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Q: link error : how to compile a code with no error I use visual studio 2019. Therewas a lesson I passed with some C++ code. But when I try to compile it it show some LNK2019 and LNK2001 eror : external symbol not resolved. When I select only the .cpp and .h files (one by one) to be compiled, no error is shown. So I wonder this is linked to the .exe compilation. So maybe the .lib is not added, whereas I didn't find on internet how to add it. I use as include:
#include <cmath>
#include <ctime>
#include <random>

I don't know how to solve this problem.
I can show the code, but I merely think it is a LINK error.

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RSpec.describe RuboCop::Cop::Lint::Debugger, :config do
  it 'reports an offense for a debugger call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      debugger
      ^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `debugger`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a byebug call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      byebug
      ^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `byebug`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a pry binding call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.pry
      ^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.pry`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a remote_pry binding call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.remote_pry
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.remote_pry`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a pry_remote binding call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.pry_remote
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.pry_remote`.
    RUBY
  end

  context 'with capybara debug method call' do
    it 'reports an offense for save_and_open_page' do
      expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
        save_and_open_page
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_and_open_page`.
      RUBY
    end

    it 'reports an offense for save_and_open_screenshot' do
      expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
        save_and_open_screenshot
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_and_open_screenshot`.
      RUBY
    end

    it 'reports an offense for save_screenshot' do
      expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
        save_screenshot
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_screenshot`.
      RUBY
    end

    context 'with an argument' do
      it 'reports an offense for save_and_open_page' do
        expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
          save_and_open_page foo
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_and_open_page foo`.
        RUBY
      end

      it 'reports an offense for save_and_open_screenshot' do
        expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
          save_and_open_screenshot foo
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_and_open_screenshot foo`.
        RUBY
      end

      it 'reports an offense for save_screenshot' do
        expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
          save_screenshot foo
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `save_screenshot foo`.
        RUBY
      end
    end
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a debugger with an argument call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      debugger foo
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `debugger foo`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a byebug with an argument call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      byebug foo
      ^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `byebug foo`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a pry binding with an argument call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.pry foo
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.pry foo`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a remote_pry binding with an argument call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.remote_pry foo
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.remote_pry foo`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a pry_remote binding with an argument call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.pry_remote foo
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.pry_remote foo`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a remote_byebug call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      remote_byebug
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `remote_byebug`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a web console binding call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.console
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.console`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'does not report an offense for a non-pry binding' do
    expect_no_offenses('binding.pirate')
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a debugger with Kernel call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      Kernel.debugger
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `Kernel.debugger`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a debugger with ::Kernel call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      ::Kernel.debugger
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `::Kernel.debugger`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a binding.pry with Kernel call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      Kernel.binding.pry
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `Kernel.binding.pry`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'does not report an offense for save_and_open_page with Kernel' do
    expect_no_offenses('Kernel.save_and_open_page')
  end

  %w[debugger byebug console pry remote_pry pry_remote irb save_and_open_page
     save_and_open_screenshot save_screenshot remote_byebug].each do |src|
    it "does not report an offense for a #{src} in comments" do
      expect_no_offenses("# #{src}")
    end

    it "does not report an offense for a #{src} method" do
      expect_no_offenses("code.#{src}")
    end
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a Pry.rescue call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      def method
        Pry.rescue { puts 1 }
        ^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `Pry.rescue`.
        ::Pry.rescue { puts 1 }
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `::Pry.rescue`.
      end
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a irb binding call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      binding.irb
      ^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `binding.irb`.
    RUBY
  end

  it 'reports an offense for a binding.irb with Kernel call' do
    expect_offense(<<~RUBY)
      Kernel.binding.irb
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Remove debugger entry point `Kernel.binding.irb`.
    RUBY
  end
end

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Airport information and maps for United States Air Force Academy:
AFF Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: AFF / KAFF
Airport Name: United States Air Force Academy
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
GPS Coordinates: 38°59'25"N by 104°51'29"W
View all routes: Routes from AFF
Facts about AFF
Map of Nearest Airports to AFF
List of Nearest Airports to AFF
Map of Furthest Airports from AFF
List of Furthest Airports from AFF
Facts about United States Air Force Academy (AFF):
The closest airport to United States Air Force Academy (AFF) is City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (COS), which is located only 15 miles (25 kilometers) SSE of AFF.
The furthest airport from United States Air Force Academy (AFF) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 10,934 miles (17,596 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
Many of the women from those early classes went on to achieve success within the Cadet Wing and after graduation.
Many Academy graduates of this era served with distinction in the Vietnam War.
The main buildings in the Cadet Area are set around a large, square pavilion known as ''the Terrazzo''.
The United States Air Force Academy is a military academy for officer candidates for the United States Air Force.
The Cadet Honor Code is the cornerstone of a cadet's professional training and development – the minimum standard of ethical conduct that cadets expect of themselves and their fellow cadets.
Map of Nearest Airports from United States Air Force Academy:
List of Nearest Airports from United States Air Force Academy:
1 15.30 miles (24.63 km) SSE City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (COS) Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
2 40.06 miles (64.47 km) N Centennial Airport (APA) Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States
3 52.23 miles (84.06 km) SSE Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB) Pueblo, Colorado, United States
4 61.01 miles (98.19 km) N Denver International Airport (DEN) Denver, Colorado, United States
5 64.96 miles (104.54 km) NNW Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) Denver, Colorado, United States
6 71.32 miles (114.78 km) WSW Harriet Alexander Field (SLT) Salida, Colorado, United States
7 75.09 miles (120.85 km) NNW Boulder Municipal Airport (WBU) Boulder, Colorado, United States
8 79.79 miles (128.41 km) WNW Lake County Airport (LXV) Leadville, Colorado, United States
9 100.71 miles (162.07 km) N Greeley-Weld County Airport (GXY) Greeley, Colorado, United States
10 101.32 miles (163.06 km) N Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (FNL) Fort Collins/Loveland, Colorado, United States
11 108.99 miles (175.40 km) W Aspen–Pitkin County Airport (ASE) Aspen, Colorado, United States
12 116.14 miles (186.90 km) WSW Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport (GUC) Gunnison, Colorado, United States
13 118.95 miles (191.43 km) WNW Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE) Eagle, Colorado (near Vail), United States
14 119.58 miles (192.44 km) NE Colorado Plains Regional Airport (AKO) Akron, Colorado, United States
15 120.59 miles (194.07 km) SSW San Luis Valley Regional Airport (ALS) Alamosa, Colorado, United States
Map of Furthest Airports from United States Air Force Academy:
List of Furthest Airports from United States Air Force Academy:
1 10,933.70 miles (17,596.04 km) SSE Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG) Rodrigues Island, Mauritius
2 10,787.25 miles (17,360.36 km) SE Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU) Plaisance, Mauritius
3 10,748.02 miles (17,297.22 km) SE Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE) Saint-Pierre, Réunion
4 10,728.52 miles (17,265.83 km) SE Roland Garros Airport (RUN) St Denis, Réunion, France
5 10,536.57 miles (16,956.92 km) ESE Tôlanaro Airport (FTU) Tôlanaro, Madagascar
6 10,431.70 miles (16,788.15 km) ESE Mananjary Airport (MNJ) Mananjary, Madagascar
7 10,411.14 miles (16,755.07 km) ESE Ampanihy Airport (AMP) Ampanihy, Madagascar
8 10,384.48 miles (16,712.16 km) ESE Fianarantsoa Airport (WFI) Fianarantsoa, Madagascar
9 10,324.31 miles (16,615.33 km) SE Toamasino Airport (TMM) Toamasina, Madagascar
10 10,289.46 miles (16,559.24 km) SE Sainte Marie Airport (SMS) Île Sainte-Marie, Madagascar
11 10,273.94 miles (16,534.27 km) ESE Ivato International Airport (TNR) Antananarivo, Madagascar
12 10,248.82 miles (16,493.84 km) ESE Manja Airport (MJA) Manja, Menabe, Madagascar
13 10,228.12 miles (16,460.52 km) ESE Andavadoaka Airport (DVD) Andavadoaka, Toliara province, Atsimo-Andrefana region, Madagascar
14 10,217.64 miles (16,443.66 km) ESE Morombe Airport (MXM) Morombe, Madagascar
15 10,217.31 miles (16,443.13 km) ESE Miandrivazo Airport (ZVA) Miandrivazo, Madagascar

