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Gonzaga's planned new science building puts total value of projects on campus at $115 million
Gonzaga University plans to build a new multistory building for both its College of Arts and Sciences and its School of Engineering and Applied Science, says Joe Poss, vice president for university advancement.
Currently dubbed The Center for Integrated Sciences and Engineering, the estimated construction cost is about $36.7 million, and the total project cost will be about $48 million, says Poss.
That brings the total value of four major projects planned or under construction on the campus to $115 million.
The new center will be near the middle of campus and will connect to the west side of the Paccar Center for Applied Science. The center also will be connected via a sky bridge to the south side of the Hughes Hall science building, he says.
The Integrated Science and Engineering Center will house classrooms, project rooms, interdisciplinary space, lecture halls, an open display space where students and faculty can work and present on their projects, and an innovation center, where students and faculty can share ideas and work with industry partners, Poss says.
The center also will feature "open, flexible space that just allows all those individuals to work differently more so than in a traditional classroom environment," says Poss.
The facility will have a total of about 80,000 square feet, which will be spread across three stories—ground, lower, and upper, he says.
The building is in the final design stages and hasn't been approved for construction yet by Gonzaga's board of trustees, says Poss.
Gonzaga, a private Jesuit university, is in the process of putting together a financing and fundraising plan, which the university aims to present to its board of trustees at a December board meeting, he says.
"As long as we're able to have that plan in place and reach our fundraising goals, the building will be able to move forward," he says
While the projects is contingent upon approval and if reaching funding goals, Poss says, the university aims to break ground next spring and wrap up the project in the fall of 2019.
He says the project architects are SRG Partnership Inc., of Portland, Ore.; Integrus Architecture PS, of Spokane; and Research Facilities Design, of San Diego, Calif..
MW Consulting Engineers PS, of Spokane, is the mechanical engineer, he says, adding that a contractor hasn't been selected yet.
The Spokane office of DCI Engineers, Inc. is the structural engineer.
"Faculty from the natural sciences, engineering, psychology, and computer science departments all have been working over the last several years to actually plan the facility," says Poss. "You've got … all those different faculty members working together to come up with a true integrated environment."
Gonzaga launched a $250 million fundraising campaign in fall 2015. Since then, the college has exceeded that goal with a total of $286 million pledged from 34,000 donors, says Poss.
Funds from that campaign have gone toward the $24 million Volkar Center for Athletic Achievement, which is under construction and scheduled to be completed in late December, says Mary Joan Hahn, Gonzaga's director of community and public relations.
Located south of the Martin Centre, the three-story facility will have about 51,000 square feet, says Poss.
As earlier reported in the Journal, the athletic center will house a basketball court, strength-and conditioning areas for the university's basketball teams, nutrition and social space, and academic support services for all student-athletes.
ALSC Architects PS and Garco Construction Inc., both of Spokane, are the architect and general contractor, respectively, for that project.
In addition to the athletic center, the $13 million, 36,100-square-foot Della Strada Jesuit Community building is well underway near the intersection of Boone Avenue and Astor Street. Anticipated completion date for that project is Nov. 1, says Poss.
The building will provide living quarters for Jesuits serving Gonzaga and other Jesuits in the Spokane community, says Poss. It will include a conference room, chapel, dining areas, a garden area, and other amenities, he says. The Society of Jesuits is an order of Roman Catholic priests known for its influence in Catholic thought and education.
BAR Architects, of San Francisco, and Bernardo|Wills Architects PC, of Spokane, designed that project.
Walker Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor.
Currently, Gonzaga's Jesuits reside in the campus' Jesuit House. That structure will be turned into offices for the College of Arts and Sciences, religious studies, the honors program, and the English department, Poss says.
Meantime, work is underway on the $30 million, 57,600-square-foot Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center.
Expected to be completed by December 2018, the two-story performing arts center will be located on the west side of campus, near the Jundt Art Center & Museum, and will accommodate programs in music, dance, theater, and visual arts, says Hahn.
As earlier reported in the Journal, the center will have a 750-seat performance theater, a 150-seat recital hall for music and dance, a two-story lobby with box office, and dedicated space for instruction and projects.
The building's second floor will have a multipurpose design and interdisciplinary arts studio. The orchestra pit will be designed to descend for a musical or dance production, and it will be able to rise to make a thrust stage area, the Journal previously reported.
Pfeiffer Partners, of Los Angeles, and Bernardo Wills Architects PC, of Spokane, are the architects. Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, is the contractor.


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Q: How To Download iOS App Configuration File From GitHub Private Repository I am working on an iPhone game and would like to set it up to download configuration data so I can put up a build and then I or my teammates can make changes and just rerun the game rather than rebuild (and for non-programmers, redistribute the build).
This is basically an easy thing to do, I can set it up to download from a public Dropbox or FTP using NSURL no problem.
However, we are using GitHub for revision control, so it would be nice to download the file from GitHub and then we get the advantages of having configuration data under revision control without having to manually copy the file to a share when it's modified (need to commit/push obviously but that's already part of the workflow). Note that I don't need to check the file out or do any actual revision control operations on it as it won't be modified by the app, I just need the app to acquire the latest revision of the file.
GitHub allows web-based browsing of repositories, so it seems like this problem should reduce to downloading a file from a URL, but since our repository is private I'm not sure how to handle the authentication. It looks like the NSURLConnection class can handle authentication, but I've tried to set that up and I can't get my file. I'm honestly not even sure if this is possible with GitHub's authentication system. I unfortunately do not have much of an HTTP or Web development background, so for me this is a situation where I don't know what I don't know about approaching the problem.
I searched around a bit on Google and SO and was surprised I didn't find any straightforward examples of doing this sort of thing, I figured downloading application data from source control would be a pretty common thing to do; the GitHub private repository part obviously makes it a bit special but it seems like everyone is using GitHub these days.
Thanks for any help.

A: Unless you consider your configuration data to be super-secret, it might be easier to just set up a post-receive hook in your central repo that exports the data to a URL that doesn't require authentication.

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Professor Steve NelsonProfile
Artifacts Among Us
February 3, 2016 — by Greg Olgers '87
Arts and Humanities Division
Photographer Steve Nelson of the art faculty has long been interested in the relationship between industry, community and nature in the context of past and present, a fascination that stems from his exploration of an abandoned sand-mining facility while growing up in Muskegon, Michigan.
"My photographs question the illusion of purpose and function," said Professor Nelson, an associate professor of art who has taught at Hope since 1989. "What was the function of these spaces? What will that function be in the future? Will the spaces ever find a function, or will they continue to decline and ultimately face demolition?"
As an undergraduate, he photographed artisans in Guatemala who found their traditional hand-crafting being replaced by mass-produced goods. More recently, he has chronicled ruined abbeys in England ("communities of industry in addition to serving a religious function") and abandoned industrial facilities in rural Michigan that provide a relatively modern counterpart to the centuries-old sites on the other side of the Atlantic.
His latest study has focused on an abandoned paper mill in Plainwell, Michigan. His exploration, After Operations, was displayed in the mill itself in an exhibit that ran this summer along with Exposure Pathways, a sculpture installation by artist Sarah Lindley of Kalamazoo College, in conjunction with a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, The Way We Worked.
After Operations will soon be traveling, beginning with Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this spring. Professor Nelson hopes that his art facilitates discussion as the people of the present navigate the world in which they find themselves and the relics of the past.
"I'm interested in being part of a larger dialogue with other scholars and artists in discussing issues of industry and community and where they cross over," he said. "I hope that the questions raised through the photographs contribute to the conversation about purpose and function and our perceptions of the past, present and future conditions."
Editor's Note: More about Professor Nelson and his work is available online at stevenelsonphotography.com
02 Sep Campus Life
Hundreds of Students to Spend Day Volunteering
Some 300 Hope College students will participate in service projects throughout the area through the college's "Time to Serve" program on Saturday, Sept. 10.
12 Oct Campus Life
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Hope College will celebrate Homecoming Weekend on Friday-Sunday, Oct. 21-23, with highlights including multiple events open to the public in addition to activities for alumni.
06 May Campus Life
Women of Color Profile: Jocabed Garduño '16
Fear is a liar, that's what Jocabed Garduño '16 kept telling herself. Fear is nothing more than a wrong-minded attempt to sidetrack your goals, infringe upon your joy, weaken your heart. It had no place in the life of a young woman with a persistent smile and lust for life, yet there it was. What was she going to do with it?

