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Stop at E4 after the traffic accident in Norrköping
April 17, 2019 by sweden
At 16h12, police received an alarm about a traffic accident on E4, at the height of Norsholm and heading north.
A passenger car and a truck had fallen and a rescue operation was under way.
– I did not receive a report if there was any suspicion of crime and I do not know if someone was taken away with an ambulance. Initially, it was said that someone would bleed due to a wound injury, but I do not know anymore, says Monica Bergström, of the police in the east.
"There are two people involved in the accident," she continues.
Long queues at E4 after traffic accident
Police alert against long lines due to traffic accident.
– I do not know if it is completely suspended, but emergency services talk about the fact that there is limited accessibility, says Monica Bergström.
Emergency services left the site at 4:50 pm and then a northbound lane was turned off. The vehicles must now be supported by the site.
– I do not know anything about the injury situation at the time, but when we left no one was taken to the hospital, says Christian Lind at Östra Götaland rescue service.
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Played here yesterday and was a little disappointed, to say the least.
We hadn't had THAT much rain in the area recently, it was raining very gently when we first arrived to tee off at 11.30 but within about an hour or so it stopped, and turned out to be quite a nice day.
But the condition of the course left a lot to be desired.
I would guess that 75% of the holes were played off mats. Certainly all of the par 3's were, and the vast majority of 4's. I hate mats with a passion, but understand that they are a necessary evil on some courses during the really bad months. But these were diabolical. You couldn't get a tee peg in the things and half of them were lined up to ensure you were going to hammer a ball into the many trees lining the fairways. Thankfully, winter rules were in operation, which obviously helps on the fairways. But if you ventured off them, you were faced with hardly any grass, and the ball sitting on mud. Around most of the greens it was terrible, very muddy, and most attempts to play chip shots from the surrounds were almost impossible.
It's a shame, because Westerham has the potential to be a really good course. But in the Summer it's rock hard and wicked bounces where you don't expect them put you in unplayable lies, and despite their websites claim that the course is built on good draining sandy soil I would take it with a pinch of salt.
My trousers were filthy when I came off the course.
Not recommended, certainly not for winter golf.
Played in a 3 ball for the first time yesterday.
The course is very tight which makes up for the lack of length. There are no 200yard+ par 3s, 400yard+ par 4s or 500yard+ par 5s although the course elevation makes several of the holes much longer.
Course was in splendid condition although the greens, whilst looking great, were a little on the slow side.
I would recommend that you buy a course planner as there are several doglegs which require semi blind tee shots.
Pace of play was fine, I find the best policy with society friendly clubs is to use their online booking system. We booked a time just before an unavailable section of a hours worth of tee-times. The society duly pitched up on the practice green as we walked to the tee.
1st hole is a bit dull but serves as a gently loosener, back 9 is great with some stunning views and drops in elevation to the greens.
Pretty much the best course I have played in the price range £25 - £40.
Played in a 2ball at westerham on a sunday in April.
What I found was that generally all the past reviews of the course were on the money. Paid £25 for tee off after 130. Not bad value for that but overpriced at £45.
MAJOR ISSUE: The lack of etiquette with some at this course (members or pay/play- not sure) is astounding. A 2 ball let us through and then they and us let a one ball through. The 4 ball in front of us refused to let the one ball through so he gave up after nine holes. The group then held us up all round (even after I'd picked up one of their dropped clubs and took it to them!). It was so bad that at one pt there were nearly 3 groups (incl them) on the 14th tee.
This is obviously a recurring issue and there needs to be regular marshalling at weekends. I liked the course and the facilities but will not go back until reviews show me this has changed.
Course condition: Overall good although about six of the greens should be in better condition and be treated as well as the 9th/18th greens!
Clubhouse: Very pleasant and informative staff- also flexible re: teetime as my playing partner delayed. Took a long time to get served at bar though.
Course: Punishing if you are not straight off tee. But not long- Only maybe 3 holes where worth risking driver. Better to play 3w or 2 iron off tee- you don't lose much with the approach. Most holes offered something different only found couple of holes (incl 1st) boring.
We played Westerham on a Friday morning on a sunny July day and loved the course. It is not the longest, but that really doesn't matter as it is pretty unforgiving if you are left or right off the tee. The 1st hole is a gentle introduction but by the time you are on the back 9, there are many challenges and the course gets harder as you go on. Saying all that, it is very playable, just be wise with your club selection! We paid £42, they didn't take 2 fore 1 vouchers on Fridays, which was a shame, but we would still happily go back another time. The staff were helpful and pleasant and we really couldn't fault it other than getting slightly held up by a couple of slower groups on the back 9, but we were in no rush so it didn't spoil the day. Can I also just say that the views from pretty much everywhere on the course were stunning and it is a truly pretty course, undulating without being too hilly and thoroughly enjoyable on the whole.
Played the course 30/05/08. Absolutely loved it!
Well designed holes which are very unforgiving if left or right from the tee. The greens are very challenging and play very true with good spin able to be gained.
Only crticism can be the fairways were slightly long on a number of holes.
Not the longest but that was made up for really having to think your way round.
Pace of play not a problem but that will allways depend on who your behind not the course!
Played the course again on 5.5.08 and had the following observations. The tee boxes need some attention, mostly a lawnmower, on quite a lot of the holes it was like teeing off in semi-rough. The greens we also not of an acceptable standard, uneven and too long. Finally please sort out the pace of play, it ruins the whole experience. I say this because I really like this course and it just needs to sort itself out in a few areas and it could become a really good place to play as opposed to the average to good that it is at the moment.
Very impressed. Not the longest course you will ever play but well designed using the natual elevations. Greens were difficult to read but they were well presented and the holes through the pine trees are very beautiful. I agree that pace of play is a slight issue and needs to be addressed. Overall though a great course, testing enough for all levels, very easy on the eye and not bad value for money. A bit hard on the legs though if you are carrying your bag.
Westerham is a beautiful course with some delightful holes, especially on the second nine. The greens are testing, and you have to really think your way around. However, the pace of play is a real issue - I was stuck behind a three-ball who played at a funereal pace, with no recognition whatsoever of the people behind. Judging by the comments of other reviewers, this is a long-standing problem at Westerham, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Having paid £40 for a round on a Sunday afternoon, I expect better than to be (a) needlessly held up and (b) met with a surly-bordering-on-hostile reaction when politely querying whether we could be let through.
I played an early evening round here and found both the course and the facilities very enjoyable.
My only gripe was the time taken to play due to a very slow three ball in front of us who failed to call us through.
This is a very picturesque course with some very undulating greens.
We paid £26 guest fee playing with a member which i thought very reasonable.
I played this course recently and was more than happy with what it had to offer me. The course was mature and challenging with some interesting undulating greens which were in superb condition, especially as i was told they are used 12 months of the year.
The club brought great atmosphere with nice food and pleasent staff both in the bar/resturant and the reception/pro shop.
I highly recommend this course to any standard of golfer, really worth a visit.
Played here last Friday. Overall the course was in good condition despite the dry summer, but amazingly the greens were very slow and unpredictable. Agree with the lack of signage to the driving range also.
Not sure that it's worth £35 on a Friday though.
We had played here a couple of years ago, and were looking forward to coming back and playing again. Upon arriving we wanted to use the driving range, there were no signs to the driving range, we ended up on the short practice ground were we had to pick are own balls from the 2 greens. The greens were in good condition, the tee boxes were awful, there were at least 5 mats in use and the 12th hole which is a challenging par4, is now a 100 yard par3. Which no one in the pro shop told us about. The state of the course in general is poor. Hope this improves in the future, as we used to look forward to playing here..
Like previous reports have stated it is not just a GRIP IT & RIP IT course. You really do have to plan ahead. Only two of the par 4's could be considered as straight holes. All the other and the Par 5's really make you think which side of the fairway you need to be for your approach. Some fantastic views from the T's. Once you get past the first 3 holes, which are fairly open you get into the woods and it really is a joy to play. My only gripe is the time taken for a round and course etiquette. We had two 2-balls in front of us and in both parties players were taking 3 off the T. Now I am all for getting your monies worth etc, but you are not going to score after well after 2 of the T, let alone 3. I wish players would just walk after 2 lost balls. Fine if they want to drop a ball 150yds out and have a crack at the green, but hitting 5-6 balls on one hole is beyond a joke. If Westerham can sort this out then it would be fantastic. On the note of the greens, I found them in very good order, with lots of undulations. Apparently a member in the clubhouse said there is a new green keeper and the diference is starting to show. Another fantastic point is they have the flag markers, to show where the flag is positioned on the green. One of the few courses I have played that actually do this correct. Congratulations for making the game as it should be.
In the area around this golf club, there are some good golf courses; but westerham is simply the best. It is not for the faint hearted though, and I know of 18 handicappers who have struggled to get a decent score. Westerham is all about course management; if your only game is to hit the ball as far as you can, hoping it will go straight, then you will struggle. Whilst the course is not particularly long, very often the area approaching the green is narrow, so accuracy and knowing your limitations are the keys. there are so many "feature" holes, but 9th, 11th, 12th, 15th and 18th are particularly spectacular. I have read prvious feedback about the greens: but I found them true, fast and a real challenge. Go to westerham and play a "real" golf course; but don't expect it to be easy and bring your thinking cap.