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Covid cases are increasing, hospital stays have reached a plateau despite increasing vaccinations
Paramedic Lenny Fernandez, medical assistant Rodnay Moore, and paramedic certified Calvin Davis (left to right) prepare doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine as the City of Vernon Health Department workers open the new clinic for the city's mobile health unit for delivery Vaccinations used by COVID-19 against nearly 250 food processing workers at Rose & Shore, Inc. March 17, 2021 in Vernon, CA.
Al Seib | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images
Covid-19 cases are on the rise and hospital admissions in the US have increased despite the country setting a new record for coronavirus vaccine doses given in one day on Saturday.
The US had a 7-day average of 61,359 new Covid-19 cases per day on Friday, a 12% increase from last week. This comes from a CNBC analysis of the data from Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus daily hospital admissions steadily declined from January to February, but now hospital admissions are on the decline. The country recorded an average of 7,790 Covid-19 hospitalizations in seven days on Thursday, up 2.6% from a week earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data.
"I remain deeply concerned about this development," said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a press conference at the White House on Friday. "We have seen cases and hospital admissions that have gone from historical declines to stagnations and increases. We know from previous waves that the epidemic curve has real potential to rise again if we don't control things now."
Europe battles third wave of Covid infections as countries like France, Poland and Ukraine reintroduce lockdowns to contain the spread of viruses.
The rising cases and stagnant hospital stays occur as more and more Americans are vaccinated. More than 3.4 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were given on Saturday, according to data Tallies recorded by the CDC. Saturday's total broke the previous record for the most Covid-19 vaccination shots taken in one day on Friday, with 3.37 million doses reported.
The rate of vaccination is increasing rapidly, with an average of more than 2.6 million daily shots given on Saturday, with a seven day average. More than 140 million Covid vaccine doses have been administered in the US since Saturday CDC.
President Joe Biden set a new goal Thursday of administering 200 million coronavirus vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office.
The urge for increased vaccinations comes from the fact that on March 19, the chief physician of the US White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci, highly infectious and potentially more deadly variants of the virus continue to spread. The coronavirus variant first identified in the UK probably makes up 30% of vaccinations from Covid infections in the US
New strains are of particular concern to public health officials as they could become more resistant to antibody treatments and vaccines. Still, the World Health Organization said in February that Covid-19 vaccines had been shown to be effective in preventing serious illness and death in those infected.
Covid-related deaths in the US have decreased. The U.S. recorded an average of 992 new coronavirus-related deaths per day for seven days on Friday, a 14% decrease from a week. This is evident from a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins data.
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EPSRC Reference: EP/F024045/1
Title: Solving the fundamental limitations for RT spintronics - the role of interfaces in electron spin detection and injection
Principal Investigator: Barnes, Professor C
Department: Physics
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Scheme: Standard Research
Starts: 01 January 2008 Ends: 31 May 2011 Value (£): 481,573
Condensed Matter Physics Magnetism/Magnetic Phenomena
Materials Characterisation Materials Synthesis & Growth
EP/F022808/1 EP/F023472/1
13 Sep 2007 Materials Prioritisation Panel SEPT (Technology) Announced
Electric current in conventional semiconductor electronics is controlled by a voltage applied to various parts of any particular electronic component. However, a completely new way of controlling the flow of electric current was proposed some twenty years ago. This new idea is based on the observation that the internal angular momentum of electrons (spin) with its associated magnetic moment is conserved over nanoscale distances. It follows that, when an ultrathin layer structure is prepared, the spin 'remembers' its orientation across the whole thickness of the structure, which means that electrons with different spin orientations do not mix and flow independently as if in two separate wires connected in parallel. If the layer structures contains magnetic layers the two spin channels become inequivalent. Moreoever, it is found that the resistance of electrons with a given spin orientation depends on the magnetic configuration of all the magnetic components in the layer structure. Since the magnetic configuration can be altered by applying a magnetic field, one can control the flow of electrons (electrical current) by applying a magnetic field. With this discovery the era of an entirely new field of condensed matter physics called spintronics had began. Successful applications of the ideas of spintronics depends on our ability to grow ultrathin magnetic layer structures which are near perfect on an atomic scale. Within the last twelve months this has been achieved for layer structures containing ferromagnetic metals (FM) and MgO insulating barrier. However, for multilayers contaning FM layers and semidoncuctor (SC) layers these ideal conditions have yet to be reasloed. Yet the future success of spintronics depends on integration of spintronic components into conventional semiconductor structures. The main goal of this proposal is to combine experimental expertise in the area of classical spintronics and, in particular, expertise in epitaxial growth of layer structures with theoretical insights gained from studying near perfect magnetic junctions with an MgO barrier, We are confident that both experimental and theoretical methods developed for magnetic junctions with an MgO barrier can be transferred to FM/SC systems and thus the outstanding problem of achieving near perfect spin transport across FM/SC interfaces can be solved.
Organisation Website: http://www.cam.ac.uk


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Poetry, Inspiration & Religious
Poetry, American
Tattwamasi, Hindu State, Poetry collection, The American dream, American cultural diversity, Universality of spirit, Hinduism and Declaration of Independence
America Tattwamasi
by Ramesh Sharma
America Tattwamasi is a unique mix of religion, politics and spirituality, expressed in poems trying to fathom the depth of philosophy, surrounding our life and the universe. Most importantly, it has offered a wonderful vision of looking at America, the only superpower on earth, by perusing its national character from the perspective of the Upanishadic doctrine, based on the 'Universality of Spirit'. Truly speaking, America Tattwamasi is a revolutionary outburst of a Hindu heart (since the author has identified himself as a Hindu in one of his poems) that dares identify America with fundamental principles and ideals of the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita. Not least, it goes to the extent of describing this country as the only de facto Hindu State on earth. Perhaps much to the consternation of the entire world, it further segues into the proposition that America be formally declared a Hindu State. Meantime, by incorporating a poem entitled 'Kalopanishad', the author seems to have dared make a bold attempt at redefining and reinventing major religions of the world, virtually in keeping with changed realities of the 21st century. Specially, the mordant criticism this book has reserved for the anomalies and distortions that have plagued major religions, is unusually dauntless and intrepid. Trenchant discomfort expressed about some of the policies of incumbent administration — that the author believes have sapped America's confidence — has added to the piquancy of the book. Replete with exquisite flavor of patriotism and philosophy, America Tattwamasi is indeed an echo of Emerson and Whitman combined.
Renowned journalist, Ramesh Sharma, by exposing the King's conspiracy, was successful in giving single handedly a new direction to Nepal's struggle for democracy in 1990. He had also successfully led the trade union movement in government-owned newspaper organization where he worked as an editor for almost one and a half decades. Amidst chaos and terror in the wake of then King's usurpation of power, Jayatu Sanskritam Mahasabha, under his leadership, had been the first political organization in February, 2004 to publicly call for the replacement of monarchy with Republican Democracy in the kingdom. Profoundly influenced by great Eastern philosophers, Sharma has always remained an impassioned advocate of the Upanishadic doctrine, often described as 'Universality of Spirit'. His iconoclastic approach to religion and spirituality tends to border on an open rebellion that dares defy established conventions of major belief systems. A long time social worker, Sharma, has been living in the United States since May, 2004, along with his family.
Ramesh Sharma


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"Alarming" Death Rate in Primary care for Opiate Abusers
Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who are seen in the general healthcare setting are more than 10 times more likely to die than their counterparts without OUD, new research shows.
An analysis of electronic health records (EHRs) for more than 2500 patients with OUD who were treated at a major university hospital system showed a crude mortality rate of 48.6 deaths per 1000 person-years — a rate that was more than 10 times higher than the expected death rate in the general population for individuals of the same age and sex. The data covered an 8-year period.
"My original thinking was that the mortality rate could not be very high in the general healthcare setting because general healthcare centers are supposed to have more comprehensive health services, and most people are insured. But when I saw such a high mortality rate, I was shocked," lead investigator Yih-Ing Hser, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Medscape Medical News.
The study was published online April 20 in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.
Treatment of OUD has traditionally been delivered in specialty addiction centers, such as methadone treatment programs, "isolated from the primary care system or general medical systems," the authors note.
Recent healthcare reforms through the Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Affordable Care Act have led to an expansion of services for substance use disorders (SUDs) in primary care. Although most clinicians in the general healthcare system are aware of the risk for elevated mortality among OUD patients in publicly funded SUD treatment settings, they "do not fully appreciate the mortality risks to their patients," the authors note.
To investigate the mortality rates of OUD in the general healthcare environment, the researchers studied the EHRs from a large university health system from 2006 to 2014. They identified 2576 patients, who ranged in age from 18 to 64 years at their first OUD diagnosis.
They also obtained mortality data from the National Death Index of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The duration of follow-up was from either the time of first OUD diagnosis to death or to December 31, 2014, for those still alive.
During the follow-up period (a mean of 3.7 person-years), there were 465 (18.5%) confirmed deaths, yielding an all-cause crude mortality rate of 48.6 per 1000 person-years.
Individuals who died were older at the time of first OUD diagnosis (48.4 vs 39.8 years) and were more likely to be male (41.7% vs 31.6%), black (11.2% vs 6.8%), and uninsured (87.1% vs 51.3%). The mean age of patients at death was 51.0 years (SD = 11.0).
Deceased patients were more likely to have been diagnosed with other co-occurring SUDs (particularly SUDs involving tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine). Drug-related problems represented the most common cause of death (19.8%). These included accidental poisoning or drug overdose, intentional poisoning, and alcohol use disorder or drug use disorder.
Physical health problems associated with death included heart disease, respiratory disorders, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, liver disease, cancer, and diabetes.
Cardiovascular disease and cancer were the most common physical causes of death (17.4% and 16.8%, respectively), followed by infectious diseases (13.5%, with 12.0% HCV and 0.8% HIV), diseases of the digestive system (12.2%, with 4.9% alcohol-related liver disease), and external causes (6.7%).
HCV (hazard ratio [HR], 1.99; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.62 – 2.46) and alcohol use disorder (HR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.05 – 1.55) were the two statistically significant and clinically important indicators of overall mortality risk.
Lack of Screening
The overall indirect standardized mortality rate of 10.3 (95% CI, 9.4 – 11.3) represented a mortality risk that was more than 10-fold higher than that of the general population, after adjustment for sex and age.
The researchers call these findings "alarming," suggesting that they "may reflect several past and current issues with current healthcare delivery systems in identifying and addressing OUD problems."
"The general healthcare system has not been well studied with regard to substance abuse," Dr Hser noted.
"Patients in this setting are much older at diagnosis than in publicly funded settings, and they have much higher morbidity and morbid conditions," she said. "But general healthcare providers are not sufficiently screening for addictions, so it comes very late in the process for the person to receive appropriate interventions.
"Even when patients with OUD are identified, these clinicians may not have the resources to treat them, because general systems usually do not have addiction specialists on board," she added.
The responsibility does not lie solely with individual practitioners.
"The timing is perfect, because the 21st Century Cures Act that former President Obama signed is now dispersed throughout the states to improve access to medication-assisted treatment. Policy makers and healthcare systems in each state need to start talking with each other and come up with a better plan to improve the infrastructure, train the physicians, and provide support when they need it," she said.
More Training Needed
Commenting on the study for Medscape Medical News, Daniel G. Tobin MD, assistant professor of medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and medical director of adult primary care, the Saint Rafael Campus, Yale–New Haven Hospital, described the study as "meaningful" but recommended caution when interpreting the findings.
"The study analyzed data from electronic medical records and identified people with opioid use disorder based on coding, which is a study limitation, because the coding had to be done correctly," said Dr Tobin, who was not involved with the study.
"If clinicians did not include the diagnosis in the chart or did not code correctly, the number of opioid users might be underrepresented in the data," he said, "leading to an overestimation of mortality rates in OUD in the general healthcare setting," he explained.
Nevertheless, he said, "the study does show that having this diagnosis is associated with a high risk of mortality, and that the mortality is not necessarily due to overdose, which is the general conception of mortality from OUD.
"Since the patients in the study were identified roughly 5 years later than in addiction centers, these 5 additional years can lead to many health problems. I agree with the authors' conclusion that the later the diagnosis is made, the more damage is done, so one interesting take-away is that we have to diagnose and treat OUD as soon as possible," he said.
He agreed that more money, training, and infrastructure are necessary. "Not only do individual doctors need to take ownership, but there also has to be some infrastructure support so it becomes a routine part of primary care."
Dr Hser added that clinicians in primary care settings can be an important force in shaping the nation's effort to effectively address the opioid epidemic, but they need a lot of help. "They should get adequate training and get connected with an appropriate network that can help overcome many barriers that we are facing in treating addiction."
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Is Barack Obama the Messiah?: "It's so rapturous, everything around him. All these huge rallies."
"It's so rapturous, everything around him. All these huge rallies."
"I don't think that it's kind treatment versus unkind treatment," Mr. Cowan began, taking issue with the depiction of journalists fawning over Mr. Obama in a "Saturday Night Live" skit last Saturday . . .
On the Press Bus, Some Questions Over Favoritism, by Jacques Steinberg. New York Times March 1, 2008.


Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah! THE WHITE HELMETS AND 'ISRAEL' ARE COZIER THAN COCKROACHES IN A STATEN ISLAND GARAGE PACKED TO THE BRIM WITH TRASH. Yes, Zionist media outlets worldwide have been confirming left and right that the usurping Zionist entity has evacuated 800 Al-Qaeda-connected "humanitarians" from the White Helmets in southern Syria… through occupied Palestine… then into Jordan, where they will be repatriated to Britain, Canada and Germany. It's hard not to derive the utmost joy from such news because it is truly a gigantic dagger in the very heart of the somehow-still-breathing "Syrian revolution" narrative. When we bellowed that the White Helmets are receiving money from the US and UK ZOGs, the "Syrian revolution" activists scoffed at us, saying it doesn't mean a thing and all types of people take money from all types of sources –idiotic, no doubt, but this was their argument nevertheless. When we thundered that Zionist Jew George Soros–yes, ignore the fake spat between Netanyahu and Soros in the media, the latter is indeed a Zionist whose bloody money can be found massively infused into the budgets of J-Street, Chabad, the United Jewish Appeal and more–was funding the White Helmets too, the "Syrian revolution" activists thumbed their noses at us, calling us "anti-Semitic" and "far-right-wing". When we exposed the intimate links between the White Helmets and the CIA-backed Takfiri group Noureddine al-Zinki, which cut off the head of Palestinian boy Abdallah al-Issa in Aleppo's Handarat Camp two summers ago, they covered it up like it didn't even happen. When we unveiled that many of the White Helmets were actual terrorists themselves merely moonlighting as "human rights" campaigners, the "Syrian revolution" activists ignored us. And when Jewish Hollywood, the pinnacle of establishment depravity and the very antithesis of revolution and resistance, nominated the White Helmets for an Oscar and Zionist tool George Clooney said he'd follow it up with a film about them, the "Syrian revolution" activists were proud of it.
Reposted with a Canadian slant.


While producing his most famous works, Dante looked to an unexpected source for inspiration – the works of Islamic astronomer, Al-Fargani.
In political or scientific disputes, emphasis is usually placed on differences. Commonalities in science and culture are easily overlooked and ignored. As for historical studies, famous figures of human history are frequently "ethnicized" in retrospect, sometimes even centuries after their deaths. Such monopolizations often serve the construction of a country's own national identity. A good example of this is Copernicus, who has been seized from both the German and Polish sides, which automatically raises the question of whether it is at all important whether Copernicus was a Pole or a German. Through such co-option, cultures and knowledge are separated from each other, being devalued or upgraded, as is deemed necessary.
Are there geographical and national boundaries to cultures and knowledge? Are there rifts between the cultures, and do they really develop independently? A look at two historical characters, Dante and Al-Fargani, might provide us with an answer to these questions.
Dante Alighieri is one of the most important European poets of the Middle Ages. His works, especially his most famous and the most controversial one, the Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), have been interpreted by countless scholars and translated into many other languages. The Divine Comedy is considered one of the greatest works in world literature, and since it was written in Italian, which was rather unusual for that time, it is held as a monument of poetry in the Italian language. Some of his other influential works are The Banquet (Il Convivio) and Three Books on the Monarchy (Monarchia), which influence artists to this day.
But Dante did not only influence others; he himself was influenced, too. He drew inspiration from his teacher and friend, Brunetto Lattini, but also from Islamic science and culture.
At the time, Muslim philosophers and scientists were leaders in many disciplines, including astronomy, geography, mathematics, and philosophy. Their knowledge influenced various scientific disciplines, and European literature and art. Mystical and poetic ideas spread from the Islamic world, via Spain, to southern France and Italy. The love poetry that developed there, for example, also affected the minnesong in Germany, and helped it to flourish as troubadour poetry. Many metaphors of Islamic mysticism are found in Dante's works, especially in his Vita Nova. These metaphors include the search for the right way, love, ineffable beauty and its revelation, and more.
Perhaps the most striking influence the Islamic sciences lent Dante can be seen in his intellectual (the philosophy of Averroes and Avicenna) and scientific store of knowledge, while the astronomical and geographical knowledge that pervades his works draws particular attention to a scientist by the name of Al-Fargani.
Little is known about the life of Al-Fargani, who was also called Alfraganus. It is said that he was born in the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia. He lived and worked in the era of the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun (813-833), in Baghdad, which was the cultural center of his time. Al-Fargani was an engineer and astronomer, but also dealt with geography and mathematics. His major work, Elements of Astronomy, was a foundational work for astronomers in the Orient and Occident up to the 17th century. Most astronomers, especially in the 13th and 14th centuries, drew on the work.
The Elements of Astronomy were translated into Latin several times (the first in 1134), but also into Italian; the work enjoyed great popularity. The third translation into Latin, by Jacob Christmann, was entitled Mııhammedis Alfragani Arabis Chronologia et Astronomica Elementa, and was printed between 1590 and 1618 in Frankfurt. Previously, the priest Hermann of Reichenau (or Hermanus Contractus, 1013-1054), had already translated the book directly from Arabic into German. In his work, De Mensura Astrolabii, he included the seven climates of Al-Fargani.
The Elements of Astronomy consists of thirty chapters. They are considered as a summary of Ptolemy's Almagest. But similar to other works of Muslim scholars, such as Al-Battani's Manual of Astronomy, it was far more than a mere adaptation. The Elements of Astronomy included significant corrections and new information that updated Ptolemy's Almagest to the scientific understandings of Al-Fargani's time. While Ptolemy addressed only the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and the size of both, in Al-Fargani's work, the distances and sizes of other planets are analyzed as well. His calculations enjoyed broad acceptance in astronomical circles, all the way up to Copernicus (1473-1543).
Al-Fargani's work was a major impetus for the study of astronomy and mathematical geography in Europe. In chapters eight and nine, mathematics and geographical topics were discussed. In chapter eight, the author described, for example, the calculation of the circumference of the Earth, which he had carried out by order of al-Ma'mun. His calculation differs from our current knowledge by only 2%.
In the same chapter, he also divided the world into seven climates - or, he divided the part of the world known or populated at the time (the Ecumenism) according to the length of days across seven degrees of latitude. The term "climate" was not understood meteorologically, but geographically. In Chapter nine, different countries, with a total of 150 cities, were assigned to the seven climates.
According to Edward Moore the geographic and cosmographic information found in Dante's Divine Comedy, and in many of his other works, particularly Il Convivio, show that he was unmistakably influenced by Al-Fargani. Professor Fuat Sezgin points out that Al-Fargani's seven climates are presented in Dante's work as well.
In the second volume of his Il Convivio, Dante mentioned, quite explicitly, Al-Fargani's astronomical work, On the Orders of the Stars, as a source. And he stated: "[...] Mercury is the smallest star in the sky because the extent of its diameter is not more than 232 miles, according to Alfraganus. He declares that it corresponds to the twenty-eighth part of the diameter of the earth that is 6500 miles."
Even in Dante's Monarchia, information can be found which refers to Al-Fargani. There he wrote, "The Scythians, who live beyond the seven climates, have to suffer a wide differential between day and night and are being harassed by an almost unbearable cold. So they need other rules than the Garamantes, who live below the equator where daylight lasts as long as the darkness of the night, and refuse to clothe themselves because of excess heat in the air."
In the same book he mentioned the seven climates, all located in the northern part of the planet. The inhabited part of the earth extended from the Scythians (a people of the Arctic Circle) to the Garamantes (a people at the equator). This division of the earth was accompanied by the indications or calculations of coordinates. The latitude and longitude of the climates made it possible to locate countries and cities.
In the Christian Middle Ages, the Church had drawn a picture of Islam, which was spread to legitimize the Crusades. Dante's attitude toward Islam reveals that he was a typical representative of his time. But despite all the explicit rejection, Islamic science and philosophy were implicitly adopted in the West during that time. Dante, in this respect, resorted mainly to Latin translations and other scholars. Their knowledge flowed into his works. Besides Muslim scholars, such as Al-Fargani, Averroes, Avicenna, Albumasar, and Al-Ghazali, whom he mentioned by name in his Il Convivio, he also referred to Al-Hazen's theory of sight, though without naming his source. Apparently, this information stemmed from a work translated into Latin (which was released under the title Perspectiva) or from certain passages from a commentary on Aristotle, titled De Sensu et Sensato, by the German Bishop Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200-1280), who was also affected by Al-Hazen. Albertus Magnus studied different sciences, including Islamic philosophy. He, incidentally, was also a teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
Looking further back, the Greek scientists of antiquity were, in turn, influenced by the "East." Before Socrates, no philosopher who had not spent at least fifteen years studying in the East had not been accepted as a sage or scholar (Bulac 2005, 11). The Almagest of Ptolemy, who lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt, was based on the works of the Phoenician, Marinos of Tyre. Muslim scholars adopted this ancient knowledge and developed it further in the light of Islam. Appropriation of their knowledge in Europe was one of the crucial factors that paved the way for the Renaissance.
All this proves that there are no geographical or national boundaries for knowledge and culture, and it proves that the transfer and exchange of such things have taken place, and still takes place, even when it would seem unlikely that such transference would occur, as during the Crusades, when the "other" was portrayed as a demon. It is important to realize that culture and knowledge are subject to permanent exchange. This exchange has gone on since the first days of mankind and it will not end. Cultures do not develop independently of each other, in a vacuum. All attempts to bolster one's own culture through the demonization of another culture are, in the end, nothing but political constructs that try to ignore and cover up all cultural overlaps and similarities. Cultural differences should be viewed as treasures to be shared. Al-Fargani or Dante lived in different eras and in different places. However, they are connected by cultural and scientific bonds. Both are part of the common heritage of mankind.
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Glunk, Fritz R. 2003. Dante, Munich.
Honigmann, Ernst. 1929. Die sieben Klimata: Eine Untersuchung zur Geschichte der Geographie und Astrologie im Altertum und Mittelalter, Heidelberg.
Sezgin, Fuat. 2003. Wissenschaft und Technik im Islam, Band 1, Frankfurt a. M.