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The findings, reported in the journal Nature Communications, represent another step towards understanding how and why people develop Parkinson's. According to the charity Parkinson's UK, one in every 350 adults in the UK – an estimated 145,000 in all – currently has the condition, but as yet it remains incurable.
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Failure to respond or negotiate before proceedings can prove costly.
The Court of Appeal has considered whether a successful Defendant should be punished as to costs due to unreasonable behaviour on its part The Claimants in these proceedings are the owners or tenants of various premises in Nelson's Yard in Camden, London. The Defendant, Mr Eziefula, is the owner of adjoining premises at 11 and 13 Camden High Street.
On 30 January 2008, the Claimants issued proceedings against Mr Eziefula to restrain him from further carrying out various works of excavation which they thought would damage their properties. They claimed that the works were being carried out without Planning Permission and in breach of the Party Wall Act 1996, and without having allowed their surveyor an opportunity to inspect the works.
Prior to the commencement of proceedings, the Claimants and/or their solicitors had written on 4 occasions to the Defendant between May and July 2007 in order to set out their concerns regarding the works, and seeking access for their surveyor to inspect, but there had not been any response at all to any of these letters. In particular, the Claimants were concerned that the excavation works were so close to their properties that there was a real risk they would weaken or cause damage to their foundations.
It was only after the service of proceedings that the Defendant chose to respond. He then agreed to the Claimants' surveyor inspecting the excavation works and trial holes were drilled which established that, in fact, no damage had been caused to the foundations.
Subsequent to this, the Defendant served a Party Wall Notice in relation to the further works that it wished to undertake and matter were essentially resolved between the parties save for the question of the costs of the legal proceedings. The Defendant's solicitors invited the Claimants to discontinue their proceedings and pay their costs but the Claimants thought the Defendant should pay their costs given his "obstructive and truculent behaviour", .
Eventually, in March 2012, the Claimants discontinued the proceedings and the Court had to decide who should bear the costs. The normal presumption when a Claimant discontinues proceedings is that the Claimant will pay the costs but, in all the circumstances, the Claimants argued that this presumption should not apply.
The Judge at first instance found in favour of the Defendant Whilst he understood why the Claimants had felt it necessary to issue proceedings in light of the Defendant's conduct, he did not think that the Defendant had behaved so unreasonably as to deprive himself of the normal right to recover his costs when a claim was not pursued.
However, the Court of Appeal disagreed. Whilst it accepted that it could not look at the merits of the claim or take heed of the fact the Claimants had made a pragmatic decision to discontinue to save further costs, it felt the Defendant's unreasonable pre-action conduct was sufficient to displace the normal presumption that the successful party recovers its costs.
The Court had regard to the lack of willingness of the Defendant to set out his position or narrow the issues or discuss mediation or settlement. Whilst the letters he did not respond to were not formal letters of claim and did not spell out the consequences of not responding, they made clear the Claimants' concerns and the rules of Court make it clear that parties are liable to be punished for non-compliance with the terms and/or spirit of the pre-action protocols intended to avoid the need for litigation. Clearly, this is particularly so when it causes proceedings to be brought.
Looking at the matter afresh, the Court held that Mr Eziefula should pay the Claimants' costs up until 3 May 2008 when he finally made clear his case and that each party should pay their own costs thereafter.
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Q: Add row from one table to another Right now if I click in the row or input goes to table product. What I want to do is be able to select first the products and after use the button add product to add in the table product after the row be moved to the table product i want remove this row from the table above
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4qFgX/107/

$('#proctable tr').click(function() {
  $(this).clone().appendTo('#comptable');
  return false;
})

$('body').on('mouseenter', 'input', function() {
  $('.btn').prop('disabled', true);
});
$('body').on('mouseout', 'input', function() {
  $('.btn').prop('disabled', false);
});
table td {
  /*  background:#3f3f3f;*/
  line-height: 28px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #333;
  padding: 5px;
}

table tr {
  /*background: #3f3f3f;*/
  width: 100%;
}

table {
  margin-left: 10px;
  width: 800px;
  font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
}

      Description
      Price

      <input type="checkbox">produc1
      $320

      <input type="checkbox">product 2
      $290

      <input type="checkbox">product 3
      $280

      <input type="checkbox">product 4
      $240

    <button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Add product</button>

select all

        <input type="checkbox" name="" value="">

  table product

      Product
      Price

A: 1. First, you'll want the click event on the button instead of the table row. Let's give that button an ID so it's easier to find. In my example, I've used btnAddProduct
<button id="btnAddProduct" type="button" class="btn btn-success">Add product</button>

$('#btnAddProduct').click( ... );

2. Next, you'll want to find what rows are checked by getting all checked inputs in the product table, and grabbing their parent row.
var $checkedRows = $("#proctable input[type='checkbox']:checked").closest("tr");

3. Finally, you can add detach() to remove the rows when moving them.
$checkedRows.detach().clone().appendTo('#comptable');

The finished product:
JSFiddle
$('#btnAddProduct').click(function(){
    var $checkedRows = $("#proctable input[type='checkbox']:checked").closest("tr");
    $checkedRows.detach().clone().appendTo('#comptable');
    return false;
})

A: Detach the row from the table.
$('#proctable tr').click(function(){
  $(this).detach().clone().appendTo('#comptable');
  return false;
})

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Plan-to-mine-Minnesota-wilderness-hit-dead-end-14047887.php
Plan to mine Minnesota wilderness hit dead end until Trump became president
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Steve Eder
Published 1:58 pm PDT, Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are renting this home in Washington D.C. from a Chilean billionaire and mining tycoon.
Photo: Tom Brenner / New York Times
ELY, Minn. — In the waning months of the Obama administration, a Chilean conglomerate was losing a fight with the U.S. government over a copper mine that it wanted to build near a pristine wilderness area in Minnesota.
The election of President Trump, with his business-friendly bent, turned out to be a game-changer for the project.
Beginning in the early weeks of Trump's presidency, the administration worked at a high level to remove roadblocks to the proposed mine, government emails and calendars show, overruling concerns that it could harm the Boundary Waters, a vast landscape of federally protected lakes and forests along the border with Canada.
Executives with the mining company, Antofagasta, discussed the project with senior administration officials, including the White House's top energy adviser, the emails show. Even before an interior secretary was appointed to the new administration, the department moved to re-examine leases critical to the mine, eventually restoring those that the Obama administration had declined to renew. And the Forest Service called off an environmental review that could have restricted mining, even though the agriculture secretary had told Congress that the review would proceed.
An Interior Department spokesman said it simply worked to rectify "a flawed decision rushed out the door" before Trump took office. Several senior department officials with previous administrations, however, said they were surprised by the swift change of course for the little-known Minnesota project, which was not a focal point of Trump's presidential campaign.
For the family of billionaire Andrónico Luksic, which controls the Chilean conglomerate, the policy reversals could provide a big boost to its mining business. Since the change in administration, the Antofagasta subsidiary Twin Metals Minnesota has significantly ramped up its lobbying in Washington, according to federal disclosures, spending $900,000.
But the mining project's breakthrough, already unpopular with environmentalists, has drawn additional scrutiny and criticism because of an unusual connection between Luksic and two of Trump's family members.
Just before Trump took office, Luksic added a personal investment to his portfolio: a $5.5 million house in Washington. Luksic bought the house with the intention of renting it to a wealthy new arrival to Trump's Washington, according to Rodrigo Terré, chairman of Luksic's family investment office, which handled the purchase.
The idea worked. Even before the purchase was final, real estate agents had lined up renters: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Hiroko Tabuchi and Steve Eder are New York Times writers.