Unfortunately Westerham is really let down by two key things: the state of its greens and the time it takes to play a round. Usual trip round takes about 5 hours. No-one seems to stick to the tee off times and the lack of etiquette among the players here regarding pace of play is terrible. Otherwise, this course is a cracking layout and a really fun place to play - lots of elevation changes and many interesting holes which will really test you. The greens however are quite simply appalling. I have played here many times and only once have the greens been up to scratch compared to other courses in the region. I played last weekend and the greens were actually better than in the middle of summer!
Took a rather large society to Westerham yesterday and would tend to agree with other posters.....a course with some lovely holes but a few of them a little unfair (although this could be down to the weather we have had this summer and the ground being "rock hard"). Special mention should be made of the 17th hole, a beautifully struck tee shot that seemingly went exactly where it should have gone, only to find that the ball had ended up under a bush in an unplayable lie on the opposite side of the fairway!! The scenery around the course is magnificent in places, and standing on the 11th tee (par 3) you could be forgiven for thinking you were playing Gleneagles or similar. The 9th and 18th are great golf holes, with the 18th especially, a tricky second shot over water to try to secure par. Try standing over your shot with about 30 players who had already finished, standing outside of the clubhouse, drinks in hand, shouting "don't fat it" or "swim, swim!!"
There is not a flat green on the whole course, they could have been a little quicker but were in excellent condition, as was the rest of the course. All in all a very enjoyable day and we will return next year without a doubt.
I've played this twice in the winter and twice in mid-summer. It's a very pretty course and also one you need to think your way around - it forces you to plan a shot or two ahead when you're standing on the tee. Some of the doglegs are trickier than they look; you tend to have a choice between hitting a mid-iron into the corner and leaving yourself a 180-200yd approach shot or driving blind over the trees onto fairways which always seem to camber away from the tee side. That's OK at the moment but in 5 years time when the trees have grown a bit taller it will be very difficult... Not particularly long, although the hills can make a few of the uphill par 5s (ie 3rd and 10th) hard work unless you make good contact on the first two shots. The fairways have a habit of narrowing at landing areas which I guess is good design but inevitably leads to more lost balls than usual (for me, anyway). The clubhouse has a lovely sunny south-facing terrace overlooking the 9th and 18th greens which are each guarded by lakes/fountains, so the 19th hole is a real pleasure on a sunny day.
i thought that the golf course was great but what really made my day special was the amazing service i recieved in the bar, and the high quality cuisine provided by the head chef. i would thoroughly recommend westerham golf club to all my friends and will certainly return, if only for the food.
We played the course ona hot dry but wind weekday in june. The course was very dry and this made for some long driving. The course still offered a good test of accuracy and shot control. The shorth holes are all testing and there isby no means an easy hole as there are a number of split level greens.
I played this course in the pouring rain, and still found it very enjoyable with some holes of the kind which I have never seen before. The ground was very waterlogged due to the heavy rain, yet the winter tees and greens were not in use at any of the holes. The most memorable hole for me was the par 3 11th 170 yard down hill-perfect for the 5 iron-it was memorable for me as I managed to par it! The greens were very fast I found, considering the rain which was terrential.
I will be returning there soon to play against a friend.
The staff were very welcoming considering it was my first time there and I was playing on my own.
I highly rate this course. Beautiful parkland but mainly woodland course set in rural Kent. The condition of the greens and fairways were first class and many of the holes were lined with magestic great high elm, redwood and pine trees which were pretty impressive. The fairways were resonably wide with generous greens which held fair and true. The most memorable holes were the uphill and downhill 9th and 18th were the greens are guarded by a large lake infront of the clubhouse with a huge fountain in the middle. The par 4 15th with a blind tee shot towards the top of a hill and bunkers lining the left and great big pine trees which intrude on the right asks for a accurate tee shot and a second shot downhill to to a green surrounded by more pines. A fantastic course well worth a visit, easy to get to, ample parking and great looking clubhouse which is saying alot coming from a Palace fan who hates Ron Nodes who by the way owns it.
This is a great course ( i'm a member) - however there is one major draw back, it is very hilly indeed, a buggy is much advised. The 9th and 18th are particularly attractive holes, finishing downhill into the clubhouse. There is hardly any water, but the course is still testing. The bunkers are not too imposing. The par 5's are a definite birdie chance.
A thoroughly enjoying round. Westerham Gc is a very well designed course set mostly in woodland, with mature pines lining many of its fairways. It is a good test of golf, and single figure players would find it very intereseting, considering positional play comes high on the agenda here.\r\nI should mention here that the green fee is in fact cheaper than is quoted above and is œ20 w/day + there is a œ15 twilight fee.\r\nI found the atmosphere at the club very friendly and will no doubt return there!
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Of Todd's two Mariah's, a Mad Hatters Starlet Day, Bawley John, and Mark's magnificent Victory
Mariah the boat
Mariah the bird
Todd Weber (of Arizona, USA) seen above is someone you may not have heard about in model sailing boat circles. After spending a good portion of his childhood around a variety of boats, with summers spent on Long Beach Island off the coast of New Jersey, he was taught to sail by his grandfather on a Perrine sailboat and he now owns a 13' Pico Lazer which he enjoys sailing on visits to Mexico. Having always enjoyed miniatures and model building, some three years ago after a month-long sail with friends from San Diego in California to Mexico on a 50' Kettenburg, he decided to replicate that yacht. Having been introduced by a friend in Washington to a Tippecanoe T37 kit he saw the basis of the sloop he wanted to build.
A jeweller by trade, having built up the 37" Tippecanoe kit, Todd (seen above with the finished model) has now scratch built the features and details, added a cabin which is held in place with four strong magnets and has an opening hatch on its roof allowing access to the switches for working lights and servos, functional inclinometer and other fittings. What about the name given to this boat, Mariah? It was named after a Kestrel Falcon similar to the one above) that Todd had raised many years earlier - a bird that had taken her first free flight, had flown almost out of sight and landed high in a tree, refusing to return until the following day.
Sailed for the first time at a lake near to where the Kestrel had flown, history had almost repeated itself, the model suddenly no longer responding to the radio signals sailing over half a mile away and needing to be rescued by a lady in a Kayak. How many of us have left a switch on and ended up with dead batteries?
What one can do
with a Tippecanoe!
What a delightful looking little schooner prototype (below) has emerged from the crowd at Fleetwood Model Yacht & Power Boat Club in England. I understand from Jim Bennett that their Fleetscale division are intent on establishing a Lady class (and that is nothing to do with women sailors) of boats on this 36" length overall hull from a mould made at Fleetwood. Eleven have either been built or were in the process of being built to sail or race as schooners or single masted cutters. I think that the prototype has absolutely beautiful lines, nice and flowing and with a hint of the past while retaining a simple rig. Not entirely disimiliar to the South Sea schooner Tiare Taporo the boat is refreshingly `different' to the run of the mill schooners. One member of this club has built and sails the impressive Winston Churchill model seen below in the second photograph.
Here in Auckland I have seen several Vic Smeed Starlets appear over time that fall close to the `which part is the Starlet bit' question being asked.. Having said that, our Ancient Mariner windling modus operandi has no rules and it is all fun with the emphasis of building what you like and enjoying sailing it. How about this Starlet based junk (below) from Ron Rule which appeared in January and what better way to lead into the low key but enjoyable Starlet Mad Hatter end of (our) summer fun day held at the beginning of March? A dozen turned out, there were three or four sailing events and several skippers wore mad hatter headgear (a compulsory requirement or go naked!) Richard Gross won a sail-off with John Stubbs to take the trophy for the `Have a Go, just one go' time trial with his Starlet Mist and Murray White won the dinghy towing race with his Starlet, Southern Cross. A few hours of showery weather pleasure ensued.
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My friend John Butterwith of Devon in the UK (below) has built several really beautiful RC scratchbuilt models including a couple of Bawleys, indeed he is partial to the Bawley to the extent that he is addressed as `Bawley John' but he has however also built a nice Bristol Pilot Cutter. He once was a fisherman and is now holding a responsible administrative position in the UK fishing industry and runs the Fishermen's Association. In addition he performs audit surveys of fishing vessels for a UK company.
That incredible model shipwright in Sydney, Australia, Ian Hunt I believe hopes to complete his large model of the Sindia by the end of this year. In the first of two photographs shown below can be seen a few of his lifeboats on the water. Nice modeling work and a really nice photograph. I hope to feature the completed model when it has been launched. Some may remember his impressive County of Inverness 1877 built some years ago. The Sindia, a 4 masted steel barque, ran aground on the shores of Ocean City in New Jersey, USA on December 15th 1901.
Lifeboats for the Sindia
Here's another beautiful square-rigged model. Mark Tindall of Kent built and now sails this wonderful work of art, a 58" long model of Admiral Lord Nelson's famous flagship, Victory. The model which is of course radio controlled, required 16lbs of ballast and has been modelled in her Trafalgar condition and the builder decided to show all the gunports open as though cleared for action. Depicted above and again below, there is an amazing tide of interest in square-riggers generally, in particular, fighting ships. Mark built the model in a year and a half period of time, having selected a size that would be relatively easy to both transport and lift into and out of sailing water.
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'This far down the stream of time that has been and still is thank God, my life, before I expire, I hope I can continue to try and inspire others on the gentle art of model yacht sailing'
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Die Koldewey-Gesellschaft, Vereinigung für baugeschichtliche Forschung e.V. ist eine im Jahr 1926 gegründete und nach Robert Koldewey benannte deutsche Fachgesellschaft für Ausgrabungswissenschaft und Bauforschung.

