Cheung Chau is an outlying Island of Hong Kong. It is famous for the well preservation of many Hong Kong and Chinese traditional culture. Although it is a rather small Island, there are many indigenous food stalls (especially seafood and Chinese food), and plenty of little shops selling interesting gifts and clothes. It is also a very good place for hiking and cycling, too.
My family like to spend a few days or just an afternoon there, it's simply a relaxing and enjoying place to stroll around. However, we noticed that it is getting more and more crowded in Sundays and public holidays recent years, so it's better to go there on weekdays to avoid the crowd.
P.S. This is the first album I post here with photos taken with my new lens – Canon EF 35mm f/1.4L. This lens is simply MARVELOUS! It is so sharp and the color really pops! Can you believe that nearly all the above photos are shot wide open and without any PS adjustment? I brought it because I love the 35mm range for an all walk around lens (I also love my 50mm f1.4, yet it is sometimes a little bit tight for a walk around lens, and not as sharp wide-open), and it fit perfectly with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II , to create the extra shallow DOF whenever I needed, and also the dreamy, creamy bokeh!
I Love your photos! I will have to visit Cheung Chau if I make it to Hong Kong. I think you just convinced me to get the lens. I shoot the smaller chip Rebel and I think the 50mm will be tight, this lens should work great. Thanks, and keep posting shots of Cheung Chau!
Thanks for your encouragement! Yes, surely Cheung Chau is an interesting place to visit! ; )! Yes, 35L f.14 is surely a gem in the line of canon lenses, and surely it will work wonderful in any camera!
I'm contemplating getting this lens myself.
Thanks! This is a very nice lens indeed, hope you will get it soon!
I'm thinking about purchasing a 35/1.4 myself, and these pictures was really inspiring.
Yes, most of them were using f1.4!I'm using this lens more frequently, and this is surely my most favorite lens!


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Grind up the Bioglan Chia + Flax in a spice grinder or blender.
Weight out your gluten free flour, almond flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and xantham gum into one bowl and mix together.
In a separate bowl add your ground chia seed to the water, mix and leave to soak for 1-2 minutes till it becomes a thick gloopy texture. Mix in the coconut blossom syrup (or agave), coconut milk and apple purée till smooth. Then add the coconut oil - make sure it's no hotter than tepid when you do this. Once mixed stir in the lemon zest and grated carrot.
Slowly stir in the dry ingredients to your wet until completely incorporated then mix in the chopped dates and walnuts.
Spoon the mixture into the 12 muffin cases making sure the batter reaches the top of the case. It is approximately 2 heaped tbsp per muffin.
Put into the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes until they become a dark brown colour. If you test with a skewer it will still have a little moisture on it, it won't come out completely clean.
Leave to cool for at least 4 hours, this is because the muffin will stick to the paper case and not pull away cleanly (the joys of gluten free vegan baking!).
Blend together the icing mixture until creamy texture and smear over the top of each muffin with a pallet knife– sprinkle dried fruit, sesame seeds or chopped nuts over the top.


Arsenal's ice-cold hitman picked up the unfortunate moniker of the 'Non-Flying Dutchman' for his fear of air travel, but his mid-air belly flop against Dynamo Kiev in the 1998 group stage looked to have secured the Gunners a Wembley victory. That was until future Spurs struggler Sergei Rebrov equalised in the 92nd minute, securing the eventual group winners a point.
Arsenal went on to lose their next two matches against Dynamo Kiev and Lens, meaning their final-game 3-1 victory over Panathinaikos wasn't enough for more than a third-place finish for the Gunners. Still, enjoy watching daring Den hold off his man before unleashing the flying header below.
Liverpool and Gladbach would become friends down the years after trading blows in the late '70s, but you'd have expected the Germans would be fed up of their English opponents after consecutive seasons of European Cup beatings in the final and semi-finals (not to mention their 1973 UEFA Cup Final loss).
In this game, Terry McDermott's strike separated the two sides at half-time before Allan Simonsen capitalised on a stray Jimmy Case pass to level the scores after the break with a beauty. Phil Neal sealed victory with an 82nd-minute penalty, but only after Smith and his bullet bonce had restored Liverpool's advantage – although the verve with which Steve Heighway thumps in the corner for the trophy-sealing goal is almost as impressive as the header itself. This, on Smith's 600th appearance for the Anfield side no less.
Everyone loves a goalscoring goalkeeper, not least because – unless you're Jose Luis Chilavert – their headline moments generally provide the late drama we adore. Few were holding their breath when Standard Liege custodian Bolat trotted forward in a seemingly futile attempt to help salvage a Europa League place for the Belgian side in their final group game. Going into the 95th minute it was Alkmaar who held third spot thanks to Jeremain Lens' first-half effort. But Bolat didn't let the Dutchmen have it their way, rising highest, back arched, to plant a superb header past Sergio Romero and seal Standard's place in the Europa at their opponents' expense. They made it to the quarter-finals, where they lost to Hamburg, who in turn lost to... yes, Fulham of course. Sit back and be educated on how to celebrate like a loon.
It's often baffling to remember the Milan defence that capitulated in Istanbul consisted of Cafu, Jaap Stam, Alessandro Nesta and Paolo Maldini – not least when you consider that Liverpool's had Djimi Traore in it. But collapse it did, beginning with this glanced header from Gerrard, the Reds' Captain Marvel finding space between Cafu and Stam to nod John Arne Riise's cross past Dida in the Italians' goal. That was in the 54th minute. What followed was a Vladimir Smicer effort inside two minutes to reduce the arrears further, and a Xabi Alonso leveller four minutes later which took the game to extra-time and penalties. You know the rest.
With two-and-a-half minutes remaining of a Champions League final Bayern Munich had dominated from start to finish, Fernando Torres launched an assault down the right wing, was tackled by Diego Contento and the ball trickled out for a corner that Jerome Boateng's slide couldn't prevent.
Thomas Muller had given Bayern a late lead five minutes earlier, and it looked like the German side would hang on for a huff-and-puff win as they collected themselves to defend the late set-piece. But there's a reason Didier Drogba is so revered at Stamford Bridge, not least for the moment that would prove to be his last touch of a glorious eight-year stint with the Blues before his return to London in 2014.


