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"At the very least, the [Philadelphia Health] department's overall mission – to protect public health in Philadelphia – ought to have prompted more responsiveness and sharing of information about the reckless doctor in West Philadelphia"
Editor's note. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell stands charged of eight counts of murder. In this section, "How Did This Go On So Long?," of its 261-page the Grand Jury denounces the "bureaucratic deficiencies and neglect that, for decades, allowed someone like Gosnell to wantonly break laws, harm and endanger women, and kill viable babies in the secure knowledge that no official overseer would intervene to stop him."
Philadelphia's Health Commissioner told the Grand Jury that he is taking steps to improve the department's procedures.
Dr. [Donald] Schwarz, Philadelphia's health commissioner since January 2008, testified twice before the Grand Jury. He expressed appropriate regret for his department's inaction. And he personally took responsibility. We found refreshing his acknowledgement of fault, his candor, and his evident efforts, at least since being called before the Grand Jury, to find out how and why his agency failed to protect the West Philadelphia community from a notoriously dangerous doctor.
But while he accepted responsibility personally, Dr. Schwarz seemed to excuse department employees who ignored the serious – and obvious – threat to public health posed by Gosnell's clinic, and he provided feeble excuses for their inaction. We saw no evidence that the city health department had initiated an internal assessment to determine how Gosnell fell through the cracks – either in November 2009, when the Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on Mrs. Mongar's remains, or in February 2010, after publicity surrounding the raid made the horror at 3801 Lancaster Avenue known to all.
When Dr. Schwarz testified the first time before the Grand Jury, he should have known that many department employees were well aware of Gosnell's operation. He should have known this because professionals within the department who had information about the dangerous conditions in Gosnell's clinic should have told him. The health commissioner assured the Grand Jury that the department is now taking steps to address problems that prevented the department from responding as it should have. He identified structural problems – and a corresponding mentality among health department employees – that contributed to the city health department's ineffectual handling of complaints about Gosnell. The department has several very different responsibilities. The tasks it oversees range from conducting autopsies to testing for sexually transmitted diseases to dog-catching. Each function is handled by a different division with different staff.
The department's involvement with Gosnell's clinic touched several divisions and sections. One unit, the Division of Disease Control's STD Control Program, tested lab samples from Gosnell's clinic, collected data for sexually transmitted diseases, and followed up to make sure infected patients were treated. Kareema Cross testified that employees from the city health department came to the clinic to pick up specimens and blood to check for STDs. The Grand Jury received no evidence that any of these employees informed others at the health department about what they saw during their visits to the clinic.
Another part of the Division of Disease Control has responsibility for the children's vaccine program, [Lori] Matijkiw's unit, which provides vaccines to clinics and conducts inspections. Investigating infectious waste complaints is the responsibility of the Environmental Engineering Section. The Medical Examiner, whose office is also part of the city health department, performed the autopsy on Karnamaya Mongar and examined fetal remains seized from the clinic's freezer.
Thus, when Matijkiw, who worked in the vaccine program, discovered infectious waste in a freezer, that information was never conveyed to the environmental engineering people who could have done something about it. Dr. Schwarz recognized that, at the least, the department should have electronic records that can be shared among divisions. Employees in any unit would then be able to search for all of the department's records on a particular provider and see the reports of other divisions.
The city health commissioner also identified a more troubling problem. Although he phrased it more diplomatically, what he was describing was an "it's-not-in-my-job description" mindset displayed by many department employees. When asked why Matijkiw's superiors had not reported Gosnell to the Pennsylvania Department of State for action against his license, Dr. Schwarz tried to explain:
I would say that I think what happens is people have a narrowly defined job and I don't think there has been an expectation that people would report to the state as professionals. So I think that is wrong and we are going to figure out a way to change that.
The same narrow view of their job responsibilities was displayed when Matijkiw's superiors failed to share her report with other divisions within the city health department that could have acted.
Some of Dr. Schwarz's explanations for health department employees' lapses were not entirely convincing. For example, he testified that the Director of Disease Control, Dr. Caroline Johnson, told him that one reason "Jim" did not report Gosnell to the Department of State in December 2009, was that "the program people apparently knew something was happening at the site and they didn't call the state." It is highly unlikely, however, that anyone at the city health department knew that something was "happening" to Gosnell in December 2009. Mrs. Mongar's death had triggered no investigation by the state Department of Health. And there is no evidence that the Department of State was doing anything either.
Dr. Schwarz also told the Grand Jury that the city health department is limited in what it can do in response to complaints about medical providers. He gave examples of the kinds of complaints the department can do something about:
I could send somebody out if they have rats. I could send omebody out if someone got diarrheal disease. I could send somebody out if there was an animal, but I can't send someone out if a person's injured.
We understand that the city health department did not have the authority to investigate all of the things that were wrong in Gosnell's clinic. If a patient called up to complain that they were treated badly at Women's Medical Society, or that Gosnell was violating the Abortion Control Act in some way, the health department would not have jurisdiction. But it could certainly submit complaints to the Pennsylvania Department of State and demand that they be investigated. Furthermore, some issues were directly within the department's purview – such as the infectious waste problems and the circumstances of Mrs. Mongar's death.
The latter gave the Medical Examiner's office authority to inspect the facility and to ask questions in order to investigate the manner of death. At the very least, the department's overall mission – to protect public health in Philadelphia – ought to have prompted more responsiveness and sharing of information about the reckless doctor in West Philadelphia. Regarding the responsibilities of his department, the city health commissioner displayed a very different attitude from that of the state officials who testified. He did not, for the most part, try to evade accountability – or work – by claiming that his agency lacked authority to do certain things. In fact, he suggested ways to fill gaps in responsibility that Gosnell fell through. He expressed an interest in increasing accountability, responsiveness, and communication among the various local and state agencies.
ven though the city lacks the authority to regulate doctors or abortion clinics, Dr.Schwarz recognized that the Department of Public Health should have a system in place, which it now does not have, to handle calls made by Philadelphia residents to complain about Philadelphia medical providers. When asked if the health department had ever received calls about Gosnell, the commissioner frankly acknowledged: "if someone called, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't know what would happen." Dr. Schwarz testified that he sees a role for the city health department in cataloging complaints and helping patients of Philadelphia doctors refer complaints to the proper authorities. Complaints about individual doctors would be forwarded to the Department of State, which licenses doctors and is responsible for investigating complaints and imposing sanctions. Complaints about health care facilities, such as Gosnell's clinic, would be forwarded to the state Department of Health, which has the authority and duty to license, inspec
t, and sanction them. The health commissioner told the Grand Jury that his department is already considering ways to help callers register their complaints with the proper authority. The process, he said, should include a response to the individual who filed the complaint, letting them know that it was received and what is being done about it.
Dr. Schwarz suggested the health department might fill another gap by conducting routine sanitation and safety inspections of doctors' offices and clinics. Neither the state nor the city currently inspects them. The city health department does inspect some institutions, such as day care centers, prisons, and schools. It inspects the food services at hospitals, though not the hospitals themselves. Dr. Schwarz acknowledged that the city health department probably could step into that role, although not without hiring more inspectors.
The Grand Jurors hope the health commissioner follows through on his suggestions. We also wish state officials showed as much eagerness to address the bureaucratic deficiencies and neglect that, for decades, allowed someone like Gosnell to wantonly break laws, harm and endanger women, and kill viable babies in the secure knowledge that no official overseer would intervene to stop him.
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Poison's Bret Michaels teaming up with Jefferson Starship, Night Ranger for 2023 Parti-Gras Tour
Monday, December 5 by ABC News
Poison's Bret Michaels is planning a touring music festival for next summer that promises nothin' but a good time. Scheduled for a limited run of 12 cities, Michaels' 2023 Parti-Gras Tour is described as "a celebration of fans, bands, music and... Read More.
Unmanned SpaceX Starship test flight explodes during landing
By MARK OSBORNE, ABC News(BOCA CHICA, Texas) -- SpaceX's Starship rocket, a test flight for a vehicle expected to eventually carry passengers to the moon and Mars, exploded after launch Wednesday, making impact with the ground while trying to land.
Jefferson Starship taking part in livestream event today coinciding with release of new EP
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Jefferson Starship's Mother of the Sun EP, the band's first collection of new recordings in 12 years, got its release today. To celebrate the seven-track set's arrival, the veteran rockers will take part in a Q&A session... Read More.
Foo Fighters, Jefferson Starship featured on 'Fenway Sessions' livestream airing tonight
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Foo Fighters and Jefferson Starship are among the artists that will be featured on The Fenway Sessions, a livestream event showcasing performances from the famed Boston ballpark that premieres today, July 22, at 7:05 p.m. ET via the
New Jefferson Starship EP features songs by Balin, Slick, Kaukonen
Jefferson Starship is about to release its first original songs in 12 years -- with some help from the members of the band's most successful lineup. The group's seven-track EP, Mother of the Sun, is due out August 21. It features... Read More.


Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concern and an ever growing issue within the expectations of stakeholders. Developed with employers, the talents taught have been recognized as those important to the success of organisations and cover every little thing from negotiation and presentation techniques to time administration. From the primary 12 months of research, college students are introduced to the problems and challenges of the business world and the way to clear up them.
Pioneering London enterprise schools have close links to the Metropolis of London and with their outstanding employment data it's understandable that rigorous entry necessities are set with such a high demand for enterprise administration programs. This module aims to offer you the skills and talents to tackle actual life business problems and tasks.
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High quality can mean a excessive degree of excellence (a top quality product"), a degree of excellence or the lack of it (work of common quality"), or a property of one thing (the addictive high quality of alcohol").1 Distinct from the vernacular, the topic of this article is the enterprise interpretation of high quality.
The most important drawback with noise in a enterprise staff is that you do not understand it exists. By the late 19th century, marginal economists Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), Léon Walras (1834-1910), and others launched a new layer of complexity to the theoretical underpinnings of management.


How far back do the threads of the investigation into Trump and Russia actually go?
It seems increasingly clear that former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's new role as defender of President Trump may be more significant in a public relations sense than a legal one. Giuliani is an experienced lawyer, and he may be providing specific guidance to Trump behind the scenes, but his forays into the media have been a prominent effort to shape the boundaries of the investigation from a political perspective. Trump sees the investigation as invalid, and Giuliani is doing everything he can to bolster that point of view.
On Friday, that effort involved a conversation with the Associated Press's Jonathan Lemire and Eric Tucker.
This point about the genesis of the investigation into possible ties between the Russian government and Trump's 2016 campaign has been recurrent. Over and over, different things have been posited as the true genesis of the investigation, generally because those things are presented as disqualifying in the way that Giuliani appears to be ready to argue.
It raises an interesting question, though: What was the genesis for the investigation into possible ties between the campaign and Russia? What's more, is that even the proper way to ask the question?
October 2016? Let's work backward. Earlier this year, there was a political fight over a memo prepared by a staffer for Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) which argued that an application for a warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was based on politically biased information. That information came from what's generally referred to as the "dossier," a collection of reports written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele on behalf of the firm Fusion GPS, which was being paid to dig into Trump's business ties by a law firm working for the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
When Nunes's memo was released, it was quickly undercut by a competing memo from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee and by outside observers. Setting aside those concerns, it's clear that the warrant wasn't the origination of the Russia investigation. The Nunes memo makes clear that an investigation into Russia's interaction with the campaign had begun before that warrant being granted in October 2016.
July 2016? "The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok," the memo reads, referring to information the FBI received focused on another Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos. That information, it seems, was a tip from the Australian government that one of its diplomats, Alexander Downer, had been in contact with Papadopoulos in May. Over drinks in London, Papadopoulos allegedly told Downer that he'd been told the Russians had collected emails incriminating Clinton. When WikiLeaks began releasing emails stolen from the DNC in late July 2016, the Australians informed the American government about what Papadopoulos had said.
An investigation was launched on July 31, according to the Democratic response to the Nunes memo. The New York Times reported earlier this month that the investigation was code-named "Crossfire Hurricane." According to various reports, including the Times's, Papadopoulos was one of at least four people involved with Trump's campaign who were at some point investigated by the FBI. The others were Trump's eventual national security adviser Michael Flynn, campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Page.
Now we come to the "spy" claim that has been the focus of recent attention by the president and Giuliani. It's a reference to outreach by an informant named Stefan Halper, a professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge. In 2016, he reached out to both Page and Papadopoulos, apparently prying them for information about any contacts with the Russian government.
His conversation with Papadopoulos, though, occurred in September, well after it's understood that the FBI started looking at Papadopoulos's contacts. Halper spoke with Page in mid-July 2016, before "Crossfire Hurricane" launched and shortly after Page had returned from a speaking engagement in Moscow. Was that the origin of the investigation?
March 2016? Probably not. We know from the Democratic memo that the FBI talked to Page about possible contacts with the Russian government in March 2016 — even before Papadopoulos was told about the emails and the same month that Page was named as an adviser to the Trump campaign. Page had been on the FBI's radar since 2013, when the agency obtained a recording of a Russian agent who had mentioned targeting Page as a potential Russian asset. Whether there was an active FBI investigation into Page in March 2016 isn't clear.
It's unclear, too, if there were multiple investigations into the four Trump-campaign related individuals that eventually merged into one investigation or if they all began formally in late July. The nature of the investigation toward the end of the campaign isn't clear, either: Was it an investigation into the campaign broadly or into those four individuals?
Late 2015? The Guardian reported in April of last year that foreign intelligence agencies — including the British GCHQ — had begun to gather suspicious communications between "figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents" beginning in late 2015. Those communications were shared with American intelligence agencies into mid-2016. At the Observer, former NSA analyst John Schindler explored the question of when the investigation began and points to those communications as being the possible original trigger for its investigations.
But who could those "figures" have been? None of the four people under investigation by the FBI were associated with the campaign in late 2015. Flynn joined in February 2016; Manafort, Page and Papadopoulos in March. In December 2015 — a period that overlaps with the Guardian's report — Flynn attended a dinner in Moscow for the Kremlin-backed media outlet RT. It's not clear whether that raised red flags for American intelligence officials, but it seems possible that Flynn, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency until August 2014, dining with Russian President Vladimir Putin might attract some interest.
When he first acknowledged the existence of the investigation during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in March 2017, former FBI director James B. Comey said that it had begun in July of the year before. It's possible that we're conflating several things into one: The investigation into possible collusion triggered by the Papadopoulos news in July and separate investigations into people associated with the campaign that began at other points. It's hard to say with certainty.
The trigger for Mueller's investigation was an order from Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein signed in May of last year. It specifically authorizes Mueller to pick up the investigation referenced by Comey in March 2016, an investigation that at the time Mueller took it over was a bit under 10 months old ("a fairly short period of time" for a counterintelligence investigation, Comey told the House committee).
Giuliani's claim that Mueller's probe was predicated on biased or improper information cherry-picks particular points of complaint with the obvious goal of smearing the entire effort to figure out what contacts might have existed as politically biased. Memos shared with a friend by Comey to tip off the Times about his conversations with Trump had nothing to do with the existence of what Mueller was investigating. In fact, it seems clear that Mueller's appointment was an effort to protect the investigation from political interference, given what Comey alleged he had been told by Trump. Take out that concern about interference, and the investigation would still have moved forward within the FBI.
The full nature of the investigation or investigations isn't clear, for obvious reasons. What is clear is that the public explanation of the main effort to determine if there were contacts between Trump's campaign and Russian actors predates Mueller and is derived to some substantial degree from what Papadopoulos told Downer in May 2016 — a year before Mueller joined the effort.
Meaning that it is also clear that Giuliani's presentation of the genesis for the investigation is obviously flawed.