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Die Gesellschaft hat 2020 rund 350 Mitglieder, vor allem bauhistorisch arbeitende Architekten, aber auch Kunsthistoriker, Archäologen, Prähistoriker und sonstige Wissenschaftler, die auf dem Gebiet der Bauforschung tätig sind. Ein Großteil sind Hochschullehrer dieses Fachgebietes.

Die Koldewey-Gesellschaft ist in Stuttgart im Vereinsregister eingetragen.

Geschichte
Die Koldewey-Gesellschaft wurde am 25. Juni 1926 – ein Jahr nach dem Tod von Robert Koldewey – anlässlich der 1. Tagung für Ausgrabungswissenschaft und Bauforschung in Bamberg unter dem Namen Arbeitsgemeinschaft archäologischer Architekten gegründet. Anlässlich der Gründung wurde formuliert: "Mit Unterstützung des Reiches haben sich nunmehr nahezu sämtliche als Ausgräber tätig gewesenen Architekten zu der oben genannten Koldewey-Gesellschaft zusammengeschlossen, um die Frage der Ausbildung eines Nachwuchses praktisch in die Hand zu nehmen. Die beabsichtigte Tätigkeit der neuen Gesellschaft wird nicht nur für die deutsche Auslandsforschung wichtig sein, auch die Altertumsforschung auf deutschem Boden wird ihren Nutzen davon ziehen." Zu den Initianten der Koldewey-Gesellschaft zählten unter anderem Walter Andrae, Armin von Gerkan, Uvo Hölscher, Daniel Krencker, Fritz Krischen und Friedrich Wachtsmuth. In den ersten Jahren traten darüber hinaus zum Beispiel Ludwig Borchardt, Wilhelm Dörpfeld und Cornelius Gurlitt der Gesellschaft bei.
 1. Vorsitzende
 1949–1953: Harald Hanson
 1953–1963: Rudolf Naumann
 1963–1969: Arnold Tschira
 1986–1994: Cord Meckseper
 1994–2000: Adolf Hoffmann
 2010–2016: Martin Bachmann
 seit Mai 2018: Alexander von Kienlin, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Baugeschichte der Technischen Universität München, stellvertretende 1. Vorsitzende ist Corinna Rohn von der Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden, 2. Vorsitzende ist Ursula Quatember von der Universität Graz.

Ziele und Tätigkeit
Ziel der Gesellschaft ist, die Bauforschung insbesondere auf dem Gebiet der antiken Architektur zu intensivieren. Weitere Aufgaben, denen sich die Gesellschaft stellt, sind die Förderung wissenschaftliches Nachwuchses, Mitwirkung bei Fragen der Kunst- und Denkmalpflege und Förderung der Zusammenarbeit mit ausländischen Wissenschaftlern.

Die Koldewey-Gesellschaft veranstaltet hierzu alle zwei Jahre Fachtagungen. Sie wurden – außer zwischen 1931 und 1936 – bis zum Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges jährlich abgehalten. Seit 1947 finden sie alle zwei Jahre statt, seit 1976 in geraden Jahren.

Die Ergebnisdokumentation, die anfangs unregelmäßig in verschiedenen Zeitschriften erschien, seit 1957 als eigenständige Publikation, seit 1963 unter dem Titel Bericht über die Tagung für Ausgrabungswissenschaft und Bauforschung, seit 2004 als gleichnamige Reihe erscheint, gehört zu den wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungsreihen für Bauforschung und Baugeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Darüber hinaus gibt die Gesellschaft die Texte zur Bauforschung (heute nur online verfügbar) und Einzelpublikationen heraus. Unregelmäßig stellt die Gesellschaft zudem mit den Studien zur Bauforschung wissenschaftliche Arbeiten einzelner Wissenschaftler heraus. Weitere Publikationen werden durch die Koldewey-Gesellschaft gefördert.

1992 hat die Gesellschaft eine Resolution zu Grundvoraussetzungen wissenschaftlicher Denkmalpflege und archäologischer Ausgrabungen, zur Verbesserung der Aus- und Fortbildung, zur Qualifikation der Leiter von Erhaltungs- und Umbaumaßnahmen sowie von Ausgrabungen und zur Notwendigkeit von Konservierungskonzepten beschlossen.

