Having a small bathroom usually needs to be filled with something small. a narrow bathtub can be one of the items that should be included in the list in order to save the space in your small bathroom. having a narrow bathtub seems uninteresting since it means the space you have for soaking is limited. However, there are some ideas that you can apply to make your small bathtub looks attractive. So, having a small bathtub doesn't mean you will have limited decorating ideas since there are many things you can do.
You can add a sense of elongation of your narrow bathtub by installing a linear wall sconce to make the space as if elongated. So, this is a great idea for making your small bathroom looks bigger visually without having to make it cramped. Installing large marble floor in your bathtub area is also useful to make the space larger. Most people think that decorating a small bathroom means that you have to put everything small, but for small bathrooms, installing large tile works well to create a sense of space in your small bathroom. if the bathroom combined with shower area, you can place the bathtub against the wall of the shower and make these two areas in the same color to make an integration so that your bathtub area looks larger visually. In order to maximally use the space of your small bathroom, you can place a towel rack at the end of the narrow bathtub to help you get an accessible way to take your towel. Completing your narrow bathtub with a hand held shower is a nice idea so that you can do soaking and showering at the same time.
From some ideas above, you can decide the most effective idea to decorate your narrow bathtub so that your small bathroom will look bigger visually.


Hello! I'm Kelly-Ann McDonald - owner, designer, packager and chief bow-tier at Rude Design!
I'm one of those lucky people who are fortunate enough to have a "hobbyjob" - I do what I love to earn a living ... I spend my days creating beautiful stationery on my most treasured possession – my Mac!
Rude Design was established in 2008 as nothing more than a few bitsy freelance jobs for myself in the corporate space. The focus of the business changed six years ago when I got married because I realised I wasn't only head over heels about my husband, but also about weddings!. I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being part of someone else's special day.
I have often been asked about how my business acquired such a risqué name, given that I am operating in such a romantic industry. Well, my maiden name is Rood (Dutch meaning 'Red', but pronounced Rude!) and I wanted my business to have a personal touch through a quirky play on words. So, Rude it became (but I'm super nice, I promise!).
My biggest loves in life are my husband, Benjamin, my beautiful son, Jack, my family and my ever-growing Le Creuset collection. I'm a hygiene freak, a detail fanatic and have never (or would never) stand up 'Benny and the Jets' on the dance floor!
I've been very lucky to have been featured in some of the biggest wedding magazines & blogs over the past few years!


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C.F. Rothe, Vienna
The history of the Order reaches back to 1514, but it was largely inactive until Grand Duke Ferdinand III renewed the Order Statutes in 1807, prior to his reinstatement as sovereign of Tuscany in 1814.
It was originally conferred for meritorious service to the Duke and State within military, civil, and spiritual pursuits, and membership was restricted to practitioners of the Roman Catholic faith.
The Order was amended on March 18, 1817, by Grand Duke Ferdinand III, after his return to Tuscany. From 1817 onward, the Order was awarded to Catholic and non-Catholic foreigners and Tuscan citizens for valourous and brave service, in wartime and peacetime, that demonstrated loyalty to the Grand Duke and personal integrity.
Each grade was returned to the State following the death of the recipient.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany was always the Grand Master of the Order, and he and the Prince were the sole Order members allowed to add brilliants to their awards.
This Order was suppressed in 1859 when Tuscany was annexed into the Kingdom of Sardinia.
It is also known as the Order of Merit of St. Joseph.
The obverse inscription roughly translates to "Everywhere the same", and the reverse inscription features the initials of the Order's founder and its year of renewal.
Recipients of the Commander were bestowed with hereditary nobility.
The grade of Commander was limited to 30 members, excluding foreign recipients.
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Clair Delaney
Darkest Fears Trilogy
Author: Clair Delaney
Series: Darkest Fears Trilogy
Fallen For Him (Book One)
Life has seldom been kind to Coral Stevens. Yet after years of hard work, therapy and friends, she is standing on her own two feet, somewhat comfortable and in control of her own destiny...Or so she thinks. When her boss and good friend of fifteen years chooses to sell the company, it sets Coral's small world spinning, shattering her carefully constructed routine - and places her in the sights of business mogul Tristan Freeman, a man too handsome for his own good...And her new boss. But with the ghosts of the past still haunting her, can Coral finally exorcise these demons, face her darkest fears and allow the irresistible Tristan into her heart?
Freed By Him (Book Two)
When the past felt too big to bear, Coral Stevens walked away from the burgeoning love between her and Tristan Freeman, handsome mogul - and her new boss. Heartbroken, yet resolute, she feels she has made the right choice...too bad Tristan doesn't. Trusting him may be the hardest thing that Coral has ever done, yet the love that has grown between them cannot be denied - nor can the flammable passion that explodes whenever they touch. Then just when Coral thinks that things can't get any better, danger weaves its way around them...With her happiness and their very lives on the line, how far can she go to protect the one she loves?
Forever With Him (Book Three)
Coral Stevens had no idea that meeting Tristan Freeman would lead her to challenge every aspect of her life - Including her own mortality. As she begins to recover from her ordeal, she must learn to let go of her need to control, and allow Tristan to take care of her, for he is the one that managed to break down her walls, whilst patiently wearing down the barriers she threw between them - until Coral's heart was firmly caught in his grasp. Now together they must prove to each other, no matter how hard it gets, that they have become intrinsically woven into the web of each other's lives - Forever. Or will fate take over again and play a hand neither one of them can see?
Fallen For Him
Series: Darkest Fears Trilogy, Book 1
Life has seldom been kind to Coral Stevens. Yet after years of hard work, therapy and friends - she is standing on her own two feet, somewhat comfortable and in control of her own destiny...Or so she thinks. When her boss and good friend of fifteen years chooses to sell the company, it sets Coral's small world spinning, shattering her carefully constructed routine - and places her in the sights of business mogul Tristan Freeman, a man too handsome for his own good...And her new boss.
Sparks fly and fate whispers when they meet, sending them both reeling with the intensity of their reactions. Tristan follows his heart and pursues her, but Coral doesn't trust anything - especially her own heart. How can she let him in after everything that has happened? Her life is her own, yet it's on shaky ground, easily jarred by fear, love and the never ending pull of destiny.
Fate, it seems will help Tristan along the way and put him in Coral's path when she least expects it, and when she needs him more than she knows. But with the ghosts of her past still haunting her, can Coral finally exorcise these demons, face her darkest fears and allow the irresistible Tristan into her heart?
Freed By Him
When the past felt too big to bear, Coral Stevens walked away from the burgeoning love between her and Tristan Freeman, handsome mogul - and her new boss. Heartbroken, yet resolute, she feels she has made the right choice...too bad Tristan doesn't.
Their confrontation forces Coral to re-evaluate her choice, and gives her the chance to follow her heart. Trusting him maybe the hardest thing that Coral has ever done, yet the love that has grown between them cannot be denied - nor can the flammable passion that explodes whenever they touch. Slowly but surely, Coral opens her heart to this enigmatic man, revealing her soul, her pain...and eventually her past, even though she fears it will drive him away. Instead, Tristan proves to her that she is worth it, regardless of her revelations - and shows her what a real loving relationship can be like.
Then just when Coral thinks that things can't get any better, danger weaves its way around them, finding the vulnerable crevices of desperation, desire and obsession. Tristan, loving and trusting man that he is, can't see the evil lurking - but Coral can. She has known malice before and she feels it now.
With her happiness and their very lives on the line, how far can she go to protect the one she loves?
Forever With Him
When Coral Stevens first met Tristan Freeman, sparks flew and fear exploded, causing her tentatively safe world to brew with defensiveness and mistrust. Tristan, for his part, somehow worked his magic and managed to break down Coral's walls, wearing down the barriers she threw between them - until Coral's heart was firmly caught in his grasp.
But Coral had no idea that meeting him would lead her to challenge every aspect of her life - Including her own mortality. Now, as she begins to recover from her ordeal,s he must learn to let go of her need to control, and allow Tristan to take care of her, for he has become her best friend, her passionate lover, her bright light in the darkness, and maybe with his help, she can finally lay the ghosts of her past to rest.
Now they must prove to each other, no matter how hard it gets, they have become intrinsically woven into the web of each other's lives - Forever.
Or will fate take over again, and play a hand neither one of them can see?
A Christmas Wish
Series: Darkest Fears Christmas Special, Book 4
Coral and Tristan have faced many challenges in the short time they have known each other and have come out stronger than ever. They managed to find love against odds so steep, it would scare those of lesser hearts, yet they have held strong through trauma, the past, death and violence. Now settled in their Brighton home together, they face their final challenge - Christmas.
It's the one time of year full of heart warming reunions with family and friends, when love is in the air and people are full of festive cheer. Christmas carols are played in stores, Christmas lights decorate the shops and towns and the countdown to Christmas has begun.
So with Christmas fast approaching, Coral and Tristan must decide what to do for their very first Christmas together. However Coral has a Christmas wish, and she is determined to make it come true. But as events unfold, Coral comes to realise that sometimes, the one thing you think you really want, isn't always what you truly need...
A feel good Contemporary Romantic Christmas Novella that will warm your heart.
Part of the Darkest Fears Trilogy, this Christmas Novella continues from the end of the third book in the series, Forever With Him and contains spoilers. It is advised to read all three books consecutively and then the Christmas Novella.
© 2017, Clair Delaney. All rights reserved. All information submitted private. Some affiliate links in use.
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120 kilometres from the port of Genoa. This particular geographical position favours the despatch of goods towards all European Countries.
The vicinity to the port of Genoa represents a natural gateway onto the whole of the Mediterranean basin as well as all intercontinental markets.