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JONESBORO, AR, June 29, 2015 – Scott Ellington, Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas, announced Monday a duo charged in the Memorial Day weekend slaying of Nelson McCollough appeared in Craighead County Circuit Court this afternoon.
Ladarius Lee, 18, and Tonisha Mitchell, 21, were formally arraigned Monday before Circuit Judge Victor Hill. Judge Hill scheduled a hearing for July 24, 2015, to hear defense motions for bond reductions filed by both Defendants. Their pretrial appearance will be on September 1, 2015, with a jury trial scheduled for September 14, 2015.
"On behalf of the people of the State of Arkansas, I have charged both Lee and Mitchell with first-degree murder, which is punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison," Ellington said. "The state's case is proceeding forward."
McCullough was gunned down in his home at 1312 W. Monroe Avenue.
History of the Case:
On May 25, 2015, officers from the Jonesboro Police Department responded to the scene of a shooting at 1312 West Monroe Avenue. Upon arrival, the officers located the victim on the ground. CPR was being performed. The victim was pronounced deceased shortly thereafter.
The victim was shot once in the chest, and once in the head.
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from battleground.game_engine import GameEngine
from . import util
from .dungeon import Dungeon
from .event import Event
from .gladiator import Gladiator

import random

class ArenaGameEngine(GameEngine):
    """
    An arena game engine based on an event queue.
    """

    dungeon_class = Dungeon
    event_class = Event
    gladiator_class = Gladiator

    def __init__(self, num_players=2, type="Arena", state=None, **kwargs):
        """
        :param num_players: int
        :param type: str
        :param state: {"gladiators": list of gladiator_stats (see Gladiator class),
                       "dungeon": {},
                       "queue": (list) event_queue,
                       "scores: (dict)}
            initializing:
            self.num_players
            self.current_player
            self.type
        """
        super().__init__(num_players=num_players, type=type)
        self.reset(state)

    def init_new_gladiator_stats(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        :return: list of stats to create Gladiator object at start of the game
        """
        return {}

    def init_new_dungeon_stats(self, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        :return: list of stats to create Dungeon object at start of the game
        """
        return {}

    def _init_event(self, event):
        """
        Instantiates an Event of type "gladiator" if event is a Gladiator instance
        or, if event is a dict, using its keys to instantiate an Event with those parameters.
        :param event: EITHER Gladiator OR dict
        :return: Event instance
        """
        if isinstance(event, self.gladiator_class):
            return self.event_class(owner=self.gladiators.index(event),
                                    type="gladiator")
        return self.event_class(**event)

    def get_game_name(self):
        return self.type

    def get_state(self, observer_id=None):
        """
        :return: (dict) parsed state
        """
        current_player = self.get_current_player()
        return {"gladiators": [g.get_init() for g in self.gladiators],
                "dungeon": self.dungeon.get_init(),
                "queue": [(t, e.get_init()) for t, e in self.event_queue],
                "scores": self.scores,
                "message": self.message,
                "move_options": self.get_move_options(current_player) if current_player is not None else None,
                "current_player": self.get_current_player()
                }

    def get_current_player(self):
        """
        This will be used by the game runner to determine which player should
        make the next move.
        The event_queue contains all events in occurring order. The move() function
        handles all non-player events and returns a state where next player is at the
        start of the event_queue.
        :returns index of first gladiator in event_queue in gladiators list
        """
        if self.game_over():
            return None
        else:
            return self.event_queue[0][1].owner

    def reset(self, state=None):
        """
        Initialize the game to the starting point
        :return: None
        """

        self.dungeon = None

        # init gladiators from exsisting game state, if provided
        if state is not None \
                and "gladiators" in state:
            stats = state["gladiators"]
        else:
            stats = []
        self.gladiators = [self.gladiator_class(**g)
                           for g in stats[0:self.num_players]]

        # create new players if number of specified players > existing players
        if len(stats) < self.num_players:
            for _ in range(0, self.num_players - len(stats)):
                new_stats = self.init_new_gladiator_stats(self.gladiators)
                self.gladiators.append(self.gladiator_class(**new_stats))

        # init dungeon
        if state is not None and "dungeon" in state:
            dungeon_stats = state["dungeon"]
        else:
            dungeon_stats = self.init_new_dungeon_stats(self.gladiators)
        self.dungeon = self.dungeon_class(**dungeon_stats)

        # init event_queue
        if state is not None and "queue" in state:
            self.event_queue = [(t, self._init_event(e)) for t, e in state["queue"]]
        else:
            self.event_queue = [(g.get_initiative(),  # + util.noise(),
                                 self._init_event(g))
                                for g in self.gladiators]
            # shuffle list to guarantee no advantage of one player over another
            # by always being first (at equal initiative)
            random.shuffle(self.event_queue)
            # sort by initiative
            self.event_queue = sorted(self.event_queue, key=lambda event: event[0])

        # init scores
        if state is not None \
                and "scores" in state:
            self.scores = state["scores"]
        else:
            self.scores = {i: 0 for i in range(self.num_players)}

        self.message = []

        # init state
        self.state = {"gladiators": self.gladiators,
                      "dungeon": self.dungeon,
                      "queue": self.event_queue,
                      "scores": self.scores,
                      "message": self.message
                      }

        # for glad in self.gladiators:
        #     glad.reset()
        # self.dungeon.reset()
        # self.event_queue = sorted([(g.get_initiative(),  # + util.noise(),
        #                             self._init_event(g))
        #                            for g in self.gladiators],
        #                           key=lambda event: event[0])
        # self.scores = {i: 0 for i in range(len(self.gladiators))}
        # self.state = {"gladiators": self.gladiators,
        #               "dungeon": self.dungeon,
        #               "queue": self.event_queue,
        #               "scores": self.scores,
        #               "message": self.message
        #               }
        return None

    def get_move_options(self, gladiator_index):
        """
        Used by agent to get available moves
        :param gladiator_index: index in gladiators list
        :return: (dict) [{type: type,
                          tools: [{tool: tool,
                                   targets: [{target: target,
                                              values: [value]
                                              }
                                             ]
                                   }
                                  ]
                          }
                         ]
        """
        # gladiator = self.gladiators[gladiator_index]
        options = []
        # add options for "stay"
        # speed = gladiator.get_speed()
        values = [1]  # [s / speed for s in range(1, speed + 1, int(speed / 3))]
        # values.append(1)
        options_stay = {"type": "stay",
                        "values": values
                        }
        options.append(options_stay)

        # add options for "attack"
        # targets are indices of gladiators list
        targets = [self.gladiators.index(g) for g in self.gladiators if not g.is_dead()]
        if targets:
            options_attack = {"type": "attack",
                              "targets": targets
                              }
            options.append(options_attack)

        return options

    def move(self, move):
        """
        Execute a move on behalf of the current player.
        Go through event_queue handling all events until getting to next player.
        :param move: dict {"name": str of name of move,
                           "target": Gladiator or position (int, int) or (str) attribute,
                           "value": float
        :return:
        """

        # behaviour for bad move returned
        if not move or 'type' not in move:
            move = {}
            move['type'] = 'stay'
            move['value'] = 1

        self.queue_move(move)
        self.message = []

        while len(self.event_queue) > 0 and self.event_queue[0][1].type is not "gladiator":
            (_, event) = self.event_queue.pop(0)
            self.handle_event(event)
            if event.type is not "gladiator":
                self.message.append(("event", event.get_init()))

        self.current_player = self.get_current_player()
        return None

    def queue_move(self, move):
        """
        Queue move and player into event_queue.
        :param move:
        :return: None
        """
        (time, glad_event) = self.event_queue.pop(0)
        time = int(time)
        glad_index = glad_event.owner
        glad = self.gladiators[glad_index]
        event_queue_keys = [ev[0] for ev in self.event_queue]

        event_time = time + glad.get_cost(**move)  # + util.noise()
        event_stats = self.init_queued_event_stats(time=time,
                                                   glad_event=glad_event,
                                                   move=move)
        event = self.event_class(**event_stats)

        util.insort_right(self.event_queue,
                          event_queue_keys,
                          (event_time, event),
                          keyfunc=lambda e: e[0])
        next_glad_event = self.event_class(owner=glad_index,
                                           type="gladiator",
                                           time_stamp=time)
        util.insort_right(self.event_queue,
                          event_queue_keys,
                          (event_time, next_glad_event),
                          keyfunc=lambda e: e[0])
        return None