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Have you ever wondered if God really cares where you go on a mission?
Is it some random guy sitting there throwing darts at a board with your face on it?
I always kind of felt like it didn't matter where I served because regardless of where I went, there would be people who were in need of the gospel.
That was until a few missionaries in my zone called me up and told me to meet them at a cross street in our city. They had been pounding the pavement knocking doors when they stumbled upon a sight that forever solidified my understanding of the Lord's hand in my calling to serve the people of Michigan.
"Meet us at the corner of 'Elder' and 'Trimble' street when you get a chance," said my fellow missionaries.
"Are you guys trying to play a trick on me?" I asked
"No seriously… get over here!"
So my companion and I hopped in the car and headed over. The other missionaries were standing by, and when we pulled up, they were pointing up toward a street sign.
I couldn't believe my eyes. There we were, at the corner of the streets "Elder" and "Trimble."
Time after time I would hear returned missionaries say that they knew why they were sent to where they were sent. But for me, as a young missionary, I had no idea why I was sent where I was sent. Michigan was a cold, snowy, icy, place where people loved to hole up in their houses for 7 months out of the year and slam the door in our faces if we asked to come inside.
I didn't feel like I was personally making any sort of a difference. But over time, as I committed myself to the work, and forgot about the warm sun and the cool waves of Southern California, I started to see my purpose in Michigan unfold.
There were people that only I could reach. Not because I was better than anyone else, but because I was sent to them. Prepared for them. My background, my life experiences, and my point of view was made specifically for these people. And I knew that. Without a doubt… I knew that.
I'm not a sign seeker, but I know that God does give signs to those who look for them. In this case, I was given a literal sign. It was in my last area… the area I served in before I went home that this sign was given. Most will say it was a coincidence, but I would be curious to know how many other intersections in this world come together to make "Elder Trimble."
Seriously. I would love to know what those odds are… that I would be sent to a part of the world and then come across this sight just before I finished my mission.
I had gone through a lot to get on a mission. It wasn't easy. I sacrificed a lot. And here was this sort of stamp of approval on the whole ordeal. It was God's way of saying… "I see you son… I see you workin."
It's hard for me to see it any other way when I combine it with everything else I experienced.
The Lord knows exactly where he's sending you. You may not know that now, but it will become evident in the coming days, months, and years. It's not some random process where you get sent into the four corners of the world to fill an open space.
And people wonder why I am so utterly convinced that the gospel is true and that missionaries are called of God. 🙂
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will host a matchmaking event on the second Wednesday of every month. Matchmaking sessions will be scheduled on the half hour from 8:00 a.m. CST to 2:00 p.m. CST. To schedule a time slot, send your request and capabilities statement to sbo-mvp@usace.army.mil By the close of business on the Friday before your requested date. Once your request is received you will be provided a time slot on WebEx invite.
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The St. Paul District Office of Small Business Programs is in place to ensure that small businesses have the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in St. Paul District acquisitions through contracts or sub-contracts. The district's program provides outreach to inform small businesses of our opportunities as well as information on how to do business with us.
The program also provides advice and assistance to the St. Paul District workforce on all aspects of the small business program. The involvement of small business concerns in our military and civil works programs is vital to the mission of the Army and to the nation's economic prosperity.
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NOTE: All in-person events with contractors have been suspended. We are exploring virtual options.
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AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) - River Road High School's vocational programs include cosmetology, welding, and certified nurse assistant training with hands-on opportunities available as early as sophomore year.
"We do in all three career and technical fields, we partner with other businesses in the community so that we tell them 'Hey, these kids are certified, here's where you go apply, here's everything that you need." And most of them are employable right after high school," said professional school counselor at River Road High School Amy Francis.
She said while most schools encourage attending college, it's not the only option.
And some students can even use what they learn to help them pursue their college goals.
Canyon ISD is also on track to developing a Career and Technology academy.
He said schools that teach trade skills not only benefit students, but the local workforce.
"What are the needs in the area economy, Canyon and Amarillo and the vicinity?," said Flusche.
"We have a college and career fair scheduled for April and just making those phone calls to the businesses in our area, especially plumbing, they've seen such a decrease in applicants in the plumbing field that they're really wanting to see kids start looking at those technical careers," said Francis.
Amarillo ISD will be hosting several open meetings later this month and next month to discuss a Career Academy concept.
Francis believes it's only the beginning of a trend that will start fulfilling career needs in our area.


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The Topanga Fire was a wildfire that ignited on September 28, 2005, in the Santa Susana Mountains, to the northwest of Chatsworth and the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

History
The Topanga Fire burned a total of , injured 31 people, and cost $15.8 million to fight. The wildfire grew to more than 16,000 acres (65 km2) in 2 days, threatening homes, natural resources, power lines, and communications equipment in the Simi Hills, in eastern Ventura County, as well as the Conejo Valley region north of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Experts foresaw the problem as Southern California entered the hottest part of the fire season, with the land covered in brush that grew after the heaviest rains in over 100 years. Although the wind, dry conditions, and steep terrain made the work of firefighters difficult, the loss of property had been low (as of early October); according to news reports from Friday, September 30, one home and handful of outbuildings had been lost. Mandatory evacuations were in place, involving at least 1,500 residents of the area.

On October 2, 2005, over 17,000 acres (69 km2) were burned. Furthermore, only 5% of the blaze was estimated to have been contained by the approximately 3,000 firefighters battling it. On October 6, the Topanga Fire was 100% contained, after it had expanded to .

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Q: Is there a name for this differential operator and/or its corresponding spectrum? Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a real, compact, orientable manifold and let $X$ be a vector field on $\mathcal{M}$.  Consider the functional
$$E(f) = \int_{\mathcal{M}} X_p(f)^2 dV$$
where $X_p(f)$ is the directional (Lie) derivative of $f$ along $X$ at the point $p$ and $dV$ is a volume form on $\mathcal{M}$ -- this functional essentially measures the total amount of change in $f$ along $X$ over all of $\mathcal{M}$ in the $L^2$ sense.  Then $\delta E(f)$ is a differential operator whose eigenspectrum
$$\delta E(f) = \lambda f$$
(for $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$) yields the critical points of $E$ over the set of functions with unit norm.  Is there an established name for this operator (or functional) and/or its corresponding eigenspectrum?
The prototype for this operator is Dirichlet's energy
$$\int_{\mathcal{M}} ||\nabla f||^2 dV$$
which has as its (unit-norm) critical points the Laplacian eigenspectrum
$$\nabla^2 f = \lambda f,$$
the main difference being that Dirichlet's energy measures the total gradient, i.e., the change in all directions, rather than just the change along a particular direction at each point.

A: There is an simple explicit formula for your operator in terms of known operators. To see this, note that $\delta E_f(g)$ (the differential of $E$ at the function $f$ in the direction $g$) is equal to
$$
2 \int X(f) X(g) dV = 2\int \left[L_X(g X(f) dV )-g\left(X(X(f)) dV+X(f)L_X(dV)\right)\right]
$$
where $L_X$ is the Lie deriviative with respect to $X$. Now, $\int L_X(\alpha) = 0$ for any top degree form $\alpha$, so we get
$$
\delta E_f(g) = - 2 \int_X g \left[X(X(f)) + X(f) div(X)\right]dV
$$
where the divergence of $X$ is defined by $div(X)= L_X(dV)/dV$. So, using the $L^2$-inner product on functions, we can interpret the 1-form $\delta E$ as the differential operator
$$
D :f \mapsto  - X(X(f)) - X(f) div(X).
$$
(This is the same way that the differential of Dirichlet energy is seen as the Laplacian.)
Note that the leading order part of D is just $X^2$ and so, in particular, $D$ is not elliptic. You'd expect this, of course, because $E$ only sees the change of $f$ in the $X$-direction.

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Hi. I hava a Lexmark Z45 printer. I have connected it to the router and i have installed the drivers on my computer (windows xp). In Status and log under Printer it says printer name: Lexmark Lexmark z45, and under Printer status it says Printer online.
But when i click printer sharing on the home page of the router i only get a dialog box saying: please refer to your manual for this function.
Therefore i don't get to run the printer setup wizard.
But now there is a new problem. I get an error saying there is a problem with communicating with the printer. "Wrong port registered. the Software is not set to USB-port"
Nobody knows an answer to this? I am really desperate. Any suggestions what to do? The printer is online and the asus printersharing port is installed.
I just get an error saying that the printer can only print from a USB-port.
Which firmware version you are using?
The error comes from the lexmark drivers.
you can maybe try to install your lexmark first at your pc after that change it to tcp/ip printing..
Thx for the tips Antiloop. I tried different lexmark drivers, like Z51, Z53 etc., and when i installed drivers for the Z42 it actually printed, and it seems to work fine.
I don't know what's the differences between Z42 and Z45, but it seems to work.


