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Vol 1 No 1 (2020): SBSE2020 /
A New Bidirectional Three-phase Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) Grid-Connected Converter: Analysis and Simulation
Christel E. G. Ogoulola Federal University of Itajubá
Angelo J. J. Rezek Federal University of Itajubá
Robson B. Gonzatti Federal University of Itajubá
Vinicius Z. Silva Federal University of Itajubá
Marcos L. Ramos Federal University of Itajubá
Elio C. Alfonso Technologic University of Habana
Raynel D. Santos Technologic University of Habana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48011/sbse.v1i1.2202
Keywords: Neutral Point Clamped, Unit Vector Generation, Phase Locked Loop, Pulse Width Modulation
This paper deals with the theoretical development, analysis, and simulation of the new topology of three-phase NPC (Neural Point Clamped) converter. The proposed 6-kW three-phase converter is connected to a three-phase electrical network and due to its bidirectional characteristics can either send energy to the grid or receive it from the grid. The classic strategy of vectorial control at the DQ synchronous reference frame, along with a simple algorithm for Unit Vector Generation (UVG), have been employed to control the line currents in the grid and the DC-bus voltage, thus substituting the PLL (Phase Locked Loop). A PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) strategy is presented in the form of an analog circuit and used for switching the semiconductors in the converter. The obtained results were verified using Matlab/Simulink software. The proposed converter has five voltage levels at the output for each phase and proven more advantageous than the conventional NPC. In addition, it was obtained a better harmonic content in the grid currents because there is very low Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) both when acting as a rectifier and as an inverter.
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Here's our boss, Golf Digest's Editor-in-Chief, back on TV and living it up at Pebble Beach
A year ago -- to the day, it turns out -- we wrote about our boss Golf Digest Editor-in-Chief Jerry Tarde's clutch hybrid shot that was caught on TV during the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Here's that shot.
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At the time, we made all kinds of tongue-in-cheek remarks about how he was our boss, and so there was no way to describe his shot without looking like the world's biggest suck-ups. Now comes another Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and Tarde is back lapping up the glory of the Monterey Peninsula. This time he even scored an interview on Golf Channel after a second round in which he and pro partner Ricky Barnes settled into a tie for 11th place after a second round 66.
Here it is.
Again, same deal. We could tell you how brilliant Jerry sounded, eloquent yet unassuming, but we just come across as a bunch of sycophants, so we're not going to say that. Unless he wants us to, because then we will.

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....Or anywhere outside with this awesome portable table! I want to get this and just have a picnic in my backyard, or it'd be perfect for a concert in the park, or watching fireworks on the 4th of July...anything. Makes eating and setting up the eats and drinks so much easier and fun.


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Bad Bunny Releases New Video 'Booker T' Over the Weekend
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The two-time Latin Grammy winner Bad Bunny released his first music video of the year, "Booker T" on Jan 2.
The song is a part of his album "El Último Tour del Mundo." The reggaeton artist is celebrating his career achievements with the legendary WWE wrestler Booker T.
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Some of the lyrics of the song are, "Soy un rey, campeón, Booker T, ey (Booker T) Estoy en mi peak" which means "I am a king, champion Booker T, I am at my peak."
Booker T was serious throughout the entire music video, at the very end of the video he says his famous saying, "Can you dig it Sucka?"
Make sure to check out the new music video from Bad Bunny Below.
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스튜디오 허무것도 - Studio Heomugeoto is an international artist group founded by Robert Stokowy. Since November 2018 the group works on the multi-year artistic research project Stages Of Grief. The topic death, fear, mourning & memory are investigated in collaboration with interdisciplinary artists and in changing constellations. The project cycle is structured into different phases, that focus on specific aspects of grief. While the approach towards this topic remains indetermined regarding the artist's preferred practice, sound is the primary tool to gain understanding.
Studio Heomugeoto will publish its research findings as artifacts in form of exhibitions, (concertante) performances, publications amongst other forms of presentation. We invite artists of all ages, gender, sexual orientation & nationality, with(-out) disabilities to reach out to us & collaborate.
SHE WEARS YESTERDAY'S NEWS is the forth chapter of their ongoing work cycle Stages of Grief, which deals with the process & forms of (re-)presentation of mourning, death, dying, fear & empathy. S.W.Y.N. focusses on thought and memory processes in relation to mourning. All works link to different forms how memory is created, kept and delt with once the person of reference is no longer alive. These memories may be constant, changing, vanishing, slowly fading, ever returning or being repressed. The installment consists of sonic, visual & conceptual pieces which result from artist research.
Thanks to Verity at Retramp.
Phenomenology of Darkness is an interdisciplinary assemblage by poet & performer Julia Chernenko (Moscow) & artist Robert Stokowy (Berlin). As part of the work cycle Stages of Grief, the artists created an exhibition, guiding the audience through a narrative on Darkness. Each work is closely interwoven with others, as each piece is contributing its own perspective & aesthetic expression, relating to fear, lostness, mourning & death. The contributed works result from a philosophical discourse on what Darkness means to them. Each artwork tries to capture an essential aspect of how Darkness appears, manifests itself and conditions its surroundings. The exhibition, performances & artist talk are inherent parts of a carefully created environment that allows you to reflect of your own individual perspective & experience on/of Grief.
Support by: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), HSE & Corporate Library System of Central Admin. District of Moscow.
SKIN - biological phenomenon, life, separating surface between inside/outside; to strip, cut, damage an outer covering, to cover.
The exhibition embraces the inner & outer processes of mourning. How one (can) express her/his sorrow heavily depends on the individual upbringing and the society which dictates norms of how to behave. Artistic research artifacts create a narrative on grieving, navigating between the borders of the shared & private. Interdisciplinary artistic practices are used to reflect on the topic of lostness, fear & death.
This performance is based on the korean traditional mourning service for the dead. 제사 (Jesa) is a ritual in which family members and friends prepare food for dead ancestors. The food is cooked & arranged beautifully on a table in a room. The family then leaves the room for the souls of the dead to come and eat in silence. Afterwards the family joins in and eats the food too.
Under the Sons of Death is a performance that uses this ritual in a musical way. The performers prepare & play two compositions. A silent pause in between the pieces gives the ancestors a chance to come and listen, as it gives the audience a chance to reflect and meditate on the topic of grief.
The piece was performed in Albuquerque (USA), Berlin, Köln, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod.


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Q: .Net & SQL Server 2005: preventing injection when querying against a list I have a search form that needs to query another system's SQL Server 2005 database (so I have no control over their stored procedures/functions).
Generally to prevent injection, my code would look something like this:
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE Id = @Id", conn);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Id", 1234);

This scenario is a little different, in that they are requesting that the form allows for a comma separated list of values to work as well.  So how would I do something like this:
string ids = "1234, 1235, 1236";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE Id IN (" + ids + ")", conn);

In a secure way, with one query?

A: There are plenty of ways that you can pass a list in and do type checking inside SQL. If you use a stored procedure instead of this ad hoc SQL you can simply pass the list in as a string parameter and parse it inside the procedure. It will simply error out if the list has any non-integers.
For example this function:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[SplitInts]
(
   @List       VARCHAR(MAX),
   @Delimiter  CHAR(1)
)
RETURNS TABLE
AS
   RETURN ( SELECT Item FROM ( SELECT Item = x.i.value('(./text())[1]', 'int') FROM
            ( SELECT [XML] = CONVERT(XML, '' + REPLACE(@List, @Delimiter, '')
              + '').query('.') ) AS a CROSS APPLY [XML].nodes('i') AS x(i)
          ) AS y WHERE Item IS NOT NULL
   );
GO

Can be called like this:
SELECT Item FROM dbo.SplitInts('1234, 1235, 1236', ',');

Results:
Item
----
1234
1235
1236

If you try to use any strings at all, it bombs:
SELECT Item FROM dbo.SplitInts('1234; DROP TABLE bobbytables;', ',');

Result:

Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Conversion failed when converting
  the nvarchar value '1234; DROP TABLE bobbytables;' to data type int.

