England all-rounder Vikram Solanki on Tuesday praised fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar.
England all-rounder Vikram Solanki on Tuesday praised fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, his Worcestershire county-mate, saying the Pakistan paceman has "exceptional talent."
"Shoaib has exceptional talent and he is a fairly smart cricketer," said Solanki.
Akhtar played a key role in Pakistan's 2-0 victory in the three-Test series against England and grabbed 17 wickets. He mixed his express pace with slower deliveries that baffled England batsmen on Pakistan's slow bouncy wickets.
"He (Akhtar) is a fantastic and exciting cricketer and I watched him on television," said Solanki, who joined the England squad along with all-rounder Ian Blackwell and fast bowler Kabir Ali for the five-match limited overs series against Pakistan, starting from December 10.
Akhtar played for Worcestershire in the English County Championship this season, but its chairman John Elliott was reportedly not happy with the fast bowler's commitment.
"It was unfortunate that those sort of comments were made," Solanki said.
"Shoaib is a very interesting character, quite unique type of a guy and his cricketing abilities were proved in the recent series."
"He has obviously worked hard on his fitness and bowled exceptionally well in the Test series. A change from 90 miles (144 kilometers) an hour to slower deliveries was quite impressive," Solanki said.


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"Our State" Television Show Wins Three Emmy® Awards
Meet the crew behind the award-winning "Our State" television program.
written by Our State Staff
"Our State" the UNC-TV series inspired by Our State magazine, received three Emmy® awards from the Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science at a ceremony in Nashville on January 26, 2013.
The "Our State" television series has received 10 Emmy awards since its inception in 2004. The show often receives ratings similar to national PBS shows such as MasterPiece Theatre.
Award categories include:
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"Our State: Soldier's Stories/Trail of Trust"
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"Our State: Keys to the Past"
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Q&A with the crew
Brian Faulkner
What's your favorite part about working on "Our State?"
Faulkner: The challenge of weaving the various parts of the story together for video in keeping with Our State magazine's style.
What kind of reaction do you get from viewers?
Faulkner: Practically everyone I mention the program to has seen it. Typical reaction is, "Oh, I love "Our State" – the magazine and the television show!"
Would you take us 'behind the scenes,' and provide a detail about production that the viewer would never know otherwise?
Faulkner: Putting an "Our State" TV segment together on paper (the scriptwriter's job) is a lot like baking a pie. You need to have everything in place before you begin: the compelling "thread" of a story, the interviews (we end up using only the best parts), and Mike Burke's fabulous video footage. But there's no recipe or format. You start with a blank piece of paper (or computer screen). A big plus for me is that because I also narrate many of these segments, I am able to create a "voice" for the program that can be readily identified as "Our State."
Burke: Traveling around the state and meeting the people. Also being able to use different cameras. For example, I used a 100-year old film view camera, and the photos taken with that camera appeared in one show.
Burke: Every time I tell folks who I am and what show I work on I get "OH! I watch that show and it's really beautiful!"
Burke: The days are usually 12+ hours working time, and it's very physically demanding. I could end up two miles down in Bat Cave on my stomach, or hanging off the bow of the Elizabeth II while it's under sail. We have hiked Bald Knob, near Marion, which took 8 hours – with camera equipment – to do an interview. We spend a lot of time lighting each shot, until it's perfect. We have carried equipment into the Great Dismal Swamp to do a story. We do what it takes to make "Our State" the best show we do.
David Hardy
Hardy: The best part about working on "Our State" is getting to dive deeper into the history, culture and people that make North Carolina so special.
Hardy: I love it when a viewer tells me they learned something they didn't know before.
Hardy: Many people may not realize that a typical 8 minute Our State story takes several months to shoot; at least ten hours of raw footage, and several weeks of editing and mixing. This past season Morgan and I have made an effort to capture stories at "ground" level rather than from above; and have a more first-person tone.
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Cartwright: I have lived in North Carolina my whole life and have no plans to leave. I feel a lot of state pride, and having the opportunity to contribute to a television program that shares that feeling with viewers is a true gift.
Cartwright: Feedback is often simply appreciation that we have brought the state's hidden treasures due recognition.
Cartwright: When we begin production on a new segment, we often have no idea how we will eventually structure our narrative or even what details about a subject we will include. The material itself must shape the story. We listen before we speak.
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Potts: When I pull up to meet an "Our State" subject I have preconceived notions of who that person is and how the story may be told. The surprise of being wrong and finding more depth to a person and the story is a delight and a challenge.
Potts: A road trip would not be complete without interactions with "Our State" fans/viewers. They are always curious about what we are doing and when the segment will air. They give us the scoop on nearby restaurants and even propose segment ideas. The kind words they share about the show and the magazine invigorates us and becomes a creative fuel.
Potts: Go back and watch "Camden County Jail". All the flashback sequences were performed by the "Our State" crew. Grant Dennis was voted mvp for that particular segment. Audio guru by trade, Grant doubled as our cotton field running convict.
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"We are so proud to be working with UNC-TV on this extraordinary series," says Amy Wood Pasquini, Our State marketing development director. "The folks there are so talented and share our same love of the people and places of North Carolina."
Inspired by the pages of Our State magazine, UNC-TV's half-hour monthly series takes you down home in North Carolina for an in-depth look at the intriguing people and memorable places of the Old North State. "Our State" helps preserve the past, anticipates the future and celebrates the present through unforgettable stories and videography. It is produced by UNC-TV in partnership with Our State magazine and generously supported by BB&T.
"Our State," the television program, airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. Series 7 will begin in July 2013.
This story was published on February 12, 2013
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If Valve's two most famous silent protagonists had a fight, who would win? Chell or Freeman? Portal Gun or Gravity Gun? Long Fall Boots or HEV Suit?
This short film from Andrew McMurry imagines just that scenario, as the goateed geeklord throws down with the Portal lady over, what else, some cake.
We've featured McMurry's work before, from real-life Mario Bros. to fights with Minecraft Steve.


Full Title Map of Chippewa, Price & Taylor Counties and the northern part of Clark County / compiled and drawn from Gov. surveys and other authentic sources by Capt. O.R. Dahl 1880 ; The Milwaukee Litho & Engr Co.
Description This 1880 map shows the counties of Chippewa, Price, Taylor and the northern part of Clark. The survey sections and the locations of railroads, proposed railroads, wagon roads, and winter roads indicated, as are the locations of some farm houses, school houses, churches, saw mills, and flour mills in the area.
Dimensions 97 x 100 cm.
Physical Description 1 map in 4 pieces : hand col.
Source Publisher Milwaukee Litho & Engr Co.


