after signing with Northern Blues: "I was in college for a computer course. The label was flying me across the country to play in showcases, and I had gigs every weekend. My focus was on the music and not school. I remember walking away from the college one day, and just like the movies… I looked back at the school, and said to myself, 'I am never coming back here.' It was the best decision I've ever made. After that, it was complete concentration on building my career."
He started by garnering three consecutive Maple Blues Award nominations and being invited to perform onstage with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, and Junior Watson. Jones' second release, Bogart's Bounce, included performances by singer/harp player Kim Wilson and pianist Gene Taylor of The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Kim Wilson produced JW's next release, My Kind of Evil, which featured well-known Canadian singer/guitarist Colin James as guest.
In 2006, JW released his fourth album, Kissing in 29 Days, including performances by David "Fathead" Newman, Ray Charles' main saxophone player for 12 years. In a feature article entitled "JW-Jones — A Rising Star Chases the Sound of Thunder(birds)," Blues Revue magazine stated that "JW-Jones is highly regarded in blues circles." One of the tracks, "Parasomnia," appeared on a Guitar World featured CD, Guitar Masters Vol. 2, along with B.B. King, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Carlos Santana.
On Jones' next release, Bluelisted (2008), he got the chance to work with two of his guitar heroes, Little Charlie Baty and Junior Watson, and rhythm section Richard Innes and Larry Taylor. The liner notes were provided by Dan Aykroyd, who wrote "crisp covers and cool originals make this record a yellow dot must-buy".
For his next project JW headed to Memphis' famed Sun Studios to record with blues legend Hubert Sumlin, the blues guitarist who worked with Howlin' Wolf for over 20 years and was named one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. The resulting album, Midnight Memphis Sun, was released in 2010 and also featured guest Charlie Musselwhite, who stated that "JW Jones is one of the best guitar players I've heard in a long time. He and his band do great tunes with cool arrangements and I love listening to them. They play with taste and fire at the same time."
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Jones' 2012 release, Seventh Hour was the second release in a row to hit #1 on "B.B. King's Bluesville" on XM Sirius Satellite radio, and led to the band's opening for B.B. at the Ottawa Bluesfest, and an endorsement deal with Gibson guitars.
Two years later, Jones was honoured by the Ottawa Business Journal and Ottawa Chamber of Commerce by being named one of the "Forty Under 40," (out of 250 nominations), a salute to the region's talented entrepreneurs who balance business achievement, professional expertise and community involvement.
He released Belmont Boulevard on the legendary Blind Pig Record label, and it was produced in Nashville by Grammy-winning producer Tom Hambridge, who's helmed projects for Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, and Susan Tedeschi.
For the songs on the album, Jones decided for the first time to delve deep into his personal life and tell some of his stories that he'd never revealed before. He co-wrote many of the songs with Hambridge, a noted songwriter whose tunes have been recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rascal Flatts, and Delbert McClinton. "Digging deep into some very serious personal stories from my past and turning them into songs has been liberating and part of the healing process. I hope these songs resonate with listeners that have been through similar experiences," said Jones.
Belmont Boulevard hit #9 on Billboard sales charts in the United States, held the #1 position on Canadian roots radio stations for 13 weeks, and was nominated for JUNO and Maple Blues Awards in Canada.
Musicians that tour with Jones (and appear on the latest release); Mathieu Lapensée (drums) and the heavy grooves of Laura Greenberg (bass) always add a powerful energy to the stage.
The future does indeed look bright for this upcoming star. Jones has now toured in twenty-three countries and four continents, and as opening act for George Thorogood, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, and the late Johnny Winter. Now, with his latest recording, High Temperature, he's excited about reaching an even wider audience.
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Balblair Distillery
The Highlands are irreplaceable — yielding some of the finest single malt Whisky in the world. But there is something magic about Ross-shire.
Along the southern coast of the Dornoch Firth, at the base of ancient, Celtic limestone hills, a cluster of natural springs feed a blessed few distilleries, with what may be the best water in the world for Whisky.
John Ross founded Balblair in 1790. The water is so special, so integral to the spirit, that when they built a new distillery closer to the railway station in 1895 to expand production and facilitate distribution, they still piped water from the previous location. Yep, it's that good.