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Portera Systems has been something of a trailblazer in the application services business, focusing on a vertical market — professional services — before vertical markets were cool and becoming the first ASP to offer services based on Oracle software. Now, the company is pushing in a new direction: south. "About 15 percent of our business in recent quarters has been coming from international markets, and Latin America is ramping faster than Europe," says Portera CEO Gary Steele. Portera opened a sales office in Mexico City in the third quarter of 2000 and is working with services firm Azurian in Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica. "There is a perception in the ASP community that international markets are nascent and immature, but we are seeing a strong reception across diverse customers," Steele says. Porteras No. 1 selling point abroad has been letting customers avoid the expense and complexity of building their own information technology infrastructure.
"People ask us all the time about licensing and owning and managing our software, but we dont have shrink-wrapped CD-ROMs," says Graeme Jarvis, director of software engineering at StorageNetworks. The company is scheduled to announce today, April 9, new software services to make its managed storage services more accessible. Customers like the way StorageNetworks gets diverse storage devices to work together, but a portal product and other applications arent available for sale. "We use software to leverage our services," Jarvis says. StorageNetworks does offer to manage an enterprises existing storage assets as part of its service.


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Q: automatically adjusting coda-slider's fixed width on a fluid layout I have been looking into using coda-slider in a webpage with a fluid layout.  The challenge is that coda-slider seems to want a fixed width.  Trying to use percentages results in copy disappearing behind the edge of the panel.
I found a sample javascript that was written to choose a jpg based on the actual width of the container and tried to modify it to change the css width values for the slider panel, but without success. .... ok I got it to work now for width.
The part of the coda-slider css that controls panel width:
.coda-slider, .coda-slider .panel { width: 650px; }

The script I found and modified:
 $(document).ready(function() {

 function imageresize() {
   var availwidth = $("#leftside").width();
   var codawidth = availwidth - 50;
      $(".coda-slider .panel").css({"width": codawidth + "px"});
      $(".coda-slider").css({"width":codawidth + "px"});
}

imageresize(); //Triggers when document first loads

$(window).bind("resize", function(){ //Adjusts image when browser resized
    imageresize();
 });
 });

I got the sizing issue remedied, by using the container size, rather than the page size ... BUT ... coda-slider is using the original fixed width for the slide distance, so once you start sliding every panel ends up offset, which increases with each slide.
Any suggestions for getting the slide distance to change with the width ?
OK getting it sorted ....
Had to modify the coda-slider js file, replacing:
var panelWidth = slider.find(".panel").width();

With the same formula for the css panel width:
var panelWidth = $("#leftside").width() - 50;

That took care of the slide distance.
Now I just have to figure out how to get coda-slider to reset when the browser window is resized.  It resizes the css window, but doesn't reset the slide value.  In the long run, resizing the browser window is not a big requirement, but it would come in handy with folks changing the orientation of their tablet while viewing the website.

A: This is old but, I was having the same problem and turns out that the developer make a new coda-slider that can adjust dynamically to the width.
its here: LiquidSlider

A: I've run into a similar issue while trying to configure a coda slideshow using the Flowplayer Tools 'scrollable' - a pixel based slider - into my fluid layout site.
I've gotten around this issue by changing the coda slider values to %, and then using an extra line of jQuery to force the slider's item panels to stay the same width as the slider container.
Here's the setup I'm using - % instead of pixels for the widths. I'm not setting any width on the slider panels; instead they're being assigned values via the jQuery:

The CSS class 'equal' is targeted by this jQuery:
// Set slider children to width of parent

if($("div.equal").length){
    $.fn.setAllToMaxWidth = function(){
        return this.width( Math.min.apply(this, $.map( this , function(e){ return $(e).width() }) ) );
    };

    $("div.equal").setAllToMaxWidth();
};

This jQuery workaround is an adaptation of the jQuery Equal Column Heights by Jaina Ewen.
This means the slider layout is rendered exactly as I want it on pageload and keeps with my grid layout, regardless of the browser width.
There is a slight catch though - if you resize your browser window after it loads, you're layout can be stretched beyond the width of the slider items and looks a little odd.

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The Outriders are a mindless species of aliens subservient to Thanos and the Black Order, used to fight in the Battle of Wakanda. The Outriders were deployed in Thanos and the Black Order's assault on Earth, specifically in their attempt to retrieve the Mind Stone from Wakanda.
Several Dropships were released from Sanctuary II and were sent crashing down in and around Wakanda; the doors opened and the Outriders were unleashed upon the African plains.
Along with the Black Order, the Outriders faced the Wakandan army and Captain America's Avengers faction, throwing themselves at the force field in an attempt to destroy it. Many are killed, but as they continue, the force field begins to falter.
When some begin to circle around the force field, the Wakandans are forced to let them through, prompting the aforementioned army and faction to engage. As the two sides battle, the remaining Black Order, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Cull Obsidian, attack Vision, Scarlet Witch, and the Hulkbuster. Meanwhile, the Outriders are refusing to be bested by their opponents, relentlessly continuing their assault.
Soon afterwards, as the heroes are beginning to be worn down, Thor, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot join the battle, greatly turning the tide. Some Outriders attempt to escape, although most are decimated by the Wakandans and the heroes.


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Community Leaders Break Ground On New School At 510 Coney Island Avenue
Anna Gustafson
Mar 4, 2015 • 3 min read
Standing in a sea of mud that will soon become a 757-seat school on Coney Island Avenue, Councilman Mathieu Eugene, School Construction Authority President Lorraine Grillo and other community leaders gathered Wednesday morning to break ground on the incoming P.S./I.S. 338.
"I am excited and delighted to see this new school coming into our area," Eugene said of the $68 million project at 510 Coney Island Avenue, near Church Avenue. " … This school is going to offer so many opportunities."
Construction is set to begin this spring, and the five-story school is anticipated to open in September 2017 with seats for children in pre-K through eighth grade. According to the city SCA, there will be two pre-K, three kindergarten, and 29 standard classrooms. There will also be a cafeteria and kitchen; a library; a gymnasium; a "gymatorium," or a gym and auditorium space combined; outdoor recreation space; a medical suite; a parent/community room; and more.
Specialized instruction space in the school will include a music suite, an art classroom and art workroom, and a science rom with work stations for primary students and lab/demo/prep rooms for intermediate students.
"The school itself is going to be a fabulous building," said Grillo, who also praised Eugene for supporting bringing P.S./I.S. 338 to the neighborhood.
Community Board 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer
A number of area leaders attended the gathering and too echoed excitement about the incoming facility, including Community Board 14 Chairman Alvin Berk, Community Board 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer, 44th Assembly District Leader Jacob Gold, Matt Wolf of the Kings Theatre, Council of Peoples Organization Executive Director Mohammad Razvi, and Harry Schiffman of Assemblyman Jim Brennan's office, among others.
"Councilman Eugene's advocacy for … seating in this district goes back even before he was a councilman, when he was on Community Board 14," Berk noted.
While Grillo and Eugene said zoning for the school has yet to be worked out (it won't be set for at least another year, according to the SCA president and legislator), Razvi said he hopes it will alleviate some of the school overcrowding in the area.
"We have a large, growing South Asian community here," Razvi said. "We had to start a pre-K class in our community center to alleviate the waiting list at PS 217 – and still there's a wait list of about 100 people."
Gold, who was taught social studies in New York City public schools for 35 years, said a school with as many amenities as P.S./I.S. 338 will have will make a big difference for students, teachers, and parents.
"The ambiance of a school does matter," Gold said. "A new, clean environment plays a very important role."
"This school is very much needed," added Gold, who also noted that P.S./I.S. 338 isn't the only incoming school in our area – there's also a new school being built on Caton Avenue near E. 7th Street.
What do you think this school will mean for our neighborhood? If you're a parent in the area, is there anything specific you'd like to see this school offer that other area schools don't?