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Turkey to tell Tillerson trust is damaged in U.S. ties
Feb 07 2018 10:24 Gmt+3
Last Updated On: Feb 07 2018 10:29 Gmt+3
Turkish officials will tell U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that trust in its NATO ally has been damaged by Washington's support for Kurdish militants, Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu told broadcaster TGRT Haber in an interview.
"Our trust is damaged. We have to mend our trust. The contacts between us are important… When Tillerson comes we will share these ideas with him sincerely, we will share our expectations," he said, according to Arab News.
Tillerson and U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are due to visit Turkey next week, according to Turkish media. Çavuşoğlu did not say when exactly they would visit.
Ankara sees the People's Protection Forces (YPG) in Syria as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), designated a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.
"The United States should understand and meet our concerns," Çavuşoğlu said. "You are cooperating with this terror organisation knowingly. And this poses a threat to us."
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1240996/world
Turkey pledges enhanced ties with Iran after U.S. imposes sanctions
Greece may buy U.S. F-35 jets to reclaim air superiority over Turkey


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Pacific Petroleums Limited was a Canadian integrated petroleum company that existed between 1939 and 1979. The company was founded and run by Frank McMahon, a wildcat driller from British Columbia. Pacific was also the largest shareholder of McMahon's other main venture, Westcoast Transmission. Until 1958 the company operated at an annual loss, but from that time on was one of the most profitable oil companies in the country. In 1960, Phillips Petroleum became Pacific's largest shareholder with a 39 per cent stake, and Pacific began selling retail gasoline under the "66" brand. Between 1978 and 1979, the crown corporation Petro-Canada purchased Pacific for $1.5 billion in what was then the most expensive corporate takeover in Canadian history.

History
Pacific Petroleums Limited was formed as a merger of two companies: West Turner Petroleums and British Pacific Oils, both of which had been founded by Frank McMahon. The vote to merge took place on Saturday, 14 January 1939 in Vancouver. McMahon stayed with the company until 1941, when he left to form several other oil companies. He returned in 1948 and launched a major gas exploration programme.

Leadership

Chairman of the Board
Norman R. Whittall, 1948–1952
Frank M. McMahon, 1952–19??

President
Norman R. Whittall, 1939–1948
Frank M. McMahon, 1948–1952
George L. McMahon, 1952–1961
John Getgood, 1961–1964
Kelly H. Gibson, 1964–1970
L. Merrill Rasmussen, 1970–1979