The distillery stayed in the family for two full generation as John's son Andrew took over in 1836. Ownership has changed hands a few times since then, but no one has changed production methods. Today they are owned by Inver House Distillers (sometimes called InterBev).
To this day they have only 1 wash and 1 spirit still, and 100% of production goes into their single malt vintage series — each one unique, rare, and special.
For a two-still shop they turn out an impressive amount of spirit with a capacity of 1.8 million liters per year. Their 1989 Vintage was awarded "Best in Class" and listed in the famous book "101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die."
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Balblair has one of the oldest set of records in Whisky history. The entry is dated January 25, 1800, and is written by John Ross himself. It reads: "Sale to David Kirkcaldy at Ardmore, one gallon of whisky at £1.8.0d." Cool, right?
The cherished water source is the Ault Dearg Burn (burn means stream).
There's a dram for everyone in the Highlands!
Highlands are the largest of the Scottish Whisky regions. Geographically the Highland Whisky region is defined as everything north of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock.
Single malt Whisky from the Highlands offer a lot of flavour diversity. You'll find everything from smoky drams to light and elegant floral & fruity Whiskies coming from the Highland distilleries.
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Working at Balblair is a pleasure for me. I genuinely look forward to going to the distillery to start a day's work at such a beautiful location, a fantastic location. It's a typical distillery. It's just what you'd imagine a distillery to look like if you hadn't already visited one and it's steeped in history. And the workforce that they have there, they take good pride in what they do. They are very passionate about Whisky.
Balblair is a very, very fruity Whisky, very, very flavorsome and has no harsh elements at all and it's very smooth and a very long lasting finish to the Whisky as well. And I see fruit as being like the core elements of Balblair and these will change from vintage to vintage, and we are the only distillery that offers exclusively vintage Whiskies. And we can really cherry pick the best casks from these years. I guess that's great freedom there, but it also puts pressure on us, good pressure, to maintain that quality for future vintages.
The Balblair philosophy is not to rush the process. It does take us longer to achieve the end result, especially when the spirit goes into casks and then goes into maturation and the cask will sit there for, it could be 10 years, it could be 15 years, but really the Whisky tells us when it's ready. It will reach an optimum point of flavors and aromas and once it reaches that point, it's then timed to perfection.
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How much does it cost to maintain a trademark online?
If you want to protect your brand on the online internet, it's going to cost you some money. There are several ways to do this, depending on how much protection you need and how quickly you want it done. However, there are many trademark protection companies that can help you with this process much more cheaply than hiring a lawyer directly (which would cost tens of thousands of dollars).
Trademark rights are territorial; they only extend to the countries in which you register. If you want to use your trademark internationally, you must register it in each country where it's used. To avoid potential issues with conflicting trademarks and dilution of rights, we recommend registering your trademark on a global basis as soon as possible.
There are several ways to register a trademark online:
US Trademark Application: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) accepts electronic filings for all trademark applications except those involving intent-to-use status or international applications under Section 44(e), both of which require paper filing at this time.
Canadian Trademark Application: You can file online at no additional cost if you're an individual or company registered with an IPIC office for more than one year; otherwise, there is a fee per application and class of goods/services being applied for due upon submission of your application package with IPIC's online system.* Australian Trade Marks Office – If you are seeking registration through IPUK Intellectual Property (UKIP) then please submit the above documents directly by post or courier delivery service.* UK Trade Marks Registry – Please note that all new designs should be submitted via email attachment or hard copy form unless otherwise requested by UKIP Intellectual Property Ltd (UKIP).
A registered trademark is good for 10 years and can be renewed indefinitely, provided there are no challenges to it during that time.
The cost of maintaining a trademark is not cheap, but it's often less than the cost of registering in each country. In addition, renewal fees are less expensive than initial registration fees.