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Home Community Education WCCUSD selects Dr. Kenneth Chris Hurst, Sr. as new superintendent
WCCUSD selects Dr. Kenneth Chris Hurst, Sr. as new superintendent
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The West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) has a new superintendent. At its Wed., April 14 meeting, the Board of Trustees voted 5-0 to name Dr. Kenneth "Chris" Hurst, Sr. as the district's next superintendent. Dr. Hurst, who will leave his role as superintendent of the Othello School District in Othello, Wash. to lead the WCCUSD, will commence his three-year contract May 17.
In his new role, Dr. Hurst will bear the distinction of the being the WCCUSD's first permanent African American superintendent. (Per the district, Sylvester Greenwood and Dr. Cynthia LeBlanc both served as interim superintendents for one-year terms). He will be the district's 10th permanent superintendent.
"I am excited to get to work in West Contra Costa Unified and about working together to provide a world-class educational experience for students that prepares them to be globally competent and allows them to compete and participate in our diverse and global society," said Dr. Hurst. "I have an unwavering commitment and dedication to supporting a culture of inclusion and equity throughout the district and community, and what excites me is that we have a board and learning community interested in educational equity for all students."
Dr. Hurst's selection as WCCUSD superintendent followed a six-month search spurred by current Superintendent Matthew Duffy's announcement in November that he would not seek a contract extension. During the search, the district hosted more than 50 listening sessions with students, families, staff and local stakeholders, as well as gathered input from 6,000 community members regarding what qualities and qualification they would like to see in the next superintendent. Nearly 30 people throughout the country applied for the role.
During Dr. Hurst's five-year tenure with the 4,500-student Othello School District, located three hours southeast of Seattle, graduation rates increased by from 71 to 87 percent and absences were reduced by 33 percent. As superintendent of that district, he also implemented the K-12 pathway, Othello's Social-Emotional Learning Standards, tripled the number of preschool children and increased the percentage of preschool students prepared for kindergarten from 30 percent to more than 98 percent.
The Othello School District that Dr. Hurst oversaw is 91 percent Latinx and 32 percent English Language Learners, with 75 percent participating in free and reduced-price lunch. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he led them through the transition to Distance Learning, and eventually to a hybrid model this year.
Prior to heading up the Othello School District, Dr. Hurst served as the associate superintendent of educational services at Oceanside Unified School District, a 19,000-student district a half hour northwest of San Diego. There, he supervised the Oceanside Promise's implementation to ensure all Oceanside students graduated college-and-career-ready and established the Oceanside Promise Foundation, a 501(c)(3). Collaborating with ConnectEd California, he implemented Linked Learning to create K-12 pathways to prepare students to succeed in college and their careers. He also collaborated to implement the Future Ready technology initiative, aimed at preparing students for success in college, career and citizenship.
"As the incoming superintendent, I am eager to work within our learning community to confront and address issues of systemic racism, implicit bias and ensuring growth mindset at every level of the organization," Dr. Hurst said. "I'm equally excited about deepening our understanding of equity and systemic inequities and also moving toward what it should look like, feel like and sound like to have an equitable and culturally responsive education for all students."
Overall, Dr. Hurst has more than two decades of experience teaching and leading equity in urban, suburban and rural K-12 districts. This includes six years as a principal and assistant principal in Oceanside, as well as the turnaround principal for Jefferson Middle and Oceanside High schools. Notably, Dr. Hurst led double-digit growth in Oceanside High School's academic performance.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Hurst served as an administrator in the San Diego Unified and Poway Unified School Districts, in addition to serving as a U.S. Marine prior to entering academics. He earned his Doctorate in Education, K-12 Leadership (Magna Cum Laude), at the University of Southern California in 2011, and his Master of Arts Degree in Educational Administration (Magna Cum Laude) in 2008, and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics in 1997 at California State University, San Marcos. He also holds an Associate of Arts Degree from National University, San Diego.
Dr. Hurst and his wife, Crystal, are the parents of two adult children, a daughter who works as a sixth-grade teacher and a son who is a computer scientist.
"We are thrilled with Dr. Hurst's background, experience and readiness to hit the ground running here in our district and help us to the next level," said WCCUSD Board President Mister Phillips. "His acumen in social justice, equity and focus on accelerating student achievement here is impressive. His approach to collaborative leadership and knowledge of teaching strategies, as well as community involvement, are just what we need here in West Contra Costa."
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The Bosnian elections
Published 1997 by Center for Serbian Studies in Belgrade .
Bosnia and Hercegovina,
Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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Contributions Center for Serbian Studies (Belgrade, Serbia)
LC Classifications JN9679.B6 C38 1997
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First national post-war elections under way in Bosnia Bosnian party claims irregularities Septem Web posted at: p.m. EDT ( GMT). General Elections, 7 October International election observation mission press conference, 8 October , Sarajevo Following an invitation from the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and based on the findings and conclusions of the ODIHR Needs Assessment Mission, undertaken from 25 to 27 June , ODIHR has deployed an. Bosnian General Elections and the Post-Election Crisis 73 spectrum. For many observers, these elections were considered as the most interesting, and in terms of results, the most unpredictable ones in the post-Dayton Bosnia. These elections were generally conducted in line. The general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina is due to take place in October Nevertheless, the political crisis and the stalemate over the changes to the electoral legislation do not seem to wane. Dragan Čović, President of the HDZ BiH and Croatian presidency member, has recently reiterated his firm support to the proposed changes [ ].
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1,000 Pounds of Explosives used to Drop NGS's Three Massive Boilers
NGS Boiler Demolition
Latest Milestone in Decommissioning of the Huge Coal-Fired Power Plant
Salt River Project, demolition contractor Independence Excavating and blasting subcontractor Demtech, LLC, of Saxonburg, Penn., yesterday demolished Navajo Generating Station's three 245-foot-tall boilers with slightly more than 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Each of the massive 20,000-ton boilers and support structures rolled to the ground east of the power plant in just 10 seconds following detonation. The boiler demolition is part of SRP's continuing decommissioning of the nearly 50-year old coal-fired power plant that ceased operation on Nov. 18, 2019.
Val Whitehorse, O&M supervisor who has worked at NGS since January 2006, was selected to detonate the charge.
"It's bittersweet because of the personal experience working here," he said. "I grew up with this plant. My late, retired father (Earl Whitehorse) worked here before me. It's comparable to detonating and demolishing one of the monuments around here like Tower Butte. NGS has been an iconic symbol for more than 45 years."
In terms of scale, this demolition was significantly larger than the three electro-static precipitators, which were imploded on Dec. 18 and Jan. 19, and used significantly more explosive than was used to fell the three 775-foot stacks on Dec. 18.
"After more than 40 years of reliably converting water into very high-pressure steam for power generation, three of the largest boilers in the country have been laid to rest," said Gary Barras, SRP Director of Major Projects. "I very much appreciate the dedicated efforts of our entire NGS decommissioning team, including SRP personnel, Tetra Tech, Independence Excavating and Demtech, who all contributed to the safe demolition of these massive structures."
This was the most complex demolition so far because of the amount and mass of the steel in the boilers, support columns and hanger beams – a combined weight of 65,000 tons. It required six weeks to make more than 900 torch cuts on structural columns in each boiler and well over 10,000 cuts on pipes, non-structural members, separations and other equipment to allow the structures to fall where intended.
Doug Thomas, Independence Excavating senior project manager, rated the magnitude of this demolition as one of his company's biggest.
"Every blast is unique and each has its own level of critical and technical concerns," he said. "By sheer scale, this is in the category of the IX's larger blasts."
Thomas Greiwe, president of blasting subcontractor Demtech, said 540 pounds of linear-shaped charges were used to cut through steel support beams, some five inches thick, and 480 pounds of dynamite kicked them out of the way so the boilers fell precisely where planned.
The boilers' many miles of water wall tubes made up the exterior walls of the furnace box and extended the entire height of the boiler walls. With the exception of the supporting beams and sheet metal skin, the entirety of each boiler was comprised of many banks of water wall, superheated and reheater tubes.
Within each boiler were the huge, roiling, blindingly yellow fireballs. These were continuously fed by baby powder-fine injections of coal that ignited instantly like gasoline. The fireballs heated super-purified water within thousands of tubes to 1,005 degrees. This created an invisible, waterless steam – or "weam," as operators called it – that turned the hundreds of massive turbine blades to create electricity.
"For the last 15 years of my career at NGS, I oversaw the coal handling system from when it was unloaded until it was blown into the boilers," said Lemuel Brown, SRP's field decommissioning manager. "To get a picture of the size of each of these boilers when inside, it was close to a regular full-size basketball court and about 180 feet tall. I think of all the times we had to get inside to find a leak and do the repairs as safe and efficiently as we could. Sometimes I told my wife what we did. She'd cringe and say, 'Are you crazy or what?'"
Dust from the demolition was controlled by water sprayed and misted from "dust bosses," also known as water cannons.
Once the boiler debris is cleared away, next to be demolished will be the three-unit NGS turbine block where electricity was made.
George Hardeen
george.hardeen@srpnet.com
Scott Harelson
SRP Spokesperson
Scott.Harelson@srpnet.com


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La « chapelle Sainte-Barbe » est située  au lieu-dit Sainte-Barbe, sur la commune de Plouharnel dans le Morbihan.

Historique
La chapelle est située dans un hameau longtemps appelé « Pen er Bloé », autrement dit « le village du bout de la paroisse ».

La chapelle fait l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du .

Ce monument a été un site important de la Bataille de Sainte-Barbe durant l'expédition de Quiberon qui se déroula lors de la Chouannerie.

Architecture
La chapelle est édifiée en forme rectangulaire et présente des contreforts à retraits et pinacles, crosses et choux rampants. Elle possède un clocher carré au-dessus de la porte occidentale encadrée de clochetons. Deux statues incomplètes surmontent les contreforts d'angle de la façade.

Le portail occidental

Les pinacles sont surmontés chacun d'une statue, dont les têtes furent brisées .

