Con Edison crews are working round the clock to restore power to the 70% of residents left in the dark by Hurricane Sandy. Power is being restored to more and more customers every hour but it will take time to get everyone back up and running. Our public works crews have completed 65% of priority clearances and we know that there are situations out there that need our attention. We will be getting to each and every one of them sooner than later.
ALL CITY ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
A State of Emergency is hereby declared in Mount Vernon, New York effective at 5:00 p.m. on October 29, 2012.
The State of Emergency has been declared due to Hurricane Sandy. The situation threatens the public safety.
This State of Emergency will remain in effect until rescinded by a subsequent order.
As the Chief Executive of the City of Mount Vernon, New York, I Roberta Apuzzo exercise the authority given me under Section 24 of the New York State Executive Law, to preserve the public safety and hereby render all required and available assistance vital to the security, well-being and health of the citizens of this Municipality.
I hereby direct all departments and agencies of the City of Mount Vernon to take whatever steps necessary to protect life and property, public infrastructure, and to provide other such emergency assistance as deemed necessary.
Stay informed by visiting the city's website at www.cmvny.com. For additional information contact Mayor's Office at 914.665.2361.
October 31st with some detours and delays due to blocked roads.
weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. or log on to www.westchestergov.com/beeline.
Heavy winds last evening uprooted a number of trees, damaging power lines and making the night dangerous for emergency service personnel. Public Works officials and Con Edison were forced to suspend cleanup efforts after heavy winds posed a threat to the safety of personnel.
A large portion of the city is now without electricity. If you or individuals in your neighborhood are experiencing a loss of power, please be patient. We are working with Con Edison officials to restore power as soon as possible.
For those who have lost refrigeration, please do not use candles – instead use battery powered flashlights, lamps or lanterns. Also, keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed, opening them as minimally as possible to keep the contents cooler longer.
If your home was damaged by a falling tree, contact the Mount Vernon Buildings Department to inspect the safety of your home. Do not take any chances. Structural damage should be assessed, your life and that of loved ones is at risk.
There are many properties that require our attention and we must prioritize and take the most serious conditions first. Please be patient. We are working as hard as we can to restore normalcy to you and your family as soon as possible.
Stay informed by visiting the city's website at www.cmvny.com. For additional information contact Fraida Hickson, Director, Civil Defense at 914.665.2391.
Mount Vernon, New York, October 27, 2012 – City officials met to finalize emergency preparedness in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy hitting the area. "We still have a little time left before the storm gets to us but this is one of those occasions where I think we can never be too cautious", said Mayor Ernest D. Davis.


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Q: preg_replace replaces url with hyperlink between [link] and [/link] but link can't cotain ? or () My code:
preg_match_all('(\[(link)\](.*?)\[/(link)\])', $message, $matches);
$matches = $matches[2];
foreach($matches as $match){
  //CHECK LINK AND VERIFY
  $message = preg_replace('(\[(link)\]('.$match.')\[/(link)\])', ''.$match.'', $message);
}

As you can see here https://mcskripts.dk/forum/id/286
The script works, but it can't replace links containing () or ?
Anyway i can fix that?
Sry, if i make a repost, just don't know if i can comment on old posts, and get a response.

A: You could use a single preg_replace:
$message = preg_replace('~\[link\](.+?)\[/link\]~', '$1', $message);

If you want to validate the links before replace, use preg_replace_callback:
$message = preg_replace_callback(
            '~\[link\](.+?)\[/link\]~',
            function($match) {
                # call your function to validate the link
                if (validate_link($match[1])) {
                    return ''.$match[1].'';
                } else {
                    return 'What you want when validation fail!';
                }
            },
            $message
       );

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Unsure how to tackle applications? Getting bogged down with writer's block? Come to the Cover Letter Tips and Tricks workshop this Tuesday 3:00-3:30pm! Unlike cover letter manias hosted by industry clubs, this session will not be one-on-one with a SY reviewer. Instead, we'll be break down the process into easy, implementable pieces and build a cover letter template you can use regardless of which where you're applying. Hoe you can join!


When you seek care at our office, you are assured that Dr. Hanna and his staff utilize the latest in technology to enhance the quality and fit for your dental care.
Many dentists use air-driven "hand-pieces" (the dental term for "drills"). While acceptable for many procedures, these "whiny sounding" air-powered hand pieces all have a degree of non-concentricity; they do not rotate perfectly smoothly.
Dr. Hanna chooses carefully which and when radiographs are taken. There are many guidelines that we follow. Radiographs allow us to see everything we cannot see with our own eyes. Radiographs enable us to detect cavities in between your teeth, determine bone level, and analyze the health of your bone. We can also examine the roots and nerves of teeth, diagnose lesions such as cysts or tumors, as well as assess damage when trauma occurs.
Dental radiographs are invaluable aids in diagnosing, treating, and maintaining dental health. Exposure time for dental radiographs is extremely minimal. Dr. Hanna utilizes Digital Imaging Technologies within the office. Digital imaging can also help us retrieve valuable diagnostic information. We may be able to see cavities better.
Digital X-rays offer more precision since we view the image on a computer monitor, instead of holding up a 35mm film up to the light. Digital X-rays results in 1/6th the radiation exposure to you. We strictly use digital for both individual and panoramic views.
Dr. Hanna utilizes Intraoral Camera technology that helps enhance your understanding of your diagnosis. An Intraoral Camera is a very small camera – in some cases, just a few millimeters long. An Intraoral Camera allows our practice to view clear, precise images of your mouth, teeth and gums, in order for us to accurately make a diagnosis. With clear, defined, enlarged images, you see details that may be missed by standard mirror examinations. This can mean faster diagnosis with less chair-time for you!


Sand Stone Services LLC, specializes in pick up and delivery of proppants, whether man made or natural, and delivery is made to oil and natural gas fracturing locations as set forth by customers. Safety on the road and at each job site is a high priority for our logistic experts and our filed supervisors.
Our company provides field supervisors as each well site, these men not only coordinate the product off load, they are the men that ensure that the highest safety standards are met on location. The standards we set for our employees are regarded as the highest in the proppant transportation industry.
Sand Stone Service LLC is a fully insured and licensed proppant transportation company operating in the mid-west.


Drilling equipment and machinery for water well, mining, geotechnics and geothermal rigs.
With over 30 years experience and 250 equipments in the market consolidates Talleres SEGOVIA internationally as a leader in the design and manufacture of equipment and drilling consumables.
SEGOQUI THD-20 equipment doing wick drains work for soil improvement and treatment in the province of Tel-Aviv, Israel. channeling and UNDERGROUND SUPPLIES.
Horizontal drilling equipment SEGOQUI PH-220 drilling a diameter of 1.200mm through Highway M-40 without traffic disruption.
During the past 10 years, Talleres SEGOVIA has undergone a process of internationalization based on the supply, training and commissioning of equipment and projects in different countries.
SEGOQUI 1920W equipment drilling a hole around 800 meters depth for mining exploration in the Chilean mountains at 5,500 meters above sea level.
With 35 years of experience and more than 150 equipments in the market and a strong international presence, TALLERES SEGOVIA, SL is a leading company in the design and manufacture of drilling equipment and accessories for the mining, water supply and public works and has a wide range of products and parts to meet market any technical need.
Welcome to our web site and thank you in advance for your interest.
Talleres Segovia / Segoqui is a Spanish group based in Fuenlabrada (Madrid). It has pursued since its founding in 1972 to be the leader in the manufacture of drilling equipment for water well, mining research and geotechnical studies.
This is a company with a design department and own infrastructure necessary to manufacture equipment and accessories and cover any need for mining, water well and public works.