So with that split function in place, your stored procedure could be written this way:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.GetMyTable
    @List VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    SELECT t.col1, t.col2 --, ...
      FROM dbo.myTable AS t
      INNER JOIN dbo.SplitInts(@List, ',') AS i
      ON t.Id = i.Item;
END
GO

And this could be called from .NET with a strongly-typed string parameter @List with no concerns about SQL injection whatsoever - as long as you pass the parameter into a proper call using a StoredProcedure commandType and don't try to build the EXEC ... string yourself.
In SQL Server 2008 you could go a step further and use Table-Valued Parameters (TVPs), which let you populate a set of data to a stored procedure parameter from, say, a DataTable.

A: This was the best solution I could come up with; if anyone sees any vulnerabilities please let me know:
string idList = "1234, 1235, 1236";

XElement ids = new XElement("ds");
foreach (string s in idList.Split(new[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries).Select(id => id.Trim()))
    ids.Add(new XElement("d", s));

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE Id IN (SELECT T.ids.value('.', 'int') FROM @Ids.nodes('/ds/d') AS T(ids))", conn);
cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@Ids", ids.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting)) { SqlDbType = SqlDbType.Xml });

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Q: Inverse function of $f(x)=e^{x/2}$ How would you find the inverse function of $f(x)=e^{x/2}$?

A: $$y = \exp(x/2) \implies \log_e(y) = \log_e(\exp(x/2)) = x/2 \implies x = 2 \log_e(y)$$

A: $$f(x)=y=e^{\frac{x}{2}}$$
inverse is $x=e^{\frac{y}{2}}\iff\ln x=\ln e^{\frac{y}{2}}\iff \ln x =\frac{y}{2}\iff y=2\ln x$


I chose the eggplant, as I love anything purple, and these are a very deep purple, I absolutely love the color. And my bed is not a normal bed, we have several foam pads and a cooling mattress pad on our original mattress, so it is hard to find sheets that will stay on due to the added thickness. But with PeachSkinSheets deep pocket fitted sheets, they stay put until we pull them off, and they will fit up to 18 inches so they are the perfect fit even with memory foam, custom number and double pillow top mattresses.
I got the queen size and the set comes with one 90" x 102" Flat Sheet, one 60" x 80" Deep Pocket Fitted Sheet and two 20" x 30" Standard Pillowcases with European Envelope Closures. They are nicely priced starting at $55 for the colors of the month and go up to $85 for Split King and specialty sizes.
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This film from Woman's Weekly shows you how to line a round cake tin. First you take non stick baking parchment. Fold the paper to double thickness, then rest the tin on top and draw around it with a pencil. After that, then cut just inside the pencil line to compensate for the thickness of the tin. For the sides, you roll the tin on its edge, allowing some extra for overlap and a little extra height above the tin. Make a fold a couple of centimeters from the top and then make some cuts from the edge to just below the fold, all the way along. Press the paper into the base to create your finished lined tin.


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définition - Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid
52nd President of Mexico
José López Portillo
Carlos Salinas
(1934-12-12)December 12, 1934[1]
Colima, Mexico
April 1, 2012(2012-04-01) (aged 77)
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Paloma Cordero Tapia[2]
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (December 12, 1934 – April 1, 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as 52nd President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.[1]
2 Mexican presidency
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Miguel de la Madrid graduated with a bachelor's degree in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in the United States.[1]
He worked for Mexico's central bank and lectured in law at UNAM before securing a position at the Secretariat of Finance in 1965. Between 1970 and 1972 he was employed by Petróleos Mexicanos, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company, after which he held several other bureaucratic posts in the government of Luis Echeverría. In 1976 he was chosen to serve in José López Portillo's cabinet as secretary of budget and planning.[1]
He was president after López Portillo. He won the elections that took place on 4 July 1982, and took office the following December.
He was a member of Collegium International, an organization of leaders with political, scientific, and ethical expertise whose goal is to provide new approaches in overcoming the obstacles in the way of a peaceful, socially just and an economically sustainable world.[citation needed]
Mexican presidency
Miguel de la Madrid (left) with U.S. President Ronald Reagan (center) in Mazatlán (1988).
Unlike previous Mexican leaders, he was a market-oriented President, and his time in power was one of the most difficult periods of the country because of his predecessors' policies, as well as the decreasing demand for oil. Inflation increased on an average of 100% a year (culminating to an unprecedented level of 159% in 1987), unemployment rates soared to as much as 25% during the mid-1980s, income declined and economic growth was erratic. This became a stark reminder of the gross mismanagement and inept policies of the administrations in the 1970s, particularly the financing of development with excessive borrowing from abroad.[3]
During de la Madrid's presidency, he introduced liberal economic reforms that encouraged foreign investment, and widespread privatisations of outdated state-run industries and reduction of tariffs, a process that continued under his successors, which immediately caught the attention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international observers. In 1986, Mexico entered the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty, following its efforts of reforming and decentralising its economy. All told, the number of state-owned industries went down from approx. 1,155 in 1982 to 412 in 1988. This was enough to bring him some strong support, but his administration's mishandling of the infamous 1985 earthquake in Mexico City damaged his popularity for initially refusing international aid, and it placed Mexico's delicate path to economic recovery in an even more precarious situation, as the destruction also extended to other parts of the country.[2]
Galloping inflation, the controversial privatisation programme and austerity measures imposed by his administration caused the ruling party to lose ground, leading up to the controversial elections of 1988.
De la Madrid died on 1 April 2012, apparently following a lengthy hospitalization for complicated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, which led to acute renal failure and cardiac arrest.[4]
Politics of Mexico
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^ a b Ortiz de Zárate, Roberto (10 May 2007). "Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado" (in Spanish). Fundació CIDOB. http://www.cidob.org/es/documentacion/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_norte/mexico/miguel_de_la_madrid_hurtado. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
^ Duncan, Richard; Harry Kelly (21 June 2005). "An Interview with Miguel de la Madrid". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1075061,00.html. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
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José López Portillo President of Mexico
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José María Bocanegra
Pedro Vélez
Anastasio Bustamante
Melchor Múzquiz
Manuel Gómez Pedraza
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Miguel Barragán
José Justo Corro
Francisco Javier Echeverría
Valentín Canalizo
José Joaquín de Herrera
Mariano Paredes
José Mariano Salas
Pedro María de Anaya
Manuel de la Peña
Mariano Arista
Juan Bautista Ceballos
Manuel María Lombardini
Martín Carrera
Rómulo Díaz
Juan Álvarez Hurtado
Ignacio Comonfort
Félix María Zuloaga
Manuel Robles Pezuela
Miguel Miramón
José Ignacio Pavón
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
José María Iglesias
Juan N. Méndez
Porfirio Díaz
Manuel González Flores
Francisco León de la Barra
Francisco I. Madero
Pedro Lascuráin
Victoriano Huerta
Francisco S. Carvajal
Eulalio Gutiérrez
Roque González Garza
Francisco Lagos Cházaro
Adolfo de la Huerta
Plutarco Elías Calles
Emilio Portes Gil
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Abelardo Luján Rodríguez
Manuel Ávila Camacho
Miguel Alemán Valdés
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Adolfo López Mateos
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Luis Echeverría
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Ernesto Zedillo
Vicente Fox
Vice President of Mexico
Name Madrid, Miguel de la
Alternative names Madrid Hurtado, Miguel de la (Spanish)
Short description President of Mexico (1982–1988)
Place of birth Colima, Colima, Mexico
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Q: How do I test what my Ruby code does when it catches a symbol? (RSpec) I'm working on a Sale flow that involves a few steps - discount, verification, payment, delivery, etc. If something goes wrong during the process, I want to be able to abort the operation, but still return the Sale object to the caller.
The code works just fine, using throw/catch (but I'd be happy to use raise/rescue if it would help.) The problem is testing it — ideally, I'd be able to write a test that says "if something goes wrong, the sale stops processing". Instead, it seems like the best I can do is say "If something goes wrong, it throws :done" or "If something goes wrong in step 2, it doesn't complete Steps 3 and 4". Is there any other way to approach this test that can actually test the more general case?
Here's a slightly altered version of the code I'm working with. Methods with bangs are methods that could potentially call fail! or succeed!
# sale.rb
class Sale
  attr_accessor :status, :amount, :discount_code

  def process!
    catch :done do
      validate_params!
      amount = apply_code!(discount_code)
      verify_delivery!
      charge_money!
      deliver_goods!
    end

    self
  end

  def fail!(error_message: nil)
    Rails.logger.error(error_message)
    status = :failure
    throw :done
  end

  def succeed!
    status = :success
    throw :done
  end
end

And an example of the kind of RSpec test I'd like to avoid:
# sale_spec.rb
describe 'Sale' do
  describe '#process!' do
    context 'when verification fails' do
      before do
        allow(sale).to receive(:verify_delivery) { sale.fail! }
      end

      it "doesn't charge money" do
        expect(sale).to_not receive(:charge_money!)
        sale.process!
      end

      it "doesn't deliver the goods" do
        expect(sale).to_not receive(:deliver_goods!)
        sale.process!
      end
    end
  end
end