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2nd Military Region (Vietnam People's Army)
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The 2nd Military Region of the Vietnam People's Army, is directly under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, tasked to organise, build, manage and commander armed forces defending the North West of Vietnam. The north-West region of Vietnam, borders with the Yunnan of China. In 1979, Chinese army with 3 infantry corps, 10 infantry divisions, launched a huge invasion in this military zone, and occupied Lào Cai Province and Phong Thổ.
Command Headquarters: Việt Trì city in Phú Thọ Province
Commander: Major General Dương Đức Hòa
Political Commissar: Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Liên (2009)
Deputy Commander cum Chief of Staff Commander: Major General Đặng Văn Luyến
1 Agencies
3 Successive Commander and Leadership
3.1 Commander
3.2 Political Commissioner
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Logistics Department
Technic Department
UnitsEdit
Military Command of Sơn La Province.
Military Command of Lai Châu Province.
Military Command of Lào Cai Province.
Military Command of Điện Biên Province
Military Command of Yên Bái Province
Military Command of Hà Giang Province
Military Command of Tuyên Quang Province
Military Command of Phú Thọ Province
Military Command of Vĩnh Phúc Province
Military School of Military Zone (in Vĩnh Yên City of Vĩnh Phúc Province)
316th Infantry Division (located in Chí Đám, Đoan Hùng county, Phú Thọ province)
355th Infantry Division (in Yên Bái Province)
82nd Infantry Regiment (in Điện Biên Province)
406th Tank Regiment (in Hạ Hòa county of Phú Thọ Province)
604th Information Regiment (in Việt Trì city of Phú Thọ Province)
297th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (in Việt Trì city of Phú Thọ Province)
543rd Combat Engineering Brigade (in Thanh Thủy county of Phú Thọ Province)
313rd Defence Economics Division
314th Defence Economics Division
326th Defence Economics Division (in Sốp Cộp of Sơn La Province)
345th Defence Economics Division - during the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, the 345th Division, which had recently converted from an economic construction division to a fighting division, was located at Bao Thang, across from Yunan Province.[1]
379th Defence Economics Division (in Điện Biên Province)
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Major General (1974), Lieutenant General (1980), Colonel General (1984) Vũ Lập (1978-1987):
Lieutenant General Ma Thanh Toàn (-2007)
Lieutenant General Đỗ Bá Tỵ (2007-2010)
Major General Dương Đức Hòa (2010-)
Political CommissionerEdit
Major General (1974), Lieutenant General (1980), Vũ Lập (1978-1981)
Lieutenant General Trần Thụ (Deputy Commander of political)
Lieutenant General Lê Minh Cược
Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Liên
^ Xiaoming Zhang, Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam ..., p.99-100.
Coordinates: 21°19′57″N 105°18′13″E / 21.3324419°N 105.3035595°E / 21.3324419; 105.3035595
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Know Your Place enables people to view digital maps of a locality through the ages and see how an area has changed. Development funding of £52,300 has been awarded as part of HLF's initial support to enable the partnership to progress their plans to apply for a full grant at a later date.
The project will be working with local councils, community groups and the British Library to bring historic maps together in a single regional online portal. The project will identify all the maps that relate to the region and then allow people to search them through a digital portal. Volunteers will work on digitising maps and adding content such as photographs to the maps to help people understand how an area has changed.
The earliest maps to be digitised will date from mid-19th century Tithe maps and will go right up to the latest Ordnance Survey maps.
Martin Burton, Community Cultural Services Manager at South Gloucestershire Council, said "We are grateful for the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund to fund the development of this exciting project which will use digital technology to enable people to see how their street or community has changed over the years. Through working with the volunteers and local councils we will be able to provide a major resource for local people researching their area."
Nerys Watts, Head of the Heritage Lottery Fund South West, said: "The Know Your Place project is a significant project not just for the South West but in the development of historical community mapping projects. This project will open up access to these wonderful ancient maps and give people a fascinating insight into their local heritage and how the areas they live and work in today have been shaped over the years."
The Know Your Place project will extend the digital mapping project which has been successfully introduced by Bristol City Council to cover other local councils including South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset.