Le clocher
Le clocher de la chapelle Sainte-Barbe a été récemment rénové et une nouvelle girouette en forme de poisson a été posée en remplacement de l'ancienne qui était tombé au sol.

La façade Nord
La porte nord est en arc brisé mouluré. Elle est surmontée d'une archivolte à crochets et chevron.
Un banc de pierre s'aligne le long de la façade.

Mobilier

En 1876, l'intérieur de la chapelle fut entièrement saccagé.

Le Chœur
Le vitrail retrace la vie de sainte Barbe. La tour où son père voulait l'enfermer pour éviter tout contact avec les chrétiens est présente. Le père qui lève son épée sur sa fille qui ne veut pas renier sa religion, est représenté au centre. Le père foudroyé, châtiment céleste, est représenté en haut du vitrail.

Le vitrail  a été réalisé entre 1979 et 1980 par le maître verrier Gérard Milon.

À droite de l'autel, se trouve une remarquable crédence ou piscine.

La nef
Sur le mur ouest, un escalier permet d'accéder au clocher. Ce clocher est célèbre depuis que le général Hoche y avait établi un observatoire vers 1795 lors de l'affaire de Quiberon.

Au centre du mur sud, une niche devait être une crédence. Cette chapelle devait sans doute posséder un second autel, situé au centre de la chapelle ; cette configuration est rarement rencontrée.

L'intérieur de la chapelle a été récemment rénovée (2018-19) grâce au travail de l'association « Les Amis de la chapelle et du site de Sainte-Barbe ».

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Monuments historiques du Morbihan

Liens externes

 Plouharnel, patrimoine religieux

Plouharnel, Sainte-Barbe
Monument historique inscrit en 1925
Plouharnel


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Cuphea ramosissima är en fackelblomsväxtart som beskrevs av Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl och Emil Bernhard Koehne. Cuphea ramosissima ingår i släktet blossblommor, och familjen fackelblomsväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Following a West End run last year, Scamp Theatre's The Scarecrows' Wedding is heading out on a UK tour from April. The play is an adaptation of the best-selling picturebook by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, from a theatre company who specialise in bringing well-loved children's books to the stage. We talk to Director Eva Sampson about the play's enduring popularity, making theatre for young audiences and more..
What can audiences expect from The Scarecrows' Wedding?
The show was once described as a 'mini folk musical for families' and I think that's pretty accurate. It's full of fun, character, and silliness, and celebrates the epic love story of two very charming scarecrows, Harry and Betty!
The Scarecrows' Wedding originally played at the Edinburgh Fringe, followed by a UK tour, in 2015, was on in the West End last year, and is back on tour again in 2017.Why do you think the show is enduringly popular with audiences?
I think everybody (even secretly) enjoys a good love story. The popularity of the book is testament to the genius of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and their ability to create loveable characters that audiences can really get behind. We've had a lot of fun bringing these characters to the stage and I think that comes across in the production – it's one big celebration.
How do you successfully translate a popular picturebook to the stage?
When adapting a picturebook for the stage, especially one that is much-loved by children, there's of course a pressure to really do it justice. I believe that there will be elements of the book – certain images – that a child will want to see on stage, and they will find pleasure in their recognition of them. These images are my starting point. It's then about building on these images in an imaginative way, sometimes re-inventing them but always, at all times, staying true to the story. For me, it's really important that we create non-patronising, playful pieces of theatre, which encourage children to use their imaginations.
What is the process for sending a show out on tour again? What is your involvement as a director?
Prior to the show going out on tour, I will be rehearsing in a brand new set of actors, who will inevitably bring their own personalities to the show and make it their own. Rehearsals for remounted productions always give the company an opportunity to discover new things and keep the show fresh.
What led you to become a director, and to your focus on theatre for young audiences?
I originally trained as an actor at East 15 but it wasn't long before I took up directing. As an actor I was always more pre-occupied with the kind of 'pictures' we were making and the overall vision of the piece. I began Assistant and Associate Directing as much as I could – I wanted to learn from directors I admired and respected. During the first couple of years I learnt that half of the job is about managing the 'temperature' of the room and making sure that a company feels as comfortable as possible, so that they can be more open and playful. I then went on to train on the National Theatre Studio Director's Course, which was a great honour and turning point in my career as a young director.
I love making work for children and young people – their honesty and responsiveness is fantastic. They certainly let you know how they feel about the show whether it be positive or negative – you know where you stand! I believe that children's theatre should be approached in exactly same way as you would any piece of theatre – it starts with truth.
A period of research and development phase can be really valuable. It gives you the space to play without restriction and make vital discoveries that gives you a real head start prior to rehearsals.
I remember seeing a lot of theatre and cinema with my Grandma as a child. She used to take my older brother and I on days out and I look back on those days really fondly. My late uncle Richard Sampson was also a dancer and choreographer who worked on many musicals in the West End in the '80s. Richard is a massive inspiration to me and I inherited a huge vinyl collection from him, which I really cherish.
I am currently working as the Assistant Director on I Capture The Castle – a new British musical based on the novel by Dodie Smith. The production will open at Watford Palace Theatre on 31 March 2017.
The Scarecrows' Wedding is touring nationally from April 2017. Click here for more information and tour dates.


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Tottenham Must Seize Opportunity in Queasy Burnley Fixture
By Jude Summerfield
Oct 26, 2020, 10:30 AM GMT
Tottenham drew 3-3 with West Ham in their last Premier League fixture | Pool/Getty Images
If you're a Tottenham fan, you'll understand why you feel a little bit sick ahead of the game against Burnley on Monday night.
In all honesty, a trip to Turf Moor will make supporters of any club a little queasy. It has got that gravelly, hard-nut reputation after all.
But if you were tuned in to Spurs' last game, one in which they led 3-0 against West Ham before capitulating to take just one point, you'll understand why the omens seem bad.
But they really shouldn't be.
Tottenham, alongside Liverpool, have scored the most goals in the Premier League so far this season and have racked up 11 goals in two away games courtesy of their thumping wins at Southampton and Manchester United.
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— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) October 25, 2020
Giovani Lo Celso is fit again and could start, while Tanguy Ndombele - who played no part in the Europa League victory over LASK - has been one of the side's positive stories of the season. He's looking as fit as he ever has at Spurs, and his partnership with Lo Celso could be exhilarating.
But even at this early stage in the season, Tottenham have been gifted a chance to put some daylight between themselves and a number of the top six sides.
Liverpool got their win against Sheffield United, but elsewhere there were draws for Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea, while Arsenal fell to a late defeat to Leicester.
That's one bad omen, especially as similar results went Tottenham's way before their game with West Ham. The fixture at Burnley is a massive chance to bank some points while also showing more of a backbone, something they haven't done as well as they might have this season.
Dele Alli's penalty earned Tottenham a point in their last trip to Turf Moor | Stu Forster/Getty Images
Sure, they've only lost once so far this term - that being the opening day defeat to Everton - but there have been missed opportunities littered elsewhere.
Newcastle should have been beaten, dodgy handball decision or not, while the foot was taken off the gas against West Ham. The Manuel Lanzini strike was one horrible punch in the gut, but one Spurs had coming.
Any team who can put together a decent run of results during the next couple of months will see themselves firmly in the title picture, but that's easier said than done.
⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽?? @SpursOfficial forward Harry Kane has been directly involved in eight goals in his last four #PL appearances against Burnley (six goals, two assists)#BURTOT pic.twitter.com/H48iBPexRg
— Premier League (@premierleague) October 26, 2020
Manager Jose Mourinho has talked at length about the need to take things one game at a time, and he's right - especially given that Tottenham face a gruelling run of fixtures from late November to Boxing Day.
After Burnley, the north London outfit face Brighton and West Brom, before a scary looking fixture list which sees them up against Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Liverpool, Leicester and Wolves.
There can be no slip-ups at this stage before that stretch of tough games, especially with other teams failing to bank points when they're readily available.
Jose Mourinho has assembled a rich squad | Matthew Ashton - AMA/Getty Images
Burnley themselves have had a poor start to the season - managing just one point from their opening four games - but it's exactly the type of game they may thrive in. If their big strikers up front get a whiff that Tottenham's centre backs don't fancy the challenge, things could go downhill for the visitors.
No matter which way the game goes, most Spurs fans will probably be glad one way or another once it's over. Hopefully it'll be with three points and not a sick bag.
For more from Jude Summerfield, follow him on Twitter!