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The Vacuum - Issue 18 - Waste
Converting Waste into Value: The Magic of the Commodity Form
by Liam O'Rourke
In Northern Ireland today more waste is produced than ever before and there is less recycling than in any other European country. The European average for recycled rubbish is about 30 percent of the total waste output in Northern Ireland it is just 5 percent. In 2000, each Northern Ireland home produced an average of 1.39 tonnes of waste. Just under 960,000 tonnes of municipal waste is generated each year in the six counties (1998/1999 figures), of which 867,500 tonnes is household waste and under 92,500 tonnes is commercial and industrial waste collected by the District Councils. This compares to census figures for 1988 of 704,400 tonnes. This increase represents and average annual growth rate of 1.91 percent. (1)
The average Northern household throws out more than a tonne of waste every year. If all the rubbish discarded annually was collected, it could cover the whole of Northern Ireland. Every fortnight, people throw away enough to fill the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. One tonne of plastics is equivalent to 20,000 two litre drinks bottles or 120,000 carrier bags. There are over 12,000 tonnes of plastic bottles in NI waste stream annually. In Northern Ireland the average person uses around 95 plastic bottles every year. This is over 250 million bottles. When squashed these bottles will fill about 200 Ulster buses. Every year, 230 million carrier bags are used here. Most of them end up in landfill sites. Around 200,000 used nappies are thrown in the bin in Northern Ireland every day. Around £1m worth of aluminium cans is disposed of. Every year in Northern Ireland we dispose of enough aluminium cans, which if placed end to end would cover the coast of Ireland seven times. The average person in Northern Ireland uses about 140 glass bottles per year, with nearly half for soft drinks and beer. Five out of six glass bottles used every year are thrown straight into the dustbin. 52,000 tonnes of glass are landfilled each year in Northern Ireland. This waste stream could be cut by a third if each person in Northern Ireland recycled just 20 bottles. More than three trees have to be felled every year to providethe quantity of paper that is used by the average Northern Ireland household. In NI about 12,000 tonnes of textiles (clothing, sheets, towels, tablecloths, curtains, rugs, carpets, furniture covers and stuffing, rope, twine, canvas, sacking, rags and dusters, bags and toys) are discarded every year. If all textiles that are thrown away in one year were compressed together, you could build a solid tower, the same width and three times the height of Canary Wharf Tower, the largest building in Britain. (2)
The main reason why waste is an Issue is because it is causing damage to the environment. Most waste has been buried in 'landfill sites' (holes in the ground in places like disused quarries). Waste is tipped there and then buried in soil. The problem is that Northern Ireland is running out of landfill. As the waste is rotting, a polluting liquid called leachate goes into the waters and methane gas goes into the atmosphere, causing damage to the environment. This is an expression of the fundamental 'metabolic rift' between individuals and their environment resulting from accumulation without limits. If the more important question of the environmental sustainability of capitalism has been well documented, it is worth examining what the official response to the waste Issue has been. The imperative to reduce, recycle and reuse (the 'Three Rs' policy promoted by government agencies) does not escape and has been shaped by the logic of the commodity form. A whole profitable industry has grown around recycling and waste management. Waste has a use value. For example, once recycled, plastic bottles are made into a range of new products, including garden furniture, fleece clothing, carpets, bedding products and new bottles. It takes about 25 two litre recycled plastic bottles to make one fleece jacket. Fermanangh company Quinglass for example uses a third of the 750 million glass containers it supplies per year from recycling schemes to provide new bottles for well known brand names such as Ballygowan, River Rock, Sprite and Coke. This is not even mentioning illegal waste dumping. In the Republic, a waste contractor is paid about £2,500 to remove a 20 tonnes load of waste to the North. The person who allows illegal dumping on his or her land will pocket £70 to £100. The lorry driver pockets about £150 to £200 a trip. So after costs, the dodgy dumpster is left with a hefty £2,200 profit that is just one lorry in one drop. So it is easy to see how that can add up. Four lorry loads a day will make someone £8,800 profit that is half a million pounds in 12 weeks.
The commodification of waste can be used to interpret collective fantasies that circulate in today's capitalist economy. The ideology of recycling is the alchemist's ultimate dream: turn waste back into gold. Converting waste into value is indeed alchemical thinking, to the fetishism of commodities one can add the fetishism of waste. In his Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value (Oxford University Press, 1979). Michael Thompson developed a fascinating theory of the cycles through which a thing had value, lost value, and regained value. Waste is not simply part of the 'accursed share' of society, it is material to be redeemed. There is a utopian fantasy of redemption there, not unlike the idea of the resurrection of the body. We can track the fate of a commodity from being a useful item, an item that can be exchanged for another item, looses its use value and can be thrown out as waste, and that waste regaining a 'second hand value'. Waste is not wasted.
(1) http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/environment/wasteManage/waste_management.shtml (2) Figures taken from Belfast Telegraph, 11 March 2003 (special supplement) http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/features/story.jsp?story=500281 (3) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3491749.stm

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Over the past 5 decades, since the 1970s, we have seen jobs disappearing left and right. I remember when I was a teenager, that I planned to be an airline pilot. Those guys were making $120,000 in 1975. That was a lot of money back then. It still is a decent amount of money now, but pilots are getting paid a lot less than that now.
Remember when doctors usually ran their own practices, and pulled in over $200,000? Those days are gone for all but a few doctors. These days, most doctors work for companies, and get paid what the company pays them, they are employees. The HMOs began taking over in the 1980s, and I took an HMO option at the company I worked at because it cost a few dollars less per month, and I did not mind having a choice of 4 doctors vs. choosing from 50 or more private practitioners.
Then with the globalization of the economy started happening, many jobs left the United States. I'm sure you know that many of the jobs like customer phone service have gone overseas.
So if you want to find a great job in the United States, realize that it probably will not be a manufacturing job. Focus on finding great employment in the computer industry and in the software industry and in the financial services industry. Looking for a great job in the steel industry in the Rust Belt? Forget it. some people online will tell you to follow your passion but I remember somebody on a TV show saying that a business that does not make money is a sin.
That was a fairly strong statement but it highlights the fact that you have to focus on providing service to someone. As an employee you need to provide value to your company. So my find a job course that I put together shows you when you're looking for employment that you need to show the interviewer how you can contribute value to the company. Again, the dream job course shows you how to do just that.
To get a job you have to be smarter than the average person. You need to focus on industries that are growing and that are willing to give people a job. Further if you need to realize that your job may not be as secure as you thought even if you do have a job right now. This underscores the statement that you would be smart to take the dream job course to learn how to effectively find a job you know you think your employment is secure.
How much money do you have saved up and how long can you go if you're unemployed and looking for a job? Take your time and think about how many companies have gone through mergers or have been bought and they cut anywhere from 10% to 40% of the workforce. I remember when the Aerospace industry cut back after the Russians declared peace.
There were thousands upon thousands of unemployed job seekers trying to find employment. Any of them who might have been good Engineers really had no idea how to get a job. If you want to learn how to get a job, then this course can show you how. I remember reading books on how to get a job, you find your passion and things like that. Book that "teach" that are total hogwash and b*******.
They totally leave out what your skills are. And if you want to find a great job you need to know what your skills are. The problem with many of those books is that they ask you to do a self evaluation of your skills that you can use for employment to find a job. And why at all why would you be good at assessing what skills you have?
Sure you can take some Myers-Briggs test that can tell you that you're intuitive and thinking and things like that, but that doesn't have anything at all to do with having an entrepreneurial personality if you're seeking a job or if you're moving to a new location and you need to find a great job fast.
What you need is a list of accomplishments that show how you improved things or expanded the company and its sales or its production. Whatever you can show as far as accomplishments when you're applying for a job increases your chances of finding a job.
So back to the security of the marketplace. Look at how things have shifted from our country, the United States to third world countries. Do you think those jobs are coming back? I know they are not ever coming back.
So when you say to yourself, "I want to find a great job." or "I need to get out of a dead-end job" or "I need a job so I can earn more pay." don't think about getting a job in manufacturing unless you're a computer genius and knows how to run robots.
Play the odds and get a job in a service industry because the United States has become a service industry. The Dream Job course that we sell on this website is perfectly suited to help you get a great job fast.


This tour starts off at Belly Love Brewing Co, where the craft brews and delicious small plates are sure to make your belly happy! Next up is Corcoran Brewing, a local brewhouse that focuses on traditional beers and unique experiences with experimental beers. Our final stop is Adroit Theory, a specialty microbrewery catering to beer aficionados with a taste for flavor-forward brews. All of these brewing companies are located in Purcellville, Virginia.


Sedo Reports $1.6 Millions in Weekly Sales: Notable Sales Drill.com, HotSpot.net, and PollVault.com?
The last one is not a typo. Yes, pollvault.com sold for $2500 and its a play on the word polevault.com. Drill.com was the top price fetched this week at just over $40,000. 845 transactions took place on Sedo's marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million with 41% being Buy it Now. Here's a look at all the sales.
Solid numbers, I wonder if drill.com could of been sold for more.
Agree with Jason, drill.com could been sold for more. I wondered when several offers comes by for my cordless-drill.com domain few days ago, this sale may be the explanation.


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Tag / coming soon
More lessons learned on the way to publication…
Announcement, Anthologies, James Lloyd Davis, Author, Publishing, writing
announcement, anthology, books, coming soon, creative writing, Culture, e-books, fiction, kindle, literary fiction, literature, Publishing project, self-publishing, short fiction, short stories, work in progress, writing
On the path to publishing my book, I've had to stop, step back, and start over more than once, but with increased effort, I still managed to stay fairly close to my original schedule. Very close now, in fact, to the announcement of a firm release date.
My anthology of short fiction was more or less complete about a month ago, but there is more to publishing a book than most writers generally imagine. It's been a series of discoveries for me, not unpleasant, but a lot more work than I imagined when first I thought of taking this route. There is so much to learn when you are publishing your own work and it is one reason, I suppose, that many writers don't even try.
There was, in times past, a particular and forbidding stigma attached to "self-publishing" which was generally then referred to as "vanity publishing." Perhaps that attitude still exists, prevalent, I am sure, among those who are fortunate enough to have successfully bypassed the formidable corps of gatekeepers who surround the modern publishing industry like a moat defending the castle keep, which may sound like hyperbole in metaphor, but not when you've tried to approach the industry without a bankable name or a record of previous success.
The decision, finally, to self publish was difficult for me because I am of an age that I felt a strong and personal disinclination to do so, specifically because of that stigma, the belief among writers from my generation that, if a writer was worth reading, he or she could certainly get published… that and the prevailing notion that all self-published books tended to be amateurish and generally bad… that all "vanity publishers" were scammers and thieves. (Not an unfounded notion back then)
However, many publishers in the industry today drastically limit the number of new writers on whom they are willing to take a chance because of strict business guidelines and the corporate need for consistently high investor return. While I have enjoyed success in publishing shorter fiction in literary journals, the task of getting a book considered by a publisher becomes more difficult every year. The competition is more than fierce… it's forbidding. I know from experience how long and hard that process can be…. and it can take a year or more for a completed manuscript to finally get to print.
Even if a new writer manages to find a publisher willing to take a chance on them, they are expected to put in a great deal of effort into the marketing of the book themselves and for less return on the sale of it than they would get if they published the work themselves. If you are going to have to market the book anyway, why bother giving a publisher the lion's share of the profits. It's more work, I would say, than is warranted for the return.
In light of these facts, self-publishing makes more sense than ever before. Whether the stigma exists today or not, the process of self publishing through an entity like Amazon is relatively easy to learn and many writers already possess the skills necessary to do it. But make no mistake, there is a lot to learn and it is very hard work if you want to provide the reader with the quality they expect when they purchase a book. It's not for the hobbyist, but requires a serious commitment.
After catching up with editing and formatting corrections, I am ready to finalize work on the cover design this week and to do some research into the necessary metadata required for marketing the book. Hopefully, I will be able to order and survey a proof copy of the printed book and be ready to set a date for release in September, 2 to 3 weeks from today. It's hard to keep from accelerating the process. The temptation to get ahead of myself is great, but there is something to be said for putting out the very best quality in a book that you can muster.
I've already started working on formatting a novel I'd already written and finished last year. I would like very much to have that one ready for release before the holidays. Taking the experience I've gained in publishing Shrapnel will make the process more fluid in future projects. It will not be less work in the long run, but that work will be more efficient with every book I produce.
There will be many, I can promise you that.