    def init_queued_event_stats(self, time, glad_event, move):
        """
        :param time: time the event is created
        :param glad_event: event the gladiator is called
        :param move: dict describing the move the gladiator wants to queue
        :return: dict of stats for instantiation of event.
        """
        stats = move
        stats["owner"] = glad_event.owner
        stats["time_stamp"] = time
        return stats

    def handle_event(self, event):
        """
        :param event:
        :return: None
        """
        if event.type is "stay":
            pass
        elif event.type is "attack":
            self.move_attack(event)
        else:
            pass
        return None

    def move_attack(self, event):
        """
        Owner attacks target. If target dies, it's removed from event_queue
        :param event:
        :return: None
        """
        target = self.gladiators[event.target]
        attacker = self.gladiators[event.owner]
        target.cur_hp -= attacker.attack(target)
        corpse_count = self.remove_dead()
        self.state["scores"][event.owner] += corpse_count
        if attacker.is_dead():
            self.state["scores"][event.owner] = 0
        return None

    def remove_dead(self):
        """
        Removes events of gladiators that are dead.
        :return: number of corpses
        """
        corpse_count = 0
        # go through event_queue in reversed order to keep items
        # from changing index by deleting items with lower index
        index = len(self.event_queue) - 1
        for _, event in reversed(self.event_queue):
            # if gladiator is dead, delete it and all of its queued events.
            if self.gladiators[event.owner].is_dead():
                # Dying sets score to zero.
                if event.type is "gladiator":
                    self.state["scores"][event.owner] = 0
                    corpse_count += 1
                del self.event_queue[index]
            index -= 1
        return corpse_count

    def game_over(self):
        """
        Check if the game is over
        :return: (bool)
        """
        num_glads = sum([1 for (t, g) in self.event_queue if g.type is "gladiator"])
        return bool(num_glads <= 1)

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The Red Rocks Canyon Trail at the Jemez Welcome Center is an easy loop through desert terrain showcasing the iconic landscape and spirit of the region. Photo by Katie Hearsum
First Timer's Guide: Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Make a deeper connection with the land on a journey to one of New Mexico's last remaining pueblos.
By Katie Hearsum • January 16, 2019
If New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment then Jemez Springs is the source of the spell. Situated about an hour's drive north of Albuquerque, this blink-and-you'll-miss-it town seduces visitors with a mesmerizing blend of pueblo culture, stunning scenery, friendly locals and abundant hot springs—all of which you're likely to learn about before polishing off your first margarita at the town's original watering hole, the historic Los Ojos Saloon. With just 400 residents, visitors quickly become the talk of the town, and locals are more than happy to share their stories with interested parties. Many of these tales begin with a line that will sound familiar to many Denverites: "I came to visit, and ended up staying."
Jemez Springs became a resort destination in the late 1800s for those seeking its healing, mineral-rich waters, but there is evidence of human activity in the region dating back to 2,500 B.C. After barely surviving a rather violent history involving the Spanish conquistadors in the 1600s, the pueblo now honors its past with museums, monuments, and galleries full of artwork inspired by the canyon cliffs and lush bosques of the surrounding southwestern landscape.
The Odometer: 391 miles (about seven hours) from Denver
The town's few restaurants have enough green chile-infused dishes to keep your mouth on fire for weeks. Some spicy stars include the blue corn "celebration" pancakes at the Jemez Stage Stop (with both red and green chiles mixed into the batter), Olga's famous chiles rellenos at the Los Ojos Saloon (Olga, the restaurant's owner, is also famous for her former career as an Olympic long-distance runner) and Nomad Pizza's signature pie topped with green chiles and piñon nuts (a local ingredient similar to a pine nut). Save room to indulge in a gooey piñon tart, sweet lemon bar, or other enticing confections at the Highway 4 Café & Bakery.
Thirsty? Spend an afternoon at Ponderosa Valley Winery, located about 14 miles south of town, for a free tour of the bucolic vineyard and complimentary samples of its award-winning Sangiovese and Chardonnay varietals. You might want to get a few bottles to go as there are no liquor stores in town. For a sampling of local suds, head to the Second Alarm Brewhouse, the town's first brewery and the only other spot that serves alcohol besides the saloon.
Situated on the banks of the Jemez River in a beautiful red-rock canyon, Jemez Springs is surrounded by the 1.6-million-acre Santa Fe National Forest, offering more than 1,000 miles of trails for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and snowshoeing. The forest also contains the headwaters of several rivers, luring anglers in with the promise of stocked rainbow trout.
A visit to the nearby Valle Caldera National Preserve is a must for the scenic drive alone along the Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway. Make a quick stop at Soda Dam on your way to marvel at a centuries-old geological formation created by mineral deposits, and maybe even take dip in the pool below—a local swimming hole. The park itself consists of a 13-mile-wide valley formed by the eruption of a "super volcano"—one of just six in the world—approximately 1.25 million years ago. The caldera is responsible for the naturally heated waters that flow from its basin, and is a great place for hiking, snowshoeing, and mountain biking, as well as viewing wildlife like elk, bear, and wild turkeys (hunting is allowed, if procuring your own Thanksgiving dinner is on your bucket list).
In 1860, a geyser erupted at the site which is now the Jemez Springs Bath House, a registered historical site, clueing residents in to the area's commercial income potential. Still operating today, the bath house has a collection of indoor, spring-fed tubs where guests can soak privately and regulate the water temperature to their comfort level. Many guests also opt to add on an herbal wrap or massage for the ultimate relaxation session (reservations recommended). Down the street at the Jemez Hot Springs, a luxe "day resort" with four pools at varying temperatures, guests are pampered with poolside beverage service and shaded cabanas for lounging. Those seeking to tap into their spiritual side can attend a full moon meditation session at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center, and then take a tranquil dip in the facility's quaint on-site hot pools for free (rumor has it that song-writing legend Leonard Cohen was a regular here.)
Several primitive hot spring pools are also accessible via trails in the Santa Fe National Forest, offering hikers a relaxing treat (just be aware that most people like to enjoy their soaks here in the most primitive way, too, a la nude, although this is technically against state law). A few popular ones include the San Antonio hot springs, accessible via a six-mile trek featuring several hot pools and a waterfall, and McCauley Springs, a 3.5-mile loop that provides nice views of Battleship Rock and access to a small collection of warm pools.
The courtyard at the Canon del Rio Retreat & Spa offers a nice spot to enjoy the view of Virgin Mesa. Photo by Katie Hearsum
There are several hotels in Jemez Springs, as well as a variety of private rentals. The Canon del Rio Retreat & Spa is known for its exceptional breakfast presentations of dishes like French toast with fresh fruit preserves and chiles rellenos. The on-site spa and adjoining pool deck complete the property's zen-like atmosphere. A stay at the Casa Blanca Guest House makes you feel like a VIP at a private estate. Owned by the town's current mayor, who can often be found doing yard work on the property, these cozy casitas have fully equipped kitchens, wood-burning fireplaces, and private river access. Across the street, the Laughing Lizard Inn offers colorful, budget-friendly rooms connected by a large porch with beautiful canyon views.
A tour of the Jemez Historic Site shows what life was like in an ancient pueblo, before and after the Spanish invasion. Photo by Katie Hearsum
Jemez is one of New Mexico's original pueblos, and tribal traditions are still alive and well. To learn more about the history and culture of the Jemez people, stop by the Pueblo of Jemez Welcome Center for an informative guided hike through the awe-inspiring Red Rocks Canyon, which served as the backdrop for a laundry list of films, including A Million Ways to Die in the West and The Lone Ranger. For even more perspective on this ancient lifestyle, visit the Jemez Historic Site, where archaeological excavations are on public display, and guests can take a self-guided walking tour of the dig areas.
In addition to geological oddities and ancient artifacts, Jemez Springs is also home to a thriving community of artists, whose work can be admired (and purchased) at several galleries and shops around town. The Jemez Fine Art Gallery houses a collection of high-end sculptures, photographs and paintings, while the Jemez Artisans Co-Op Gallery showcases local craftwork from jewelry to textiles. Tucked away at the Casa Blanca hotel, the Jemez Mountain Pottery shop displays artisan ceramics like vases and flatware. Make sure to visit them all, and you can take a piece of local artistry (and history) home with you.