Is there a way I can test this more generally?

A: I won't present the solution for your particular code, but lets consider the problem in general. You have a group of actions that together are responsible for the sale process. The solution is to make each action independent and put them into flow. Each action could be revertable in case of error. In such case the whole process would stop on the error instruction and step back action by action by invoking their revert methods. All actions should share some context where you could store objects (and pass them to the next interactor). This way you would be able to mark the process as failed and have an access to its context later.
There is a great lib that you should check - https://github.com/collectiveidea/interactor. Basically you can define interactors as blocks and then form an organizer from those classes. It allows you to use FooOrganizer.call(some_context) which will return a context object. This context object responds to success? and failure? methods (you can call context.fail! inside any interactor to stop proceeding, marking the process as failed and performing a rollback). You have also access to objects inside the context from outside (so you can access to the sale object later).
In this approach you can just test if organizer was successful (or not) and / or check proceeded objects in its context.


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Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson wasn't smoking this time — off the track or on
Sports // Scott Ostler
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Sha'Carri Richardson finished well off the pace in her return to competition.
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Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah (left) wins the 100 meters, as U.S. sprinter Sha'carri Richardson (center) finishes last.
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EUGENE, Ore. — This is where Sha'Carri Richardson's Olympic dream went up in smoke in June, and she returned Saturday hoping to clear the air, make a statement and restart her career.
She did none of that. Richardson finished ninth in the 100 meters in the Prefontaine Classic, dead last in a shockingly slow 11.14 seconds. America's sprinting Cinderella showed up in army boots.
But discouraged? Stunned, as were many of the fans here?
"I feel delicious," Richardson said with a big smile, an hour after the race and minutes after scratching from the 200 meters without giving a reason.
Then Richardson left the track that has been hard on her this year. At the Olympic trials on this same Hayward Field track, Richardson qualified as the fastest American woman sprinter. Then she tested positive for weed and got bounced off the Olympic team.
Saturday was her chance to show what she could have done in the Olympics, but the Jamaicans who went 1-2-3 in Tokyo came to make sure their Olympic triumphs didn't get tagged with an asterisk.
This was Sha'Carri vs. the Olympic podium, and she could not have found more supportive fans anywhere. This city calls itself Tracktown, T&F is a religion, and the devil's weed is as shocking — and as hard to find — as a cappuccino.
Richardson came to run in the 'Pre' Classic, America's premiere meet on the Diamond League pro circuit. The University of Oregon's track stadium has been rebuilt into a futuristic cathedral, but the builders didn't chase away Steve Prefontaine's ghost. You may have been told that the dynamic and charismatic Pre died in 1975, but for many here, his fatal car crash on a winding road not far from this stadium occurred yesterday.
I was unpacking my work bag in the press room when I fell into a conversation with a local track fan who gave an animated — and convincing — defense of Prefontaine, whose blood alcohol reportedly tested well over the legal limit when he crashed his MG. Or did it?
"Pre had been drinking, but he was NOT drunk," the local said defiantly, providing insider info she obtained long ago from the mouths of now-dead horses.
You see fans here wearing replicas of the famous "STOP PRE" T-shirt that Prefontaine wore ironically on his victory lap here upon qualifying for the 1972 Olympics.
And folks here still love Pre's sport. They love the athletes, especially the ones who bring something extra to the party, and that's what Sha'Carri Richardson is all about.
Saturday, the fans came to see Sha'Carri smoke her rivals.
"I think she's awesome," said a fan, Joe Clark, who drove 250 miles from Tacoma, Wash., just to watch Richardson run. "I'm a fan of track and field. I know Justin Gatlin (running in the men's 100), and I know there's gold medalists here, but I'm a fan of Sha'Carri Richardson. I like her image. I'm an engineer, and a lot of people don't like my style, but I'm a damn good engineer. She keeps her image, and her image is her image; I really love that about her. If she wins, this is history."
Richardson emerged this year as a world star. She ran a 10.72 100 meters in April, making her the sixth-fastest woman sprinter of all time. She backed it up at the trials, running a slightly-wind-aided 10.64 and a legit 10.86 into a slight wind.
Richardson, like Prefontaine — a top 5,000-meter runner — offers the sport more than just fresh legs. She has a style — cosmetic (long nails a la Flo-Jo, glittery makeup, blonde locks) and attitudinal. She is confident and defiant of critics, but charmingly, like Pre was.
So far, the two share one other trait: Unrealized potential. Prefontaine fell short at the '72 Olympics, finishing fourth. Richardson smoked herself out of the Tokyo Games.
She won supporters by humbly accepting a one-month suspension and vowing to come back strong. There was no reason for her fans to lose faith. Richardson is only 21, and women's sprinting is for women, not kids.
The other nine women on the 10-fastest-ever list were all older than Richardson's 21 when they recorded their fastest time. They were, in order, 28 (Florence Griffith-Joyner), 29, 34, 29, 22, 24, 36, 24, 25. Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, who won Saturday in 10.63, is 29. Teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, gold medalist at Tokyo, is 34.
So Richardson has time, but she now has a lot to prove.
"This is one race," Richardson said in a trackside interview with NBC minutes after the race. "I'm not done. You know what I'm capable of. Count me out if you want to. Talk all the s— you want. Because I'm here to stay. I'm not done. I'm the sixth-fastest woman in this game ever. Can't nobody ever take that from me."
That defiant edge was mostly gone an hour later when Richardson, all smiles, stopped to talk with the media.
"In all honesty, I wasn't focused on my lane and my race," she said when asked what happened. "But at the end of the day, no excuses. Not at all. It's time to get back in the lab and do what I need to do."
Scott Ostler is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Email: sostler@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @scottostler
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Though he started in sports and is there now, Scott took a couple of side trips into the real world for The Chronicle. For three years he wrote a daily around-town column, and for one year, while still in sports, he wrote a weekly humorous commentary column.
He has authored several books and written for many national publications. Scott has been voted California Sportswriter of the Year 13 times, including six times while at The Chronicle. He moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, where he worked for the Los Angeles Times, the National Sports Daily and the Long Beach Press-Telegram.