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package com.hazelcast.map;

import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataInput;
import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataOutput;
import com.hazelcast.spi.merge.MergingValue;
import com.hazelcast.spi.merge.SplitBrainMergePolicy;

import java.io.IOException;

class TestCustomMapMergePolicy implements SplitBrainMergePolicy<Integer, MergingValue<Integer>, Integer> {

    @Override
    public Integer merge(MergingValue<Integer> mergingEntry, MergingValue<Integer> existingEntry) {
        return mergingEntry.getValue();
    }

    @Override
    public void writeData(ObjectDataOutput out) throws IOException {
    }

    @Override
    public void readData(ObjectDataInput in) throws IOException {
    }
}

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We have become accustomed to thinking that up to 90% of organisms were snuffed out by the catastrophe at the Permian-Triassic boundary 252 Ma ago. Those are the figures for marine organisms, whose record in sediments is the most complete. It has also been estimated to have lasted a mere 60 ka, and the recovery in the Early Triassic to have taken as long as 10 Ma. There are hints of three separate pulses of extinction related to: initial gas emission from the Siberian Traps; coal fires; and release of methane from sea-floor gas hydrates at the peak of global warming. Various terrestrial sequences record the collapse of dense woodlands, so that the Early Triassic is devoid of coals that are widespread in the preceding Late Permian. A new detailed study of terrestrial sediments in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia reveals something new (Fielding, C.R. and 10 others 2019. Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis. Nature Communications, v. 10, online publications: DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07934-z).
Radiocarbon dating is the most popular tool for assessing the ages of archaeological remains and producing climatic time series, as in lake- and sea-floor cores, provided that organic material can be recovered. Its precision has steadily improved, especially with the development of accelerator mass spectrometry, although it is still limited to the last 50 thousand years or so because of the short half-life of 14C (about 5,730 years,). The problem with dating based on radioactive 14C is its accuracy; i.e. does it always give a true date. This stems from the way in which 14C is produced – by cosmic rays interacting with nitrogen in the atmosphere. Cosmic irradiation varies with time and, consequently, so does the proportion of 14C in the atmosphere. It is the isotope's proportion in atmospheric CO2 gas at any one time in the past, which is converted by photosynthesis to dateable organic materials, that determines the proportion remaining in a sample after decay through the time since the organism died and became fossilised. Various approaches have been used to allow for variations in 14C production, such as calibration to the time preserved in ancient timber by tree rings which can be independently radiocarbon dated. But that depends on timber from many different species of tree from different climatic zones, and that is affected by fractionation between the various isotopes of carbon in CO2, which varies between species of plant. But there is a better means of calibration.
The carbonate speleothem that forms stalactites and stalagmites by steady precipitation from rainwater, sometimes to produce visible layering, not only locks in 14C dissolved from the atmosphere by rainwater but also environmental radioactive isotopes of uranium and thorium. So, layers in speleothem may be dated by both methods for the period of time over which a stalagmite, for instance, has grown. This seems an ideal means of calibration, although there are snags; one being that the proportion of carbon in carbonates is dominated by that from ancient limestone that has been dissolved by slightly acid rainwater, which dilutes the amount of 14C in samples with so called 'dead carbon'. Stalagmites in the Hulu Cave near Nanjing in China have particularly low dead-carbon fractions and have been used for the best calibrations so far, going back the current limit for radiocarbon dating of 54 ka (Cheng, H. and 14 others 2018. Atmospheric 14C/12C during the last glacial period from Hulku Cave. Science, v. 362, p. 1293-1297; DOI: 10.1126/science.aau0747). Precision steadily falls off with age because of the progressive reduction to very low amounts of 14C in the samples. Nevertheless, this study resolves fine detail not only of cosmic ray variation, but also of pulses of carbon dioxide release from the oceans which would also affect the availability of 14C for incorporation in organic materials because deep ocean water contains 'old' CO2.
My first field trip from the Geology Department at the University of Birmingham in autumn 1964 was located within hooter distance of the giant British Leyland car plant at Longbridge. It involved a rubbish-filled linear quarry behind a row of shops on the main road through south Birmingham. Not very prepossessing but it clearly exposed a white quartzite, which we were told was a beach deposit laid down by a massive marine transgression at the start of the Cambrian. An hour later we were shown an equally grim exposure of weathered volcanic rocks in the Lickey Hills; they were a sort of purple brown, and said to be Precambrian in age. Not an excellent beginning to a career, but from time to time other Cambrian quartzites sitting unconformably on Precambrian rocks entered our field curriculum: in the West Midlands, Welsh Borders and much further afield in NW Scotland, as it transpired on what had been two separate continental masses of Avalonia and Laurentia. This had possibly been a global marine transgression.
In North America, then the Laurentian continent, what John Wesley Powell dubbed the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon has as its counterpart to the Lickey Quartzite the thrillingly named Tonto Group of the Lower Cambrian resting on the Vishnu Schists that are more than a billion years older. Part of the Sauk Sequence, the Tonto Group is, sadly, not accompanied by the Lone Ranger Group, but the Cambrian marine transgression crops out across the continent. In fact it was a phenomenon common to all the modern continents. Global sea level rose relative to the freeboard of the continents then existing. A recent study has established the timing for the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon by dating detrital zircons above and below the unconformity (Karlstrom, K, et al. 2018. Cambrian Sauk transgression in the Grand Canyon region redefined by detrital zircons. Nature Geoscience, v. 11, p. 438-443; doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0131-7). Rather than starting at the outset of the Cambria at 542 Ma, the marine transgression was a protracted affair that began around 527 Ma with flooding reaching a maximum at the end of the Cambrian.
It seems most likely that the associated global rise in sea level relative to the continents was a response to the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent by considerable sea-floor spreading. The young ocean floor, having yet to cool to an equilibrium temperature, would have had reduced density so that the average depth of the ocean basins decreased, thereby flooding the continents. The creation of vast shallow seas across the continents has been suggested to have been a major factor in the explosive evolution of Cambrian shelly faunas, partly by expanding the range of ecological niches and partly due to increased release of calcium ions to to seawater as a result of chemical weathering.
During most of the last hundred years every car body, rebar rod in concrete, ship, bridge and skyscraper frame had its origins in vividly striped red rocks from vast open-pit mines. Comprising mainly iron oxides with some silica, these banded iron formations, or BIFs for short, occur in profitable tonnages on every continent. But commercial reserves are confined mainly to sedimentary sequences dating from about 3 to 2 billion years ago. They are not the only commercial iron formations, but dominate supplies from estimated reserves of around 105 billion tons. From a non-commercial standpoint they are among the most revealing kinds of sediment as regards the Earth system and its evolution. All scientific aspects of BIFs and similar Fe-rich sediments are reviewed in a recent volume of Earth Science Reviews. (Konhauser, K.O. and 12 others 2017. Iron formations: a global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history. Earth Science Reviews, v. 172, p. 140-177; doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.012).
The chemical, mineral and isotopic compositions of BIFs form a detailed repository of the changing composition of seawater during a crucial period for the evolution of Earth and life – the transition from an anoxic surface environment to one in which water and air contained a persistent proportion of oxygen, known as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). Paradoxically, BIFs are highly oxidized rocks, the bulk of which formed when other rocks show evidence for vanishingly small amounts of oxygen in the surface environment. The paradox began to be resolved when it was realized that ocean-ridge basaltic volcanism and sea-floor hydrothermal activity would have released vast amounts of soluble, reduced iron-2 into anoxic seawater, in the upper parts of which the first photosynthetic organisms evolved. Evidence for the presence of such cyanobacteria first appears around 3.5 billion years ago, in the form of carbonates whose structure suggests they accumulated from growth of microbial mats. Oxygen generated by photosynthesis in iron-rich water immediately acts to oxidize soluble iron-2 to iron-3 to yield highly insoluble iron oxides and hydroxides and thus deposits of BIFs. While oceans were iron-rich, formation of ironstones consumed ecologically available oxygen completely.
Other biological processes seem to have been involved in ironstone formation, such as photosynthesis by other bacteria that used dissolved iron-2 instead of water as a reductant for CO2, to release iron-3 instead of oxygen. That would immediately combine with OH– ions in water to precipitate iron hydroxides. Konhauser and colleagues cogently piece together the complex links in chemistry and biology that emerged in the mid- to late Archaean to form a linkage between carbon- and iron cycles, which themselves influenced the evolution of other, less abundant elements in seawater from top to bottom. The GOE is at the centre. The direct evidence for it lies in the sudden appearance of ancient red soils at about 2.4 billion years, along with the disappearance of grains of sulfides and uranium oxides – both readily oxidized to soluble products – from riverine sandstones, which signifies significant oxygen in the atmosphere. Yet chemical changes in Precambrian marine sediments perhaps indicate that oxygen began to rise in ocean water as early as 3 billion years ago. That suggests that for half a billion years biogenic and abiogenic processes in the oceans were scavenging oxygen as fast as it could be produced so that only tiny amounts, if any, escaped into the atmosphere. Among other possible factors, oceanic methane emissions from methanogen bacteria may have consumed any atmospheric oxygen – today methane lasts only for about 9 years before reaction with oxygen forms CO2. If and when methanogens declined free oxygen would have been more likely to survive in the atmosphere.
The theme running through the review is that of changing and linked interactions between life and the inorganic world, mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere that involved all available chemical elements. The dominant chemical process, as it is today, was the equilibrium between oxidation and reduction – the loss and gain of electrons among possible chemical reactions and in metabolic processes. Ironstones were formed more commonly between 3 to 2 Ga than at any time before or since, and form a substantial part of that periods sedimentary record. Their net product and that of the protracted organic-inorganic balancing act – oxygenation of the hydrosphere and atmosphere – opened the way for eukaryote organisms, their reproduction by way of the splitting and recombination of nuclear DNA and their evolutionary diversification into the animal and plant life that we know today and of which we are a part. It is possible that even a subtly different set of global processes and interactions set in motion during early evolution of a planet apparently like Earth may have led to different and even unimaginable biological outcomes in later times. The optimism of exobiologists should be tempered by this detailed review.
Detailed acoustic imaging above the Troll gas field in the northern North Sea off western Norway has revealed tens of thousands of elliptical pits on the seabed. At around 10 to 20 per square kilometre over an area of about 15,000 km2 there are probably between 150 to 300 thousand of them. They range between 10 to 100 m across and are about 6 m deep on average, although some are as deep as 20 m. They are pretty much randomly distributed but show alignment roughly parallel to regional N-S sea-floor currents. Many of the world's continental shelves display such pockmark fields, but the Troll example is among the most extensive. Almost certainly the pockmarks formed by seepage of gas or water to the surface. However, detailed observations suggest they are inactive structures with no sign of bubbles or fluid seepage. Yet the pits cut though glacial diamictites deposited by the most recent Norwegian Channel Ice Stream through which icebergs once ploughed and which is overlain by thin Holocene marine sediments. One possibility is that they record gas loss from the Troll field, another being destabilisation of shallow gas hydrate deposits.