Preis der Koldewey-Gesellschaft
Aus Anlass des 75-jährigen Bestehens der Gesellschaft wurde im Jahr 2001 der Preis der Koldewey-Gesellschaft ins Leben gerufenen. Er soll insbesondere der Nachwuchsförderung in der Bauforschung dienen.

Literatur
 Koldewey-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Koldewey-Gesellschaft, Vereinigung für Baugeschichtliche Forschung e.V. Von ihren Gründern, ihrer Geschichte und ihren Zielen. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Ernst Walter Andrae. Bonn, Habelt 1955.
 Koldewey-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Skizzen zum 50-jährigen Bestehen der Koldewey-Gesellschaft: 1926–1976; vorgelegt auf der Tagung vom 26.–30. Mai in Köln. Stuttgart, Koldewey-Gesellschaft 1976.
 Post aus Babylon. Robert Koldewey, Bauforscher und Ausgräber. Briefe aus Kleinasien, Italien, Deutschland und dem Vorderen Orient von 1882 bis 1922. herausgegeben von Ursula Quatember und Hansgeorg Bankel für die Koldewey-Gesellschaft. Wien, Phoibos 2018.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website der Koldewey-Gesellschaft

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Bauforschung
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Benjamin Guy Davis  (born 8 August 1970) is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty (by courtesy) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He holds the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry (2019-2024) at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.

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Davis was privately educated at Nottingham High School followed by the University of Oxford where he was awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry (with Chemical Pharmacology) in 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1996 supervised by . He was a student of Keble College, Oxford.

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After his PhD, Davis spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of  at the University of Toronto, exploring protein chemistry and biocatalysis. In 1998 he returned to the United Kingdom to take up a lectureship at Durham University. In the autumn of 2001 he moved to the Dyson Perrins Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry and received a fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford. He was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 2005. In 2021 in a new partnership between the Rosalind Franklin Institiute and the University of Oxford he took up a joint position between Medical Sciences in the Department of Pharmacology and the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry; this post lasts until 2024.

His group's research centres on the chemical understanding and exploitation of biomolecular function (Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology and Chemical Medicine), with an emphasis on carbohydrates and proteins. In particular, the group's interests encompass synthesis and methodology; target biomolecule synthesis; inhibitor/probe/substrate design; biocatalysis; enzyme and biomolecule mechanism; biosynthetic pathway determination; protein engineering; drug delivery; molecular biology; structural biology; cell biology; glycobiology; molecular imaging and in vivo biology.

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Davis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

In 2017, he was elected a Member of the Academia Europea and in 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

He was also a recipient of the Mullard Award from the Royal Society in 2005, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2002 and the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1999 from the Royal Society of Chemistry. He won the Whistler Award of the International Carbohydrate Organization in 2016. He also received the Davy Medal ("awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry") from the Royal Society in 2020.

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Q: CSS: how to create an infinitely-moving repeating linear gradient? So basically, I am trying to create a progress bar. In this example, I will just change the colors I was using to red, green and blue instead since that's obviously easier to understand than a load of hex values. Effectively, what I am going for is for the progress bar to have this RGB gradient background that gives the impression the gradient is moving from left to right, to signify that there is still activity (i.e. that the site hasn't frozen). I've tried a few things, starting with just setting background: linear-gradient(120deg, red, green, blue) and animating the background-position CSS property to simulate the gradient moving. However, once at the end of the animation, the progress bar jumped from being mostly blue (i.e. the end of the gradient), right back to green...I then tried manually-reflecting the gradient in the form rgbgr - i.e. background: linear-gradient(120deg, red, green, blue, green, red) and, while this looks better, there is still jumpiness. Finally, I tried using the repeating-linear-gradient CSS function - i.e. background: repeating-linear-gradient(120deg, red, green, blue, green, red). This is the closest to what I'm aiming for, but in the example, you can see the gradient colors 'jumping', rather than animating smoothly

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A: You can do it like below and it will work with any angle you want:

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Hospitals will be required to post the cost of their standard services online, starting Jan. 1, 2019.
Patients will be able to compare prices before seeking treatment.
Hospitals are required to disclose prices publicly, but the latest change would put that information online in machine-readable format that can be easily processed by computers. It may still prove to be confusing to consumers, since standard rates are like list prices and don't reflect what insurers and government programs pay.
Patients concerned about their potential out-of-pocket costs from a hospitalization would still be advised to consult with their insurer. Most insurance plans nowadays have an annual limit on how much patients must pay in copays and deductibles - although traditional Medicare does not.
Likewise, many health care providers already make computerized records available to patients, but starting in 2021 Medicare would base part of a hospital's payments on how good a job they do.
ABC13 reached out to local hospitals for their respons to the changes.
Memorial Hermann will begin posting pricing information on its website on Jan. 1. Beyond publicizing pricing data, Memorial Hermann is embracing the opportunity to make the process of complex healthcare billing as transparent, easy-to-navigate and convenient as possible. We will offer additional assistance to patients and consumers to help them better understand their insurance plans, selected benefits and other financial-related information. Our new Financial Resource Center will include price estimates, an explanation of how the hospital billing process works, a Frequently Asked Questions section, and resources on available payment options. In addition, a dedicated Central Pricing Office can provide more detailed pricing estimates, answer specific questions about insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs, and assist those who may qualify for financial assistance. As a System, we are committed to placing patients at the center of all that we do, and that includes ensuring that pricing is transparent and easily accessible for all.
Posting of the charge master isn't the best way for patients to understand their true costs because the charge master doesn't reflect out-of-pocket costs. That's why, in addition to posting our charge master, we created an estimator tool families can use that can help them better predict their out-of-pocket expenses based on their unique insurance/health plans. This tool will be available online as well. We've had the availability to help families estimate this in the past, but it's been through a team they can call. Moving forward, they will have access to this at their fingertips.