Join The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury on Wednesday evening, May 8th, for a unique and fun presentation by Master Floral Designer Ruth Loiseau, a 30-year veteran of creating floral arrangements for White House holidays and state occasions.
Loiseau will be sharing behind-the-scenes stories from Reagan through Trump and will be creating seven original floral arrangements, which be raffled.
Doors open at 6:00 PM for registration and light refreshments. The presentation begins at 7:00 PM. Proceeds benefit the non-profit garden club's education programs and community beautification projects.
Advance tickets are $15.00 and are available from any member of the garden club and at Picture This Framing, 2093 Centre St., West Roxbury. To order tickets by mail, email WhiteHouseWestRox@gmail.com for information and an order form.
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Q: get info and store the info XmlSerialized web page, windows phone I need to be able to do the following:
When the user starts typing, the code goes to this url (XMLSerialized) and then finds all the Stop Name's and then display's them in a auto complete box. Once the user finds the correct one, they then click a button that then goes back to the same URL and then finds the stop id. Then it stores the stop id in a textbox or something for another search (this has been compeleted)
The code format he URL is:
<ArrayOfStop xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/BusExpress.ClassLibrary" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<Stop z:Id="i1" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">
<EntityKey z:Id="i2" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data.Objects.DataClasses" xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data">
<a:EntityContainerName>busExpressEntities</a:EntityContainerName>
<a:EntityKeyValues><a:EntityKeyMember>
<a:Key>stopId</a:Key>
<a:Value i:type="b:int" xmlns:b="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">6400</a:Value>
</a:EntityKeyMember></a:EntityKeyValues>
<a:EntitySetName>StopSet</a:EntitySetName>
</EntityKey>
<AtcoCode>1400WE0400</AtcoCode>
<GPSStopName>Rajdutt Restaurant</GPSStopName>
<Lat>50.952913243742266</Lat><Long>0.11696262657641121</Long>
<LongName>Rajdutt Restaurant</LongName>
<NaptanCode>esudadga</NaptanCode>
<OperatorsCode1>04032</OperatorsCode1>
<OperatorsCode2>4032</OperatorsCode2>
<OperatorsCode3>80414</OperatorsCode3>
<OperatorsCode4>esudadga</OperatorsCode4>
<StopName>Rajdutt Restaurant</StopName>
<route_stop /><route_stop_stop />
<route_stop_timetable_stop /><stopId>6400
</stopId>
</Stop>

<Stop z:Id="i3" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">
<EntityKey z:Id="i4"   xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data.Objects.DataClasses" xmlns:a="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data">
<a:EntityContainerName>busExpressEntities</a:EntityContainerName>
<a:EntityKeyValues><a:EntityKeyMember>
<a:Key>stopId</a:Key>
<a:Value i:type="b:int" xmlns:b="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">6401</a:Value>
/a:EntityKeyMember></a:EntityKeyValues>
<a:EntitySetName>StopSet</a:EntitySetName>
</EntityKey>
<AtcoCode>1400LE10031</AtcoCode>
<GPSStopName>Cysleys Farm</GPSStopName>
<Lat>50.955104287650805</Lat>
<Long>0.11356099694967536</Long>
<LongName>Cysleys Farm</LongName>
<NaptanCode>esudgpgj</NaptanCode>
<OperatorsCode1>04033</OperatorsCode1>
<OperatorsCode2>4033</OperatorsCode2>
<OperatorsCode3 /><OperatorsCode4>esudgpgj</OperatorsCode4>
<StopName>Cysleys Farm (by request only)</StopName>
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Edit I get this error when trying to get the data
Could not find schema information for the element

A: You will need the following tools to do what you want:
For reading the XML:
Option 1: Use the XmlSerializer class to load the data, if you have the c# classes that represent the XML (read more here).
Option 2: Read the XML raw using XDocument (see here)
For auto-complete box, you can look at the Silverlight Toolkit. I found the implementation to be lacking, but I know some people use it (find it here). You can also implement it by yourself by using a ListBox you will show/hide on the page.


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Convention on Biological Diversity (Zero Draft) of the Kunming Declaration - Towards an Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth
We, the Ministers and other heads of delegations, having met in person in Kunming, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, and remotely, on 12 and 13 October 2021, on the occasion of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, and at the invitation of the Government of the People's Republic of China,
Recalling the relevance of the 2050 Vision "Living in harmony with nature",
Emphasizing that biodiversity, and the ecosystem functions and services it provides, support all forms of life on Earth and underpin our human and planetary health and well-being, economic growth and sustainable development,
Concerned that the ongoing loss of biodiversity jeopardizes achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,
Recognizing that progress has been made in the last decade, under the 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, but deeply concerned that such progress has been insufficient to achieve the Aichi Biodiversity Targets,
Acknowledging with grave concern that the unprecedented and interdependent crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, land desertification, and increasing risks to human health and food security, pose an existential threat to our society, our prosperity and our planet,
Recognizing that these crises share many underlying drivers of change,
Acknowledging that indigenous peoples and local communities have contributed to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the application of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices,
Stressing, therefore, that urgent and integrated action is needed across all sectors of the economy and all parts of society, through policy coherence at all levels of government, and synergies across Conventions and multilateral organizations, to shape a future path for nature and people, where biodiversity is conserved and used sustainably, and its benefits are shared fairly and equitably, as an integral part of sustainable development,
Noting that a combination of measures are needed to halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity, including actions to enhance the conservation and restoration of ecosystems, mitigate climate change, reduce pollution, control invasive alien species and prevent overexploitation, as well as actions to ensure the sustainable production of goods and services, and reduce consumption and waste, recognizing that none of these measures alone, nor in partial combinations, is sufficient and that the effectiveness of each measure is enhanced by the other,
Noting that this requires the building of an "Ecological Civilization", whereby, Nature is respected, "lucid waters and lush mountains" and all ecosystems are recognized and protected as invaluable assets, promoting a harmonious relationship between economic development and eco-environmental conservation,
Reaffirming the Cancun Declaration on Mainstreaming the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Well-Being and the Sharm el Sheikh Declaration on Investing in Biodiversity for People and Planet, as well as the outcomes of the 2021 International Conference on Environmental Justice, We declare that putting biodiversity on a path to recovery is a defining challenge of this decade, in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, requiring strong political momentum to develop, adopt and implement, an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework,
1. Ensure the negotiation, adoption and implementation of an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework, with provision of the means of implementation, and appropriate mechanisms for monitoring, reporting and review, to ensure that biodiversity is put on a path to recovery by 2030 at the latest, towards the full realization of the 2050 Vision of "Living in Harmony with Nature";
2. Support the negotiation, adoption and implementation of an effective post-2020 Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;
3. Work across our governments to continue to promote the integration, or "mainstreaming" of biodiversity values into decision-making as well as into policies, regulations, planning processes, poverty reduction strategies, and economic accounting and strengthen cross-sectoral coordinating mechanisms on biodiversity;
4. Accelerate the development and update of the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and make halting biodiversity loss an important goal of them;
5. Improve the effectiveness of area-based conservation and management through establishing effective systems of protected areas and adopting other effective area-based conservation measures, and protect wild species and reduce or eliminate threats to biodiversity
6. Actively advance the global environmental legal system that safeguards the environmental rights and interests of human beings, establish a sound and strict system of biodiversity laws and regulations, and conserve biodiversity with the strictest legal system and the most stringent regulatory arrangements. Uphold the principle of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, give play to the role of the judiciary, severely crack down on the illegal trafficking and trade of wildlife, advocate the use of diversified dispute resolution methods, and adopt preventive and restorative judicial measures to ensure that wildlife is protected.;
7. Step up our efforts to ensure the fair and equitable benefit-sharing from the use of genetic resources, including related traditional knowledge and in the context of ongoing and emerging developments in technology;
8. Strengthen measures for the regulation, assessment and management of emerging technologies and of the potential risks associated with the use and release of living modified organisms;
9. Increase the application of Ecosystem-based Approaches or Nature-based Solutions to address biodiversity loss, restore degraded ecosystems, boost resilience, mitigate and adapt to climate change, support sustainable food production, promote health, and contribute to other challenges, enhancing One Health approaches and ensuring benefits across economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, through robust safeguards for environmental and social protection,
10. Ensure that post-COVID recovery policies, programmes and plans contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, to promote green development pathways that tap ecological potential for economic strengths with equitable and inclusive employment opportunities;
11. Work with ministries of finance and economy to reform incentive structures, phase out or reform subsidies and other incentives that are harmful to biodiversity, mobilize additional financial resources, and align all financial flows in support of the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and in particular to increase the provision of financial, technological and capacity building support to developing countries;
12. Encourage indigenous peoples and local communities, women, youth, civil society, local governments and authorities, academia, the business and financial sectors, and other relevant stakeholders to make their voluntary commitments available on the Sharm el Sheikh to Kunming Action Agenda for Nature and People, and to continue to build the momentum for the implementation of the post 2020 global biodiversity framework;
13. Further enhance collaboration and coordinate actions with ongoing multilateral environmental agreements, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, as well as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other related international processes, to promote synergistic approaches for the protection, conservation, sustainable management and restoration of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats, while contributing to other sustainable development goals, aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This Declaration will be submitted to the General Assembly of United Nations, the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, and the 6th United Nations Environment Assembly.
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Reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions is now on the table. Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on Way Forward for the Global Economy
Speech by Janet Yellen US Treasury Secretary republished from here. "My thanks to Fred and the Atlantic Council for hosting me today. The course of the global economy over the past two years has been shaped by COVID-19 and our efforts to fight the pandemic. It's now evident though that the war between Russia and Ukraine has redrawn the contours of the world economic outlook. Vladimir Putin's unprovoked attack on Ukraine and its people is taking a devastating human toll—with lives tragically lost, families internally displaced or becoming refugees, and communities and cities destroyed. The atrocities in Bucha are the latest grim reminder of the brutality of Putin's war of choice. Its impacts are reverberating to neighboring countries and beyond. The Biden Administration stands firmly with the people of Ukraine as they defend their lives, their homes, and their country. We are resolute in our commitment to hold Russia accountable. Russia's horrific conduct has violated i