The use of regenerative energy in many primary forms leads to the necessity to store grid dimensions for maintaining continuous supply and enabling the replacement of fossil fuel systems. Chemical energy storage is one of the possibilities besides mechano-thermal and biological systems.
This work starts with the more general aspects of chemical energy storage in the context of the geosphere and evolves to dealing with aspects of electrochemistry, catalysis, synthesis of catalysts, functional analysis of catalytic processes and with the interface between electrochemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.
Top-notch experts provide a sound, practical, hands-on insight into the present status of energy conversion aimed primarily at the young emerging research front.
Explains aspects of chemical energy storage in the context of the sensitivity of the geosphere to modifications in the carbon (and other element) cycle (e.g., greenhouse effect).
Gives a good practice-oriented review of what is feasible at industrial level – potential and risk.
Professor Dr. Robert Schlögl is the Director of the Deparment of Inorganic Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. He is a Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.


I recently noticed that I was paying a monthly maintenance fee for one of my bank accounts. A monthly maintenance fee? What happened to the days when banks threw free checking accounts at everyone?
So of course, I marched to Bank of America. As soon as I walked in, the very friendly manager, greeter, whatever he was, asked me how he could help me.
"I'd like to talk about my checking account," I said.
He led me to an office. Inside, a very polite woman also asked how she could help. She had a huge smile on her face. Perhaps she thought I was going to ask for a mortgage? Or that I wanted to put my money in a CD? When I asked why I was paying a monthly fee, her demeanor changed. She no longer seemed happy to see me.
Welcome to the world of bank fees. For years, consumers have been lulled into thinking that free checking accounts are an automatic right. But recent legislation and new Federal Reserve regulations that protect consumers from some of the most egregious bank practices have led many of those same banks to search for new sources of revenue. Charging fees—and not just maintenance fees, but ATM fees, foreign transaction fees and even underuse fees—are easy sources of revenue.
The loss of overdraft fee income was perhaps the biggest blow to banks. How those fees worked: If you didn't have enough money in your bank account to cover a debit card purchase or ATM withdrawal, the bank would let the transaction go through anyway. You'd avoid the embarrassment of having your card declined, but you would also have to pay a hefty fee, sometimes as much as $45, even if you overdrew your account by just a couple of dollars.
Banks are no longer allowed to allow such overdrafts unless the consumer takes steps to opt in: a requirement that will deprive banks of millions of dollars of revenue they had grown to cherish.
"The availability of free checking at big banks may diminish with new overdraft rules going into effect," says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com.
You don't always have to go with a large bank. Consider credit unions and community banks, many of which don't charge as many fees.
"Things like monthly service charges and balance requirements continue to rise particularly for interest bearing checking accounts, but many smaller community banks and credit unions have long offered a free checking account as part of their lineups," McBride said.
Choose the right bank for you.
There are so many banking options out there, from traditional banks to credit unions, to online banks. Other than fees, what else do you need to consider before you choose?
Over the years, the lines have blurred among the different types of financial institutions, but some differences remain. Banks typically provided the widest variety of services, while thrifts specialize in real estate lending. One big difference with credit unions is that there is a cap on credit card interest rates that banks do not have to abide by with the cards they issue.
Now, more on avoiding those pesky fees.
* Be vigilant. Understand the terms and conditions of you contract with that financial institution. Make sure you don't go below the minimum balance if there is one required to avoid maintenance fees.
* Try to withdraw money only from ATM's affiliated with your bank, otherwise you will be hit with a fee as high as $3.
* When you travel, beware of foreign transaction fees, in addition to currency conversion fees. Make sure you know what you will be charged.
* If there's a fee you don't agree with, talk to your bank. If you've been banking with them for a while, they'll be more willing to hear you out.
The conclusion to my story is this: I had opened my account with Bank of America when I had a mortgage. There was no maintenance fee because of that mortgage. But now that I no longer had that mortgage, I had to maintain $5,000 at all times to avoid that fee. I have my money spread out over two accounts with two different banks. So there were times when my Bank of America account dipped below $5,000.
I asked for a different type of checking account that would not incur a fee. The woman obliged.
The bottom line is, if there's ever a fee you don't think you should pay, argue against it. You have nothing to lose. Hopefully, in this day and age, you should be able to bargain with anyone — even your bank.
Nancy Trejos is the personal finance columnist at the Washington Post and the author of Hot (broke) Messes, a personal-finance book for young adults. This week, Mint.com is giving away another five copies of Hot (broke) Messes. For participation instructions, click here.