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Maybe it's time riders redefine "cool"
Maybe it's time we came up with some other symbol of our coolness than riding helmetless
Maybe it's time riders redefine "cool" Maybe it's time we came up with some other symbol of our coolness than riding helmetless Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://gbpg.net/1td5c6i
Paul Srubas, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 9:20 a.m. CT June 9, 2016
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Maybe it's time we came up with some other symbol of our coolness, some other way of proclaiming our freedom, youth and rebellious natures.
Brando and Hopper are long dead, Fonda and Nicholson are each pushing 80, and the young rebels of today probably have no idea who those guys are anymore anyway. So maybe it's time this motorcycle riding without a helmet stuff comes to an end. You want the feeling of the wind in your hair? Stand in front of a window fan.
That's the way Jim and Norma Jorgensen of Allouez see it, anyway. Not that either of them would say so. Hopeless busy-bodies, right? Not in the least.
"I'm not against motorcycles, I don't want to force a law that people don't like," Jim says. "I just wish people would put more thought into it."
You have to cut him some slack.
"It's a bitch to see your child die," he says.
That was 21 years ago, and it's taken that long for Jim and Norma to be able to go public with their wishes.
Timothy J. Jorgensen. He'd have turned 48 Wednesday if he were alive today. It's something to think about, what he would've been, the places he would have gone, the people he would have met if his last act of self-expression was something other than seizing a feeling of freedom and the wind in his hair.
Tim was no Marlon Brando wannabe. He was no Wild One. He was just a 26-year-old kid with a motorcycle, less than a year's riding experience and one helmet. He promised to always wear it, and as far as Jim and Norma knew, he always did. Until Feb. 26, 1995, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tim wanted to ride to work, and he had a buddy he wanted to take with him. One helmet and two young men who, coincidentally, had both promised their mamas always to wear a helmet if they got on a bike.
A group of motorcycles lead the way in the 100-mile United We Ride motorcycle rally in Portage County in 2008. (Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin file photo)
Tim ended up being more gallant to his buddy than true to his word.
When they ran into the back of a truck at a traffic light in Albuquerque, the passenger wound up with some scrapes on his elbow and knee. Tim ended up with a severed spine and severe head trauma.
"We had to make a decision at the hospital…" Jim recalls.
Tim was a traveler, an adventurer, and his remains have kind of followed suit. Many of his organs are scattered around the country, gifts to lucky organ recipients. His heart is pumping blood through someone else's veins. Somebody's seeing the world through his eyes. His ashes are scattered all around the world, too, in the many cool places the young man had been with his career Army dad, places like the Caribbean. An archeological dig in Utah. Allouez.
All because of a decision Tim made that day. See, that's the thing. There's a thoughtlessness that drives Jim and Norma a little crazy.
"Nobody thinks it's going to happen to them," Norma says.
"It's almost selfish on their part," Jim says. "They don't think about the impact on their family."
"It's not about freedom, or the law," Norma says. "It's selfish. If you wear a helmet, maybe your family, your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your wife or husband wouldn't have to be grieving for you."
Your freedom, your coolness, but someone else's grief.
The Jorgensens won't even ride bicycles without their helmets. Norma fell once, breaking her helmet in three places.
"The guy at the bike shop said if I hadn't been wearing it, Jim would be teaching me the ABCs," Norma says.
So here it is, just a few days past the end of Motorcycle Safety Month, and just a day before the 13th Annual Jerry Parins Cruise for Cancer ride, one of the area's big, popular charity rides, and the Jorgensens see a perfect opportunity, not to put pressure on anyone, not to impose unpopular requirements on anybody, but just to put out a gentle reminder: Riding isn't really all about you. There's your own loved ones to think about, as well as those youngsters watching the ride and looking to you to learn the meaning of cool.
Wouldn't this be a good time to show you care as much about head protection as you do about cancer?
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Home | Music | New Music | Moroccan Canadian pop rising star Satya unveils music video for single In Trouble
Moroccan Canadian pop rising star Satya unveils music video for single In Trouble
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After opening the year with her long awaited and highly anticipated new single 'IN TROUBLE', which was supported by Spotify on their New Music Friday Canada and Fresh Finds: Pop playlists and broke into the ADISQ BDS Top 100 charts in Montreal, up and coming Moroccan Canadian singer and songwriter SATYA is taking things up a notch with its captivating new music video, building on her last single 'Maybe We Should', which charted at #30 on the Mediabase CHR Top 40, and recent support from Popdust, Earmilk and CelebMix, among others.
Produced by five-time SOCAN Award winning DJ and producer Domeno, 'In Trouble' is a glorious pop record with lush electronic and dance music sensibilities, which highlights Satya as the future pop star she is, as the Montreal native shines through with her warm yet commanding vocal performance, over the infectious bass driven pop-dance musical backdrop.
Speaking about the inspiration behind 'In Trouble', Satya says, "this song is about finding true love but also feeling like you could be in trouble because you've lost control. 'In Trouble' means a lot to me because I never expected to find this kind of honest and genuine love. This is first and foremost what I wish people the most. I wish they find the love they deserve, that they find someone who will make them shine".
Abandoned at birth in Morocco, Satya was dealt a bad hand very early on, but being adopted and brought to live in Canada changed her life. She fell in love with singing and performing at a very young age, but that soon gave way to very tough school years, which saw Satya, who was bullied for the colour of her skin, go to excessive lengths to be accepted by her peers. She was feeling lonely and sometimes lost, but always had hope that somehow someway, she could be happy and free.
Battling addiction and its demons, Satya tried to take her own life at the age of 18 – that marked a turning point in her life and with the help of her family, she began rehab treatment and slowly started to find her way back and rekindled with her love and passion for music along the way.
Today, her warm and emotive voice, her courageous message of hope and perseverance, and the groovy rhythm of her music, reveal a strong and powerful young woman.
According to Satya, "we are all survivors of what we have experienced, but our past does not define us. We own our futures", and it is this message and her story that she shares with other young people all over the world, in the hopes of helping them with their own struggles. "Life is not always easy, but we have to push through harder times because the sun always shines on the other side. Let's be kind to ourselves and one another we never know what someone else is going through", she adds. Satya's big dream? Success with music to allow her to help out even more and give back to youth and society.