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Audi R8 V10 RWD: Mid-engined supercar here in mid-2020
The R8 RWS was Audi's first-ever rear-wheel drive car. It was such a success the brand has come back for more – and this time it's a proper production model.
Audi has taken its limited-edition R8 RWS and turned it into a series production model, bringing rear-wheel drive action to (more of) the people.
The new R8 V10 RWD is powered by the same 5.2-litre naturally-aspirated V10 engine as the all-wheel drive coupe, outputting 397kW at 6500rpm and 540Nm. That's 59kW and 40Nm down on the range-topping R8 V10 Performance.
It's sent to the rear wheels (again, just the rear wheels) through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, and the rear axle is now home to a mechanical locking differential.
Audi says the 100km/h sprint takes 3.7 seconds, more than half a second slower than the full-fat all-wheel drive R8. But numbers aren't really the point here.
Because it's rear-wheel drive, the R8 V10 RWD will drift – or in Audi speak, "if sport mode is activated in connection with the Electronic Stabilisation Control ESC, the suspension setup and control system even allow controlled drifting".
If our experience of the RWS is a guide, keen drivers will be able to hang out the tail of the V10 RWD without too much trouble.
Without a front driveshaft, differential, and clever all-wheel drive clutches, the RWD is 55kg lighter than the heaviest all-wheel drive R8 V10 models.
Externally, you'll be able to differentiate the R8 RWD from its all-paw brethren by the two-tone side blades, which are finished in body colour down low and gloss black up top. Owners will also be able to option the Audi badge in gloss black, for a dash of stealthy goodness.
Inside, the standard interior carries over with a few choice upgrades: leather and Alcantara bucket seats, and RWD badges on the dash.
The Audi R8 RWD will be here with the updated wider R8 range in the middle of 2020.
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It could be done in two parts. One a cultural centre, with cafe/ bar/ restaurant/ bookshop, auditorium [modelled on the old Harold Park hotel, in Glebe] etc.. and a business centre where all the major deaf orgs have a presence, and have rooms to hire….. there's numerous ways to achieve this… sponsorship, grants, kickstart, fundraisers and so on… if it is done openly and transparently, it would be a massive boost in morale and standing of Deaf and deaf people. IDEALLY, these centres will be run by qualified people independent of organisations, but the people have to be progressive in their vision for it to succeed.
Thank you, Karen for putting all that out – it is just what I've been talking about for years. I think the next 5 years will be telling how the Deaf Community in Australia will evolve – either for better or for worse. It cannot be up to the 'top level' of Deaf Community, but also the people of grass root too. A good challenge for us to work together.
Looking forward to read others' inputs.
A good exploration of issues options.
I've said for a while that as Deaf societies sell off assets at a good profit they could contribute some of that profit to the Deaf community to establish their on Deaf Centre/Club. The goal would be to have these centre's administered completely independently of the Deaf Societies.
The rationale behind this is simply that many Deaf Societies were established, historically by Deaf pioneers for the Deaf community.
The other model worth looking at, simply because it is wholly driven by a Deaf community sporting entity, is the Hays Paddock model b in Melbourne. It has a regular cclub night and hosts Outdoor cinema and the Deaf market. It's business focus is terrific and it recently set up EFTPOS facilities.
It will be interesting to see what the Vicdeaf/Deaf Children Australia research into Deaf Centres reveals.
Thank you for the article. As I said an excellent examination of the need and options for the future.


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New Fifty Shades of Grey book available from midnight on Kindle
THE book, titled Grey, will be available on Kindle from midnight and will be available to buy in shops tomorrow.
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E. L. James says her new book, GREY, has been stolen (Image: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty)
FANS of EL James' sado-masochistic saga will be able to get their hands on the latest Fifty Shades Of Grey story at the stroke of midnight tonight.
The new book , titled Grey, will be in shops tomorrow but is available to download on Kindle from midnight and is already among Amazon's eBook best-sellers.
Its author is in New York on publication day as part of an international publicity campaign for the book which is a guaranteed best-seller.
The new book is a re-telling of the first novel in the hit series about an affair between mysterious tycoon Christian Grey and lover Anastasia Steele from the point of view of its title character.
Jamie Dornan played Grey and Dakota Johnson was his lover in the hugely successful film version of the story.
James said she wrote the book after demand from fans. On the opening page, she says it is "dedicated to those readers who asked ... and asked ... and asked ... and asked for this".
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The Fifty Shades trilogy - Fifty Shades Of Grey , Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed - has sold more than 125 million copies around the world.
It has made James a millionaire many times over. This year's Sunday Times Rich List estimated her fortune at £75 million.
The book made headlines last week after it was reported a finished copy of the novel had been stolen, but a Kent Police spokeswoman said the force had found "no evidence" to suggest a crime had taken place.
She said: "Following a report that one book had been stolen after packaging was found to be damaged, there is no evidence at this stage to suggest that an offence has been committed. No more action will be taken unless further information is received."
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Q: Displaying and Comparing the classification report of different models using graph I have used 4 models to create my project, the multinomial naive Bayes classifier, logistic regression, linear SVC and random forest classifier. I want to show the classification report for all the above classifiers together to compare them in a single graph. They all are used for performing linear classification. My data set contains 5 columns: title, text, subject, date and class. The class can only be "FAKE" or "REAL".
from sklearn.model_selection import TimeSeriesSplit
from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression

from yellowbrick.classifier import ClassificationReport
from yellowbrick.datasets import load_occupancy

X, y = load_occupancy()

classes = ["REAL", "Fake"]

tscv = TimeSeriesSplit()
for train_index, test_index in tscv.split(X):
   X_train, X_test = X.iloc[train_index],
   X.iloc[test_index]y_train, y_test = y.iloc[train_index], y.iloc[test_index]

model = LogisticRegression()visualizer = ClassificationReport(model, classes=classes, support=True)

visualizer.fit(X_train, y_train)
modelvisualizer.score(X_test, y_test)
datavisualizer.show()

I have used Logistic regression for making the report and plotting a heatmap of the same.
LINK OF IMAGE SCREENSHOT OF HEATMAP OF CLASSIFICATION REPORT USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION.
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I have been able to show the classification report using the logistic regression model. But I want to show and compare the classification reports of all the models that I have used together at the same time in the form of a graph.


