The death of Darren Daulton the other day from brain cancer was a very tough event on longtime Phillies fans. Dutch was a very popular player among his peers and the fans really loved him too.
His death is the 4th player that has been from the same aggressive brain cancer, Gliboblastoma, that has taken Tug McGraw, John Vukovich, and John Oates from us over the years. It is also the cancer that politician John McCain has.
The common denominator is that all of these players played in Veterans Stadium for some time, and other Astro Turf stadiums that were popular in the mid-1970's and into the 80's and 90's and in Philadelphia's case, right up until 2003 when Veterans Stadium closed up after that season.
What I remember as a fan from back in the Veterans Stadium era, that when we had heatwaves, the heat on the field was unbearable. The temperatures could be as high as 130 on the field when it was in the 90's. There would need to be a larger study of more people that know someone who perhaps worked at the stadium for years and came down with this or something similar.
Here's an article link that goes back to 2011 on more players that have come down with this type of cancer.
"Although we're getting a rash of Phillies baseball players, it's probably just the statistical anomaly and probably nothing we would be able to prove scientifically," Lee said.
"We currently have very little info or science to prove there's any kind of association with brain cancer with anything that you're exposed to," Lee said.


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The Walper Hotel | 20 Queen St S | walper.com
"Our opportunity was obvious, we have something very special here," says Domini Baldasaro, General Manager of The Walper Hotel. "We have a space that is historically known in people's memories, but we also have a role in helping represent Kitchener to the outside world."
The responsibility and seriousness The Walper takes in this role is obvious. The renovations, or more honestly put, the overhaul which was completed in 2017, focused on making this hotel the best possible boutique hotel in the region.
"When we came into town to look around, Lokal was absolutely stunning," says Emma Tarswell of the second-floor space at The Walper where she and her husband Daniel Kamminga recently hosted their wedding.
"We had a seven-piece band in the Crystal Ballroom and we just wanted a total party. Having great food was important to us too. I'm vegetarian, so I knew I wanted apps that everyone was going to love."
"Originally, the second floor was not part of the renovation. We were only planning on doing the guest rooms on the third, fourth and fifth floors. But, as we started to see the designs coming together we knew we needed to do everything," says Domini.
"One of the most important aspects of what our team has done is to be verythoughtful about every item that is part of the hotel. We were very clear about the hotel wanting to represent the maker and creative cultures of Downtown Kitchener and chose pieces that represented that," she says. "Our furniture, lighting and feature accessories around the hotel are all hand-selected and very intentional."
There's a relentless focus on experience from all the people working at The Walper Hotel. From their pride in their unique coffee program (we hear that everyone in the hospitality industry is coffee-obsessed), to their use of Zingle, a texting app for guests to communicate with staff before, during and after their stay, the energy and dedication to service is noticeable.
"One of the things that is really important to us is that we built this for our guests, but it is always open to the public and we welcome the community to come in and share in this space," Domini says of the Lokal room.
Domini, known to most as Dom, knew she wanted to work in hotels from a very young age. Her early years were filled with trips to the Kitchener Market and stopping at the bank at King and Queen, eyeing up the old building across the street. After so many years of imagining her career in The Walper, her first shift as a front desk staffer left her in tears.
"It was just in such disarray. There were holes in the carpet, in the walls. Motel sheets on the beds and there weren't enough TVs for the guest rooms. But the guests, there was something special about the guests. They were, and still are, discerning."
Transitioning into different roles over her past eight years at The Walper has given Dom a front row seat to change in the hotel, and in Downtown Kitchener. Along with the conventional tourists you'd expect, The Walper Hotel has recently hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former Governor General David Johnson, and a number of oft-returning tech company staff members. These out-of-town employees usually arrive on a Sunday and stay throughout the week, heading back to their hometowns on Thursday or Friday.
Frequent visitors gain access to The Walper's personalized trunk program, which allows guests to store some of their commonly used items at the hotel, from toiletries to gym clothes to laptop chargers.
According to Dom it's touches like the trunk program that make The Walper something special.
This sentiment rings true with Tarswell and Kamminga, the aforementioned newlywed couple.
"The bar even developed a signature drink for our wedding, people loved that. Everything just went great, the space is absolutely beautiful and we loved getting photos in the outdoor spaces."
A world-class boutique hotel feels like the mark of a great city. Kitchener has got that box checked.
Congratulations and a special thanks to Emma Tarswell and Daniel Kamminga for allowing us a behind-the-scenes look at their October 21, 2017 wedding!
@DTKitchener
Photography: Jeff Shuh | @jeffshuh | jeffshuh.com + Jens Langen | langenstudios.com
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A quintessentially English sparkling wine.
Bolney Estate is a small, award winning family run winery nestled into the South Downs on predominantly south facing sandstone slopes. Founded by Rodney and Jane Pratt in 1972 the estate celebrated 40 years of wine making in 2012. In the age of new English Wineries popping up every few minutes this makes them something of an established name. Yet, in focussing on red wines they have remained relatively under the radar. That is, until we tasted their traditional method sparkling wines, which seem more balanced and refined than almost anything else we've tasted from the UK. The current winemaker is Rodney & Jane's daughter Sam Linter who has been at the helm since 1997. She's obviously quite at home there as she seems to have a good handle on achieving balance from the extremes of the UK growing season. Unusually for most British producers the Bolney Fruit comes entirely from their own 39 acre plantings.
A blend of two white grapes - one world-renowned, the other decidedly less famous - and used to great effect on the southern shores of the U.K.


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Batch No. 4 from the 2018 season boarders between an amber and a dark syrup. Full of the robust maple flavours an amber syrup has, in a darker colour with earthy notes coming through. This is a great starter maple syrup if you have never tried the Tapped Out Small Batch before.