Norwegian geoscientists have studied part of the field in considerable detail, analysing carbonate-rich blocks and foraminifera in the pits (Mazzini, A. and 8 others 2017. A climatic trigger for the giant Troll pockmark field in the northern North Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 464, p. 24-34; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.014). The carbonates show very negative δ13C values that suggest the carbon in them came from methane, which could indicate either of the two possible means of formation. However, U-Th dating of the carbonates and radiocarbon ages of forams in the marine sediment infill suggest that they formed at around 10 ka ago; 1500 years after the end of the Younger Dryas cold episode and the beginning of the Holocene interglacial. Most likely they represent destabilisation of a once-extensive, shallow layer of methane hydrates in the underlying sediments, conditions during the Younger Dryas having been well within the stability field of gas hydrates. Sporadic leaks from the deeper Troll gas field hosted by Jurassic sandstones is unlikely to have created such a uniform distribution of gas-release pockmarks. Adriano Mazzini and colleagues conclude that rapid early Holocene warming led to sea-floor temperatures and pressures outside the stability field of gas hydrates. There are few signs that hydrates linger in the area, explaining the present inactivity of the pockmarks – all the methane and CO2 escaped before 10 ka.
Gas hydrates are thought to be present beneath shallow seas today, wherever sea-floor sediments have a significant organic carbon content and within the pressure-temperature window of stability of these strange ice-like materials. Mazzini et al.'s analysis of the Troll pockmark field clearly has profound implications for the possible behaviour of gas hydrates at a time of global climatic warming. As well as their destabilisation adding to methane release from onshore peat deposits currently locked by permafrost and a surge in global warming, there is an even more catastrophic possibility. The whole of the seaboard of the southern North Sea was swept by a huge tsunami about 8000 years ago, which possibly wiped out Mesolithic human occupancy of lowland Britain, the former land mass of Doggerland, and the 'Low Countries' of western Europe. This was created by a massive submarine landslide – the Storegga Slide just to the north of the Troll field – which may have been triggered by destabilisation of submarine gas hydrates during early Holocene warming of the oceans.
It is widely known that glacial ice contains a record of Earth's changing atmospheric composition in the form of bubbles trapped when the ice formed. That is fine for investigations going back about a million years, in particular those that deal with past climate change. Obviously going back to the composition of air tens or hundreds of million years ago cannot use such a handy, direct source of data, but has relied on a range of indirect proxies. These include the number of pores or stomata on fossil plant leaves for CO2, variations in sulfur isotopes for oxygen content and so on. Variation over time of the atmosphere's content of oxygen has vexed geoscientists a great deal, partly because it has probably been tied to biological evolution: forming by some kind of oxygenic photosynthesis and being essential for the rise to dominance of eukaryotic animals such as ourselves. Its presence or absence also has had a large bearing on weathering and the associated dissolution or precipitation of a variety of elements, predominantly iron. Despite progressively more clever proxies to indicate the presence of oxygen, and intricate geochemical theory through which its former concentration can be modelled, the lack of an opportunity to calibrate any of the models has been a source of deep frustration and acrimony among researchers.
Yet as is often said, there are more ways of getting rid of cats than drowning them in butter. The search has been on for materials that trap air in much the same way as does ice, and one popular, if elusive target has been the bubbles in crystals of evaporite minerals. The trouble is that most halite deposits formed by precipitation of NaCl from highly concentrated brines in evaporating lakes or restricted marine inlets. As a result the bubbles contain liquids that do a grand job of preserving aqueous geochemistry but leave a lot of doubt as regards the provenance of gases trapped within them. For that to be a sample of air rather than gases once dissolved in trapped liquid, the salt needs to have crystallized above the water surface. That may be possible if salt forms from brines so dense that crystals are able to float, or perhaps where minerals such as gypsum form as soil moisture is drawn upwards by capillary action to form 'desert roses'. A multinational team, led by Nigel Blamey of Brock University in Canada, has published results from Neoproterozoic halite whose chevron-like crystals suggest subaerial formation (Blamey, N.J.F. and 7 others, 2016. Paradigm shift in determining Neoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen. Geology, v. 44, p. 651-654). Multiple analyses of five halite samples from an ~815 Ma-old horizon in a drill core from the Neoproterozoic Canning Basin of Western Australia contained about 11% by volume of oxygen, compared with 25% from Cretaceous salt from China, 20% of late-Miocene age from Italy, and 19 to 22% from samples modern salt of the same type.
Although the Neoproterozoic result is only about half that present in modern air, it contradicts results that stem from proxy approaches, which suggest a significant rise in atmospheric oxygenation from 2 to about 18% during the younger Cryogenian and Ediacaran Periods of the Neoproterozoic, when marine animal life made explosive developments at the time of repeated Snowball Earth events. Whether or not this approach can be extended back to the Great Oxygenation Event at around 2.3 Ga ago and before depends on finding evaporite minerals that fit stringent criteria for having formed at the surface: older deposits are known even from the Archaean.
At the end of the 1970's I was invited by the Deputy Director of the Geological Survey of India (Southern Region) to participate in the Great Postal Symposium on the Cuddapah Basin: a sort of harbinger of the Internet and Skype, but using snail-mail. Feeling pretty honoured and most intrigued I accepted; not that I knew the first thing about the subject. A regular stream of foolscap mimeographed contributions kept me nipping out of my office to check my pigeon hole for about 6 months. I learned a lot, but felt unable to comment. Four years on I was taken across the Cuddapahs by my first research student – a budding moto-cross driver with a morbid fear of bullock carts – en route from the Archaean low-grade greenstone-granite terrains of Karnataka for a peek at the fabled charnockites near Chennai (then Madras). A bit of a round-about route but spurred by my memories of the Great Postal Symposium. Sadly, the detour was marred for me by a severe case of sciatica brought on by manic driving, the state of the trans-Cuddapah highway and a misplaced gamma-globulin shot to ward off several varieties of hepatitis: I mainly blamed the nurse who demanded that I drop my drawers and bravely take the huge needle in a buttock – they do these things more humanely these days. Anyhow, apart from seeing many dusty villages build of slates perfect enough to make a full-size snooker table, my mind was elsewhere and I have long regretted that.
Landsat image mosaic showing part of the Cuddapah Basin.
Hosting possibly the world's only diamondiferous Precambrian conglomerate, the Cuddapah Basin contains a 5 km thickness of diverse sedimentary strata, but no tangible fossils. It rests unconformably on the Archaean greenstone-granite terrain of the Dharwar Craton and so is Proterozoic in age; an Eon that spans 2 billion years. The middle of the lowest sedimentary formations (the Papaghni and Chitravati Groups) contains volcanic rocks dated at ~1.9 Ga; another group is cut by a ~1.5 Ga granite, and hitherto the youngest dateable event is the emplacement of 1.1 Ga kimberlites that sourced the diamonds in the conglomerate. Until recently the stratigraphy has been known in some detail, but how to partition it in Proterozoic time is barely conceivable with just three dates in the middle parts that span 800 Ma. All that can be said about the base of the Cuddapah sediments is that they are younger than the 3.1 to 2.6 Ga Archaean rocks beneath. Since the uppermost beds are truncated by a huge thrust system that shoved deep crustal granulites over them their minimum age is equally vague.
Structurally, the Basin began to form on a stable continent underpinned by the Dharwar Craton, but when that collided with Enderbyland in Antarctica, as part of the accretion of the Gondwana supercontinent, sedimentation may have been in an entirely different setting. Indeed, some of the sediments have been carried over the undisturbed part of the basin by a major thrust system. To explore both sedimentary and tectonic evolution Australian, Indian and Canadian geoscientists combined to sample and radiometrically date the entire pile (Collins, A.S. and 13 others 2015. Detrital mineral age, radiogenic isotopic stratigraphy and tectonic significance of the Cuddapah Basin, India. Gondwana Research, v. 28, p. 1294-1309). By precisely dating detrital micas and zircons from the sediments the team was able to check the source region of sedimentary grains as well as to establish a maximum age for each major stratigraphic unit. This helped establish a 3-part sedimentary and tectonic history. The earliest sediments came from the cratonic area to the west, but there are signs that collisional orogeny between 1590 and 1659 Ma produced a new sedimentary source in metamorphic rocks forming to the east. A return to westward provenance marked the youngest sedimentary setting. This enabled the team to suggest a dual evolution of the Basin, first as an extensional rift opening at the east of what is now the Dharwar craton followed by collisional orogeny that transformed the setting to that of a foreland basin, analogous to the Molasse basin in front of the Alps during Cenozoic times, ending with tectonic inversion when extension changed to compression and thrusting.
But to what extent did the work improve the age subdivision of the Cuddapah Basin? Apparently very little, which may be down to a problem with dating detrital minerals. If magmatic and metamorphic evolution was continuous in the areas from which sediments moved, then the youngest grain is a good guide to the maximum age of the sediment being analysed. The more strata are analysed in this way the better the detail of sedimentary timing. But two tectonic terrains are unlikely to produce zircons time and time again during a period approaching a billion years. The data indicate only 3 or 4 episodes of 'zirconogenesis' in the sedimentary hinterlands, between about 900 to 1940 Ma. Apart from helping correlate sedimentary formations that were previously deemed stratigraphically different – which did help in tectonically unravelling this complex major feature – several hundred isotopic analyses of zircons and micas have give much the same timing as was known already in more precise terms from stratigraphy assisted by a few dozen conventional radiometric dates.
Many of the vast wastes of northern Canada and Scandinavia that were ground to a paste by ice sheets during the last glacial cycle show peculiar features that buck the general glacial striation of the Shield rocks. They are round-topped ridges that wind apparently aimlessly across the tundra. In what is now a gigantic morass, the ridges form well-drained migration routes for caribou and became favourite hunting spots for the native hunter gatherers: in Canada they are dotted with crude simulations of the human form, or inugoks, that the Innuit erected to corral game to killing grounds. Where eroded they prove to be made of sand and gravel, which has proved an economic resource in some areas lacking in building aggregate, good but small examples being found in the Scottish Midland Valley that have served development of Glasgow and Edinburgh. They were given the Gaelic name eiscir meaning 'ridge of gravel' (now esker) from a few examples in Ireland.
Eskers form from glacial meltwater that makes its way from surface chasms known as moulins to the very bottom of an ice sheet where water flows much in the manner of a river, except in tubes rather than channels. Where the ice base is more or less flat the tubes meander as do normal sluggish rivers, and like them the tubes deposit a proportion of the abundant sediment derived by melting glacial ice. Once the ice sheet melts and ablates away, the sediments lose the support of the tube walls and flop down to form the eponymous low ridges: the reverse of the sediment filled channels of streams that have either dried up or migrated. Eskers are one of the features that shout 'glacial action' with little room for prevarication.
Glacial terrains on Mars have been proposed for some odd looking surfaces, but other processes such as debris flows are equally attractive. To the astonishment of many, Martian eskers have now been spotted during systematic interpretation of the monumental archives of high-resolution orbital images of the planetary surface (Gallagher, C. & Balme, M. 2015. Eskers in a complete, wet-based glacial system in the Phlegra Montes region, Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 431, p. 96-109). The discovery is in a suspected glacial terrain that exhibits signs of something viscous having flowed on low ground around higher topographic features, bombardment stratigraphy suggests a remarkable young age for the terrain or about 150 Ma ago: the Amazonian. Ice and its effects are not too strange to suggest for Mars which today is pretty much frigid, except for a few suggestions of active flow of small watery streams. Eskers demand meltwater in abundance, and Gallagher and Balme attribute some of the other features in the Phlegra Montes to wet conditions. However, the eskers are a one-off, so far as they know. Consequently, rather than appealing to some climatic warm up to explain the evidence for wetness, they suggest that the flowing water tubes resulted from melting deep in the ice as a result of locally high heat flow through the Martian crust, which is a lot more plausible.