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NQF to Release Updated Safe Practices Implementation Guide
CONTACT: Stacy Fiedler, NQF
Manual Outlines 34 NQF Endorsed Practices for Safe Healthcare
Washington, DC – To improve the quality and safety of healthcare in the United States, the National Quality Forum (NQF) is releasing its updated manual Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. The 34 Safe Practices outlined in the manual are tools to prevent healthcare errors and address common issues like healthcare-associated infections, medication errors, surgical errors, and pressure ulcers. The Safe Practices for Better Healthcare manual also includes strategies for implementing the Practices and a guide for involving patients and families in safe care.
"Healthcare in America is not as safe as it should be. Precious lives and dollars are wasted every day on unsafe care," said Janet Corrigan, NQF president and CEO. "The Safe Practices manual is an excellent resource for large and small healthcare systems. It offers both evidence-based tools and implementation strategies for reducing errors and creating a safer healthcare system."
Nearly 15 million instances of medical harm occur each year. The costs associated with medical harm have been estimated to cost between $17 billion and $29 billion per year in healthcare expenses, lost worker productivity, lost income, and disability.
To guide healthcare systems in providing safe care, NQF maintains a set of Safe Practices that are ready-to-use tools to improve safety. The Practices have been evaluated, assessed, and endorsed to guide healthcare systems in providing the safest care possible. The 34 endorsed practices and the implementation manual have been updated to reflect new evidence and remain important tools to guide safe healthcare across providers and settings.
Actor Dennis Quaid, whose newborn twins nearly died after they were given an overdose of heparin, will announce the updated manual as part of a presentation on patient safety April 12 at the National Press Club.
Safe Practices are part of NQF's safety portfolio, which includes safety measures, educational webinars on implementing Safe Practices, and Serious Reportable Events. NQF is also in the process of updating the list of Serious Reportable events, and endorsing additional patient safety measures and a framework for reporting safety events.
The mission of the National Quality Forum is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs. NQF, a nonprofit organization (qualityforum.org) with diverse stakeholders across the public and private health sectors, was established in 1999 and is based in Washington, DC.


I did most part of my studies at Universite Paris XI Orsay, near Paris, until the first year of master. At that time, I was essentially interested in theoretical physics. I then took a year off the standard academic education to prepare for the examination to become a high school teacher, during which my interest for experimental physics started to grow, and subsequently completed my studies by doing the second year of master in Lyon, at the Ecole Normale Superieure. I graduated in 2011, and got the PhD position at Aarhus University where I started in May 2012 on a project involving trapped calcium ions in an optical cavity.
The main part of my project consists in implementing a quantum memory for light using trapped ions in an optical cavity. The ions are held in a linear Paul trap using a suitable combination of rf and static electric fields, and its rather large dimensions allow for trapping large ensembles of up to 100,000 ions. Once trapped, the ions are laser-cooled and the competition between the Coulomb force the ions exert on each other and the trapping potentials lead to the establishment of a long-range ordered state – in other words, a crystalline structure. Such structures are termed ion Coulomb crystal.
These crystals possess very interesting properties which make them ideal candidates to investigate the quantum storage of light: due to their charge, ions can be easily trapped, and held in trap for hours. They also have good coherence properties, and their internal levels are barely affected by the presence of other ions. Last but not least, entering the strong coupling regime by placing them inside an optical cavity should increase the efficiency of this light-matter interface.


iMagicSoft Support :: iMagic Restaurant Reservation - Need some advice, help regarding the program, maybe a fix?
Need some advice, help regarding the program, maybe a fix?
You can change the status of each booking by pressing the status buttons at the bottom of the View Reservations screen. So for example if you select a reservation and click the "Departed" button it will change the status. As such the wait staff know when to clear the table etc.
Ok say you have 40 people come in between 7-30pm and 8pm, there should be a colour code and message to say that they have received menus, then have a different colour code and message to say that they have ordered.
Ok thanks for the suggestions. I'll see if we can add them in for you.


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Wordle is inevitably snapped up – will it remain free to play?
The New York Times opens its wallet
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It seems the internet can't shut up about game-of-the-moment Wordle. Whether it's green and yellow squares taking over your Twitter timeline, or headlines about clones charging $30 per month for a knock off game, Wordle has been on everyone's lips.
Wordle's back in the headlines once again, as The New York Times has purchased the online brain-teaser. You'll also find it on our list of the best browser games to kill your productivity.
For anyone that has managed to avoid the online Wordle hype, Wordle is a five-letter word guessing game with only one puzzle a day. When making guesses, the game tells you if you've got the right letter in the wrong place and the right letter in the right place.
Yesterday, the New York Times announced that it had bought the game from engineer Josh Wardle for a price in the "low seven figures". So on the lower end of anywhere between $1 million and $10 million.
With the acquisition of Wordle, the NYT has claimed that the game would "initially" remain free to both new and existing players. Though, the reason behind purchasing the game was to boost the NYT's digital subscriptions. The news publication has essentially put a countdown timer on charging for Wordle, either as part of the NYT Games subscription or behind a paywall. After all, the NYT's own article announcing the acquisition is behind a paywall.
In its statement, the company said "At the time it moves to The New York Times, Wordle will be free to play for new and existing players, and no changes will be made to its gameplay." Note the use of "at the time" there.
The NYT also put out some interesting numbers about the brain-teaser. Wordle had only 90 users on November 1, and now millions of people play the game daily.
Perhaps it isn't bad news for Wordle fans. There may finally be a mobile app to download like everyone's been after, and the game is definitely not going anywhere. But whether you'll have to open your wallet to play the game at some point in future remains to be seen.
What's new on Netflix UK for January 2023?
Our pick of the fresh TV shows and movies on the nation's favourite streaming service, updated for January 2023
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The 41 best things to watch on Netflix UK
The very finest films and TV shows the streaming service has to offer. Updated for January 2023
The 33 best Netflix Originals TV shows and films
Some of Netflix's finest fare is homegrown – here's what you should be streaming. Updated for January 2023