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Companies based in Calgary
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ROBERT CLARKE: 'B' Actor, or "The Hideous Sun Demon" Meets the "King Sisters"
A "B" Actor goes where the roles are and sometimes ends up in a few classics. In the case of Robert Clarke they were in Science Fiction and Horror. Yet many today do not know his name, but recognize his face and such titles as "THE MAN FROM PLANET X" and 'THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON".
Between 1944 and his death in 2005. Robert Irby Clarke appeared 199 times in either "B" motion pictures, or television programs not including with his wife Alice King on "The King Family Show", I am not going into all of these appearances, but will concentrate on some of those "Classic (?)" Science Fiction and Horror roles.
Robert Clarke was born on June 1, 1920 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Like myself he developed a love of motion pictures at a very early age, but decided upon a military career. He had tried high school acting, but had a major case of stage fright and as a result decided against acting. However, events sometimes choose our course and with the outbreak of World War 2 Clarke found himself classified 4F, because of his acute asthma.
Now not being able to enter his desired career in the military Robert Clarke returned to College. First at the University of Oklahoma where he once again took up acting. To avoid his stage fright he began performing in the University's Radio Plays. Clarke increased his education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Where the young man finally overcame his stage fright as he appeared in student plays.
By this time Robert Clarke's love of motion pictures had become so great that he made the decision not to graduate. The student actor thumbed his way from the mid-west to Hollywood, California. His mind not set on trying his luck in the motion picture industry. Clarke had screen tests with both 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, but was unsuccessful getting work there. However, his test at RKO proved otherwise and a "B" Actor's career began in 1944.
Robert Clarke's first role was that of an "Assistant Film Director" in the movie "The Falcon in Hollywood". The picture was part of the RKO detective film series about the character of Tom Lawrence aka: "The Falcon". The budget is reflected in the fact that all RKO had to do was move their actors from one location to another within the studio to film the picture.
Clarke's fourth role was in a comedy horror movie with the interesting title of "Zombies On Broadway" which co-starred Bela Lugosi.
The new film actor's role was as a character with the telling name of "Wimp". Look at a complete list of those appearing in the film. You will find Robert Clarke listed 14th and was also the 3rd name in those appearing without screen credit. For my fellow fans of Val Lewton, believe it or not, this comedy entry was a sequel to Lewton's "I Walk With A Zombie" without his involvement. It starred RKO"s low budget answer to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Wally Brown and Alan Carney, Who were billed before Bela Lugosi.
Speaking of Val Lewton, Robert Clarke played a "Medical Student" in 1946's "The Body Snatcher" based upon the Robert Lewis Stevenson story starring Boris Karloff. From a horror point of view this was the final film to team up Karloff with Bela Lugosi and was directed by Robert Wise.
My article "Val Lewton: Master of Subtle Terror and Horror" can be found at:
http://www.bewaretheblog.com/2015/10/val-lewton-master-of-subtle-terror-and.html
1945 saw Robert Clarke in other minor roles, mostly without screen credit, in pictures such as "Back to Bataan" starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn and "First Yank in Tokyo" which he also narrated. Also in 1945 RKO decided to remake "The Most Dangerous Game". This story of a big game hunter tracking human prey originally was filmed by Merian C. Cooper for the studio in 1932 starring Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. In the Robert Wise directed motion picture, "A Game of Death", Robert Clarke had the role of "The Helmsmen".
Two motion pictures later and Robert Clarke was back in 1946 acting for Val Lewton as "Dan the Dog" in the Boris Karloff vehicle "Bedlam".
28 roles followed "Bedlam" in such features as 1947 "The Farmers Daughter" starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotton. Robert Clarke was the non screen credited role of the "Assistant Radio Announcer". The same year he was in "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" starring Ralph Byrd and Boris Karloff. Once again without screen credit as "Fred the Police Analyst". Clarke played "Dave", with on screen credit and 20th billed, in Randolph Scott and Robert Ryan's 1948 western "The Return of the Bad Men",
Then came 1950.
First Robert Clarke appeared on the new medium of television. This was on "Magnavox Theater", sponsored by the television set maker, of "The Three Musketeers" portraying D"Artagnan. That live performance probably reached more viewers than all his films to date.
There is no doubt in my mind that Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and William Schallert had any idea that their low budget Science Fiction feature would be a "Cult Classic", or become as famous as it did.
The 1951 "The Man from Planet X" was estimated to have a complete cost of $51,000 dollars by United Artists accounting when all factors were taken into consideration. Today, in 2017, that would be $521,738 dollars. Not very much by today film production costs, but in 1951 the picture also made $1.2 million dollars, or today $12,276,203 dollars. A nice profit margin for any feature film.
One of the initial reasons for the films success was the publicity department's work. Note in the poster below the three actors are listed and then afterwards the potential viewer reads:
STRANGE MAN
FROM PLANET X!
The story was set on the Scottish Moors and to save money the production company used sets from the 1948 "Joan of Arc" that had starred Ingrid Bergman. To change the look fog was used and the shots were basically at night.
As the above photo of Margaret Field looking at the alien space craft shows. Adding fog and shooting in black and white worked very well to create an eerie feeling to the production.
Robert Clarke portrayed American reporter John Lawrence. Lawrence is invited to Scotland by his friend Professor Elliot played by Raymond Bond. Elliot has discovered Planet X and also that an alien space craft has landed out on the moor.
Elliot and Lawrence discover the space man and attempt to communicate, but without success.
Meanwhile the Professor's assistant Dr. Mears, William Schallet, not only figures out how to communicate, but he wants to know the secret of the space craft's metal. The alien will not give him the information and Mears in retaliation shuts off the alien's breathing apparatus leaving it for dead.
Lawrence discovers the alien is missing along with the Professor's daughter Enid, Margaret Field, and the local Constables tells him also many of the villagers. They are all discovered under the control of "The Man from Planet X". However, when a Scotland Yard Inspector and his assistant arrive and are informed of the alien and the missing villagers. A decision is made to destroy the alien and his spacecraft at the cost of the people under it's control.
Lawrence wants to rescue Enid and the villagers and is given a time limit ending at 11 PM. As it has been discovered that the alien's home planet will come very close to Earth at midnight and the alien is an advance scout for an invasion. "The Man from Planet X" has used the captured people to increase protection and assist in making changes to his space craft. Thereby turning it into a relay station to bring his people to Earth.
Lawrence succeeds in rescuing everyone, but Mears is killed when the space craft is blown up along with the alien.
The planet comes extremely close to the Earth. While in fear of what could still happen from it Lawrence and Enid watch it pass.
Don't look for realism as the alien's planet comes within what seems only a few miles of colliding with the Scottish Moors, but go with it. The movie is really well written by Audrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen for the year it was made. The two are the pictures producers also.
A quick appearance on a television series and Robert Clarke was Robin Hood.
Followed by six more movie appearances making Robert Clarke's output for 1951 eight motion picture appearances and one on television.
1952 started out with a movie set in Cuba entitled "The Fabulous Senorita" and an appearance in an episode of "The Long Ranger" and then Clarke was back in Science Fiction. The motion picture was originally entitled "1,000 Years from Now", but is more commonly referred too by it's re-release name of "Captive Women".
I also look at this motion picture in by article about the Nuclear War Science Fiction
motion pictures of the 1950's. The full article can be found at:
http://www.bewaretheblog.com/2017/05/nuclear-holocaust-and-post-apocalyptic.html
The story takes place after a nuclear holocaust has destroyed the Earth and the year now is 3,000 A.D.
New York City and its surrounding area has been divided into three areas containing three different groups of human descendants from the nuclear war. "The Norm's" are the descendants of human's were survived unaffected by the radiation and live in what was once the subway system. "The River People" are also normal humans, but live in the countryside and have become hunters. The last group are "The Mutants" who are descended from those affected by the radiation and still show some signs of being mutated. They also have a problem of babies being either born still, or also somewhat mutated.
Robert Clarke portrayed "Robert" the leader of "The Norms", Margaret Field played a "Norm" women named "Ruth" and Ron Randall is "The Mutant" leader Riddon. William Schallert is also in this film as the evil Mutate Carver who wants to take over their tribe.
The basic story has "The Mutates" capture some "Norm" women including Ruth. Robert seeks help from "The River People" to rescue them. Meanwhile Carver attempts to take control of his tribe and is banished by Riddon. Carver makes a deal with his counter part among "The Norms" Gordon. Carver will lead him to Riddon and in turn Carver will help Gordon take over his tribe.
In the end both villains are killed and peace is made between all three branches of men. This includes the "Norm" women Ruth having fallen in love for the "Mutate" leader Riddon and the two are married starting a new chapter for humanity.
The film was produced by the same team who made "The Man from Planet X".
1953 through 1956 saw Robert Clarke appearing mostly on television series such as "Science Fiction Theater", "The Pepsi-Cola Theater", "The Cisco Kid" and even "Lassie". During this period Clarke played the character of "Rolfe" in 1953's "Captain John Smith and Pocahontas" starring Anthony Dexter and Jody Lawrence and :Manuel Aszaga" in 1954's "The Black Pirates" also starring Dexter and featuring Lon Chaney, Jr.
Robert Clarke did actually star in one motion picture during this time the "Sword of Venus" playing the son of "The Count of Monte Cristo". Once again the picture had been made by the team of Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg, but Margaret Field was not in it. The leading lady was Catherine McLeod. However, playing "Valmont" was William Schallert.
In 1956 Robert Clarke married Alyce King of the "King Sisters". The Sister's were a popular 1940's "Big Band Era" group. The following photo is of the Sisters from that Era. Alyce is lower middle.
One year later on November 6, 1957 their son Cameron Arthur "Cam" Clarke was born. You might not know their son's name, but you probably know his voice acting work. Among which Cam created the voices of Leonardo and Rocksteady in the original animated "Teenage Mutant Turtles" and the voice of Shotaro Kaneda in the English dub of the classic anime "AKIRA".
Robert Clarke's next motion picture continued his Science Fiction connection and was 1957's "The Astounding She Monster". This forgotten classic, my tongue is firmly in cheek, had a final budget of $18,000 dollars.
A group of criminals kidnap an heiress and take over the mountain home of Geologist Dick Cutler played by Clarke. A UFO crash lands near the house and an alien resembling a beautiful women comes out of it. The problem is she is highly radioactive and can kill with a single touch.
She does not speak, but makes sounds. The alien women accidentally kills Cutler's dog, but on purpose she kills the kidnappers. "The She Monster" is killed by the Geologist. Who throws a bottle containing chemicals from the Earth's atmosphere that cause her to disintegrate. Don't even think of asking why walking in the Earth's atmosphere didn't already kill her.
A note is found in perfect English inside the necklace the alien women has been wearing. It says she is here to help the planet with its problems. Cutler speculates about how her people will think of the human race now
The next role for Robert Clarke is interesting if for no other reason than who was in it and who wrote this western. The title was "Outlaw Queen".
In the picture Clarke, on the left in the above photo, played John Andrews. In the middle is actress Andrea King, no relation to Alyce, but the female leads in the Peter Lorre horror mystery "The Beast With Five Fingers" and the Peter Graves Cold War thriller "Red Planet Mars". She plays the title character named Christina. The third person in the above still portrayed Rick Mason and is none other than Big Band Leader Harry James. The last interesting point to this long forgotten motion picture is that the story and screenplay were written by Pete La Rouche. Oh, the name Pete La Rouche was the nom de plume of one Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Into 1959 Robert Clarke appeared on single episodes of 14 television series such as "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok", "Dragnet" for his fifth time since 1953, "Sky King" and "Mike Hammer". His motion picture work wasn't much better, becaue out of nine screen appearances only two had on screen credit.
However, all of this was followed by another Science Fiction feature entitled "The Incredible Petrified World" actually filmed, according to Robert Clarke, in March of 1957. The finished picture was first previewed in Burlington, North Carolina on November 18, 1959 two and a half years after it was filmed. The picture then sat on the shelf until April 1960 when it was released on a double bill with "Teenage Zombies" to only a few States. Later the same double bill would be released on August 30, 1961 in Los Angeles and to more States. It never played in all of the country. Such is the history of a very low budgeted "B" Science Fiction film.
To "B", pun here, fair to this feature. The poster was a thousand times better than what we saw on the screen and did it's job of getting viewers into a theater.
The story revolves around a new experimental diving bell. It's inventor Professor Millard Wyman, played by John Carradine, sends his crew of two men and two women to explore the ocean to depths previously never obtained.
The two men are Craig Randall portrayed by Robert Clarke and Paul Whitmore played by Allen Windsor. Whose name does not even appear on the poster. Windsor's career was a total of four appearances including one on television's "Leave It to Beaver" The two women crew members are Lauri Talbott played by Sheila Noolan. Whose name also does not appear on the poster. Noolan would have five total films to her credit. These included Roger Corman's "Bucket of Blood" and "Beast from Haunted Cave". Phyllis Coates, whose name appears after Carrdine's and above Clarke's, played Dale Marshall. At the time she actually filmed "The Incredible Petrified World" in 1957. Coates had been appearing in several short subjects with titles like "So You Want to Play the Piano" and films such as "Girl's In Prison" which starred Richard Denning. Also that year Phyllis Coates was in "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein" as Dr. Frankenstein's secretary. TV's Lois Lane became lunch for the Doctor's pet alligator.
Naturally something goes wrong and the bell ends up in "The Petrified World" of the title. Can you say "Colossal Cave" in Tucson, Arizona? The crew leave the diving bell in scuba gear after seeing lights and believe they are heading for the surface. Instead come up in a vast underground cavern with breathable air.There they find a giant lizard and a man who has been trapped for the last 14 years.