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Франсиско Бенко (при рождении — Франц Бенко; , , , 24 июня 1910, Берлин — 11 января 2010, Буэнос-Айрес) — аргентинский шахматист (мастер) и шахматный композитор, уроженец Германии.

Биография
Родился в Берлине в еврейской семье. Отец Рихард Вильгельм Бенко приехал в Германию из Венгрии, мать Алиса Йозефина Хелена Пикк — из Австрии.

Первую известность приобрел в 1928 г., когда в сеансе одновременной игры завершил вничью партию с чемпионом мира А. А. Алехиным.

В 1935 г. получил звание мастера. Через год вместе с сестрой, спасаясь от политики нацистов, эмигрировал сначала в Нидерланды, а оттуда — в Аргентину (родители остались в Германии и погибли в концлагере).

Участвовал во многих чемпионатах Аргентины (первый раз в 1937 г., последний — в 2004 г.). Неоднократно принимал участие в международных турнирах в Буэнос-Айресе и Мар-дель-Плате.

В 1954 г. представлял Аргентину в зональном турнире претендентского цикла 1954—1955.

Шахматная композиция
С 1928 г. состоял в обществе "Die Schwalbe". По творческим установкам был близок к А. Кремеру, Э. Цеплеру и Э. Биргфельду.

Собрал коллекцию шахматных композиций, объемом более 30 тыс. произведений.

Из собственного творчества Бенко наиболее известна следующая трехходовка (см. диаграмму):

1. Кc4! (1. Кe8? Фg3 2. f8Ф+ Фg8 3. Фf6+ Фg7). Теперь черные в цугцванге. Они не могут одновременно держать под защитой свою пешку на b3 и поле f8. Если 1... Фg3, то после 2. f8Ф+ Фg8 черный ферзь не защищает пешку, и следует 3. Кр:b3#.

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 Партии Ф. Бенко  в базе Chessgames
 Личная карточка Ф. Бенко  на сайте 365Chess

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Шахматисты Аргентины
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Шахматисты XX века
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What are harmonics
There is a close relationship between music and physics in the field of sound. The starting point of consideration is the so-called overtone series, which describes that a sound consists of several individual tones found in certain physical contexts.
Probably the most important overtone series is the natural tone series of harmonics, consisting of overtones whose frequency is an integer multiple of the fundamental tone. This primarily makes it possible to create a range of tools. The technique of playing is also based on this.
Harmonics are the basis of sound coloring. A musical instrument has a unique timbre, which is generated by harmonics, by overtone. That is why people hear differences in how the piano sounds with the guitar and saxophone. What are harmonica in music, overtone, part – it will be described below.
It is necessary to know the description of a number of basic terms for the most complete disclosure of the topic. Harmonica in music is the name of each tone in the natural sound range. The tone differs from the main, first component of the sound range.
An overtone is any frequency that exceeds the fundamental sound frequency. The highest tones that arise from the lowest note or fundamental one are overtones.
Harmonic distortion is distortion that is a multiple of the fundamental signal. A harmonic oscillation is an oscillation in which the magnitudes of motion vary by sine or cosine. A harmonic balancer is a one-time sound interval, and a harmonic series is a series of sounds that are in different ratios with each other.
Harmonics characteristics
Harmonics are divided conditionally into types according to their characteristics. Musicians share it by serial number with musical frequency and sequence. According to the well-known characteristics:
The ordinal harmonic number is a number that indicates the amount of frequency excess from the harmonic basis;
The harmonic frequency determines the indicator, which is determined by multiplying the serial number by the fundamental frequency of 50 Hertz.
According to the sequence, the tone in each sound row has a direct, reverse, zero sequence. The fourth, seventh, tenth, thirteenth sound coloring forms a symmetrical tension of direct sequence. That is, it coincides with the sequence of the first harmonic phase. The second, fifth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth forms tension of reverse sequence relative to main frequency. The third, sixth, ninth, twelfth coincides with the zeroth order of the phase sequence. As a result, a symmetrical zero-sequence system is formed.
Harmonics diagram
Harmonics, overtones are sinusoidal oscillation. The harmonic diagram shows the change in air pressure on a person's hearing. Air pressure changes up, down and periodically. The air pushes harder and weaker. The impact is small. A series of oscillations occurs rapidly: hundreds of sound shocks occur per second. Due to such periodic vibrations, a person perceives sound.
Series of harmonic overtones
Harmonic overtone is a set of additional sounds in the upper range. Their frequency is a multiple of the fundamental tone. If the frequency of the overtone oscillations goes beyond the brevity of the fundamental tone, we are talking about a non-harmonic overtone. It is a strong difference between the sound of the main and the additional sound. The difference arises during the vibration of large strings. Harmonic overtone is one of the most sought-after concepts in musical terms. Its multiplicity is expressed as an improper and proper fraction. The amplitude of the sound is also taken into account. It is often confused with an indicator of loudness, vibrational frequency, resonant indicator.
Parts, overtones and harmonics
An overtone is any particle that is higher than the lowest in a complex key. The relative strength and frequency ratio of the partial overtone determines the instrumental timbre. The similarity of the overtone and the harmonic particle of the sound series leads to free interchangeable use in a musical context. But, the values are taken into account in different ways. In many musical instruments, upper harmonic tones are allowed to play without root notes. In sound recording, this raises the pitch of the note by an octave. In a number of more complex cases, other pitches are used. In some situations, the use of harmonic tones changes the musical timbre.
Unlike the overtone, harmonica is used to test the tuning of the strings in unison. Both parts of the sound range are a popular means for self-expression, decoration of musical parts. For example, a guitarist enriches a solo with peculiar screeching overtones. Harmonics also look interesting in guitar riffs. They effectively complete the harmonic screeching sounds at the ends of the phrase squares.
On string instruments
Harmonics on string musical instruments, on violins, are produced once. Еhe point of contact with the bow changes to do this, the line is lightly pressed at the nodes or aliquot parts, and the main note is played. Then the entire harmonic scale is sequentially reproduced on an outdated and highly resonant musical instrument by moving the bow from its usual place. The use of it is called sul ponticello. It is better to play notes with a light finger pressure on an open string. When they are produced by light pressure on the various knots of the open strings, this results in natural harmonics. Violinists know that they have a richer, more unusual sound than sul ponticello. They are well aware that the larger the string to the thickness, the greater the output of the upper tones.
Sometimes the part requires the connection of an artificial harmonica. It is created by overtone reproduction on the set musical string. For technique, several fingers on the fingerboard are used. The first is needed to shorten the string to the desired note. The second is required to touch the node that corresponds to the harmonic key.