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Does nuclear power have a negative learning curve?
Climate Progress 7 april 2011 , 11:43 Algemeen
'Forgetting by doing'?
Real escalation in reactor investment costs
Drawing on largely unknown public records, the paper reveals for the first time both absolute as well as yearly and specific reactor costs and their evolution over time. Its most significant finding is that even this most successful nuclear scale-up was characterized by a substantial escalation of real-term construction costs.
Fig. 13. Average and min/max reactor construction costs per year of completion date for US and France versus cumulative capacity completed
We've known for a while that the cost of new nuclear power plants in this county have been soaring (see Nuclear power: The price is not right and Exclusive analysis: The staggering cost of new nuclear power).
Before 2007, price estimates of $4000/kw for new U.S. nukes were common, but by October 2007 Moody's Investors Service report, "New Nuclear Generation in the United States," concluded, "Moody's believes the all-in cost of a nuclear generating facility could come in at between $5,000 – $6,000/kw." That same month, Florida Power and Light, "a leader in nuclear power generation," presented its detailed cost estimate for new nukes to the Florida Public Service Commission. It concluded that two units totaling 2,200 megawatts would cost from $5,500 to $8,100 per kilowatt — $12 billion to $18 billion total! In 2008, Progress Energy informed state regulators that the twin 1,100-megawatt plants it intended to build in Florida would cost $14 billion, which "triples estimates the utility offered little more than a year ago." That would be more than $6,400 a kilowatt. (And that didn't even count the 200-mile $3 billion transmission system utility needs, which would bring the price up to a staggering $7,700 a kilowatt).
Historical data cost on the French nukes have not been as well publicized. But Arnulf Grubler of the International Institute for Applied Systems in Austria, using "largely unknown public records" was able to perform an analysis of French (and U.S.) nuclear plants for Energy Policy, "The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing" (subs. req'd).
Before discussing that paper, it is worth noting that renewable energy technologies have classic learning curves. Here is solar:
Wind power looks similar.
While Grubler's Energy Policy paper is behind a firewall, his original IIAS interim report, "An assessment of the costs of the French nuclear PWR program, 1979-2000″ is online here.
Grubler explains the reasons for the overall 'success' of the French program, at least in terms of scale:
The ambitious French PWR expansion program is legitimately considered the most successful scaling-up of a complex, largescale technology in the recent history of industrialized countries. This paper has argued that above all, the reasons for this success lay in a unique institutional setting allowing centralized decisionmaking, regulatory stability, dedicated efforts for standardized reactor designs (which could long profit from knowledge spillovers via the Westinghouse license), and a powerful nationalized utility, E´ DF, whose substantial in-house engineering resources enabled it to act as principal and agent of reactor construction simultaneously.
He then explores the implications of the cost escalation, the "negative learning":
Despite a most favorable setting, the French PWR program exhibited substantial real cost escalation…
… despite more moderate cost escalation [than the U.S.], the French experience nonetheless raises a number of fundamental issues worth considering in a climate-constrained world
First, while the nuclear industry is often quick to point at public opposition and regulatory uncertainty as reasons for real cost escalation, it may be more productive to start asking whether these trends are not intrinsic to the very nature of the technology itself: large-scale, lumpy, and requiring a formidable ability to manage complexity in both construction and operation. These intrinsic characteristics of the technology limit essentially all classical mechanisms of cost improvements—standardization, large series, and a large number of quasi-identical experiences that can lead to technological learning and ultimate cost reductions—except one: increases in unit size, i.e., economies of scale. In the history of steam electricity generation, these indeed led initially to substantial cost reductions, but after the late 1960s that option has failed invariably due to continued design changes (leading to higher material requirements per kW – the current EPR design being the most ''heavy'') and also increases in technological complexity.
As Richard Caperton and I wrote for CNN: New reactors are intrinsically expensive because they must be able to withstand virtually any risk that we can imagine, including human error and major disasters. Why? Because when the potential result of a disaster is the poisoning — and ultimately, death — of thousands of people, even the most remote threats must be eliminated.
Lastly, the French nuclear case has also demonstrated the limits of the learning paradigm: the assumption that costs invariably decrease with accumulated technology deployment. The French example serves as a useful reminder of the limits of the generalizability of simplistic learning/experience curve models. Not only do nuclear reactors across all countries with significant programs invariably exhibit negative learning, i.e., cost increase rather than decline, but the pattern is also quite variable, defying approximations by simple learning-curve models, as shown in Fig. 13 [reprinted above].
Why did the costs escalate? Why was there "negative learning." He offers this theory:
… with increasing application ("doing"), the complexity of the technology inevitably increases leading to inherent cost escalation trends that limit or reverse "learning" (cost reduction) possibilities. In other words, technology scale-up can lead to an inevitable increase in systems complexity (in the case of nuclear, full fuel cycle management, load-following operation mode, and increasing safety standards as operation experience [and unanticipated problems] are accumulating) that translates into real-cost escalation, or "negative learning" in the terminology of learning/ experience curve models. The result may be a much wider cost variation across different technologies than so far anticipated.
That seems unlikely to change any time soon given recent events in Japan (see The Nukes of Hazard: Reports of nuclear Renaissance were greatly exaggerated; efficiency is 10 times cheaper today, renewables "costs are dropping fast").
In fact, the cost of new nuclear power plant have continued to escalate in the United States, France, and other countries since 2000:
French nuclear giant "Areva has acknowledged that the cost of a new reactor today would be as much as 6 billion euros, or $8 billion, double the price offered to the Finns." (5/09)
Toshiba tells San Antonio its new twin $13 billion nukes will cost $4 billion more. The city balks. (10/09)
Nuclear Bombshell: $26 Billion cost — $10,800 per kilowatt! — killed Ontario nuclear bid (7/09)
Indeed the Toronto Star — published these stunning details in Canada's largest daily newspaper about Areva's Ontario bid:
AECL's $26 billion bid was based on the construction of two 1,200-megawatt Advanced Candu Reactors, working out to $10,800 per kilowatt of power capacity….
The bid from France's Areva NP also blew past expectations, sources said. Areva's bid came in at $23.6 billion, with two 1,600-megawatt reactors costing $7.8 billion and the rest of the plant costing $15.8 billion. It works out to $7,375 per kilowatt, and was based on a similar cost estimate Areva had submitted for a plant proposed in Maryland….
Stevens said Areva's lower price makes sense because the French company wasn't prepared to take on as much risk as the government had hoped. This made Areva's bid non-compliant in the end. Crown-owned AECL, however, complied with Ontario's risk-sharing requirement but was instructed by the federal government to price this risk into its bid. "Which is why it came out so high," said Stevens.
Hamilton explained on his blog, Areva "was deemed non-compliant, however, likely because Areva wouldn't guarantee the price."
Yes, you can buy a terrific low-cost $8* billion nuke from Areva [* the fine print says that if the cost escalates, you swallow the risk, not Areva — a painful lesson Areva learned in Finland (see "Nuclear meltdown in Finland")].
So the negative learning curve continued with Areva's 2009 bid — $7,375 per kilowatt (your price may vary, upwards, that is). Apparently Areva did learn that it wasn't charging enough for its reactors, which are now nearly off the chart in Gubler's analysis (whose left-hand y-axis goes up to $7500/kw in US$2004):
New nukes have gone from too cheap to meter to too expensive to matter for the foreseeable future.
The ambitious French PWR expansion program is legitimately
considered the most successful scaling-up of a complex, largescale
technology in the recent history of industrialized countries.
This paper has argued that above all, the reasons for this success
lay in a unique institutional setting allowing centralized decisionmaking,
regulatory stability, dedicated efforts for standardized
reactor designs (which could long profit from knowledge spillovers
via the Westinghouse license), and a powerful nationalized
utility, E´ DF, whose substantial in-house engineering resources
enabled it to act as principal and agent of reactor construction
simultaneously.
Dit is een bijdrage van Sargasso gastblog Climate Progress: "A Project of Center for American Progress Action Fund"
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#1 Flies4no1 7 april 2011 , 12:21
Nou, dat is dan opgelost. Kerncentrales draaien gewoon op subsidie.


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Q: Ordinals multiplication Given that $\gamma \leq m$ prove that $n\cdot S(\gamma) \subset n\cdot S(m)$ where $n,m ,\gamma$ are finite ordinal, meaning elements of $\omega$ and that $S$ is the successor function ?
I used induction but it does not help !
Any simpler proof, thanks in advance.