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Polymers often do not provide all necessary properties for certain applications. In this case polymer composites can be used to combine beneficial qualities of each single component. In many cases, especially for surface–bulk-composites, adhesion is an issue because polymers with complementary properties are necessary. If the chemical binding of the pristine polymers does not allow for good adhesion, advanced strategies have to be employed which most of the time lead to chemical alteration of the surface, its destruction or else low adhesion. While roughening of the surface leads to an increase in the interface area, it will not provide a stable bond, if the adhesion between the two polymers is low in the first place. By selforganized introduction of special undercuts onto one of the polymer surfaces and by applying the second polymer in a liquid form, a mechanical interlocking composite can be achieved. In these composites adhesion can be so strong that only cohesive failure in one of the polymers will occur. In this work we evaluated simple fabrication techniques for the design of simple and complex undercuts and the adhesion between the exemplary composite PEEK and PDMS. We find that by utilizing the capillary effect, spherical standard particles can be used to create a surface structure for mechanical interlocking. Additionally, we obtain a 5.6 times higher adhesion between PEEK and PDMS. We come to the conclusion that a multi-scale undercut is necessary to obtain a strong adhesion between soft polymers like PDMS and stiff polymers like PEEK by looking at the detachment mechanism for these different undercut systems. Lastly, the composite is evaluated by blood contact tests to verify the intactness of the blood repellant effects of the PDMS layer.
Polymer composites can be used to realize a combination of the special individual features of polymers, e.g. low adhesion of PDMS and high mechanical strength of PEEK. Especially in laminate like composites, a good adhesion between the polymers is important. Modifications of the interface chemistry might lead to undesired alteration of the surfaces in touch, their destruction or else low adhesion. Micro and nano scale mechanical interlocking is an effective alternative only if hook like undercut structures can be provided. However, the notched shape of interlocking particles complicates the fabrication and embedding process. Counterintuitively, the presented strategy is based on simple spherical particles self-organizing into hook like undercuts on the polymer surface by capillary action. By applying the second, liquefied polymer on top, a mechanical interlocking composite laminates where perfect adhesion is provided, i.e. only cohesive failure will occur as failing mechanism. Thus, we obtain 5.6 times higher adhesion strength for exemplary PDMS/PEEK composites and conclude that hierarchical undercuts are necessary to obtain strongest adhesion. Lastly, the composite is evaluated by blood contact tests to verify that the blood repellant feature of the PDMS layer is still intact while the laminate exhibits the mechanical strength of PEEK.
Complex shaped nanostructures have been used by Jin et al., where zinc oxide tetrapods (ZnO-T) were utilized to join the Teflon (PTFE) and silicone (PDMS) together which do not adhere directly because of their very low surface energies.20 The interlocking mechanism was investigated and it has been reported that the 3D complex shape indeed plays a very important role. Using a tetrapods based interlocking approach, a peel strength of around 2 N cm−1 between PTFE and PDMS layers was reported, however for certain applications, an even higher adhesion is needed. In this study no cohesive failure was found, meaning a further improvement of the core idea might raise the adhesion even further. Additionally, the necessity of complex shaped particles limits the practicability.
Here we demonstrate a simple fabrication procedure for complex shaped surfaces to promote the adhesion of two typically non-adhering materials. We utilize standard spherical nano and micro particles without any intrinsic possibility for polymer/particle undercut formation by using the capillary effect. We also assess what makes a good undercut structure by the example of joining PDMS, a low surface energy, chemically inert and soft polymer to PEEK, a high strength, high temperature, chemically inert polymer and show that hierarchical undercuts on multiple length scales are most efficient adhesion promoters allowing for only cohesive failure of the individual polymer and therefore giving the strongest possible adhesion. Different fabrication approaches and different detachment mechanisms are evaluated to obtain insight into the most promising type of undercuts and surface modifications.
For the given composite additional platelet adhesion tests have been carried out on differently prepared PDMS surfaces in order to check the hemocompatibility of the as prepared polymer composites. The results indicate that a perfectly flat silicone surface can achieve the highest blood adhesion resistances while still keeping the hemocompatibility of pristine PDMS. This indicates the viability of the utilized fabrication methods with respect to an application as biomedical implants.
The model for the fabrication of a surface with interlocking sites on multiple scales is depicted in Fig. 1. In the first step the polar polymer substrate is coated with a dry powder mixture of particles. The mixture can consist of more than one different particle type (e.g. ceramic, metal) of two different sizes, preferably polar nanoparticles of 100 nm and smaller and a micron sized particle type. The layer thickness ranges from 100 μm to 500 μm and contains particle agglomerates, where the particle–particle distance is smaller than in the surrounding powder. After coating the surface with a particle layer, different regimes of varying density are present due to these agglomerates (Fig. 1a). This particle film is then heated (e.g. 500–600 °C for PEEK) from the top in order to melt the polar polymer beneath.
Fig. 1 Surface sculptured PEEK–ZnO composites and general working principle of the fabrication steps: (a and b) Coating of particles with regimes of different density on the surface and heat treatment to melt the underlying PEEK surface. Self-organized formation of undercut structures by capillary effect. (c) Formation of hierarchical undercuts with two different particle sizes. (d) Coating with PDMS, which multiscale interlocking sites into the undercut structures. (e) Increased adhesion by the interlocking of PDMS onto the surface undercuts, the inset shows the lower adhesion of normally roughened surfaces to PDMS, (f) decreased platelet adhesion on novel composite material in comparison to pristine PEEK in vascular implants (e.g. heart valve leaflets).
Dipole–(induced) dipole interactions between the polar particles and the polar polymer lead to a combination of Keesom and Debye attractive forces between these two components. Molten polymer is thereby flowing into the particle network above, preferentially into the particle agglomerates in which the medium distance between the particles is lower than in other places.
Only if the microscopic particle–particle-distance is low enough, a sufficient capillary force can be generated, enabling the molten polymer to flow easily. Thus, the denser packed agglomerates are wetted by the polymer (Fig. 1b), which leads to the formation of pillars of particle–polymer composite. Due to the different sizes of the particles and the selective embedding process, a hierarchical roughness with many polymer/particle composite undercuts is produced (Fig. 1c). The heat source is removed and the polymer cools down, solidifying the particle–polymer pillars and the surrounding polymer. The particle sites which could not draw up the polymer or are only partially-embedded are rinsed away by thorough brushing under running water.
A surface of randomly distributed, self-organized interlocking sites is obtained at the polymer surface. When another liquefied polymer is coated onto this surface, these interlocking sites will be covered completely (Fig. 1c), so that only the surface of the composite consists of the second polymer. By solidifying the second polymer a mechanical interlocking between the two polymers is achieved, creating a strong polymer composite sandwich structure.
Since the substrate polymer shows many undercuts on multiple length scales a much stronger adhesion (e.g., here shown 5.6 times stronger adhesion between PDMS and PEEK) than a surface roughened by standard techniques can be expected (inset Fig. 1e). Pulling forces can be distributed much better around the inner walls of a hierarchical undercut than on a flat surface.
By employing this novel concept we fabricated and analyzed a composite of polyether ether ketone (PEEK, a high strength, high temperature thermoplastic) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS, a low surface energy elastomer). The properties of both are respectively utilized in a manifold of applications such as surgical implants and many others.
The adhesive properties of the fabricated composites were evaluated in terms of the three different heating approaches (described briefly in Experimental section, ESI†). Fig. 2 shows the three representative curves, one for each treatment, where the inset shows the testing geometry with the two aluminum rods and the PDMS coated PEEK samples in between them. The control sample was a pristine PEEK sample coated with around 1 mm of PDMS. The black curve in Fig. 2 shows the stress–distance-diagram for this sample, where the maximum adhesive strength is 133 kPa. The curve has a linear regime corresponding to the elastic deformation of the PDMS and a steep drop after the maximum indicating a sudden detachment from the PEEK. PDMS was only found on one side of the sandwiched sample, meaning the failure mechanism is adhesive and not cohesive. In comparison, the yellow curve representing a sample which was structured with ZnO nanoparticles only. These particles have been chosen to be big enough to rule out the reinforcement mechanisms of very small nanoparticles. The structured sample shows a factor of 4.5 stronger adhesive strength with a value of 592 kPa. Apart from the increase in adhesive strength, the curve has the same shape as the untreated sample, with a linear elastic range and a sudden decline after the maximum value. Also the failure is adhesive, since only one side of the sample was covered with PDMS, while the other side showed the structured surface. The blue curve represents a surface structured by the Al–ZnO-mixture, with a maximum adhesive strength of 745 kPa, 5.6 times the value of the unstructured sample. While the curve's shape is the same, both parts of the sandwiched sample exhibited PDMS and some parts are even covered in the same area of the sample indicating that the failure mechanism is cohesive. The shape of the curve is important, since it represents a homogeneous structuring of the surface. Inhomogeneously structured samples would exhibit parts of higher and parts of lower adhesive strength and would therefore show additional plateaus in the linear ranges, meaning that some parts of the sample already detached while others remain intact. The absence of these plateaus hints about an uniform surface with all three types of samples. The approach to sandwich the samples works well, since the adhesion test can only affect the weakest parts of the interface between PDMS and PEEK. Cohesive failure is only possible, where the PDMS is strongly attached on both sides. For elastic materials such as PDMS the mechanical adhesion is typically low, because of their ability to change the shape when stress is applied.
Fig. 2 Adhesive strength results for differently treated PEEK surfaces. The stress–distance-curve for differently structures samples. The values achieved for different roughness complexities are shown as well as a photograph of the testing setup.
Understanding the involved rupture mechanisms is of key-importance for transferring the structuring approach to other polymers. The differences in the ultimate bonding strength as a result of the surface treatments is directly related to the complexity of the surface structuring. The detachment mechanisms as well as the structure's corresponding scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are shown in Fig. 3. An unstructured sample is smooth and the attachment works by van-der-Waals bonds, hydrogen bonds and other dipole–dipole interaction. Because of the non-polar nature of PDMS it only exhibits van-der-Waals bonding which is very weak and the smooth interface can therefore easily detach (Fig. 3a). The ZnO structured sample however exhibits undercuts in the size regime of the ZnO (a few hundred nanometers) (Fig. 3b) as well as the micropillars formed by the mechanism explained in the Experimental section (ESI†). The small undercuts are not sufficient to hold the PDMS in place and the larger structures only rarely exhibit larger undercuts lowering the adhesion of the PDMS compared to the ideal case. EDX of detached PDMS confirmed that some zinc oxide nanoparticles were embedded by the PDMS and came off of the PEEK surface during the pull-off test (Fig. S2, ESI†). This process is usually expected when roundish particles are placed at an interface. A spherical particle cannot provide undercuts to both sides and the detachment of one side from the particles is due to the lack of chemical bonding (compare Fig. S2 and S3, ESI†).
Fig. 3 Different adhesive failure mechanisms and respective SEM images after the pull-off. (a) is an unstructured PEEK surface after adhesive testing. In (b) the simple, roughly structured PEEK surface as produced by only ZnO particles is shown. In (c) the remains of ruptured PDMS around an Al particle can be seen on the complex, rough surface of the PEEK which was structured by using Al and ZnO particles.
In contrast to that, the Al–ZnO structured sample however exhibited many undercuts on multiple length scales and even showed remaining PDMS in these areas, which failed cohesively (Fig. 3c). Due to the hierarchical roughness of the sample and its complexity, necking of the PDMS is not immediately accompanied by a detachment since the force is distributed among many attachment centers inside the big undercut. With only one undercut length scale, the PDMS at the undercut would show necking and therefore shrink, which would make a detachment inside the undercut easy. When compared to the approach by Jin et al., where complex shaped linkers were used, a significant increase in the adhesive strength can be seen by the fact that cohesive failure occurred. In the former study an increased adhesion but no cohesive failure was found, indicating that the hierarchical roughness is indeed a very important feature of a mechanical interlock structure.
Since not all of the polymer has failed cohesively, however, there is potential for optimization. The undercuts have to be distributed over the whole interface, where the two polymers are supposed to be in contact. The principles investigated here therefore have to be transferred to larger area treatments. Understanding the underlying phenomena of wetting and adhesion leads to a better design of the polymer–polymer interface with respect to the nature of the undercuts. The simplicity of the approach and the manifold of particles available ensure versatile applications of the concept, not requiring difficult or expensive experimental setups but only basic equipment and chemicals.
Contact angle measurements have been performed on PEEK/PDMS samples with different coating thicknesses of PDMS (Fig. S4, ESI†). Structured PEEK without PDMS showed a contact angle of 0°, indicating superhydrophilic behavior. When a diluted PDMS solution was used, the contact angle showed to be superhydrophobic (>120°) even after just one coating step. With a higher concentration of PDMS solution (1 : 5 parts by PDMS/thinner fluid by weights) a thicker coating of PDMS can be observed and the contact angle decreases to the pristine contact angle of PDMS of 105°.21 This means that the contact angle can be tailored to meet the specific application. For the blood contact tests, thickly coated PDMS/PEEK composites were used.
To show the unaltered properties of the PDMS layer on top, blood contact tests have been carried out on samples prepared with two different coating techniques. The fabrication of the coating allowed for different surface architectures, resulting on the one hand in a smooth surface, on the other hand in a crack containing surface (Fig. 4). Both of the surfaces have been tested with human blood and revealed different platelet adhesion behaviors. On average the crack containing surface has 311.4 single thrombocytes cells, 1.6 small cell heaps and 1.8 big cell heaps. Six visual fields had so many cells in more than one layer and without a clear boundary so that the number of cells could not be counted. On average the smooth surface showed 27.8 single cells, 1.3 small and 0.5 big cell heaps, indicating that the thrombogenic activity was severely reduced.
Fig. 4 Adhered platelets over several surfaces from the present work. The values for smooth PDMS are the lowest, even compared to diamond-like carbon (DLC). Titanium (Ti) and titanium nitride (TiN) showed an increased platelet adhesion, but the PDMS surface with cracks shows the highest number of adhered platelets. The insets show the SEM images for the smooth and the cracked PDMS, respectively. The very large number of blood platelets can be seen for the cracked PDMS surface.
When compared with literature values in Fig. 4, the smooth PDMS surface showed the lowest platelet adhesion, even relative to other promising materials, such as diamond-like carbon (DLC). This can be readily seen in the inset of the SEM images taken of this surface after the blood contact test. On the other hand, the high number of attached cells on the cracked surface is clearly related to the introduction of anchor points for the cells by these crevices. These results are directly linked to Park et al. where polished titanium showed highly reduced platelet adhesion compared to normal sandpaper abraded surfaces.22 The cracks on the surface are most likely due to shrinkage upon thinner evaporation and resulting material stresses. It is also not to rule out that the zinc oxide tetrapods in the smooth sample have an influence on the adhesion behavior. Hölken et al. could show a reduced biofouling activity when incorporating tetrapodal zinc oxide into polythiourethanes.23,24 Both of these possibilities open up a window for further investigations. Although there are more effective ways to treat the PDMS for reduced platelet adhesion (e.g. by grafting PEG to its surface), the results show the preservation of the inertness of the PDMS towards biological materials as well as the increase in adhesion.
In summary, we report on a heightening of the bond strength between the low surface energy polymer PDMS to the high strength polymer PEEK by a factor of 5.6 times by utilizing mechanical interlocking at the polymer–polymer interface. It could be shown that an increase in adhesive strength is achieved by forming undercut structures with additional hierarchical roughness. Undercuts like these can be formed and tuned through various methods proposed here and can even be influenced by considering particle architecture and surface design. Three simple structuring methods have been proposed and tested in order to verify the quality of the treatments. Additional effort has been made to confirm the strong influence of thin coatings of PDMS on the PEEK by contact angle measurements resulting in hydrophobic surfaces of formerly ultrahydrophilic structures. Both SEM and EDX have been utilized to investigate the surface and obtain a fundamental understanding of the underlying rupture mechanisms found through pull-off testing. Further effort can be made by employing different ways of heating the PEEK surface (e.g. microwave or laser treatment) to obtain an infiltration of PEEK into the particle sponge on its surface. Also a larger variety of particles on multiple length scales might result in even better structuring of the surface.
LS, TS, H-HS and RA identified the idea and planned the study. LS, SS and FS synthesized and analyzed the materials. LS and FS carried out studies. LS, SS and SK performed adhesion tests. TS and H-HS performed blood contact tests. LS, YKM, FS, JC, JB and RA analyzed the data and wrote the paper with contributions from other authors.
R. A. gratefully acknowledges partial project funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under the grant number AD183/18-1 as well as parts of the Research Training Group "Materials for Brain" (GRK 2154). Additionally, H.-H. S. gratefully acknowledges project funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the grant number 13GW055B.
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I haven't thought about water is such a personal way since the incident of the dead cat a few years ago, when the flushing of a newly installed valve in the city water system produced a dead cat, to everyone's chagrin.
We went on "boil alert"—a discomfiting phrase—until safety procedures were completed. But I brushed my teeth with tap water anyway, out of habit, forgetting.
This June, between meditation retreats, I camped in the mountains above Santa Fe for four nights in our camper, bringing along 16 gallons of water. Some might think this was barely enough for tea, but it was enough for everything: tea, water bottle, brushing teeth, washing dishes, washing me.
The shower hose had a bad leak, so I wasted some water despite very short showers. I used 15 of the 16 gallons. Needless to say, the faucet was mostly set on "dribble." It's a different perspective when you can watch your supply dwindle.
We have habits that will probably not change without some feedback. It would be interesting to have water meters in the home where we could see them working. You'd think the flow of unused water down the drain would be enough to make us change, but no. I bet we all have practices wherein we could cut our water use dramatically.
We have our habits, and sometimes vacations provide relief, although I bet we take many of them along with us. For example, in a new place you might first establish the location of a coffee shop or Internet access. I guess they come together nowadays.
We could see the power of habit in the library as people came in and walked around two obnoxiously placed signs pointing to the new location of the public computers. Nothing gets in the way of a good habit.
The public computers, plus workspace for laptop users, have moved to the basement where our meeting room used to be. This is a big change that has turned out better for everyone, including computer users.
There is a new wall and entrance into the children's room, and this is working well for muffling noise and defining the children's library as its own space. Plus, we've moved the Young Adult books and audiobooks upstairs into the adult level, making more room in the children's library.
We could accommodate the young adult collection upstairs because we took out the old office and stairs in the far corner and made room for more shelving.
So now, upstairs on the left, we have (i) young adult fiction, (ii) fiction audiobooks, (iii) large print fiction, and (iv) the regular fiction collection.
The right side, except for magazines, is given to non-fiction, including large print and audiobooks. And we still have our basement annex with over 20,000 items, but no, there's still no browsing. Staff access only.
Someone suggested a "road map" to the library—not so much a map of what's where in the library, although that can help, but also to what's available through the library. Our digital aspects are changing, too, such as new online offerings and new ebooks.
And, come August 1, we'll be a full participant in the Prospector system, meaning you can place requests online selecting not only from the Marmot system's 1.4 million titles but also Prospector's 30 million.
We'll work on a road map. Meanwhile, be careful about water, but your tap for knowledge can be wide open.