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Nolan Arenado ranked third-best player in…
Nolan Arenado ranked third-best player in baseball by MLB Network
Shortstop Trevor Story comes in at No. 30
David Zalubowski, The Associated Press
Colorado Rockies' Nolan Arenado dives into third base after hitting a triple off Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Brent Suter in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 12, 2018, in Denver.
By Patrick Saunders | psaunders@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 14, 2019 at 8:44 pm | UPDATED: February 14, 2019 at 10:24 pm
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Nolan Arenado's stardom received a boost Thursday night when the MLB Network named him its No. 3 players in the the majors, trailing only the Angels' Mike Trout at No. 1 and Boston's Mookie Betts at No. 2.
Arenado, who recently inked a record $26 million deal to avoid salary arbitration, is entering the final year of his contract with the Rockies. Owner Dick Monfort has expressed optimism that a long-term deal will get worked out. Arenado is not certain what the future holds, but he did want to send Rockies fans a message.
"I want them to know that everything is good," he said. "The front office has been great, super honest and really open to questions. If it doesn't get done this spring, that's OK. It doesn't mean it will never happen.
"It's a long season and the focus is on the team. The front office is trying to help us win games and I'm trying to do the same thing, so that will be our No. 1 focus."
Arenado said of the recognition from MLB Network: "It's pretty cool. I appreciate people enjoying my game. Now, let's get to work."
Arenado also moved up on the list four spots from No. 7 in 2018.
Colorado shortstop Trevor Story made the list for the first time, coming in at No. 30. Outfielder Charlie Blackmon, ranked 16th last year, is No. 38 this year. Left-handed starter Kyle Freeland, who finished fourth in the National League Cy Young Award voting in 2018 and put together one of the best pitching seasons in Colorado history, is ranked 64th.
The MLB Network's "Top 100 Right Now" is based on player performance over the past several seasons, with an emphasis on 2018 and projected 2019 performance.
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"Should I be worried," one soldier asks another in Shane Black's The Predator. Based on the first teaser for Black's update on the franchise that kicked off with the 1987 film, full of nasty alien horror, yeah, we should all be worried.
The first teaser for The Predator was mostly a quick tease of Black's horror reboot, with Jacob Tremblay accidentally ruining everything and causing the return of the alien hunters. But the full trailer gives an even better taste of all the nasty violence and explosive action to come. On top of that, it's a great showcase of a stellar cast. Moonlight's Trevante Rhodes puts a cigarette out on his tongue (as cool as it looks, don't try this at home!), Sterling K. Brown talks about making hats out of rib cages and makes it sound like Shakespeare, and Keegan-Michael Key has a pretty solid Your Mama joke.
Black's film also stars Tremblay, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Game of Thrones' Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Jake Busey and The Handmaid's Tale's Yvonne Strahovski. The Predator hits theaters September 14.
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The Kirk Cousins Accident
Published in The County Times (https://countytimes.somd.com)
During the 2015-16 season, Washington QB Kirk Cousins started every game, threw for a team-record 4,166 yards, led the NFL with a 69.8% completion percentage and totaled 34 touchdowns (29 passing, five rushing), best in franchise history. There were ups and downs, but Cousins was spectacular down the stretch and in several critical games where Washington's uneven season hung in the balance. Cousins, 27, displayed the expected growth from a fourth-year pro; he wasn't expected to break records and entrench himself as the team's starting quarterback. But, in cranking out those aforementioned statistics and leading the team to nine wins and a division title, that's
exactly what he did.
Cousins's season was an accident; merely suggesting such a thing three years ago, when Cousins was a curious fourth round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, would have been predicting a disaster. Prior to that draft, Washington had shipped a treasure trove of picks to St. Louis so it could select Robert Griffin III - the sexy, charismatic and gifted Heisman Trophy winner - second overall. By 2015, Griffin was supposed to be the franchise quarterback. He should have owned the town, stuffed his resume with multiple Pro Bowl selections and, like Cam Newton, Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck, been considered one of the next generation of great signal callers.
That was the plan. Of course, if you're of adequate age, you know that life knows no plan it can't upset. Griffin, shall we say, didn't work out. His career in Washington was undone by ego, pride, injury, mismanagement, selfishness and unnecessary distractions – by player and organization. It's ironic that his departure from Washington will coincide with the directionless Rams leaving St. Louis for Los Angeles. Maybe Griffin's a match for the Rams in the City of Angels. That would be fitting.
Meanwhile, Washington's moving forward with Cousins (a lucrative new contract seems a formality). On the surface, it's an unbelievable story – equally sad (because of the Griffin element) and joyous. But when franchise history is considered, Cousins's accidental ascension makes total sense.
Heralded, blue chip quarterbacks and the 'Skins just don't work. I call it "The Curse of Sammy Baugh." Here's a list of quarterbacks selected by Washington in the first round: Sammy Baugh (1937), Jim Hardy (1945), Harry Gilmer (1948), Jack Scarbath (1953), Ralph Guglielmi (1955), Don Allard (1959), Norm Snead (1961), Heath Shuler (1994), Patrick Ramsey (2002), Jason Campbell (2005) and Griffin (2012). Baugh is one of the greatest players in NFL history; the others barely managed middling NFL careers…hence "The Curse".
Conversely, Washington plucked Sonny Jurgensen, a fourth round pick, from Philadelphia in a 1964 trade. Billy Kilmer was acquired via trade after stints in New Orleans and San Francisco. Joe Theismann, a fourth round pick by Miami, played three years in Canada before Washington traded for him in 1974. Doug Williams, the one-time Tampa Bay quarterback, was signed after the USFL went belly-up in 1986. And Mark Rypien was drafted in the sixth round. These cast-offs, reclamation projects and late-round fliers did okay: Jurgensen's in the Hall of Fame, Kilmer led Washington to its first Super Bowl, Theismann's an NFL MVP and Williams and Rypien are Super Bowl MVPs. With that historical context, it makes perfect sense that Cousins, the 102nd selection of the 2012 NFL Draft, would ultimately beat out Griffin, the can't-miss prospect selected 100 picks earlier.
My wife and I attended a Rolling Stones concert last summer. After Mick, Keith and the boys finished the song, You Can't Always Get What You Want - a classic that includes the line, "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you find, you get what you need" - my wife quipped, "This song reminds me of how I ended up with you." I choose to attribute the remark to her fountain of sarcasm. Regardless, the tune still resonates because it speaks to a common experience: Life has a way of bypassing our frivolous wants and delivering our needs. Maybe Washington's search for a quarterback followed a similar path. Griffin was the quarterback they wanted; Cousins is the guy they needed.
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First collisions in ATLAS
23rd November 2009 – A few days ago, loud cheers and happy faces filled the ATLAS Control Room while the whole detector lit up: protons are back at the experiment's door, and everybody forgot in a second the long year of waiting for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to resume operation.
LHC beams and events back in ATLAS
21st November 2009 – Loud cheers and happy faces fill the ATLAS Control Room while the whole detector lights up: protons are back today at the experiment's door, and everybody forgets in a second the long year of waiting for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to resume operation.
ATLAS Profile
Yongsheng Gao
16th November 2009 – Yongsheng Gao was born in Jinan, the capital of the Shandong province of China, also the home of Confucius some 2500 years ago. The Yellow River flows by Jinan, the 'City of the Springs', with the Mountain Tai nearby.
ATLAS Preparing for Collisions in Late-2009
15th November 2009 – The most recent schedule envisions beam reaching ATLAS in late November with low-energy collisions shortly thereafter.
Hans Peter Beck
2nd November 2009 – Unlike most of us at CERN, Hans Peter Beck is a Swiss native. He grew up in places like Weggis, on the shore of Lake Lucerne; Wolfenschiessen, in the mountainous interior of Switzerland; Dietikon, a suburb of Zürich, and finally in Zürich itself. He completed his matura – the Swiss secondary education – at the Mathematical Natural Science Gymnasium, Rämibühl, Zürich. Although he received better marks in chemistry at the time, physics held a much stronger attraction because it delves into matter at its most basic.
Richard Teuscher
22nd September 2009 – As an ATLAS physicist, it's not often you get to stand back and look at the bigger picture, according to Richard Teuscher: "Not at all! It's only really when you get a chance to talk to someone about what you're doing. Day-to-day, you're writing software or fixing some part of the detector. But at the end you think, 'Wow, look what we've done!'"
Lidia Smirnova
7th September 2009 – Moscow has been home to Lidia Smirnova for as long as she can remember. She was born in Ukraine, her mother's region, shortly after the end of World War II. Her father, from Siberia, had served five years in the thick of the fighting, on the Soviet side. "He was wounded twice, but was really lucky to be saved with his life," says Lidia. He was also very lucky to be stopped in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, on his way from Germany to Japan. In that summer, 1945, he met Lidia's mother.
Claudia Marcelloni
27th July 2009 – Most people at CERN know Claudia Marcelloni as the ATLAS photographer and the exquisite eye behind the ATLAS book, Exploring the Mystery of Matter. But to Claudia, photography is just one tool that she could use to practice her passion: the creative communication of ideas.
George Mikenberg
13th July 2009 – Born Jorge in Argentina, George Mikenberg is a man of many aliases. He changed his name to the Hebrew Giora when he settled in Israel, but in English-speaking company, he encountered a problem: "The Anglo-Saxons cannot pronounce it, or rather they pronounce it in a way that means WC in Arabic." And so he became George, but also Georg for the German-speaking, and Georges for his French-Swiss wife.
Jochen Schieck
16th June 2009 – For Jochen Schieck, monthly trips to CERN – often spanning just one day – suit him well. The rest of the time he's based at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Physics in Munich.
=== All Updates ===


Here's a second look at what I've termed the looping effect mani. So far this blog hasn't seen recent looping effect nail art, rather, I've been posting looping manis from the archives, and the same is the case for this post. BUT it's pink, and tomorrow is valentine's day sooooo... deal with it.
The looping effect is quite simple to do especially if you're using an opaque polish that comes with a skinny brush so you don't actually need to source a skinny paint brush and dip it into endless polishes trying to figure out which ones will swipe on opaque in one coat. Brands like Kiss nail art, Quo by Orly, Art Deco, Jordana, and many others have caught on to this trend and have begun selling skinny nail polish bottles that are essentially a sign that there is a skinny brush inside intended for detailing/striping.
I apologize though, for the terrible photo quality (hence only two photos of the nails). I promise at some point in the future I will give you all a more recent reincarnation of the looping effect!