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London Resort (theme park) and LTC
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London Resort (theme park) and Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) would both create more traffic issues both sides of the River Thames. We already know that the proposed LTC would still leave the Dartford Crossing over capacity. Plus we know that Highways England (HE) are not considering how traffic would migrate between the two crossings when there are incidents, if the LTC goes ahead, and that there aren't adequate connections.
Whacking a great big theme park in between it all just seems ridiculous, in areas that are already suffering with serious congestion and pollution issues. To make it even worse HE have not even been taking London Resort into account with their traffic modelling data for LTC, because it doesn't yet have permission. Whether or not that changes now that the London Resort has progressed to Development Consent Order (DCO) stage, with the application being accepted for Examination remains to be seen.
The idea of a theme park on the Swanscombe Peninsula, Kent has been spoken of from some years now. Many will remember it originally as Paramount Pictures, and is now London Resort.
Back when the LTC route options were being first discussed there were numerous locations, and at each location many variants of crossings that were considered. Location B would have seen the potential new crossing in the vicinity of the proposed theme park, many believe this is why possible crossings at that location were quickly ruled out.
Things went a bit quiet for a little while and then last year they had another consultation, with the addition of a parking facility north of the river in the Tilbury area. Yet another aspect of the proposed theme park to take into account in regard to the proposed Lower Thames Crossing, as well as what we were already aware of, and our own personal opinions of the theme park, but on here we have done our best to keep discussion purely on the connection and issues between the theme park and LTC.
You can read our previous updates relating to the London Resort (theme park) and LTC here with some initial reactions, and here is our update including our official response to the London Resort consultation in 2020.
Since then
Well since we submitted our response to the London Resort Consultation they have submitted their Development Consent Order (DCO) application and it was accepted by the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) and now moves to a Pre-Examination and Examination period of the DCO process. All the supporting DCO documentation can be viewed on the London Resort page on the Planning Inspectorate's website.
Natural England recognised the area, where the theme park is proposed (the Swanscombe Peninsula), as a nationally important wildlife haven by designating it as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) after some great campaigning from various organisations.
Whilst this is great news, unfortunately it doesn't automatically mean that the theme park plans are cancelled, and the DCO process will still continue.
TCAG have registered as an Interest Party to reserve our right to make representations moving forward, whether it be written or verbal representations.
In May 2021 The Planning Inspectorate announced there would be a delay to the start of the Examination as requested by London Resort in response to the SSSI status update. Usually PINS only allow a maximum of 3 month delay, but gave special allowance for a 4 month delay with conditions that London Resort give regular updates on their progress. It has since come to light that London Resort have shown a complete lack of respect for PINS and the democratic DCO process and failed to deliver the requested updates.
PINS have now given those registered as Interested Parties the opportunity to respond to a series of questions they have set as to whether the allowance of further delay in the process should still be deemed in the public interest. Serious concerns and factors have been raised by those who are impacted by the London Resort proposal due to the ongoing delays.
TCAG responded to this latest request from PINS Examining Authority (ExA) with the following:
"We do not believe that the continued delay and lack of respect from London Resort by their non-compliance in providing updates to the ExA as requested can still be justified in the public interest. London Resort clearly have no intention on complying with the requests and conditions put on their request for delay. If the acceptance of the DCO application and delay was subject to their compliance and they are not complying then we would respectfully suggest that the ExA request permission from Government to refuse the application, or proceed in whichever way is legally allowed and withdraw any allowances that have been granted to London Resort to date, as London Resort are showing no respect to the ExA and democratic process, by not complying with the procedures and deadlines.
These delays are clearly putting unnecessary and extra stress on those impacted by the proposed London Resort and this should be taken into account, and actions taken to ensure the matter is rectified as quickly and efficiently as possible for all concerned."
Details of the DCO process and progress can be found at https://infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/south-east/the-london-resort/
BBC reports on Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI status – click here
Kent Wildlife Trust info on Swanscombe Peninsula – click here and here
Buglife Save Swanscombe Peninsula campaign – click here
Joint letter from various organisations calling for urgent SSSI designation for Swanscombe Peninsula – click here
Save Swanscombe Peninsula SSSI on Facebook – click here
ITV News – London Resort: First stumbling block for Kent project as planning objections revealed – click here
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Daniel, Indiana, Kathryn and Vegas Hart.
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Isabel & Sebastian Peacocke, Danielle Seagar, Anna Nikitina.
Angela, Natalie and Amy Maisey.
Mike and Rosemary Tisdall, Zoe Bleakley, Amber Liberte.
James Bell, Aria Harrison-Sparke, Amy Taylor.
Meredith and Elsie Van Beekhuizen, Bria and Olive Wakelin.
It was full house at The PumpHouse for the gala opening of Tim Bray Productions' Pippi Longstocking. The performance, directed by Tim Bray, was a reprise of the 2007 original production, which toured Auckland after a successful PumpHouse season. Tineke Ann Robson, who played Pippi in 2013 when Auckland audiences were again entertained by the production, and whose considerable gymnastic ability was on display now as then, returned from London especially to take part in this production. It's clear that Pippi has lost none of her appeal, judging by the audience response (and the number of young Pippis in the audience) in 2018.


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2019 Novel Coronavirus — Important Information for Clinicians
8. September 2016 13. Februar 2020 by admin
In early December 2019 a patient was diagnosed with an unusual pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China. By December 31 the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office in Beijing had received notification of a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause from the same city.1 Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province in central China, is the nation's seventh largest city, with a population of 11 million people. Over the next few days, researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology performed metagenomics analysis using next-generation sequencing from a sample collected from a bronchoalveolar lavage and identified a novel coronavirus as the potential etiology. They called it novel coronavirus 2019 (nCoV-2019).2 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to it as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).3
As of February 4, 2020, more than 20 000 cases of 2019-nCoV have been reported, 98.9% of them in China, and the outbreak is linked to more than 400 deaths. As the epidemic is evolving and the situation is rapidly changing, up-to-date reliable information on the number of cases and recommendations on management of cases and preventive interventions can be found at various sites, including the webpage developed by the CDC.3 Currently the number of infections outside of China remains small (approximately 180), but cases have been detected in 26 countries, including 11 cases in the United States.
While it is unclear how many people are truly infected, a modeling study suggests that as of January 25, 2020, 75 815 individuals have been infected in Wuhan alone.4 The authors calculated the basic reproductive number (the number of cases one infected individual generates), R0, of this outbreak to be 2.68 (95% CI, 2.47-2.86) and that the epidemic is doubling every 6.4 days. Because of extensive travel between China and cities like Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Taipei, these locations have identified the majority of cases outside of mainland China. As testing becomes more frequent, the true number of cases and the full spectrum of disease will become more clear. However, for now, it appears that compared with the other 2 zoonotic coronaviruses that occurred in the last 20 years (severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS] in 2002 and Middle East respiratory syndrome [MERS] in 2012), 2019-nCoV seems to have greater infectivity (eg, a higher R0) and a lower case fatality rate.1
From genetic sequencing data, it appears that there was a single introduction into humans followed by human-to-human spread. This novel virus shares 79.5% of genetic sequence with SARS-CoV and has 96.2% homology to a bat coronavirus.2 In addition, 2019-nCoV shares the same cell entry receptor, ACE2, with SARS-CoV. What is yet unclear is which animal is the intermediate species between bats and humans. For SARS it was civet cats, for MERS it is camels. While the source of 2019-CoV is yet unknown, early on the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was linked epidemiologically.1,5
The incubation period of this virus has been reported to be 5.2 days (95% CI, 4.1-7.0),6 although there is suggestion that it may be as long as 14 days. It is unclear when transmission begins and, although cases have been reported that suggest transmission during the asymptomatic phase, it is likely that the majority of secondary cases come from symptomatic individuals.
The clinical syndrome is nonspecific and characterized by fever and dry cough in the majority of patients, with about a third experiencing shortness of breath. Some patients have other symptoms such as myalgias, headache, sore throat, and diarrhea7. The median age of patients is between 49 and 56 years.7,8 Cases in children have been rare. Although most cases appear to be mild, all patients admitted to the hospital have pneumonia with infiltrates on chest x-ray and ground glass opacities on chest computed tomography.8,9 About a third of patients subsequently developed acute respiratory distress syndrome and required care in the intensive care unit. This is particularly true for patients with comorbid conditions such as diabetes or hypertension.8
When a patient presents with fever and respiratory symptoms (in particular a dry cough), clinicians should obtain a detailed travel history. If the patient has a history of travel to Hubei Province in the last 14 days, they should be considered a person under investigation (PUI) (Figure).
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Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg — Et al. / Et al. etc.
Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg features the single-channel video Receding Triangular Square (RTS) (2012), a collaboration between the artist and the psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Leon Tan. RTS explores philosophies and practices of healing in Taiwan that are alternative to the dominant Euro-American psychiatric and psychotherapeutic paradigms. Through a juxtaposition of Daoist rituals, traditional healing methods, and Western-style psychiatry, RTS looks into the history of colonization and modernization in Taiwan and questions the universality and rationality of scientific truth. Forms of displacement and alienation are experienced not only as mental despair and illness, but also on a historical scale through the long-lasting destruction of culture in the modern world.
Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg inaugurates a long-term collaboration between ACAC and Et. al. Focusing on diasporic practices, particularly those coming into conflict and contact with Asia, Alter-Circuit works closely with an individual artist over a period of time. Through durational endeavors, Alter-Circuit draws paths into and out of the artist's practice while other collaborators, including curators, writers, publishers, scholars, and art communities, are invited to participate in the conversations.
Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg will continue with the artist's presence in San Francisco later this year for a series of public programs. During that time, it will have a life online as a blog to expand the topics and widen both the audience and the circle of participants.
Alter-Circuit is conceived and curated by Xiaoyu Weng, Aaron Harbour, and Jackie Im.
For more information on Asian Contemporary Arts Week, visit the website.
For more information on Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, visit their website.
Alter-Circuit: Virlani Hallberg was reviewed in Hyperallergic and was featured on Art Practical.