For example, if you have registered your trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the filing fee for an international trademark application can be as high as $1,700 and $400 per class of goods or services included in your application. But if you don't file within six months after receiving notification from WIPO that they've accepted your application for processing, then you're looking at a late filing fee of $750 per class (and possibly another $100 in civil penalties). For example: If there were two classes associated with your product—one for both shoes and hats—you would pay only one filing fee instead of two separate ones totaling over $3,000 once fees were tacked on at this point (which would mean more paperwork too). As another example: Say there were three classes associated with your product instead—but again just imagine them all being related somehow so that no additional fees apply; then even though these numbers may seem outrageous now consider what they'd look like going forward! That said though I'm sure most people wouldn't mind paying those kinds amounts knowing how much value they're getting out of their investments later down road when time passes by."
Trademark filings should be reviewed by an attorney before submission to avoid delays and rejection.
Whether you're applying for a trademark in the United States or abroad, it is important to understand that there are certain requirements that must be met before your application can be approved. For example, according to the USPTO's website, an applicant's mark must be distinctive and unique within its particular industry. In other words, if someone else has already registered a similar mark (even if it is not identical), then your application will likely be rejected.
If you want to avoid this problem altogether and make sure that your desired domain name does not infringe on another company's trademark rights by being too similar or confusingly similar (i.e., "confusingly similar" means that consumers would look at two trademarks side by side and think they refer to the same product/service), then hiring an attorney who specializes in intellectual property law can help guide you through this process quickly and efficiently so there are no delays in getting online with your new business venture
The symbol "TM" can be used with any unregistered mark to notify others that it is being claimed as a trademark.
The symbol "TM" can be used with any unregistered mark to notify others that it is being claimed as a trademark. It's easy to use, and it doesn't cost anything. The symbol may be printed or handwritten in any font and size, but it should always appear after the generic term being claimed as a trademark:
Example: "TM" (with an uppercase T and an M)
The "TM" symbol must also be accompanied by a disclaimer (for example: "NOTICE: The mark(s) shown above are owned by XYZ Co., Ltd.") on all materials where the trademark is used publicly.
Though all countries have their own trademark offices, there's no need to contact them all independently; instead, contact one of the many international IP protection companies.
You can also use a company to register your trademark in multiple countries. These companies will often charge less than what it would cost if you filed each application individually.
Some companies will register your trademark for you in one country, and then help you use that registration as a basis for registering the same or similar mark under another country's laws. This practice is called "backfilling."
If you want your trademark protected online in most parts of the world, it will cost several thousands of dollars and take 1–2 years
The cost varies from country to country, and it depends on the company you use to do it. The cost also depends on how many countries you want your trademark registered in and how long you want protection for.
If you only have one or two trademarks (for example, if your company is just starting out), then the registration process could take less than a year and cost about $4,000 on average. If you have multiple trademarks (for example, if your business has grown rapidly since registering its first trademark), then registration could take up to two years at an average cost of around $8,000 per trademark.
The cost of online USPTO Trademark Filing for brand name or logo is not cheap, but it's worth it. If you're planning on starting a business and want to protect yourself from competitors stealing your name, then this investment will pay off in the long run. | {
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The top 13 non-city players from the Enquirer's coverage area, as selected by area coaches and the Enquirer sports staff.
Fuller missed the first five games of the season as she recovered from an injury, but when she returned she didn't miss a beat and made a huge impact for the Indians.
The senior four-year varsity member earned First Team Class D All-State honors after averaging 13.3 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 2.8 steals per game. She finished her career 19 points shy of 1,000 and helped Athens reach the Breslin Center in each of her first three seasons.
"What I like about Ally is her love of the game," said coach Calvin Quist. "She plays with heart and on top of that she has one of the purest shots I have ever seen."
Kuiper concluded her outstanding four-year varsity career by guiding the Broncos to 14 wins and a runner-up finish in districts.
The senior guard will go down as one of the best defensive players in Bellevue history after finishing with a school-record 104 steals (4.5 per game) on the year. She also averaged 9.0 points and 5.2 rebounds on her way to an All-State Honorable Mention selection in Class D.
"Tara is a relentless defender," said Bellevue coach Kayla Whitmyer. "Her ability to anticipate and defend is unparalleled by her peers. She has been a fearless leader for our program and her impact will be felt for years to come."
Good things happened for Bronson when Blouin had the ball in her hands, which was quite a bit as the team's point guard and senior leader.