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Amanda Knox On Way Back To United States
Oct. 4 2011, Published 6:20 a.m. ET
By Radar Staff
Amanda Knox is on her way home to Seattle, one day after an Italian appeals court overturned her controversial murder conviction, ending her four year nightmare.
Amanda, 24, was seen smiling at Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome early Tuesday morning, as she was escorted through the terminal.
Her father Kurt Knox and mother Edda Mellas declined to talk to reporters as they were escorted through the airport by plainclothes Italian police officers. They were accompanied by their spouses and children, but Amanda herself was spared the public check-in process and met up with her family on the flight.
Amanda's flight will make a stop in London; she'll then catch a connecting flight to Seattle. She's expected to arrive home in Washington state later on Tuesday.
Prior to leaving Italy, Amanda thanked those "who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope," in a letter to the Italy-US Foundation, which seeks to promote ties between Italy and the United States and championed Knox's cause.
"Those who wrote, those who defended me, those who were close, those who prayed for me," Knox wrote. "I love you, Amanda."
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, after ten hours of deliberations, the appeals jury on Monday reversed her conviction for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher; the court also threw out the conviction of Knox's former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
A third defendant, Rudy Guede, 24, was also convicted of Kercher's murder in a separate trial and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. His conviction was upheld on appeal, but his sentence was shortened to 16 years.
Prosecutors in Italy say that they plan to appeal the jury's decision, but legal experts say it's not likely Amanda would be extradited back to the country to face a retrial.
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The new gem of the area, with high-quality baked goods from the own bakery in the back, lovely arrangement, friendly service, a wide variety of breakfast options with something for everyone. Fantastic coffee and super cozy atmosphere adds to the package. My favourite was the waffle for sure! A bit pricey, which makes it more of a special day breakfast and not necessarily something for a spontaneous everyday-breakfast, but worth every cent!
Homey vibes, an extraordinary breakfast plate (that grilled cheese with the egg dip, and the sausage also!) and delicious coffee. The place really lives off the atmosphere which is the true "neighbourhood" feel that makes you feel comfortable instantly and adds to the sense of community in the area. I love how this is probably the most down-to-earth place of all of these. My only complaint: the name is misleading as they open only at 9. Now bring me more of that grilled cheese.
Ah, a staple in the café scene of Helsinki and an all-time favourite of mine. What started off as a tiny cupcake- and bagel place is now one of the best breakfast places in the neighbourhood. Brooklyn café tripled in size over the years but hasn't lost any of the cozy charm over it, but had the opportunity to extend their offer as well, including a delicious breakfast set that includes a bagel and coffee of your choice, a smoothie and yoghurt. 14€ for that is a bit steep but you won't regret it.
Always a safe bet, for coffee, atmosphere and breakfast, Cargo serves delicious vegetarian breakfasts, including the tasty omelett or the avocado and cheese sandwich, variations of porridge (my favourite is the berry one!) not to mention their amazing oat-cappuccinos. Loving the big windows and vibes in here.
Clean and Nordic vibes make this place on the list, white, bright surfaces, I love the high gallery and the views down, tons of plants and of course, the breakfast. You can choose between porridge or yoghurt or go for a sandwich instead, good coffee here is a must. There's an actual laptop ban during lunchtime, but for breakfast meet-ups it's nothing short of perfect.
Ah the views from the 5th floor of Kamppi are just amazing, and so are their breakfast options. Not too many places offer egg variations like they do here, the eggs benedict are grrrreat and so is the avocado toast and their juices. Story also has their original spot in the old market hall but for meetings in the centre this is much calmer and easier to get to.


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Günther Polensen (* 20. Mai 1910 in Tiegenhof; † 26. Februar 1989 in Potsdam) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Synchron- und Hörspielsprecher.

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Über das Leben von Günther Polensen war wenig in Erfahrung zu bringen. In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus wirkte er ab 1936 in mehreren Spielfilmen mit. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sind Rollen an kleineren Theatern oder Wanderbühnen sowie als Conférencier bei bunten Veranstaltungen in den damaligen Tageszeitungen nachgewiesen. Sehr häufig war er ab 1950 in Filmen der DEFA und in Produktionen des Fernsehens zu sehen. Auch die Synchronisation von ausländischen Filmen für die DEFA gehörte mit zu seinen Aufgaben. Da hier aber nur die Filmtitel bekannt sind, ohne Angabe der Rollen und der Schauspieler und auch keine Artikel existieren, wurde hier auf eine Auflistung verzichtet. Eine weiter Aufgabe, die ihn sehr beschäftigte, war die eines Hörspielsprechers für den Rundfunk und das DDR-Schallplattenlabel Litera.