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Posted on August 28, 2018 September 28, 2018 Katie WellsPosted in Bird Dispersal, News
Scarecrow Deliver Training at Sanford, Orlando International Airport.
Scarecrow Group's project for the USA (https://www.scarecrow.eu/other-scarecrow-news-2018/), was born from a meeting between Scarecrow Director David Randell, and Sanford's Executive Vice President, George Speake. The result is that Sanford took delivery of their Scarecrow BIRD Tab Reporting Software system, and training was delivered on site in August 2018.
Brad Welbourn, the airports main wildlife operator, received training on a "Train the trainer" basis. Brad found the data logging software very easy to use, and in no time was happily using the system without the need for guidance; he was impressed by the ease of use and the time that would be saved from the airports existing processes which could be re-deployed to spending more time on airport safety.
As for reporting and analysis, the software options with Scarecrow's system provides a massive step forward from their existing data logging system, so much so that even at this very early stage the airport are now looking into migrating their existing data into the Scarecrow system.
Images below from Sanford show Brad Welbourn undertaking duties whilst out on patrol, and logging data from those actions.
Scarecrow Deliver Training at Daytona Beach.
"As part of the Scarecrow Group project for the USA (https://www.scarecrow.eu/other-scarecrow-news-2018/), Daytona Beach took delivery of their full Scarecrow BIRD Tab system in July 2018, and training was delivered on site in August 2018. Daytona Beach is the third busiest airport in Florida for aircraft movements and was delighted to be invited to be part of the project, forever seeking new ways to improve their bird strike risk.
Training was delivered to both Craig Walker and Phil Farmstrom on a "Train the Trainer" basis and both saw immediate benefits in how the use of the product would not only save time, but also improve bird strike risk; an unexpected benefit was how the software could enhance the use of their existing Lucity system.
When out on patrol, Craig was particularly impressed by how the scarecrow bird calls had an immediate impact on dispersing one of the airports major problem species, the Cattle Egret."
Burgas Airport, Bulgaria Upgrade to Scarecrow BIRD TAB.
After Purchasing the original Scarecrow Data logging system, Ultima, in 2013 Burgas Airport were keen to upgrade to the latest Scarecrow BIRD TAB software to enhance their Wildlife Control Program.
Lee Travelled to Burgas Airport in May to provide the Wildlife Control staff with hands on training on the tablet software and also trained Operations Centre Head of Department, Konstantin Temenov, on analysing and generating reports from the collected data. A full data migration of their last 5 years data was also completed to ensure continuity of reporting and trend analysis.
All trained personnel were pleased with the ease of use of the new software and are looking forward to using it in the coming peak summer season.
Training delivered in Puerto Rico
Having originally seen the Scarecrow BIRD tab product at the North American Bird Strike Conference (http://www.birdstrike.org/) held in Montreal, September 2015, the Environmental Coordinator for Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico – Dannally Cruz – has been keen to secure the use of the Scarecrow system in her quest to further improve the already impressive wildlife control / bird strike figures at the airport.
The airport now has the system having made the purchase in 2018, and Scarecrow have recently undertaken their normal on site training visit. Training was largely undertaken on a one to one basis, with Dannaly looking to then train others as required.
Dannaly is looking forward to being able to invest some of the time saved in no longer having the chore of logging and input of paper records, into improving the wildlife control safety at the airport even further through the better analysis and reporting options that the Scarecrow software brings.
Training went well, and already whilst on training patrol, Dannaly has seen how use of the Scarecrow distress calls have had a positive impact on dispersing one of their key risk birds, the Egret.
Unfortunately, it is not just the birds the occasionally cause issues at San Juan, as the images below show!
World war II airbase used for Training delivery
Following the upgrade of software by the Royal Netherlands Air Force, Scarecrow have delivered training in the use of Scarecrow BIRD Tab, to key military personnel responsible for wildlife control across all their air bases.
Having used Scarecrow software since 2010, staff were fairly familiar with the concept of how distress calls are used for dispersing birds, and also the data logging and grasped all the new features contained within the new software fairly quickly; training was delivered in two separate groups over 2 days at Deelan Airbase, now a Commando Helicopter training facility.
The Deelan Airfield was used, and significantly expanded, by the Luftwaffe in World War II, and after the war the site was initially used as a storage facility.
There is a Deelan Airbase Museum http://www.museumvlbdeelen.nl/ displaying various memorabilia following the period of time when the base was used for storage, although there are some samples of World war II equipment also on display within the airbase itself, as shown in one of the photo's below. The second photo shows some of the attendees during training as they work on various exercises during a break out session.
Scarecrow Deliver training at Riga international airport
Riga International Airport, Latvia have been longstanding clients of Scarecrow, using our bird distress calls as a dispersal method for their problem species for over 13 years.
They were one of the first airports to purchase the original Scarecrow data logging system back in 2009, and happy with the product and support received from Scarecrow, have continued to update the products along the way resulting in the last upgrade to the Scarecrow BIRD Tab system. The original bird call product purchased in 2005 still works well, and which can also now be used in conjunction with Scarecrow BIRD Tab given the flexibility BIRD Tab provides – an added benefit of updating to the latest data logging system is the airport now have a complete contingency for their Wildlife Control. All the airports historic data has been successfully migrated into the new software system.
The picture shows the main Wildlife Team, reading from left to right, Mareks Arbidans, Karlis Ratkevics and Evelina Lintere following completion of their training.
Scarecrow undertake review meeting at U-Tapao
Scarecrow have undertaken a site review meeting following the purchase of a Scarecrow BIRD Tab System by U-tapao Airport, Thailand, used for dispersing birds and data collection regarding wildlife control.
The system has been installed and in use now for about one month, and the Wildlife team are really embracing the collection of good data, which is vital for analysis purposes so that the correct risk mitigation actions can be taken.
Bird strike: the growing threat of geese to aviation safety


From 3d May'12 Ernst Musuem is happy to invite the lovers of art to the exhibition of Karoly Kelemen, a distinguished Hungarian artist, also asknowledged internationally. His works belong to most important public and private collections in the country.
Distinguished simply among other artist, Kelemen cannot be attributed to any of the movements of art specifically. His oeuvre is eclectic, both in mediums and styles used: Kelemen hada achange to try his talent in all the techniques of postmodern art. Nevertheless the oeuvre is bound around the study of the art historical canon, the cultural memory, and most importantly its reevaluation of styles and movement in the modern context and in relation with personality of the artist.
Critical enough, the painter can be perceived as shocking or offensive. The central topics of his work are purely postmodern: reflection of the world of art itself and criticism of the modern values.
Artist's study of the relationship between an artist with artwork, system, actuality, history, reinterpretation of the symbols and canons in art history is the major topic of the exhibition in Ernst Museum. A viewer may plunge into a fascinating exploration, looking for the original characters in changed figures, real stories in distorted plots, values in the reinterpreted signs. Visiting such exhibition is a real intellectual adventure for those who are not afraid to engage in reflection, to recognize the world icons among the exhibits.
Another important topic of the Karoly Kelemen oeuvre is study of loss of values, an important and often central topic of postmodernism. More closely you can get acquainted with artist's appraisal here.
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Most of us would probably admit to being a bit lazy with laundry every now and again… with such busy modern lives it's easy to let things slide; in fact, a 2014 survey revealed that one in ten of us actually don't change the bed sheets more than once a month.
But did you know that not changing your bed linen frequently enough can have a nagative impact on your health? A laundry expert has made it her mission to inform people of the disturbing truth about sleeping in dirty sheets.
Over one third of participants said they only changed them once every two weeks, while one in ten admitted to leaving it up to a month before stuffing their sheets in the washing machine. Half of the people polled also said that they only considered their sheets unhygienic if they hadn't been washed for between two and three sheets.
Clearly we need to do a bit of work when it comes to cleaning up in the bedroom!