The speedy guard led the Vikings with 12 points, three rebounds, five assists and four steals per game, as she was selected All-State Honorable Mention in Class C.
"Kinslea was the player that controlled our tempo and the flow of our offense this year," said coach Andy Hatt. "She could attack anyone off the dribble, and became a tremendous outside threat as well. She did a tremendous job of running our offense, and was also tasked with defending the other teams quickest player night in and night out. She could harass players with her lateral quickness, and then immediately transition a steal into points on the other end."
Smith was a matchup nightmare for opponents due to her ability to help the Panthers in so many ways.
The 5-foot-11 junior center was solid on the offensive end, averaging 10.3 points per game. Defensively, she sent back shots to the tune of 2.0 blocks per game along with 1.4 steals per contest. She was also effective on the glass at 4.4 rebounds per game.
"Mary is a do-it-all kind of player," said coach Josh Vick. "She can play on the perimeter or in the post on offense and can defend either position on defense. At 5'11, she is tall and long with the ability to post opposing teams, knock down perimeter shots, and handle the basketball as well. Few teams have a player who can do all the things she can do."
Mohn was tasked with carrying a big load for Delton Kellogg this season, something that was reflected in her stat line.
The senior guard/forward was among the area's leaders in scoring and rebounding, averaging a double-double at 18.3 points and 10.7 rebounds per contest. She also averaged 2.3 steals. Her career ended by finishing in the top 10 in 29 of 37 individual school records.
"Kristen will be considered one of the best basketball players in the history of Delton Kellogg," said coach Mike Mohn. "Statistically, she has been a leader in almost every category that we keep here. On top of all that, she is perhaps the hardest working player that I have ever coached in the 17-plus years of high school coaching. Her work ethic and commitment to the sport, her school and community have been beyond expectation and she will be known as one of the best athletes to have ever worn a DK uniform."
Boyd was the No. 2 scoring option on a talented Homer team that made a run to the Class C State Quarterfinals. She likely would be the top option on many teams.
Despite missing some games due to injury, the senior guard/forward averaged 10.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.7 steals and 1.0 blocks to cap off a stellar high school career.
"Alyssa is a 'freak' athlete, she does things that most females can not," said coach Tom Fleming. "She was amazing in our tournament run; teams did not have an answer for her. People came to watch her play because of her abilities... I personally have known Alyssa since the day she was born, this one will be hard to say goodbye to."
Manis is simply a stat stuffer, capable of filling the box score in numerous categories.
The speedy guard led the Trojans to the Class C State Quarterfinals in a senior season that saw her average 17.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 5.8 steals per game. Her 462 points are a single-season record for Homer, and her 151 steals ranks 26th all-time in the state of Michigan for a season. Additionally, her 1,417 career points ranks her second in school history and her 421 free throws made ranks 11th in state history. An All-State Honorable Mention selection, she will continue her career at the University of Northwestern Ohio.
"Bailey is an incredible player, she will go down as one of the greatest to ever put on a Homer jersey," said coach Tom Fleming. "Words alone can't explain what she has done for this program. Her stats are off the chart, but the most impressive stat was how she led her team to 21 wins and a Regional Championship. Bailey will be missed, but she will never be forgotten."
Kiessling provided leadership to a young and talented Marshall team, helping the Redhawks run away with the Interstate Eight Conference title and a Class B district championship.
Through 19 games she scored 178 points (9.9 ppg) and pulled down 87 rebounds with 22 assists and 27 steals.
"Logan has been a three-year starter and all along she's been the glue that keeps us together," said coach Sal Konkle. "Logan was the best player in practice every day, worked extremely hard. She was a steadfast player for us."
In her second varsity season, Konkle hasn't yet reached her full potential - a scary thought for opponents in the next couple years.
The sophomore guard was among the area's best outside shooters, giving the Redhawks another dimension in their 20-win season. Through 19 games she scored 169 points (8.9 ppg) with 74 rebounds and a team-high 40 steals. She also shot 26-of-66 (39.4 percent) from beyond the arc.
"She shot the three extremely well. Probably one of the best 3-point shooters in the area," said coach Sal Konkle. "She's darn tough. Her court sense is very good, and I don't think it's easy playing for me as my daughter, but she went after it every day with a great work ethic and a great attitude. She's very competitive, fiery and gritty."