Eine Besonderheit gibt es bei seinem Namen: Als Filmschauspieler nannte er sich immer Günther Polensen und als Hörspielsprecher war er Günter Polensen.

Filmografie
 1940: Ein Robinson
 1941: Über alles in der Welt
 1950: Familie Benthin
 1951: Die letzte Heuer
 1951: Der Untertan
 1954: Ernst Thälmann – Sohn seiner Klasse
 1955: Der Ochse von Kulm
 1955: Robert Mayer – Der Arzt aus Heilbronn
 1956: Thomas Müntzer – Ein Film deutscher Geschichte
 1957: Das singende, klingende Bäumchen
 1959: Blaulicht (Fernsehserie, 1 Episode)
 1959: Musterknaben
 1960: Flucht aus der Hölle (Fernsehvierteiler, 1 Episode)
 1961: Blaulicht (Fernsehserie, 2 Episoden)
 1963: Die Glatzkopfbande
 1963: Bonner Pitaval: Die Affäre Heyde-Sawade
 1963: Blaulicht (Fernsehserie; 1 Episoden)
 1964: Das Lied vom Trompeter
 1964: Blaulicht (Fernsehserie, 1 Episode)
 1965/1990: Das Kaninchen bin ich
 1966: Irrlicht und Feuer (Fernsehfilm, Zweiteiler)
 1967: Die gefrorenen Blitze (Kinozweiteiler)
 1967: Harras, der Polizeihund (Fernsehmehrteiler, 1 Episode)
 1968: Wege übers Land (Fernsehfünfteiler)
 1969: Krupp und Krause (Fernsehfünfteiler, 1 Episode)
 1969: Befreiung (Fernsehfünfteiler)
 1970: Jeder stirbt für sich allein (Fernsehdreiteiler)
 1970: Mein lieber Robinson
 1971: Rottenknechte (Fernsehfünfteiler)
 1971: KLK an PTX – Die Rote Kapelle
 1973: Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
 1973: Eva und Adam (Fernsehvierteiler, 1 Episode)
 1974: Der Tag, der nicht stirbt (Deň, ktorý neumrie)
 1974: Die Frauen der Wardins (Fernseh-Dreiteiler)
 1975: Till Eulenspiegel
 1975: Kriminalfälle ohne Beispiel: Mord im Märkischen Viertel (Fernsehreihe)
 1976: Philipp, der Kleine
 1978: Spuk unterm Riesenrad (Fernsehserie, 1 Episode)
 1981: Als Unku Edes Freundin war
 1982: Spuk im Hochhaus (Fernsehserie, 1 Episode)
 1984: Ach du meine Liebe (Fernsehfilm)
 1987: Kindheit

Theater
 1946: William Shakespeare: Ein Sommernachtstraum (Oberon) – Regie: Hanns Schulz-Dornburg (Freilichtbühne am Waldsee)
 1957: Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett: Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (Kraler) – Regie: John Hanau (Gastspielbühne Berlin)

Hörspiele
 1955: Karl Bunje: Das Hörrohr (Knecht) – Regie: Karl Brenk (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1955: Molière: Tartuffe (Polizeioffizier) – Regie: Werner Wieland (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1956: Wolfgang Weyrauch: Die japanischen Fischer (Fischer) – Regie: Hans Goguel (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1957: Gerhard Stübe/Hans Busse: Der Schellenmann (Wachtmeister) – Regie: Joachim Witte (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1957: Horst Girra: Die gläserne Spinne – Regie: Werner Wieland (Kriminalhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1959: Rolf H. Czayka: Die schwarze Schnur – Regie: Werner Grunow (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1961: Manfred Bieler: Die kleine Freiheit – Regie: Edgar Kaufmann (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1962: Rolf Schneider: Jupiter-Sinfonie – Regie: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1962: Brüder Grimm: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (1. Räuber) – Regie: Theodor Popp (Kinderhörspiel – Litera)
 1962: Sergio Günther: Die Rumkiste (Volkspolizist) – Regie: Harry Schrank (Kriminalhörspiel – Litera)
 1963: Rolf Schneider: Die Unbewältigten – Regie: Edgar Kaufmann (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1964: Willi Meinck: Abenteuer um Marco – Regie: Manfred Täubert (Kinderhörspiel, 2 Teile – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1964: Stefan Heym/Hanuš Burger nach Mark Twain: Tom Sawyers großes Abenteuer (Bill Westinghouse) – Regie: Heiner Möbius (Kinderhörspiel – Litera)
 1967: Michel Cournot: Die Kinder des Gerichts (Wachtmeister) – Regie: Fritz Göhler (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1967: Rainer Nordmann: Moni und der Regenschirm (Erzähler) – Regie: Christa Kowalski (Kinderhörspiel/Kurzhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1968: Wiktor Nekrassow: In den Schützengräben von Stalingrad – Regie: Joachim Staritz (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1968: Wsewolod Iwanow: Panzerzug 14-69 – Regie: Werner Grunow (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1969: Ernst A. Ekker: Nicht jeder Montag ist grau (Busfahrer) – Regie: Wolfgang Brunecker (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1969: Karl-Heinrich Bonn/Maria Bonn: Die Reise nach K. – Regie: Wolfgang Brunecker (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1970: Werner Gawande: Ingo will es wissen – Regie: Detlef Kurzweg (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1970: Joachim Witte: Ich gelobe (Wendler) – Regie: Uwe Haacke (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1971: Stanislawa Fleszarowa-Muskat: Ferien (Männerstimme) – Regie: Werner Grunow (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1971: Ulrich Waldner: Alte Liebe rostet nicht (Sänger) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1972: Gerhard Jäckel: Das Wartehäuschen (Kulikowsky) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1972: Sibyll Mehnert: Ein Sonntag im Juni (2. Mann) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1973: Hartmut Brücher: Dieser Steinkopf (Karl Steinkopf) – Regie: Leonore Mütterlein (Kinderhörspiel/Kurzhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1973: Georges Courteline: Der Stammgast (Richter) – Regie: Hans Knötzsch (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1974: Augusto Boal: Torquemada – Regie: Peter Groeger (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1974: Gerhard Jäckel: Der Zikus ist da (Gast) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1975: Brigitte Gotthardt: Lass das mal den Cuno machen (Kollege) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1975: Vytautas Petkevičius: Baumlang, Spannenhochs Sohn (Kolchos-Vorsitzender) – Regie: Peter Groeger (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1976: Gert Prokop: Der Drache mit den veilchenblauen Augen – Regie: Renate Thormelen (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1976: Adolf Glaßbrenner: Antigone in Berlin (Chor) – Regie: Werner Grunow (Hörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1977: Volksdichtung: Die drei Klugen – Regie: Rüdiger Zeige (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1978: Joachim Witte: Fahrt in's Blaue (Klabusch) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1979: Walter Püschel: Der Krieg der Dakotas (Stationsvorsteher) – Regie: Uwe Haacke (Kinderhörspiel, 1. Teil – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1979: Volkstext: Kalaf und Turandot – Regie: Christa Kowalski (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1980: Brüder Grimm: Das singende springende Löweneckerchen – Regie: Uwe Haacke (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1980: Sibylle Durian: Die Nachtigall im Herbst – Regie: Uwe Haacke (Kinderhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1981: Brigitte Gotthardt: … wie zwei alte Latschen (Wirt) – Regie: Joachim Gürtner (Hörspiel aus der Reihe Neumann, zweimal klingeln – Rundfunk der DDR)
 1981: Dieter Müller: … und sonntags nach Grünau – Regie: Detlef Kurzweg (Kinderhörspiel/Kurzhörspiel – Rundfunk der DDR)

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Acetyl-L-carnitine, ALCAR or ALC, is an acetylated form of L-carnitine. It is naturally produced by the body, although it is often taken as a dietary supplement. Acetyl L-carnitine is broken down in the blood by plasma esterases to carnitine, it is a mitochondrial boosting supplement, ALCAR helps your muscle mitochondria burn fat, which can increase your endurance, give you an edge in the gym, and help you recover faster. Also, Acetyl L-Carnitine benefits for brain health includes improving mood, learning, and memory etc .
When our brains start to age, our bodies also decay. The brain controls our lives. Billions of nerve cells in the brain determine our ability to identify and give us thoughts and emotions. When our brain cells become dysfunctional or die, we lose memory, we lose our ability to think, our muscles atrophy, our bones become brittle, our immune system weakens, our ability to coordinate our actions declines, and our lives begin to slip away.
Acetyl L-carnitine content in different human brains is not the same, but the content decreases significantly with aging. Acetyl L-carnitine structure is similar to acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is the main memory and other neuro metastatic factor for brain function, an insufficient content of acetylcholine in the brain can lead to Alzheimer's disease. So maybe ALCAR also has the same effect on brain? The study shown Acetyl L-carnitine is very effective against Alzheimer's disease, depression and memory impairment.
In this one year study, Alzheimer's patients were divided into two groups, one group took acetyl L-carnitine twice per day, and the other group took placebo. The study tested 14 indicators, including overall status evaluations, known functional tests, memory tests, and physical fitness assessments. The result shown that ALCAR group was superior to the placebo group in all parameters.
Many older people suffer from depression, which is not only they have lost a lot of things in their lives, but also because aging causes certain physiological changes in the brain. In the double-blind experiment of acetyl L-carnitine and antidepressants, acetyl L-carnitine has been shown to have a significant depressant effect. The common dose is 500 mg with three times per day. Patients with the most severe depression in the test shown the greatest improvement after taking acetyl L-carnitine.
Also, according to a new study published by researchers in the United States, acetyl L-carnitine levels in the blood of depressed patients are low. This study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed that compared with healthy people, acetyl L-carnitine levels in the blood of depression patients were significantly lower. And the blood acetyl L-carnitine level is particularly low in patients with severe depression and in patients with early onset of depression. As a biomarker of depression, acetyl L-Carnitine is expected to offer the possibility of developing new, faster-acting antidepressants.