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"I try and capture a feeling when I am painting, a certain mood or tone within the context of the subject. My true center is in a classical style and art nouveau, but I have recently began mixing in abstract influences, iconic and feminine spiritual tones with more fantasy themed subjects."
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B. K. Lusk currently lives in Georgia with her husband of ten years and a few furry friends.
She attended college for art, art education and elementary education and worked as an art therapist before settling in to work as an artist full time.
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I have been working on paintings that embody the power of woman through spiritual and deified representations. Some of my paintings are elaborate and ornate because they are icons of the feminine spirit. I have always been fascinated by religious icons and the elaborate detail and use of gold leaf in their representations and have used this influence to create my modern day icons of the strong and vibrant female perspective. We have so many facets as women, so many graces and so much strength, that I impart this into my creations in order to elevate the fortitude that women possess and exemplify them as the extraordinary beings that they are.
B.K.'s primary medium is oil. She uses a glazing technique wherein she creates many light layers allowing each to dry, adding depth, contours and shadows. This gives her figures a luminescent ethereal quality. She will sometimes paint a swirling textured background and add patterns over patterns around the figure. This creates a three dimensional illusion behind her subjects. She also uses various mediums to create raised layers or patterns on her work. She often glazes interference oils on her paintings that have iridescent or pearlized qualities. The most noteable feature of her work are the raised and intricate designs and patterns that she leafs with gold, silver and most recently multicolor metal foils and powders. This embellishing process can sometimes take as long as the painting itself. Her mixtures of gold and metal swirls, patterns and dots add an opulence to the finished work and in themselves convey their own meaning or story to the work.


Locked Chests are special chests in Nier: Automata that are locked out from access until the first playthrough is complete, and the player begins Route B playthrough as 9S. These chests must be hacked to be opened. This page shows all chest locations as well as their contents. There's a Plug-in Chip available on your second playthrough that shows all items and chests on the map: very helpful!
Located right as 9S and 2B land on the City Ruins for the first time during Gathering Intel, to the left of an empty building that must be jumped on to continue.
Located down the long ladder from the first building encountered across entry to the City Ruins during Gathering Intel.
Located by a broken truck used to jump on destroyed highway near City Ruins: Near Factory Access Point.
Located near the City Ruins: Cave savepoint, unlocked after the Assault event.
Located behind a truck near the Factory: Entrance access point.
Located within some plants to the right of the bridge coming from City Ruins: Near Tower towards commercial facility for Forest Zone.
Down the elevator from the Commercial Facility. Unlocked during Emil's Memories.
Located: Go to City Ruins after finishing Emil's Memories. Above the City Ruins: Cave section, some broken pipes can be jumped into. In one, there's a locked door that opens with Elevator Key. Go inside, then when you find a drop glide down to the first level and defeat some magnetized enemies to find it.
Located: Go to City Ruins after finishing Emil's Memories. Above the City Ruins: Cave section, some broken pipes can be jumped into. In one, there's a locked door that opens with Elevator Key. Go inside and follow the cave down until you drop onto a section with a small lake and two Small Sphere enemies. The Chest is by an opening in the rocks ahead before you fight a level 50 linked-sphere type.
Located: From the Desert: Camp access point, make your way to the building with the U-shaped stacked boxes, where also Sorting Trouble 3 happens. You need to jump across the large road onto the building on the other side. To reach it, sprint and double jump off the ledge. At the peak of the second jump press X + R1 to let the pod catapult you forwards and hold X to let it carry you. While holding X, press Square to make a spinning move with the pod that lifts you upwards, which should be more than enough to reach it. If not, you can also dash at the end.
Located on the way to the storage portion, right from Anemone, follow the path all the way to the right.
Located to the left of the Access Point, behind some containers.
Located by the maintenance shop in The Bunker.
Located by a large rock near the entrance to Desert Housing. Protected by some flying enemies.
Located in Desert: Oil Field, up the ramp.
Located on a drop-down in the Desert: Camp area - follow the undergrounds caverns to the end to find.
Located in a hidden corner in the Desert: Camp area. After emerging from the previous chest, do a dash-and jump to reach the opposite side, then do it again and drop down to find the chest.
Located by the YoRHa unit that is taking refuge from the sandstorm by the oasis in the far side of the map. Same location as Photographs.
Located near the Desert Housing access point, where you later meet Sartre's Fan.
Located: From the access point, exit towards the Desert Zone. When you are on the emptier space, go left and keep going until you find an opening on the broken building. The chest is in the opening.
Located near Park Ruins: Attraction Sq, at the foot of the broken thrill ride.
Located on the grass under the Roller Coaster in the area where you fight the goliath tank machine.
Located on the underground portion. Defeat the boss then go out and down the stairs, turn left and go to a lift, then follow the path all the way to the end.
Located to the left of the door as you exit the room posterior to defeating the boss.
From where Pascal is talking to some children, continue to the left and go down the first ladder you see.
Located right by the Flooded City: Coast access point.
Contains: Archives: Newspaper Scrap. (Upstairs you will find non-locked chest with Small Recovery & weapon: Type-3 Lance.
Located on a building in the middle of the water. Access by going to the broken building on the water near the yellow bus and apologetic machine, then do this combo: Sprint and double jump off the ledge. At the peak of the second jump press X + R1 to let the pod catapult you forwards and hold X to let it carry you. While holding X, press Square to make a spinning move with the pod that lifts you upwards, which should be enough to let you grab the edge.
Located at the root of giant trees up a slope from where you found the last chest, before you meet a group of machines led by a mounted Knight.
Located inside the caslte - go all the way to the right until you reach a dead end and begin going up. Before proceeding back left on the upper floors, look for a way to jump back to the third floor rightmost room.
Located in a deeper section of Forest Zone. From Forest: Center access point, follow the river down until a big drop. Find a ledge you can drop down onto, and continue going down the uneven slopes until you find the chest.
Located at the bottom of the Canyon, next to the regular chest with the Phoenix Dagger. Accessed in quest Lord of the Valley.
Located inside the Tower, to the right of the bridge to the first YoRHa units you see after you enter.
Located behind broken pillars in the room where 9S gets a new arm.
Location: Just after the entrance chamber, in the hall with the first elevator.
Location: After the elevator down from the throneroom, walk along the catwalk until you reach a big cylindrical structure that hides your view. Pass through, turn back and jump as you enter from the right doorway and you will land on a hidden staircase. Continue up the stairs to the left to open an unlocked chest with two gold ores, jump from halfway up the stairs towards the right to land on a hidden platform with locked chest.
Location: In the same room as the Engine Blade, jump across the top of the first set of crushers.
Location: Open the locked door in the chamber after the second set of crushers. Jump onto the second crusher to reach the first one (just the crushing part, not the whole machine), then jump back to the left to reach a platform. Then jump across the top of the crushing machines to the right where the chest is.
Located behind the second stairs in the first indoor corridor you come from the first mission. It locates right below the elevator you escape from factory's underground area.
Location: Opposite the boss fight area with Adam.
Where do you get the Plug-In Chip that displays Locked Chests? The Item Scan chip I got on Route A doesn't display them even when playing as 9S.
Hey guys and gals, I need some help. I am adding links to the page leading to youtube videos that show how to find the chests.
The links show up when I preview the edits but when I click on save they are gone.
I strongly recommend using the Item Scan chip to find the chest containing the strange doll archive.
Climb on top of the broken aqueduct (the one with a locked chest inside containing 10,000G), facing away from the castle. Walk a few steps until you come in contact with a wide pillar. Now go left for a few steps; some rubble will stop you. Now go forward a few steps (facing away from the castle again), until some more rubble stops you. Have your camera aim down at the top of your character's head; slightly to your left you will see a small space between two pieces of rubble that forks into two tiny roads between this pieces of rubble. Imagine this as a fork in the road and go right. You should now be facing a big tree a few yards away; it looks different from the others in the fact that it is thick at the bottom and thinner at the top, like a cola bottle. Go to this tree, and hug it while circling around it to the left (so it should be touching your right hand while you circle it). The chest will be nestled between its roots.
You can get a support chip called item scan (I forget where you get the chip, a shop I think.) It shows the locations of items and chests on your map. Helps a TON when looking for hidden chests.
"Located at the root of giant trees up a slope from where you found the last chest, before you meet a group of machines led by a mounted Knight."
Who wrote this? They're simply terrible, just terrible.