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What's it like to have an electric car in Singapore? We took the new MINI Electric for a spin
Electric cars are a compelling proposition with instant torque delivering a supercharged experience, but their take-up rates in Singapore leave much to be desired. CNA Luxury's motoring writer Jamie Nonis attempts to find out why.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) represent the future of mobility as these emissions-free cars are a more environmentally- and socially-conscious option for those who wish to reduce their carbon footprint. (Photo: MINI Electric)
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We know we need to save the planet. There is no question that we are facing a climate emergency and the fate of humanity hinges on the actions we take today. That said, we'll assume you're already doing your part to be more eco-friendly.
Maybe you're known to whip out a reusable metal straw on your daily meals. Maybe you already fervently support brands and establishments that use sustainably sourced ingredients and materials. Maybe you even bring your very own tingkat to the kopitiam to tapao your food.
READ> How can Singapore be a more liveable city with happy, healthy citizens?
When it comes to transportation, you also know that the future of mobility is Electric Vehicles (EVs). Emissions-free cars are the more environmentally- and socially-conscious option for those who wish to reduce their carbon footprint, wanderlust notwithstanding.
Automakers like the BMW Group have been accelerating towards electrification in recent years, with the e-mobility pioneer already reaching an electromobility milestone in delivering half a million electrified cars to customers worldwide. The company has also pledged to have one million of its EVs on the roads by 2022, and is working up to seven million by 2030.
Sooner or later, the majority of motorists will need to switch from a petrol car with a combustion engine to an EV powered by electricity; an inevitability collectively engineered by government bodies, carmakers and lobbyists.
The question is, what will it take to shift paradigms enough for car enthusiasts to make the switch? And what more needs to be done (at least locally) to improve insufficient infrastructure support so as to encourage people to embrace revolutionary change?
We took the new MINI Electric out for a spin for a day, and found some answers along the way.
The all-electric MINI takes the brand's legendary go-kart handling to another level with its one-pedal driving feature and 270 Nm of torque immediately available from standstill. (Photo: MINI Electric)
THE POCKET ROCKET – SUPERCHARGED
First things first: Driving an all-electric MINI takes the brand's legendary go-kart handling to a whole other level, especially with the one-pedal driving feature.
With instant torque at your fingertips, the pocket rocket is so supercharged that you'll be leaving most other cars in the dust when the light turns green at a traffic light – smoking them wonderfully, without the actual environmentally-polluting emissions.
The MINI Electric features four driving modes – Sport, MID, GREEN and GREEN+ – with the latter two designed to optimise energy efficiency. (Photo: MINI Electric)
This exhilarating propulsion is possible because 270 Nm of torque is immediately available from standstill, propelling you from 0-60 km/h in 3.9 seconds. The full century sprint? A respectable 7.3 seconds, with 184 hp of power at your disposal. Top speed, however, is a mere 150 km/h.
Meanwhile, continuous power delivery without gearshift interruption coupled with the car's low centre of gravity delivers even more agile handling than one comes to expect of a MINI.
The electric glide is real, while the car stays securely planted during dynamic cornering. Now that's a highly addictive feeling that's likely to result in "spirited" driving, as my front seat passenger quite kindly put it.
TOGETHER ONLY IN ELECTRIC DREAMS?
(Photo: MINI Electric)
The trouble with commandeering this front-wheel drive too enthusiastically, however, is that while it doesn't burn fuel, it does expend energy and you might be in dire need of a recharge before you know it. More so in Sport mode; the high-performance of four driving modes in the MINI Electric. There's also MID, GREEN and GREEN+, with the latter two geared towards maximum efficiency.
Anyone who owns or has driven an electric car would know that the biggest concern about getting behind the wheel of such a vehicle is its range.
On paper, for example, the MINI Electric is designed to travel up to 270km on a full charge. This seems fairly decent for mostly urban driving vis-a-vis Singapore's 193km periphery.
But the reality is, you could get much less distance on a full charge, depending on the drive mode and your driving style.
Charging the MINI Electric is a cinch at Shell Recharging stations: Just plug in and choose between AC (11kW) or DC (50kW) options. (Photo: MINI Electric)
I personally managed just over 130km before the car alerted me to dangerously low levels of electric power remaining. Thankfully, I remembered to flip the switch to GREEN+ mode, a new mode exclusive to the MINI Electric that quickly limited or deactivated comfort functions such as air conditioning in a bid to conserve energy and increase the range of the vehicle, while we hunted down the nearest charging station in the north of Singapore.
All of a sudden, the car was down to its final 10km. A quick check on the GreenLots app powered by Shell showed the nearest Shell Recharging stations to be in Yishun, Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang, in addition to pump availability and prices for AC or DC charging.
By contrast, motorists are almost certain to find a petrol station every kilometre or so, apart from outlying industrial areas.
I quickly became acutely aware of the acute lack of supporting infrastructure hampering a more widespread adoption of electric cars in Singapore.
According to official figures, there are 1,600 public chargers currently available across the island; about 200 points by utilities provider SP Group, with the majority belonging to electric car sharing provider BlueSG. Of which, less than 20 per cent of the latter-owned are accessible to third-party users – non-BlueSG vehicles. The rest are operated by smaller players like GreenLots.
The rapid-charging DC option will fully charge your MINI Electric in just over 30 minutes while the AC option takes about two-and-a-half hours. (Photo: MINI Electric)
Now the good news is that the government has announced plans to build 28,000 public charging points by 2030, as part of the country's masterplan to make the land transport sector more environmentally sustainable.
This, plus a host of tax rebates and incentives including the revised Vehicular Emissions Scheme (VES) and EV Early Adoption Incentive announced earlier this year, should help move the needle somewhat in shifting electric cars out of showrooms and into residential carparks.
Amongst private sector players, homegrown solar power company Sunseap Group recently said it would install 10,000 charging points here by 2030 while Tesla intends to set up its own charging network when it reenters the Singapore market, making it the only EV manufacturer to build its own public charging infrastructure.
In the meantime, though, EV owners will have to grapple with the limited charging options. Those who live in landed properties can enjoy the luxury of installing their own dedicated MINI Wallbox – if you buy a MINI Electric, of course – which offers a convenient, faster alternative for daily charging at home. Condo residents will have to get permission from their management to have a charging point installed, if one isn't already available. And HDB dwellers may have access to a BlueSG charging point for public use, if they're lucky.
I wasn't quite as fortunate so there I was, in the middle of Yishun, thanking my lucky stars that we reached the Shell Recharge station in the nick of time with a mere 3km left to roll.
Anyone can use the Shell-owned GreenLots app to locate Shell Recharging stations around Singapore. (Photo: MINI Electric)
The mechanics of charging the car are easy enough; the difficult part is the wait. If I choose the AC option, it would be a two-and-a-half hour wait for a full charge at 11kW. So I select the rapid-charging DC option at 50 kW, which juices up the MINI Electric to full in just over 30 minutes while I go refuel with a latte.
Would I buy a MINI Electric? Yes, if for the sheer driving pleasure. Is the desire to save the earth worth navigating the additional hurdles and lifestyle adjustments – not to mention the premium sticker price of owning an EV? Depends on how much you love the planet.
While technological advances will certainly continue to improve the range of EVs, for now, I'd put my money on the popular compromise: Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) that pretty much offer the best of both worlds equipped with both combustion and electric engines. So you can go eco without the risk of going loco, knowing you have a petrol engine for backup in case you ever find yourself in Yishun with only 3km of power left in the tank.
Singaporeans, after all, are known to prize practicality, efficiency and convenience, and my virgin all-electric automotive experience has given me a new appreciation for the ubiquity of the humble petrol station.
POWER: 184 hp
0 to 100 KM/H: 7.3 seconds
TOP SPEED: 150 km/h
RANGE (full battery charge): 270 km*
ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION: 14.8 kWh/100 km
FUEL CONSUMPTION: 0.0 L/100 km
VES BAND: A1
CO2 EMISSIONS: 0 g/km
CHARGING TIME (for 0-80% charge): ~ 35 min from fast-charging station (50 kW, DC)
Or ~ 2.5 hours from MINI Wallbox (11 kW, AC)
PRICE: S$169,888 including COE
*May vary according to selected drive mode and individual driving style
READ> Four ways the automotive industry will change in a post-coronavirus world
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Mine Announces Advisory Board Launch, Executive and US Expansion
Tel Aviv, Israel--(Newsfile Corp. - November 21, 2022) - Mine, the global PrivacyOps platform provider, today announced the launch of an Advisory Board and key leadership appointments, a week after being named a Fall 2022 industry leader by an official G2 report. All of this coalesces to signal the company's continued scale, growing 45% QoQ and adding dozens of new customers as it focuses on widening access to and the ease of use of data privacy services.
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The company has accelerated its presence in the enterprise market, attaining SOC 2 Type II compliance and growing Mine PrivacyOps to a full end-to-end platform to handle broad data privacy needs. To accompany its growth, Mine has publicly launched its Advisory Board, which includes world-renowned thought leaders in data privacy law, policy, and operations. Simultaneously, Mine has attracted top talent to support its US expansion, including North America-based seniority in its Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure award-winning, high-quality delivery for the company's growing customer base.
The newly hired executives are:
Daniel Goldfeld: Dany is the VP of Customer Success at Mine. Previously the Global VP of Customer Success for Perimeter 81, he managed the Global Sales Engineering, Global Customer Success, and Global Support teams. A former nominee as a top Customer Success Strategist by SuccessHacker, Daniel has vast experience leading Pre- and Post-Sales teams, having worked closely with Fortune 500 companies, SMEs and SMBs.
Gabriel Benaily: Gabriel is the VP of R&D at Mine. A graduate of Israel's esteemed Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, Gabriel has over 17 years of experience in mission-critical, high-scale Systems & Big Data platforms. That experience spans from fintech to IoT and cybersecurity, with leadership positions at eToro, Essence Group, and Cyberbit.
Samer Kamal: Samer is the VP of Marketing at Mine, bringing over 15 years of experience in enterprise software and SaaS. Prior to Mine, he led marketing at data privacy startups Nightfall AI and InCountry, and held leadership marketing roles at Pure Storage and SAP. Samer holds a Master of Business Administration from Boston University.
Stas Michalski: Stas is the VP of Sales at Mine, with over a decade of experience in sales. After joining BlazeMeter as an individual contributor and rising to Senior Director of Sales, Stas had stops enhancing and innovating sales at Applitools and, more recently, Approve.com as VP of Sales, helping to lead the company to an acquisition by Tipalti.
The newly established Advisory Board members are:
Prof. David Hoffman - David is a Professor of the Practice of Cybersecurity Policy at Duke University. He was formerly the Associate General Counsel, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer for Intel Corporation, as well as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Currently serving on several distinguished tech committees, Hoffman is the Winner of the 2014 IAPP's Vanguard Award for leadership in privacy.
Ms. Jutta Williams - Jutta is an independent Privacy/Responsible AI consultant and startup board advisor. She was the inaugural Chairperson and Head of the US delegation to ISO for AI Standards. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a MS in Information Security, Policy and Management and the former Chief Privacy Officer for Integrated Health Delivery companies and Head of Privacy at Bolt, Williams has also built and scaled successful privacy and machine learning initiatives at Twitter, Facebook, and Google/Alphabet.
Mr. Ari Schwartz - Ari is the Managing Director of Cybersecurity Services at the D.C.-based Venable LLP law firm. The former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cybersecurity under President Obama, Schwartz has over 25 years of serving nonprofits and government institutions as a cybersecurity and data privacy policy expert.
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"2022 is set to be our strongest year yet, as we continue to grow our global presence, attract key talent, and roll out more features to enterprises," said Gal Ringel, CEO and co-founder of Mine. "We're also actively preparing for the future, with many of our engagements around continuous data mapping entering their next phase of development, putting companies in control of their data, no matter where it sits."
Schedule a demo of Mine's award-winning PrivacyOps Platform.
About Mine
Mine PrivacyOps was created to make data privacy a reality, a platform for companies that honor the user rights of their customers. Thanks to the fastest implementation and ROI on the market, Mine PrivacyOps's fully automated, no-code solution aims to provide companies the simplest and most powerful way to achieve compliance, offering products to automate DSR fulfillment, data mapping, data classification, and more.
Recognized as a global leader in data privacy and continuous compliance by G2, we've raised $21M in funding to help us power hundreds of organizations globally.
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Chiffchaff – ringing recoveries
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Phylloscopus collybita – SIFF-SAFF/SIFF SIAFF – Breeding summer visitor, passage migrant and winter visitor
Since 2009, 2157 chiffchaffs have been ringed at various sites on the Pembrokeshire mainland. Another 2000 or so were ringed on Skokholm in that period.
These days, ringing is primarily for monitoring bird populations – their survival, reproductive rates, and so on. It is a very important tool in understanding how and when bird populations change.
A good proportion of the chiffchaffs ringed on the mainland are part of Constant Effort Site ringing, which is designed for population monitoring. Many of the birds ringed will be breeding, or will have hatched on that site. They will often be retrapped on the same site, in the same or subsequent years. These birds are not included in the map.
Chiffchaffs ringed on Skokholm are on migration. They may be heading north in spring, and south in winter, although occasionally a bird seems to be going in the wrong direction as it overshoots its destination. An example is a bird that was ringed on Skokholm in spring, but subsequently settled to breed in Cornwall that summer.
This map shows where birds ringed in Pembrokeshire went to, or where birds ringed elsewhere came from.
Ringing has been undertaken on Skokholm and elsewhere in Pembrokeshire for many decades, but the earlier data isn't currently easily available.
The apparently low number of birds that have left mainland Pembrokeshire reflect the fact that a large proportion are ringed as fledgelings and juveniles, which are very vulnerable to predation. Birds that have made it as far as Skokholm before being ringed are a bit older, and so have a much better chance of survival.
Meanwhile, that chiffchaff from Keeston is the oldest, and the furthest-travelled, chiff-chaff from Pembrokeshire in the last decade at least.
Data from Mike and Theresa Sherman of the Pembrokeshire Ringing Group, from the Skokholm Island Annual Reports, and from the BTO website.
More about the Chiffchaff in Pembrokeshire
Ringing, Skokholm
Velvet Scoter – records
Little Tern – records