I have had the great pleasure of attending one of Najberg Milne's courses and was bowled over by the innovative and exciting content and delivery. It has made a truly lasting impact on me and I know, has and will improve my own skills as a presenter significantly. The affirmative style and focus on increasing self-belief was insightful, influential and highly effective. I would recommend Najberg Milne without a shadow of a doubt and in fact can't wait to do so, that they can continue to pass on their experience and teaching to others.
Winning Hearts and minds is a perfect name for a perfect course. Not only does it improve enormously communication skills to the outside world but it also puts you in touch with – and helps you to present – that intelligent confident person you always hoped was inside you.
The Training "Winning Hearts and Minds" is truly innovative and educational. My speech is now more fluid and I am way more confident. After the training, I had to make a presentation in front of a larger audience, the result was: my presentation was vivid, I had a lot of fun delivering it and I found myself being convincing. This training is highly recommended.
I have been a participant in both of Najberg Milne's "Winning Hearts and Minds" workshops. They were very professionally run, great fun, and uniquely helpful in developing my skills and those of my colleagues. I have always been a very confident speaker, and wasn't sure how much of a difference Najberg Milne's programme would make. However, I found the one-on-one approach tailored the learning to the needs of each participant, helped me focus on those parts of my skill set that were less well-developed, and I saw a real improvement. They created a safe environment in which we could all take risks and experiment with different ways of doing or saying things.Najberg Milne understand business issues, so they are able to help with content as well as style. Their programmes are often referred to in our business and are highly regarded by all who attend.
I hired Najberg Milne based on a recommendation a colleague of mine made. I included myself in the initial small group of people who attended their excellent course "Winning Hearts and Minds".I enjoyed the course thoroughly and derived great insights and confidence from it; so much so that I asked them to work with several groups within the London office, eventually sending well over 2 dozen people to learn from them.
Although it has been over 2 years since I attended the course, I still often draw on what I learned, and have successfully spoken in front of audiences in the hundreds and not only lived to tell the tale but thoroughly enjoyed the experience (despite the nerves!).
I found Najberg Milne's presentation-training course invaluable as they work with the individual, so you get advice that develops your character strengths to help you become a more confident presenter, as opposed to learning a bunch of tips and techniques.
Search consultants from Leathwaite thought "Winning Hearts and Minds" was one of the best training courses they have ever been on. We felt there was a marked improvement in our presentation skills during the 48 hours. Najberg Milne just didn't give up making us try things until we got them right!The course is not just about being better at face-to-face presentations. The techniques you learn filter through beyond presentations and into more general client/candidate communication: being able to deliver a speech or put an argument forward can be used on the phone as well during a presentation. This is so important for a search firm where our phone is our main communication tool.
Our approach to presenting at Leathwaite has changed as a result of Najberg Milne's coaching. We look to make it interesting for the listener regardless of the topic, and aim to present fewer but clearer messages. Our long winded monologues comprising reams of data are a thing of the past!
I found your course invaluable in helping myself and my team present credibly to candidates and clients either in informal meetings of 3 – 5 people or in larger audiences of 20+ people. The tools that you equipped us with – breathing, eye contact, voice projection, body language – has helped us deliver content more credibly and accurately and helps us maximize the impact of every meeting.
We have worked with David and Eva for over ten years. They have an incredible approach to working with businesses and their people which proves effective time and time again. Their entirely unique process blends performance skills and psychology seamlessly to create an extraordinary approach which so far hasn't failed. They are masters at generating an environment in which their delegates grow in confidence and ultimately end up speaking from the heart about a topic they appear to be either passionate about or expert in. This ability to bring out the core of a person's personality as a business strength is like gold dust and well worth any investment I've ever made in time with Najberg Milne.
As a result of Najberg Milne's approach, our people, who were previously cynical about the value of training, now believe it is a productive investment. By being prepared to learn, listen and respond to individual and corporate needs and present in an engaging but non-threatening style, they have forged a relationship of considerable trust with people who were resistant at the outset.
Najberg Milne won us over with their fresh approach, enthusiasm and obviously pragmatic method of handling presentation training. You come away with ideas, which can be used 'Monday morning'.
Najberg Milne's approach to and delivery of education is innovative, thought provoking and it really does work. The sessions I have attended have always been excellent and great fun. I would not hesitate in recommending Najberg Milne to anyone.
Inspirational – breaks down the barriers you create for yourself. Superb course, have rarely both enjoyed something as much whilst getting so much from it!
I now know I can do things I only wished I could do before.
I was lucky enough to participate in the training "Winning Hearts and Minds" run with energy by François and Jean-Sebastien. Two days of intense work, but it does not feel like it. The delivery and the content are so rich and interesting.