Hiya, I'm Emma I'm from England.
And nice meeting you all!
Hmm, to be honest I enjoy it for a couple of reasons. 1. Because I've always been fascinated about space in general. But stars intrigue me the most, the different stages of how a star develops, the different types of stars and also how they can form constellations. Also, I sometimes wonder about the endless possibilities that are out there. I suppose you could call me a hopeless dreamer really XD 2. I'm more of a night owl than a day person really, so I find sitting outside (when it's not so freezing cold!!) and staring up at the stars quite relaxing.
Well, if it's ever published I'll let you know XD As well as my youtube account, I do have a fanfiction account where I've posted a few of my random fanfictions.


A class for the "apprentice" estimator who may be a recent hire into your estimating operation, or an up and coming journey worker or foreman whose skills you want to further develop.
The new LMCI Estimating Essentials class is currently being scheduled across North America with new classes announced almost weekly.
This two-day course includes classroom and hands-on practice of estimating from review of documents through quantity takeoff, calculation of all direct and indirect costs and concluding with the total price bid.
The apprentices work with mentors on projects in the Finishing Trades and the course is designed to illustrate both the basic and comprehensive series of steps that produce winning bids.
Watch the video below to see what students who have taken the class have to say, and check the registration page on LMCIonline.org to see if we are holding a class near you in the coming year.


Peter Checkland is a British management scientist who thought about systems in a different way.
He started out working in research and development for ICI, a large British chemicals company and rose through the management ranks, to lead a 100-strong group in process and product development.
This role encouraged him to search the literature of the management sciences to assist. However, what he found didn't match with his experiences and management needs. The systems theory didn't fit in practise.
Interested in this apparent gap in knowledge (and after 15 years with ICI) he switched careers, and joined Lancaster University (UK) in 1969 as an academic, with a research domain of systemic thinking.
The outcome of the work that he led within his Systems Engineering department is the approach known as 'Soft Systems Methodology' (SSM), first published in 1972 and subsequently evolved through hundreds of action research projects and further writings. SSM is described in detail in the 1981 classic book 'Systems Thinking, Systems Practice'.
Professor Checkland has since retired from full-time work.
Checkland labelled the existing body of systems work as 'hard systems thinking', which he criticised as assuming that systems are concrete 'things' that can be set out and agreed upon.
Checkland didn't accept this state – the rather important factor of 'people' was missing from the equation. He understood, through his time practising management, that it is a matter of interpretation as to how we appreciate our world systemically. 'You' and 'I' do not see the same thing, neither do we share the same ends, and no matter how hard we might try to (let's say) 'educate' each other, we will always have differing perspectives.
This makes improving systems a whole lot harder – a bit like knitting fog!
Have you ever noticed that it is rather common in conversations (such as business meetings) to think that you and others are talking about the same thing, and are 'in agreement'…only to find out much later that you each held materially different images in your heads? So much so that you very much weren't in agreement!
about whether something has been 'solved', or not.
….to reach a meaningful 'accommodation' (which does not mean agreement) so that 'we' can move to a better place.
Put simply: you (as some supposed improvement expert) might have the most amazing definition of 'the' system, its problem(s) and likely solutions…but if others (and, in particular, your senior management) don't see it this way then you aren't going anywhere!
You first have to understand the people, what they think, and why (where this most definitely includes yourself)….and then do something meaningful with this. This is to 'think about our thinking' – a far harder, yet more worthwhile, proposition.
Soft Systems Methodology, as derived by Checkland and his colleagues, is a systemic process of inquiry into 'problematical situations' in order to define and take 'action to improve'.
Learning for action: A short definitive account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students (2006).
I think it's fair to say that, whilst SSM achieved something of a following in the UK over a period (with hundreds of action research projects performed), it is intellectually challenging and this is perhaps why it didn't exactly travel around the world and it hasn't really continued.
Far 'cooler' (or is that easier?) things gained a following instead – such as 'Lean', 'Six Sigma', 'Lean Six Sigma'…and on and on.
However, the fundamental truths within SSM (i.e. about people) were understood and accepted within the academic world of systems thinking…which then became that much softer.


OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Leave it to Gregg Popovich to play mind games ahead of the Western Conference finals.
So, what will he do to prepare his defense to stop the high-flying Warriors?
''Pray,'' Popovich quipped Saturday before the Spurs departed Texas for the Bay Area.
Stephen Curry could only chuckle at that one.
Popovich doesn't have his old coaching pals Mike Brown or Steve Kerr fooled. Brown spent part of last season working unofficially alongside Popovich and is now coaching Golden State in place of the ailing Kerr, who attended practice Saturday for the first time in more than three weeks as he recovers from his latest procedure to repair a spinal fluid leak that left him dealing with debilitating symptoms.
As dominant as the Warriors have been sweeping through the first two rounds of the playoffs, praying might not hurt either.
Kevin Durant doesn't care who is on the court for San Antonio, he knows that Popovich will have his group ready complete with a few surprises in the playbook.
Tony Parker is out the rest of the way with a leg injury. Kawhi Leonard is not at 100 percent because of a tender ankle. Tim Duncan is long ago retired.
San Antonio thoroughly dismantled James Harden and Houston 114-75 in Game 6 on Thursday night behind LaMarcus Aldridge's 34 points and 12 rebounds to close out the series as All-Star Leonard sat out nursing an injured left ankle he hurt in a Game 5 overtime win.
Golden State has barely been tested so far this postseason, going 8-0 against Portland and Utah.
Sure, it was nearly seven months ago when the Spurs came to town and thoroughly spoiled Durant's much-hyped debut - a 129-100 whipping in the season opener - with the Warriors after his scrutinized departure from Oklahoma City.
Leonard had just a few days to get healthy.
Popovich said he went through a full practice Saturday.
Out of work last season, Brown spent much of his time attending Spurs meetings, practices and games in an informal capacity with good friend, Popovich . Kerr hired Brown as an assistant last summer.
Brown, last a Spurs assistant in 2003 who has said he hopes to do something to repay Popovich someday for the opportunity, certainly learned some X's and O's but it went far beyond that to observing how Popovich has adapted to players now and continued to be a top-notch communicator.
David Lee will face his old Warriors team, while David West faces the Spurs, his former team.
A swap of Davids, indeed. West has been helping the Warriors get ready for his old team.
While he still keeps in touch with Curry and others, Lee is downplaying any potential nostalgia from his time with Golden State.
The Warriors again are well-rested and healthy for the next round of their championship chase.
Durant, for one, feels great after dealing with a left knee injury that cost him 19 games late in the regular season then a nagging left calf during the Portland series.
San Antonio will have to try to keep pace from the tip.
Associated Press Writer Raul Dominguez contributed from San Antonio.