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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1910s → 1911 → March 1911 → 14 March 1911 → Written Answers (Commons)
Public Schools, Island of Lewis.
HC Deb 14 March 1911 vol 22 cc2207-8W 2207W
§ Mr. WEIR
asked the Lord Advocate whether the School Board of Lochs, island of Lewis, have yet taken steps to meet the complaint of Dr. Cameron, the medical 2208W officer of health for the parish, relative to the sanitary condition of the Keose and Kershadder public schools?
§ Mr. URE
The complaint referred to, which appeared in the Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the county, of date April, 1910, was brought to the notice of the School Board, who in September last informed the Department that the parts of the premises complained of were now being kept in a clean condition, that the arrangements were such that there is no school in the parish where a child need have any difficulty in getting drinking water, and that a supply of cloak room pegs had been furnished for use where required. It is understood that the Board have been to considerable expense generally in effecting repairs during the past year, and that the Medical Officer is now satisfied with the state of the premises in the circumstances.
asked whether the Secretary for Scotland has received a memorandum from the Educational Institute of Scotland relative to the schools in the parishes of Barvas, Lochs, and Uig, Island of Lewis; and will he state what action he proposes to take in regard to the institute's recommendation that the medical officer of the Local Government Board should be asked to report as to the sanitary condition of the schools.
The Secretary for Scotland has given careful consideration to the memorandum to which the hon. Member refers and to the statements of the School Boards in reply, and has seen no occasion to depart from the ordinary course of Department administration.
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Q: Unable to Install Pandas-profiling I am trying to install Pandas-Profiling package for Jupyter Notebook but no luck!!!
Tried installing the package from the Anaconda Navigator (Home) -> Environment -> base(root) -> Search packages -> Pandas-profiling
A dialog box appears to show as "Solving Package modifications" but after some time, the dialog box appears blank!!!

Tried "Conda prompt" option also but it shows deprecated

A: Sometimes, it's a version issue.
Try this
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Reference

A: Try
pip install https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-profiling/archive/master.zip

Good luck!
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Telltale Games revealed the opening 15 minutes of "The Walking Dead: The Final Season".
Showing off "The Final Season"'s revised art style and reworked camera, the video follows a now teenage Clementine as roles reverse and she becomes the protector, watching over orphan AJ as they try and make a home – and a life – in a post-zombie apocalyptic world.
"After years on the road facing threats both living and dead, a secluded school might finally be her chance for a home," says Telltale, describing the "gut-wrenching" episodic story-driven adventure.
"Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season"'s first episode is out August 14, 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, with an unspecified Nintendo Switch release expected to follow "later this year".


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8.5 X 11 paperback. 356 pp.
Footnotes, map, appendix, bibliography, index.
See sample of a revelation not in the Book of Commandments.
Joseph Smith's 1828-1843 Revelations - This book contains public and private revelatory documents from handwritten manuscripts, including the newly released Book of Commandments and Revelations. The Canadian copyright revelation, long rumored to be in existence, receives special attention. Two revelations on plural marriage are included. Joseph Smith made changes to his revelations and his early story. This book shows the transformation over time of church doctrine.
H. Michael Marquardt is an independent historian and a longtime research consultant of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He has been publishing on Mormonism for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Rise of Mormonism: 1816-1844 (Maitland, Florida: Xulon Press, 2013).


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Home - lyrics - Oliver Tree – A-Okay Lyrics – Songslyrica
Oliver Tree – A-Okay Lyrics – Songslyrica
A-Okay
this is a track by Oliver Tree
I can't keep a straight face
No dear, I'm not kidding
I'm sick of the chase
I can feel my head still spinning
Digging my own grave
Thinking 'bout all I'm missing
Baby, the clock is ticking
If you wait, I'll wait
Please, believe me
It's a-okay
But it won't be easy
Baby, I'm leaving
As a matter of fact
We're both hurting
I've been breaking my back
I'd go harder than that
But it's not worth it
Don't ask where I'm at
Or when I am returning
I am living in the future
The past cannot be changed
I stay moving forward these days
There ain't no other way
At my own pace
Songwriter (s): Oliver Tree
Oliver Tree Nickell (born June 29, 1993) is an American singer, record producer, and comedian. Born in Santa Cruz, California, Tree signed to Atlantic Records in 2017 after his song "When I'm Down" went viral and released his debut studio album Ugly Is Beautiful in 2020. He achieved international success with his songs "Life Goes On" in 2021, and "Miss You" in 2022. He released his second studio album Cowboy Tears on February 18, 2022.
Oliver Tree – Oxymoron Lyrics – Songslyrica
Oliver Tree – The Exploding Man Lyrics – Songslyrica
Rhys Lewis – Simple Lyrics – Songslyrica


Build your magic item backgrounds fast with these four simple steps. Then use these histories to tie a whole bunch of adventure hooks and world details together that will make you look like a genius.
We'll get into the genius part in a sec, but let's first create a simple background that you can do within the 60 second time limit.
To flesh out your item's lore fast, give four questions a one-line answer each.
I've assumed the item was crafted on purpose by someone or some-thing, but that need not be the case. A magical event might have imbued a mundane item with powers. Or, if you're using the Legacy Item system from Assassin's Amulet, the item might have spawned from energies absorbed by great events or NPC deeds.
If you have a campaign management information system, like I do for my campaigns using Campaign Logger, then a date stamp also helps you log the item into it.
In most cases, owners dictate an item's effect on the world. A magic sword offers no lore if it's been sheathed since creation. To make history – and interesting campaign material from magic item backgrounds – the blade requires an NPC to brandish it.
Loot means the item sits somewhere waiting to be discovered. Dungeon crawls, museums, and private collections are full of loot, for example.
So go back to when the item was used last and jot a note about who used it and how that NPC became the owner.
Servis gave the item to the village's strongest warrior, Urbat, who used it in many raids against the orcs. A foe finally defeated Urbat and stole the item away.
The main reason these quick facts help you is they offer a breadcrumb trail in your campaign. Armed with NPC identities, locations, and past usage rumours, you can guide the PCs to the item, add the item to an NPC's background, incorporate the item into an adventure backstory and so on.
Simple magic item background details become great hooks and leads with just seconds of preparation.
Name a time when the item brought good to someone or someplace, and briefly describe what happened.
Again, a one-liner suffices. More details are welcome, so if you do have extra time, keep creating past events when the item did some good instead of fleshing out details for just one event.
You can always add details when working on other parts of your campaign or on-the-fly during the game. That's where the genius part I mentioned at the beginning of this article comes in.
Another time, Urbat used the item to kill an orc champion in a challenge with the orc leader. Urbat's victory gave the village a three-season reprieve until the orcs reneged.
Name a time when the item brought harm to someone or someplace, and briefly describe what happened.
If you have a bit more time, add more bleak spots to the item's past.
Avram forcibly recruited Nial Crackhammer with the torque. Nial's clan suspected foul play, and discovered evidence of the item's magical influence. The Crackhammer clan remains a guild enemy to this day — plus they bear knowledge of the torque's secrets.
By having an item do good and evil, you create an intriguing past. The contradiction will make PCs even more curious. The good and evil events generate conflicting views, stories, and legends. The PCs might even think they're hearing about two different items, thereby creating a great future group Aha! moment.
Instead of a ho-hum cardboard magic item, you have one that offers mystery, dilemmas, and gameplay potential as players try to sort things out.
During magic item background design, we create a lot of details. Each bit of information tends to be its own island within your notes. This NPC over here, that place over there, this event in your adventure background, that event in your campaign history.
You can even use this to generate some plot. Who did what when to whom? Your item history can take disparate facts from your notes and noggin, and start building such statements in your campaign background using NPCs, places, and things drawn from item history tidbits.
Go through your item's history and tag all the people, places and things mentioned.
Use these four steps to create quick magic item backgrounds for your campaigns. Then use the magic items as treasure, plot hooks, character quests, and villain quests to make your campaigns more exciting to play.


For the last nine years, Mass Audubon's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts has shared its Nature Center with barn owls. In a dormer of the building, formerly a barn, that pair bred, mated, laid eggs, and raised many broods of owlets in this box. The barn owls that reside here are wild, entering and leaving the box through the rectangular opening on the left of the screen. Two clutches of offspring per year was common for this pair. The winter of 2015 was historic and during the coldest part of the year, we lost one of the barn owls. The other has not been seen since mid-February.
A variety of factors may have contributed to this bird's demise. Barn owls are at their most northern range here on Martha's Vineyard, making them even more susceptible to severe winter conditions. In fact, they can now only reliably be seen in Massachusetts on the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Felix Neck's Barn Owl Cam is partially sponsored by Bearly Read Books in Sudbury, MA. Go to www.massaudubon.org/felixneck to learn more about the Sanctuary. Mass Audubon at Felix Neck accepts tax-deductible contributions to support its mission, which includes the Barn Owl Cam and other wildlife, conservation, and education initiatives on Martha's Vineyard and in Massachusetts.