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Hello! Welcome to the JavaFX tutorial for CS2340 students. In this tutorial we will go over installation of the IDE IntelliJ as well as the basics of JavaFX to help you all get started on your projects. This tutorial includes a java application that is built alongside the material in order to help solidify the topics.  We also provided a reference to some of the layouts of JavaFX and incorporating images into your applications.

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I am using GeoJson to load layers in google maps. for so far everything works. But when I tried to add colors it didn't show them.
I first add the color in this link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MissAudi/Relipop/master/GeoJson%20file
if I load this GeoJson file in geojson.io it shows all of the colors I added.
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Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
Old-growth forest, 60 miles of trail, herbaceous plants
An expansive view of Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Courtesy of Flickr user sister beer
Trail view in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Courtesy of Flickr user Kid Cowboy
Wildcat Falls at Slickrock Creek, Joyce-Kilmer Slickrock Wilderness Courtesy of Jeff Moore via Flickr
Forest Trail, Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Courtesy of Natalia Figueroa via Flickr
Location: North Carolina, Tennessee
Size: 17,394 acres
Year Designated: 1975
Fast Fact: Named for the poet and New York Times journalist Joyce Kilmer, who died in WWI.
Joyce Kilmer worked as a staff reporter for the New York Times from 1913 to 1918, but he is perhaps best known for his most famous poem, "Trees," which contrasts the artificial nature of poetry with the organic splendor of trees.
Kilmer wrote the poem in New Jersey, not North Carolina, but he would have been equally inspired by his namesake wilderness. Throughout the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness grow beautiful old-growth forests, which managed to escape the logging that ruled the area in the late 19th century. Some of these oaks, tulip poplars and hemlocks are mammoth, measuring six meters in diameter. Yellow pine, sycamore and dogwood also grow among the wilderness' forests.


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2020-2021 Senior Spotlight: Holley Nichols
Holley running in the state cross-country championships
She is one of the first student-athletes I ever coached at Pope John Paul II (JPII) in Lacey, Washington. Her improvement recently in practice is significant and wonderful to see. You could not ask to meet a more thoughtful and sincere person than Holley Nichols.
Holley was part of our first-ever JPII Lady Eagles cross-country team in 2018. Holley trained lightly for cross-country her first year because she was a dual-sport athlete in volleyball during the cross-country season. In her first year with the team, JPII won the Washington State Cross-Country Academic State Championship and made it to state as a team in cross-country.
By year two in 2019, Holley and her varsity teammates were Washington State Cross-Country Team Champions in only their second year with a team in their state division. Holley help lead the girl's team to the sportsmanship team of the year award in our league as well and she made the All Sea-Tac League First team as a cross-country runner. Holley is even more determined than ever to compete well in 2020.
Holley is a good student academically who strives to do her best every day in and out of the classroom. Holley is active in many school activities including jazz band and the STEM club. She finds time to be a lead tenor who plays the clarinet and other instruments as well. Holley also volunteers a lot in our local community and cares deeply about helping and serving others.
Holley has served as a Cross-Country Team Captain and ministry leader and has worked as a community volunteer in a multitude of areas. Her volunteer work includes working at the Orting Soldiers Home, Thurston County Food Bank, the Olympia Toy Run, the First Baptist Church Food Kitchen, and tutoring children in various subjects for over two years.
Holley is one of those people who has that rare gift of getting along well with everyone in multiple areas of life and different age groups.
When I think about Holley, I remember the verse in the Bible that indicates that whoever wants to be great in life, must serve others. Holley is the definition of a servant leader. She is an independent thinker who takes time out of her busy life to serve and encourage others. I love that about Holley. She really is her own person who intentionally goes out of her way each day to help others. Holley is one of those people who always tries to do the right thing.
In her senior year, Holley is dedicating her sports life to seeing what she can do on the Cross-Country course and on the track as her primary sports. I am excited to see Holley focus on her running this year and watch her go after her God-given potential. Holley has aspirations of running at the next level in college. She is very focused and like everything else she does in life is going hard after this goal.
Holley is an amazing young woman who is making a difference in the lives of others. I believe she will make a huge difference in the lives of others for years to come. Just having Holley on our team is a gift. Through tangible and intangible actions, Holley is one of the reasons for her team's success on and off the field.
There you have it. Holley Nichols is a hard worker, other-centered, has a heart of gold, and in a good way is very competitive when the gun goes off at the start of a race.
Never count out Holley Nichols. Watch this young lady with a heart of gold soar this season as she goes after her God-given potential in cross-country and track like never before.
Go Eagles!
Senior picture time!
Holley plays in Jazz Band at JPII.
Going into her senior year, Holley has big goals for the year ahead.
Holly with several of her teammates who also play in Jazz Band.
Holley and her teammates winning the Washington State Cross-Country Championship in their division in 2019.