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Brian took on the role part way through the year, we will wait and see what the end result of all the shouting is...
Brian is the brains behind our website - he's the one who developed most of the features that makes it all run, and the graphics that make it look good. Since he spends half the night coding and sleeps half the day, we're under the impression he works on New York time.
Brian is a sucker for punishment as he continues for another year of being in charge of website design. This year he plans to just be webmaster and not to do many of the other jobs as well. Yeah, right.
Me, sort of. I'm not officially on the committee this year but I'm still doing the web site.
Ben is taking over being official website person from Brian, though no doubt Brian will still be doing bits of it (the tunes section is still fundamentally run by magic for a start). This means that Brian will have his revenge and gets to whinge when things are not updated this year.
Ben will be doing another year of being webmaster and trying to keep the website up to date, or at least less than three months out of date. He apparently responds well to prodding and/or bribery when it needs changing.
Ben is still here, feeling increasingly like the Old One, and looking after Ceilidhsoc's computing resources. He can still be persuaded to update the website every so often, in between getting married and other things, and can be seen wandering through ceilidhs waving a camera about and muttering things like "We didn't have loud music like this when I was a lad...". Alternatively, he might be on the sound desk making the music louder.
New blood! In addition to Ben (as usual), Bob is the wizard's apprentice this year. He is going to be helping with website content (like this page...). Hopefully this will free up Ben to fix the bits of the website that haven't been changable for several years.
Having persuaded the University to let him return from his placement Bob will be managing the website this year, keeping it updated in a timely fashion (promise!). Ben, being somewhat distracted by fatherhood, will be hanging around in the background making sure he doesn't break anything or blow the server up.
Ed and Kat will be working the internet site and facebook with this year (and yes we've taught Ed about spell checkers!). Ben will still be hosting it all and fixing it when they break it(thanks Ben!)
Sam turned up at the first ceilidh during freshers week last year and didn't manage to escape! She's now going into her second year doing journalism. You can normally find her battling with her computer (and probably losing).
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Q: Keeping the default left column in a facebook application? I would like to keep the default left column in a facebook-application, is this possible somehow? Also is it possible to manipulate the default right column?

A: what do u mean with "default left column" and "default right column" ?
Do you mean with the left column the column where you can see friends or fans and stuff?
Do you mean with the right column the advertisement column?
If so: yes you can keep the left one when using a Facebook-Tab App. But this only works on Pages not on user profiles.
And afaik you can't change the advertisement column. This is generated by the "user-tracking-system" of facebook.


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New Zealand Sign Language Week takes place from 21 to 27 September, coinciding with the United Nations International Day of Sign Languages on 23 September.
We have some adults and children's titles in the collection for learning New Zealand sign language.
There are also free online resources you can use to learn New Zealand sign language.
New Zealand sign language: a reference grammar by Rachel Locker McKee 419MCK
Drawing on her experience of both teaching and researching New Zealand sign language (NZSL), Rachel McKee has developed A Reference Grammar to support all those who are learning NZSL - students, families and friends of Deaf people, school teachers, public officials. This clear account of language structure and use is illustrated with dozens of, drawings and photographs.
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A dictionary of New Zealand sign language by Graeme Kennedy 419
This excellent dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language presents to the public for the first time in New Zealand history the actual language of the vibrant New Zealand Deaf Community. It is a result of nearly 5-6 years of research and information gathering by 5 staff members at Victoria University of Wellington in cooperation with the Deaf Association of New Zealand and the many adult Deaf volunteers who helped made this dictionary possible. It contains a listing of over 4,600 signs found to be of general and accepted usage by the New Zealand Deaf Community. Each sign entry has an English (or Maori) headword along with several synonymns, a picture of the sign, an English description of how to articulate the sign, some sentences to give an idea of the semantic scope of the sign, and a linguistic transcription of the sign. This dictionary is an excellent resource for those wanting to learn New Zealand Sign Language, its grammar, and about the Deaf community in New Zealand.
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Kōrero mai series by Jenny Chapman, children's board book
These board books include words in English, te reo and their associated New Zealand sign language sign.
Introduces signs and words for common items around the home that a baby might see or handle. Includes tips for teaching your baby to sign.
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New Zealand Sign Language Dictionary Online
This website contains thousands of entries, including videos of how to sign each word. Words can be searched in English and Māori. Visual searches are also available searching by hand shape and/or body location.
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This is a free online learning portal for New Zealand sign language. Work your way through the nine topics to learn in order. Topics include: meet and greet, needs and wants, family and friends, everyday activities, small talk, work, community, my place and holidays.
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When crafting her award-winning career, Jessica Chastain didn't just think of what roles would make her a star. She thought of what they would say to her young fans.
In an interview Monday with HuffPost Live, Chastain explained how she chooses her projects with a social component in mind, using her recent film The Martian as an example. "I want little girls to watch The Martian and say, 'I want to be the commander of a mission to Mars,'" the actress said. "'I want to be in this movie,' and [to see] that actually, it's OK — you can have these desires to be a writer and fall in love and do all this, and you can actually save yourself."
Chastain identifies as a feminist, and has been outspoken about needing more complex female roles in Hollywood. "Let's also have some stories about these women," she told Glamour in 2014. "Let's write something for them, guys — and let's make room for women writers too."
So it makes sense that Chastain would take roles like hers in The Martian, or in Zero Dark Thirty or Interstellar. Setting that example of a strong woman inspires girls to feel motivated. "The more independent and free a woman is, I think those are the most inspiring stories for these little girls," Chastain told HuffPost Live.
That's not to say each role has to be a hero. Certainly Chastain has played her share of morally complicated characters, like her role in A Most Violent Year as a woman with mob connections. Yet that complexity is exactly what Hollywood should strive for with its female characters. Admiration of strong women doesn't need to be blind; the most intricate definitions of feminism celebrate nuance. Chastain's work supports that well.


I read a post earlier today that made my heart drop a bit. It was by an influential London-based blogger, one who promotes fast fashion, but also organic beauty, is a damn good writer and photographer, and someone I respect and adore. In her New Year's post she expressed her disappointment and concern with the political landscape, of the feeling of impending doom we've all felt throughout this year, then she even went as far as to say she feels she should be gathering herself to expend an "all mighty burst of energy" to help make everything right - but then followed that by saying, "the big things are not really in our control sadly. So I'm just going to keep on with more of the same".
The problem with more of the same is it that it welcomes more of the same - and while some of that 'same' allows you to embrace the same good you're used to, just as much of it allows for the same bad to flourish too. Ignoring reality because it is too overwhelming doesn't make problems disappear, instead, like weeds in the ground, it encourages them to grow unbounded.
We've all bid adieu to 2016 with a sense of relief, "it can't get worse or weirder than last year" I overheard one lady say reassuringly to her friend in a coffee shop in London, laughing at the preposterousness of it all.
But the truth is, it can.
While most our resolutions at the start of this year will have been focused on self-improvement, that self-improvement will continue to feel incomplete unless our efforts positively affect those beyond ourselves. If 2016 has taught us anything, it's that the time has arrived for each of us to arouse our inner activist and cultivate positive change in our communities, our cities, our countries, our continents and our planet as a whole.
While I looked forward to 2017 with a sense of excitement at the possibility and promise it holds, I too feel hesitation on where my energy ought to be thrown. I've already planted my foot fairly firmly into the eco-activist realm, but there are SO very many issues - politically, ecologically, and socially - and I can't write about, protest, or help with them all. For my output to be effective I have to focus myself on the ones which enrage, worry, or impassion me to respond - and in order to be able to respond, I have to have knowledge that they're happening and know how my voice can be heard.
It is easy to see our individual contributions to any cause as measly and ineffective. But the fact is, the collective efforts of each of us aid like the voices in the choir to create strength and unity amongst and around us.
The most monumental changes this world has seen come from individual voices which rose up, joined forces and demanded change. Our politicians are our representatives and if we don't ourselves represent the change this world needs to see - by voting with our dollar, our voice, our time and our actual physical votes - how can we vilify them for failing us, when in truth, we've failed ourselves.
Every ounce of action makes a difference somewhere, to someone, like a rock dropped in a lake of placidity, the reach of the ripples caused by each effort go beyond our sight and knowledge.
This means doing more than trolling your own facebook feed which is filled with fake news. This means reading responsible journalism. Eco Cult has a great post up on how to fight back against Trump which is worth a read through, especially if you're American. It was through her post that I found THIS Chrome extension which will flag fake news sites, as well as this extension which tells you the bias of what you're reading. Her full post can be found HERE.
You don't have to be a plucky picketer to protest. The New York Times recently reported that phoning legislators is the most effective way to have your voice heard. Just after the charlatan, Trump, won the American presidency There is an app by the Daily Action Group which was recently released just after the U.S elections which simplifies the process for you. Basically, you text the word "DAILY" to the number 228466 (or "A-C-T-I-O-N) or sign up at www.dailyaction.org. Once you enter your ZIP code (this is for Americans only at the moment!) you will receive a text each work day about an issue based on where you live with the contact information of who to speak to about the issue so you can make your call while you're in the line for your latte, on the bus or sitting in traffic. If you're not in the U.S you get the same type of info by attending town hall meetings, reading your local newspaper and signing up to newsletters from your local representatives.
Volunteering is probably the most intrinsically motivating way to participate in and support your community. Whatever it is that you feel aligns with your highest level of empathy - whether it is political, ecological, social, religious - find a way to spend your time with people who share your passions and who will inspire you and inform you.
If you don't have time to stay informed, volunteer or participate (and even if you do) find a cause to donate to. My fellow Ethical Writer's Coalition members and I put together a post just before Christmas which features a number of not-for-profits which aid authentically. You can click through to the donations post HERE if you are having trouble finding a cause to align yourself to.
Protesting attracts more attention to a cause than doing nothing. If you are staying informed, you will undoubtedly find things you don't like in your local or federal systems, political or otherwise. There are physical protests which involve taking to the streets, there are civil disobediences, there are boycotts and there are interpersonal protests in which you engage with someone in (a two-way) conversation about something you find unserving to the greater good. As far as boycotts go, you can defund the enemy normally. There is a list HERE going around about what companies to pull your money and purchases from in order to defund the dufus known as Trump, while I've also written an article about how to defund the bad banks HERE by divesting your money from them.
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The lamp, weighing anywhere from 1.8 kg to 2 kg, emits a direct light that shines downward. It is also painted white on the inside, which helps give off the soft comfortable lighting. The weight suggests a sturdiness when it comes to being in the outdoor weather, but also can be easily moved or placed in a desired area, based on your exterior layout and design.
The lamp is featured with LED lighting, and can be connected directly to a main power supply. The shade, wall box, and arm of the lamp are all made of die cast aluminium. The outdoor lamp can be installed on any wall to light up the desired area. Great for garden or backyard areas, surveillance usage or swimming pool illumination, the AJ 50 Outdoor Wall Lamp is a simple and easy choice. It allows for freedom of design and is easy to combine with any theme or colours.
Whether you decide on a black, grey or white color, the lamp is fully covered with the same shade, so that it can be boldly placed and fit to any wall surrounding the fixture.
Shining directly below, the lamp is a great choice for outdoor dining areas or restaurant patios. Its multifunction poses a great opportunity as well to light up paths, or backyard areas. It can be useful and placed on its own, or also combined with multiple rowed to easily line and light up the desired area.
Material Shade: Die cast aluminium. Wall box: Die cast aluminium. Arm: Die cast aluminium.
Remarks The fixture emits downward directed light. The shade is painted white on the inside to ensure a soft comfortable light distribution.