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Why the Cinderella Trope Doesn't Work in Modern Settings
After I shared my post about Hallmark princesses, I went ahead and watched every Hallmark movie I could find that involved royalty. Let me tell you; there are a lot. Sitting through one low-budget romcom after another, I found that the overwhelming majority of them have the exact same plot. A quirky American career woman falls in love with a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a prince from some obscure nation. She goes to live with him at the castle, finds that she doesn't fit in, runs away, and eventually, the prince comes back to her and proposes. At first glance, these movies appear to be attempts at modernized versions of "Cinderella," but upon closer inspection, they are vastly different. The protagonists in these romcoms are not being oppressed by abusive family members, nor are they living in a time period where the only way for a woman to get ahead in the world is by marriage. In fact, most of these women are doing just fine long before the dashing love interest even shows up. This faux "modern Cinderella" trope began around 2004 with the theatrical release of The Prince and Me.
Princess culture dictates to us that every girl can be a modern princess as long as she embraces the values of compassion and diplomacy and works hard to be her best self every day. We live in a world where most people have the freedom to do as they please without fear of persecution from a tyrannical monarchy. Being a modern princess has nothing to do with marrying a prince. In fact, these days, such a lifestyle could be more constricting than freeing. Just look at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who chose to step down from the royal family due to its restrictive lifestyle. Finding true love is a classic theme of fairy tales, but princesses often feel tied down in this respect rather than uplifted. For instance, Princess Jasmine felt torn between her love for Aladdin and her duty to marry a prince. Princess Aurora was devastated when she learned she would have to marry Prince Phillip until she realized he was the same man she danced with in the forest. The 1934 movie Thirty-Day Princess heavily asserts this theme when the main character switches places with a princess for a month and realizes that being a princess means she can't marry the man she loves.
Referring to modern-day "Cinderella" stories as fairy tales denotes a lack of understanding for what makes the groundwork of a fairy tale. Fairy tale usually begin with characters who are sad because there is something missing from their life and are either rewarded or punished based on their subsequent behavior toward others and faith in their beliefs. The same year that The Prince and Me was released, Hilary Duff's A Cinderella Story came out in theaters. As bland and uninspired as this movie was, it actually conveyed a better understanding of the "Cinderella" trope than all these movies about marrying a prince. Hilary's character had an awful family that made her high school life miserable until the popular boy at her school fell in love with her, forcing those around her to give her more respect. He wasn't the prince of a foreign nation, but he was the equivalent to that just as her high school was a metaphor for a tiny kingdom. The women in Hallmark Channel's movies usually come from loving families and lead budding careers. It would in no way benefit them to upend their lives and learn a new set of customs from another country.
Where do all of these obscure monarchies come from anyway? How many tiny European countries are there with princes who aren't already in arranged marriages and need to find a bride immediately? The trope is so outlandish that it barely makes sense most of the time. Even though cinematic romcoms are becoming outdated, it makes more sense to tell a "boy meets girl" story where both love interests were brought up in the same culture and neither one requires the other to give up everything they've ever known and worked for. Is it about the fantasy of living in a castle? There are some movies where this trope works better than others, such as The Princess Diaries. Mia never knew her father and ended up being heir to the throne of Genovia by birthright, which meant that it was her duty to give up her modern American life, not her choice. This is a more believable story about an unexpected shift from being a modern woman to a royal. Plus, she was bullied in school, so her life prior to becoming a princess wasn't that great. Her story contained romance as well, but sequel aside (which also come out in 2004, the same year as The Prince and Me and A Cinderella Story), it wasn't because he was a prince.
What Hallmark Channel doesn't seem to realize is that marrying a literal prince isn't a fantasy for modern women anymore, even those who see themselves as modern-day princesses. In fact, it is especially true for women who already have enough privilege to make a difference in the world without being tied down by a throne. Every princess wants the freedom to marry the man she loves, whether he is royalty or not. Being a modern princess does not mean living in a castle or owning a diamond tiara. It means using your freedom and power to make the world a better place and uplifting the lives of those around you by being charming and pleasant. In Cinderella's time, the only way to gain such power and status was by marrying into it, but today, that is far from the case. Today, every girl has the power to be a modern princess through technology and opportunity.
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DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1062786
Communication of the Position of Exon-Exon Junctions to the mRNA Surveillance Machinery by the Protein RNPS1
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title={Communication of the Position of Exon-Exon Junctions to the mRNA Surveillance Machinery by the Protein RNPS1},
author={Jens Lykke-Andersen and M D Shu and Joan A. Steitz},
J. Lykke-Andersen, M. Shu, J. Steitz
In mammalian cells, splice junctions play a dual role in mRNA quality control: They mediate selective nuclear export of mature mRNA and they serve as a mark for mRNA surveillance, which subjects aberrant mRNAs with premature termination codons to nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). Here, we demonstrate that the protein RNPS1, a component of the postsplicing complex that is deposited 5′ to exon-exon junctions, interacts with the evolutionarily conserved human Upf complex, a central component of NMD…
labs.biology.ucsd.edu
The nonsense-mediated decay RNA surveillance pathway.
Yao-Fu Chang, J. S. Imam, M. Wilkinson
Annual review of biochemistry
Whether these proofreading events preferentially occur during a "pioneer" round of translation in higher and lower eukaryotes, their cellular location, and whether they can use alternative EJC factors or act independent of the EJC are discussed.
Splicing of U12-type introns deposits an exon junction complex competent to induce nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
T. Hirose, M. Shu, J. Steitz
In vitro splicing of a U12-type intron assembles an exon junction complex (EJC) that is comparably positioned and contains many of the same components as that deposited by the U2-type spliceosome.
New insights into the formation of active nonsense-mediated decay complexes.
Guramrit Singh, J. Lykke-Andersen
Trends in biochemical sciences
Splicing enhances translation in mammalian cells: an additional function of the exon junction complex.
Ajit Nott, H. Le Hir, M. Moore
In mammalian cells, increased translational yield correlates with enhanced cytoplasmic polysome association of spliced mRNAs, and is attributable to deposition of exon junction complexes (EJCs).
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Execution of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: what defines a substrate?
I. Rebbapragada, J. Lykke-Andersen
Current opinion in cell biology
5' exon interactions within the human spliceosome establish a framework for exon junction complex structure and assembly.
V. Reichert, H. Le Hir, M. Jurica, M. Moore
A general consequence of pre-mRNA splicing is the stable deposition of several proteins 20-24 nucleotides (nt) upstream of exon-exon junctions on spliced mRNAs. This exon junction complex (EJC)…
Mechanistic links between nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and pre-mRNA splicing in mammalian cells.
F. Lejeune, L. Maquat
A Day in the Life of the Exon Junction Complex
Lena P Schlautmann, Niels H. Gehring
The most important functions and main protagonists in the life of the exon junction complex are summarized and the latest findings on the assembly, composition and molecular activities of the EJC are provided.
No-nonsense: insights into the functional interplay of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors
J. Mailliot, Mirella Vivoli-Vega, C. Schaffitzel
The Biochemical journal
The coexistence and function of different isoforms of up-frameshift protein 1 with an emphasis of their role at the endoplasmic reticulum and during stress are highlighted, underscoring that gene regulation by mammalian NMD is tightly controlled and context-dependent being conditional on developmental stage, tissue and cell types.
Structure of the Y14-Magoh Core of the Exon Junction Complex
C. Lau, M. Diem, G. Dreyfuss, G. D. Duyne
Human Upf Proteins Target an mRNA for Nonsense-Mediated Decay When Bound Downstream of a Termination Codon
Should we kill the messenger? The role of the surveillance complex in translation termination and mRNA turnover
K. Czaplinski, M. Ruiz-Echevarría, C. González, S. Peltz
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
A model will be presented that suggests that the surveillance complex assesses translation termination by monitoring the transition of an RNP as it is converted from a nuclear to a cytoplasmic form during the initial rounds of translation.
Intron function in the nonsense-mediated decay of beta-globin mRNA: indications that pre-mRNA splicing in the nucleus can influence mRNA translation in the cytoplasm.
J. Zhang, X. Sun, Y. Qian, L. Maquat
It is proposed that the 3'-most exon-exon junction of beta-globin mRNA and, possibly, most mRNAs is marked by the removal of the 3-most intron during pre-mRNA splicing and that the "mark" accompanies mRNA during transport to the cytoplasm, which is remarkably consistent with which nonsense codons within the triosephosphate isomerase gene reduce TPI mRNA abundance.
The spliceosome deposits multiple proteins 20–24 nucleotides upstream of mRNA exon–exon junctions
H. Le Hir, E. Izaurralde, L. Maquat, M. Moore
The EMBO journal
It is reported that the spliceosome stably deposits several proteins on mRNAs, probably as a single complex of ∼335 kDa, which protects 8 nucleotides of mRNA from complete RNase digestion at a conserved position 20–24 nucleotide upstream of exon–exon junctions.
The yeast hnRNP-like protein Hrp1/Nab4 marks a transcript for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
C. González, M. Ruiz-Echevarría, S. Vasudevan, M. Henry, S. Peltz
A Perfect Message RNA Surveillance and Nonsense-Mediated Decay
M. Hentze, A. Kulozik
Mechanisms of mRNA surveillance in eukaryotes.
P. Hilleren, R. Parker
Annual review of genetics
This proposed model for mRNA surveillance is similar to other systems of kinetic proofreading that monitor the accuracy of other biogenic processes such as translation and spliceosome assembly.
RNA surveillance. Unforeseen consequences for gene expression, inherited genetic disorders and cancer.
M. Culbertson
Trends in genetics : TIG
A mutated human homologue to yeast Upf1 protein has a dominant-negative effect on the decay of nonsense-containing mRNAs in mammalian cells.
X. Sun, H. Perlick, H. Dietz, L. Maquat
It is demonstrated that expression of human Upf1 protein harboring an arginine-to-cysteine mutation at residue 844 within the RNA helicase domain acts in a dominant-negative fashion to abrogate the decay of nonsense-containing mRNA that takes place in association with nuclei or in the cytoplasm.
mRNA quality control: Marking the message for life or death
J. Lykke-Andersen