Tucker was the go-to player on a 20-win team in only her sophomore season.
The forward/center was the catalyst for Marshall's Interstate Eight Conference and district championships this season, posting a team-best 11.4 points per game. She also led the team on the glass with 129 rebounds and was second in assists with 37. For her efforts, she was selected Honorable Mention All-State in Class B.
"Nikki has got such a big upside to her - a tremendous upside," said coach Sal Konkle. "She plays inside despite giving up size. She can shoot from the perimeter, she can dribble and can just help you win so many ways."
Playing some stiff competition in the newly-formed Greater Lansing Athletic Conference, Olivet managed to come away with 17 wins this season, thanks in large part to Costello.
The senior guard led the Eagles in scoring in 15 of 22 games this season, averaging 13 points, 3.5 steals and 2.7 assists per game.
"Quite leader whom became our 'go to' player," said coach Rob Fleming. "Tended to make big plays both offensively and defensively at the end of games in a season that was full of close games."
The future remains bright for a perennially strong Olivet program, as Feldpausch is expected back for another two years after an outstanding sophomore campaign.
The guard was at her best in some of the biggest games of the year, including a district victory over Parma Western that saw her record 21 points. She finished the season averaging 10.1 points, 3.9 steals and 3.1 assists per contest.
"A fierce competitor who got better and better as the season went along," said coach Rob Fleming.
Wing is a threat to post a double-double on any given night, something that she hopes to continue over the next two years of her prep career.
The standout sophomore averaged 9.6 points and 8.0 rebounds per game, while also utilizing her size advantage enough to record 3.5 blocks per game.
"Wing stepped up every aspect of her game this year and really proved to be our 'go to' player," said coach JennHarty. "She led our team in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots and was second in steals and assists. Rachel is really an all-around player that can handle any role asked of her. I think as the season went on she started to gain some confidence, but I believe she has only scratched the surface of her true potential."
"Mary is a do-it-all kind of player," said coach Josh Vick. "She can play on the perimeter or in the post on offense and can defend either position on defense. At 5-11, she is tall and long with the ability to post opposing teams, knock down perimeter shots, and handle the basketball as well. Few teams have a player who can do all the things she can do."
In her second varsity season, Konkle hasn't yet reached her full potential — a scary thought for opponents in the next couple years.
"Nikki has got such a big upside to her — a tremendous upside," said coach Sal Konkle. "She plays inside despite giving up size. She can shoot from the perimeter, she can dribble and can just help you win so many ways."
"Wing stepped up every aspect of her game this year and really proved to be our 'go to' player," said coach Jenn Harty. "She led our team in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots and was second in steals and assists. Rachel is really an all-around player that can handle any role asked of her. I think as the season went on she started to gain some confidence, but I believe she has only scratched the surface of her true potential." | {
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As worldwide Quantitative Easing is reversed, liquidity is drying up; Interest rates are rising and, as if it were the tide going out, weak countries and companies with debt that has dragged them to the bottom, are revealed.
As a result, stock markets are falling. The US stock market fell 2.5 per cent on 21 October so that the aggregate market gain of 2018, has been lost. Rising US interest rates hold the Dollar strong despite the growth of US deficit funding. Huge foreign holdings of dollars make it the strong port in any storm.
The US tax reform has contributed to low unemployment, rising wages and excellent growth. The potential for overheating means the Federal Reserve continues its programme of interest rate rises and feeds the strength of the Dollar. All of this strengthens President Trump's arm in his trade wars.
China is feeling the pinch. Weighed down by debt, much of it used to fund non-income bearing municipal projects (a new town square, for instance) or fund old-line industries producing surplus capacity (steel production, for instance), China is struggling to rebalance its economy and push domestic demand.
Exports are more than twice as important to China as they are to the US. The US is China's number one market. This is why China is finding a solution to President Trump's strategy to bring China's theft of intellectual property and unbalanced trade terms, painful.
In this turbulent environment, the EU adds its spoon. Italy is fighting back. The economic damage inflicted by the adoption of the Euro and the concomitant EU policy of forced internal deflation by cutting government spending is no longer acceptable to Italy's current political leaders.