He explains the breathable air comes from an underwater Volcano. While this is all going on Professor Wyman and others are debating if a rescue mission should be attempted and how.
The following is from IMDb:
In the caves, Lauri gathers fresh water with a shell. The men returned to the bell to get more supplies. Dale is jealous of Lauri's relationship with Craig and the women bicker. The men make two dives for all their supplies, but Paul has trouble on the second dive. He has run out of compressed air. The rescue bell spots the duo and takes them on board. Jim Wyman helps Paul. The old man makes his play for Dale. He tells her he likes her much better than the others. When the old man, looking like Charles Manson, suggests killing the others, Dale is shocked and horrified. The old man admits to Dale that he killed the man they found as a skeleton. Dale screams as the old man paws her. An earthquake and rock fall from the volcano provides Lauri the chance to grab Dale and escape. The old man is killed by the rock fall. The women run back to the pool where they surfaced and find Craig knocked out by the rock fall. He revives and gives the women breathing devices and they dive into the water for the safety of the rescue bell. The volcano erupts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053944/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn
The above description sounds a lot more exciting than the actual picture. Also note the following still of John Carradine and the diving bell. With a crew of four how much "supplies" could it hold that required two trips? As apparently they were to be brought up to the surface possibly on the same day of the initial dive. Such is the fun and plot holes of 1950's Science Fiction that the audience ignored.
Two television appearances later and Robert Clarke made the "B" Science Fiction/Horror motion picture he is widely known for "The Hideous Sun Demon". The original story was written by Clarke and the feature film was also co-directed and co-produced by the actor.
"Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night. May become a Wolf when the Wolfbane blooms and the Moon is full and bright". Most fans of classic horror movies know these words written by Curt Siodmak for 1941's "The Wolfman". In "The Hideous Sun Demon" Robert Clarke flipped it with a man that becomes a Lizard in the Sun.
This feature is known by three titles, In the United States and Canada depending on where you saw the feature it was either:
In the U.K. the picture was known as:
The plot has Dr. Gilbert McKenna, Robert Clarke, experimenting with a new radioactive isotope and while working with it falls unconscious to the floor. The scientist is rushed to a local hospital and is examined by Dr. Stern, Robert Gerry. Stern is surprised to see no radiation burns on McKenna's body after such exposure. He next informs Gill's co-workers Ann Russell, Patricia Manning, and Dr. Frederick Buckell, Patrick Whyte, that he will keep him under observation.
After apparent recovery Dr. McKenna is taken to a solarium to receive the sun's healing rays. Bad idea! As with a man exposed to the full moon turning into a werewolf. Dr. Gilbert McKenna exposed to the sun's rays turns into a lizard creature.
It is determined that Dr. McKenna's exposure to the radioactive isotope has reverted him back to a prehuman evolutionary reptile state. A similar reversal plot devise was done to Michael Landon in 1957's "I Was A Teenage Werewolf", but by hypnotism and in the 1956 movie "The Werewolf" by a special serum designed to make human's survive an atomic bomb.
In "The Hideous Sun Demon" it is thought that as long as Gil stays out of the sun he will not change, but that means confinement to his home and going out only after dark. This starts effecting his state of mind. Enter Dr. Jacob Hoffman, actor Fred La Porta, who believes he can help Gil stop the transformation.
However,Gil is going "stir crazy" at home. This leaves his house and finds a bar were the piano player Trudy Osbourne, Nan Peterson, is having problems with a patron named George. George claims to have purchased her for the evening. A fight results between the two men and Gill McKenna knocks out George. We next see Trudy and Gill walking the beach together which ends with the two having sex and falling asleep. Gill wakes up on the beach in the sunlight and flees in panic. Being afraid he will become the Sun Demon and might harm Trudy as she asleeps. He just makes it to his house as the transformation begins.
The following night things get out of hand at the bar when George and his friends beat up Dr. McKeena, He had returned to apologize to Trudy for leaving her alone on the beach. The unconscious Gill wakes up in Trudy's apartment as George shows up the following morning and makes one big mistake. He forces McKeena out into the sunlight. The Sun Demon kills George in front of Trudy and flees.
Gill returns to his house to find Dr Hoffman, Dr. Bucknell and Ann waiting for him. After returning to his normal state he admits the murder to the other three.
A Police Officer shows up with an arrest warrant and McKenna, his mental state now unbalanced, flees in his car and hits a another officer. Gill is hiding out in a shack at the oil field. A little girl named Suzy discovers him and she goes home to get him some cookies. Don't ask! Her mother asks what's she doing and Suzy tells her. While her mother calls the police. Suzy slips out and goes to the shack with her cookies. Dr. Gill McKenna realizes the danger she will be in if he changes.
He takes the girl to safety, but has left the darkness of the shack and transforms. This leads to a confrontation with the police and his death.
As far as casting concerns the motion picture was a true "Family Affair". Initially the role of Trudy was to have been played by Robert Clarke's sister-in-law singer Marilyn King. Before shooting began she became pregnant and had to drop out of the role. However, Marilyn wrote and sang Nan Peterson's songs.
The little girl, Xandra Conkling, was actually the daughter of one of Clarke's wife's sisters. Pearl Diggs, who played the old women on the deck of the solarium, see above picture, was Robert Clarke's mother-in-law. The radio announcer heard in the picture was portrayed by the fiance of one of Clarke's sister-in-laws and a newsboy was his nephew.
The motion picture was filmed with rented equipment over a 12 weekend period and Clarke's film crew were made up of USC Film Students. The upfront money for the picture came from of all things "The Astounding She Monster". Robert Clarke had a contract for 10 percent of the gross and the film actually made money.
After the non-screen credited role of a reporter in the James Garner/Natalie Wood film "Cash McCall"in 1960. It was back to appearances on three television shows for the actor followed by another science fiction picture "Beyond the Time Barrier".
The film has an interesting take on the Cold War within a Science Fiction motion picture with a twist at the end. Unfortunately, as with many quickie made movies I watched back then. The budget, or lack of one gets in the way at times. Robert Clarke played Air Force Test Pilot Major William Allison,
He leaves the Air Force base on a routine test flight of a new experimental aircraft, but when he returns after the flight. Allison finds the base deserted and appearing ancient. In the distance is a futuristic looking city and he heads towards it for answers..
This future world contains both apparently normal looking humans and mutated humans, Whose goal is to take over the city Major Allison saw known as "The Citadel", but they have no leadership. Allison is at first imprisoned in a holding cell with some of these mutated humans, All of which are for some reason bald.
After a while Major Allison is taken before the leader of "The Citadel" called "The Supreme". Who along with "The Captain" are the only two people that can still hear and speak within "The Citadel". Everyone else has become mute, but "The Supreme's" daughter Triene, Darlene Tompkins, was also born telepathic.
After Triene reads his mind. Major Allison is released and told the year is now 2024 and that in 1971 a world wide plague was caused by Cosmic Rays being released from Nuclear Testing in the Atmosphere.The result is everyone, but Triene is sterile.
The Cold War aspect of the picture comes in the form Russian Air Force Captain Markova portrayed by Ardianne Ulmer billed as Ardianne Arden. She came through the Time Barrier in 1973. Additionally in 1994 two other people arrived at "The Citadel". They are General Kruse and Professor Bourman. Both men arrived from Earth's outer space colonies that existed at the time of the nuclear war and were therefore untouched by it. Both have become trapped in the future and develop agendas of their own revolving around Allison's plane as a means of escape back to their own time.
Major Allison and Triene over time, of course, fall in love. Markova in perfect Cold War theory become the leader of the mutated humans with the idea of setting up a perfect Communist State. She will release the mutants in a failed revolt and is killed. Another secondary plot line has General Kruse and Boreman attempt to get to Allison's aircraft. There's a struggle with General Kruse over obtaining the aircraft resulting in Triene being accidentally shot and killed. Allison take's her body to "The Supreme".
"The Supreme" shows Major Allison a secret tunnel that takes him safely to his aircraft. He takes off and returns to 1960 on the same day he left.
TWIST TIME:
After telling his superiors what he has seen of the future. The audience sees Major Allison now an extremely old man as a result of the time travel. Allison's superiors also discover that Markov, Bourman and Kruse are currently students and their future will be considered.
Robert Clarke did not want to direct this picture, because the stress of working on "The Hideous Sun Demon" had been more than he expected. So Clarke hired Edgar G. Ulmer the director of "The Man from Planet X" for the job. It was Ulmer's daughter who played Markova.
The film's primary backers came from Texas and their one stipulation was the feature had to be made in that State. Their reasoning still holds today. They could make it cheaper, because Texas had no Unions in the local Motion Picture and Television production companies.
The make-ups for the film were created by famed Universal Studio's make-up artist Jack Pierce. Pierce's career had fallen greatly since he created Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster and Im-ho-tep, or Lon Chaney, Jr. as "The Wolfman". Jack Pierce's story can be found in my blog article at:
http://www.bewaretheblog.com/2015/06/jack-p-pierce-man-who-created-monsters.html
Robert Clarke needed somebody to distribute "Beyond the Time Barrier" and approached James H. Nicholson of American International Pictures. Based solely on his teenage daughter's favorable reaction to the movie. Nicholson agreed to release the motion picture. MGM was promoting George Pal's "The Time Machine" in a large way and AIP used that publicity to the studio's advantage. Releasing "Beyond the Time Barrier" one month ahead of "The Time Machine" as a tale of future Earth.
Back to television for Clarke's second appearance on "Perry Mason" and his third on the Lloyd Bridges show "Sea Hunt". Along with another non-screen credited cameo in a Robert Mitchum/Jack Webb Air Force comedy movie "The Last Time I Saw Archie". This was followed by another feature film entitled "Terror of the Bloodhunters" in 1962.
The picture was from Jerry Warren who had made "The Incredible Petrified World". Robert Clarke played a Devil's Island Prisoner who escapes with the daughter of the Commandant and faces Head Hunters. Playing the daughter Marlene was Dorothy Haney. Apparently this is her entire film career. Warren had purchased the rights too and re-edited a Swedish Science Fiction picture for the bottom half of the double bill "Invasion of the Animal People".
In January 1965 ABC Television premiered the musical variety program "The King Family Show". It featured Alyce,her sisters, and other members of the family including husbands, children and grandchildren. Robert Clarke was a regular in comic skits and other non-singing bites, but the variety show only lasted one year. However, it would be revived from March through September 1969 featuring the younger generation "The King Cousins".
In the following photograph from "The King Family Show" Christmas Special. Robert Clarke is second from the left of the men wearing the red jackets.
For the next 16 years Robert Clarke guest starred on many television programs such as "Dragnet 1967", seven times, and Jack Webb's other series "Adam 12" for another five. Clarke also appeared on episodes of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and a forgotten television series called "Project UFO". It was about Government Investigators chasing down UFO sightings.
In 1981 old actors still looking for work ended up in another motion picture from Jerry Warren "Frankenstein Island".
The cast includes: Robert Clarke as Dr. Paul Hadley, Steve Brodie as Jocko, Cameron Mitchell as Clay Jason, Andrew Duggan as "The Colonel" and John Carradine is of course Dr. Frankenstein,
I love this character's name. Talk about covering all bases. Actress Katherine Victor played "Sheila Frankenstein von Helsing". One has to imagine how and when the two families united.
Victor who had appeared in Jerry Warren's "Teenage Zombies" and his English version of "Invasion of the Animal People". Would become an animation coordinator for Walt Disney Productions on the television series versions of such classics as "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin" and :Hercules".
After the usual television program interlude. Robert Clarke appeared in a 1988, naturally, low budget turkey "Midnight Movie Madness". I'll do the low budget reviewer cop out and place a link to a great review by Sean Ledden, a member of my Facebook Page "Godzilla, King of the Monsters", on the website "The Monster Shack".
Robert Clarke plays Colonel Carlye and Ann Robinson plays Dr. Sylvia Van Buren. Remember George Pal's 1953 "War of the Worlds"? Robinson played the Minister's daughter Sylvia Van Buren. As the review mentions there's a throw away line from Robert Clarke about going "Beyond the Time Barrier" in the picture.
Here's your link to Sean's review:
http://www.monstershack.net/sp/index.php/midnight-movie-massacre-1988/
"Alienator" was a film that critic Leonard Maltin and the motion picture's director Fred Olen Ray both described as a "Semi-remake" of Robert Clarke's "The Astounding She Monster".
There is confusions IF "Alienator" ever played in an actual movie theaters, but it did appear on VHS tape in February 1990. The film starred, or featured an assortment of looking for any work actor types. Besides Robert Clarke were Jan Michael-Vincent, John Philip Law, Ross Hogan, P.J. Soles, Leo Gordon and Robert Quarry.
An Alien criminal escapes from the space ship and the ship's commander releases what is now called a "gynoid". At the time it was called the non-politically correct "fembot", to catch him. This takes place in the woods near a house full of teenagers.
So the "Semi-remake" is in actuality a house in the woods and a female alien. Otherwise nothing else seems to come from "The Astounding She Monster" in the script.
Fred Olsen Ray was back as producer, writer and director of 1990's "Haunting Fear". Which was very loosely based upon Edgar Allan Poe's "The Premature Burial". This picture went straight to video in August 1990 in the U.K, It wouldn't be until March 1991 before the picture showed up on video in the United States.
As the poster mentions Jan-Michael Vincent was back. Along with Vincent were Karen Black, Robert Clarke and also Robert Quarry. The star of this film was actually Brinke Stevens. Over her 166 film credits would be such classic titles as: "Teenage Exorcist", "Scream Queen Hot Tub", "Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween", which is part of a series of films about the two title characters, and "It Came from Trafalgar".
On April 22, 2005 a great spoof of 1950's science fiction featuring many actors of the era "The Naked Monster" was released. Robert Clarke's character's name was Major Allison from "Beyond the Time Barrier". Other cameo appearances came from 1950's actors Kenneth Tobey, Lori Nelson, John Agar, Robert Cornthwaite, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne and Gloria Talbott.
Robert Clarke's wife Alyce had passed away in August 1996. Two months after the release of "The Naked Monster" on June 11, 2005 Robert Clarke passed away at his home in the Valley Village section of North Hollywood, California.
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from data import constants
from data import Languages
from data import Language