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Az Ablak mellett Sztevanovity Zorán tizedik, 1999. október 18-án megjelent nagylemeze.

A lemez

A felvételek a Tom-Tom Stúdióban készültek 1999-ben Presser Gábor, Sipeki Zoltán és Zorán zenei rendezésében.

Közreműködők

Kiss István – hangmérnök

Presser Gábor – hangszerelés, zongora, billentyűs hangszerek, harmonika, szájharmonika, ütőhangszerek és vokál
Sipeki Zoltán – akusztikus és elektromos gitárok, mandolin
Horváth Kornél – ütőhangszerek
Borlai Gergő – dob
Lattmann Béla – basszusgitár (A színfalak mögött, A hídon)
Lantos Zoltán – hegedű (Világország, Mikor valóra vált az álmunk, A színfalak mögött, A hídon)
Csepregi Gyula – szaxofon (Az ablak mellett)
Péter János – fuvola, whistle (Világország, A színfalak mögött)
Magyar Hajnalka, Nádasi Veronika, Korom Attila – vokál

Dalok

Az összes dalt Presser Gábor írta, a szövegíró pedig Sztevanovity Dusán volt.

 A színfalak mögött – 4:06
 Ha hinnél valamiben – 2:45
 Világország – 4:39
 Úgy volt – 3:56
 Az ablak mellett – 4:22
 Az első dal – 4:19
 Valami más – 3:33
 Mikor valóra vált az álmunk – 4:36
 Szerenád – 3:13
 Virtuális Föld – 3:06
 A hídon – 5:04

Teljes játékidő: 43:44

További információk

Zorán honlapja

Zorán-albumok
1999 nagylemezei

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Under the Western Sky is my retro-romantic suspense. Also from Tirgearr Publishing, Under the Western Sky takes readers back to 1976. This retro romance is full of faced paced suspense as well as the story of young love in bloom.
Libby Marshall and Bobby Menendez are happy in their new found relationship. Friends for years, they finally realize their feelings are much deeper than mere friendship. They are just beginning to explore this new relationship when Bobby's cousin, Ramon, is beaten by white boys because he dared to date a white girl.
Racial tension is high in the small, Midwestern town as the police strive to find the guilty parties. Bobby and Libby wonder if he will be the next target as events unfold and the true evil is revealed – Under the Western Sky.
Excerpt from Under the Western Sky
Having worked summer stock out here several times, Bobby knew they kept a fully stocked tool shop. Tools made handy weapons. The shed would be locked, but he hoped to get in without too much trouble. Provided they hadn't changed the combination on the padlock, he still remembered it.
Taking a deep breath, he scooted across the open stretch of land between the stage and the scene shop. This was where he was most vulnerable. A dim bulb lit the front of the shed and he would be visible until he got the door open. Saying a silent prayer, he dashed across, flattening himself against the side of the concrete brick wall. His hand found the lock as he slowly rolled to face the door. His fingers moved quickly, but his shaking hands made him start over twice before the lock gave a distinctive snick, falling open in his palm.
He eased the door open and a dim string of lights flickered on when he touched the switch. Moving with confidence, he found what he was looking for. Grabbing a tool belt, he filled it quickly with screwdrivers, hammers and chisels. He stuffed a bag of nails into his pocket; a razor knife went into another.
"I swear, I thought I saw something down here," a man said, outside the shop.
Bobby flicked off the lights, grateful that they wouldn't show outside. He slipped quietly into a corner between the router and the table saw, sliding silently down the wall.
"What's in there?" He heard Tex ask someone.
Danny answered slowly, his words somewhat garbled. Bobby was sure his lips were swollen from the beating he'd taken.
"That's where they keep stuff for the plays. Old scenery, paint."
Bobby wished he'd put the lock back on the door, but it was too late to worry about it now.
"Open it," Tex commanded.
"It's probably locked, boss."
"Open the goddamn door, moron. Here, I'll do it myself!"
Wood creaked and shattered as Tex kicked it down. Bobby had to suppress a laugh. He'd have gotten through a lot quicker if he'd simply tried the doorknob.
"Keep him out here," Tex said to his companion.
Tex entered the shop immediately running into a stack of lumber just inside the door. It was a dumb place for it, but as it was always there, Bobby had known to avoid it. Cursing loudly, the man tried to find a light switch but they were hard to find in the dark. Whoever had built the shop had wired it wrong, putting the switch on the opposite side of the shop. The only switch operated the string of Christmas bulbs Bobby had used to find his way around.
For the first time, Bobby noticed the sawdust on the floor. Although there were other prints in it, his were distinct and fresh. They didn't escape Tex's notice.
"Someone's been in here," he called over his shoulder.
While his head was turned, Bobby jumped up, pushing the table saw toward the big man. With a roar, the older man jumped out of the way as the heavy power tool fell on the floor.
"You little shit! I'll get you for that!"
Bobby hurled a handful of nails at him, grabbing a 2 x 4 off another stack of lumber. Screaming, Tex flung his arms up to fend off the nails. Staggering, he stooped, grabbing another piece of wood for himself.
The two pieces of lumber cracked together, sounding like a gun shot. Grunting and cursing, Tex wailed away with his piece of wood. He was strong and his blows hammered mercilessly at Bobby. A lucky shot got in under Bobby's guard, glancing off his elbow. Pain and numbness shot up his arm as the end of the wood connected with his funny bone.
He dropped his 2 x 4, fingers numb, arm throbbing. Tex advanced, taunting him with the wood. Bobby knew his left arm was useless, hoping the blow hadn't broken it. Easing a hammer out of his tool belt, he held it low, waiting for Tex to move.
Tex grinned, laughing harshly. It was a cold, hollow sound in the cement shop.
"Not so feisty now, eh, muchacho?" He moved closer to get a better shot at Bobby.
Bobby countered his movement with his own, getting a better grip on the hammer. As Tex swung back, he hurled the hammer at him, catching the man on the side of the head. It was a glancing blow, but knocked him back a step. Roaring in pain, Tex rushed him, board cast aside and forgotten.
Bobby dropped into his fighting stance, ready for him. In one fluid motion, he grabbed Tex by his outstretched arm, locking it to his side. Putting one leg between Tex's, he trapped the bigger man. Even with his left arm dangling limp at his side, Bobby yanked hard on Tex's arm. With a satisfying crack and a yelp, he knew he'd dislocated his elbow.
He threw Tex to the floor, flipping him on his face, nose in a pile of sawdust. He yanked the injured arm straight up behind him, pinning him in place with a foot on his neck.