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Porsche Taycan sets world record for longest electric vehicle drift
Alex Misoyannis
Rear-drive electric sedan drifts 210 laps around Porsche Experience Centre skidpad.
Porsche has set a new Guinness world record for the longest continuous drift in an electric vehicle (EV).
Porsche Experience Centre (PEC) chief instructor Dennis Retera recorded 210 laps around the 200-metre wet circular skidpad at the brand's Experience Centre at the Hockenheimring circuit in Germany.
Verified by Guinness World Records, Retera sat behind the wheel of a pre-production, rear-wheel-drive version of Porsche's Taycan electric sedan, currently exclusive to the Chinese market (though a European and American launch is expected in 2021).
Powering the rear-drive EV is a choice of two lithium-ion batteries mounted in the floor which, when the larger 93.4kWh pack is selected, can extract up to 350kW of power from the car's single rear-mounted electric motor.
"Nevertheless, it was also very tiring for me to keep my concentration high for 210 laps, especially as the irrigated asphalt of the drift circuit does not provide the same grip everywhere", said Retera after his 55-minute record-setting run, completing a total distance of 42.171km at an average speed of 46km/h.
"I concentrated on controlling the drift with the steering – this is more efficient than using the accelerator pedal and reduces the risk of spinning", he added.
The record attempt occurred under the eye of Guinness World Record officials, who validated the record by checking data from the GPS, yaw and other sensors attached to the Taycan, observing the camera footage taken from the top of the skidpad's control tower, and even by employing a land surveyor to measure the area of the skidpad with "millimetre precision".
While the rear-wheel-drive Taycan might have broken the record for the longest all-electric drift, the overall world record for the longest continuous drift in a vehicle remains with the latest BMW M5.
Set in 2018, BMW driving instructor Johan Schwartz slid across a distance of 374km over eight hours, and famously employed a second, previous-generation M5 drifting in tandem alongside the record car to refuel it.
The rear-drive Porsche Taycan isn't offered in Australia, instead leaving the local range to be opened by the $190,400 before on-road costs, all-wheel-drive Taycan 4S.
MORE: Taycan news and reviews
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Below: the production rear-wheel-drive Porsche Taycan
Video: Porsche Taycan arrives in Australia
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Time races on and waits for no one. Often, we can get lost in the game of catching up with life in the fast lane. But there are moments in life that slows us down and invite us to look at the bigger picture. These are intense moments that are full of breathe of grace. They enable us to distance ourselves from the ongoing drama of life and take an overview that gives us a glance of length, breath and height of life. Such a bird's view is excessive and refuses to be broken down to its constituting elements. We cannot swallow it in a single bite. We have to take its intensity sip by sip. These rich moments invoke a sense of gratitude in us. It springs forth joy and enkindles a feeling of contentment and we are grateful to God and people who have been part of this eventful journey. Come April 10th 2019, we have an instance of such an experience where time thickens for us and we are moved to melt into a song of praise of God for giving us a good shepherd after the heart of his son in the person of Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao. As he marks the silver Jubilee of his Episcopal ordination, it's time to stay with our intense feelings of gratitude, which nurture our faith and manifests that our Lord Jesus Christ is alive in the pastoral leadership of our Archbishop.
Born on 20th January 1953, ordained priest on 28th October 1979 and was ordained to Bishop on 10th April 1994. This makes it 25 graceful years of life in the sandals of the Apostles of our Lord. He served the Church in Goa and in India with great distinction, dedication and love. From these, we can single out the eventful, illuminating and heart stirring ten year from 1994 to 2004 when he served the Church as Auxiliary Bishop of Goa Diocese and visionary, compassionate and synergizing fifteen years at helm of the pastoral leadership as the Archbishop of Goa and Daman from March 2004 onwards. He also shouldered positions of profound leadership in the Western Region and in the National Church under the CCBI. Today he heads the Church in India as the president of the CCBI. In all these various offices he has served our Lord and his Church with admirable dedication and compassion for the people of God. His leadership has beautifully drawn out the youthful exuberance of the Church and attacked young and the old to serve God and Humanity with tremendous love and courage.
Among several blessings, I count my contact with Archbishop Filipe Neri very early in life as a unique manifestation of providence. First in my Parish in Chinchinim as a child where he was Assistant to the Parish , then as prefect in the minor seminary, regency at Lar de Estudantes, Panjim under his guidance and then finally being ordained deacon by him, I think my experience of life has placed me uniquely to know him closely. I see him as a leader who lets the Church become a living sacrament of divine providence, a visible sign of invisible grace of God's providence. Among all his qualities, I always admired his qualities of heart. He has a marvelous personality that attacks persons of all ages. His powerful capacity to remember names and a sense of profound appreciation makes him a magnetic person. Besides, I find that his love for God and his people has dawn him to the final prayer of our Lord Jesus which prays 'that they may all be one' (Jh 17:21) and he has translated it creatively into a mission of communion in the Church through by giving primacy to the small Christian Communities and the Parish Pastoral Councils in all the Parishes in our diocese. His exceptional gifts of his head could be seen in his excellent academic performance as a student but is manifested in his preaching, teaching ministry and conflict resolutions in our diocese. The manner in which he led the Post-synodal Church with courage of convictions in its ups and down Goa after our Archbishop Emeritus Raul Gonsalves exemplifies the presence of our Lord and power of Holy Spirit in the Church.
Archbishop Filipe has always been people's bishops. This may have been difficult to stomach for some among us. He exhibits that he has his ears to the ground and mind open to Holy Spirit as he leads the people of God in Goa. I am always at awe to see his matchless ability to listen with the heart to our people. This listening heart has always been his great strength. Paradoxically strengths can also become slippery for some among us view this very strength of listening differently. Like any fruit bearing tree has to bear the stone palters, our archbishop has his detractors. They seem to point out that it can render him vulnerable to that fact of being be dictated terms by a few. Others among us do critique some of his decisions. We can never please all. Life is complex and everyone sees our works from different viewing positions. As humans, there is always room for us to improve. We know that grace works on nature. This is the reason why in the divine and human Church of our Lord, we have the faith and hope that grace will always be victorious in the Lord. If we take time and see the mega picture, we will be enabled to see the hand of God in the pilgrimage of the Church in Goa. It is the grace laden leadership our beloved Archbishop that gave us twenty five illustrious years. I see the spiritual centre in Old Goa and the Good Samaritan fund for the poor as unique manifestations of God's providence under him. He has taken the Church once again on the streets to serve the poor and become a sacrament of God's providence to the poor in our parishes. May God continue to bless the Church in Goa through the visionary and dynamic leadership our Archbishop Felipe Neri Ferrao.


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Q: how can I load configuration for kubernetes using kubernetes-client. Google Cloud I have TS application that uses kubernetes-client library to connect to kubernetes in Google Cloud.
import { KubeConfig, CoreV1Api } from "@kubernetes/client-node";
const kc = new KubeConfig();
kc.loadFromDefault();
const kbsCoreApi = kc.makeApiClient(CoreV1Api);

When running locally works great, but when I dockerize it, it does not work due to not knowing how to load configuration. I tried to create a config file and load it using "kc.loadFromFile('~/some/path')" instead but It seems that I am missing something it gives me a HTTP error. Here is my configuration file.
    {
  "kind": "Config",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "clusters": [
    {
      "name": "cluster1",
      "cluster": {
        "certificate-authority-data": "cert-data",
        "server": "https://128.1.1.2"
      }
    }
  ],
  "users": [
    {
      "name": "cluster1",
      "user": {
        "password": "myPassword",
        "usernmae": "myUsername"
      }
    }
  ],
  "contexts": [
    {
      "name": "cluster1",
      "context": {
        "cluster": "cluster1",
        "user": "cluster1"
      }
    }
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  "current-context": "cluster1"
}

A: Use kc.loadFromCluster(); instead of the kc.loadFromDefault(); used in your code.
See in-cluster example
When starting the client with the in-cluster authentication, it will use the ServiceAccount token on /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount
Also make sure that this ServiceAccount has the RBAC permissions for the resource operations that your client code use. But you should be able to get proper error messages, unless.