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A member of anti-Islam group Generation Identity (GI) was part of far-right terrorist group National Action (NA), now banned in the UK, an advocacy group has exposed. Jacob Bewick, 27, was spotted at one of NA's marches in 2016.
National Action was the first far-right group to be banned under counterterrorism laws by Home Secretary Amber Rudd amid claims it was a "racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organization." According to anti-racism campaigners Hope Not Hate, Sheffield-born Bewick had been a member of the group.
His Twitter account contains numerous neo-Nazi and pro-National Action posts. In a post from January 2017 on Twitter, he wrote: "Hitler Speaks About the Jews. The truth the world would be so much better if he world of won. It's coming now tho [sic]."
READ MORE: Free speech or hate speech? Right-wing activists 'banned' from Britain (VIDEOS)
Bewick has now pledged support to the pan-European movement GI. The network, which shares traits with so-called alt-right, is not avowedly anti-Semitic. Although it has not directly endorsed white supremacy, it promotes the idea of 'ethnic pluralism'. Members have also been linked with neo-Nazi movements in Hungry and Poland.
GI has become increasingly active in the past few months. Over the weekend the group made headlines after three of its high-profile members were detained. UK border police arrested Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone and Lauren Southern as they attempted to reach London for a political event.
Their detention prompted GI members and sympathizers to demonstrate for free speech in London on Sunday. They were fiercely opposed by a group of anti-fascist opponents chanting "Nazis off our streets," and who claimed there is a difference between hate speech and free speech, a distinction that is in UK law.
Vinnie Sullivan of Veterans Against Terrorism says right-wing groups are having free speech denied to them.
"I don't have a platform unless I create it myself. We have to sneak around and use underground means just to get our message out," he told RT UK at the protest on Sunday. "In this country today it's becoming a crime to be white, a crime to fly your own flag and a crime to have right-wing opinions.
"They [Antifa] turn up with their faces covered – we would be arrested for that. There is no free speech anymore – not even here."
READ MORE: Brits recruited by Ukrainian Neo-Nazi paramilitary organizations
National Action emerged from the far-right scene in 2013 and has been linked to planning terror plots. On its website, it boasted of targeting students and universities in the UK for members. Its website displayed anti-Semitic imagery and lengthy quotations by Adolf Hitler, and its motto was "For a Free White Britain." It organized "Miss Hitler" beauty pageant competitions, ran "white's only" food banks for Glasgow's homeless, and handed out "white zone" flyers.
National Action was banned in December 2016. However, it is understood the group continues to change its name to evade authorities.
In a statement on their website, GI said they had "let go" of Bewick because he had failed to be honest about his past.
"Everybody who agrees to our basic principles can become part of GI. It means defending our ethnocultural identity but also rejecting old ideologies of racism and extremism. Our members come from all different backgrounds. Some from the far left, some from the far right, and some have not been politically interested at all.
"GI stands for a new approach and is finally an alternative to the wrong dichotomy of "Nazism vs Multiculturalism" that the Mainstream wants to create. We don't judge anyone for his past but we demand clear-cut honesty. If people lie to us about their past, there is no basis for trust.
"Unfortunately, this happened in one of our sections and we had to let go of a young activist who was dishonest with us.
"We don't care where people come from ideologically. We care about where they want to go. But if you lie to us you are out."
Antifa vs Alt-right: Masked protesters storm 'Sargon of Akkad' talk at King's College London (VIDEO)
Labour MP Chris Bryant calls for RT UK to be shut down… despite appearing on it himself (VIDEO)


As Robert Cram explains, dynamic weather conditions in racing games are quite common these days, and help to give the racers a more believable and realistic feel, providing a more authentic visual racing experience.
The video pits the Xbox One racer Forza Horizon 2 against the PS4's Driveclub and the multiplat release Project CARS. All three games use elements provided in the game and not in payed DLC expansions, like Forza's £15 DLC which adds tropical storms.
All three games do a decent job with rain effects, but Driveclub seems to be the clear winner in this particular feature.
Project CARS is being released tomorrow for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
The graphics options from the PC version of Project CARS have been revealed. The game features a wide range of graphical options , including Grass, Cars, Environments, Particles and Shadows quality to Crepuscular Rays, Screen Dirt, Bloom and Heat Haze.
Project CARS offers a wide range of graphical options for console players as well, a rather unusual feature in console games.
"Console owners should have just as much right to tailor their game to their particular preferences as PC players," Tudor says, "whether that's authenticity, visual options, how the camera reacts, accessibility etc.
Continual updates and further content after launch.


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Assyrian history : A captivating guide to the Assyrians and their powerful empire in Ancient Mesopotamia/ Captivating History. [print]
By: Captivating History [author]Material type: TextSeries: Captivating HistoryPublisher: [Unknown] : CreateSpace Independent Publishing, [(c)2018Description: 100 pages : 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781727619607Subject(s): Ancient Mesopotamia -- History | Assyria, Babylon, and Sumer HistoryGenre/Form: History. LOC classification: N6537.C378.A879 2018COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Introduction ; The Assyrians Arrive in Mesopotamia: The Early Assyrian Period ; The Birth of Civilization: The Old Assyrian Empire to the Middle Assyrian Empire ; The Beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; Imperial Expansion and the Golden Age of the Neo-Assyrian Empire ; The Fall of the Empire ; Assyrian Government ; The Assyrian Military ; Life in the Assyrian Empire ; Assyrian Culture: Art, Math, and Science ; Assyrian Religion ; Conclusion.
Summary: Located in modern-day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is where it all began. It's the part of the world where some 6,000 years ago people finally said goodbye to their lives as hunters and gatherers, started farming, and began building civilizations. It's from these civilizations that we get some of the most famous contributions to world history and culture, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Hammurabi's famous code of law, which gave rise to the popular saying "an eye for an eye." The story of Mesopotamia is one that is full of constantly changing borders, rising and falling civilizations, and, of course, war and conquest. The world's first empires would emerge here and spend thousands of years exchanging territories, swapping alliances, and fighting for supremacy. It was a real-life game of Risk being played out by some of the world's most revered, yet feared, leaders. But of all the famous civilizations to emerge from Mesopotamia, a list that includes the Akkadians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians, it's the Assyrians who deserve the fame and glory. The empire they constructed over the course of some 1,200 years survived constant attacks, a few defeats, and the famed Dark Age known as the Bronze Age collapse to become one of the largest and most expansive empires the world has ever seen. AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1727619609/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s07?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Located in modern-day Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the great Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is where it all began. It's the part of the world where some 6,000 years ago people finally said goodbye to their lives as hunters and gatherers, started farming, and began building civilizations. It's from these civilizations that we get some of the most famous contributions to world history and culture, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Hammurabi's famous code of law, which gave rise to the popular saying "an eye for an eye." The story of Mesopotamia is one that is full of constantly changing borders, rising and falling civilizations, and, of course, war and conquest. The world's first empires would emerge here and spend thousands of years exchanging territories, swapping alliances, and fighting for supremacy. It was a real-life game of Risk being played out by some of the world's most revered, yet feared, leaders. But of all the famous civilizations to emerge from Mesopotamia, a list that includes the Akkadians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians, it's the Assyrians who deserve the fame and glory. The empire they constructed over the course of some 1,200 years survived constant attacks, a few defeats, and the famed Dark Age known as the Bronze Age collapse to become one of the largest and most expansive empires the world has ever seen. AMAZON
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Holly Willoughby – 'I want Joan Collins on I'm A Celebrity!'
Victoria Wilson Thu, November 15 2:05pm
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When I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here returns on Sunday night, Declan Donnelly has a new co-host in the shape of This Morning's Holly Willoughby. And it seems she's not looking forward to getting up close and personal with those jungle critters...
Holly Willoughby is stepping in to co-host this year's I'm A Celebrity – just don't mention the bugs!
The banter between presenting duo Ant & Dec is as much a part of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! as all the snakes, rats and witchetty grubs.
But with Ant taking time out from hosting this year's 18th series for personal reasons, Dec needs a new sidekick as the jungle show returns this week. And that job falls to This Morning presenter and all-round telly favourite, Holly Willoughby.
Will Holly Willoughby be a hit on I'm A Celeb?
Anyone who's seen ITV2's riotous game show Celebrity Juice will know our Holly's game for a laugh, which makes her the perfect person to host alongside Dec, as 10 brave new celebrities enter camp where, for the next three weeks, they must tackle Bushtucker Trials, critters… and each other!
Here Holly, 37, reveals what she's most dreading about the jungle and who her dream camper is…
What are you most looking forward to?
"I'm looking forward to seeing how the show works having been a fan for so long. To actually be there for real and see how the whole set up of camp works, I think will be really fun and exciting. Aside from the telly side of it, I'm also looking forward to taking the kids to Australia and just having that real outdoor living experience, going to the beach and saying goodbye to this cold weather!"
Former EastEnders actress Rita Simons, DIY SOS host Nick Knowles and football manager Harry Redknapp are among the famous faces heading into camp this year. Who would be your ideal campmate?
"Dame Joan Collins – she's so fabulous and wonderful and I picture her in Hollywood or London in some fabulous apartment, going to a spa and having gorgeous lunches and the jungle is such a different environment to that. But I think she'd be amazing as she's such a strong woman who's survived Hollywood, so I think she'd be good in every way."
Former EastEnders star Rita Simons is one of the famous faces heading into camp
As a fan yourself, what do you like most about the show?
"I like seeing how the celebrities change, they all go in, like me, with a certain amount of fear but, by the end of it, they seem to just turn into these Jungle Warriors. At the start, nobody wants to do a Bushtucker Trial but towards the end they all seem to want to do one! I love watching that change in them as they start relishing all the things in the jungle."
What is your least favourite Bushtucker Trial?
"The eating one, I could never do it! I would come out with zero stars and let everyone down. I'd be useless during the eating trial – I don't even like it if someone eats with their mouth open!"
Are you really scared of creepy crawlies?
"YES! I'm absolutely terrified. If I look at a spider in a tank that's absolutely fine but if one comes out of a tank or is on a celebrity's back after a Bushtucker Trial then I'm not going to like that. I think I'm going to have a problem with smells too as Dec keeps telling me that cockroaches really stink."
Have you been to Australia before?
HOT new romance on the cards for THIS unexpected Home and Away pair
Death in Paradise star Nina Wadia: 'I've slightly fallen in love with The Commissioner!'
"Yes. I did the whole travelling experience down the coastline from the Gold Coast to Sydney. I was backpacking and had an absolute ball. But this will be a very different experience to that!"
I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, with Holly Willoughby and Dec hosting, starts on Sunday November 18 at 9pm on ITV.
Holly pic: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock
Death in Paradise – everything we know about the new series including Jack's date!
The Great British Bake Off: Sandi Toksvig quits 'wonderful' show after three years
Matt King on playing a Death in Paradise murder suspect: 'He's the Arthur Daley of The Caribbean'
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EastEnders spoilers: Sheree Trueman reveals her big secret
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'Ananda Alert' for gala opening of Barracks Theatre
Aisha Davis plays Diane in the play 'Ananda Alert'
Barracks Entertainment Production Company will officially open the doors to its new home and youth theatre hub, the Barracks Theatre, this Friday, June 28, with a gala performance of their newest play, Ananda Alert. Beginning at 8 p.m., the evening will also feature a special entertainment package and an opening ceremony for the theatre.
Ananda Alert relates the plight of a young girl kidnapped by a predator. A press release states that the play is "the perfect blend of intense drama and comedy that will have audiences at the edge of their seats". The play highlights the dangers of human trafficking and explores the susceptibility of young people to sexual coercion, early sexual initiation and abduction through the irresponsible use of social media.
"For nine years, Barracks Entertainment has been in the business of empowering youths through theatre arts, and we are ecstatic to finally have our own home, the Barracks Theatre, a hub for youth theatre. And we honestly couldn't think of a more entertaining and relevant play to launch with than Ananda Alert," said Fabian Barracks, Barracks Entertainment' chief executive officer.
Located at 53 Molynes Road, the 250-seat theatre unofficially opened its doors in February with a remount of the 2015 Barracks Entertainment classic, Force Ripe, which copped the Actor Boy Award for Best Children's Theatre that same year.
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Today we took the Ferry from Levis to Quebec City which is $12 rt and takes only 10 minutes. The ferry runs every 30minutes and is a very convenient way to get into the city. The weather was extremely hot and after taking the Funicular to the top of the upper city, we walked to the Citadel. I bought 2 bottles of water along the way and stopped to rest several times due to the heat.
Since the Citadel is an active station, you must take the tour which is around 1 1/2 hrs. The tour gives you free admission to the changing of the guard the next day unless you get there early enough for the event which is at 10AM everyday until 2 September. We got there in the afternoon so will return tomorrow for this event.
The Citadel is part of the fortifications built in Quebec. The existing star shaped fortification was built by the British in 1820-1831 to secure Cap Diamont from the Americans and to serve as a refuge in case of attack.
The Quebec Conference in 1943-44 took place here and was attended by Roosevelt and Churchill.
Since 1920 the Citadel has served as the home station of the Royal 22nd Regiment and is also the official home of the Queen of Right of Canada and the Governor General who reside several weeks a year.
We then took the Funicular down to the Lower City and near the Ferry to have dinner at Cote a Cote. A thunderstorm was coming in and as we boarded the ferry, the rains came. Walking to our car, we got drenched.
A warm shower and then to bed completed our day.