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The only significant exception is for "HttpOnly" cookies. If example.org chooses, it can designate cookies that it delivers as "HttpOnly"; those cookies cannot be accessed by any JavaScript code, whether from anotherexample.org or even example.org itself.

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Ettore Milano (San Giuliano Nuovo, 25 de julio de 1925 - Novi Ligure, 21 de octubre de 2011 fue un ciclista italiano que fue profesional entre 1949 y 1958. Durante muchos años fue gregario de Fausto Coppi en el equipo Bianchi. Consiguió pocas victorias como profesional, destacando una etapa en el Giro de Italia de 1953. Al retirarse, pasó a ejercer las funciones de director deportivo en diferentes equipos italianos, Carpano, Tricofilina-Coppi, Sanson y Zonca, hasta 1979.

Palmarés
1948
 1º en la Coppa Andrea Boero
1953
 Vencedor de una etapa en el Giro de Italia
1956
 1º en Vallorbe

Resultados en las Grandes Vueltas y Campeonatos del Mundo

-: no participa
Ab.: abandono

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Ficha y biografía de Ettore Milano en museociclismo.it
 Ficha y biografía de Ettore Milano en sitiodeciclismo.net

Ciclistas de Italia
Ganadores de etapa en el Giro de Italia
Nacidos en Alessandria
Fallecidos en Novi Ligure


If you've taken a look at my work history, I've supported a lot of OLTP (online transaction processing) applications. The latest being ServiceNow. An OLTP's backend is really just a bunch of tables with columns referencing one another to create a relational database. This is exemplified nicely when you tag an order or case to a customer record and you can see all the orders/cases by that customer. The OLTP is not without flaws: it's purpose is to capture transactions and not necessarily report against them. You don't have to worry about duplicates as every record is unique, but you will have to worry about query times. An OLAP (online analytical processing) cube is a database model that inverts the pros and cons of an OLTP.
Yet, all the software products I have supported can do reporting. The customers demand it. For instance, ServiceNow has one of the best reporting engines I have seen providing a "what's happening now" indicator and a "what has happened in the past and are we better off" metric comparison. Technology has also gotten better for OLTPs to do reporting as technology, memory, and processors are pretty cheap and usually maintained (and scaled) by the Saas provider. There really isn't a reason to export data to a data warehouse unless (1) your company set an initiative to centralize all reporting to a Business Intelligence tool such as BusinessObjects or Tableau or (2) the use case I am about to describe. This is the ONE use case where an OLTP does not do well, but an OLAP cube can handle well - it's the mid year organizational change story.
This happens in every organization. You have a hierarchy that rolls up to the CEO or a list of portfolios that house many projects. One day, a re-org occurs so your department doesn't roll up to that region or that project rolls up to another portfolio. You can probably see where I am headed with this -- the second you make this hierarchy change in your OLTP, all the EXISTING associated transactional records will shift as well. That means all existing incidents in your department just got shifted to another department. That also means all your actual costs already incurred in your portfolio just got shifted to another portfolio and you're well below budget! This is the benefit and the curse of the relational database. You can make a change without updating existing records, but your reporting will probably be inaccurate.
Above are the tables (Business Unit and Incident) and the record(s) associated with them. There is also a visual diagram outlining the change. To change the department without regard for reporting, you could simply make the changes in Bold in the "New State". In the Incident Table, nothing changes as the reference identifier doesn't change even though the displayed value might. This is the basis for a relational DB which most OLTPs (online transaction processing) are built on.
That's a pain. Now imagine you go through multiple restructures and it's usually not just one portfolio that gets bounced around.
All the applications I've supported has some sort of scripting action that can perform this logic - whenever the parent field of the BU is updated, create a new "org timestamp" row with the previous and new values as variables.
Then you will translate all your tables to OLAP – the data warehouse DB – where "incident", "BU hierarchy", and "organizational timestamps" tables are bridged together.
This simplified version of the OLAP cube table could be derived from either a SQL query, R or Python script, or Alteryx job which would handle the logic to populate the right hierarchies based on an incident date value with the dates in organizational timestamp table.
Then you can run the report using a BI (business intelligence) application which will capture the historical roll up based on existing incidents (based on dates) and track new incidents under the current hierarchy. An OLTP is not the right tool for this type of reporting. A data warehouse is.