To understand what's different about ICE, it helps to think of how other law enforcement agencies work.
I live in Grand Rapids. And if I want to know what's happening with crime in my city, I can get a lot of information. I can search through bookings at the local Kent County jail. I can look at crime maps.
And if I have questions about what Grand Rapids Police are up to, I can call Terry Dixon. He's the public information officer for GRPD.
"My goal for the day is literally to assist with getting the information that the public wants or is in need of," he says.
That information can include a public comment from Dixon, or an arrest report, or footage from a police officer's dashboard camera or footage from a body cam.
All of that is available. It can be scrutinized, judged. And GRPD has been judged heavily. But Dixon says the department is committed to being open with the public it serves. A lot more law enforcement agencies are headed in that direction.
But not the federal law enforcement agency that targets immigrants.
Getting even basic information out of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is difficult.
And not just for reporters.
"I first talked by phone with the deputy field office director, Mark Hamilton, and then I sent him a few hours later a request for information," says U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak.
Way back in June, Levin says he reached out to the leadership of the ICE office in Detroit to ask about a specific operation – an operation in which local ICE officers arrested more than 100 Iraqi immigrants in metro Detroit.
"No doubt, some of the people have criminal records, and in some cases, from what we understand, serious ones," Levin says. "We're not excusing that for one second."
But there are others arrested for less serious offenses. And Levin says he wants the proof for why ICE claims these people pose a "very real public safety threat." His office requested the names of those arrested, their criminal histories and other details.
That request was made more than a month ago. Levin's office still hasn't gotten the information.
"I would compare ICE with the CIA," says Susan Long of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. "We are also in litigation against them."
And ICE's secrecy isn't limited to just that one operation.
"I've been doing this kind of work, back going into the early '70s, says Susan Long, co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. TRAC has a long title, but its mission is pretty simple. It submits Freedom of Information Act requests to agencies all throughout the federal government and then posts the records online for people to see.
"What's an agency that you have more trouble with than ICE?" I ask Long.
"I would compare ICE with the CIA," she says. "We are also in litigation against them."
"So," I ask, "ICE is as secretive as the CIA, in your experience?"
"Well," she says, "in terms of the records we've been seeking, yes."
But ICE isn't the CIA. The CIA doesn't make arrests all over the country.
I did reach out to ICE, multiple times, for comment on this story. I submitted a public records request for information on the arrests in metro Detroit in June.
That's even though ICE regularly releases the names of certain people it arrests.
No one from ICE would agree to an interview to clarify the policy.
Lafayette Street between Shelby and Washington Boulevard in downtown Detroit was flooded with people supporting several Iraqi-American immigrants facing possible deportation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, arrested these immigrants in metro-Detroit more than a week ago.
Most have criminal records, but have already served time or paid their fines.
Carrie Heichle is the wife of one of the men arrested during the ICE sweeps.
She says her two sons are having a hard time without their dad.


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Q: How to write a SQL query for joining of tables with several conditions I have these tables:

I need to get this table:

One date should correspond to one rate. The rate is selected as follows:

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*If the dates in the two tables coincide, the date from Table 1 is assigned the corresponding rate from Table 2. (for example, for dates 31/01/2014, 31/03/2014, 31/01/2015, you can use the usual left join).

*If there is no corresponding date in Table 2 (February 28, 2014), it is necessary to take the last date of the month (from Table 2 (25-02-2014), where there is a rate). Therefore, the date on 28-02-2014 must be assigned a rate of 18.
Thank you in advance.

A: --first table
SELECT t2.*,
cast(datepart(mm,[date]) as varchar)+' '+cast(datepart(yyyy,[date]) as varchar) as
MonthYear
into #tab1
FROM [BP].[dbo].[test1] t2;

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--second table
SELECT t.*,
cast(datepart(mm,[date]) as varchar)+' '+cast(datepart(yyyy,[date]) as varchar) as
MonthYear,
row_number() over(partition BY
cast(datepart(mm,[date]) as varchar)+' '+cast(datepart(yyyy,[date]) as varchar)
ORDER BY [date] desc) num

into #tab2
FROM
[BP].[dbo].[test2] t
order by [date]

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-- result table
select t1.*, t2.rate
from #tab1 t1 left join (select rate, MonthYear  from #tab2 where num = 1) t2 on
t1.MonthYear = t2.MonthYear
order by [date];

select *
from [BP].[dbo].[test2]


Cleveland, OH (May 21, 2011) -- Jon Hill is pleased to announce the formation of Bootleg Guitars and Basses, a full service design and manufacturing company. Long time MI veteran, Alan Shipston will serve as President and Scott Borgio is the CFO. Bootleg will offer five new guitar models and three bass models in four, five and six string configurations, all hand made in Cleveland Ohio. The focus will be on domestic sales driven by retail outlets and the Bootleg website, www.bootlegguitars.com.
CEO Jon Hill has been designing and building custom instruments for twenty five years. As former owner of Hill Custom Guitars, Jon was able to build his line of guitars to the point where he sold the imprint to Dean Guitars in 2009. Now, with a raft of new designs and a strong endorsee list, Bootleg is poised to show its first public offering at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, TN from July 21-23, 2011.
Bootleg's long list of endorsees include Stefan Lessard of the Dave Matthews Band, Scotti Hill, founding member of Skid Row, Robbie Merrill of Godsmack, Doug Johns and a wide variety of other professionals who use Bootleg guitars on the road and in the studio.
Bootleg will produce The Generator HS Fixed, Generator HS Floyd, Scotti Hill Limited Edition Artist Generator, Generator T, and The Aztec guitar models. From the bass line, the offering includes the Huntington Standard, The Huntington Elite and the Dawg Bass. You can see the full lineup on their website.


General Commander Discussion General Discussion involving the Jeep Commander goes here. If it does not fit into a more specific category below, post it here.
So my jeep is bucking like it's running out of gas when I'm driving up hill basically anytime I'm casually on the throttle it will do it. If I throttle a little more it'll stop. Any suggestions? I have 2 cel codes for bank 2 I have the 02 sensors but don't think that's the issue the lights have been on since I've owned it I'm finally getting around to getting all the issues worked out.
So yea its 5th only that bucks if I kick the shifter into 4th it doesn't do it.
Sounds like the usual EGR Valve issue. Is it not getting gas? I was having a lag every now and then when pushing down the gas after a start.
So yea it was cylinder 4 and 7 the spark plugs were shot had multiple misfire but only under a load. So changed my plugs and no issues so far. You'd vomit if you seen these plugs looked like I pulled em out of the river.


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Алекинская — река в России, протекает по Ханты-Мансийскому району Ханты-Мансийского АО. Устье реки находится в 5 км от устья по левому берегу Вачуванской протоки, впадающей через протоку Малый Салым и Неулеву протоку в Иртыш в 3 км от устья по правому берегу. Длина реки составляет 43 км.

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Dustin Johnson has made some serious cash in his 9 years on the PGA Tour.
Then add in the generous endorsements contracts from top companies like Adidas and EA Sports, and you find yourself a pretty wealthy person.
And it probably doesn't hurt that Johnson has a pretty close connection to the most famous hockey family in the world.
So how much does Johnson have in his wallet?
Some websites have estimated Johnson's worth at $20 million.
The exact accuracy of the number is likely impossible to figure unless you're Johnson's accountants, to be honest.
We don't know specifics of his endorsement contracts, among other factors (taxes, etc.), but it's likely roughly in that $20 million neighborhood.
In his 9th season on the PGA Tour, Johnson had raked in over $32 million on the course alone. It's $32,837,984, to be exact.
His career best year was 2015, when he made about $5.5 million, but he's on pace to beat that number in 2016.
If you've ever seen Johnson play, you know he uses TaylorMade clubs and gear, and is outfitted in Adidas. At 6-foot-4, he's basically a walking billboard.
Other sponsors include NetJets, EA Sports, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday and TPC Myrtle Beach.
The last two make sense as Johnson is a South Carolina native.
According to the L.A. Times, Johnson sold his Jupiter, Florida, home for $6.25 million.
Johnson purchased the 6-bedroom, 7,860-square foot home in 2011 for $3.7 million. Not a bad return when he sold the waterfront home in November 2014.
On 3/4 of an acre with 8 bathrooms and an outdoor dining area, Johnson had asked $6.5 million for the mansion.
Johnson's future father-in-law is likely most famous hockey player of all-time — Wayne Gretzky.
Johnson and Paulina Gretzky are engaged and are the parents of son Tatum, who was born in January 2015.
Wayne Gretzky isn't exactly hurting for cash, either. He has an estimated worth of $200 million. Again, the accuracy of that number isn't known, but one can assume The Great One has amassed a fortune during his playing and post-playing career.
Since retiring from playing in the NHL, Gretzky has been a head coach, owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL and a restaurateur.
Dustin Johnson has been known to drive for show and putt for the dough on the PGA Tour. How much is he worth? Click here to find out.