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Dispute continues over Florida's lethal injection cocktail
Posted By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida on Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 1:05 PM
Photo via Florida Department of Corrections
A Death Row inmate scheduled to be executed this month continues to mount challenges to the state's newly adopted lethal-injection procedure —- never before used in Florida or any other state —- but Attorney General Pam Bondi's lawyers are urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject the latest attempt.
Gov. Rick Scott ordered Mark James Asay to be executed on Aug. 24, essentially ending a hold on the state's death penalty caused by a series of court rulings. Asay is scheduled to be put to death more than 19 months after Scott originally signed a death warrant in his case.
Since that January 2016 warrant, the Florida Department of Corrections has switched the formula used in the triple-drug lethal injection procedure, called a "protocol."
In the new protocol, Florida is substituting etomidate for midazolam as the critical first drug, used to sedate prisoners before injecting them with a paralytic and then a drug used to stop prisoners' hearts.
Asay's lawyer, Marty McClain, failed to convince a Duval County judge that the new protocol is unconstitutional because etomidate can cause pain after being injected and can result in "myoclonus," or involuntary movements, such as twitches or jerks.
But this weekend, McClain —- who wants the state to use the old drug formula, or switch to a single-drug execution protocol —- asked the Supreme Court to accept a "declaration" from anesthesiologist John Robert Sneyd regarding the hazards of using etomidate as part of the triple-drug lethal injection cocktail.
"Excitatory movements such as myoclonus may compromise electronic brain monitoring and render this method of patient monitoring ineffective for the person attempting the killing to be confident that the subject of the execution attempt is unconscious," Sneyd wrote.
But Assistant Attorney General Charmaine Millsaps asked the Supreme Court to strike the declaration, arguing that it is procedurally barred because it was never heard by Duval County Circuit Judge Tatiana Salvador before she ruled against Asay's challenge to the lethal-injection protocol late last month.
"This (Supreme) Court cannot consider factual matters that were not presented to the trial court. The declaration is an attempt to circumvent the trial court's fact-finding role," Millsaps wrote in a three-page motion filed Monday.
In a separate filing Monday afternoon, McClain also continued to accuse Bondi's office of denying Asay the right to due process by hoodwinking his lawyers into agreeing to a delay in a review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Bondi "utilized her statutory power to bring about an execution date that diminished" Asay's chances of having the U.S. Supreme Court review his case, McClain wrote in the 30-page brief.
McClain has argued that Bondi misrepresented the status of the case when she gave the governor a go-ahead for scheduling the execution.
After McClain filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, known as a "writ of certiorari," this spring, Bondi sought a 30-day extension in the case.
McClain said he interpreted Bondi's request for a postponement, to which he agreed, to mean that the state would not seek a new execution date for Asay until after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the appeal this fall.
Without the 30-day extension, the U.S. justices could have taken up Asay's appeal before their summer hiatus, which started on June 28 and lasts until October, McClain argued.
Instead, the court gave Bondi until July 5 to file her response to Asay's request.
Two days before the deadline, Bondi certified to Scott that Asay was eligible for execution. After Scott signed Asay's death warrant on July 3, setting the execution date for Aug. 24, Bondi quickly filed an objection to Asay's appeal in the U.S. court.
Since a death warrant has been issued in Asay's case, it would take five U.S. Supreme Court justices to order a review, instead of the four that would have been necessary to grant a petition in the absence of a pending execution date, McClain wrote in a letter to the governor last month.
But Bondi's lawyers, in court filings, maintain that the governor has "unfettered discretion" to sign death warrants and is not obligated to wait until the federal appeals have been resolved.
Asay's execution would be the first carried out in Florida since a January 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision, in a case known as Hurst v. Florida, that found Florida's death penalty sentencing system was unconstitutional because it gave too much power to judges, instead of juries.
The sentencing process has since been revised, but the death penalty has been in limbo Florida following the Hurst decision and a series of subsequent state court rulings.
Asay was convicted of the 1988 killings of Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell in downtown Jacksonville.
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Joints are those connections between bones which provides you support and help in your movement, any damage that may cause to joints end up in extreme pain, according to a research one third of the adults these days are suffering through joint problems, knee pain, shoulder pain and hip pain are the most heard complaints.
As a person gets older their joint issues tend to increase, joint pain has no specific time duration it can go on for weeks and months even temporary joint pain can affect your overall health therefore taking joint supplements is very important specially when a person is entering hid 30's and 40's because that is the age when people face decline in their bone health. If a person has weak bones it affects their overall health too because the weakness leads to unrest and people cannot work efficiently and it distracts attention too.
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It consist of bioactive components like glycosaminoglycans, collagen type 2 and fibrous proteins, there are 29 different types of collagen found in our bodies the most common are type 1 and type 2.
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Huawei Chooses HiDeep's Force Touch Technology for Its P9 Plus
South Korea's Force Touch 404 Chip was chosen by China's Huawei for its new-application Smartphone. Force Touch is a technology that recognizes force and implements interface depending on pressure.
According to an industry on the 13th, South Korea's HiDeep's Force Touch Chip (IC) was used for P9 Plus that was recently announced by Huawei. P9 Plus is Huawei's flagship model with 5.5-inch Full HD Display and a dual-camera with 12 million pixels.
HiDeep once supplied its Force Touch Chip to Huawei for the first time in September of last year for its Mate S model. This is the second time Huawei is using HiDeep's Force Touch Chip.
As cooperation between two companies expands, there will be positive effects for HiDeep due to having its Force Touch Chip used for Huawei's major model.
Huawei is the fastest growing Smartphone company out of global Smartphone markets. As its shipment increased by 44% last year, it became the third company followed by Samsung and Apple to supply 100 million phones.
Unlike Xiaomi and other Chinese Smartphone manufacturers, Huawei is increasing its influence even in premium Smartphone markets by putting out its patents and technical skills. P9 is a new-application product that represents Huawei's strategy, and a South Korean company is responsible for one of P9's major axis.
HiDeep was established in 2010. Although it is a venture company with only 6 years of experience, HiDeep and Apple are the only ones that commercialized Force Touch 404. Because Apple is using Force Touch technology only for its products, HiDeep is viewed as an alternative for Android phones that are competing against iPhones. HiDeep also agreed to supply Force Touch Chip to China's Gionee.
Staff Reporter Yun, Kunil | benyun@etnews.com Apr 14, 2016
http://english.etnews.com/20160414200002
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This is not new, but it's alarming how more and more discussion topics must be relevant to the moment, and the moment is constantly shortening. Years ago, we could discuss something that happened in the first week of the baseball season, and it would be fun just to be able to talk about baseball.
Now, with the advancement of the ESPNSportZone 24-hour news cycle, twitter, tumblr, blah, blah, blah, people more than ever want to know what is NOW.
Are you The Ted Williams?
Remember when the homeless guy from Cleveland got a great job doing Cavs games on the radio? When was the last time anyone on Access Hollywood even thought about that guy?
What else? Oh, I love the NFL! I love the NFL Draft! Cam Newton? Oh yeah, cool, let's talk about Cam Newton! Booring, the Royal Wedding is on! Cool!
The Royal Wedding took up much of the world's attention yesterday and in the days, weeks, and months leading up. Besides the lunatics who stayed up all night or got up in the middle of the night for the coverage, the US awoke to live coverage of some stage in the Royal Wedding. If you were near a TV, it was more than likely set to a channel covering the nuptials. Facebook and Twitter were basically taken over by Brit aficionados.
So that's Pippa's arse. Ok.
For a couple of hours, I decided to get into it; sure, why not? Who's this Pippa everyone is tweeting about? She's wearing white? Is that okay? What does "Pippa's arse" mean?
How long until the Royal Wedding is nothing more than a memory we keep, like so many others?
The attention span of individuals in the world is shrinking. Depending on media form and topic, it seems that some attention spans have literally been shrunken to under 5 seconds.
What? We lost you already?
One of the things I'm continuously learning, while blathering about baseball observations in this space is how statistically researched posts done during the season must be done quickly before games begin again the next day and your data set could be altered completely.
We are currently setting the stage for a pitch values post that promises to take way too long to write, compared with the intrinsic return gained from reading the summation. So is the life of an existential basement dweller.
Two weeks ago, we looked at "Which pitchers have had the largest difference in average velocity between their fastball and change-up?" As a reward for getting through the above, let's revisit that topic with almost twice as much of a sample size.
As Warren Spahn said, "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."
Note: All stats are from Fangraphs. We're using a minimum of 10 IP, and they must throw their fastball and changeup more than 10% each.
Today's games just started, enjoy!