The voicemail message I received was pretty similar to ones most of the ghosts on this site receive fairly regularly.
Like I say, standard stuff and always welcome. Except this time was a little different. As I continued to listen to the muffled clicks on the line it became apparent that the caller had tried to hang up, but somehow managed to stay on the line. Now, I know I should have hung up myself at this point and left it there. That would have been the polite thing to do. However, I didn't. The reason why I didn't was because the man on the other end of the call was clearly talking about me to another person in the room.
Obviously, crime is no laughing matter ever, but it did make me giggle a little. This was certainly not the obvious introduction to a healthy working relationship with a ghost. (And no, for the record, not much makes me hysterical).
The reason for relating this story is to raise the subject of what notto say to a ghost, inadvertently or otherwise. I know I risk coming across as Grumpy Ghost, but I think this might be useful. There are plenty of blogs extolling the things to do to achieve a successful collaboration. Now I want to add a few thoughts on what authors might like to avoid.
Top of any professional ghost writer's list of no nos is a prospective author who says they have a brilliant idea for a book and could the ghost write it for a split of the profits. Often this idea can be summed up in a little under five minutes which means, in theory, it would be then over to a ghostwriter to flesh out the story, develop the characters, structure the book and secure a publishing deal. This might take as much as six months work. Without getting paid. And with a high likelihood they may not ever get paid. It is not a fair request of anyone.
I always really appreciate it when authors have done at least a little research before they approach me. Signing up to work with a ghost is a big commitment in money, time and emotional buy-in. Therefore, I have made sure that my website, www.professionalghost.com, has a number of articles setting out the full process from start to finish, including exactly what both sides can expect and the various milestones. I also write a weekly blog with loads of background information and advice. So, it is a little frustrating when I receive calls which begin with: can you explain what a ghostwriter does? What exactly is the process? It is there, in black and white. Please do phone this (Grumpy) Ghost but don't ask me to reinvent the wheel.
Personally, I always feel a little deflated when an author tells me they never, ever read. I don't just mean websites. I mean when they say they don't read books. At all. Ever. Writing books is, after all, my living and I am very passionate about it. This statement is akin to walking into a baker and saying you don't like bread, or telling a teacher you really can't see the point of learning. It also begs the obvious question: why are they considering getting their own book written if they find no value in the printed page?
Enjoying reading is important when it comes to my next point too. I love feedback and discussion on the draft chapters I send over to authors. It's always a hugely nerve-wracking moment for a ghost when they send over draft chapters for someone else to read, particularly in the early days of a project. Often, it will be the first time another human being has ever seen the work. It is really helpful if an author reads the chapters and sends back notes or comments. Alternatively, we can go through edits on the phone. While I accept that everyone is busy, protracted silences scare ghosts. I can't begin to explain how it felt in one project when the author had not read a page of the manuscript until just days before the manuscript was due with the publisher.
Generally ghosts are a pretty thick skinned bunch, even grumpy ones. However, the very best collaborations are based on a mutual passion for the book in question. This entails the author doing their research, fully buying into the process and working closely with the ghost.
Teena Lyons publishes a weekly blog on www.professionalghost.com.


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Ellie Bamber, Dominic West and David Oyelowo to Launch Les Misérables in Cannes
Events • Les Misérables • News • Series • Tv
Worldscreen: Actress Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals, The Nutcracker and The Four Realms, The Seven Sorrows of Mary), Dominic West (The Affair, The Wire, Appropriate Adult) and David Oyelowo (Selma, Gringo, Spooks) are among the stars of the new epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 19th-century classic Les Misérables that are heading to Cannes to launch the drama to the international market.
Screenwriter and executive producer Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice) and director Tom Shankland (The Missing, Ripper Street) will be on hand as well. Also in attendance will be Faith Penhale executive producer for Lookout Point; Bethan Jones, executive producer for BBC Studios; and Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece.
Les Misérables is produced by Lookout Point and BBC Studios for BBC One and Masterpiece.
Paul Dempsey, president of global markets at BBC Studios, said: "With Dominic West and David Oyelowo leading an all-star cast and with Andrew Davies' at the helm of another remarkable adaptation of an all-time classic, Les Misérables will be a bold, refreshing and modern take on one of the most famous and epic stories of all time."
Penhale said: "We're thrilled to be bringing to MIPCOM some of our incredibly talented cast and the two brilliant creative minds behind our adaptation, Andrew and Tom. Together they have created the definitive Les Misérables for a new generation and we can't wait to share it with the world."
Mipcom takes place between 15 and 18 October in Cannes, France.
Posted by Leni • 04.Oct.2018 • filed in Events • Les Misérables • News • Series • Tv
Ellie Bamber attends the Serpentine Summer Party 2019


On today's Q&A Thursday…how do you incorporate your Stepdad and Dad in your wedding…finding a balance between their roles? Dealing with jealousy in your bridal party and friendship group and a lovely response from #bridechilla Eadaoin who shares an update on her wedding.
Tina Hoang-To from wedding-spot.com, a fabulous all in one venue finder website, joins me today to share some of her favourite cool tech tools to help you plan your wedding. She's ahead of the game with some excellent suggestions that I am excited to learn more about with you!


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Churches can reprint the camera-ready inserts as provided or reformat the material for other uses. Many churches have found creative ways to distribute the Sunday Advocate throughout their congregations, such as posting it on bulletin boards, delivering to shut-ins, or providing copies in the church narthex or commons area. Anyone, however, can receive the electronic publication directly, so churches might want to encourage their members to subscribe.


Selecting a university is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. It not only determines where you will study and live for the upcoming years but it will also establish a path to your future.
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2-Port C Series EtherCAT Interface Module—The cRIO ECAT S is a rugged EtherCAT slave module addition to any CompactRIO chassis. To program the module, you can use LabVIEW FPGA Interface mode. You can easily connect other module I/O available in the same chassis to your EtherCAT network. You can also daisy chain multiple modules installed in the same or different CompactRIO chassis to expand time-critical applications to higher channel counts while maintaining hard determinism with minimal processor resources. ThecRIO ECAT S also supports distributed hardware clock synchronization signals using the SYNC0 signal. The cRIO ECAT S is compatible with only CompactRIO systems.


I'm using RTMP encoder (based on librtmp) for publish my stream.
After about 4 hours, my stream is stuck, and I find below log message.
17936469 is 25bit number and 4312903748 is 33bit number.
Max digit of RTMP timestamp is 32bit, so encoder cannot sent 33 bit timestamp.
But log says that 25bit timestamp is received after 33 bit timestamp.
After cutting most 8 bit, There is a 17 difference between the two timestamps.
I cannot understand why above gap is occurred.