A: If a,b are finite ordinals and a <= b, then na <= nb.
Prove that by induction on n.
By transitivity na $\subseteq$ nb.
Apply that to your problem by proving
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AIKEN, S.C. – As editors and judges from International Business Magazine searched the globe for the world's best managers and leaders, one executive from the DOE complex stood out: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) Chief Information Officer Jeff Krohn, who is being recognized as a Government Hero of the Year in an award program's COVID-19 response category.
Krohn will be honored with a Bronze Stevie Award for his accomplishments at the Savannah River Site (SRS) during the 18th annual International Business Awards celebration in December.
He re-prioritized and rallied for funds, equipment, and other resources required to adequately transition the SRNS workforce during the pandemic, while negotiating licensing terms, lease agreements, and other critical services. SRNS is an EM contractor at SRS.
Krohn also tracked management and user concerns and prioritized them in comprehensive teleworking reports that documented issues and resolutions. During these efforts, he enforced strict security and kept SRS compliant with cybersecurity protocols.
"His steadfast leadership and perseverance resulted in a successful digital transformation of the SRS infrastructure and workforce," said Tonya Tran, SRNS principal systems engineer, who submitted the nomination. "His determination, support, and guidance were integral to the success of this critical endeavor."
The Stevie Awards recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.
From June through early August, more than 260 executives worldwide participated in a judging process to determine award winners.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Chief Information Officer Jeff Krohn is being honored with a Bronze Stevie Award in the COVID-19 response category of the annual International Business Awards program.
Krohn is receiving accolades not only from the executives who judged him to be the top contender, but also from the SRS workforce.
"When COVID-19 began to impact the Savannah River Site, Jeff led IT teams through unprecedented challenges to manage explosive growth in teleworking," said Tonya Tran, SRNS principal systems engineer, who submitted the nomination. "Given the stringent security regulations imposed upon the applications, infrastructure, and employees here at SRS, this was a monumental task that was managed professionally and successfully. He strongly advocated for teleworking to maximize protection for employees while minimizing the impact on SRS missions."
During the judging process, one executive wrote, "Mr. Krohn demonstrated extreme competence in his executive leadership skills," while another wrote, "Mr. Krohn was adaptable towards the safety of the workforce and supported his team to work through changing needs. It was impressive."
A virtual awards ceremony to celebrate the winners and their accomplishments is set for Dec. 8.
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25/01/2017 · Almond flour or almond meal is an essential pantry staple on the ketogenic diet – it goes into everything from keto bread to low-carb pancakes – but it can also be expensive to buy.... I personally prefer organic almond meal to almond flour, due to the meal's high protein and mineral content. Almond flour has a lighter and uniform texture when compared to the almond meal – which makes it ideal to bake muffins or cookies. I usually combine organic coconut flour with organic almond flour to make a rich and gluten-free baking flour.
Almond Flour vs. Almond Meal The main difference between the two is that almond flour is made by grinding blanched almonds (almonds with no skins). It is not good for "yeast" bread as it cannot really be kneaded properly.... I used 2cup 1/2 of almond meal and 1/2cup almond flour and my cookies look just like yours. 375° was too high, almost burn the first batch. .. put the oven at 350° and it was perfect. 375° was too high, almost burn the first batch. ..
Almond Meal Vs. Almond Flour Is There a Difference?
This recipe calls for almond flour which is also known as almond meal. In general, meals are ground to a flour consistency but are coarser than wheat flour which is ground to a fine powder. They can't always be used interchangeably.
I personally prefer organic almond meal to almond flour, due to the meal's high protein and mineral content. Almond flour has a lighter and uniform texture when compared to the almond meal – which makes it ideal to bake muffins or cookies. I usually combine organic coconut flour with organic almond flour to make a rich and gluten-free baking flour.
So to make your own almond meal, you need an oven tray, an oven and at least a blender or a coffee/nut grinder would be even better. In my experience, a coffee/nut grinder will give you best results – you'll end up with a fine powder, which is very close in texture to shop-bought almond meal.
I used 2cup 1/2 of almond meal and 1/2cup almond flour and my cookies look just like yours. 375° was too high, almost burn the first batch. .. put the oven at 350° and it was perfect. 375° was too high, almost burn the first batch. ..


We happen to have watched while, in the course of just a few years, the sign over the barbers in High Street has evolved. The shiny – and difficult to read – sign was the first generation, but it was replaced last summer by a much more legible sign bearing the same name.
However, that didn't last very long, and a much more magical name has appeared…..
It's non-stop change in the High Street. It really is.
What does a barger actually do? (Spell checker strikes again I presume).
The sign makers must be laughing all the way to the bank (that is if they can find one open).


Protective Shooting Concepts provides full spectrum firearms training to law-abiding Americans.
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The 2020 State of the Election Part IV
September 22, 2020 / in US Blog
Media coverage of the presidential town halls and Supreme Court
Two weeks ago, we at Cision assessed the most salient issues of the 2020 election. Of the eight issues we analyzed, Supreme Court nominations received the second least amount of coverage – 1.4% of the total share of voice – despite being ranked the third most important voting issue by Pew Research. Because of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court appointments have propelled to the top of voters' minds.
Before we look at the data, Cision wants to express our deepest condolences to the Bader Ginsburg family. "Justice Ginsburg was a champion of equality and inclusion, a voice for the voiceless, and a role model for millions," says Cision's Chief Marketing Officer, Maggie Lower. "Her brilliant mind, fighting spirit, and compassionate soul are core to Cision's values, and we are saddened by her loss but inspired by her legacy."
In this week's State of the Election, we look at how the death of Justice Ginsburg has reshaped the election narrative. Additionally, we'll review the coverage surrounding both President Trump's and Joe Biden's televised town halls.
Before Friday, September 18th – the Supreme Court was a quiet topic. Our "Supreme Court" search tracks any earned article that mentions any of the nine Supreme Court Justices or that talks about Trump/Biden's potential Supreme Court nominees. In the 30 days between August 18th and September 17th, we tracked just over 15k supreme court mentions. In the three days after Ginsburg's death, nearly 30k stories were published – generating significantly more coverage than any of the top voter issues.
In days and weeks to come, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks to bring President Trump's Supreme Court nomination to a vote, the Supreme Court will prove to be one of the most covered and controversial issues of the election. We will continue to track supreme court coverage and are especially curious to understand how local media in swing states will cover the nomination.
Presidential Town Halls
Last week, both President Trump and Biden answered questions from undecided Pennsylvania voters at town halls hosted by ABC News and CNN. As we've come to expect, Trump's town hall received the lion's share of the attention. Comparing earned media headlines that exclusively mentioned "Trump" or "Biden" showed that Trump-focused stories received more than 2x the coverage and 33.5x more social engagement.
The top key issue takeaways from Trump's coverage were, ranked in order by mentions:
Similarly, Biden's top key issues were:
While it's important to understand the key issues at stake we need more context to understand how these issues are framed. By looking at a number of positive and negative keywords and phrases, a sizable portion of both Trump and Biden's coverage had a negative tone. In fact, three of the four most popular Trump mentions were "failed", "lies" and "misleading". And Biden fared worse. His top four mentions were "softball", "misleading", "lies" and "failed".
Based on the media coverage, we don't believe Trump nor Biden's respective town halls were beneficial to either candidate. The real test will be at the first debate, which is what we'll cover next week.
In addition to analyzing election coverage, we will highlight presidential election focused press releases distributed by Cision PR Newswire from the past week:
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Groundbreaking National Voter Roll Study Reveals Alarming Trends as States Prepare to Vote by Mail
USAGov's Quick Guide to Voting in 2020
Visual Disobedience PAC Analytics Group: Strong Circumstantial Evidence Suggests Trump Manipulating Stock Market
Accern Announces New Artificial Intelligence Dashboard to Gauge the Impact of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
IBM Watson Assistant Can Help States Deliver Critical Voting Information to Citizens
FAU Poll: Trump Gains on Biden in Florida, Making Key Battleground State a Dead Heat
QU-in Positioned to Keep the Over 150 Million Expected Voters and Early Voters Safe During Election 2020
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Help yourself by helping others, with a career as a Medical Assistant!
Of all the professions in the healthcare field, medical assisting is one that is growing higher than the average rate and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. Job opportunities for medical assistants are expected to grow by as much as 29% by 2024**, making it a profession with plenty of future job prospects. City College is helping students make the most of those prospects with the Associate of Science in Medical Assisting Program.
The City College Medical Assisting program provides training in all the fundamental administrative tasks and clinical techniques students need to apply for entry-level medical assisting positions in most healthcare facilities, hospitals or medical practices.
It's not all just in the classroom instruction. The program includes a 160-hour internship in real-life medical clinics and other healthcare facilities. You'll be right there, getting valuable hands-on training that prepares you for the realities of medical assisting in the workplace.
City College serves as a proctor site for NCCT, the National Center for Competency Tests. In that role, we are qualified to receive medical assisting certification for students who pass the National Certified Medical Assistant (NCMA) exam.
IS A CAREER IN medical assisting RIGHT FOR YOU? FIND OUT!
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Q: EditText with a left and right border of given height
How can i make my edit text have a background with that blue border at the bottom, left and right sides where left and right side border has (let say) a height of 2dp ?
I have tried using layelist but all it's hard to get left and right border like the one at the image
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
    <shape >
        <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_blue_bright"/>
       <size android:height="1dp"/>
    </shape>
</item>
<item android:bottom="5dp" android:left="5dp" android:right="5dp">
    <shape>
        <solid android:color="@android:color/black"/>
    </shape>
</item>