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FAA launches probe into 787 production issues
The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into manufacturing issues that could affect some Boeing 787s, as ANA confirms that Boeing asked it to ground one 787-10.
"The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating manufacturing flaws affecting certain Boeing 787 jetliners," says the FAA. "The agency continues to engage with Boeing. It is too early to speculate about the nature or extent of any proposed Airworthiness Directives that might arise from the agency's investigation."
The Boeing 787-10 at its rollout ceremony
In late August, Boeing ordered that eight recently-built 787s be removed from service because of two "distinct manufacturing issues."
A Wall Street Journal report, citing an internal FAA memo, says US regulators are reviewing lapses in quality control at the company's Charleston factory. The two issues appear to be "nonconforming" rear fuselage sections, as well as how the company produces shims for the 787 at Charleston.
Reports have suggested that the issue relates to aircraft produced at Charleston in 2019, although Boeing is apparently assessing the entire 787 fleet.
In a subsequent email to FlightGlobal, Boeing had this to say: "We found that some airplanes have shims installed that are not the proper size, and some airplanes have areas that do not meet our skin flatness specifications per Engineering. Individually these issues, while not up to specifications, still meet limit load conditions. When combined in the same location however, they result in a condition that does not meet limit load requirements. We immediately contacted the airlines that operate the eight affected airplanes to notify them of the situation, and the airplanes have been temporarily removed from service until they can be repaired."
FlightGlobal has contacted 787 operators in the Asia-Pacific about the production issues, with two carriers responding.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has removed one Boeing 787-10 from service following an advisory from Boeing. The aircraft bears the registration JA901A (MSN 62685), according to the airline.
ANA did not cite the specific circumstances related to JA901A's service withdrawal.
"We have been notified of the situation by our valued partner Boeing and immediately removed the one aircraft dedicated to international flights from service," says ANA.
"As the launch partner of the 787 and operator of the largest 787 fleet in the world, we will work with our partners and regulators to develop a solution. While we are still assessing the situation, with the reduced market demand for global destinations, this aircraft doesn't need to be returned to service immediately."
According to Cirium Fleets data, JA901A was handed over to the airline on 30 June 2019. The jet was placed in storage on 16 August 2020.
The carrier has one other 787-10, JA900A (62684), that is listed as in service. Overall, ANA's 787 fleet comprises 64 787s, of which 13 are in storage. In addition, it has orders for 12 additional -10s and nine -9s.
Vietnam Airlines, which operates 11 787-9s and four 787-10s, says it contacted Boeing upon learning about the structural issue.
"We contacted Boeing regarding this matter," says Vietnam Airlines. "Boeing confirmed that the issues were found on 8 airplanes which initiated a continued operational safety program and safety determination. None of these planes is within Vietnam Airlines."
Of its four 787-10s, three examples were delivered in 2019. Cirium fleets data lists its entire 787 fleet as in service.
FlightGlobal has yet to receive comment from other Asia-Pacific 787 operators.
Boeing's initial grounding order, first disclosed by The Air Current, related to eight 787 aircraft operated by Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, and Air Canada.
Updated with response from Boeing.
Greg WaldronGreg Waldron is the Asia Managing Editor of FlightGlobal, responsible for the team's airline, aerospace, and defence coverage across the region. He has worked at the company since joining in 2009. In addition to his work as a journalist, Waldron makes regular appearances on television to discuss the industry, and speaks at industry conferences.
Ops & safety
ANA Group plans new airline, big fleet cuts
The All Nippon Airways (ANA) Group will conduct a major revamp of its business model that involves launching a new airline brand and retiring far more aircraft than originally planned. The group will make these and other significant changes as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic that ...
ANA swings to big first-half operating loss amid pandemic havoc
All Nippon Airways' parent company ANA Holdings ended its first half of fiscal 2020 deep in the red, as it forecast a record full-year net loss of Y510 billion ($4.7 billion), citing a "significant decline" in passenger travel demand. The group also expects to book significant impairment losses – ...
Vietnam Airlines warns of big loss for first nine months of 2020
Vietnam Airlines has warned of a consolidated loss of D10.8 trillion ($464 million) in the first nine months of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on operations. The company adds that it expects consolidated revenues of D23.9 trillion for the first nine months of the year, a ...
US airlines gear up for potential trouble ahead of presidential inauguration
US airlines have adopted stricter safety policies on flights to and from the Washington, DC-area ahead of the presidential inauguration scheduled for 20 January.
Indonesia extracts data from crashed Sriwijaya 737's FDR
Indonesian officials have successfully downloaded data from the flight-data recorder (FDR) of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 that crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta.
Why flight safety faces new dangers during downturn
One uncomfortable aspect of the extraordinary crisis inflicted on air transport operations is the extent to which the pandemic might, atsome point, be considered a contributing factor to aircraft accidents, despite – or perhaps because of – the reduction in flight activity.


Happy Fathers Day, Randy! Great principles… I think as my sons get older, realizing they need more space to succeed or fail is a principle I have had to adopt. It is about their growth and learning from their own experiences. A tough one to do, at times, but a very necessary one.
Great point Jon. That's been my experience as well.
Hi Randy, awesome family pic BTW! That's what it's all about in my opinion.
More and more my experiences, both personally and professionally, tell me to be open to the sponteneous positive moments that can happen if you let them. Like two weeks ago, when out of the blue, I decided to go be with my 11 year old daughter at her school as she was getting a needle. As I was leaving, she said, 'thanks for being here for me daddy'. Those are the experiences that provide me with positive energy. That same positive energy can (and does) happen in the work place, if we can open ourselves up and allow it to happen. Hope I'm making sense, hard to put into words!
Hi Murray! Your comments make perfect sense and I agree with you. Being intentional about carving out the time to allow those special moments to happen is what I'm working on.


Step one – Take every thought captive and submit it to Christ.
Step two – Choose to think about what is pure and true, and what ever glorifies Jesus.
Sounds easy doesn't it? Yet we all know this is not an easy task. It is actually a battle we must wage everyday and keep ourselves in check.
Now while all of these thoughts rolled around my little head I thought of this – If I am to keep my thoughts in check, should this not include my conversations? Thinking upon this question I wondered when was the last time I had a conversation with anyone that did not include complaining, judgment (myself or the other party in the conversation), whining or anything that was negative. To be honest I cannot think of any conversation other than with the cashier at the grocery store. So I wondered would it be possible to have only positive conversations ( this includes both people talking)? I wonder if it would be possible for me to not only speak positively but only entertain positive conversations for even a day, and if I could do this could I make it three days? I laughed and thought I would have to not speak at all. This however is not something that is actually funny. So I am challenging myself to see if I can make it three days only speaking to others in a positive and life giving manner. God help me! Ephesians 4:29 (NKJV) Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
Question: Could you for three days have only positive conversations?
Today I want to be able to feel the pain in my body without it effecting my mood.
This is not something new for me but my pain level over the last two weeks has been more than unbearable and it has worn me down to raw nerves. This how ever is no excuse for wrong behavior on mt part, and I also should not let it make me a less compassionate or loving person.
I read my Bible, I pray, and I sings songs of praise in worship which on any other day lifts my spirit, but in the last week I can really tell a difference in my attitude towards others. I am less patient, I tend to get offended easier than usual, and I am snapping at people I know God is forgiving and I know He did not cause my body t be in pain, but if this pain is the thorn in my flesh that I must bear then I want to do so with a spirit of joy and longsuffering. I want others to see the love of Jesus in spite of my pain.
Well it is time to get back to moving I have both packing and unpacking to do.
3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Do no minimize how another is feeling.
Building joy, build people up and do not tear them down.