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    case BuiltinValueKind::Shl:
      return lhs.shl(rhs);
    case BuiltinValueKind::Xor:
      return lhs.Xor(rhs);
  }
}

APInt swift::constantFoldComparison(APInt lhs, APInt rhs, BuiltinValueKind ID) {
  bool result;
  switch (ID) {
    default: llvm_unreachable("Invalid integer compare kind");
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_EQ:  result = lhs == rhs; break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_NE:  result = lhs != rhs; break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_SLT: result = lhs.slt(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_SGT: result = lhs.sgt(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_SLE: result = lhs.sle(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_SGE: result = lhs.sge(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_ULT: result = lhs.ult(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_UGT: result = lhs.ugt(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_ULE: result = lhs.ule(rhs); break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::ICMP_UGE: result = lhs.uge(rhs); break;
  }
  return APInt(1, result);
}

APInt swift::constantFoldBinaryWithOverflow(APInt lhs, APInt rhs,
                                            bool &Overflow,
                                            llvm::Intrinsic::ID ID) {
  switch (ID) {
    default: llvm_unreachable("Invalid case");
    case llvm::Intrinsic::sadd_with_overflow:
      return lhs.sadd_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case llvm::Intrinsic::uadd_with_overflow:
      return lhs.uadd_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case llvm::Intrinsic::ssub_with_overflow:
      return lhs.ssub_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case llvm::Intrinsic::usub_with_overflow:
      return lhs.usub_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case llvm::Intrinsic::smul_with_overflow:
      return lhs.smul_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case llvm::Intrinsic::umul_with_overflow:
      return lhs.umul_ov(rhs, Overflow);
  }
}

APInt swift::constantFoldDiv(APInt lhs, APInt rhs, bool &Overflow,
                             BuiltinValueKind ID) {
  assert(rhs != 0 && "division by zero");
  switch (ID) {
    default : llvm_unreachable("Invalid case");
    case BuiltinValueKind::SDiv:
      return lhs.sdiv_ov(rhs, Overflow);
    case BuiltinValueKind::SRem:
      // Check for overflow
      lhs.sdiv_ov(rhs, Overflow);
      return lhs.srem(rhs);
    case BuiltinValueKind::UDiv:
      Overflow = false;
      return lhs.udiv(rhs);
    case BuiltinValueKind::URem:
      Overflow = false;
      return lhs.urem(rhs);
  }
}

APInt swift::constantFoldCast(APInt val, const BuiltinInfo &BI) {
  // Get the cast result.
  Type SrcTy = BI.Types[0];
  Type DestTy = BI.Types.size() == 2 ? BI.Types[1] : Type();
  uint32_t SrcBitWidth =
  SrcTy->castTo<BuiltinIntegerType>()->getGreatestWidth();
  uint32_t DestBitWidth =
  DestTy->castTo<BuiltinIntegerType>()->getGreatestWidth();

  APInt CastResV;
  if (SrcBitWidth == DestBitWidth) {
    return val;
  } else switch (BI.ID) {
    default : llvm_unreachable("Invalid case.");
    case BuiltinValueKind::Trunc:
    case BuiltinValueKind::TruncOrBitCast:
      return val.trunc(DestBitWidth);
    case BuiltinValueKind::ZExt:
    case BuiltinValueKind::ZExtOrBitCast:
      return val.zext(DestBitWidth);
      break;
    case BuiltinValueKind::SExt:
    case BuiltinValueKind::SExtOrBitCast:
      return val.sext(DestBitWidth);
  }
}