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Vancouver Fraser Port Authority joins leading port authorities in climate action program
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the organization responsible for the stewardship of the Port of Vancouver, is pleased to announce its participation in the World Ports Climate Action Program. In this new international initiative, the port authorities of Vancouver, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Barcelona will be joining forces and working together on a number of projects that address the issue of global warming.
The international collaboration was announced last week during the opening session of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
The World Ports Climate Action Program focuses on the following specific five actions:
Increasing efficiency of supply chains using digital tools.
Advancing common and ambitious public policy approaches on emission reductions within larger geographical areas.
Accelerating development of in-port renewable power-to-ship solutions or other zero emission solutions.
Accelerating the development of commercially viable sustainable low-carbon fuels for maritime transport and infrastructure for electrification of ship propulsion systems.
Accelerating efforts to fully decarbonize cargo-handling facilities in our ports.
In addition to its participation in the World Ports Climate Action Program, as part of its approach to environmental stewardship and sustainability, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority leads a number of initiatives to protect the lands and waters within its jurisdiction:
The Port of Vancouver was the first port in Canada with stringent environmental requirements for container drayage trucks to reduce air emissions, implemented by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority in 2008.
With participation from the port community, the port authority delivered a port-wide emissions inventory to track port emissions and help develop solutions to reduce them.
For more than 20 years, the port authority has been proactively building local habitat through its Habitat Enhancement Program, an initiative focused on creating, restoring and improving the viability and sustainability of fish and wildlife habitat.
On January 1, 2017, the port authority added new incentive criteria to its existing EcoAction program to include discounts on harbour dues for quieter ships – making Canada the first country in the world with a marine noise reduction incentive.
Since January 1, 2015, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has administered its Non-Road Diesel Emissions program to reduce diesel particulate matter emissions associated with terminal equipment.
The port authority leads the Enhancing Cetacean Habitat and Observation Program (ECHO), a research program to better understand and manage the impacts of shipping on at-risk whales. In 2017, ECHO attracted global attention for a first-of-its-kind vessel slowdown trial in the Haro Strait to study the impact of ship speed on underwater sound, which can inhibit how marine mammals search for food.
World Ports Sustainability Program
Port of Rotterdam announcement
About the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is responsible for the stewardship of the federal port lands in and around Vancouver, British Columbia. It is financially self-sufficient and accountable to the federal minister of transport and operates pursuant to the Canada Marine Act. The Port of Vancouver is Canada's largest, and the third largest in North America by tonnes of cargo, facilitating trade between Canada and more than 170 world economies. Located in a naturally beautiful setting on Canada's west coast, the port authority and port terminals and tenants are responsible for the efficient and reliable movement of goods and passengers, integrating environmental, social and economic sustainability initiatives into all areas of port operations. Enabling the trade of approximately $200 billion in goods, port activities sustain 115,300 jobs, $7 billion in wages, and $11.9 billion in GDP across Canada.
Danielle Jang


POLL: Girls, would you dare to ask a guy's phone no. in front of his girlfriend?
Asking for a phone number is not always a date question.
it could be for a friendly talk.
Why would I do that in the first place? That's wrong.
Eventually, he'd give it to me anyway.
Source(s): Patience is always a virtue.


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To challenge our perceptions of queer relationships, artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya depicts intimate fragments of reality - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)
To challenge our perceptions of queer relationships, artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya depicts intimate fragments of reality
Aimee Shirley
Los Angeles Art Features Photo Essays
We strive to revisit many of our protagonists and check in on their new creative endeavours. Six years on, we followed up with artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya to see how his body of work has evolved.
The art of Paul Mpagi Sepuya is personal; shifting between portraiture and self-portraiture, it is about his life, and the people that pass through it. Intimate, emotional, and sensual, the now L.A.-based photographer's work reflects a notion of constant negotiation—negotiations between himself as the artist, his subjects, and the viewer.
Varying between simple portraits, sometimes nude, and experiential collages that either portray the artist, one or more of his subjects or combine all three, the results feature carefully crafted fragments that rarely depict entire bodies. By draping fabrics, shooting against mirrors, layering extracts of older works, Sepuya experiments within the confines of his studio, whose function he sees as an important element of his practice. Years into his career, Sepuya's photographs remain deliberately provocative: the homoerotic images depict intimacy as an exploration of human relationships—all of Sepuya's subjects are friends, intimates, and muses.
These studies of figures, grounds or other objects that enable the artist to create imaginative records of society will be featured in various US exhibitions this year.
Darkroom (_MG_9233), 2016
Mirror Study (4R2A0857), 2016
What have you been up to recently and how has your work generally developed over the years?
I have been trying to spend as much time in my studio as possible, it takes a lot of loose time and attempts and failure to work things out. I am teaching part time, doing a lot of visiting artist lectures and studio visits with students, which I enjoy as well.
If anything I hope the new work is getting more explicit, and more honest. And playful.
Can you describe the relationship to your recent subjects? Are your personal and professional lives still as intertwined?
Yes, nothing has changed. I can't work with models or strangers. Portraiture and mutual investment on my part and that of my friends is necessary for the work.
You once referred to queerness as a way that opens up many ways of looking at relationships. How do you define your work today?
It's not and cannot be about defining anything, proscribing or styling. To be honest, my work is pretty much just "gay" in terms of content. It is homoerotic and homosocial. But it has formal elements and the questions asked are very queer.
How would you describe the raising interest in queer art and its meaning to the contemporary art world?
Raising interest is a trend, but queerness is essentially human and will go on. Hopefully we artists working in these themes connect to the larger world of ideas, the fundamental histories of the medium. That's why I am interested in its embeddedness in the operations of photography, whether or not a queer or black subject is "visible" in an expected way. Queerness is everywhere, blackness is everywhere, and this explosion of work should change how we look at all art going forward, because a trend for a type of representation will come and go.
Devin, 2008
Figure Ground Study (_Q5A2086), 2016
A Portrait (0X5A0946), 2017
Darkroom Mirror Portrait (_2050021), 2017
A Sitting for Matthew (_R2A9192), 2015
This year, Sepuya takes part in a number of group exhibitions, among them Being: New Photography at New York's MoMA and Haptic Tactics at the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art in New York. From April 14, Chicago's Document Gallery will dedicate a solo exhibition to his recent works. For more information about Sepuya, read about our visit to his home here or visit his website.
Text: Ann-Christin Schubert
Photography: Courtesy the Artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Team Gallery and Document Gallery.
Reigniting the dazzle of a roaring era with a tour of West Berlin
Berlin Features


Can another adult consent in place of a parent?
Every woman aborted herself, or used by other means consenting to abortion, punished with imprisonment from six months to three years.
All claims of one of the means set forth in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 208 is intended to publish, promote or facilitate the use of modes of abortion punishable by imprisonment from two months to two years and a fine of one hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds .
Shall be punished by the same penalty sells, offers for sale or acquired the purpose of sale materials designed to induce an abortion or easy to use in any way.
1 of intentionally causing a woman to abort without her consent shall be punished by hard labor for at least five years .
2 the penalty is ten years if the resulting abortion or the means used to the woman 's death.
1 if he commits one of the offenses set forth in this chapter, a doctor or a surgeon or a midwife or a drug or a pharmacist or their employees were actors or instigators or [..] this results in enhanced punishment in according to Article 247.
2 be the case if the offender has been used to sell drugs and other material intended for abortion .
3 is aimed at criminal moreover banned from practicing his profession or his work , although they were not willing authority.
4 also can be judged by the closure of the clinic.
Individuals may benefit from a decreased penalty if the woman aborted herself to preserve her honor. And also benefit from the same excuse commits an offense set forth in Articles 528 and 529 to preserve the honor of one of the descendants or relatives to the second degree.
1 of intentionally causing a woman to abort without her consent shall be punished by hard labor for at least five years.


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