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Obama Presidential Center Set to Break Ground in 2021 in Jackson Park
Obama Presidential Center. Rendering by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
By: Lukas Kugler 7:45 am on February 8, 2021
A federal review has completed, paving the way for construction to begin on the Obama Presidential Center in 2021. Planned to span a parcel of land inside Jackson Park, the complex will be located between S Stony Island Avenue and S Cornell Drive, from E 59th Street to E 62nd Street.
Planned by The Obama Foundation, the center will feature multiple buildings. Michael van Valkenburgh Associates will lead the project's landscape architect team in partnership with Site Design Group and Living Habitats. Meanwhile, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will work alongside Interactive Design Architects on the project's architecture.
The first building will be a museum, rising 235 feet in a stone-sheathed tower. Its form is inspired by the idea of four hands coming together, embodying the concept of ascension. The museum will be topped by the Sky Room, a space that will offer visitors views of Lake Michigan, downtown, and the rest of the South Side.
The Forum building will serve as a place to welcome the local community. It will house numerous collaborative and creative spaces, including an auditorium, a broadcast and recording studio, flexible learning and meeting spaces, and a restaurant. Open space will be incorporated into the building to serve as a hub for the public. A public plaza outside of the forum and museum building will be a space to informal and planned gatherings, while featuring public artwork.
A new branch of the Chicago Public Library will be built. It will feature interactive digital media spaces and amenities for children, informational and vocational resources for adults, and a reading room for all to enjoy. The branch will also have a garden on its roof.
The park surrounding the center will offer play areas, walking paths, and a sledding hill, all connected by a long pedestrian promenade that joins the complex to Jackson Park and runs alongside its beautiful and historic lagoons. The fourth main building on the campus will be the program, athletic, and activity center. The facility will be a home for recreation, community programming, and events.
Jackson Park's historic Women's Garden will be restored with plantings, pathways, and seating. It will also become more accessible by converting the roads surrounding it back to parkland.
A one-acre wetland area will capture and treat stormwater and feature a Wetland Walk that threads through the area and offers a unique environment with seating, a tree canopy, and a place for children to play. The area will feature seating built out of large stone blocks that can be used for classes, small gatherings, or simply as a spot to stop and enjoy the park.
The Children's Play Area will feature a giant playground with innovative recreation equipment for children of all ages. The design of the play area celebrates the natural environment of Jackson Park, with lagoon- and woodland-themed features to stir imaginations and encourage exploration. It will offer four seasons of play with plenty of seating and shade for parents and adults.
The Great Lawn is a place for sledding in the winter, picnics in the summer, and to gather for movies in the park. The gentle slope of the site offers opportunities for activities year-round, and it will be the perfect place to get a view of Jackson Park's beautiful lagoons.
There will be no official Obama Presidential Library in the complex because Obama did not want to be bound by design restrictions, financial requirements, and other rules imposed by the National Archives and Records Administration. The unclassified artifacts, photos, and records from Obama's eight years in office were transferred to a nondescript building in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates.
With the long-running federal review complete, the first pre-construction utility relocation work for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park will start in April, with preliminary roadwork and site preparation to begin as early as August. The entire campus is expected to take four years to build.
Chicago Public Library Interactive Design Architects Jackson Park Living Habitats Michael van Valkenburgh Associates Obama Presidential Center Site Design Group The Obama Foundation Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
6 Comments on "Obama Presidential Center Set to Break Ground in 2021 in Jackson Park"
Ray | February 8, 2021 at 8:28 am | Reply
It's about time
Matthew | February 8, 2021 at 12:04 pm | Reply
Thankfully "Friends of the Parking Lot" didn't thwart this plan as they did the Lucas Museum
Bobby Siemiaszko | February 8, 2021 at 12:24 pm | Reply
Still another 4 years? So from inception to finished, it will take almost 10 years. Meanwhile Dubai will build probably 1,000 skyscrapers in that time. We need to move much faster in Chicago if we ever want to achieve greatness again.
UnionMade | February 8, 2021 at 7:14 pm | Reply
That's Chicago for you these days. Every neighborhood is riddled with activists that have overwhelming influence to control what gets built anywhere within their borders. Alder-thoritarians scale back the density and (or) lower the height of every project to appease said activists. Chicago neighborhoods that should have exploded with population and structural growth are basically museums trying to "preserve the character of the neighborhood" rather than welcoming real progress and allowing Chicago to become super-dense and vibrant. We completely lack proactive leaders who encourage higher-quality design standards, increased scale and don't care about our architectural reputation/history.
Then we have developers that have completely given up on trying to be innovative or create new height thresholds for high-profile projects. Everything is either built in ridiculously long phases of smallest-to-tallest format, delayed due to redesigns after being rejected, scrutinized to no end by community associations or held up in courtrooms. Chicago hasn't had the "we are the greatest city in the world and can accomplish anything attitude since the few years leading up to the 2008 recession. That was the last period where designs were world-class, had ambitious time-lines and weren't treated with hostility by the city. New York has become the sole city of innovation, ambition and progress in architectural terms.
JOSEPH KOROM | February 8, 2021 at 1:53 pm | Reply
This design iteration of the Obama Library is fundamentally superior to that of the woefully conceived Lucas Museum. Design matters. So does location. So does function. So does context.
Shaun Carr | February 10, 2021 at 3:11 pm | Reply
there goes the neighborhood…and the gentrification…


It is not only gangsters in the Western Cape who will have to look out for thunder of a different kind in the coming months, the police are also going after suspects in KwaZulu-Natal's political killings.
In his budget address on Tuesday Police Minister Bheki Cele announced the launch of Operation Thunder, through which members from specialised units from other provinces will be brought in to deal with crime in the Western Cape.
"We will be here over three months painting the Western Cape blue," he said, to much amusement from the DA benches.
He said within the next weeks tactical response teams and tracking teams would be "deployed in medium- to high-risk tactical intelligence operations dedicated to fighting cash-in-transit heists, armed robberies, murders, taxi violence and political killings".
At a press briefing after his speech, he elaborated further on Operation Thunder.
He said between 270 and 300 police officers from other provinces would be deployed in the Western Cape, specifically in the crime-ridden Cape Flats and townships.
He said the officers would bring a "mixed bag of skills".
He said after three months National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Khehla Sitole would assess the operation's impact on crime. If it is found that it hasn't made a significant dent it can be extended, he said.
"We are very serious about putting the drug lords [in jail], and leaving the small fish," he said.
Sitole said Operation Thunder was a stabilisation operation and there would be similar operations in other parts of the country.
In his speech, Cele said he wanted to reassure South Africans that the police were in the process of responding to the "ongoing alleged political killings".
"The President, his Excellency the Honourable Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, has put together a team of ministers to deal will the attacks in KwaZulu-Natal. In the next few days we will be announcing intervention measures to address the killings," he said.
In the debate on the budget EFF MP Phillip Mhlongo said: "The angel of darkness has been thrown to KwaZulu-Natal (sic)."
He described the province as "a paradise of anarchy".
At the briefing after the speech, Cele said four ministers of the security cluster, himself included, would go to the province on Monday.
"We want to get a thorough briefing on what has happened," he said.
He said the victims of the political killings had all been shot.
"They're not killed by avian flu. Where are those people that shot them?"
Cele said his budget vote speech was in honour of "all women and children who have been the victims of gender-based violence".
"Mr president, the police are taking the Thuma Mina call to the streets of South Africa to bring down the scourge of crimes against women and children and vulnerable groups in our society!" he said.