This is what i get

A: Hi in most cases to have this type of background developers use 9.png graphics, you can generate background on this site.
http://android-holo-colors.com/

A: I tried and this worked for me.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/holo_blue_bright" />
            <size android:width="5dp" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <!-- main color -->
    <item
        android:bottom="1.5dp"
        android:left="1.5dp"
        android:right="1.5dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/black" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <!-- draw another block to cut-off the left and right bars -->
    <item android:bottom="5.0dp">
        <shape>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/black" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

A: try this way and set as background
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item android:bottom="1dp"
        android:left="1dp"
        android:right="1dp"
        android:top="-2dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <stroke
                android:width="0.5dp"
                android:color="@android:color/black" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</layer-list>

set to your Edittext as background
<EditText
     android:id="@+id/editTextone"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:background="@drawable/edtbg"
    />


The first ever Automotive Supply Chain Global Awards, aimed at recognising and rewarding exceptional achievements by companies and individuals involved in supplying logistics to the automotive industry, proved a resounding success in terms of networking opportunities and industry feedback.
Opening the ceremony at the Steigenberger Frankfurt Hof hotel, Editor and Chairman of the Judges, Sam Ogle said: "We have been overwhelmed by the response to these inaugural awards. The volume of nominations was enormous, which made the job of deciding on the winners difficult. We look forward to succeeding years becoming even more difficult".
The Shipping Company award went to Greece-based Neptune Lines. The company operates a regular liner service to more than 26 key ports in 17 countries within the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Iberia and Morocco Atlantic areas and offers constantly improving maritime services to most of the world's car manufacturers despite the difficult economic conditions prevailing in the region.


Rokkenjima (六軒島?, lit. "Six House Island") is a fictional island on which most of the action in Umineko no Naku Koro ni series takes place. It is small and secluded, lying just off the coast of Japan. Rokkenjima measures roughly 10km around and is covered mostly by forest, save for the mansion grounds as well as the grounds of a smaller, separate mansion. The design of the exterior of the main mansion's guest house is based on a mansion in Kyu-Furukawa Gardens in Kita, Tokyo.
Rokkenjima is owned by and home to the main branch of the extremely wealthy Ushiromiya family. In the past, it was once called Azukishima (小豆島?, lit. "Azuki Bean Island"), mispronunced from Akujikishima (悪食島?, lit. "Evil Appetite Island"), and was said to have dwelled by evil spirits until a travelling monk pacified the island by building a shrine on top of a rock. Kinzo Ushiromiya, the patriarch of the family, lives there with his eldest son Krauss and Krauss' immediate family. Once a year, the other members of the Ushiromiya family travel to Rokkenjima for an annual family meeting. The events of the 1986 meeting, during which everyone on Rokkenjima is killed in a series of bizarre murders, are a central focus of the visual novel series.


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Lanuza is a populated place belonging to the Spanish municipality of Sallent de Gállego, in the province of Huesca, Aragon.

It is a Pyrenean village lying on the left bank of the Gállego river. The inhabitants were forced to leave in 1978 in order to create a water reservoir that was projected to flood the town. Consequently, Lanuza was stripped of its municipality status and the land was incorporated as part of Sallent de Gállego. The projections that the town would be destroyed entirely, however, proved inaccurate, as only some of the buildings ended up underwater. Former residents that had been forced to leave campaigned to return to and rebuild Lanuza in the 1990s, and the town has since been repopulated. The town is visited by tourists year-round, particularly during the summer.

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Former municipalities in Spain
Populated places in the Province of Huesca


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Q: Proof verification: Show that the intersection of two generators is a subgroup of both individual generators. Can someone please verify whether my proof is logically correct? :) Note that it is not assumed that $\left \langle a\right \rangle \cap \left \langle b\right \rangle=\left \{ e \right \}$.

If $a$ and $b$ are generators of a group $G$, then show that $\left \langle a\right \rangle \cap \left \langle b\right \rangle$ is a subgroup of both $\left \langle a\right \rangle$ and $\left \langle b\right \rangle$.

Proof:
Let $\left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle =\left \{ c^{k}:c^{k}\in \left \langle a \right \rangle,\left \langle b \right \rangle \right \}$.
Since $e\in \left \langle a \right \rangle$ and $e\in \left \langle b \right \rangle$, then $e\in \left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle$ by definition.
Let $c^{k},c^{m}\in \left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle$. Then $c^{k},c^{m}\in \left \langle a \right \rangle $ and $c^{k},c^{m}\in \left \langle b \right \rangle $. Then $c^{k}(c^{m})^{-1}=c^{k}c^{-m}=c^{k-m}\in \left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle$, since $c^{k}(c^{m})^{-1}=c^{k}c^{-m}=c^{k-m}\in \left \langle a \right \rangle, \left \langle b \right \rangle$. Therefore, $\left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle \leq \left \langle a \right \rangle$ and $\left \langle a \right \rangle \cap \left \langle b \right \rangle \leq \left \langle b \right \rangle$. $\square$

A: If $H$ and $K$ are subgroups of $G$, then $H \cap K$ is a subgroup of both $H$ and $K$. The fact that $H$ and $K$ are generated by a single element is irrelevant.


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The Seatronics Super Speed-Up
Seatronics advertisement from the March 1986 issue of 80 Micro
The Seatronics Super Speed-Up was the fastest commercially available speed-up board for the TRS‑80 Model 4. It could double the Model 4 speed to 8 MHz, without requiring any performance sapping memory wait states. The Super Speed-Up was sold by Seatronics, a company based in Maastricht, Holland, for $129.00. (A review in 80 Micro identified Sylvester Technologies of Cypress, Texas as the United States distributor, but that appears to have been a mistake.)
The Super Speed-Up was also available for the TRS‑80 Model I and Model III, but the Model 4 version was the most common.
Installation of the Seatronics Super Speed-Up was more involved than other Model 4 speed-up boards. The first step of the installation was simple, consisting of removing the Z80 and plugging the Super Speed-Up board in its place. But subsequent steps involved cutting pins, moving wires, straightening a pin, running a wire, and possibly soldering a resistor. David Dalager in Computer News 80 described the installation as "not for the average computer user."
Once installed, the speed could be set (either through software or hardware) to 2 MHz, 4 MHz, 6 MHz, or 8 MHz.
The 8 MHz speed of the Super Speed-Up made it the fastest of the Model 4 speed-up boards. Most other commercial Model 4 speed-up options topped out at 6 MHz. (The one exception was the H.I. Tech, Inc. XLR8er. The XLR8er replaced the Model 4's Z80 processor with the more advanced Hitachi HD64180. Even though the HD64180 ran at 6.144 MHz, its more advanced design meant that that speed was considered equivalent to an 8 MHz Z80.)
Seatronics hinted that the Super Speed-Up was capable of even faster speeds, mentioning in one advertisement that it had been tested at 9.25 MHz during development. I know that some people modified their Super Speed-Up boards to work at 12MHz. One person supposedly increased the speed of his to a staggering 16 MHz!
The Super Speed-Up Board was commonly paired with another Seatronics product, the Megabyte Memory Board. The Megabyte Memory Board was a Model 4 memory expansion that was available in 512K and 1 MB sizes.
Seatronics advertised the Super Speed-Up Board through 1986 and 1987, but it was no longer available by 1989.
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This paper describes the model of social practice as a theoretical framework to manage conversation with the specific goal of training physicians in communicative skills. To this aim, the domain reasoner that manages the conversation in the Communicate!  serious game is taken as a basis. Because the choice of a specific Social Practice to follow in a situation is non-trivial we use a probabilistic model for the selection of social practices as a step toward the implementation of an agent architecture compliant with the social practice model.
We are grateful to Prof. J. Jeuring, for his useful explanation of the Communicate! project and for providing us the scenarios of the game.