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Galmuská tisina je národní přírodní rezervace v oblasti Slovenský ráj.

Nachází se v katastrálním území obce Spišské Vlachy v okrese Spišská Nová Ves v Košickém kraji. Území bylo vyhlášeno v roce 1982 na rozloze 55,96 ha. Ochranné pásmo nebylo stanoveno.

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 Národní přírodní rezervace Galmuská tisina, Štátny zoznam osobitne chránených častí prírody SR
 Chránené územia, Štátna ochrana prírody Slovenskej republiky

Národní přírodní rezervace na Slovensku
Chráněná území v okrese Spišská Nová Ves
Spišské Vlachy
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The Burlington Police Department has found another old badge after a story in the Burlington Free Press led to the discovery.
Retired Sgt. Gordy Gilbert saw a Free Press article Tuesday about the department's 150th anniversary and the accompanying photo of a historic badge. Then Gilbert remembered he had a similar 100-plus-year-old badge in his own collection, Chief Michael Schirling said.
Gilbert, who is traveling, asked one of his sons to bring the badge to the police, which he did on Tuesday.
The round badge with a star in the center differs slightly from a similar item in the department's collection: The badge the police have has the numeral "10" in the center of the star. Gilbert's features a design that resembles an elaborate fleur de lis.
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ACS President Allison Campbell issues statement on Society response to hurricanes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | September 29, 2017
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2017 — Today, American Chemical Society (ACS) President Allison A. Campbell, Ph.D., issued the following statement offering support for those impacted by hurricanes that recently damaged coastal regions of the U.S.
"In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, our thoughts are with all of those impacted by these storms. The unprecedented disasters in Texas, Florida and, most recently, Puerto Rico are distressing. As areas begin to recover and start to rebuild, ACS seeks to support those in the chemistry enterprise by serving as a clearinghouse for institutions and small businesses with particular chemistry-related needs, such as universities that have lost equipment or supplies. The Society is also available to connect parties in need with an ACS technical division, business or other affiliated group that might be in a position to provide direct assistance.
"Many of us feel helpless seeing the severity of the situation in Puerto Rico and other areas ravaged by Harvey, Irma and Maria. One thing you can consider is contributing to the charity of your choice if you have the ability to do so. The Red Cross is one such charity that gives you the option to direct your donation to a certain area.
"We recognize that many people are dealing with more urgent issues at present, but don't hesitate to reach out to ACS if there is a role we can play to help get you back on your feet. You can contact me directly at president@acs.org or through ACS Member Services at service@acs.org."
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is a not-for-profit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. ACS does not conduct research, but publishes and publicizes peer-reviewed scientific studies. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.