The Italian threat, posed by its unwillingness to meet EU budget rules, comes at a time when the threat of leaving the Euro and returning to the Lira has real meat. Italian sovereign debt is 2.3 trillion Euros. German and French banks have shed-loads of it.
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, Germany's two largest banks have both failed to meet stress tests which measure their ability to withstand financial shocks. Deutsche Bank, on the back of three consecutive years of annual losses, has posted a 65 per cent drop in quarterly profits. Its shares fell nearly 5 per cent on 21 October. Furthermore, it is estimated that French Banks have an exposure to Italian debt that is equal to 11 per cent of GDP.
A return to Euro would mean a write-down of Italian debt, a write-down which could collapse both Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank and question the viability of the European Central Bank through which Germany has taken on an estimated 500 million Euros of Italian debt.
The Eurozone has reported its weakest growth for two years and manufacturing orders fell for the first time since 2014 according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. This follows an earlier report that the UK has outgrown both Germany and France significantly since joining the EU.
I remember the dire consequences trotted out by the UK government at the time we considered Euro membership. The Treasury, Prime Minster and Chancellor all piped disaster if we failed to join. How familiar their forecasts of a lost future were to those we hear today concerning Brexit.
How wrong they were. However, we are in a very volatile and less than benign economic environment and Brexit is merely adding to these worries. Meanwhile, developing countries who have used Dollar debt, are squealing in pain. Turkey, a major player in the supply of shotguns and airguns, is mired in the weakness of its currency on the back of the inexperienced management of its economy.
Five years ago, a pound was worth just three lira, and today it is nearly nine. Recently, the lira has recovered somewhat against the pound. Today, perhaps due to the political hold that energy-poor Turkey has against oil-rich Saudi Arabia over the murder of the journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, we might speculate that the outlook for Turkey has improved.
This sad and politically explosive event has ramifications not just for Turkey but for the oil market and Saudi Arabia's relationship with the UK, amongst others obviously. To understand this you need to have a little background perspective.
The acronym, OPEC, stands for Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. The following countries are members of the organization: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Gabon, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and the United Arab Emirates. OPEC member countries produce about 40 percent of the world's crude oil and OPEC's oil exports represent about 60 per cent of the total petroleum traded internationally.
OPEC's actions influence international oil prices. Saudi Arabia is OPEC's largest producer and what it says and does frequently affects oil prices. Saudi Arabia's influence on prices and on OPEC has diminished as the US has moved towards self-sufficiency in energy and Russia and Iran have come under US sanctions and less willing to assist the OPEC cartel.
In 2017, the average annual OPEC oil price per barrel was $52.51. So far this this year it has averaged $69.42 per barrel. From Turkey's perspective, Saudi Arabia represents a potential economic solution to rising energy prices and supply. Saudi Arabia is a contender for Arabic religious and political leadership at a time when Turkey is trying hard to spread its wings.
Furthermore, President Erdogan's grasping of dictatorial power has hurt inward investment into Turkey. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has the funds to plug this gap although run by a 'competing' Muslim sect. With the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia is now in a politically weak position.
Turkey is holding evidence and has some sway over how the Crown Prince and Saudi Arabia may be viewed. Turkey can take advantage of this and, indications are that this may be already in negotiation. These 'world' politically controlled events have vast economic impacts.
It is important for your business that you make decisions in light of the environment that is created. The stage looks set for a strong dollar and weaker oil prices. A firmer Turkish Lira may be seen, depending on what damaging evidence is 'restrained' by Turkey and what value is placed on it by Saudi Arabia.
China is 'losing' the trade war with the US and its currency has every reason to weaken. Germany and France have weakening economies. Italy and Brexit could be fatal to their long term recovery. The surprising speed by which Western consumers are willing to move to electric powered vehicles, if followed by driver-less trucks and cars, would be a potential death knell for Germany pre-eminence in premium car exports.
Few would have predicted this rate of change in vehicle power and few believed that the US electric carmaker, Tesla, would beat its profit forecast this quarter. Is there some radical change in the sporting gun industry we should be thinking about? | {
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