import os

def parse():
	languages = Languages()

	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(constants.getStringsDir()):
		for f in files:
			path = os.path.join(root, f)

			if "lproj" not in path:
				continue

			fileName = os.path.dirname(path)
			fileName = os.path.basename(fileName)

			language = Language(fileName)
			languages.add(language)

			with open(path) as f:
				for line in f:
					line = line.rstrip()

					if " = " in line:
						line = line.replace(" = ", "=")

					if "=" in line:
						components = line.split("=")

						key = components[0]
						value = components[1]

						if value.endswith(";"):
							value = value.replace(";", "")

						key = key[ 1 : -1 ]
						value = value[ 1 : -1 ]

						language.addValues(key, value)

	return languages


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Q: How to convert the encoding of an string to UTF-8 without know the original encoding in C#? I'm reading a CSV file with Fast CSV Reader (on codeproject). When I print the content of the fields, the console show the character '?' in some words. How can fix it?

A: The short version is that you have to know the encoding of any text file you're going to read up front. You could use things like byte order marks and other heuristics if you really aren't going to know, but you should always allow for the value to be tweaked (in the same way that Excel does if you're importing CSV).
It's also worth double checking the values in the debugger, as it may be that it is the output that is wrong, as opposed to the reading -- bear in mind that all strings are Unicode internally, and conversion to '?' sounds like it is failing converting the unicode to the relevant code page for the console.


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Le All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, abrégé en AELTC et aussi connu sous le nom de All-England Club, est situé à Aorangi Park, dans le quartier de Wimbledon à Londres. C'est un club sportif privé connu pour organiser le tournoi de Wimbledon sur gazon, un des quatre tournois du Grand Chelem en tennis. Initialement, c'est un tournoi ouvert seulement aux amateurs pour divertir les membres du club et leurs amis lors de quelques jours chaque été. Toutefois, peu à peu, l'événement devient plus important que le club lui-même. Néanmoins, ce dernier reste un club de tennis disposant de plusieurs courts dont certains sont utilisables toute l'année.

Actuellement, le club est composé de 375 membres à plein temps, de 100 membres temporaires et de plusieurs membres honoraires, dont les anciens vainqueurs du tournoi de Wimbledon ainsi que des personnes s'étant distinguées dans la promotion du tennis. Pour devenir membre temporaire ou à temps plein, un candidat doit obtenir des lettres de soutien de quatre membres à plein temps dont deux doivent connaître le candidat depuis au moins trois ans. Ce dernier voit alors son nom ajouté à liste des candidats. Les membres honoraires sont régulièrement élus par le comité du club.

Le club est actuellement patronné et présidé par la princesse de Galles, laquele a succédé au duc de Kent en 2021.

Ce site est desservi par la station de métro Southfields.

Histoire

Le club est fondé en 1868 sous le nom de All England Croquet Club à l'époque où le croquet suscite un véritable engouement. En 1870 est organisée la première compétition de croquet à Worple Road, à Wimbledon. La popularité du croquet reste vivace jusqu'à l'arrivée du lawn tennis (ou tennis sur gazon), inventé par le major Walter Clopton Wingfield en 1874. En 1875, un court de tennis sur gazon est mis en place. Le premier championnat de simple messieurs est tenu en 1877 et est remporté par Spencer Gore. Jusqu'en 1882, la hauteur du filet et la distance de la ligne de service par rapport au filet évoluent selon les années avant d'être définitivement établies. La même année, face à la popularité grandissante du tennis qui supplante celle du croquet, le club devient le All England Lawn Tennis Club mais le croquet refait son apparition dans le titre en 1889 et celui-ci reste le même jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

En 1884, les compétitions de simple féminin et de double masculin font leur apparition, suivies plus tardivement du simple dames et du double mixte en 1913. Lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1908, les installations du All-England Club accueillent le tournoi olympique de tennis. Les premières couleurs du club (vert, jaune, bleu et rouge) sont adoptées en rapport avec celles des Royal Marines avant d'être changées en 1909 au profit du vert foncé et du violet. En 1922, face à la popularité grandissante du tennis symbolisée entre autres par Suzanne Lenglen, le club déménage à Church Road. Pour sa première édition dans son nouveau décor, le tournoi doit faire face à la pluie qui perturbe le déroulement des matchs chaque jour. C'est cette même année qu'est construit le Court Central toujours utilisé aujourd'hui. Toutefois, il a été régulièrement agrandi et rénové. Les derniers travaux en date sont l'ajout d'un toit amovible en 2009. En 1928, l'ancien Court Numéro un est construit à l'ouest du Court central. Lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le club reste ouvert mais avec des effectifs réduits. Il est notamment utilisé par les pompiers et les ambulanciers, la British Home Guard et une unité de décontamination. Enfin, les troupes stationnées aux alentours se servent des installations pour leur entraînement. En octobre 1940, cinq bombes de 500 livres frappent le Court Central et démolissent  sièges. En 1997, le Court numéro un est reconstruit ainsi que le Centre Média. Peu après, le Millenium Building est construit sur le site de l'ancien Court numéro un. Il sert à entreposer le matériel des joueurs, de la presse, des officiels et des membres du club.