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Photo courtesy of City Councilman Eric Ulrich's office
The 2018 street renaming for Maria Thomson in Woodhaven.
By Robert Pozarycki
In the weeks to come, Queens residents and elected officials will celebrate the contributions of residents who helped make the borough a great place through a host of ceremonial street renamings.
The renamings were authorized through City Council legislation passed on Jan. 20. Twenty of the 68 public places and thoroughfares being renamed under the bill are located in Queens, recognizing the lives of local business leaders, inventors, trailblazers and activists.
While it won't formally change each location's name, the honor includes the installation of commemorative street signage at each spot, informing future generations of Queens residents of the person's or group's significance to the community.
City Councilman I. Daneek Miller had the most Queens street co-namings in the legislation, sponsoring six in all. They include the following.
The southwest corner of 99th and Hollis Avenues in Hollis has been co-named Zanu G. Simpson Way, honoring the celebrity barbershop owner who was gunned down during a robbery attempt in July 2017. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Simpson attended I.S. 192 and Bayside High School and, following his education, opened his own barbershop. He became a mentor to many Hollis youths and gave back to the community through back to school picnics and organizing school supply giveaways. (This codifies the street renaming which occurred back in September.)
The northern side of the corner of 115th Road and Farmers Boulevard in St. Albans will be co-named Reverend Walter A. and Doris L. Jones Way. Pastor Walter Jones founded the Majority Baptist Church in October 1960 and became one of southeast Queens' most influential ministers. His wife, Doris, was also active in the church and additionally served the community as a block watcher and a den mother for Boy Scout Troop 279.
The southeast corner of 219th Street and Linden Boulevard in Cambria Heights will be co-named Margie Boyd Way, honoring the co-pastor and first lady of the New Greater Bethel Ministries. She served as head of the Bethel Christian School and the Women's Department, as well as with several local community boards and civic organizations. Boyd died in June 2017.
The northeast corner of 167th Street and Linden Boulevard in South Jamaica will be co-named Reverend Julius and Mother Coreania Carter Way, honoring the co-founders of the Carter Community AME Church in 1947. The Carters served the spiritual needs of South Jamaica residents and beyond, as they helped to open in 1965 the first senior citizen complex of its kind in the state.
The northeast corner of 118th Avenue and Springfield Boulevard in Cambria Heights will be co-named Melody Anne-Simone Edwards Way, one of five young people who died during a Queens Village house fire in April 2017. Edwards was visiting one of her friends, who lived there, when the tragic blaze broke out.
The northwest corner of Pineville Lane and Merrick Boulevard in Springfield Gardens will be co-named Hopkins Way for Novell Hopkins, a former deputy director of civilian personnel for the Fire Department and an active member of local civic groups. She was the founder and vice president of the Neighborhood Block Association for Springfield Gardens.
Some of the other Queens street renamings are as follows:
The block of 111th Street between Liberty and 107th Avenues in Richmond Hill will be co-named for Correction Officer Jonathan Narain, who was gunned down in a road rage shooting last September. Narain, who was assigned to Rikers Island, was an active member of the Shree Durga Mandir, working with students and worshippers to offer counseling, mentoring and career advice. City Councilwoman Adrienne Adams sponsored the street renaming in his honor.
The corner of 37th Street and Broadway in Astoria will be co-named Chester Carlson Way, honoring the Seattle-born inventor credited with helping to invent photocopying. While living at his home on 37th Street in Astoria, on Oct. 22, 1938, Carlson and his partner Otto Kornei produced the first xerographic image. This led to the rise and growth of the Xerox Corporation, and the technology forever transformed how the world conducted business. City Councilman Costa Constantinides sponsored the street renaming.
Constantinides also sponsored the co-naming of the intersection of 75th Street and 31st Avenue in Jackson Heights as Mount Everest Way, in honor of the Nepali community of New York City. According to the City Council, approximately 10,000 Nepalis reside in the city, though there are estimates that the figure is much higher. Many Nepali residents have settled in the Jackson Heights area. Mount Everest, which is located in Nepal, is the highest point on Earth, reaching 29,029 feet into the sky.
The block of Woodward Avenue between Grove and Linden Streets in Ridgewood will be co-named for Father Yohanna T. Guirgis, who helped grow the Coptic Christian community in Ridgewood and the United States. Guirgis emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt in 1973 and began his ministry in Ridgewood, establishing the first Coptic Christian Church in America, St. Mary's and St. Antonio's. City Councilman Robert Holden sponsored the street renaming.
The northern intersection of Queens Boulevard and 71st Road in Forest Hills will be co-named Adelaide Connaughton Way, recognizing the long-time neighborhood resident and community activist. She began her career as an intern with then-Assistant District Attorney Geraldine Ferraro and went on to work for numerous local elected officials. Connaughton died suddenly in May 2018 at the age of 59; City Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz sponsored the renaming.
The block of 169th Street between Highland Avenue and Homelawn Street in Jamaica Hills will be co-named Ramesh D. Kalicharran "Kali" Way, honoring the local businessman who was active in numerous Indo-Caribbean organizations in Queens. Kalicharran died in December 2017 at the age of 68; City Councilman Rory Lancman sponsored the street renaming.
Lancman also sponsored the co-naming of 168th Street between Highland Avenue and Gothic Drive as JMC Way, in recognition of the nearby Jamaica Muslim Center. Founded in the 1980s, the JMC has become the largest mosque in the area, offering prayers five times a day and organizing many celebrations of Muslim holy days. The center also offers numerous community programs and has helped promote Islamic awareness.
The corner of 104th Street and Nicolls Avenue in Corona will be co-named Nicholas Pennetti Way, honoring the long-time Corona resident who was an active member of St. Leo's Parish, the Corona Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Community Board 4. Pennetti, who was married for 74 years, died in April 2018. City Councilman Francisco Moya sponsored the renaming.
The intersection of 140th Avenue and 180th Street in Springfield Gardens will be co-named Rev. Dr. Freddie Brunswick Sr. Way, recognizing the founder of the Salem Missionary Baptist Church. He was active in maintaining the growth of York College and helped the Springfield Gardens Civic Association in its duties. The pastor died in February 2018; City Councilman Donovan Richards sponsored the street renaming.
The intersection of 90th Street between Rockaway Boulevard and 101st Avenue in Ozone Park will be co-named Chief Ronald Spadafora Way, honoring a 40-year Fire Department veteran. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Spadafora supervised the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero and was named the chief of safety. Spadafora succumbed to illnesses related to his work at Ground Zero in July 2018; City Councilman Eric Ulrich sponsored the street renaming.
The northeast corner of Queens Boulevard and 39th Street in Sunnyside will be co-named for Gertrude McDonald, one of Queens' trailblazers. McDonald was a member of Community Board 2 for more than 40 years and, in 1968, was the first woman in Queens history to run for elected office as a Democrat. She died in May 2017 at the age of 100; City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer sponsored the street renaming.
Van Bramer also sponsored the co-naming of the intersection of 49th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City for Terri Mona Adams, the former president of the Hunters Point Community Development Corporation. A former operations supervisor in the United States Navy, Adams helped create numerous community programs in the Hunters Point area of Long Island City, from Easter egg hunts to Halloween parties and even a farmers' market. Adams died in September 2017 at the age of 75.
Adelaide Connaughton
Adrienne Adams
Chester Carlson
Costa Constantinides
donovan richards
Doris Jones
Eric Ulrich
Francisco Moya
Freddie Brunswick Sr.
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Jamaica Muslim Center
Jimmy Van Bramer
Jonathan Narain
Julius Carter
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Margie Boyd
Melody Anne-Simone Edwards
Mother Coreania Carter
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Nicholas Pennetti
Novell Hopkins
Ramesh Kalicharran
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Rory Lancman
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Walter A. Jones
Yohanna T. Guirgis
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Rachel Smitley celebrates her graduation with friends after the 2012 commencement service. Photo: Photo Services
Commencement time always brings the hustle and bustle of cleaning, packing and heading home. But for seniors, this year's commencement means graduation. It means a finish line, but also a starting line. It's a time for reminiscing, rejoicing and relief. The checksheet on StudentCentral that looked so formidable the freshman year has been conquered.
Compared to the graduation ceremony at many American universities, commencement at BJU is unique. The event is formal, and there is no commencement speaker.
Instead, about 40 graduating seniors will give brief personal testimonies to an auditorium of family, friends and supporters.