I had been looking for a companion for my rabbit Jasper (female - uppy ears) for some time before stumbling upon Fat Fluffs when searching for rabbit rehoming online. I emailed Fat Fluffs asking for suitable husbuns and Chloe came back to me offering a lovely grey dwarf lop called Harrie as a good match. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the picture of him because he was so similar to Jasper (apart from the loppy ears)! I took Jasper to Fluffs HQ for bonding and was pleased to hear that they had got on well overnight. I collected them 24 hours after they met and brought them home. It wasn't quite love at first sight - Jasper seemed somewhat indifferent to her new friend but Harrie kept trying and I was very excited when a couple of days later his persistence was rewarded with a good wash from Jasper and then she cuddled up to him for an afternoon snooze.
There were a few issues surrounding food - Jasper isn't used to sharing and on one occasion took all the carrot pieces out of the bowl and sat on them so Harrie couldn't get any! However, Harrie has quickly caught on and now makes sure he gets his fair share. Despite the early issues, they are now inseperable and Jasper is thrilled with her husbun. She has changed in character and seems much happier and easier to handle. Harrie is a very laid back and pleasant lad always looking for cuddles and nose rubs. They are a joy to watch both when they are binkying round the garden or just snuggled up with each other resting. I'm very pleased with how things have worked out and am grateful we were able to give Harrie a loving home and Jasper the friend she deserves.


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DRT Strategies Awarded $50M FDA CDRH CIMS Information Management Support Contract
U.S. Food and Drug Administration selects DRT Strategies as the sole prime contractor for its five-year, Blanket Purchase Agreement to provide CDRH Information Management Support services.
Arlington, VA – September 30, 2014 – DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT), a leading management and technology consulting firm to federal agencies, the U. S. Navy, and commercial technology and financial services clients, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has issued a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to the company to provide CDRH Information Management Support (CIMS) services. The FDA issued the single-award BPA against the listed GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 70 contract. The award is valued at $50 million over five-years.
DRT will apply advanced solutions to provide full system life cycle management support and deliver continuity of services across the FDA CDRH CIMS portfolio. Specific task areas include Program and Project Management; Operations and Maintenance (O&M); System Enhancement; Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME); and Transition Activities.
"The CIMS portfolio is a significant segment of CDRH, covering one-third of its entire Information Technology (IT) portfolio."
"And with the information sensitive work and business of FDA CDRH, DRT is well qualified to provide proven IT management methodologies, skilled BPA management, and in-depth knowledge of FDA's environment to ensure the successful operation, maintenance, and enhancement of its technology systems."
The FDA CDRH CIMS portfolio includes the IT systems and initiatives featuring distinctive device-related projects, highlighting public-facing interfaces, and promoting a knowledge-based and information-sharing environment through tools and technologies to support document management, search and discovery, collaboration, and social systems.
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Celebrating its 10th year in business, DRT Strategies, Inc. (DRT) is a leading management and technology consulting firm providing information technology (IT) solutions, health information management, program management, and financial management solutions to federal agencies, the U. S. Navy, and enterprise clients in the technology and financial services sectors. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 certification, has achieved CMMI-DEV Level 2, and is a certified woman-owned, 8(a) small business (WOSB). DRT is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with offices in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, San Diego, California, Atlanta, Georgia, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina. More information on the company can be found at www.drtstrategies.com.


After collecting the coveted "Worst of Show" award at the Concours d'Lemons Georgia, Jim Eby plans to drive his 1919 Franklin to all the Concours d'Lemons events in the continental US, and we'd like you to help. If you live somewhere near the loosely outlined route of this road trip of near certain death you can help by offering up some garage space should something go terribly wrong and the 99-year-old Franklin require some repairs. Let us know by emailing your info to franklin@concoursdlemons.com and we'll set up a chain of folks with a few spare tools and more common sense than Jim.
The Franklin tops out at about 45mph so Jim will be traversing the country on back roads, not the interstates. Progress will be further slowed by having to stop every 100 miles or so to oil the top end of the Franklin's inline 6 air-cooled engine. Jim estimates he will be able to do about 250 miles a day before daylight and his will to live run out for the day. If by some miracle, Jim or the Franklin don't expire on the roadside, they will face stiff competition from the exceptionally horrible cars that turn up for Concours d'Lemons Michigan, July 28, 2018 at the Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth, MI and at Concours d'Lemons California on Aug. 25, 2018 at Seaside City Hall in Seaside, CA. We told Jim the best he can probably hope for is a hastily made up "Road Hammer" trophy, but he was undeterred. He cited the family history of his grandfather, who bought the Franklin new as his first car, and his father to take the Franklin on long road trips. It appears automotive insanity run deep in some families.
Then skirt along the gulf coast to hwy 19 in Florida and home.
Jim's grandfather took the Franklin on a cross country road trip in 1929. Photo taken in the CA Desert.