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Put up Christmas wreaths. Decorate the windows and doors of your home with Christmas wreaths; you can further beautify your wreaths by using natural pinecones, Christmas ornaments and ribbons. It might be a good idea to purchase artificial wreathes, as they will last longer than natural ones.
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Spread some Christmas dazzle. You can spread some dazzle and sparkle around your home through sprinkling artificial snow over your tables, buffets or plants. You can also place twinkling ornaments in clear bowls and vases around your house to add a magical feel to your home.
Decorate with sweets. Whoever thought that you can use food and sweets as Christmas decorations for your home? You can decorate your house with pretty baskets filled with loaves of freshly baked Christmas cake or cookies that are creatively wrapped, or you can fill up bowls with traditional candy canes and place them in various parts of your home for your guests and family to enjoy. If you are a big fan of baking and have that artistic touch, you can bake Christmas cookies and gingerbread men, or you can buy them from a bakery.
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NZ Festival of Motor Racing, celebrating Bruce McLaren
21-24 January 2010, Hampton Downs MotorSport Park
The 1960's saw three great names in New Zealand motor sport become international icons – Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and Chris Amon.
The inaugural New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing is being held across two weekends in the North Island showcasing some of the world's finest and most historically significant racing cars – the theme is a tribute to the Late Bruce McLaren.
The Kiwi commenced his international career in the late 1950's when he travelled with Australia's Jack Brabham to Europe and became part of the Cooper Works team.
As the Tasman series established itself for the Formula 1 drivers to escape the northern winter Bruce wanted to race a Cooper, but the works team were not prepared to build a suitable car up for him – hence the "first McLaren" was born. The Cooper T70 Climax (2.5 litre) was built, and to show the world Bruce's engineering skills the car won the 1964 Tasman Championship. Australia's Adam Berryman acquired the car in pieces some ten years ago and has recently completed an intensive restoration prior to the car being shipped to NZ for the festival.
Bruce and Denny Hulme made history in the late 60's when the dominated the Canadian-American (CanAm) series in big banger McLaren sports cars – the press titled it The Bruce and Denny show!. A race for CanAm cars is part of the meeting with a brace of M1A's, M1B'sand the almighty M12 big block car of 1969. These cars were painted orange. Bruce was quoted at the time to responding to the question why orange by stating it was for competitors to see them coming through! The pair won several CanAm titles in the late 1960's, but sadly Bruce was killed testing one of these cars at Goodwood in JUNE 1970.
the CanAm & V8 Sports Cars class has been dominated by the international visitors with race 1 being clearly taken by the track width 1971 March 717 drive by the UK's Richard Dodiems. The March 717 was one of the last of the mighty canam cars built – with its 8.8 litre engine giving a bit of get up and go. Richard didn't have it all his own was in qualifying on Friday though as Australia's Steve Webb took pole in the Elfin 360 Repco.
The Formula Junior and invited F3 car grid started the weekend with a capacity field of 42 cars, but mechanical dramas have hit some. A large contingent of the very enthusiast Australian's have made the journey for this category, which has seen Don Thallon (MRC) and Peter Struass (Brabham BT6) running in the top 6 with Bill Hemming (Elfin Catalina) just outside the top ten in 11th and Kim Shearn(Lotus 18) taking a class win. David Reid from Queensland spent most of Friday and all of Saturday working on replacing the engine in his Cooper T59, and Roger Ealand has kept wife Margaret trackside for consecutive 12-hour days as he repairs a broken diff in the Gemini Mk2.


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This rewarding route leads through three countries - Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland in the steps of the historic amber trade route. Our journey starts on the Danube River in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, the "Paris of the East". The hike itself begins in the nearby village of Szentendre about 10 km north of Budapest. Szentendre is a picturesque little town full of cafes, restaurants, galleries, churches, museums, little shops, and street artists. It is the gateway to an especially panoramic part of Hungary called the Danube Bend, where the river winds between high hills to Visegrad (and a castle with a beautiful view), and the historic town of Ezstergom, for centuries the seat of the Hungarian bishops, with its magnificent cathedral.
In crossing the Danube we reach Slovakia, the longest and most scenically attractive part of the journey. The first footpath here leads from the Slovak side of the Danube into the Kováčovský Hills and onward to Banská Štiavnica, a medieval mining town, selected for the UNESCO World Heritage List for its unique history. For those who wish to rest and regenerate their strength, the spa in Sklené Teplice offers swimming in thermal caves.
The trail leads through the unspoiled countryside of the mountains in Slovakia and the typical highland villages, over the High Fatra, Low Tatras, and Western Tatra range, where the effort expended in conquering the difficult route is more than compensated for by the panoramic views of the highest mountains in Slovakia. The little mountain villages might be lost in time; the hospitality of the local people, herds of sheep and traditional crafts, all this is part of the unforgettable experience of this trail, so far relatively undiscovered by outsiders. Dwellings cut into the stone cliff, or the unique wooden mill in the Kvačanská Valley become an unforgettable experience. History lovers will not fail to notice the castles and castle ruins along the way, for example, majestic Oravský Castle is breathtaking even for the experienced traveler. Many villages such as Vlkolinec (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) consist largely of the old-fashioned traditional wooden cottages.
And the most important thing - hikers along the Slovak section of the route will truly appreciate the system of marked trails and the maintenance of the trail itself, placing it among the best such trail systems in the world.
On the Polish segment of the Amber Trail, one of the best parts is a tour of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (UNESCO World Heritage Site), with 32 chapels and churches on a famous Stations of the Cross. Only 8 miles from Cracow is a hiking tour of the highest caliber - Wieliczka, salt mines run since medieval times to this day. The high point of the Polish side is Cracow itself, a wonderful historic, lively, pulsing town, a town known among other things for the amber market at the Sukienice (Cloth Hall), reaffirming the meaning and existence of the Amber Trail as a link between North and South, a trade route that offers such riches as to become a destination in itself.


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Carrie Lam: Hong Kong's leader says she has to keep piles of cash at home
"Sitting in front of you is a chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) who has no banking service made available to her," Carrie Lam told local English TV channel HKIBC.(File photo by= EPA)
[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has said in a TV interview that she has to keep "piles of cash" at home as she has no bank account. This is because of sanctions imposed on her by the US Treasury, she said. The sanctions on Ms. Lam and other officials were in response to China's new security law for Hong Kong.
Her revelation has prompted social media speculation about how the government manages to transport the leader's generous salary to her home. In an interview broadcast on Friday night, she said she was "using cash every day for all the things". She also added that it was "very honorable" to be "unjustifiably sanctioned" by the US government. She is said to be one of the highest-paid leaders in the world and has been reported to earn an annual salary of HK$5.2m ($670,000; £500,000).
In June, China imposed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, which critics say threatens its freedoms and undermines the city's autonomy. It also makes it easier to punish protesters and there are fears it may lead to judicial independence being threatened. In response to the new law, Washington decided to freeze the US assets of a dozen Hong Kong officials and seize any property they may own in the US.


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Mr Fogg's TavernLondon, England
Forget dinner and a show, where's the gin? Imbibe libations at this raucous West End tavern, an homage to Jules Verne's fictional adventurer, Phileas Fogg, then toddle upstairs to the plush parlour of the explorer's beloved aunt, acclaimed actress Gertrude Fogg.
Choose your poison from a selection of more than 300 types of the world's most interesting gin, peruse curiosities from Gertrude's days on stage and take in views of London's Noël Coward Theatre. Indulge in a gin tasting or sashay into the salon and settle on a chaise longue to nibble treats fit for famed thespians, such as sloe gin cured salmon followed by gin and tonic marshmallows. After a couple of strong drinks you may feel the urge to crack open the cabinet of wigs and scripts for a debut under an ornate chandelier.
Gin lovers and those who dabble in this strong tipple will have a rollicking time choosing from the enormous list of libations on offer
There's no better way to quaff your drinks than from pewter cups and traditional tankards
Boogie down to live music on Thursday nights
This is a West End bar, so if you were hoping for a place with a more cosmopolitan streak, you'll have to go elsewhere
You can't make reservations for the evening, so you'll simply have to try your luck finding a spot to settle into on Friday and Saturday nights
Gin cocktails start from around US$8.
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Judy Lyzak, MD, MBA is the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Alverno Laboratories for the Franciscan Alliance hospital system. This role is instrumental in identifying best practices in laboratory medicine and facilitating implementation of those practices throughout the hospitals PCI serves.
Dr. Lyzak is board-certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. She received her BA in Biological Sciences from Southern Illinois University and attended Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, and the University of Chicago. She subsequently completed her MBA at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Dr. McGuire a board-certified cytopathologist, fellowship-trained at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio. He received his MD at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He then completed his residency at Michael Reese Hospital and is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology.
As Alverno Laboratories' dermatopathologist, Dr. Song uses a comprehensive immunohistochemistry panel for skin pathology diagnosis, and molecular testing for malignant melanoma.
Dr. Song is a board-certified dermatopathologist, fellowship-trained at the University of Chicago. He received his medical degree at Beijing Medical University. Prior to his dermatopathology fellowship, he trained in anatomic and clinical pathology, and clinical dermatology. Dr. Song also has Master's degrees in biochemistry / molecular biology and computer science.
Dr. Zhu is a board-certified hematopathologist, fellowship-trained at University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her residency at Northwestern University and is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology. Dr. Zhu also completed a fellowship in genitourinary pathology and obtained her PhD in pharmacogenetics.
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