Dr. Dan Smith, the University's registrar, directs the commencement rehearsal each year. He said the purpose of the commencement service is to bring glory to God.
It is also formal to show respect to the many student speakers giving their testimonies as diplomas are handed out.
"[We] have the opportunity to [let] students say many different things from many different angles so that guests can see how the Lord is working in their lives," Smith said.
Besides excited graduates, commencement also brings a flurry of expectant guests.
"At the rehearsal, I usually ask, 'How many of you have relatives coming that aren't saved?'" Smith said. "There are a lot of hands that go up."
Though commencement is much the same from year to year, the graduating class is not. Smith provided some statistics.
A total of 913 students will graduate this year, 666 with their bachelor's degrees. The total includes 484 women and 439 men.
Of those marching this May, 206 are not currently enrolled, meaning they finished their coursework in December.
The top five bachelor programs represented are nursing, pastoral studies, biology, humanities and accounting.
Additionally, 26 international countries will be represented at commencement. The top two are South Korea and Canada.
But seniors are more than just statistics. Many emotions accompany the end of four years of hard work.
Andrew Sebris, a senior business administration major, described his upcoming graduation as surreal. "I can't believe I made it this far," he said. "I've learned a lot of facts, but I've learned a whole lot more than just facts. I've learned more about myself, about the world and the people around me."
Through his jobs with custodial and the usher crew, Sebris said he has learned how people work and how to relate to them.
He said the connection with good friends and the support he experienced through upfront, honest relationships have been the greatest memories his time at BJU has provided.
For Sebris, standing on the lawn after graduation with his family and being able to show them his diploma will be the best part of commencement day.
Sebris said the most challenging classes of his college career were Intermediate Accounting I and II, but his favorite was General Psychology. And his favorite Artist Series? "I liked The Tempest because of the trap door scenes," he said.
Thomas Mills, a senior business major, finished an associate degree in residential construction management last year and will graduate with his bachelor's degree next week. Mills is excited to walk across the FMA stage a second time. "I'm done with my education in a formal, structured sense," he said. "It's a big accomplishment to be done with learning on a full-time basis."
Mills said as he has worked in construction over past summers, he has realized what a better understanding for his work his education provided year by year. "It's cool to look back and see that your education was worth it," he said.
Mills said BJU's construction program and his job with Ferguson Builders here in town have been the most influential aspects of his college career.
"I get to work with a lot of different guys while learning, and every guy brings something different to the table," he said. "I've had to learn how to cooperate and collaborate well with others."
Thinking back over his four years, Mills said he spent most of his time in the carpentry shop. His most challenging classes were English 102 and Construction Planning & Scheduling, and his favorite class was Computer-Aided Drafting. His most memorable Artist Series was The Tempest, his first Artist Series with his fiancée.
What will be the most memorable part of commencement day? "Turning in my robe and picking up my diploma from the lobby of the FMA," Mills said.
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How France's DGA kept flight testing safe during pandemic
By Craig Hoyle2020-12-08T09:41:00+00:00
Dealing with the day-to-day restrictions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for all in 2020, but how have such barriers to normal life affected those supporting crucial military tasks?
For an insight into some of the operational adjustments that have been required, FlightGlobal spoke to General Arvind Badrinath, director of flight testing for France's DGA defence procurement agency, about its activities this year.
"In military life, things cannot be interrupted," Badrinath says, noting that despite the pandemic, the organisation simply could not step back from conducting some of its most important duties.
"Defence of the French airspace has to performed every day and night, Covid[-19] or no Covid," he says. As an example, his personnel are required to conduct tasks such as approving updates to the air force's Boeing E-3F airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft.
Source: Boeing
Updates to E-3F AWACS fleet required approval by DGA personnel
"You cannot wait for one more week to complete the acceptance test of an AWACS," he notes.
Supporting France's nuclear deterrent capability is another activity which cannot undergo any form of furlough. In June, this involved the flight test organisation providing airborne range support during a test firing of the French navy's new submarine-launched M51 ballistic missile.
Equally, Badrinath says the DGA's focus on performing "a huge amount of preparation for the overseas forces" remained in place.
"The army, navy and air force who are on the ground anywhere in the world need specific equipment – some that you cannot test with your computer back at home," he says. In the case of fighter-carried laser designation and reconnaissance pods, "you need to test on a real aircraft making 5g manoeuvres, and having real vibrations, and checking that they work the right way".
Badrinath says that as the DGA started to realise the coronavirus outbreak's likely severity at the end of February, the flight test organisation "started preparing to maintain the continuity of our actions".
"The missions did not really change. However, the way to achieve the missions changed completely, with a high priority to settle protective measures for our personnel – that was the main driver for this year," he says.
Source: DGA
Flight test organisation assessed safe use of face masks for helicopter pilots
"Some of the activities had to be deferred by maybe two months," he says, and non-essential events – such as hosting visits involving students – were cancelled.
"From March onwards, I had plenty of flight-test engineers and test pilots everywhere in France," he says. This ensured the DGA's ability to continue assessing updates to existing assets, along with the task of accepting new aircraft for the nation's military. "We needed to perform our every day job – like checking the integration and qualification of a system like the IFF [identification friend or foe] onboard our fleet."
From 20-31 July, DGA personnel were involved in trials which saw an Airbus Defence & Space A400M pass fuel to an Airbus Helicopters H225 Caracal in flight for the first time. Additional air-to-air refuelling trials involved a French air force Lockheed Martin KC-130J tanker working with a C160G Gabriel electronic intelligence aircraft. Each of these activities involved around 70 personnel, Badrinath notes.
French air force KC-130J refuels C160G during 2020 trial
But in addition to these ordinary duties, personnel also were called on the support French President Emmanuel Macron's "Operation Resilient" initiative, which sought means of safely transporting coronavirus-affected patients by air.
This required swift modifications to the air force's A400M and A330 Phenix tanker/transports – enabling them to operate with intensive care unit (ICU)-standard medical equipment aboard. The service's Caracals and French army Airbus Helicopters Cougar rotorcraft also underwent similar updates.
The helicopters were adapted to enable them to conduct transfer flights lasting over 2h, for example to move patients from France to Germany, or transport others between regions of France itself. Badrinath notes that while dedicated emergency medical services helicopters have ICU-standard equipment, they lack the endurance and onboard electrical generation capability for extended operations.
"It forced us to modify the A400M, NH90 and Cougar in a very fast way," he says.
"For all these projects that were performed by the armed forces with our support, our expertise was necessary to check compatibility and be sure that the modification was airworthy."
The need for test pilots and flight-test engineers to work safely also required the DGA to assess the effectiveness of various masks to be worn in the cockpit. This process involved checking their "filtration and breathability", Badrinath notes, and also their suitability for use with microphones.
"Protection measures had to be minimum risk for all our personnel," he says. For example, "at 10,000ft in a helicopter without oxygen, you could get hypoxia if the mask has poor breathability". This meant adopting new procedures to restrict the amount of time spent operating under such conditions.
Helicopter pilots could face accelerated risk of hypoxia at altitude when wearing face masks
Cleaning measures were also investigated, to determine which products could be used without risking affecting the airworthiness of an aircraft. Gloves ordinarily worn by Dassault Rafale fighter pilots were also employed, due to their suitability for use with touchscreen displays.
Overseas deployments were also performed, for example sending a team to Spain ahead of the transfer of a new Phenix tanker from Getafe near Madrid. And personnel also supported the introduction of the French air force's two Beechcraft King Air 350ER surveillance aircraft during 2020.
Some personnel were required to work from home during part of the pandemic, for example preparing for future testing or innovative new test means.
"When you have a crisis like this, you always have some people within the organisation who have good ideas to solve everyday life problems," Badrinath says. In the DGA's case, this included engineering personnel identifying means of boosting the protection available to medical staff at the height of the pandemic.
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