En 1967, le All-England Club achète 4,5 hectares de terrains au nord du site de Church Road. Ce lieu connu sous le nom d'Aorangi Park appartenait jusque-là au New Zealand Sports and Social Club qui le cède à bail au All-England Club. Plus communément, cet espace est appelé Henman Hill du fait de la popularité de l'ancien joueur britannique Tim Henman. À l'origine, le All-England Club se sert de ce nouveau terrain comme parking au cours du tournoi. Toutefois, en 1981, le bail néo-zélandais arrive à expiration et le club peut développer cette zone selon son bon vouloir.

Le court  du club sert de court pour le tournoi de Wimbledon. Ce court a été l'enceinte du match de tennis le plus long de l'histoire, opposant Nicolas Mahut à John Isner.

Pendant les Jeux olympiques d'été de Londres, en 2012, le club sert d'enceinte au tournoi de tennis, qui se joue par conséquent sur gazon, en extérieur.

Infrastructures

Le club compte un total de 19 courts sur gazon utilisés lors du tournoi de Wimbledon, cinq courts en schiste rouge, trois courts en terre battue ocre (Continental Clay Courts), un court en terre battue américaine de couleur verte et cinq courts en intérieur (deux en Greenset Velvelux et trois en Greenset Trophy). En outre, 22 courts sur gazon sont situés au sein de l'Aorangi Park et servent de terrains d'entraînement aux joueurs avant et durant le tournoi de Wimbledon. Les courts en gazon peuvent être utilisés de mai à septembre. Depuis 1995, le gazon est coupé à une hauteur de 8 millimètres et est composé à 100 % de Perennial Rye Grass depuis 2001 (avant, le gazon était composé à 70 % de Perennial Rye et à 30 % de creeping red fescue). À chaque mois de septembre, les courts sont rénovés.

Le Court Central (ou Centre Court) est le stade le plus important du complexe. Il accueille les matchs les plus importants ainsi que les finales de simple et de double du tournoi. Au-dessus de l'entrée des joueurs se trouve une citation extraite du poème Si (if) de Rudyard Kipling :  ou  (en anglais : ). En 2012, le Court Central servit à accueillir l'épreuve olympique de tennis.

Initialement, les différents terrains étaient disposés de façon que le court central se situe au centre du complexe avec les autres courts positionnés tout autour de lui, d'où l'appellation de court central. L'actuel court central a été construit en 1922, l'année lors de laquelle le tournoi s'est installé à son adresse actuelle. Au départ, il n'était pas situé exactement au centre du complexe mais avec la construction régulière de nouveaux courts, sa situation centrale s'est précisée. Il dispose actuellement de  sièges depuis qu'il a été agrandi en 2007-2008 (il disposait avant de  places). En 2009, il fait partie des plus grands courts de tennis au monde derrière le court Arthur Ashe de l'US Open, le court central du Masters d'Indian Wells et d'une dimension similaire aux courts centraux des Internationaux de France de tennis et de l'Open d'Australie. La même année, un toit rétractable est installé pour permettre aux matchs de se continuer en cas d'intempéries très souvent responsables de perturbations et de retards dans la programmation des matchs. Il a la capacité de se fermer en 10 minutes.

Les autres courts importants du complexe sont le Court numéro un construit en 1997 et qui peut accueillir  personnes. Il est parfois utilisé pour les matchs de Coupe Davis (la tradition veut que le Court central ne soit utilisé que pour le tournoi de Wimbledon). Un nouveau court numéro deux a été construit en 2009 et comprend  sièges. L'ancien court numéro deux a brièvement été renommé court numéro trois en 2009 avant d'être reconstruit après le tournoi de Wimbledon 2009. Ce nouveau court peut accueillir  personnes. En tout,  personnes peuvent assister aux matchs sur les différents courts du complexe.

Projet d'agrandissement
En 2021, le club envisage d'agrandir son site en créant 39 nouveaux courts en gazon ainsi qu'un stade doté d'un toit rétractable permettant l'accueil de  personnes. L'influence sur l'affluence du public sur l'ensemble du tournoi londonien est estimé à  personnes supplémentaires. Le coût estimé de ce projet est de 116 millions d'euros, les travaux devant durer une dizaine d'années.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Tournoi de Wimbledon
 Jeux olympiques d'été de 2012

Lien externe
  Page du club sur le site du tournoi de Wimbledon

Tournoi de Wimbledon
Histoire du tennis
Croquet
Site des Jeux olympiques de 1908
Site des Jeux olympiques d'été de 2012
Club de tennis


When looking at your gutters, you will find that it is impossible for you to know their condition and issues unless you get up there and take a look. This article gives you the understanding that you need to make the right choices when it comes to the gutter cleaning companies.
One of the aspects that you need to consider is the experience levels that these professionals have in the field as it ultimately alters the final quality of results expected. With the experienced professionals, you rest assured knowing that you will receive quality services. Especially coined to the fact that they know what is required and have the skills and knowledge to deliver.
The second thing that you should check is the references which can be collected from your neighbors who have received the gutter cleaning services in the recent past. Even after you get the references, it is your responsibility to ensure that you do extra research on the providers.
The gutter cleaning services involve dangerous tasks that pose risks to the providers and the other people residing in the area. Due to this criticality, you will need to make sure that you check their insurance documents before they begin working there as it is one way to eliminate the liability in case anything happens.
The fact that the reviews are written by the past clients and customers makes it critical for you to extensively read and understand them. It is only when you read these reviews that you gain additional insight on the service providers thus ideally knowing whether they are fit for the task or not.
There is also the aspect of customer service that should never be overlooked; seek for the best as you are paying for these services. In efforts to avoid hiring the wrong professionals for your gutter cleaning project, it is essential for you to ensure that you consider the customer service standards; not some rude and arrogant representatives.
When looking at the cost, the two things that you should be concentrating on are the affordability and reasonability in line with your budgeting. It does not matter what you choose or select, be sure to consider the quality of services and value for your money at all times.
Finally, it is important for you to consider the location of the providers whereby those that are local are better than those who operate interstate. It is only when you have them local that you can get the corrections or adjustments done even after they have completed the tasks; your complaints are better heard and handled.


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Can you interview well without being boastful?
I was coaching someone who almost gagged when we got to talking about the 'what are your strengths?' question.. they really struggle to say that they are good at anything. In spite of some really significant achievements and accomplishments. As we unpicked this reticence I discovered a deep fear of being seen as a boast or braggart.
This set me thinking and I did some research into the subject of boasting; why are we so averse to blowing our own trumpet? (or tooting as the Americans call it.. divided by a common language!) There is a strong religious element to this; major religions –Islam, more about Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity all value humility and consider boasting a vice. As the Bible puts it 'let him who boasts, boast in the Lord'. I think there is an element of social control in the culture of disapproval of the person who is self congratulatory. Our rulers prefer a bit of submission and self deprecation, those who know their own rights and value may be less submissive. Our parents were often quick to condemn the show off or sing one's own praises. It is considered impolite to draw too much attention to ourselves, after all 'children should be seen and not heard' is still a value instilled into people when they are young. 'Pride' we were told 'comes before a fall'.
If in the interview you do not put forward your accomplishments then you will never get the job. Lack of enthusiasm, hesitancy and lack of confidence in your own abilities are key reasons people get turned down by interviewers. So what is the solution? Here are some tips for interviews and networking to help you promote yourself without being annoying.
Don't promote yourself but promote your value. Reframe your experience and expertise in terms of the value that you have to contribute. Describe how you could solve a problem or overcome and obstacle and describe it in terms of how you would work with others to do so.
Tell a story. Human beings are conditioned to like stories ad there is nothing so powerful as a well told story (using STAR) that shows your enthusiasm and your skills. You don't need to tell people that you are really good at something if you just describe an occasion when you have excelled with that skill.
Be relevant. Don't jump into a conversation announcing your greatest triumph but listen to others and when an occasion arises tell others factually what you have achieved. Keep your story relevant to the conversation.
Tell it once. Part of the reason that people dislike braggarts is that they go on and on about their achievements (or those of their grandchildren) and don't know when to shut up. So tell your story once and then move on to ask others about their experience. Or in an interview, wait for the next question.
Don't use hyperbole. People who boast tend to over dramatize their stories, keep it factual and keep it to the point. Try not to use emotive language or exaggerate the difficulties that you overcame. Be realistic about achievements.
Share the glory. Make it clear that although you have used first person singular , you could not have achieved this without the help and hard work of other team members. When networking give others their due praise and credit. Promote them and in return they will promote you.
When asked about strengths you do not have to say that you are the best compared to others, tell them what you think you do best. That is what the questions is asking about. What are your strengths? not 'what are you better than anyone else at?'. Your don't have to say "I'm really good at…", say "what I do best.." Everyone has things they feel most comfortable doing or most at ease doing. Find a way to express those things that you feel comfortable and confident using and practice it.
Never steal the credit from others when it is not due to you. You never know who or what the other person actually knows.
Express empathy with others. Always give the interviewer time to talk, finish their question and be sensitive to them.
Share your good news with those you trust but share your emotional intelligence with everyone. Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter give us a channel to share everything with everyone but need to be used sensitively 'wow I got a huge raise' is not going to go down well with people in your network that are hard up and struggling, especially if they think they deserve it more than you do. So watch what you say and where you say it but don't hide your light under a bushel. Follow these tips, promote yourself appropriately and promote others equally.


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe ArcheologicalSitesCeramicDiagnostic, type: :model do
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  it { should belong_to :ceramic_diagnostic }
end