2018 Mazda CX-3 Price, Release Date and Engine – The Mazda CX-3 is with no anxiety likely to fill the area in the subcompact crossover program of Sports power cars made by the Japanese carmaker. Immediately after other companies launched their models, and released appearance of the vehicles in this system, Mazda created new CX-3, and yes it is likely to be far more fascinating compared to the earlier. The new platform that might be shared with existing Mazda 2 car is unquestionably refreshment of variety, and also, it could make crossover tiny in comparison to before. Engine area is also revisited and prepared for introducing, that may wait around a little bit although other parts are completed.
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Director: Prof. Dr. J. Anton Zensus
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Direct imaging of the extreme vicinity of cosmic black holes with millimetre-wavelength Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (mmVLBI)
Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is the only method for a direct imaging of regions in the immediate vicinity of super-massive cosmic black holes. This includes the attempt to image the shadow around a black hore and its surrounding photon ring (event horizon), and thus test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
Since the angular resolution of an interferometer increases with decreasing wavelength and with increasing baseline length, millimetre VLBI and space VLBI (see AZ02) privide the highes angular resolutions in astronomy (30 microarcseconds). Since compact radio sources become more transparent with increasing frequency (lower opacity at mm-wavelength), mm-VLBI allows to probe deeper into the self-absorbed regions of AGN, which is not possible at the longer cm-wavelengths. Our group operates the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA), which combines up to 14 telescopes into regular 3mm/7mm VLBI observations. In parallel the group has begun to establish regular VLBI observations at 230 GHz and is active in the pioneering VLBI observations at 230 GHz with the so called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This includes the inclusion of the ALMA telescope in future mm-VLBI observations and the further development of mm-/sub-mm VLBI. One of the main goals of this effort is to probe the 'shadow of the black hole' in the Galactic Centre and in M 87, as well as to study the origin of jets in more distant radio-galaxies and quasars (AGN) with unpredecent resolution.
One of the goals of the PhD candidate is to image and study Active Galactic Nuclei (Quasars, BL Lac objects, Radio Galaxies, etc.) with highest possible resolution in the mm-band, addressing questions related to AGN activity, outburst-ejection relations, the physical origin of jets, the details of the jet launching and of the primary jet acceleration processes. For this the jet kinematics, their spectral and polarimetric properties will be studied on spatial scales which are as close as possible to the central engine ( scales of a few 10 - 1000 gravitational radii).
VLBI studies of the polarised fine structure of AGN probe the orientation and nature of magnetic fields at the innermost part of their relativistic jets. mm-VLBI has the advantage that polarimetric observations at 86 GHz are only marginally affected by Faraday rotation and probe the intrinsic linearly polarised emission. We aim to probe if and how oblique shocks in the innermost jet regions are responsible for the observed polarised emission. The detailed study of the three-dimensional, spatially bent complex structure of the jet close to its nozzle will help us to answer one of the most fundamental questions in AGN physics, which is how Black Holes launch relativistic jets.
Notice that for this Key Project one or more students can be hired.
Doeleman, S., et al., 2008, Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre, Nat, 455, 78.
Krichbaum, T.P., et al., 2013, Zooming towards the Event Horizon - mm-VLBI today and tomorrow, arxiv.org/abs/1305.2811
Lobanov, A.P. et al., A&A, 364, 391 (2000)
Martí-Vidal, I. et al, On the calibration of full-polarization 86 GHz global VLBI observations, A&A 542, 107 (2012)
Tilanus, R., et al., Future mmVLBI Research with ALMA: A European Vision, 2014, arxiv.org/abs/1406.4650
GMVA web site: www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbi/globalmm
EHT web site: www.eventhorizontelescope.org
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anton Zensus (azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Dr. Thomas P. Krichbaum (tkrichbaum@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ros (ros@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Prof. Dr. Antxon Alberdi (antxon@iaa.es).
Site: Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, VLBI group in collaboration with the MIT/Haystack Observatory in the USA, the ESO/ALMA telescope in Chile, and the IAA/CSIC in Spain.
Extreme resolution observations with space VLBI
VLBI with the space-borne antenna Spektr-R of the Russian-led mission "RadioAstron" provides resolutions reaching down to 10 microarcseconds of arc, holding the absolute record in resolution of astronomical observations.
This enables studies of jet physics and black hole vicinity to be made on scales of less than 1000 gravitational radii, which is a unique opportunity to understand the driving force behind ultrarelativistic plasma produced in active galactic nuclei.
This project will use the data from dedicated RadioAstron programs led by the VLBI group (the Key Science Project on imaging of powerful AGN and the work package on jet acceleration in the RadioAstron AGN Survey). These data will enable unique studies of intrinsic evolution of the flow, tracing its acceleration on scales from a thousand to a million of gravitational radii, and determining the dominant physical mechanism behind it.
The addition of RadioAstron data to mm-VLBI results and comparing to available 43-GHz VLBI polarised data of prominent blazars will probe the opacity and characterise the spectral behaviour of the jet base, even transversally to it, with the sharpest images ever achieved.
Kardashev, N.S. et al, RadioAstron - A telescope with a size of 300 000 km: Main parameters and first observational results, Astron. Rep. 57, 153 (2013)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anton Zensus (azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Dr. Andrei Lobanov (alobanov@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ros (ros@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Site: Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, VLBI group in collaboration with the Astro Space Centre in Russia, the Metsähovi Radio Observatory of Aalto University, Finland, and the IAA/CSIC in Spain.
AGN Jet Kinematics & Localisation of non-thermal continuum production in AGN
Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging with its unsurpassed angular resolution allows direct studies of the innermost parsecs of the jets. About ten percent of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) eject jets of plasma at relativistic speeds from their central regions. The rapidly variable non-thermal emission and apparent superluminal motions in the jets imply that they contain highly energetic plasma moving nearly directly at us at speeds approaching that of light. Understanding the acceleration, collimation, and stability properties of these flows is one of the central topics in the modern relativistic astrophysics.
The PhD candidate will join the international MOJAVE and/or TANAMI program teams and use the survey data to analyze the properties of magnetized plasma jets in AGN. The MOJAVE program (Monitoring of Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei with VLBA Experiments) monitors structural changes in the parsec-scale jets of over 300 AGN at 15 GHz making it one of the largest VLBI monitoring programs to date. TANAMI monitors the parsec-scale structures of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei in the Southern Hemisphere. Complementary multiwavelength observations are being done with modern X-ray telescopes (XMM-Newton, Swift, INTEGRAL) as well as in the NIR/optical regime. The PhD project will investigate the nature of active galactic nuclei, their supermassive black holes and relativistic jets, making use of unprecedented data across the whole electromagnetic spectrum. The project includes data debugging, image analysis, spectral studies of the jets, correlation study of the morphological and brightness variation in the context of a multi-band approach are the main goals of the project. The data being collected are unique, for its quality. The project guarantees integration in the NASA Fermi/LAT collaboration, high-impact publications and a long time baseline for collaboration, since Fermi/LAT will operate for the next 5-10 years, and we expect to keep collecting data during this time.