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Bridge Power Project Receives Ghanaian Parliamentary Approval, Signs PPA with ECG
Accra, Ghana – 25 October, 2016 – The Early Power consortium today announced that it has received parliamentary approval from the Government of Ghana and subsequently signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA),
which includes a 5-year extension option, with the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG) for the 400 megawatt (MW) greenfield Bridge Power project.
The Early Power consortium is comprised of Endeavor Energy, a leading Africa-focused independent power development and generation company, Sage, a leading independent trading firm in Ghana and the world's premier digital industrial company General Electric through its GE Power division.
Early Power expects to reach financial close on Bridge Power in December 2016. It will develop the project in two phases – 194 MW in Phase 1 and 206 MW in Phase 2 in the coastal city of Tema, the biggest port in Ghana, 26 kilometers east of Accra. Bridge Power is expected to start producing 144 MW of first power within the first six months to help the country meet near-term power shortages.
"Bridge Power is a first of its kind in Ghana. We've customized the project to provide quick and reliable energy production for Ghanaians in order to assist Ghana's economic growth and create jobs," said Endeavor CEO Sean Long. "Our understanding of Ghana's long-term vision for its power sector is built on having reliable and diversified energy. Bridge Power checks all those boxes."
The project, which is being built in the most economically active part of the country so that transmission losses to most residential and industrial customers will be very low, will have significant economic benefits. While Ghana's economy has grown by an average rate of 7 percent annually over the past 16 years, the provision of additional, reliable power will further bolster the country's economic success. Ghana is estimated to need at least an additional 2,000 MW of power generation over the next five years. Bridge Power will not only provide more than 12 percent of the country's planned power generating capacity by 2020, it will also enable the growth of industrial sectors, light manufacturing and agro-based processing.
Bridge Power is the first Ghanaian project to use a Put Call Option Agreement (PCOA). It allows the Ghanaian government to purchase the plant and associated infrastructure in the unlikely event of an early termination, which means any payment under the PCOA will result in the government and by extension, the Ghanaian people, getting a valuable asset in return.
Endeavor will provide the majority of the equity investment required to accelerate the project. It was also manage construction, and then operate and maintain the plant while Sage will be responsible for the fuel supply for the project. Sage created the gas-to-power fuel solution for the project, using LPG as the primary feedstock for the power plant. Bridge Power is the first such plant in Africa and when completed it will be the largest liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fired power plant in the world. In addition to LPG, which is cleaner and cheaper than light crude oil, Bridge Power will be capable of being fueled by natural gas and diesel. This aspect ensures the project can provide reliable, base load generating capacity and inject some much needed diversification into the Ghanaian generation mix as it will not be vulnerable to the vagaries of rainfall and water levels at the nation's dams or any issues with gas supply.
"From our perspective as a company involved in the Ghanaian energy sector, this is the first IPP project we have been involved in as a peer-partner with significant Ghanaian content, and there is great value in working alongside and pitching in our expertise with international companies with the experience and expertise of GE and Endeavor Energy," noted Emmanuel Egyei-Mensah, CEO of Sage. "Being the first LPG-fired plant in Africa, it is a pioneering example of using clean fuel for power generation in Africa as an alternative to natural gas."
Across the two phases of the project, GE, the third member of the consortium, will provide 400 MW of power generating capacity through nine GE gas turbines and two purpose built GE steam turbines in two separate combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) configurations. In combined cycle plants, the waste heat from the first turbines can be used to power other turbines, thereby generating more electricity and making the whole project more efficient. Also, each of the nine gas turbines can operate independently, allowing ECG to more efficiently match supply to actual demand.
Additionally, GE will provide an 'on balance sheet' financing solution for the capital required for an acceleration of the first phase of the project as well as a long-term service agreement for the life of the project to ensure reliability and power plant availability of world-class standards.
GE Ghana CEO, Leslie Nelson commented, "Bridge Power for GE is much more than just another power plant. This project represents the first integrated gas-to-power project we will successfully deploy on the continent. Our goal was to successfully create and implement a gas-to-power project that included a full gas solution and financing package and then deploy this model to other countries that are not endowed with cost-efficient fuel sources."
He added, "We at GE are very proud of the multiple technical, commercial and financial innovative solutions developed by GE, Sage and Endeavor Energy alongside ECG for this project."
The cost of development and construction of the project will be born 100 percent by equity invested and debt raised by Early Power.
For more information about Bridge Power, please visit www.endeavor-energy.com.
About Endeavor Energy
Endeavor Energy is a leading independent power producer (IPP) company focused on Africa with its headquarters in Houston, Texas, USA and offices in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, Accra, Ghana, Conakry, Guinea and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Endeavor Energy develops, acquires, finances, owns and operates thermal, hydroelectric, biomass, waste-to-energy and "hybrid, first-of their-kind" power generation plants in Africa.
Endeavor Energy is led by a seasoned management team with over 200 years of combined IPP experience around the world, and a proven record of identifying and executing on project development and acquisition opportunities in Africa and elsewhere. With the financial backing of energy-focused global private equity investor Denham Capital, the company possesses significant financial and operational capability to generate and participate in multiple power development projects in Africa. Endeavor Energy is also a sponsor of the U.S. government's Power Africa initiative. For additional information, please call +1 (281) 369-5908 or email us at contact.us@endeavor-energy.com. For more information about Endeavor, visit www.endeavor-energy.com.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE first started operating in Sub-Saharan Africa over 100 years ago. However in 2011, we decided to renew our focus to meet Africa's current and future needs. Our footprint in sub-Saharan Africa now consists of over 2600 employees, revenues of about $3.3 billion dollars (2015) and operations in 25 countries. GE's main operations in SSA are in Nigeria, South Africa, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya where its SSA Headquarters is located.
One of Ghana's leading independent energy trading companies, Sage is part of The Quantum Group of companies, a wholly-owned Ghanaian entity that employs more than 2500 people, with interests in Petroleum Trading & Distribution, Terminals & Infrastructure development, Power Generation and Technology & Communications sectors. Some of the groups' petroleum related projects include a 100,000MT Liquids storage in Tema and a 1500cbm LPG storage and evacuation facility at Atuabo. Sage has its main operations in Ghana and is actively exploring the West and East Africa markets. For more information about Sage, visit www.sagetradinggroup.com.
About Denham Capital
Denham Capital is a leading energy and resources-focused global private equity firm with more than $8.4 billion of invested and committed capital across eight fund vehicles and offices in London, Boston, Houston and Perth. The firm makes direct investments in the energy and resources sectors, including businesses involving power generation, oil and gas, and mining, across the globe and all stages of the corporate lifecycle. Denham's investment professionals apply deep operational and industry experience and work in partnership with management teams to achieve long-term investment objectives. For more information about Denham Capital, visit www.denhamcapital.com.


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Mr Schulz's statement comes shortly after EU states decided to delay the granting of visa waiver programs for Georgia and Ukraine.
Some EU members have been skeptical to expanding the list of countries whose citizens can visit Europe without a visa. The migrant crisis brought over 1.3 million new people into Europe last year, most of whom ended up in Germany. A new system to quickly cancel the visa waiver program of individual countries is now being put in place, and under consideration in the EU's parliament.
Germany might have chosen to delay the inclusion of Georgia in the visa waiver program until this mechanism is in place, Reuters reported, quoting German diplomats, but also brought two other possible explanations, that Georgia had to wait in line for either Turkey or Ukraine. EU Observer wrote that one reason Germany voted against was that Georgian criminal gangs in Germany, which specialize in home burglaries, have become a public concern and that Tbilisi should help solve the problem before the EU proceeds.
The strongest support for Georgia in the visa waiver issue comes from the Baltic states. During yesterday's meeting between the prime ministers of Estonia and Latvia, Taavi Rõivas and Māris Kučinskis, Mr Rõivas noted that Georgia and Ukraine met the prerequisites of the European Union and should be granted a visa waiver immediately. The foreign minister of Bulgaria, Daniel Mitov and the president of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska have both recently supported Georgia in the issue.
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