A Rake is a Rake…Or Is It ?
Which tools work best for each operation? Below is a chart that looks at the various tasks and ranks how each of the tool's performances typically pan out. Keep in mind that ultimately the choice of tools for a task usually falls on the personal preference of the groundskeeper performing the task. Everyone has their favorites but the chart should give you a place to start if you are looking for the right tool for the job.
Your basic standard issue ground crew rake. Nothing special here, but it can do most basic jobs fairly well and usually comes in several different widths, from 24" to as wide as 60", depending on the tooth style chosen. These rakes tend to be the workhorse of a ground crew. They can take the real "bull" work of rough grading and general raking better than any other rakes.
The short tooth rake leaves a fine grade, good for finish work after trash (pebbles, dead grass clippings, clay chunks, etc.) has been removed on skin areas. The sharper teeth are suitable for shallow scarifying. Will struggle if used for general raking or rough grading. You really need the longer teeth for that operation.
The best of both worlds! Short and long teeth on one rake makes this rake more versatile. It can be used in many different applications. This rake is not for everyone though. Some people prefer to have the straight edge on one side of the rake instead of teeth on both sides.
A great all-around rake, a wooden grading rake is not as bulky and awkward as an aluminum grading rake. This lightweight rake truly excels with finesse work where detailed finish grading is desired. I've found that groundskeepers either really love this rake or they hate it. It all comes down to personal preference. The teeth are easily replaced if broken. Unfortunately the main manufacturer in the U.S. recently moved their plant and the over 100 year old machine that creates these rakes is proving very testy as they attempt to get it up and running. We hope it returns soon.
If you are dealing with pebbles and rocks on your infield skin, this rake can be your best friend. The screening rake, combined with a steel mat drag and a sifter scoop shovel will help to greatly reduce the population of pebbles and stones in the infield skin over time. This rake will also do an adequate job in rough grading and removing other trash from the soil as it is graded.
There are several things to look for in order to have the right iron rake that can be productive for you.
1) Use a "level head" rake (T-shaped head as pictured to the left). Avoid a "bow rake" as these tend to vibrate or jump when pulled on hardened soil.
2) Make sure it has curved teeth. The curve places the teeth at a better angle for cutting into soil.
3) Sharpen the tines on the back. Grind the bottom ¼ of the tine of the rake on the back side down to a sharp point as illustrated to the left. A sharpened rake reduces the amount of effort the operator must apply in order for the rake to cut into the soil. This is especially true when shaving down high spots in mound and home plate clay areas and shaving out the small hardened lips along the turf edges of the infield skin.
Used mainly for removing loose infield soil and topdressing out of turf edges before rain or irrigation glues it in tightly.
There are lots of different lute scarifying rakes available on the market, but the key to this lute rake is the curve in the rake head. That simple improvement over the other flat lute heads improves its ability to pull larger amounts of soil on the flat edge side without excessive operator fatigue. The curve also improves the performance of this tool for back raking wet infield skins on the serrated edge, especially those using infield topdressing.
The level board is the best fine hand grading and leveling tool available for groundskeepers. The stainless steel reinforced edge insures a strong cutting edge while the relief angle on the back of the level board head allows the tool to float on the surface more easily than the back of any metal rake. The 54" wide head improves grading and leveling on large areas. You should pperate it in much the same manner as a road grader operates its blade.
This blog provides a general direction as to the grooming tools to use for the tasks listed but every groundskeeper has an opinion or favorite tool. Lets get some feedback from our readers/groundskeepers out there. Tell us your preferred grooming rakes for various tasks or whether you agree with our ranking of the tools.
Wear and Tear of the Groundskeeping Staff !
Football season is underway at all levels across America. Teams have begun to prepare themselves for the long season ahead. As a result, this is also the time of year when recreational baseball/softball fields may also be forced into double duty posing as football fields – which used to be standard practice for Major League Baseball and NFL Football. Today, heightened expectations for what a field "should" look like, along with heavily scheduled fields across multiple sports, can take its toll on the groundskeeping staff.
Dual Purpose Stadiums . . . . .
When I was a kid/young adult back in the 60's, 70's and 80's, dual purpose stadiums were the norm in professional sports. These fields would get torn up as they switched back-and-forth between football and baseball. It was one of the reasons for the birth of the artificial turf industry back in the mid-60's.
In those days, it was acceptable to have some wear (in some cases a lot of wear) on those professional fields during the overlap of sports seasons in August, September and October. Groundskeepers didn't like it, but they did their best to minimize the extent of damage and everyone understood for the most part.
The Ballpark Building Frenzy Changed Expectations . . . . .
Once we hit the mid-80's and continuing through the turn of the century, there was a stadium/ballpark building frenzy as many cities erected new ballparks and football stadiums. These new athletic facilities were always single sport facilities. Not only were football and baseball finally separated from each other, but the new field systems provided included much improved drainage systems, irrigation systems and the latest and greatest in turf grass cultivars that were more disease and traffic resistant.Additionally, unlike the last century, every game in every league in both of these sports are now on TV, and not the standard definition TV that we had in the previous century that actually hid a lot of problems on a field. Now we have Hi-Def TV that makes turf damage easier to spot. Because of this, we have moved into a new era of professional sports turf management where professional fields are expected to be perfect every day. And should a field have issues or display damage, there becomes much more heightened speculation and banter by observers, sportscasters and others as to what is wrong with the field.
All of this TV coverage adds additional scrutiny on the groundskeeper. It's as if a sports field manager is not allowed to have a blade of grass out of order at the professional level. Most groundskeepers I know are their own worst critic; to many of them they feel their field is only perfect maybe a couple dozen times a year. I was the exact same way in my years with the Orioles.
The Perfection Expectation is Contagious . . . . .
Unfortunately, this demand for perfection sometimes translates down to the recreational level. I have talked to many parks and recreation managers through the years who tell me stories of the public using their recreational fields, wondering why their park fields aren't as good as what they see on TV when watching professional games. There is obviously a serious disconnect here if the public can't separate public recreational fields from high-maintenance professional fields that they view on TV. This is unfair pressure and criticism bestowed on parks and recreation field managers whose resources are usually a small fraction of what the pros have to work with. The modern sports field manager has pressures coming from all directions – heavily scheduled facilities, tight or reduced budgets, limited resources, weather and just not enough hours in a day are some of them.
Expecting perfect or flawless fields is like asking a ballplayer to always bat 1000% or a doctor to never lose a patient. As groundskeepers we will all have wear to deal with, more at times than others. As long as you feel you have done everything in your power and budget to make it safe and playable, that's what really matters. Blemishes and wear will come and go.
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Knockerball set to kick off !
Hammond, LA., locals will soon be able to don large plastic balls at Chappapeela Sports Park and take to the field to play soccer with a crashing and bouncing twist called KnockerSoccer.
Barker said they may expand into other sports using the KnockerBalls, but wants to start with soccer, as he said there is always a demand for adult soccer leagues with locals.
The teams will play on a smaller soccer field in teams of five.
The leagues will be organized by Tangi Kickball, which has a Facebook group under the same name, but played at the park.
"I hope people are going to be excited about this and come out and participate," Barker said.
The KnockerSoccer League plays by the same rules as traditional soccer and is co-ed. No positions, coaches or goalies are needed.
Rules state players cannot intentionally kick the balls or other players with their shoes or feet and no cleats or pointy shoes are allowed.
The cost of a team is $150 for up to eight members. The season starts Sept. 10 and ends Nov. 5. Registration is open now and will close Aug. 31.
There will be a Winter season starting in December and a Spring season starting in March.
Registration is at Chappapeela Sports Park on Hipark Boulevard. For more information, visit Tangi Knockerball on Facebook.
Just Around the Corner ? . . . Fall Renovations !
With autumn sports getting ready to ramp up in the coming weeks and summer baseball/softball season winding down, it's wise to finalize your fall renovations NOW. It's always amazing to me how many people in our industry wait till the last minute, scrambling at the eleventh hour to try and pull a project together. Now they may be successful at pulling that off but it surely can't happen without some stress for the manager and his/ her crew.
If your fall renovations involves bringing in contractors, you'll want to lock them in quickly before they get booked up for the fall. The rule here is the earlier in the year you can confirm the project, the better. Those who notoriously wait until the last minute to try to hire contractors for their field work will likely find themselves getting shut out because most quality field contractors will already be booked for the season. The earlier you lock them in, the better choice of dates you have to select from for them to complete your project.
Part of your fall renovations may require some quantitative testing, such as a soil fertility test for grass areas. These tests are used to help determine your fertility needs in order to bring your soil fertility up to optimum levels for your turf grass. This is always a good idea, especially going into fall as the soils have been depleted somewhat from the active summer growing season. The turf plants are in need of nutrients to rebuild their root systems, repair from summer disease and drought damage, and to aide in winter carbohydrate storage as winter dormancy approaches.
The other testing you should consider would be your infield soils. Did they perform like you wanted them to? Do they take too long to recover after a rain? Are your infield soils stable or loose? Does your infield soil runoff or move dramatically when it rains? These are all signs that your infield soils may need some help in order to bring them into balance to improve performance. Don't guess what's wrong with your infield skin; have it tested. Many can test, but few can analyze and interpret the results properly with respect to infield soil use, so choose your testing agency carefully. Beacon was one of the first companies to provide infield soil testing, analysis and recommendations for improvement back in the late 1990's. We have over 30 years' experience on staff to find the right solutions for your infield. Get your testing completed soon so when the season ends, you can jump right on that infield soil renovation project if the testing indicates the need for it. With results and recommendations in hand, you can plan and order the soils needed to blend into your infield to correct for any deficiencies.
Choose your projects, order your materials and equipment and begin to strategize how you will schedule the project and your crew.
Planning is an important stage of sports field management. Shooting from the hip causes inefficiencies and idle resources. Proper planning builds efficiency and keeps those resources busy, which usually increases the number of projects that can be taken on and completed during your fall renovations. Don't hold up your crew(s) by not being prepared this upcoming renovation season. Get your testing completed, make your plans and purchase the products needed so that when the time comes, your crews are ready at the gate. They'll know where they are going, what they are doing, and have the material and equipment to get the job done in a timely manner.
Skokie, IL. Park Board narrows in on final plan for new park !
The Skokie, IL. Park Board appears to be getting closer to making a decision on what will be included as part of a planned new park to occupy 17 acres of property. In the spring, a public hearing on development of Skokie Sports Park East included about a half-dozen plans — some with elaborate features, one even calling for a domed facility.
But Park Board commissioners last week narrowed their options to two plans, and the final plan to be decided on could be a hybrid of the two.
Park District officials say the park will include a configuration of lit fields that can be used for baseball and softball as well as cricket and soccer. The park will have other amenities as well.
Under the plans, at least some fields would have synthetic turf, which is more costly but makes them much more usable and manageable after heavy rains, project designers said.
Representatives of the Lakota Group and Gewalt Hamilton Associates, Inc., firms that are developing the new park, told the Park Board that synthetic turf fields have become increasingly valuable for recreation facilities like the one Skokie is preparing.
They said there is "virtually no maintenance" involved in these fields.
One of the two final plans presented to the Park Board Tuesday, July 21, is estimated to cost $14 million, the other $20 million. But park officials will have opportunity to streamline a final plan in various ways, which could greatly alter the cost, the project designers said.
Both plans include additional parking from the 148 spaces available there now. The number of spaces at the site would increase to a minimum of 278 and likely more.
The park would also include a splash pad, but its size and configuration are still to be determined, as well as a fitness area.
The process has included input from a number of different sources including park patrons.
Park Board Vice President Susan Aberman said a walking path in or around the park should be viewed as a high priority based on feedback about the proposed park.
Commissioners also were hoping a skate park would be part of the new property, but in the end, the designers said it wasn't a good fit and called it "incongruent" for the kind of park being developed. Park leaders vowed they will continue to explore options for bringing a skating area to Skokie.
The Skokie Park Board has had its eyes on the property next to Skokie Sports Park for a long time.
The site was once occupied by a gas manufacturing plant, which produced gas from coal from 1910 to the 1940s. Legal challenges and a settlement led to a major $60 million to $70 million environmental clean-up by Nicor Gas and ComEd that began in late 2012. The process if finally winding down this summer.
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District owns the property, the west half of which is leased to the Park District for the sports park. Once the cleanup is completed, the adjoining section will also be leased to the Park District.
Differences in the plans include configurations on how to enter and exit the new park as well as the way fields are laid out and their uses. The designers said there has been a declining desire for fields to accommodate baseball and softball, but the need for soccer, Lacrosse and soccer fields are on the rise.
Some commissioners are planning to take a nearby field trip to the Winnetka Park District to see how one of its parks operates before a final decision is made. Park Board Executive Director John Ohrlund said the Park Board could make a final decision in September.


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