Localising the sites where non-thermal continuum is produced in AGN is pivotal for understanding their physics. Presently, this localisation is largely based on information obtained from observations of the SED and correlated variability of the broad-band continuum emission in AGN. VLBI observations enable spatial localisation of the optical, X-ray and Gamma-ray flares in AGN. Correlations observed between parsec-scale radio emission and optical and gamma-ray continuum indicate that a significant fraction of non-thermal continuum may be produced in extended regions of relativistic jet, thus requiring serious rethinking of existing models for the high-energy emission production. Survey work will be focused on further exploration and better understanding of radio-gamma and radio-TeV relations in powerful AGN, using Fermi/LAT and HESS/MAGIC data in combination with extensive VLBI monitoring data from the MOJAVE and TANAMI surveys, geodetic VLBI data and new VLBI observations.
Another approach is to study the validity of the current paradigm of "simple" outward motion in jets, which is being questioned in a number of AGN. A kinematical analysis of can probe this unexpected behavior in more detail and to study the physical emission processes in jets in general and the connection between the central engine and jet launching.
Arshakian, Leon-Tavares, Lobanov et al., MNRAS, 401, 1231 (2010)
Leon-Tavares, Lobanov, Chavushyan et al. ApJ, 715, 355 (2010)
Lister et al. AJ 147, 143 (2014)
Ojha et al. A&A, 519, A45 (2010)
Schinzel, Lobanov, Taylor et al. A&A 637, 70 (2012)
See as well http://pulsar.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/tanami/ and http://www.physics.purdue.edu/astro/MOJAVE/index.html
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anton Zensus (azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de) , Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ros (ros@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de) , Dr. Andrei Lobanov (alobanov@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Prof. Dr. Matthias Kadler (matthias.kadler@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de), PD Dr. Silke Britzen (sbritzen@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Site: Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, VLBI group in collaboration with the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Centre, National Radio Astronomy Observatory and University of Purdue, USA, Metsähovi Radio Observatory of Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Würzburg, Germany
Relativistic simulations of galactic flows and feedback, binary black holes
Extragalactic jets are formed in the environments of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in active galactic nuclei (AGN). They are among the most powerful and energetic astrophysical objects. Their relevance is not only due to their role as laboratories of relativistic plasmas, but they have also an important effect in their environments, namely, in the interstellar medium of the host galaxy and the intergalactic medium. Understanding their nature and physics can thus give us key information about the progenitor SMBH and its surroundings, but also about the host galaxy and its history. A combination between detailed VLBI observations and theoretical modelling via numerical simulations has proven to be a very good approach to reach the goal of this research.
At present, we are able to perform numerical simulations in supercomputers, including all the relevant physics of these objects: relativistic gas, magnetic fields, different composition. VLBI is addressing the innermost radio structure of these objects, and gives the observational input to theoretical studies. Here we propose to continue an already started line of research, which consists in trying to relate the emitting, non-thermal population of particles, studied through observations, with the thermal gas in the jet and the magnetic fields, responsible for the macroscopic jet dynamics.
Another application of numerical simulations of relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic flows in supercomputing facilities as a laboratory is to use them to study the interplay between jets, host galaxy and surrounding gas and their impact in the galactic activity and evolution, with influence on the star-formation rates or the growth of the central black hole, for instance. Given the advent of new-generation telescopes, like LOFAR, the PhD project will combine numerical simulations and observations to explain the role of galactic activity in the evolution of galaxies and clusters.
An alternative study would focus on a study of mergers of galaxies as the origin of quasar is a different approach to be explored. A number of phenomena were attributed to the presence of binary systems, including X-shaped radio galaxies and double-double radio galaxies, precession of a jet emitted by one of the binary components, wiggling of a jet due to the orbital motion, periodic variations in the luminosity due to perturbation of an accretion disk around one of the holes, binary galaxies with radio-jet cores, and binary quasars, etc. For this, the PhD candidate should study the connection between galaxy interactions and active galactic nuclei with particular emphasis on the proof of the existence and analysis of supermassive binary systems in the centers of AGN.
Fromm et al., Catching the radio flare in CTA 102. II. VLBI kinematic analysis, A&A 551, A32 (2013)
Fromm et al., Core-shift and spectral analysis of the 2006 radio flare in CTA102, 11th EVN Symp, arXiv:1301.7674 (2013)
Contact: Prof. Dr. Anton Zensus (azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ros (ros@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Dr. Manel Perucho (Univ. Valencia, Spain, perucho@uv.es), PD Dr. Silke Britzen (sbritzen@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Site: Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, VLBI Group in collaboration with the Universitat de València, Spain
Magnetic fields in Blazars: polarimetry studies
Blazars are the most active galaxies known. They are powered by relativistic jets of matter speeding towards us almost head-on at the speed of light, radiating exclusively through extreme, non-thermal particle interactions, energized by accretion onto supermassive black holes. Despite intensive observational and theoretical efforts over the last four decades, the details of blazar astrophysics remain elusive. The launch of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2008 has provided an unprecedented opportunity for the systematic study of blazar jets and has prompted large-scale blazar monitoring efforts across wavelengths.
In such a multi-wavelength campaign, a novel effect was discovered: fast changes in the optical polarization during gamma-ray flares. Such events probe the magnetic field structure in the jet and the evolution of disturbances responsible for blazar flares. Their systematic study can answer long-standing questions in our theoretical understanding of jets; however, current optical polarimetry programs are not adequate to find and follow similar events with the efficiency and time-resolution needed.
In the context of this program we aim at regular flux density and polarization observations of selected blazars at short cm- and mm-wavelength, using the Effelsberg and IRAM telescopes.
The radio/mm measurements will be complemented by optical polarimetry.
RoboPol is a massive program of optical polarimetric monitoring of over 100 blazars, using a specially-built, innovative polarimeter mounted on the 1.3 m telescope of the University of Crete's Skinakas Observatory, a dynamical observing schedule, and a large amount of dedicated telescope time. The program is a collaboration between the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, the University of Crete and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas in Greece, Caltech in the US, the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, and the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India.
The PhD student will collaborate closely withl team members at the MPIfR (coordinated by E. Angelakis) and the U. of Crete (coordinated by V. Pavlidou), as well as the other international RoboPol collaborators. The student will have the opportunity to combine polarization observations with datasets across wavelengths, and participate in a complementary theory and phenomenology program, aiming to constrain the underlying physics of the blazar phenomenon.
The RoboPol optical polarization survey of gamma-ray - loud blazars, V. Pavlidou et al, 2014MNRAS.442.1693P
Fuhrmann, L. et al. 2014, Detection of significant cm- to sub-mm band radio and gamma-ray correlated variability in Fermi bright blazars, MN 441, 1899
Myserlis, I., et al., 2014, Multi-frequency linear and circular radio polarization monitoring of jet emission elelements in FERMI blazars, arXiv:1401.2072.
Marscher, A.P., et al., 2005, Probing the inner jet of the quasar PKS 1510-089 with multi-waveband monitoring during strong gamma-ray activity, ApJ 710, 126
Contact: Prof. Dr. J. Anton Zensus (azensus@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Dr. Emmanouil Angelakis (eangelakis@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de), Dr. Thomas P. Krichbaum (tkrichbaum@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
Site: Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, VLBI Group in collaboration with the University of Crete, Greece
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Check out my informal interview with my friend Christopher Banks, a 33 year old graduate student and English instructor. I decided to interview Christ because one day, he informed me that he believes God is a woman. I knew I had to sit down and talk with him.
Forgive the video quality. I promise it will get better, and my pieces will be edited as I get used to the blogging thing.


Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege - "A Single Word ... "
Encouraging on so many fronts. Sometimes when one hits the bottom, up is the only way to go. And if that means you put aside your problems to help someone else whom needs the help more than yourself at that moment, then maybe just maybe you was in the right place at the right time for a reason to be used as a tool of God as is the case in this emoional roller coaster true life story proves. In will have you rooting for Ms. Tuff as she saves not only the students, the staff, herself but also the young man in desepate need. I give this 4.75 stars out of 5.
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Not only is calligraphy a beautiful art form – but you can do some really cool things with it! I'm loving this invitation suite from calligrapher Ashley Bush featuring a dreamy watercolor wash over text created with masking fluid. Such a fun idea!
From Ashley: The inspiration behind this wedding invitation suite was whimsical, candy-colored, and dreamy. I knew instantly that I wanted to do a masked brush-lettering style, with a watercolor wash over top. I let that design element guide the rest of the suite.


Plans for the staging of the 2018 VINLEC National Science and Technology Fair were outlined yesterday at a Media Conference at the Curriculum Development Unit.
The Fair will be held from January 29th to February 2nd under the theme Go Creative: Do Science.
Vincentians will have an opportunity to display their creativity with projects related to Agriculture, Food Science, Computer Science and Robotics, Biology and Environmental Science, Behavioural and Social Sciences, Chemistry, Explanatory Models and Drawings, Physics and Engineering, and Mathematics.
There will also be a "Go Creative" category to capture the more innovative ideas, inventions, etc.
Delivering remarks at the launch of the Fair, held at the Curriculum Unit Conference Room, Senior Education Officer, Aldia Gumbs-Dyer said the National Science Fair aims to stimulate personal and national growth by providing opportunities for participants to develop their creativity through healthy competition.
Mrs. Dyer also commended the schools that submitted projects last year which she said showed ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Communications Officer at the St. Vincent Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) Tamara Job-Sprott, commended the Ministry of Education for hosting the National Science Fair and pledged VINLEC's continued investment in the activity.
Mrs. Job-Sprott said that VINLEC recognizes that the Fair is a worthwhile investment in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Company understands the importance working together so that everyone benefits.
The fair is not just open to students, but also to the wider Vincentian populace. Students at all levels of primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions can participate, as well as adults who function in and out of the education sphere.
Registration forms are available at the Curriculum Unit in Richmond Hill, Kingstown: 457-1466 or 452-1004, edumediaunit@gmail.com.


Here is the Lego Modular Restaurant!
For City/ Modulars lovers, you can add this restaurant to your exisiting modular houses. Well the citizens are hungry and they need a place to eat!
For those who are interested to add this restaurant, the pdf instructions is at USD 9.90.


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Q: Connection reset by  port 22 while getting files from a remote machine through a bridge machine via ssh, doing this operation in loop I have developed a bash script that, given a list of file paths, runs a loop in which:

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*it accesses a bridge machine via ssh and from here it uses rsync to get files from another machine into a temporary directory.

*from my local machine, it gets the file previously copied on the brige machine.

It does these two operation in a loop, each loop to get a different files, the loop is repeated to get 10 different files.
Sometimes the following error pops up. What could be the cause of it?
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(228) [Receiver=3.2.3]
kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
Connection reset by <ip address> port 22

I have tryed to temporarily ecxclude some files from the list (e.g. excluding the first half of the list, then excluding the second half of the list) and I see that the error does not shows up anymore.
This makes me think it is the server that stops my script because it detects the script is doing too many operations/too quickly (this would explain the message Connection reset by <ip address> port 22).
So I have tryed to put some sleep commands in the loop, but the error still shows up.
What can I do?

A: As indicated in this thread, and this SO thread, it seems indeed to be an issue with the firewall of the machine-target-of-ssh.
I have solved it by placing sleep commands between ssh commands and increasing the sleeping time until the error does not show up anymore (15 seconds in my case).
So my guess is indeed that the firewall of the remote machine stops the executions of commands run by a remote machine via ssh, when these commands exceeds some kind of threshold like "number of commands per time", "memory dedicated to a command", or similars.

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19 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD X/TEN Tour 2002 In Council Bluffs, IA (Fan Review 1)
Def Leppard played a show on the X/Ten tour in Council Bluffs, IA on 20th December 2002 and a fan review was sent in by Aprilks.
The show took place at Mid-America Center.
Their first ever visit to this city.
Aprilks - Fan Review Quotes
"The set of songs was phenomenal, the sound was extraordinary, and the lighting was sensational. We drove 3 1/2 hours from Topeka, KS for the show, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat (I'd drive 3 times the distance for it)."
"I'm still feeling a rush from the show, and I can't wait until they return to the U.S. to see them again."
Read the full review - Council Bluffs 2002 Show Page
Def Leppard - X/Ten Tour 2002/2003


After taking a break for the now historic World Series, Fox's The Exorcist returns tomorrow night. As already discussed by Ed Martin elsewhere on MediaVillage, its last episode before the big time-out ended with the mother of all cliffhangers that left viewers heads spinning like Linda Blair's in the original movie. Angela Rance (Geena Davis) is in fact Regan MacNeil -- the original possessed girl from the 1973 classic immortalized by Blair! She has spent the last 40 years estranged from her mother, Chris MacNeil, and reinvented herself as Angela.


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From the listed reports click on Unit Delinquency.
By default you could see all Delinquent units & Current units of all location.
Note: The letter "D" denotes Delinquent unit and "C" denotes Current.
Now select the desired Location from the drop-down.
You could see the location based building drop-down menu, select the building.
Based on your search criteria, you could see list of delinquent units and current units.
You can always export the entire report in Excel Format or you can export the Delinquent units from Export Delinquent option.


I prefer to let the reader envision each character, but just for fun, I "cast" my make-believe movie version of Peer Through Time. Here are a few of those. It turns out to be a good exercise for visualizing the characters while writing them, even if they don't look exactly like that.
I can picture Emma Stone [The Amazing Spiderman; The Help] as Carmela Akronfleck (Peer Through Time's protagonist; Chief Technology Officer of Wakeup Technologies; inadvertent time traveler who is trying save her family from a killer). Toward the end of the book, an older Carmela makes a brief appearance, and I imagine her looking like Sissy Spacek.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt [3rd Rock from the Sun; Inception; Lincoln] as Kass (Carmela's psychotherapist, a non-biological person created by Peer Industries).
Betty White [The Golden Girls; Hot in Cleveland] as Margaret Akronfleck (Carmela's and Della's adoptive mother; retired CTO of Wakeup Technologies).
Amber Riley [Glee; The Wiz Live] as Della Payne (Carmela's adoptive sister; Wakeup Tech's Director of Public Relations; mother-to-be).
Gerald Anderson [Nathaniel; On the Job] as Jimmy Westmoreland (Carmela's love interest; a self-educator who rises above his primitive roots while taking care of his brother and Aunt Lasha).
Alex Borstein [Mad TV; Family Guy] as Lasha Westmoreland (Jimmy's aunt and Carmela's close friend, whose eccentric behavior serves as comic relief, and whose mysterious origins underscore the theme of identity).
Nolan Gould [Modern Family] as Eric Drake (Carmela's childhood friend, shown in flashbacks; convicted of murder late in life; dead during the events of Peer Through Time). On the right we see Gould as "Betty Luke" Dunphy. Though Eric doesn't appear in drag during the flashbacks, this could be a preview of things to come in the trilogy.
Darn! Betty White won the role I wanted!