In this page I will share with you the food & wine paradise of Buenos Aires and Argentina. Many of the delitious things we are going to talk about here will be available in my food private tour in Buenos Aires, but also in any of my private tours I take special care in share with you the rich gastronomy of this unique city. And always there is a very good Argentinean wine to enjoy!
The Confiteria Las Violetas become awarded as best Remarkable Café of the Year after a votation where it beat other remarkable Cafes like Tortoni or Cafe de Los Angelitos.
A Remarkable Café (Café Notable) is an award given by Buenos Aires city according to its History, Architecture, Antiqueness or Relevance to the cultural flavor. Las Violetas is very traditional and well known for its stein glasses as also for its big tea plates. I use to join my Customers in my private tours in Buenos Aires, in facts the waiter in the picture is a fellow of mine, his name is Luciano and like his name He looks so Italian!
And the Winner of the Japan Wine Challenge 2016 is...Argentinean!
Yes an Argentinean Malbec Wine won the award for the best non-European wine, beating heavy players from all over the world.
The winner is a boutique wine from the Pedernal Valley, an unkown -even for us- area of San Juan province, in the west side of Argentina. The valley is at an altitude of 4600 feet (1400 meters), why a dry and stony soil, with lots of silica (Pedernal jeans flint). It is not easy to access there, just across a narrow canyon between the Andes mountains and the Pedernal peak. Anyway that soil can hold water and the water is running under the surface all around the valley. There is also a wide temperature range, so all this elements, -soil, water, weather- brings the perfect combo for a wine like this; Intense and endowed with a great freshness and an different aromatic and flavor profile.
The award will be given in November 14th at the International Wine Expo of Tokio from the hands of His Imperial Highness Princess Takamado. Wow! I want to try it right now! I hope we can find this wine in any of my private food tours across Buenos Aires!


report, due later in the morning.
since a 1.1 percent decline last December.
the bank, that's for sure."
Tuesday's close of C$1.1228, or 89.06 U.S. cents.
stance, which again, is very unlikely," Reitzes said.
falling 8 Canadian cents to yield 1.975 percent.


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using System;

namespace PlayOnline.Core.Audio {

  internal class ADPCMCodec {

    private int   Channels;
    private int   BlockSize;
    private int[] DecoderState;

    public ADPCMCodec(int Channels, int BlockSize) {
      this.Reset(Channels, BlockSize);
    }

    public void Reset(int Channels, int BlockSize) {
      if (Channels <= 0 || Channels > 6)
        throw new ArgumentException(I18N.GetText("ADPCMBadChannelCount"), "Channels");
      this.Channels = Channels;
      this.BlockSize = BlockSize;
      this.DecoderState = new int[2 * Channels];
    }

    static readonly int[] Filter0 = new int[] { 0x0000, 0x00F0,  0x01CC,  0x0188,  0x01E8 };
    static readonly int[] Filter1 = new int[] { 0x0000, 0x0000, -0x00D0, -0x00DC, -0x00F0 };

    private int Round(int Value) {
      if (Value > 0x7FFF)
        return 0x7FFF;
      if (Value < -0x8000)
        return -0x8000;
      return Value;
    }

    public void DecodeSampleBlock(byte[] In, byte[] Out) {
      if (In.Length < ((1 + this.BlockSize / 2) * this.Channels))
        throw new ArgumentException(String.Format(I18N.GetText("ADPCMInputTooSmall"), 1 + this.BlockSize / 2), "In");
      if (Out.Length < (this.BlockSize * this.Channels * 2))
        throw new ArgumentException(String.Format(I18N.GetText("ADPCMOutputTooSmall"), 2 * this.BlockSize), "Out");
      for (int Channel = 0; Channel < this.Channels; ++Channel) {
      int BaseIndex = Channel * (1 + this.BlockSize / 2);
      int Scale     = (0x0C - (In[BaseIndex + 0] & 0x0F));
      int Index     = (In[BaseIndex + 0] >> 4);
        if (Index < 5) {
          for (byte Sample = 0; Sample < (this.BlockSize / 2); ++Sample) {
          byte SampleByte = In[BaseIndex + Sample + 1];
            for (byte Nibble = 0; Nibble < 2; ++Nibble) {
            int Value = ((SampleByte >> (4 * Nibble)) & 0x0F);
              if (Value >= 8)
                Value -= 16;
            int TempValue = (Value << Scale);
              TempValue += ((this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 0] * ADPCMCodec.Filter0[Index] + this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 1] * ADPCMCodec.Filter1[Index]) / 256);
              this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 1] = this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 0];
              this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 0] = this.Round(TempValue);
              Out[((2 * Sample + Nibble) * this.Channels + Channel) * 2 + 0] = (byte) ((this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 0] >> 0) & 0xff);
              Out[((2 * Sample + Nibble) * this.Channels + Channel) * 2 + 1] = (byte) ((this.DecoderState[Channel * 2 + 0] >> 8) & 0xff);
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

    public void EncodeSampleBlock(byte[] In, byte[] Out) {
      throw new NotImplementedException(I18N.GetText("ADPCMEncodingNotSupported"));
    }

  }

}

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Welcome to my village in the South of Romania.
My Grandparents' house is the last one over there, right where civilization ends and the forest begins.
Here, people from family come and go. The only constant is my Grandmother. She rarely leaves the house, not to mention the village. Last time she went to the city was almost a year ago; that day she learnt how the checkout treadmill works.
My Grandfather passed away six years ago. He taught me Maths and how to draw cats and baby chicken. Sometimes when I enter his room or walk outside the garden where the old nut tree used to be I can feel his presence. I see him in every old man with deep blue eyes, the color of a cloudless sky.
Grandma's house smells like chamomile and ointment. In the countryside, everything has its own personality – from the rust on the roof and the wire we dry our clothes on, to the special way my grandmother places a table cloth upon the table cloth that was already on the table. She likes to come up with new solutions for things. Like last Easter, for example, when she dried the freshly-painted red eggs on that old pair of trousers I used to wear as a kid.
When fruits refuse to grow in our garden, oranges will always be an option. Those tangerine moons are symbols for Christmas – every single child expects a sack of oranges under the tree – but we now eat them anytime of the year.
My 7-year-old cousin used to be afraid of that old, dusty feathered pheasant. Ever since he gave it a name he isn't anymore. Johnny is now less dusty and, of course, happier than before.
My uncle works in the nearest town, but he comes home in the village at least five times a week. He always asks me for a Facebook picture, even though he doesn't have an account. On the other hand, Grandma won't let me photograph her unless her hair is thoroughly combed.
Our neighbors are very quiet and mysterious. Some of them are too old to remember, and others too young to forget. Many of them are distant relatives, but I don't know them by name; I know them through short interactions which marked me – visually or emotionally – like that time when our neighbor introduced us to a pigeon he had promised to take care of.
This is my home, the one I grew in. And it's made of eggs, pots and oranges, and fractions of life yet to be lived.