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The trip raises the possibility of a reunion with Andres Iniesta, who joined Japan's Vissel Kobe in May after 22 years at Barcelona.
Barcelona plan to visit China and Japan as part of a pre-season tour to Asia next summer, the club announced on Tuesday. After consecutive years travelling to the United States for the International Champions Cup, Barca will return to Asia for the first time since playing a friendly in Qatar in December 2016. The trip raises the possibility of a reunion with Andres Iniesta, who joined Japan's Vissel Kobe in May after 22 years at Barcelona. Fernando Torres also departed La Liga in the summer for the J-League, where the striker plays for Sagan Tosu.
"Barca will travel to Asia next summer to get closer to local fans and partners, and plans to visit China and Japan during the pre-season, as part of the global expansion and brand development strategy," the club wrote in a statement.
"Football is growing at a fast pace in countries like China and Japan, where the club not only wants to develop commercially, but also to capture and retain fans."
Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has emphasised the importance of the Asian market to the club, who have a stated aim of reaching one billion euros in revenue by 2021.
The announcement also comes after Barca agreed a four-year deal with Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten to become their main shirt sponsor from last season.


Palazzo Salerno on the south side of the piazza and to the north, Palazzo della Prefettura, home to Naples famed Caffe Gambrinus. In the center sit two bronze equestrian statues, Charles III of Spain and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. A 25,000 square meter open air arena set between the city and the sea, Piazza del Plebiscito is the canvas for large scale contemporary art installations, the backdrop for the greatest New Years Eve fireworks show on earth and the stage for some of the greatest names in music – Massimo Ranieri, Sir Elton John, Andrea Bocelli, Sting, and Pino Danielle just to name a few.


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Sustainability August 27, 2016
Section 37 vs. inclusionary zoning: Which would you choose?
What is the best solution for affordable housing?
The city and province are at an odds yet again, with the City of Toronto rejecting the inclusionary housing proposal the province is pushing towards. Instead, the city wants to continue using Section 37 benefits, a part of the provincial planning act that allows cities to give developers permission to build outside of zoning laws in exchange for providing funding for a project that contributes to the community. In conjunction with Section 37, the city has been working on the Open Door policy that pairs up with voluntary developers who are willing to provide affordable housing in exchange for various incentives.
On the other hand, inclusionary zoning would mandate that any new development being built in cities across Ontario would have a certain portion built as low-to-mid-income housing. The province plans on giving the cities the power to mandate how to implement the inclusionary zoning policies in their respective regions. Though this is a complimentary policy for affordable housing, there is one small problem. The province has mandated that Section 37 cannot be used in conjunction with inclusionary zoning unless under specialized circumstances. They have not specified what the "special" circumstances would be either.
This policy is forcing Toronto to choose between providing essential community services and desperately needed affordable housing — and it appears politicians are at a loss on how to proceed. Quite honestly, both section 37 and inclusionary zoning have their pros and cons, but neither is sufficient to solve the plethora of housing and funding issues that plague Toronto.
Pros and cons of inclusionary zoning:
Inclusionary zoning has been a popular method of building affordable housing in many major US cities including Chicago, Montgomery County, Maryland and San Francisco. It speeds up the growth of affordable housing because it makes it mandatory for developments to build new units. It also creates mixed-income neighbourhoods, which allows children of low-income areas to avoid being marginalized in poor areas. Many people are worried that inclusionary zoning would drive up prices of the other units, but a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has determined that affordable housing doesn't affect pricing as much as assumed. Critics are concerned that the cost of inclusionary zoning falls on new homebuyers rather than all of the taxpayers in a city, which they believe isn't fair. Inclusionary zoning can also only be applied to new developments.
Pros and cons of section 37:
Section 37 gives the local councillor and community the opportunity to choose how to use development funds to benefit a particular neighbourhood, which makes the funding flexible. It helps to create good neighbourhoods and give people access to parks, public art infrastructure, and community centres. These types of infrastructure are often ignored by the city in light of other projects that need funding, and shouldering private developers with the burden is a good solution. On the other hand, section 37 can be misused if the local councillor chooses a project that isn't effective in the community. Though community funding is important, families, seniors, and low-income individuals need homes to live in, and this trumps public art installations.
What is a possible solution for the city and province?
When the city rejected the inclusionary zoning proposal last week, they also said that if the zoning proposal were approved they would want a 10 per cent affordable housing mandate for the new developments going up, instead of just targeting inclusionary zoning at mid-to-low income households.
A potential solution is to have both options available for developers. By allowing them to choose between section 37 and inclusionary zoning, both community funding and affordable housing needs may be fulfilled. Most would choose section 37 as it stands, but if it were mandated that the community funding would have to equal the cost of building and maintaining 10 per cent affordable housing, it would even the playing field between the two policies. As well, Open Door could be maintained and continued alongside inclusionary zoning to the benefit of the 95,000 people on the affordable waitlist to obtain housing.
The state of affordable housing in Toronto is not of casual concern. It is a state of emergency. The staggering amount of people desperate for housing, and who are forced to resort to the streets or use most of their income to pay rent, is unacceptable. Instead of city and provincial councillors bickering over which policy is better, everyone need to bring all solutions to the table and create a viable plan to work together. After all, people's lives depend on it.
by Kaeleigh Phillips


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'It's far too easy to sack the chief constable', warns Commissioner Jones
👤by Paul Dale	🕔01.Jul 2013
It is unclear whether Chris Sims should be concerned or not, but West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Bob Jones is stressing about the power he has to sack under-performing chief constables.
Commissioner Jones has warned that by allowing politicians like him to hire and fire the likes of Mr Sims the government runs the risk that "personality clashes" will motivate change in force leadership rather than any sound evidence that chief constables are not up to the job.
Mr Jones, a former Labour councillor, suggests rather cynically that the requirement of commissioners to seek a public mandate for re-election every four years might "drive leadership decisions rather than proper longer term professional considerations for the benefit of the public".
His comments are made on the West Mids PCC Facebook page, in a well-argued article which is another shot in a campaign to end the "politicised" PCC systemand bring back the former police authority, of which Mr Jones was a longstanding member.
He makes the point that in pre-PCC days it was extremely difficult to sack chief constables and that disciplinary action could only be taken by the police authority after consulting Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC). Now, Commissioners have no links with HMIPC and if they want to dispense with the services of a chief constable can easily do so as has happened in Gwent, Avon and Somerset and Lincolnshire.
While not commenting on individual police forces, Mr Jones notes that: "As always in such cases, it is not only about justice being done but, as these decisions are played out in a public arena, that justice is seen to be done.
"The legislative framework put in place by this government makes this a challenge and one that does no favours for either chief constables or police and crime commissioners. "
He suggests that the rules underpinning police commissioners lend themselves to undue tension.
"The new system is designed to deliberately bring in a head to head system. With this comes the inherent risk of the perception that personality clashes will motivate change in force leadership or that re-election needs drive leadership decisions rather than proper longer term professional considerations for the benefit of the public."
Bob Joneschris simsHer Majesty's Inspectorate of ConstabularyPolice and Crime CommissionerWest Midlands PCC